gullible: [19] Gullible is a derivative of the now archaic gull ‘dupe’, itself a verbal use of the noun gull ‘gullible person, simpleton’. This appears to have been a figurative extension of an earlier gull ‘newly hatched bird’ [14], which survived dialectally into the late 19th century, and was itself perhaps a noun use of the obsolete adjective gull ‘yellow’ (borrowed from Old Norse gulr and still extant in Swedish and Danish gul ‘yellow’). Some etymologists, however, derive the noun gull ‘simpleton’ from an obsolete verb gull ‘swallow’ [16], which goes back ultimately to Old French gole, goule ‘throat’ (source of English gullet).
gullible (adj.)
1821, apparently a back-formation from gullibility. Spelling gullable is attested from 1818.
雙語例句
1. The swindlers had roped into a number of gullible persons.
騙子們已使一些輕信的人上了當(dāng).
來自《簡(jiǎn)明英漢詞典》
2. He's so gullible he'll believe anything.
他太容易上當(dāng),什么事都相信.
來自《簡(jiǎn)明英漢詞典》
3. What point is there in admitting that the stories fed to the gullible public were false?
承認(rèn)向輕信媒體的公眾提供了不實(shí)報(bào)道有何意義呢？
來自柯林斯例句
4. I'm so gullible I would have believed him.
我很容易上當(dāng)，可能會(huì)相信他的話。
來自辭典例句
5. The winders had roped in a number of gullible persons.