| 词汇 | credulity |
| 释义 | credulity noun[ U ] formaluk /krəˈdʒuː.lə.ti/ us /krəˈduː.lə.t̬i/(alsocredulousness, uk /ˈkredʒ.ə.ləs.nəs/ us /ˈkredʒ.ə.ləs.nəs/) willingness to believe that something is real or true, especially when this is unlikely轻信 Not believing (that's) a likely story!idiom anti-science anti-scientific are my eyes deceiving me?idiom as if!idiom authority foot iconoclastic in denial in your dreams!idiom incredulity incredulous joke salt self-deception since whenidiom take something with a pinch of saltidiom tell me another one!idiom worship yeah And now the whole spectacular business was capped by a sensation so dramatic as to strain credulity to its limit. But it will need some telling, and perhaps credulity on the reader's part. Dazzled and bewildered, the heated senses were become the victims of their own credulity, the mind receiving back its own reactions. The subsequent history of the Parker case is a startling example of the credulity of the ordinary jury. The young man smiled at her credulity and enthusiasm. Examples of credulitycredulity Although historians of science have justly criticized his boundless credulity, aimless empiricism, and exasperating eclecticism, he was nevertheless master of his craft. But it stretches credulity to argue that the problem here is one of bounded rationality. Such methodological credulity with respect to dream recall and dream report is particularly troubling because dreams are notoriously ephemeral. The posture of self-conscious bemusement seems intended to suggest its opposite, regret at the disappearance of this implicit credulity and obedience. Some of the assertions that the writer makes about the folk scene are so far wide of the mark that credulity is shattered. The open lips register credulity; the shut ones, common sense. Much modern secondary literature besides stands convicted of ludicrous credulity and tendentiousness. Does it stretch credulity too far to suggest that his two associates were rather jealous of his personal charisma? But to deny the existence of an independent objective material world, of which that mind is a copy, strains my credulity beyond its elastic limit. And how can we explain the credulity that made photography of the occult so popular? This claim is undeniable unless one were to stretch the limits of credulity. It strains credulity to believe that this emergent, politically influential class will voluntarily enlist in a future march to socialism. At first blush, this example seems to stretch credulity somewhat. Why were they received with such credulity in their time? The second was ultimately weakened by its association with credulity and with discredited attempts to prove that spiritual agents could be observed at work in the world. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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