incredulous

英語

詞源

借自拉丁語 incrēdulus (「不相信的」)。

發音

• (英國) 國際音標^(幫助): /ɪnˈkɹɛdjʊləs/

• （英國南部）音頻：

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• (美國) 國際音標^(幫助): /ˌɪn.ˈkɹɛ.d͡ʒə.ləs/

形容詞

incredulous (比較級 more incredulous，最高級 most incredulous)

1. 心有疑慮的，表示懷疑的，無法相信的 （自16世紀）
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   • 1986, John le Carré, A Perfect Spy:

     In safe flats and dark restaurants, never the same one twice, we ate quiet meals, exchanged our goods and gazed upon each other with the incredulous contentment that passes between mountaineers when they are standing on the peak.

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   • 2009年3月18日, Reuters, 「Sun Micro Troops Fearful, Incredulous About IBM」, 出自 Wired.com‎^[1]，於30 June 2013歸檔自原頁面:

     Reactions at Sun's campus, an hour's drive from San Francisco, ranged from the fearful to the incredulous.

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2. (多已棄用，現已僅非標準) 難以置信的 （自17世紀）
   • c. 1601–1602 （写稿日期）, 威廉·莎士比亚, 「Twelfe Night, or What You Will [第十二夜]」, 出自 Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio（第一对开本）), 伦敦: […] Isaac Iaggard和Ed[ward] Blount, 出版於 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv]:

     Why euery thing adheres togither, that no dramme of a scruple, no scruple of a scruple, no obstacle, no incredulous or vnsafe circumstance […] 。

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   • 1984, Supreme Court of Illinois, opinion in People v Terrell, 459 N.E.2d 1337,^[2] quoted in David C. Brody, James R. Acker, and Wayne A. Logan, Criminal Law,^[3] Jones & Bartlett Publishers (2001), ISBN 0-8342-1083-5, page 564,

     Faced with these facts, we find it incredulous that [the] defendant had any intent other than the armed robbery of the service station.

衍生詞彙

• incredulosity
• incredulously

相關詞彙

• incredulity
• credulous