credulity

Word family

cre·du·li·ty /krɪˈdjuːləti $ -ˈduː-/ noun [uncountableU] formal

BELIEVEwillingness or ability to believe that something is true 輕信，易信 → incredulity

Advertisers were accused of exploiting consumers’ credulity.

廣告商被指責利用了客戶對他們的輕信。

strain/stretch credulity (=seem very difficult to believe) 難以相信

It strained credulity to believe that a nuclear war would not lead to the destruction of the planet.

說核戰爭不會導致地球毀滅是讓人難以相信的。

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credulity• Faith and credulity, vision and delusion can only be distinguished provided that in case-studies the issue of ontology is kept alive.• His experience there may beg credulity.• Our interplanetary visitors might well be amazed at such foolish credulity.• But it would be straining credulity too far to expect that everything will be absorbed.• It strains credulity, I know, but there were nights in those years when no man was bad-looking.• It may stretch credulity to the point that signs of real abuse are overlooked.• And, quite frankly, it strains the credulity of those who are asked to believe that it exists.• It was once again proved that the credulity of trainees knew no bounds.

strain/stretch credulity• It strains credulity to think they could beat San Francisco and Dallas on the road.• It strains credulity, I know, but there were nights in those years when no man was bad-looking.• It may stretch credulity to the point that signs of real abuse are overlooked.• If anything, Letterman thinks, these women have a compulsion to reach a higher plane of conversation that strains credulity.

cre·du·li·ty noun

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