The rascal lives on the credulity of the people. 那个流氓靠行骗为生。
He has practised on my credulity. 他利用了我的轻信。
The rascal lives on the credulity of the people. 那个流氓靠行骗为生。
credulity
[ noun ] tendency to believe readily <noun.attribute>
Credulity \Cre*du"li*ty\ (kr?-d?"l?-t?), n. [L. credulitas, fr. credulus: cf. F. cr['e]dulit['e]. See {Credulous}.] Readiness of belief; a disposition to believe on slight evidence.
That implict credulity is the mark of a feeble mind will not be disputed. --Sir W. Hamilton.
"It strains credulity to say that the Robins board really thought Sanofi was better for financial reasons," Mr. Steinhardt said.
But it begs a good deal of credulity to believe that a man who has led his nation into a war as disastrous and humiliating as this one will emerge as hero to his own people or any others. The surprise, rather, will be if he survives at all.
And Mr Field's conclusion that individual ownership of pensions would nurture also a new culture of long-termism to underpin Labour's industrial strategy may stretch credulity. But Tory ministers are among those who admire its boldness.
Years later, she foiled a group of gypsies posing as nuns who would have played upon Domencio's credulity to steal her jewels.
Just the bare facts of it strain credulity," he said.
IT WOULD be stretching credulity to pretend that all is well with the dealers in the Cotswolds in south central England, the second greatest concentration of traders in important antiques outside London.
Irony abounds, the time machine looks warped, credulity is stretched and you can't tell the players WITH a score card.