He must have been pretty gullible to fall for that old trick. 他准是有点儿傻,才落入那惯用的圈套。
Disposed to believe too readily; gullible. 太容易相信的;易受骗的
Easily duped or deceived; gullible. 易受骗的容易被人欺骗或欺辱的
gullible
[ adj ]
naive and easily deceived or tricked
<adj.all> at that early age she had been gullible and in love
easily tricked because of being too trusting
<adj.all> gullible tourists taken in by the shell game
Gullible \Gul"li*ble\, a. Easily gulled; that may be duped. -- {Gul"li*bii`i*ty}, n. --Burke.
While I doubt the media were as gullible and malleable as Mr. Fenton's memo suggests, the Alar scare was created, mostly out of thin air, just as Mr. Fenton claims, and the media that were taken in can learn something from this episode.
Since direct marketing first landed in Japan more than 20 years ago, shady salesmen selling everything from futon mattresses to English-language cassettes have duped crowds of gullible consumers.
While Saddam is happy to mouth for the benefit of the gullible in the West that Kuwait was stolen from Iraq by British imperialism, he aims to control the entire Gulf region as a stepping stone for future goals.
The public is not so gullible: most players understand that they will lose.
"People stopped and asked if I would take a look at their home, what would I do in this situation," she said. "We have a very gullible population.
The gullible among us believed that actor James Dean died in the wreckage of his low-slung Porsche Spyder on a California highway 33 years ago, but readers of Private Lives magazine were not fooled.
Members who took transfers should not be regarded as exceptionally rash or gullible.
In their view, a terrorist organization bent on Israel's destruction has duped gullible outsiders.