Unit 20

ingenuous / ingenious / indigent / indigenous

ingenuous adj. 纯朴的，真诚的 (having or showing the innocence, trust, and honesty of young people) / ˌɪnˈdʒɛnjuəs /

• The young girl's ingenuous desire to make the world a better place through her volunteer efforts was highly laudable.

ingenious adj. 天才的，聪明的 (very smart or clever) / inˈjēnyəs /

• Neil thought that his idea of blending all his food in order to be able to get the proper nutrition while on the go was ingenious, but we thought it was disgusting.

indigent adj. 贫穷的 (lacking money; very poor) / ˈɪndədʒənt /

• An important component of Ramadan is giving charity to indigent people in one's community.

indigenous adj. 属于某个地方的 (produced, living, or existing naturally in a particular region or environment) / ɪnˈdɪdʒənəs /

• Before Europeans and Africans came, the indigenous people living in the Caribbean were the Arawak and Carib Indians.

sympathy / apathy / antipathy

sympathy n. 同情 (the feeling of caring about and being sorry for someone else's trouble, grief, misfortune, etc.; a sympathetic feeling) / ˈsimpəTHē /

• Coral's heart welled with sympathy when she heard about the unfortunate accident that had befallen her favorite teacher.

n. 赞同 (a feeling of support for something)

• June's sympathy for the cause waned when she found out that they had abused animals in the course of protesting.

apathy n. 冷漠，漠不关心 (the feeling of not having much emotion or interest; an apathetic state) / ˈæpəθi /

• Chang Lin's apathy toward politics stemmed from her inability to see how decisions made in the capital affected her small town life.

antipathy n. 反感，厌恶 (a strong feeling of dislike) / anˈtēpəTHē /

• Sal's antipathy toward pizza was so strong that simply smelling a pie in the oven repelled him.

pathetic / bathetic

pathetic adj. 悲伤的，可悲的 (causing feelings of sadness and sympathy) / pəˈθɛdɪk /

• The dog gave Julian such a pathetic look that he gave it the rest of his sandwich.

bathetic adj. 陈腐的 (marked by exceptional commonness) / bəˈθɛdɪk /

• The book's language was so trite that it verged on the bathetic.