我天真地以为这活儿是有报酬的。

I naively assumed that I would be paid for the work.

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我天真地以为你很喜欢我。

I fondly imagined that you cared for me.

《牛津词典》

“我天真到愚蠢的地步，”她在获刑前说道。

"I have been naive to the point of stupidity," she said before being sentenced.

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He spoke about, and I like to claim this approach, the position of scholarship to which we call the Higher Naivete.

他是这么说的,我觉得这种方式很好,这是一种叫做"高级天真"的研究方法

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

I was tremendously interested in the letters because they so naively and sweetly asked Chad to teach him all about Nietzsche and all the wonderful intellectual things that Chad knew. At one point Carlo and I talked about the letters and wondered if we would ever meet the strange Dean Moriarty.

我对那些信极感兴趣,因为他们是如此天真烂漫讨人喜欢地让乍得,教他们一切他所了解的关于尼采的精妙的知识,卡洛和我一度一起讨论那些信,还怀疑我们是否能遇上奇怪的安莫里亚蒂。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Having learned, or having agreed, let's say, with my prejudice, which is that the Higher Naivete must reign -and if the Greeks said it happened, you got to believe it happened, until you have to believe that it didn't happen.

以我的成见,他已经达到或认同,"高级天真",如果古希腊人说确有其事,你要相信它确实发生,除非你不得不相信它其实并未发生过

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选