Innocent什么意思

作为形容词基本就是无罪, 无辜, 天真, 也可以作为名词, 说一个无罪, 无辜, 天真的人。英文详解如下：

innocent |?in?s?nt|

adjective

1 not guilty of a crime or offense: the arbitrary execution of an innocent man | he was innocent of any fraud.

[ predic. ] ( innocent of) without; lacking : a street quite innocent of bookstores.

[ predic. ] ( innocent of) without experience or knowledge of : a man innocent of war's cruelties.

2 [ attrib. ] not responsible for or directly involved in an event yet suffering its consequences : an innocent bystander.

3 free from moral wrong; not corrupted : an innocent child.

simple; naive : she is a poor, innocent young creature.

4 not intended to cause harm or offense; harmless : an innocent mistake.

noun

an innocent person, in particular

a pure, guileless, or naive person : she was an innocent compared with this man.

a person involved by chance in a situation, esp. a victim of crime or war : they are prepared to kill or maim innocents in pursuit of a cause.

( the Innocents) the young children killed by Herod after the birth of Jesus (Matt. 2:16).

DERIVATIVES

innocently adverb

ORIGIN Middle English : from Old French, or from Latin innocent- ‘not harming,’ from in- ‘not’ + nocere ‘to hurt.’

USAGE Innocent properly means 'harmless,' but it has long been extended in general language to mean 'not guilty.' The jury (or judge) in a criminal trial does not, strictly speaking, find a defendant 'innocent.' Rather, a defendant may be : guilty or : not guilty of the charges brought. In common use, however, owing perhaps to the concept of the : presumption of innocence, which instructs a jury to consider a defendant free of wrongdoing until proven guilty on the basis of evidence, 'not guilty' and 'innocent' have come to be thought of as synonymous. See also usage at plead .