innocent

• adj. 无辜的；无罪的；无知的
• n. 天真的人；笨蛋
• n. (Innocent)人名；(英、西)因诺森特；(法)伊诺桑

in-,不，非，-noc,伤害，词源同noxious,nuisance.即没有伤害的，引申词义无辜的，天真的。

innocent

innocent: [14] Someone who is innocent is literally ‘harmless’. The word comes, partly via Old French, from Latin innocēns, an adjective formed with the negative prefix in- from the present participle of nocēre ‘harm’ (source of English nuisance) – hence, ‘not harming’. The slight semantic shift from ‘not harming’ to ‘blameless, guiltless’ took place in Latin.
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innocent (adj.)

mid-14c., "doing no evil, free from sin or guilt," from Old French inocent "harmless; not guilty; pure" (11c.), from Latin innocentem (nominative innocens) "not guilty, harmless, blameless," from in- "not" (see in- (1)) + nocentem (nominative nocens), present participle of nocere "to harm" (see noxious). Meaning "free from guilt of a specific crime or charge" is from late 14c. The earliest use was as a noun, "person who is innocent of sin or evil" (c. 1200). The Holy Innocents (early 14c.) were the young children slain by Herod after the birth of Jesus (Matt. ii:16).

1. He was innocent and the victim of a frame-up.

他是清白的，是受人诬陷的。

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2. Under all the innocent fun, there are hidden dangers, especially for children.

在所有简单无害的娱乐项目背后都隐藏着危险，特别是对儿童而言。

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3. Both groups on either side are just picking off innocent bystanders.

对峙双方都只是在瞄准射击无辜的旁观者。

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4. He's curiously innocent about what this means to other people.

关于这对其他人意味着什么，他一无所知，这一点颇不寻常。

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5. I was overwhelmed with longing for those innocent days of early childhood.

我内心充满着对纯真的童年时光的怀念。

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