| 单词 | to know no different |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto know no different b. not to know (any) different (colloquial): to have only experienced one set of circumstances in life; (also) not to know it is better to do things differently; to be uninformed or ignorant. Also to know no different. Cf. not to know any better at Phrases 9a. ΚΠ 1855 Putnam's Monthly July 22/1 Hadn't no education, ye see, an' don't know different. 1894 A. W. Brayley Schools & Schoolboys of Old Boston iii. 32 As they and their fathers knew no different, they asked no better. 1912 J. B. Connolly Wide Courses 102 The poor kid, of course, don't know any different. 1966 D. Elser Ticket to City 17 They don't know any different, so they never miss him [sc. their father]. 1999 Northern Echo (Nexis) 11 Mar. 10 For most common criminals the answers are obvious: I needed the money, it's the way I've been brought up, I know no different. 2004 W. B. McCloskey Raiders iii. xvi. 227 The others had his pickety-pick from the start so they don't know different. < as lemmas |
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