| 单词 | ignorant |
| 释义 | ig·no·rant 1. a. < an ignorant society > b. < ignorant errors > < ignorant public spokesmen > 2. a. < frauds palmed off on an ignorant public > — often used with of or in < ignorant of the true significance of the news > b. < ignorant hope > 3. a. < ignorant absolutism > b. < ignorant devices > Synonyms: < a population of uncivilized peasants, ignorant, illiterate, superstitious, cruel, and land hungry — G.B.Shaw > < the disputants on both sides were ignorant of the matter they were disputing about — Havelock Ellis > illiterate is now most commonly used in reference to inability to read and write or to gross unfamiliarity with the written language and the world of learning < illiterate in the sense that they could not read or write, or … functionally illiterate in the sense that they were unable to understand what they read — I.L.Kandel > < as near illiterate as one can be who can read and write, her grammar and spelling being equally uncertain — H.S.Canby > unlettered stresses the fact of unfamiliarity with reading and writing or with written learning, often without any implication of condemnation < even written in English, a paper like this would answer every purpose; for the unlettered natives, standing in great awe of the document, would not dare to molest us — Herman Melville > < unlettered provincials who knew their nets, or trades, or farms, but could hardly be expected to follow the Emperor's physician in his theories of Greek science — J.R.Perkins > uneducated and untaught simply indicate lack of formal schooling; the latter is sometimes used to describe natural spontaneity < untaught graces > untutored is sometimes used to refer to the unschooled condition of primitives < the poor Indian, whose untutored mind — Alexander Pope > < taught so many flat lies that their false knowledge is more dangerous than the untutored natural wit of savages — G.B.Shaw > unlearned may suggest lack of much learning or ignorance of advanced subjects < such generosity becomes, in effect, a cruel sentimentality, when it crowds the profession with thousands of unwanted persons, most of them relatively unskilled and unlearned — Robert Evett > nescient may apply to a deep, determined, or invincible ignorance of what is outside one's immediate ken < most men are not intended to be any wiser than their cocks and bulls — duly scientific of their yard and pasture, peacefully nescient of all beyond — John Ruskin > |
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