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无知
Ignorant
The learned man knows that he is ignorant.
有学问的人知道自己无知。
I try to be as ignorant about things as I can.
我尽量对事情一无所知。
I was truly ignorant about art before the film.
在这部电影之前,我对艺术一无所知。
Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.
每个人都是无知的,只是在不同的问题上。
Sometimes the ignorant are among the most educated.
有时无知的人是受教育程度最高的。
Would rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evils.
宁愿无知也不愿了解罪恶。
My parents were ignorant peasants from the Old World.
我的父母是东半球无知的农民。
The ignorant man always adores what he cannot understand.
无知的人总是崇拜他不能理解的东西。
It seems to me that we are profoundly ignorant of ourselves.
在我看来,我们对自己一无所知。
People can be ignorant and still have loving, human qualities.
人们可以是无知的,但仍然有爱心,人类的品质。
A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.
一个有学问的傻瓜比一个无知的傻瓜更笨。
The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
走向知识的第一步是知道自己无知。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.
我是不可知论者;我不假装知道许多无知的人所确信的事。
I hate politics. I like to write about it, but to get involved in it, to try and make a lot of ignorant people do what you want them to do, waste of time. Go and write a book. It's more important and it'll last longer.
我讨厌政治。我喜欢写这方面的文章,但要参与其中,让很多无知的人做你想让他们做的事,是在浪费时间。去写一本书。这更重要,也更持久。
If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
如果一个国家期望无知和自由,在文明的状态下,它期望的是过去和将来都不会发生的事情。
Students now arrive at the university ignorant and cynical about our political heritage, lacking the wherewithal to be either inspired by it or seriously critical of it.
如今,学生们来到这所大学时,对我们的政治传统既无知又冷嘲热讽,既缺乏必要的资金来从中获得灵感,也缺乏对它的严肃批评。
The difference between ignorant and educated people is that the latter know more facts. But that has nothing to do with whether they are stupid or intelligent.
无知的人和受过教育的人的区别在于后者知道更多的事实。但这与他们是愚蠢还是聪明无关。
If an ignorant person is attracted by the things of the world, that is bad. But if a learned person is thus attracted, it is worse.
如果一个无知的人被世间的事物所吸引,那是不好的。但如果一个有学问的人因此而被吸引,那就更糟了。