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无知
Ignorant
Some people accuse the new generation of being ignorant, maybe ignorant for the old generation, but it's a new language.
有些人指责新一代无知,也许对老一代无知,但这是一种新的语言。
Today's younger generation is no worse than my own. We were just as ignorant and repulsive as they are, but nobody listened to us.
今天的年轻一代并不比我这一代差。我们和他们一样无知,一样令人厌恶,但是没有人听我们的。
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。
It is absolutely safe to say that if you meet somebody who claims not to believe in evolution, that person is ignorant, stupid or insane.
如果你遇到一个自称不相信进化论的人,你绝对可以说他无知、愚蠢或疯狂。
Only Socrates knew, after a lifetime of unceasing labor, that he was ignorant. Now every high-school student knows that. How did it become so easy?
只有苏格拉底知道,经过一生不断的劳动,他是无知的。现在每个高中生都知道这一点。怎么变得这么容易?
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。
While some of us may know than others about certain things, it is the thinnest slice of all that is, or could be known. In that sense, we are all profoundly ignorant.
虽然我们中的一些人可能比其他人更了解某些事情,但它是所有已知事物中最薄弱的一部分。从这个意义上说,我们都非常无知。
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。
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。
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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
我从未见过如此无知的人,以至于我不能从他身上学到一些东西。
The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant.
动物不知道他知道的事实。这个人知道自己无知这一事实。
I try to be as ignorant about things as I can.
我尽量对事情一无所知。
Sometimes the ignorant are among the most educated.
有时无知的人是受教育程度最高的。
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。
The learned man knows that he is ignorant.
有学问的人知道自己无知。