If you don't hurry, we might be benighted on the way. 如果你不快点,我们在入夜前可能无法抵达。
The benighted Chechens were not the only victims of the amorality. 愚昧无知的车臣人并非是唯一的是非不分的牺牲者。
I saw the sun sinking gradually, and I got quite alarmed lest we should be benighted. 我看见太阳渐渐地下沉,我相当惊慌因恐我们会摸黑。
benighted
[ adj ]
overtaken by night or darkness
<adj.all> benighted (or nighted) travelers hurrying toward home
lacking enlightenment or knowledge or culture
<adj.all> this benighted country benighted ages of barbarism and superstition the dark ages a dark age in the history of education
benight \be*night"\ (b[-e]*n[imac]t"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Benighted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Benighting}.] 1. To involve in darkness; to shroud with the shades of night; to obscure. [Archaic]
The clouds benight the sky. --Garth.
2. To overtake with night or darkness, especially before the end of a day's journey or task.
Some virgin, sure, . . . benighted in these woods. --Milton.
3. To involve in moral darkness, or ignorance; to debar from intellectual light.
Shall we to men benighted The lamp of life deny ? --Heber.
Still, Mr. Robinson does seem to go out of his way to paint King Fahd as a benighted figure too dumb to bask in the radiance of his glowingly intelligent minister.
Nothing seems right to this poor benighted baby.
I'm asking that we start treating these drug benighted neighborhoods as if we lived there, not as if they were some laboratory for social policy.
So benighted Latin Americans think.
They believe their fellow citizens are benighted and require paternalistic re-education to reach a state of "enlightenment." Coercive protesters must be condemned by all citizens who cherish democracy, regardless of whether they condone the war effort.