ignorant的意思|ignorant的解释-里氏词典

ignorant ['ignәrәnt]

a. 无知识的, 不知道的, 由无知产生的

[法] 无知的, 愚昧的, 不知情的

ignorant

[ adj ]

uneducated in general; lacking knowledge or sophistication

<adj.all>

an ignorant man

nescient of contemporary literature

an unlearned group incapable of understanding complex issues

exhibiting contempt for his unlettered companions

uneducated in the fundamentals of a given art or branch of learning; lacking knowledge of a specific field

<adj.all>

she is ignorant of quantum mechanics

he is musically illiterate

unaware because of a lack of relevant information or knowledge

<adj.all>

he was completely ignorant of the circumstances

an unknowledgeable assistant

his rudeness was unwitting

Ignorant \Ig"no*rant\, n.
A person untaught or uninformed; one unlettered or unskilled;
an ignoramous.

Did I for this take pains to teach
Our zealous ignorants to preach? --Denham.

Ignorant \Ig"no*rant\, a. [F., fr. L. ignorans, -antis, p. pr.
of ignorare to be ignorant. See {Ignore}.]
1. Destitute of knowledge; uninstructed or uninformed;
untaught; unenlightened.

He that doth not know those things which are of use
for him to know, is but an ignorant man, whatever he
may know besides. --Tillotson.

2. Unacquainted with; unconscious or unaware; -- used with
of.

Ignorant of guilt, I fear not shame. --Dryden.

3. Unknown; undiscovered. [Obs.]

Ignorant concealment. --Shak.

Alas, what ignorant sin have I committed? --Shak.

4. Resulting from ignorance; foolish; silly.

His shipping,
Poor ignorant baubles! -- on our terrible seas,
Like eggshells moved. --Shak.

Syn: Uninstructed; untaught; unenlightened; uninformed;
unlearned; unlettered; illiterate. -- {Ignorant},
{Illiterate}. Ignorant denotes lack of knowledge, either
as to single subject or information in general;
illiterate refers to an ignorance of letters, or of
knowledge acquired by reading and study. In the Middle
Ages, a great proportion of the higher classes were
illiterate, and yet were far from being ignorant,
especially in regard to war and other active pursuits.

In such business
Action is eloquence, and the eyes of the ignorant
More learned than the ears. --Shak.

In the first ages of Christianity, not only the
learned and the wise, but the ignorant and
illiterate, embraced torments and death.
--Tillotson.

Would you willingly stake your livelihood on your performance in tests not only devised by folk largely ignorant about your job, but of dubious legality?
Also ignorant of the investigation was Mr. Williams, at least until after the article had been completed.
They are highly tolerant of different cultural habits, and will tend not to take offence if you are ignorant of theirs.
"They are ignorant of a project like this," he said in a telephone interview from Jerusalem. "They don't know the kind of material we're working with.
Problems had arisen in part because Chinese importers, ignorant of internationally agreed financing rules, were 'looking for bargains'.
It also found Reagan ignorant of what his aides were doing in his name, uninterested in the details of his own foreign policy, and unable to remember some of his most important decisions.
US officials see the attack by Mr Edouard Balladur, the French prime minister, on US anti-dumping levies on steel as egregious and ignorant and French policies generally as a serious threat to any hopes for the Uruguay Round.
Japanese individuals often accept inflated prices because they are ignorant of U.S. market conditions and the prices look cheap in yen terms.
Although bigotry is alive and well in America, covering it up via censorship would not expose this ignorant element of society.
"Bankruptcy mills," he pointed out, "prey upon the desperate and ignorant tenants who come to them for help and are defrauded out of money which could better be used to pay rent to their current landlords or to obtain new living quarters."
They look at computer projections and assume that the news agent is ignorant.
Mr. Black once described a good newspaper as "one that makes money" and said that many journalists are "ignorant, lazy and opinionated."
But it's indisputable that many stock investors are blissfully ignorant of the bond market. And corporate bonds probably do attract a more sophisticated breed.
Col. Curtis Burg, a recruiter at the office that was damaged, said it would be closed temporarily for repairs. "I think most of them (the protesters) are radical, ignorant people who don't know any better," he said.
I think it's probably best to be ignorant.
Some letters hinted that because she was "from away" - a term used to describe people from other states - she was ignorant of Maine's hunting practices and traditions.
No one in Washington with the slightest knowledge of this issue can have been ignorant of this situation or the effect that it would have on the way regulators received and interpreted messages from senators and congressmen.
But Clyde Prestowitz Jr., a former senior Commerce Department official, attacked such thinking as misguided. "Boeing is either being arrogant, ignorant or just blowing smoke," he said.
This is her second movie, and her work shows how some film school graduates are versed in technique and utterly ignorant of real life.
Government officials and critics accuse the radicals of being "utopian romantics" or "communist dupes" and say they are immature and ignorant about politics and ideology.
Professionals, he said, are being discriminated against in favor of "little old ladies and ignorant people," as well as "lazy" market makers who don't bother to update their quotations.
The priests are as ignorant as the laity.
He also appears ignorant of the extent to which the Bank of England has been damaged by the BCCI affair.
Executives at several of the Japanese firms argued that they were taking unwarranted criticism, both from short-sellers crying over having made a bad bet and from U.S. investors ignorant of the way Japanese investors look at stocks.
"The image of the Muslim people in the world has been stereotyped as backward, ignorant, fundamentalist and lacking culture and civilization," said Sharifuddin Pirzada of Pakistan, secretary-general of the Islamic Conference Organization.
Chairman Julian Dixon (D., Calif.) said the diversion of office assets went on for nine years, too long for Mr. Murphy to have remained ignorant of it.
But they are ignorant of many details, even the government's admission that hundreds died.
Orange blossom flowers next year on this year's young growth. The ignorant way to treat them is to go out into the garden where an old philadelphus Virginal is beginning to block the path, and set about it in the evening when the fancy takes you.
"A lot of people who were ignorant have changed," Hector said, recalling the man who blamed things on sending man to the Moon.
Asked if the government was Marxist-Leninist, Borge said the teachings of those two thinkers was "a universal science and anyone who doesn't study it is either mentally retarded or ignorant."

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