benighted中文什么意思

adj.
1.(旅客等)走到天黑的，赶路到黑的。
2.愚昧的，蒙昧的，无知的。
短语和例子
+更多解释...a benighted traveler 赶路到天黑的旅客。 benighted ages of barbarism and superstition 野蛮迷信的蒙昧时代。

• benighted savages:    未开化的野人
• fatuous; benighted; ignorant:    愚昧

例句与用法

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1. In the benighted middle ages, intellectual curiosity was discouraged by the authorities .
   在中世纪这个黑暗的年代里，求知欲全给统治阶级扼杀了。
2. They felt it might be a being partially benighted in the vale of ignorance, but it could not be one who would willingly devote his rich natural gifts to the purposes of wanton treachery .
   他们觉得，这个人虽然可能有些蒙昧无知，但他决不是一个乐于把自己高贵的天赋用于背信弃义的人。
3. 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。
4. 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。
5. That western civilisation should have been born in so benighted a country as iraq may seem bad luck
   倘若西方文明果真诞生在伊拉克这样一个愚昧的国家内，那也许并非幸事。

英文释义

形容词

1. lacking enlightenment or knowledge or culture; "this benighted country"; "benighted ages of barbarism and superstition"; "the dark ages"; "a dark age in the history of education"
   同义词：dark
2. overtaken by night or darkness; "benighted (or nighted) travelers hurrying toward home"
   同义词：nighted