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之前我们在《早餐英语》中分享过蔡志忠的关于《老子》的漫画,里面的讲的就是大智若愚,这个故事,让我不禁联想到了英语中的一句俗语:ignorance is bliss1 直译过来就是“无知是福”。但这个俗语在使用的时候,也要根据不同的语境来判断它到底还是褒义还是贬义的。今天我们就来探知一下这个俗语的渊源还有具体的用法。New Words:
ignorance n. 无知,愚昧;不知,不懂
fate n. 命运
swiftly adv. 很快地;敏捷地;即刻
paradise n. 天堂
Tooth Fairy 牙仙子(是英国童话里的一个仙子)
Meaning
如果你对某事一无所知,那么便不会担心或是受到其影响
Origin
ignorance is bliss无知即福
人们有时用ignorance is bliss为某人的无知辩护。它出自英国诗人托马斯·格雷(Thomas Gray, 1716-1771)的诗作《伊顿远眺》 (Ode on a Distant Prospect3 of Eton College, 1747 ) :
Yet ah! Why should they know their fate?
Since sorrow never comes too late,
And happiness too swiftly flies.
Thought would destroy their paradise.
No more; where ignorance is bliss,
('Tis 就是 It is 的意思,常常用于人物自言自语的感叹句)
唉!他们何苦知晓自己的命运?
忧愁从不会姗姗来迟,
快乐总是稍纵即逝。
思虑使他们的天堂塌陷。
天堂不在;无知即福,
大智若愚。
(摘自-《单词的历史》)
Example:
A child who believes in Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy and who would be very upset to find out that neither was real is an example of a child who would think that ignorance was bliss.
一个相信圣诞老人和牙仙的孩子,当他发现这两个都不是真的的时候会很不高兴,这便是“无知是福的”例子。
Example Sentences:
Sometimes I just decide to ignore the news for a few days. Ignorance is bliss, I tell you. When it comes to what my kids end up eating at their grandparents' house, ignorance is bliss.
有时我只是决定忽略消息几天。我告诉你,无知是福。当提起我的孩子们在他们祖父母家里吃饭时候,无知是福。
B: Ignorance is bliss!
A: 我从来不知道给我们修草坪的孩子和警察惹上了麻烦。
B: 无知是福!
Some doctors believe ignorance is bliss and don’t give their patients all the facts.
一些医生认为无知是福,便不告诉给病人所有的事实。
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n.狂喜,福佑,天赐的福 | |
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adj.不自然的,假装的 | |
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n.前景,前途;景色,视野 | |
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4 folly | |
n.愚笨,愚蠢,蠢事,蠢行,傻话 | |
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5 mows | |
v.刈,割( mow的第三人称单数 ) | |
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