benighted是什么意思？

benighted

英[bɪˈnaɪtɪd] 美[bɪˈnaɪtɪd]

• adj. （旅客等）赶路到黑的，无知的，蒙昧的，愚昧无知，怐婺；

例句

• Listen to both sides and you will be enlightened,heed only one side and you will be benighted. 兼听则明,偏信则暗。
• benighted ages of barbarism and superstition 野蛮迷信的蒙昧时代
• a benighted traveler 赶路到天黑的旅客
• 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.
• 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.
• Listen to both sides and you will be enlightened , heed only one side and you will be benighted. 兼听则明,偏信则暗.
• Famine hit that benighted country once more. 饥荒再次席卷了那个蒙昧的国家。

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• ADJ-GRADED
  不幸的；蒙昧的；无知的
  If you describe people or the place where they live as benighted, you think they are unfortunate or do not know anything.
  例句
  Famine hit that benighted country once more. 饥荒再次席卷了那个蒙昧的国家。

英汉词典释义

• adj.
  (旅客等)赶路到黑的
  a benighted traveler 赶路到天黑的旅客
  无知的,蒙昧的
  benighted ages of barbarism and superstition 野蛮迷信的蒙昧时代

英英词典释义

• Adjective
  1. overtaken by night or darkness;
  "benighted (or nighted) travelers hurrying toward home"
  2. 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"