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IGNORANCE

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Traducere în limba română

ignorance substantiv

1. ignorantă, neştiinţă; neştiinţă de carte;

ignorance of the law excuses no one necunoaşterea legii nu scuză pe nimeni;

to be in complete ignorance of smth, a nu avea nici cea mai vagă idee / cunoştinţă de ceva;

to keep smb. in ignorance of smth. a ascunde cuiva un lucru, a lăsa pe cineva să ignore ceva.

2. prostie, neghiobie.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

She was heartily ashamed of her ignorance.

(Northanger Abbey, de Jane Austen)

To his wife he was very little otherwise indebted, than as her ignorance and folly had contributed to his amusement.

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)

Marianne was, of course, kept in ignorance of all these arrangements.

(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)

I presently perceived she was (what is vernacularly termed) trailing Mrs. Dent; that is, playing on her ignorance—her trail might be clever, but it was decidedly not good- natured.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

Justine, thus received in our family, learned the duties of a servant, a condition which, in our fortunate country, does not include the idea of ignorance and a sacrifice of the dignity of a human being.

(Frankenstein, de Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Old Turner lived for seven months after our interview, but he is now dead; and there is every prospect that the son and daughter may come to live happily together in ignorance of the black cloud which rests upon their past.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

So it is in vain to affect ignorance.

(Northanger Abbey, de Jane Austen)

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