ignorance是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 无知, 愚昧，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If I should ask any other question that may happen to have that result, give me credit, if you please, for being in ignorance how to speak to you as I ought.'
-- These people, as they listened to the friendly voice that read aloud there was always some such ready to help them stared at the characters which meant so much with a vague awe and respect that would have been half ludicrous, if any aspect of public ignorance could ever be otherwise than threatening and full of evil.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I speak, of course, in ignorance of the details, and they may be unsuitable on both sides.'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Being a domestic man, John decidedly missed the wifely attentions he had been accustomed to receive, but as he adored his babies, he cheerfully relinquished his comfort for a time, supposing with masculine ignorance that peace would soon be restored.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Ignorance is the parent of fear, and being completely nonplussed and confounded about the stranger, I confess I was now as much afraid of him as if it was the devil himself who had thus broken into my room at the dead of night.
-- Yet, owing to the long priority of his claims, and the profound ignorance which, till some seventy years back, invested the then fabulous or utterly unknown sperm-whale, and which ignorance to this present day still reigns in all but some few scientific retreats and whale-ports; this usurpation has been every way complete.
-- For not only are whalemen as a body unexempt from that ignorance and superstitiousness hereditary to all sailors; but of all sailors, they are by all odds the most directly brought into contact with whatever is appallingly astonishing in the sea; face to face they not only eye its greatest marvels, but, hand to jaw, give battle to them.
-- So far as what there may be of a narrative in this book; and, indeed, as indirectly touching one or two very interesting and curious particulars in the habits of sperm whales, the foregoing chapter, in its earlier part, is as important a one as will be found in this volume; but the leading matter of it requires to be still further and more familiarly enlarged upon, in order to be adequately understood, and moreover to take away any incredulity which a profound ignorance of the entire subject may induce in some minds, as to the natural verity of the main points of this affair.
-- As he mounted the deck, Ahab abruptly accosted him, without at all heeding what he had in his hand; but in his broken lingo, the German soon evinced his complete ignorance of the White Whale; immediately turning the conversation to his lamp-feeder and oil can, with some remarks touching his having to turn into his hammock at night in profound darkness his last drop of Bremen oil being gone, and not a single flying-fish yet captured to supply the deficiency; concluding by hinting that his ship was indeed what in the Fishery is technically called a clean one (that is, an empty one), well deserving the name of Jungfrau or the Virgin.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I see nothing in it but your own wilful ignorance and the malice of Mr.
-- My total ignorance of the connection must plead my apology.'
-- Her character will be fixed, and she will, at sixteen, be the most determined flirt that ever made herself or her family ridiculous; a flirt, too, in the worst and mean-est degree of flirtation; without any attraction beyond youth and a tolerable person; and, from the ignorance and empti-ness of her mind, wholly unable to ward off any portion of that universal contempt which her rage for admiration will excite.
-- To his wife he was very lit-tle otherwise indebted, than as her ignorance and folly had contributed to his amusement.
-- But to live in ignorance on such a point was impossi-ble; or at least it was impossible not to try for information.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After sitting a while longer, and musing what I should do in this case, I was not able to bear sitting in ignorance longer; so setting up my ladder to the side of the hill, where there was a flat place, as I observed before, and then pulling the ladder after me, I set it up again and mounted the top of the hill, and pulling out my perspective glass, which I had taken on purpose, I laid me down flat on my belly on the ground, and began to look for the place.
-- Well, after his astonishment was a little over at this, I point-ed to him to run and fetch the bird I had shot, which he did, but stayed some time; for the parrot, not being quite dead, had fluttered away a good distance from the place where she fell: however, he found her, took her up, and brought her to me; and as I had perceived his ignorance about the gun before, I took this advantage to charge the gun again, and not to let him see me do it, that I might be ready for any other mark that might present; but nothing more offered at that time: so I brought home the kid, and the same evening I took the skin off, and cut it out as well as I could; and hav-ing a pot fit for that purpose, I boiled or stewed some of the flesh, and made some very good broth.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "There are inconveniences attending such feelings as Marianne's, which all the charms of enthusiasm and ignorance of the world cannot atone for.
-- This was a subject which ensured Marianne's attention, and she was beginning to describe her own admiration of these scenes, and to question him more minutely on the objects that had particularly struck him, when Edward interrupted her by saying, "You must not enquire too far, Marianne remember I have no knowledge in the picturesque, and I shall offend you by my ignorance and want of taste if we come to particulars.
-- Had she tried to speak, or had she been conscious of half Mrs. Jennings's well-meant but ill-judged attentions to her, this calmness could not have been maintained; but not a syllable escaped her lips; and the abstraction of her thoughts preserved her in ignorance of every thing that was passing before her.
-- "Ah!Elinor," said John, "your reasoning is very good, but it is founded on ignorance of human nature.
-- Marianne was, of course, kept in ignorance of all these arrangements.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was eighteen years of age, bright, timid, and full of the illusions of ignorance and youth.
-- "Nobody knows us down there," said one, a gentleman whose face was a slight improvement over gross ignorance and sensuality.
-- After the occurrence of Wednesday, he could not refuse, though the Phillips were about as uninteresting as vanity and ignorance could make them.
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