unwitting

英 [ʌnˈwɪtɪŋ]

美 [ʌnˈwɪtɪŋ]

adj.  不知情的; 糊里糊涂的; 无意的

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牛津词典

adj.

• 不知情的；糊里糊涂的；无意的
  not aware of what you are doing or of the situation you are involved in
  1. He became an unwitting accomplice in the crime.
     他糊里糊涂地成了犯罪的帮凶。
  2. She was the unwitting cause of the argument.
     她无意中引起了这场争执。

柯林斯词典

• ADJ 不知情的；不知不觉的；无意的
  If you describe a person or their actions asunwitting, you mean that the person does something or is involved in something without realizing it.
  1. We're unwitting victims of the system...
     我们都是该系统的不知情的受害者。
  2. It had been an unwitting blunder on Blair's part.
     它曾是布莱尔的无心之失。

英英释义

adj

• not aware or knowing
  1. an unwitting subject in an experiment
• unaware because of a lack of relevant information or knowledge
  1. he was completely ignorant of the circumstances
  2. an unknowledgeable assistant
  3. his rudeness was unwitting
  Synonym:ignorantunknowledgeableunknowing
• not done with purpose or intent
  1. an unintended slight
  2. an unintentional pun
  3. the offense was unintentional
  4. an unwitting mistake may be overlooked
  Synonym:unintentionalunplanned

双语例句

• An unwitting subject in an experiment.
  这个实验中不知情的被试。
• So they created the Dark City, to observe and manipulate the unwitting humans.
  因此，他们创造了黑暗中的城市，去观察和操纵不知情的人。
• I found myself becoming an unwitting confessor to countless strangers, Ms. Jamison wrote last month in The Guardian. I started to feel like confession could be the opposite of solipsism.
  我发现自己无意中对着无数陌生人忏悔了，贾米森上个月在《卫报》上发表文章说，我开始觉得忏悔可能是唯我论的反面。
• ALTHOUGH THE JURY is still deliberating the effects of wolves, early evidence strongly suggests that the canids are unwitting restoration biologists.
  虽然众人还在探究灰狼的影响，但初步证据仍强烈暗示犬科动物是「无意间复原环境的生物学家」。
• Tasking collection amongst witting or unwitting social groups could be an expedient way of finding out what's going on in some field of concern.
  在有意或无意的社会团体中收集情报可能是探究某些领域之究竟的便利方法。
• 'We need to make sure the federal government isn't an unwitting accomplice to the theft of our own national secrets by providing [ foreign-controlled companies] with multimillion-dollar government grants and loans,' he said in a statement.
  斯特恩斯在声明中说，我们要确保的是，美国联邦政府不会通过向外资控股公司提供数百万美元的政府拨款和贷款，从而在无意间成为盗窃本国国家机密的帮凶。
• It had been an unwitting blunder on Blair's part.
  它曾是布莱尔的无心之失。
• Vice President Joe Biden, a top Obama surrogate, said Tuesday that the middle class had been buried during the past four years, a statement that Republicans immediately seized upon as an unwitting indictment of the Obama presidency.
  副总统乔拜登，奥巴马的最高代理人，周二说中产阶级在过去四年遭埋葬，这一说法马上被共和党人抓住说奥巴马总统任期内经济衰败。
• Because it is possible to do so much unwitting harm in medicine, many medical interventions are now subjected to a randomised controlled trial.
  由于在医学中有可能造成如此严重的无意伤害，目前许多治疗都须经过随机对照试验（randomisedcontrolledtrial，RCT）。1948年，奥斯汀&bull；
• The children left their homes at dawn while their unwitting parents were apparently sleeping, and took along Mika's seven-year-old sister, Anna-Lena, as a witness to the wedding.
  两人在清晨趁着毫不知情的父母熟睡之际出发，还叫上了Mika七岁的姐姐Anna-Lena做他们的证婚人。