Eats, Shoots & Leavesは普通の英国人向けに書かれた本で、英語の乱れ、特に句読点、アポストロフィの使い方に焦点を当てています。
Meanwhile, at the other end of the spectrum, severely prescriptive grammarians would agree that, since they were taught at school in 1943 that you must never start a sentence with "And" or "But", the modern world is benighted by ignorance and folly, and most of modern literature should be burned.
"benighted" の意味が分からないので辞書を引きます。
・Collins Dictionary: lacking cultural, moral, or intellectual enlightenment; ignorant: Rabri Devi's government in Bihar was not just a disgrace but a dangerous joke on the people of that benighted state.
・Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary: existing in a state of intellectual, moral, or social darkness: unenlightened: the poor benighted souls who do not know the joys of reading
私の好きなVocabulary.comの次の説明を読めば "benighted" の意味を直ぐに覚えられそうです。
Being called benighted is much like being called naive. It means lacking in knowledge or understanding--the kind you might have if you were older or more sophisticated.
Although it sounds a lot like "being knighted", benighted has nothing to do with knights and, in fact, includes the word "night" (as in the opposite of day) and not "knight" (as in "of the Round Table"). One way to remember what benighted means is to think of a person "being nighted" or, put into the dark. A benighted person is in the dark about things: they don't know because they can't see. The Dark Ages are thought to have been a benighted time, full of primitive ideas.
Meanwhile, at the other end of the spectrum, severely prescriptive grammarians would agree that, since they were taught at school in 1943 that you must never start a sentence with "And" or "But", the modern world is benighted by ignorance and folly, and most of modern literature should be burned.
"benighted" の意味が分からないので辞書を引きます。
・Collins Dictionary: lacking cultural, moral, or intellectual enlightenment; ignorant: Rabri Devi's government in Bihar was not just a disgrace but a dangerous joke on the people of that benighted state.
・Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary: existing in a state of intellectual, moral, or social darkness: unenlightened: the poor benighted souls who do not know the joys of reading
私の好きなVocabulary.comの次の説明を読めば "benighted" の意味を直ぐに覚えられそうです。
Being called benighted is much like being called naive. It means lacking in knowledge or understanding--the kind you might have if you were older or more sophisticated.
Although it sounds a lot like "being knighted", benighted has nothing to do with knights and, in fact, includes the word "night" (as in the opposite of day) and not "knight" (as in "of the Round Table"). One way to remember what benighted means is to think of a person "being nighted" or, put into the dark. A benighted person is in the dark about things: they don't know because they can't see. The Dark Ages are thought to have been a benighted time, full of primitive ideas.
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