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单词 unknowingly
释义
unknowingly
adverb
literary
uk
/ʌnˈnəʊ.ɪŋ.li/us
/ʌnˈnoʊ.ɪŋ.li/
in a way that is notconsciousof aparticularsituationorproblem:
Severaldriversunknowinglyparkedin thewrongplace.
Millions ofpeopleunknowinglyateinfectedbeefforyears.
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  • They had been unknowinglyinfectedforyears.
  • She unknowinglyrevealedfactsabout the organization'sinnerstructure.
  • Residents often unknowinglyattractbearsbyleavingfoodoutsidetheirhomesforpets.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
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  • be on another planetidiom
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  • blind spot
  • blindly
  • blindness
  • foggy
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  • illiterate
  • in blissful ignoranceidiom
  • innumeracy
  • innumerate
  • insensate
  • lost
  • stump
  • tin-eared
  • unacquainted
  • unattuned
  • unawakened
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(Definition ofunknowinglyfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

unknowingly| American Dictionary

unknowingly
adverb
us
/ʌnˈnoʊ·ɪŋ·li/
withoutintendingorrealizingsomething:
Parents may unknowingly maketheirchildfeelinadequateorpressuredbyexpectingtoo much of them.
(Definition ofunknowinglyfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofunknowingly

unknowingly
He battles with preconceived notions he hasunknowinglycarried.
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Many young kids, knowingly orunknowingly, worked for some kind of criminal enterprise.
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And in the broader scheme of things, patients are contributing (although oftenunknowingly) to the greater good by serving as teaching material for future doctors.
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We begin to entertain the notion that this person, beside herself with sadness, has simply (perhapsunknowingly) walked on stage.
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We can sincerely report the speech of others and,unknowingly, falsely convey that they meant to say something they didn't.
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Programmers sometimesunknowinglymake different assumptions about the required behavior of interacting components, and this always results in unexpected and incorrect behavior.
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Unknowingly, individuals from different communities and cultures may be quite similar genetically.
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Sometimes a semantic loanwordunknowinglymisrepresents the original, as when 'tragedy' is translated as beiju ('sad drama') and 'intellectual' as zhishi fenzi ('mind worker').
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Disturbingly this suggests that architects may beunknowinglyordering their view of reality through deceptive and illusory media.
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If the userunknowinglyselects a non-intended meaning of a word or phrase uttered by the system, all sorts of things can go wrong.
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Other times, though, we acquire our reference groups accidentally, unintentionally, sometimes evenunknowingly.
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In this, possiblyunknowingly, they were reflecting the war-time diagnosis that made officers four times more likely than their men to suffer from some war neurosis.
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He is afraid that anyone offendingunknowinglyand unwittingly may be harassed by proceedings of a frivolous nature.
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The consequence has been that many voluntary organisations have, albeit in many casesunknowingly, been breaking the law by running their minibuses.
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Knowingly orunknowingly, he made some wildly contradictory statement on behalf of his party.
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