孤陋寡闻 meaning in English
with very limited knowledge and scanty information; be all by himself in some backwoods, he knows little of what is going on in the world of affairs.; be cut off from the world; be sequestered from the community and be thus poorly informed; ignorant; ignorant and ill-informed; ill-informed; live in a backwater; out of touch with the outside world and ignorant of the state of affairs; poorly read and ignorant; (he) received very little intelligence about the world outside; rude and with no experience; seeing and hearing little; shut up in his retreat; solitary and inexperienced
Examples
- Were our ancestors lucky to be only partly informed ?
我们的祖先孤陋寡闻是否算幸运呢？ - Forgive my ignorance , but what exactly are you talking about ?
请原谅我孤陋寡闻，你说的到底是什么？ - Scientists actually know little about how animals perform their navigational feats .
科学家们对动物的这种导航绝技却是孤陋寡闻的。 - Undoubtedly it was also to blame for his isolation from the events and the mood at the front .
这无疑是他孤陋寡闻不了解前线发生的事情和人们的心情的根源之一。 - I'm ignorant. i'm sorry. i'll go out and buy all the cat's records right away, all right ?
我是孤陋寡闻的。很抱嫌。我马上出去，把这位音乐家的唱片统统买来，这该行了吧？