benighted

adj.

1. 愚昧无知的
   without understanding
2. 落后的；未开发的
   without the benefits of modern life

1. ADJ-GRADED 不幸的；蒙昧的；无知的
   If you describe people or the place where they live as benighted, you think they are unfortunate or do not know anything.
   1. Famine hit that benighted country once more.
      饥荒再次席卷了那个蒙昧的国家。

1. Famine hit that benighted country once more.
   饥荒再次席卷了那个蒙昧的国家。
2. Listen to both sides and you will be enlightened; heed only one side and you will be benighted.
   兼听则明，偏信则暗。
3. What happens next in that benighted country is, well, a problem for the Afghans.
   这个蒙昧的国家接下来会发生什么，这是阿富汗人的问题。
4. Engagement was supposed to bring economic benefits to the benighted North; a modicum of mutual trust was meant to lessen its threat.
   韩国政府本打算通过接触给萧条的北方带来经济利益，并通过增加互信以减轻威胁。
5. A benighted creature who has the folly to worship something that he can see and feel.& Ambrose, Bishop of Milan
   异教徒：名词，愚昧无知的人，他崇拜某种看得见摸得着的东西。米兰主教安布罗斯
6. I saw the sun sinking gradually, and I got quite alarmed lest we should be benighted.
   我看见太阳渐渐地下沉，我相当惊慌因恐我们会摸黑。
7. The benighted person often chooses the past events which lets make the mistake to be possible not to be again wrong.
   愚昧无知的人往往选择让过去做错的往事可以不要再错。
8. Even life in benighted Hillbrow is improving, albeit from a low base.
   甚至连落后地区希尔布拉的生活也在改善，尽管起点较低。
9. Benighted ages of barbarism and superstition
   野蛮迷信的蒙昧时代
10. MOST writing about the benighted [ 1] land of Burma, dubbed Myanmar by the grotesque [ 2] junta running it, falls into one of two traps.
    缅甸（Myanmar）是一个愚昧落后的国家，荒唐可笑的执政军政府又称之为Burma。有关该国的大多数文学作品都难免走向两个极端之一。
11. If you don't hurry, we might be benighted on the way.
    如果你不快点，我们在入夜前可能无法抵达。
12. Whenever American and European leaders speak in lofty tones of an unflinching commitment to political pluralism, the rule of law or human dignity, this benighted region turns around to shame them.
    每当美国和欧洲的领导人义正辞严地谈起要坚决维护政治多元化、法治或人的尊严时，这个蒙昧的地区总会背道而驰，令他们蒙羞。
13. In the benighted Middle Ages, intellectual curiosity was discouraged by the authorities.
    在中世纪这个黑暗的年代里，求知欲全给统治阶级扼杀了。
14. Epithets like this helped to turn the benighted region of Darfur from an unknown backwater to the most pressing issue on every Western politician's to-solve list.
    不过，这种说法也促使达富尔这片陷入黑暗的土地从不为人知变成了西方政治家们案头最亟待解决的问题。
15. There was the Sudanese team itself, which does its weight-training using paint pots filled with concrete; the Kenyans, several of whom suffered grievously in the recent violence, and the benighted Zimbabweans.
    苏丹队本身也值得一提，其举重运动员用充填了混凝土的油漆罐训练；肯尼亚有数名运动员在不久前席卷该国的暴力中遭受了巨大痛苦；还有来自黑暗的津巴布韦的运动员。
16. The uncivilized decision is the human's earliest decision making by the benighted and superstitious way.
    蒙昧决策是指凭借愚昧、迷信的方式进行的决策活动，是人类最早的决策活动；
17. "I want to get some information about this benighted town."
    “我想从你那里了解一点关于这个愚昧城市的情况。”
18. Mr Kim was expected to ask for more food and aid for his blighted, benighted country.
    金正日期望能够为他破旧、愚昧的国家争取更多的食物与援助。
19. I hope this spiritual torch of Jain precepts will show light of truth and peaceful coexistence to the benighted world treading the path of bitterness, intolerance and discord.
    我希望耆那教义的精神火把为踏上苦难，偏狭，无序之路的黑暗世界带来真理与和平共存的光亮。
20. Or perhaps what they have done points to a possible salvation for the benighted Potteries.
    但也有可能，他们的所作所为为困境中的陶瓷作坊指出了一种可行的解救办法。
21. This benighted country; benighted ages of barbarism and superstition; the dark ages; a dark age in the history of education.
    这个愚昧的国家；野蛮、迷信的愚昧时期；无知的年代；教育史上的无知时期。
22. Its purpose was to rescue benighted parts of the world, in the words of the great propagandist, Thomas Macaulay, from "all the evils of despotism and the evils of anarchy".
    用伟大布道者托马斯麦考利【注6】的话来说，帝国旨在将世界上愚昧落后的地区从“所有专制和混乱的梦魇”中拯救出来。
23. The benighted Chechens were not the only victims of the amorality.
    愚昧无知的车臣人并非是唯一的是非不分的牺牲者。
24. No, I will never be the leader, brothers, of this new age of new Bengal; I shall not trouble to light the lamp of culture for the benighted.
    我的兄弟，我不愿意做孟加拉新时代的先驱，也不想为蒙昧的人民点亮文明的灯火；

adj

1. lacking enlightenment or knowledge or culture
   1. this benighted country
   2. benighted ages of barbarism and superstition
   3. the dark ages
   4. a dark age in the history of education

   Synonym:    dark

2. overtaken by night or darkness
   1. benighted (or nighted) travelers hurrying toward home

   Synonym:    nighted