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单词 ignorance is bliss
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ignorance is bliss
P1. ignorance is bliss: if one is unaware of an unpleasant fact or situation one cannot be troubled by it.In later use sometimes in echoes of quot. 1747.
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1747 T. Gray Ode Eton Coll. 8 Where Ignorance is Bliss, 'Tis Folly to be wise.
1777 S. J. Pratt Sublime & Beautiful of Script. II. xxiii. 26 In every light we can possibly view this matter, ignorance is bliss, and foreknowledge, would, to all intents and purposes, be agony.
1862 All Year Round 12 Apr. 105/2 For the first time since my entrance into the harem, I began to acknowledge that there were cases where ignorance might be bliss; for there were evidently portions of the song so little suited to ears polite, that some of the women uttered exclamations of horror.
1892 Lippincott's Monthly Mag. Jan. 9 The only excuse one may make for not knowing it is that ‘ignorance is bliss’. But if ignorance is bliss it's rapture to be wise.
1911 Daily Tel. 5 May 6/5 In her case ignorance is bliss, her knowledge of German cabaret life a negligible quantity.
2017 S. Karim That Thing we call Heart xxix. 245 Before this summer, I didn't pay much attention to my parents' marriage. Maybe ignorance is bliss.
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