| 单词 | to be not to know |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto be not to know P29. Chiefly British. to be not to know: to have no way of learning. Usually with indirect statement. ΚΠ 1833 W. G. Simms Martin Faber xiii. 126 He was not to know that I had most effectually acquitted him, to her, of the offence, for which he anticipated her scorn and hatred. 1898 Times 19 May 16/4 They were not to know that the Russophile passage in Mr. Balfour's Bristol speech was a mere oratorial tag. 1957 F. Hoyle Black Cloud (1960) 18 Pity you didn't show it to me right away. But of course, you weren't to know. 1985 W. Radice in tr. R. Tagore Sel. Poems (1994) Introd. 31 [The translation] also leaves out a whole verse, though the English reader is not to know that. 1997 Business Age Sept. 11/1 True, you were not to know he was about to die, but criticism on one of our true business legends is totally unnecessary, out of place and unfair. < as lemmas |
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