| 释义 |
know-nothingn. 1 an ignorant person 无知的人 2 (also 亦作 Know-Nothing) US a person who feigns ignorance or who denies holding an opinion, to avoid controversy (after the American Know-Nothing Party of the 1850s which denied its own existence and hence its opposition to immigrants esp. Catholics) [美]一无所知者；(大写)一无所知者党的成员(指假装无知或否认持有看法，以避免争论(来源于 19 世纪 50 年代美国的一无所知党，否认其自身的存在，反对新来移民，尤其是天主教徒)) □ know-nothingism n. (in sense 2 of n. 用于名词释义 2) |