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unwittingly

/uhn-wit-ing-lee/US // ʌnˈwɪt ɪŋ li //

不知不觉中,不知不觉地,不知不觉,不知不觉间

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Definitions

adv.副词 adverb
  1. 1
    • : without meaning to; unintentionally: Users who visit infected websites could unwittingly download malware that steals information in their computers.
    • : through ignorance; through lack of knowledge or awareness: A number of women have been unwittingly lured into this scheme by being told they were working on a very important project.

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Examples

  • In “Philoctetes,” a soldier exiled to an island must deal with agonizing wounds, and in “Women of Trachis,” a wife carries out a plot against her unfaithful husband that unwittingly ends with his fatal poisoning.

  • To make things even more complicated, younger people are often asymptomatic, meaning they could unwittingly transmit the virus, “especially during a multigenerational celebratory Thanksgiving meal,” Walensky said.

  • Pennsylvania’s Rejection of 372,000 Ballot Applications Bewilders Voters and Strains Election StaffMost rejected applications were deemed duplicates because voters had unwittingly checked a request box during the primary.

  • When on-campus housing is close to normal capacity, students often have roommates, shared bathrooms, and other opportunities to unwittingly spread the virus.

  • I was born deaf, and people hearing me speak for the first time sometimes unwittingly attempt to place my “accent” — a faux pas I usually brush aside.

  • Unwittingly or not, modern feminism is leaving its disabled sisters out of the discussion.

  • It struck me that Charles has, albeit unwittingly, accelerated the tendency for the bad to drive out the good.

  • It seems that, in doing away with patriarchal authority, we have also, perhaps unwittingly, killed off all the grown-ups.

  • Sutherland had unwittingly purchased the paintings from a forger in California on eBay.

  • At least they satirize entitlement instead of unwittingly enacting (and celebrating) it.

  • He shrank, as from some one who inflicted pain as a child, unwittingly, to see what the effect would be.

  • There is a natural tendency in men of genius to unwittingly return, under new forms, to old ideas.

  • Even the Red Cross had unwittingly spread its protection over more than one German agent.

  • The question was put unwittingly, but being so put Queeker stammered, and again blushed.

  • She had thought no further than to hide her shame, and in doing it she had unwittingly disinherited her own cousin's child.