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height; level; (music) pitch / relative superiority / propriety; discretion (usu. in the negative, e.g. 不知高低) / no matter what; just; simply (will not ..., must ... etc) / at long last
HSK 7-9
not to know / unaware / unknowingly / fig. not to admit (defeat, hardships, tiredness etc)
HSK 7-9
(idiom) unconsciously; unwittingly
not knowing what to do (idiom); at one's wits' end / embarrassed and at a complete loss
little imagined / scarcely realized
to have no sense of shame / brazen
to act recklessly (idiom)
unable to differentiate good from bad (idiom) / not to know what's good for one / unable to recognize others' good intentions
omniscient
whereabouts unknown / gone missing
to have no sense of shame
to not know what sb is driving at / to be unintelligible
lit. not knowing what's important (idiom); no appreciation of the gravity of things / naive / doesn't know who's who / no sense of priorities
(idiom) to not know the reason / (idiom) to not know what to do
one can't tell how many / numerous similar cases
unaware of the inner workings / naive / unwitting
numb / unfeeling / indifferent / inconsequential
not knowing when to come or leave (idiom); with no sense of propriety
forgetting the fate of Ding and Dong (idiom) / unheeding the lessons of the past
not to know the immensity of heaven and earth / an exaggerated opinion of one's own abilities
lit. to reply "don't know" whatever the question (idiom) / fig. absolutely no idea of what's going on / complete ignorance
to live in plenty without appreciating it (idiom); not to know when one is well off
untiring / not recognizing tiredness
top secret / hush-hush
One who does not know is not guilty / If one does not know any better, one cannot be held responsible
known to everybody
a person who doesn't manage a household would not be aware how expensive it is (idiom)
lit. short-lived cicada does not know the seasons; fig. to see only a small piece of the big picture
(idiom) to know that it is so but not why it is so
If you don't want anyone to know, don't do it (idiom). fig. If you do something bad, people will inevitably hear about it.
lit. to eat without tasting the food / worried or downhearted (idiom)
It's a long and intricate story, I hardly know where to start.
to know nothing about the beginning, the middle or the end / to know nothing at all
(dialect) contracted form of 不知道
somehow
whereabouts unknown
nonsense / nonsensical / incomprehensible / to make no sense
in absolute secrecy
to have lost consciousness
to know the first, but not know the second (idiom); only partial information
to be totally oblivious (to sth) / to have no idea about sth
one may know a person for a long time without understanding his true nature (idiom)
to go astray and to not know how to get back on the right path (idiom)
The well-fed cannot know how the starving suffer (idiom).
The well-fed cannot know how the starving suffer (idiom).


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