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unconsciously / unwittingly
HSK 7-9
not to know / unaware / unknowingly / fig. not to admit (defeat, hardships, tiredness etc)
HSK 7-9
little imagined / scarcely realized
to have no sense of shame
to act recklessly (idiom)
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
one can't tell how many / numerous similar cases
unable to differentiate good from bad (idiom) / not to know what's good for one / unable to recognize others' good intentions
whereabouts unknown / gone missing
not knowing what to do (idiom); at one's wits' end / embarrassed and at a complete loss
to have no sense of shame / brazen
omniscient
to not know what sb is driving at / to be unintelligible
to not know the reason / to not know what to do
not knowing when to come or leave (idiom); with no sense of propriety
unaware of the inner workings / naive / unwitting
numb / unfeeling / indifferent / inconsequential
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
to live in plenty without appreciating it (idiom); not to know when one is well off
lit. short-lived cicada does not know the seasons; fig. to see only a small piece of the big picture
lit. to eat without tasting the food / worried or downhearted (idiom)
lit. to reply "don't know" whatever the question (idiom) / fig. absolutely no idea of what's going on / complete ignorance
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
a person who doesn't manage a household would not be aware how expensive it is (idiom)
somehow
whereabouts unknown
nonsense / nonsensical / incomprehensible / to make no sense
untiring / not recognizing tiredness
One who does not know is not guilty / If one does not know any better, one cannot be held responsible
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
known to everybody
one may know a person for a long time without understanding his true nature (idiom)
(idiom) to know that it is so but not why it is so
top secret / hush-hush
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.
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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