知之甚少 (zhī) — to know very little about something; to have scant knowledge of something

Definition

A formal set phrase meaning 'to know very little about something,' used in writing. Note the literary 之: in this phrase it stands in for the topic ('of it / of that'), and the whole idiom is a fixed chunk — do not swap characters.

verb
to know very little about somethingto have scant knowledge of something

Beispiele

  • 知之甚少
    Wǒ duì zhè ge wèn tí zhī.
    I know very little about this problem.
  • 知之甚少
    Guān yú nà jiàn shì, wǒ zhī.
    Regarding that matter, I know very little.
  • 知之甚少
    Tā gāng xué zhōng wén, duì zhōng guó de wén huà zhī.
    He just started learning Chinese, so he knows very little about Chinese culture.

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