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  • slmetanot know what somebody is driving at; can make neither head nor tail of (a remark or an article)

    • tā shuō le bàn tiān tīng zhòng hái shi bù zhī suǒ yún

      半天听众还是不知所云

      He talked on and on, but the audience couldn't make out what he was driving at.

    • zhè piān wén zhāng wǒ kàn le hǎo jǐ biàn dàn hái shi bù zhī suǒ yún

      文章好几还是不知所云

      After several readings, I still cannot make any sense of this article.

    • zhè piān wén zhāng ràng rén kàn le bù zhī suǒ yún

      文章不知所云

      I don't know what to say after reading the article.

    • tā gěi chū yī gè jiǎn zhí bù zhī suǒ yún de dá fù

      简直不知所云答复

      He gave a particularly inarticulate reply.

    • duì wǒ lái shuō jì suàn jī chéng xù jiù hǎo xiàng shì tiān shū ràng rén bù zhī suǒ yún

      计算机程序好像天书不知所云

      Computer programs look like complete nonsense to me.

    • kě piān piān wǒ zhǐ dǒng xī bān yá yǔ yī mén wài yǔ tā shuō de nèi róng wǒ wán quán bù zhī suǒ yún

      偏偏西班牙语一门外语内容完全不知所云

      Unfortunately, I had confined my foreign language studies to Spanish, and I didn't understand a word.