无知是恐惧之母，也是崇拜之母。 無知是恐懼之母，也是崇拜之母。 無知是恐懼之母，也是崇拜之母。

Ignorance is the mother of fear as well as of admiration.

Simplified

无知是恐惧之母，也是崇拜之母。

Traditional (Taiwan)

無知是恐懼之母，也是崇拜之母。

Pinyin

Wúzhī shì kǒngjù zhī mǔ, yě shì chóngbài zhī mǔ.

Bopomofo

ㄨˊ ㄓ ㄕˋ ㄎㄨㄥˇ ㄐㄩˋ ㄓ ㄇㄨˇ，ㄧㄝˇ ㄕˋ ㄔㄨㄥˊ ㄅㄞˋ ㄓ ㄇㄨˇ。

Written with HSK 7-9 vocabulary, at CEFR level C1.

Words in this sentence

• 无(wú)知(zhī)ignorant
• 是(shì)be
• 恐(kǒng)惧(jù)be frightened
• 之(zhī)(possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的 de)
• 母(mǔ)mother
• 也(yě)also
• 崇(chóng)拜(bài)worship

This sentence is from Tatoeba, contributed by GlossaMatik, with the English translation by eastasiastudent. It is used here under CC BY 2.0 FR.

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