●不明白、不知道
    ◎我不明白。 I don't understand.
    I can't tell you. (我不能告訴你。)
    = I don't understand. (我不知道是什么事。)
    = I'm not following.
    = I don't get it. *比較隨便的說法。
    = I'm confused.
    I get it. /I understand. (明白了。)
    ◎我不太明白。 I don't really understand.
    = I don't understand very well.
    ◎我不清楚。 That's not clear.
    *不清楚對方所說的事情時。
    So, was he the thief? (這么說，他是個小偷?)
    ◎我不明白你在說什么。 I can't see your point.
    *表示“我不同意你所說的，我不明白你為什么會這樣說”。
    We should do this first. (我們首先應(yīng)該做這個。)
    = I don't see where you're coming from.
    = I don't see your point.
    ◎我不明白你的意思。 I can't understand what you mean.
    = I can't see what you mean.
    = I don't understand what you're trying to say.
    = I don't get your drift.
    ◎我弄不清楚你想說什么。 I'm not sure what you mean.
    That's how you do it. (所以應(yīng)該這樣做呀。)
    = I'm not sure I understand.
    = I'm not sure I see what you mean.
    = I don't know if I understand what you're trying to say.
    ◎我根本不知道這是怎么回事。 I don't know what's what.
    *what's what 是what is what的縮略形式，直譯為“什么是什么”。
    = I don't have any idea what's going on.
    = I don't know anything any more.
    ◎太難了，我弄不懂。 It's over my head.
    *直譯是“它超過了我的頭腦”。用于所聽到的信息或事情，難于理解、弄不懂時。
    ...so, that's the way to use computers. (總之，電腦是這樣使用的。)
    = It's beyond me.
    ◎我也搞不清楚。 Your guess is as good as mine.
    *guess “推測，猜想”。這是句常用表達方式，意為“你要不知道，那我更不知道了”。
    How many people live in this town? (這個鎮(zhèn)上住了多少人?)
    ◎越想越糊涂。 The more I think about it, the less I understand it.
    *如例句所示，在more(更好的，更多的)、less(比較少的，更少的)等比較級前面加the，構(gòu)成the+比較級……，the+比較級……。
    ◎我不知道他要干什么。 I don't know what he is driving at.
    *drive at... “打算做……”。
    = I don't know what he intends.
    = I don't know what he is getting at.
    = I don't know what he is trying to do.
    = It's not clear. (我不清楚。)
    = That's unclear.
    That's clear. (那很清楚了。)
    ◎她到底想干什么? What's she after?
    I'm not sure. (我不清楚。)
    = What's her game?
    ◎我一點兒都不知道。 I have no idea.
    Do you know where my pen is? (你知道我的筆在哪兒嗎?)
    = I have no clue.
    = No idea.
    = It's all Greek to me.
    ◎我怎么不知道。 I didn't know that.
    John got married last week. (約翰上星期結(jié)婚了。)
    That's news to me.
    *習慣用法。
    = I wasn't aware of that.
    ◎不知道。/不太清楚。 I don't know.
    Do you know where she's from? (你知道她是從哪兒來的嗎?)
    = I have no idea.
    ◎我不太清楚。 I don't know for sure.
    *for sure 有“確切地”、“毫無疑問地”的含意。
    Do you know the way to my house? (你認識去我家的路嗎?)
    = I don't know for certain.
    = I'm not absolutely sure.
    ◎誰也不知道確切的情況。 No one knows for sure.
    *這種說法與“who knows?”幾乎相同，但因為有了for sure，所以句子含有知道得不確切，但也有各種各樣的說法的語感。
    ◎我怎么會知道? How should I know?
    *用于被問到“自己不可能知道”、“根本不知道”的問題時。根據(jù)說話的語氣，有時會給人以不理睬對方、冷淡對方的語感。
    Is he married? (他結(jié)婚了嗎?)
    ◎誰能知道? Who knows?
    *該句有時讓人聽起來有些富有哲理。
    What is the meaning of life? (什么是人生?)
    = Nobody knows.
    = No way of knowing.
    = There's no way of knowing.
    = It's impossible to find out.