② one knows not what を どのような意味に理解するか 考えて one does not know what (it is)と記載していたのだが例文を見つけたので読んでみるとほぼ合っているようだ。 【英文】 That’s Shinto — the way (“to”) of the kami (“shin”). As to the kami — who might they be? “Gods,” we say in English, the language offering nothing better, but it’s too freighted a word, too suggestive of power rather than innocence, of something specific as opposed to anything, one knows not what②. ② one knows not what = one does not know what (it is) 【例文】 (1) One knows not what one owes to one's parents till one comes to have children of one's own. 子を持って知る親の恩。 (2) One who has no child knows not what love is. 子を持たぬ者は情けを知らぬ。 (3) He is writing something or other - I know not what - no one knows what - God knows what. 彼はしきりに何かしら書いている。
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