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ken

noun
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Word OriginOld English cennan ‘tell, make known’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch and German kennen ‘know, be acquainted with’, from an Indo-European root shared by can and know. Current senses of the verb date from Middle English; the noun from the mid 16th cent.
Idioms
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Idioms
beyond your ken
  1. (old-fashioned) if something is beyond your ken, you do not know enough about it to be able to understand it
为某人所不理解；在某人的知识范围之外

ken

verb
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[intransitive, transitive] (Scottish English, Northern British English)
Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they ken
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he / she / it kens
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past simple kenned
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past participle kenned
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-ing form kenning
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  1. ken (something) | ken (that)… | ken what, where, etc… to know知道；懂得 Kent is the usual form of the past tense used in Scotland.
    Word OriginOld English cennan ‘tell, make known’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch and German kennen ‘know, be acquainted with’, from an Indo-European root shared by can and know. Current senses of the verb date from Middle English; the noun from the mid 16th cent.
  1. a first name for boys, short for Kenneth