You can picture a blank space on a form where an answer should be: the thing exists, but nobody has filled it in. Everything the word does is a version of that blank — a fact nobody has, a face nobody recognises, a place nobody has walked into.
可以想成表格上該填答案的地方一片空白：那件事是存在的，只是沒有人把它填上。這個字的各種用法都是這塊空白的不同版本——沒人掌握的事實、沒人認得的臉、沒人走進去過的地方。
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原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
unknownadj/ʌn(ˈn)əʊn/
- 1
Not known; unidentified; not well known.
- The Celebrity, by arts unknown, induced Mrs. Judge Short and two other ladies to call at Mohair on a certain afternoon when Mr. Cooke was trying a trotter on the track. The three returned wondering and charmed with Mrs. Cooke; they were sure she had had no hand in the furnishing of that atrocious house.
- I suspect that this large and complex military railway system, shrouded in official secrecy for most of its operational life, remains unknown to many people.
unknownnoun/ʌn(ˈn)əʊn/
- 1
algebramathematicssciencesA variable (usually x, y or z) whose value is to be found.
- 2
Any thing, place, or situation about which nothing is known; an unknown fact or piece of information.
- Had God walked close beside her into the unknown?
- I think I learned more from my family than they did from me in the brief idyllic time we spent together. None of them much more than a mile from home, they carried the aura of a close-knit community as a shield against against the unknown.
- 3
A person of no identity; a nonentity.
- How does it feel, / how does it feel? / To be on your own, / with no direction home / A complete unknown, / like a rolling stone
- Khaleque, the landowner, who had contributed most of the money needed to transform the neglected burial-place of an unknown into a mazar, masked his pride and pleasure with difficulty. He solemnly declared: ‘Perhaps now we shall be forgiven for neglecting the saint all these years.’
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
- unknow
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。