| 单词 | great unknown |
| 释义 | > as lemmasGreat Unknown Great Unknown n. (a) (chiefly with the) anything which is not within the scope of existing knowledge; esp. anything considered to be vast and beyond the limits of human comprehension or understanding, as God, the future, the universe, etc. (b) a significant or influential person of unknown identity; used spec. in the 19th cent. as a nickname for the anonymous author of Waverley, i.e. Sir Walter Scott (cf. small known at known n. 3). ΚΠ 1598 W. Lisle tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Colonies 34 They knew the great vnknowne, and..With faithfull eyes beheld their vnbeholden king. 1684 N. Tate Poems (ed. 2) 149 Hail then, thou matchless Bard, thou great Unknown. 1709 I. Watts Horæ Lyricæ (ed. 2) i. 2 When shall we see the Great Unknown, And in thy Presence stand? 1825 R. Wilson Hist. Hawick 51 The powerfully superior mind of the Great Unknown. 1877 R. F. Burton Sind Revisited ix. 191 That Great Unknown, the literato who baptized the animal ‘Ship of the Desert’. 1934 Studies: Irish Q. Rev. 23 657 Some ‘Great Unknown’ who was contemporary with the Exile. 1989 A. Stoddard Living beautifully Together (1991) i. 39 Buy a telescope. Contemplate the great unknown. 2003 Philadelphia Inquirer 30 May w4/1 In leaving the known quantity of his anemone for the great unknown of the East Australian Current, he conquers his fears and the hearts of the audience. < as lemmas |
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