| 单词 | terra incognita |
| 释义 | terra incognita noun[U] oftenhumorousuk/ˌter.ə ɪŋˈkɒɡ.nɪ.tə/us/ˌter.ə ɪnˈkɑːɡ.niː.t̬ə/aplace,subject, orsituationthat you are notfamiliarwith: 未知地区；未知领域Dealing withchildrenisterraincognita to me.对于带孩子，我一窍不通。 Compare unknownnoun Unknown and unfamiliar
Examplesofterra incognitaterra incognita These grassroots ventures and speculative forays of biologists into theterraincognitaof cybernetics certainly conveyed a growing interest. From theCambridge English Corpus But there were contemporary critics of mappingterraincognita. From theCambridge English Corpus The latter were invariably located in parts of the capital that remainedterraincognitaboth to the middle and to the respectable working classes. From theCambridge English Corpus This isterraincognita, a complex subject of basic research and a widely unexplored territory. From theCambridge English Corpus The diachronic developments of all of these vague words are, for the most part,terraincognita. From theCambridge English Corpus This area is largelyterraincognita. From theCambridge English Corpus I have no intention of wandering idly into legal fields which areterraincognitato me and out of bounds. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 It is absolutelyterraincognitain regard to many of the provisions that it will apply. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 So cribbed, cabined and circumscribed were their lives that the world outside their valleys was entirelyterraincognita, unknown territory, to them. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 I believe that one of the tragedies of the position is that the two countries are so muchterraincognitato each other. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 During the 19th century "terraincognita" disappeared from maps, since both the coastlines and the inner parts of the continents had been fully explored. From Wikipedia  This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Terraincognitaand all that. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.But it is worth persevering because this is one of the first accounts of an island that was thenterraincognita. From theCambridge English Corpus Messerschmidt set out in 1720 on his exploration the first by a naturalist in this "terraincognita", which came to last for seven years. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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