| 词汇 | terra-incognita |
| 释义 | terra incognita noun[ U ] often humorousuk /ˌter.ə ɪŋˈkɒɡ.nɪ.tə/ us /ˌter.ə ɪnˈkɑːɡ.niː.t̬ə/ a place, subject, or situation that you are not familiar with: 未知地区；未知领域 Dealing with children is terra incognita to me.对于带孩子，我一窍不通。 Compare unknownnoun Unknown and unfamiliar alien alienly alienness anti-foreign anti-foreigner not be in someone's vocabularyidiom obscure obscurely obscurity pig shadowy the outside worldidiom unchartered uncommon uncracked undefined unexplored unsung untried unused Examples of terra incognitaterra incognita These grassroots ventures and speculative forays of biologists into the terraincognita of cybernetics certainly conveyed a growing interest. But there were contemporary critics of mapping terraincognita. The latter were invariably located in parts of the capital that remained terraincognita both to the middle and to the respectable working classes. This is terraincognita, a complex subject of basic research and a widely unexplored territory. The diachronic developments of all of these vague words are, for the most part, terraincognita. This area is largely terraincognita. I have no intention of wandering idly into legal fields which are terraincognita to me and out of bounds. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is absolutely terraincognita in regard to many of the provisions that it will apply. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 So cribbed, cabined and circumscribed were their lives that the world outside their valleys was entirely terraincognita, unknown territory, to them. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I believe that one of the tragedies of the position is that the two countries are so much terraincognita to each other. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open 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. Terraincognita and 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 then terraincognita. 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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