unknown quantity
名词 n.
英文释义
名词 n.
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A person or thing whose nature or value is a mystery.
— Whatever he had learned of himself was here of no avail. He was an unknown quantity.
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Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see unknown, quantity.
— Many of the applications of mathematics require that you identify an unknown quantity, assign a variable to that quantity, and then attempt to express another unknown quantity in terms of that variable.
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