unknowable

英語

詞源

源自 un- +‎ knowable。

形容詞

unknowable (比較級 more unknowable，最高級 most unknowable)

1. 不能知道的，無法得知的

   近義詞：unintelligible；亦參見Thesaurus:incomprehensible

   反義詞：knowable；亦參見Thesaurus:comprehensible

   • 2004，George Carlin，「NINETY-NINE THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW」，收錄於 When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?‎^[1]，New York：Hyperion Books，→ISBN，→OCLC，→OL，39頁：

     Number fourteen: Some of the things you need to know are things that are unknowable.

     第十四條：有些你需要知道的事情是無法知道的。

   • 2024年 11月20日，Fortesa Latifi，「How These Men Left the Manosphere — and Why Some May Never」，收錄於 Teen Vogue‎^[2]：

     The mascot for the manosphere, Andrew Tate, believes that women belong at home, are a man’s property, and shouldn’t be able to drive. And an unknowable amount of young men are following this rhetoric through sites like Reddit, 4chan, and YouTube. But once they fall down the rabbit hole of the manosphere, is there any getting out?

     男性至上主義的代表人物安德魯·泰特認為，女性應該待在家裡，是男性的私有財產，而且不應該開車。無數年輕男性透過Reddit、4chan和YouTube等網站接受這種論點。但是，一旦他們掉進男性至上主義的漩渦，還有可能逃脫嗎？

相關詞彙

• unknowability

名詞

unknowable (複數 unknowables)

1. 無法知曉的事物
   • 2010，Shehan Karunatilaka，Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew，self-published，138頁：

     That night I think of other unknowables. How much love does one need in a lifetime? Is there a quantity of brain space that is allocated to love? And for those of us who have loved less, does this space become occupied by something else? Like cricket, or religion, perhaps.

     那天晚上，我想到了其他一些不可知的問題。一個人一生需要多少愛？大腦中是否也存在著分配給愛的空間？而對於我們這些愛得較少的人來說，這部分空間是否會被其他事物佔據？例如板球，或者宗教。