unknown quantity

未知数未知数量数量不明数量不详

unknown quantity 的定义

  1. An unpredictable person or thing, as in We don't know how the new pitcher will do—he's an unknown quantity. This expression comes from algebra, where it signifies an unknown numerical value. Its figurative use dates from the mid-1800s.

unknown quantity 近义词

unknown quantity

等同于 dark horse

更多unknown quantity例句

  1. While Faal and Njie are in U.S. custody, the whereabouts of the other survivors is unknown.
  2. The police suspect that the other unaccounted for 643,000 bitcoins, were removed from customer accounts via an unknown party.
  3. Former Gov. Jimmy Carter entered the 1976 Presidential campaign as a more or less total unknown.
  4. Until recently, the hacker collective known as Lizard Squad was all but unknown.
  5. First, we need to change the debate—to focus at least as much on the quality of resources as the quantity.
  6. A native of Haarlem on Zandam, the date of her birth being unknown.
  7. The phloridzin test consists in the hypodermic injection of a small quantity of phloridzin.
  8. In acute and chronic parenchymatous nephritis the quantity is usually very large.
  9. They also seized the lake gunboats, took an entire Spanish garrison prisoner, and captured a large quantity of stores.
  10. There are two forms of elasticity, one of quantity and the other of quality, both provided for in the act.