unknown是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 不知道的； 未知的，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And now, fear of unknown things seized her, leaped swiftly out of the darkness at her and she could only standand stare at him, all the flood of questioning dammed up at her lips.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was a dressing-room, as I supposed from the furniture, though much of it was of forms and uses then quite unknown to me.
-- To stand in the dark in a mysterious passage of an unknown house, bawling Estella to a scornful young lady neither visible nor responsive, and feeling it a dreadful liberty so to roar out her name, was almost as bad as playing to order.
-- I remember that at a later period of my "time," I used to stand about the churchyard on Sunday evenings when night was falling, comparing my own perspective with the windy marsh view, and making out some likeness between them by thinking how flat and low both were, and how on both there came an unknown way and a dark mist and then the sea.
-- The unemployed bystanders drew back when they saw me, and so I became aware of my sister,--lying without sense or movement on the bare boards where she had been knocked down by a tremendous blow on the back of the head, dealt by some unknown hand when her face was turned towards the fire,--destined never to be on the Rampage again, while she was the wife of Joe.
-- But the village was very peaceful and quiet, and the light mists were solemnly rising, as if to show me the world, and I had been so innocent and little there, and all beyond was so unknown and great, that in a moment with a strong heave and sob I broke into tears.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then he waited till her father came home, and told him that the unknown maiden, who had been at the feast, had hid herself in the pigeon-house.
-- Then the king's son lost sight of her, and could not find out where she was gone, but waited till her father came home, and said to him, 'The unknown lady 205who danced with me has slipped away, and I think she must have sprung into the pear-tree.'
-- Then the other answered, as if very unwillingly, 'A little space I may allow thee to sit here, if thou wilt reward me well and entreat me kindly; but thou must tarry yet an hour below, till I have learnt some little matters that are yet unknown to me.'
-- The young man sat safe within, till at length it ran ashore upon an unknown land.
-- This lasted for many years, when an unknown huntsman announced him- self to the king as seeking a situation, and offered to go into the dangerous forest.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He put this engine into our ears, which made an incessant noise, like that of a water- mill: and we conjecture it is either some unknown animal, or the god that he worships; but we are more inclined to the latter opinion, because he assured us, (if we understood him right, for he expressed himself very imperfectly) that he seldom did any thing without consult-ing it.
-- The cottagers and labourers keep their children at home, their business being only to till and cultivate the earth, and therefore their education is of little consequence to the pub-lic: but the old and diseased among them, are supported by hospitals; for begging is a trade unknown in this empire.
-- Their outward garments were adorned with the figures of suns, moons, and stars; interwoven with those of fiddles, flutes, harps, trumpets, guitars, harpsichords, and many other in-struments of music, unknown to us in Europe.
-- His men conspire against him, confine him a long time to his cabin, and set him on shore in an unknown land.
-- So that controversies, wranglings, disputes, and positiveness, in false or dubious propositions, are evils unknown among the Houyhnhnms.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There is no mystery in it; there is an unfathomable mystery in the meanest of them, for ever. Supposing we were to reverse our arithmetic for material objects, and to govern these awful unknown quantities by other means!
-- Though it would cost him a hard pang to leave her, and though he could think of no similar place in which his condemnation would not pursue him, perhaps it was almost a relief to be forced away from the endurance of the last four days, even to unknown difficulties and distresses.
-- Although it was hard to believe that her retiring for the night could be anything but a form, so severely wide awake were those classical eyes of hers, and so impossible did it seem that her rigid nose could yield to any relaxing influence, yet her manner of sitting, smoothing her uncomfortable, not to say, gritty mittens (they were constructed of a cool fabric like a meat-safe), or of ambling to unknown places of destination with her foot in her cotton stirrup, was so perfectly serene, that most observers would have been constrained to suppose her a dove, embodied by some freak of nature, in the earthly tabernacle of a bird of the hook-beaked order.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Yes, you have no idea how many unknown mountains, glaciers, volcanoes there are which remain to be studied.
-- As there was nothing I liked better than horse exercise, the pleasure of riding through an unknown country caused the early part of our enterprise to be particularly agreeable to me.
-- But for the precaution and knowledge of our guide, our dislocated bodies, our crushed and broken limbs, would have been cast to the wind, like dust from some unknown meteor.
-- Now we were about to encounter unknown and fearful dangers.
-- To what unknown depths had my companions gone?
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