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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- However, he went up on the poop, and approached the unknown personage, who accosted him with the inquiry, "Are you the steward of this vessel?"
-- Then, perhaps, in the midst of a tribe in some Indian settlement on the shores of these almost unknown rivers, those whom I may call my friends await some providential intervention.
-- He took his place at the head of the party, quite unconscious of the admiration he was exciting, and they set off, going alternately at a gallop and walking pace, for the "trot" seemed altogether unknown to them.
-- Think, my friends, if the globe had been only an immense continent, the thousandth part of it would still be unknown to us, even in this nineteenth century.
-- During this BATTUE they killed certain animals peculiar to the country, the very names of which were unknown to Paganel; among others the "wombat" and the "bandicoot."
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And if we take this as a working hypothesis we have a fresh basis from which to start our construction of this unknown visitor.'
-- 'A dabbler in science, Mr. Holmes, a picker up of shells on the shores of the great unknown ocean.
-- When our unknown had followed Baskerville home we should have had the opportunity of playing his own game upon himself and seeing where he made for.
-- There is Mr. Frankland, of Lafter Hall, who is also an unknown factor, and there are one or two other neighbours.
-- A child!Barrymore had said that our unknown was supplied by a boy.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was an entirely new and hitherto unknown being who now sat and laughed at him, and informed him to his face that she had never had the faintest feeling for him of any kind, except loathing and contempt contempt which had followed closely upon her sensations of surprise and bewilderment after her first acquaintance with him.
-- In days gone by he remembered how he had looked at her beautiful eyes, how even then he had marvelled at their dark myste-rious depths, and at their wondering gaze which seemed to seek an answer to some unknown riddle.
-- He remembered that the last time he had been engaged in looking around him for the unknown some-thing, he was standing before a cutler's shop, in the window of which were exposed certain goods for sale.
-- He was not so much afraid of this meeting, nor of its strangeness, nor of any reasons there might be for it, unknown to himself; he was afraid of the woman herself, Nastasia Philipovna.
-- When he came to the prince the very day before the wedding to confess (for he always confessed to the persons against whom he in-trigued, especially when the plan failed), he informed our hero that he himself was a born Talleyrand, but for some unknown reason had become simple Lebedeff.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And it seems that a schooner called the Ipecacuanha with a drunken cap-tain, John Davies, did start from Africa with a puma and certain other animals aboard in January, 1887, that the ves-sel was well known at several ports in the South Pacific, and that it finally disappeared from those seas (with a consider-able amount of copra aboard), sailing to its unknown fate from Bayna in December, 1887, a date that tallies entirely with my uncle's story.
-- Even had it been under commonplace circumstances, it would have made me a trifle thoughtful; but in the first place was the singulari-ty of an educated man living on this unknown little island, and coupled with that the extraordinary nature of his lug-gage.
-- I began to realise the hardihood of my expedition among these unknown people.
-- Unless I would spend the night among the unknown dan-gers of the mysterious forest, I must hasten back to the enclosure.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Though the arts of peace were unknown to this fatal region, its forests were alive with men; its shades and glens rang with the sounds of martial music, and the echoes of its mountains threw back the laugh, or repeated the wan-ton cry, of many a gallant and reckless youth, as he hurried by them, in the noontide of his spirits, to slumber in a long night of forgetfulness.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His demands and your inexperience together, on a small, very small income, must have brought on distresses which would not be the LESS grievous to you, from having been entirely unknown and unthought of before.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There were soft rugs, rich, upholstered chairs and divans, a grand piano, a marble carving of some unknown Venus by some unknown artist, and a number of small bronzes gathered from heaven knows where, but generally sold by the large furniture houses along with everything else which goes to make the "perfectly appointed house."
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- UNKNOWN FRIEND.
-- UNKNOWN FRIEND.
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