terra incognita

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Land that has never been explored, mapped, or surveyed.
    — Behold me now in the full career of my voyage of discovery, exploring the James River in the steamboat, on a clear, hot fifteenth of June, and looking with a sagacious perspicacity on the commonest sights of this terra incognita.
  2. Ideas or concepts that have not yet been tried or explored. broadly
    — The concept of the unconscious or an inner terra incognita, an unknown country of the psyche that precedes and predicates the Cartesian subject, the focal point of rational consciousness, was a revolutionary idea.

词源

Borrowed from Latin terra incognita (“unknown land”).
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