terra incognita

短语

[拉]未发现的地域, (知识上的)未知领域

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Land that has never been explored, mapped, or surveyed.

    未知领域

  2. 2.

    Ideas or concepts that have not yet been tried or explored.

    引申义

    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.

词汇关系

名词

同义词 1

unknown

上位词 1

region

词源

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

来源：wiktionary