unknown quantity
英 [ˌʌnˈnəʊn ˈkwɒntəti]
美 [ˌʌnˈnoʊn ˈkwɑːntəti]
未知量;未知数
英英释义
noun
- a variable whose values are solutions of an equation
- a factor in a given situation whose bearing and importance is not apparent
- I don't know what the new man will d
双语例句
- Woman, even more than the working class, is the great unknown quantity of the race.
妇女比工人阶级蕴藏着更多的未知数。 - His ability to make decisions in a crisis is an unknown quantity.
他在危机中作决定的能力还是个未知数。 - John is a possibility for the job, but he is still an unknown quantity.
约翰可能获得这工作但现在还是个未知数。 - The computing efficiency is excellent with BEM since the elements are divided only on the boundaries and the number of freedom is reduced greatly through translating the inner unknown quantity to the boundary with basic solution.
由于边界单元法只在边界上剖分单元，通过基本解把域内未知量化为边界未知量求解，自由度数目大大减少，计算效率较高。 - Phrases like "a number" or "the number" tell us our expression has an unknown quantity, called a variable.
像一个数或这个数之类的短语，告诉我们表达式中含有一个未知量，称之为变量。 - The problem is that in both opposing Mr Obama and putting distance between himself and President Bush, Mr McCain became an unknown quantity and hence a risk.
问题在于麦凯恩既要对抗奥巴马，又要与布什拉开距离，他因此成为了一个未知数，因而也是一个风险。 - We use x as the symbol for an unknown quantity.
我们用x表示一个未知数。 - Because of the introduction of the unknown quantity of high, many problems generate, such as ranging-error larger, unknown location information increased. The problems result in poor stability of equation-solving, low positioning-accuracy and serious error accumulation.
由于引入了高度坐标的未知量，产生的测距误差影响变大、未知位置信息增多等问题造成方程求解的稳定性较差、定位精度不高、误差累积严重。 - This way, the problem in a finite element analysis, the unknown field function or its derivative values in each node becomes a new unknown quantity ( that is, degrees of freedom).
这样一来，在一个问题的有限元分析中，未知场函数或其导数在各个结点的数值就成为新的未知量（亦即自由度）。 - Youth is the smile of the future in the presence of an unknown quantity, which is itself.
青春就是未来在向一个陌生人微笑，而这陌生人就是自己。