有d英文唔名, 幫幫手 3q

Known knowns, known unknowns, unknown unknowns.

呢三對字，前面嘅係形容詞，後面嘅係名詞(眾數)。

第一對:
[known] [knowns]: [已被人知道咗嘅] [有人知道嘅事]
意思: 眾所皆知嘅事

第二對:
[known] [unknowns]: [已被人知道咗嘅] [無人知道嘅事]
意思: 唔再係無人知道 / 明白嘅事。

第三對:
[unknown] [unknowns]: [未有人知道嘅] [無人知道嘅事]
意思: 仍然係無人知道 / 明白嘅事。





2010-05-07 13:46:43 補充：
第二對:[known] [unknowns]:
另一解法：
[大家都知道嘅] [無人知道 / 明白嘅事]
意思: 大家都同意呢 d 係無人知道 / 明白嘅事。
eg. To the non-religious people, life after death is a known unknown.

2010-05-09 09:49:40 補充：
摘錄：
—United States Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld：
“ There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we now know we don’t know. But there are also unknown unknowns. These are things we do not know we don’t know. ”

2010-05-09 10:07:10 補充：
摘錄：from Sikipedia:
"In epistemology and decision theory, the term unknown unknown refers to circumstances or outcomes that were not conceived of by an observer at a given point in time. The meaning of the term becomes more clear when it is contrasted with the known unknown, ......."

2010-05-09 10:29:11 補充：
改良阪：
known knowns 知道可以掌握到的知識或因果
known unknowns 知道掌握不到的知識,因果, 或會否發生。
unknown unknown 不知道有什麼事已發生，會否發生，或有何因果。

known/ unknown = past participles 早知/一無所知; should have known
knowns/ unknows= nouns, 已知的/仍未知的事物
= (you) should have known things that have been known, should have known things that are still unknown, and should not have known things that are not yet known
早知已知的(事物); 早知仍未知的(事物); 對仍未知的(事物),一無所知

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