核心畫面
You can think of 'known' as the finished mark left by knowing: once people have come to know something, that thing is now 'known' — it sits in the open, recognised. From this one picture grow both the grammar use (the past participle of know) and the adjective uses (a known fact, a known criminal, well-known).
可以想成「已經被人知道、攤在明處」的狀態:known 是動詞 know（知道)的過去分詞,也就是「知道」這個動作完成…更多收起
可以想成「已經被人知道、攤在明處」的狀態:known 是動詞 know（知道)的過去分詞,也就是「知道」這個動作完成後留下的印記——某件事一旦被人知道了,它就「為人所知、擺在明處」。這個字的所有用法,不管是文法上的(have known)還是形容詞的(已知的、慣犯、出名的),都從「已經被知道、攤在明處」這個畫面長出來。原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
knownadj/nəʊn/
- 1
Identified as a specific type; famous, renowned.
- He was a known pickpocket.
- Being not knowne, some great persons in the pew I pretended to, and went in, did question my coming in.
- 2
Accepted, familiar, researched.
- At the time, Einstein's theory was unknown to most other scientists.
- As we age, the major arteries of our bodies frequently become thickened with plaque, a fatty material with an oatmeal-like consistency that builds up along the inner lining of blood vessels. The reason plaque forms isn’t entirely known, but it seems to be related to high levels of cholesterol inducing an inflammatory response, which can also attract and trap more cellular debris over time.
knownnoun/nəʊn/
- 1
Any fact or situation which is known or familiar.
- You have to tell the knowns from the unknowns.
- The biological dereplication tool may identify major knowns in a mixture, but it may miss novel minor components.
- 2
algebramathematicssciencesA constant or variable the value of which is already determined.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。