核心畫面

Picture a map with one area left blank inside its outline. The blank does not mean nothing is there. It means nobody has walked in and come back with a record of it. Unexplored is the name of that blank: the thing exists, and the looking has not happened yet. The word's second use keeps the blank and changes what it sits on — the blank is now a question in a report, and walking in means thinking it through.

可以想成地圖上一塊留白的區域。空白不代表那裡什麼都沒有。只是還沒有人走進去看過,也還沒有人把裡面畫下來。unexpl更多收起可以想成地圖上一塊留白的區域。空白不代表那裡什麼都沒有。只是還沒有人走進去看過,也還沒有人把裡面畫下來。unexplored 說的就是這個狀態:東西在那裡,但「去看」這件事還沒發生。第二個意思只是把同一塊空白從土地搬到題目上。問題已經寫在報告裡了,只是還沒有人走進去把它想清楚。

From the word’s history

The word is built as un- + explored, so the core is simply the state of the exploring not having been done.

這個字的組成就是 un- 加上 explored。所以核心就是「探索這件事還沒發生」的狀態,跟今天的用法完全對得上。

Wiktionary etymology supplied in this packet: 'From un- + explored.'

From the picture

還沒有人想過的題目

把地圖上的空白搬到腦子裡:走進去的動作從「用腳」變成「用想的」。這是理解上的連結,方便記,不是在說歷史上哪個意思先有。

adjective · B2

An unexplored idea, subject or possibility is one that people have not yet thought about carefully or talked about, so nobody knows what is in it.

未探討的

Also in this word

adjective · B2

An unexplored place is one that nobody has travelled through or looked at closely, so there is no record of what is in it and it has not been put on a map.

未探索的