The question itself is built around unknown quantities.

这个问题本身就是围绕着未知数而产生的。

When al-Khwarizmi wrote out problems, he often used the Arabic word shay to represent unknown quantities.

当花拉子米写出问题时，他经常使用阿拉伯语单词 shay 来表示未知数量。

You were an unknown quantity, Mr. President.

当时您的情况还无法预料 总统先生。

You are an unknown quantity, and this is not personal.

你是个未知数 这不针对个人。

It gives us a way of understanding the relationship between known and unknown quantities that lets you solve an infinite number of problems.

它给我们提供了一种理解已知和未知量之间关系的方法，可以让你解决无数的问题。

Dr. Sloper's opposition was the unknown quantity in the problem he had to work out.

斯洛珀博士的反对意见是他必须解决的问题中的未知数量。

The class was quiet as it entered the room; Professor Umbridge was, as yet, an unknown quantity and nobody knew how strict a disciplinarian she was likely to be.

全班同学走进教室时都默不作声，乌姆里奇教授还是个未知数，谁也不知道她对于课堂纪律的要求有多么严格。

I realize that the rent I'm paying and the flat I'm getting form a geometrical problem where X equals the unknown quantity and only the agent knows the answer.

我意识到我支付的租金和我得到的公寓形成了一个几何问题， 其中 X 等于未知数量， 只有代理人知道答案。

He lifted his head and looked to the south, reminding himself that the maker summoned wild from the erg was an unknown quantity, and the one who summoned it was equally unknown to this test.

他抬起头看向南方，提醒自己从尔格召唤狂野的制造者数量不详， 而召唤它的人在这次测试中同样不为人知。

There is no mystery in it; there is an unfathomable mystery in the meanest of them, for ever.—Supposing we were to reverse our arithmetic for material objects, and to govern these awful unknown quantities by other means!

这其中没有什么神秘之处。它们中最微不足道的东西永远存在着一个深不可测的谜团。假设我们要反转我们对物质对象的算术，并通过其他方式来控制这些可怕的未知量！

When Walter had borne his guest away to show him his room, and Liz had gone to tidy for dinner, Mrs Garrowby had catechised her sister about this unknown quantity that she had unloaded on the household.

当沃尔特把他的客人带走给他看他的房间时， 丽兹去收拾晚饭， 加洛比夫人向她的姐姐询问了她卸给家里的这个未知数量。