agnostic
agnostic 英 [ægˈnɒstɪk] 美 [ægˈnɑstɪk]
n. 不可知论者 adj. 不可知论的
名词复数:agnostics
- If someone believes they cannot know whether or not God exists, label them an agnostic. A bad joke: Did you hear about the dyslexic agnostic insomniac? He stayed up all night wondering if there was a dog.
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- n. 不可知论者
- adj. 不可知论的
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1. I never know whether I should say "agnostic" or whether I should say "Atheist".
我实在不知道是否该说是“不可知论者”或“无神论者”。
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2. It was all new to me because, like my father, I was an agnostic and had not heard of fundamentalism.
这对我来说是新鲜的，因为我以前跟父亲一样，都是不可知论者，我并无接触过基要派。
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3. When an atheist or agnostic asks me about Sunday School for their children, I recommend exposing their children to a religion.
当一个无神论者或不可知论者问我星期天学校的事时，我的建议是让孩子去了解宗教。
- agnostic (n.) 1870, "one who professes that the existence of a First Cause and the essential nature of things are not and cannot be known" [Klein]; coined by T.H. Huxley, supposedly in September 1869, from Greek agnostos "unknown, unknowable," from a- "not" (see a- (3)) + gnostos "(to be) known," from PIE root *gno- "to know." Sometimes said to be a reference to Paul's mention of the altar to "the Unknown God" in Acts, but according to Huxley it was coined with reference to the early Church movement known as Gnosticism (see Gnostic). The adjective also is first recorded 1870.
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