| 释义 |
‖ quien sabe|ˌkjen ˈsabe|
[Sp.]
‘Who knows?’, ‘who can tell?’ Also attrib.
1836in Papers of M. Buonaparte Lamar (1921) I. 436 Austin..will be elected and will do well provided he selects a good Cabinet—and an honest one—quen Sabe—. 1846J. W. Abert Jrnl. 17 Oct. in Rep. Exam. of New Mexico (1848) 51 To all our other questions with regard to this ancient town, we received the usual Mexican reply of ‘quien sabe’. 1849T. Arnold Let. 7 July (1966) 124, I wonder what you are doing now. Whether the ‘daily possibility of falling in love’..has ripened into a certainty..? Quien sabe? as Matt used to say. 1864Weekly New Mexican 23 Dec. 2/4 We cannot trust an answer in the common vernacular to which we are accustomed, and must reply in all the Spanish we are master of, quien sabe. 1925D. H. Lawrence Reflections on Death of Porcupine 110 What makes the difference? Quien sabe! 1933A. Huxley Let. 13 Aug. (1969) 372 Do you think I am kind and unpossessive? Quien sabe? 1947M. Lowry Under Volcano i. 38 But why had all this happened? he asked himself now. Quién sabe? 1949Southwestern Rev. Summer 235/1 One yarn thrown in as a sort of quien sabe? item suggests an even more unpalatable morsel. 1965L. Meynell Double Fault i. i. 14 ‘Does this mean that he is..too wealthy to work, or what?’ ‘Quien sabe? Maybe he's just on holiday.’ 1976A. White Long Silence iii. 28 It's one thing for us all to make our decision here..but there—quien sabe? |