familiarity

英 [fəˌmɪliˈærəti]

美 [fəˌmɪliˈærəti]

n. 熟悉; 通晓; 认识; 友好随和; 亲近

BNC.8643 / COCA.8057

习惯用语

familiarity breeds contempt

过分亲密就会有所侮慢
knowing sb/sth very well may cause you to lose admiration and respect for them/it

noun

熟悉；通晓；认识
the state of knowing sb/sth well; the state of recognizing sb/sth
1. His familiarity with the language helped him enjoy his stay.
  他通晓这种语言，所以逗留期间过得很惬意。
2. When she saw the house, she had a feeling of familiarity.
  她见到这座房子就有一种熟悉的感觉。
友好随和；亲近
a friendly informal manner
1. She addressed me with an easy familiarity that made me feel at home.
  她和我谈话亲切随和，使我不感到拘束。

noun

an act of undue intimacy
Synonym:improprietyindecorumliberty
close or warm friendship
1. the absence of fences created a mysterious intimacy in which no one knew privacy
Synonym:intimacycloseness
usualness by virtue of being familiar or well known
a casual manner
Synonym:casualness
personal knowledge or information about someone or something
Synonym:acquaintanceconversanceconversancy

Her familiarity with these things.
她对这些事情的精通。
Working familiarity with biological experimentation and materials.
熟悉生物实验和相关实验材料。
Standards lose their vitality and context, with teams ignoring them through lack of familiarity or deliberate avoidance.
标准失去了他们的生命力和上下文，因缺乏熟悉或故意地避免，团队忽视了标准。
This article assumes a general familiarity with basic project management, and with agile development concepts and terminology.
本文假定您熟悉基本项目管理、敏捷开发概念和术语。
Familiarity with evil breeds not contempt but acceptance.
对罪恶熟悉之后，生出的不是蔑视，而是习以为常。
You should have a general familiarity with defining, validating, and reading XML.
应该对XML的定义、验证和读取有一定了解。
He had behaved with undue and oily familiarity
他表现得过于亲热，媚态毕现。
This has enhanced not only the kudos of distance learning but also its familiarity.
这不仅提高了远程教育的声誉，也让它被更多的人所熟悉。
Familiarity with object-oriented programming, databases, Perl, and Perl inheritance will be helpful in reading this article.
熟悉面向对象编程、数据库、Perl和Perl继承将对阅读本文有帮助。
Her familiarity with Japanese surprised me.
她对日语的熟谙使我惊奇。