The author, most recently, of "Two or Three Things I Forgot to Tell You" and "Black Dahlia & White Rose" admits that she first found Walt Whitman disappointing: "Please don't send contemptuous e-mails."
contemptuous
adj.
Manifesting or feeling contempt; scornful.
contemptuously con·temp'tu·ous·ly adv.
contemptuousness con·temp'tu·ous·ness n.
- 発音記号[kəntémptʃuəs]
con・temp・tu・ous・ly
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familiarity breeds contempt,
Cf. [St. Augustine Scala Paradisi 8 (Migne 40, col. 1001)] vulgare proverbium est, quod nimia familiaritas parit contemptum, it is a common proverb, that too much familiarity breeds contempt.
Men seyn that ‘over-greet hoomlynesse [familiarity] engendreth dispreisynge’.
[c 1386 Chaucer Tale of Melibee l. 1685]
Hys specyall frendes counsailled him to beware, least his ouermuche familiaritie myght breade him contempte.
[1539 R. Taverner Garden of Wisdom ii. 4V]
With base and sordid natures familiarity breeds contempt.
[1654 T. Fuller Comment on Ruth 176]
Perhaps, if I heard Tennyson talking every day, I shouldn't read Tennyson. Familiarity does breed contempt.
[1869 Trollope He knew He was Right ii. lvi.]
We say‥Familiarity breeds contempt. ‥That is only partly true. It has taken some races of men thousands of years to become contemptuous of the moon.
[1928 D. H. Lawrence Phoenix II (1968) 598]
What's that saying about familiarity breeding contempt? By now, [Daniel] Snyder doesn't seem to think much of any of them.
[2002 Washington Times 12 Jan. A11]
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英文的familiarity breeds contempt（熟悉生輕蔑）實在是一句至理名言，孔子也說過「君子之交淡如水」，乃因人太熟會看清彼此的弱點，不再尊重對方。
羅納‧黎奧（Ronald Ridout）和克利福‧維亭（Clifford Witting）所著的《英文格言解說》一書的中譯者把familiarity breeds contempt譯成「狎暱產生輕蔑，熟稔造成輕忽」，再加上四句同義的格言：「僕人眼裡無英雄」、「河裡淹死會水的」、「善游者溺，善騎者墮」、「淹死 的是會水的，打死的是會拳的」。原作者也引用了四句類似諺語，其中有「先知除了在本鄉之外，沒有不受尊敬的」，以及「距離產生美感」。根據搜集的資料，我 又可以再加四句：「虎生猶可畏，人熟不堪親」、「近廟欺神」、「近之則不遜」，以及「日久翫生」。中外有這麼多類似說法，可見道理的真實程度。 馬克吐溫在「熟悉生輕蔑」之後加上四個字，成為「熟悉生輕蔑──以及孩子」看來，熟悉除了能生孩子之外，其實「傷很大」。 |
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