Camille Javal
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Oct 1, 2020 · What don't you understand? I understand (or I just think I do) the word in individually but couldn't understand it as a whole. paternal : fatherly. (New American Dictionary Oxford) contempt : To despise someone or some thing (also NADO) and that's what I couldn't wrap my mind around, what's fatherly contempt?
Jul 13, 2020 · Jul 13, 2020. #1. How Online Chains of Contempt Show China’s Obsession With Money. In modern China, for example, so-called professional chains of contempt work like this: Venture capitalists look down their noses at finance workers, who, in turn, think little of real estate developers. If you work in information technology, you probably think ...
Sep 13, 2009 · A contemptible tone would be a tone that others find worthy of contempt. A contemptuous tone would be a tone that a speaker used to express contempt of something or someone. I think you want "contemptuous" in this context since you said "a tone full of contempt".
Mar 23, 2022 · Mar 23, 2022. #1. Hello guys! I met a language problem and I need your help. I was reading The Moon and Sixpence, and a sentence confused me: "She held their weakness for lions in good-humoured contempt, but played to them her part of the distinguished woman of letters with decorum." And in The Scarlet Pimpernel, the collocation also appears ...
Feb 11, 2012 · silent contempt = unspoken or implied contempt/hatred In the dictionary there is the sentence: le miró con mudo desprecio. It might be that the soldier dislikes his superior immensely and the superior notices that... the camera pans to show the expression on the face of the insubordinate... ? but of course I don't know what is happening in the ...
Jan 26, 2005 · GreenWhiteBlue, Point 1: With the proverb "familiarity breeds contempt", the idea is that the more famliar we become with something over time, the less respect and deference we have for it. I don't know that it would be accurate to read into this adage or proverb that the meaning implies a growing familiarity or a decreasing respect or deference.
Oct 28, 2009 · Northwest England - near Blackburn, Lancashire. British English. Oct 28, 2009. #4. Hi, Cat, "English Proverb - familiarity breeds contempt. 1.The more acquainted one becomes with a person, the more one knows about his or her shortcomings and, hence, the easier it is to dislike that person." (Wiktionary) Rover.
May 26, 2017 · Hello, What does underlined phrase mean? Maybe she should have told Mike from the beginning, but hindsight was a wonderful thing. It was not easy to talk about the past. Nor had she wanted to see in his eyes anything like what she had seen last night; the doubt, the disbelief, the fear. She...
Nov 18, 2015 · contemptという単語を見る度に、何か近代的な事、という意味を連想してしまうのですが調べてみると軽蔑という全く違う意味で混乱しております。 だいたい文字の構成が一緒だと語源も一緒で似通った意味になると思っていたのですが、何がこんなにも意味を違くさせているのでしょうか？
Aug 13, 2013 · ベストアンサー. e-プログレッシブ英和中辞典によると、 Contempt （卑劣・俗悪・無価値なものへの）軽蔑，侮蔑，さげすみ（ 思いやりを示す価値がないものに対してはscorn）；軽視，無視 プログレッシブ和英中辞典によると、 contemptは劣悪・無価値だと思う ...
