unfamiliar

Word family

1 NOT KNOWnot known to you 不熟悉的，不了解的

unfamiliar surroundings/place/environment etc

She stood on deck to gaze at the unfamiliar surroundings.

她站在甲板上凝视着四下陌生的一切。

a crowd of unfamiliar faces

一群陌生的面孔

unfamiliar to

Some of the technical vocabulary may be unfamiliar to you.

有些专业词汇你可能不熟悉。

2 be unfamiliar with something to not have any experience of something 对某事物不熟悉

We were unfamiliar with the neighbourhood.

我们不熟悉这个社区。

Examples from the Corpus

be unfamiliar with something• Community activists say a large proportion of maquila workers come from rural areas and are unfamiliar with industrial safety concerns.• Finally, the management of the fund may be unfamiliar with futures trading, and be cautious about engaging in arbitrage transactions.• Gloria gave me the look of a woman who was unfamiliar with exactitude.• One of the parties may be unfamiliar with a particular practice.• The book is aimed at new graduates who are unfamiliar with polymers, but it is also suitable for undergraduates.• The Charismatics are suspicious of anything they are unfamiliar with.• The staff are unfamiliar with some of the donated materials.• They are unfamiliar with its routine.

—unfamiliarity /ˌʌnfəmɪliˈærəti/ noun [uncountableU]

Examples from the Corpus

unfamiliar• The voice on the phone sounded unfamiliar.• The resulting look may not have been pretty on the final day, but neither was it unfamiliar.• She spoke with an unfamiliar accent.• Driving on the left-hand side of the road was unfamiliar and a little frightening.• Scientists and policy makers face unfamiliar challenges in addressing these broader contextual issues in population health.• She may have waked and listened to the breathing beside her, and been shaken by unfamiliar emotions and tender resolves.• She needs your support even more now that she's in an unfamiliar environment.• I simply notice, one day after clamming, an irritating deposit of grit beneath ten unfamiliar growths on my hands.• an unfamiliar name• It took Steven some time to get used to his unfamiliar surroundings.• The army uses satellites to help soldiers navigate unfamiliar terrain.• The song is in Russian, a language unfamiliar to many singers.• I saw saxifrages and wild thyme and others that were unfamiliar to me.• Some of the waders were unfamiliar to me.• His name may be unfamiliar to Western audiences.• Some of these expressions may be unfamiliar to your students.• She noticed an unfamiliar truck parked across the street.• They are unfamiliar with its routine.

unfamiliar to• Everything in the house seemed unfamiliar to him.

Chinese

Syllable

Corpus