英语习语谚语成语用法精粹 宗教神话类3-45 not know somebody from Adam

【字面理解】连某人跟亚当都分不清

【英文解析】to have never met someone and not know anything about somebody

【中文解析】根本不认识某人;与某人素不相识

【典型例句】① This man came into the office and he said that he knew ne. I didn’t know him from Adam, which was a bit embarrassing.这个人到办公室里来，说他认识我， 可我一点儿都不认识他，真是有点儿尴尬。

② Roger: Oh, just seems as though that maybe you have intimacy issues. You know, that you use your humor as a. way of keeping people at a distance.

Chandler: Huh.

Roger: I mean, hey, I just met you. I don’t know you from Adam. ...Only child, right? Parents divorced before you hit puberty?

Chandler: Uhhuh, how did you know that?

—Season 1 Episode 13, Friends

罗杰：看上去你好像在亲密行为方面有问题。你知 道，你通过你的幽默来与人保持距离。

钱德勒：呃……

罗杰：我是说，嘿，我刚认识你，对你一无所知。…… 独生子，对吧?青春期前父母就离婚了?

钱德勒：你怎么知道?

——《好友记》第1季第13集

【注释】源自《圣经创世纪》，亚当并非女人所生，所以没有肚挤，是最容易辨认的人，因此not know somebody from Adam就表示“完全不认识某人”。