familiar是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 熟悉的, 通晓的, 亲密的, 常见的，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If the good Saint Dunstan had but nipped the Evil Spirit's 12 Sons and Loversnose with a touch of such weather as that, instead of using his familiar weapons, then indeed he would have roared to lusty purpose.
-- He had been quite familiar with one old ghost, in a white waistcoat, with a monstrous iron safe attached to its ankle, who cried piteously at being unable to assist a wretched woman with an infant, whom it saw below, upon a door-step.
-- Scrooge's niece played well upon the harp; and played among other tunes a simple little air (a mere noth-ing: you might learn to whistle it in two minutes), which had been familiar to the child who fetched Scrooge from the boarding-school, as he had been reminded by the Ghost of Christmas Past.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She had become familiar to me, when a gracious God restored my faculties; but, I am quite unable even to say how she had be-come familiar.
-- She was not unfrequently the victim of this disorder, and she called it, in familiar conversation, 'a fit of the jerks.'
-- On this second day, Mr. Lorry saluted him cheerfully by his name, and spoke to him on topics that had been of late familiar to them.
-- Among the many wild changes observable on familiar things which made this wild ride unreal, not the least was the seeming rarity of sleep.
-- Above all, one hideous figure grew as familiar as if it had been before the 389general gaze from the foundations of the world the figure of the sharp female called La Guillotine.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The neighboring house had a something familiar about it; a window stood open; he flew in; it was his own room.
-- This is called drinking 'Duus": they are then, 'Duus Brodre,' (thou brothers) and ever afterwards use the pronoun 'thou,' to each other, it being regarded as more familiar than 'De,' (you).
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A secretary, with the good- humored deference common to every one in Stepan Arkadyevitch's office, came up with papers, and began to speak in the familiar and easy tone which had been introduced by Stepan Arkadyevitch.
-- Stepan Arkadyevitch was on familiar terms with almost all his acquaintances, and called almost all of them by their Christian names: old men of sixty, boys of twenty, actors, ministers, merchants, and adjutant-generals, so that many of his intimate chums were to be found at the extreme ends of the social ladder, and would have been very much surprised to learn that they had, through the medium of Oblonsky, something in common.
-- He was the familiar friend of everyone with whom he took a glass of champagne, and he took a glass of champagne with everyone, and when in consequence he met any of his disreputable chums, as he used in joke to call many of his friends, in the presence of his subordinates, he well knew how, with his characteristic tact, to diminish the disagreeable impression made on them.
-- Levin had come across the magazine articles about which they were disputing, and had read them, interested in them as a development of the first principles of science, familiar to him as a natural science student at the university.
-- Levin read in the queer, familiar handwriting: "I humbly beg you to leave me in peace.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His brown hair was somewhat tumbled; for, while the ancient sculptors are said to have known eighteen methods of arranging Minerva's tresses, Passepartout was familiar with but one of dressing his own: three strokes of a large-tooth comb completed his toilet.
-- He made India his home, only paying brief visits to England at rare intervals; and was almost as familiar as a native with the customs, history, and character of India and its people.
-- The Parsee, who was quite familiar with the roads and paths in the district, declared that they would gain twenty miles by striking directly through the forest.
-- The guide was familiar with the pagoda of Pillaji, in which, as he declared, the young woman was imprisoned.
-- Sir Francis, who was familiar with the effects of the intoxication produced by the fumes of hemp, reassured his companions on her account.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was in his familiar shiny gray suit, with a blue flannel shirt.
-- Next to the chugging of the gas engine at the creamery, the most familiar sound in Wheatsylvania was Frazier's closing the door of his Ford.
-- Everyone in the Group was familiar with New York--they stayed at the St. Regis or the Plaza and went about buying clothes and discovering small smart restaurants--and five of the twelve couples had been in Europe; had spent a week in Paris, intending to go to art galleries and actually going to the more expensive fool- traps of Montmartre.
-- There were eight or ten Persons of Importance, male and female, looking insignificant but bearing names as familiar as Ivory Soap.
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