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。
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- As they mounted the gangplank he was conscious that he was cutting himself off from the safe, familiar land, and he was embarrassed by the indifference of more experienced- looking passengers, staring down from the rail.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The heat in the street was terrible: and the airlessness, the bustle and the plaster, scaffolding, bricks, and dust all about him, and that special Petersburg stench, so familiar to all who are unable to get out of town in summer all worked painfully upon the young man's already overwrought nerves.
-- It was a back staircase, dark and narrow, but he was familiar with it already, and knew his way, and he liked all these sur-roundings: in such darkness even the most inquisitive eyes were not to be dreaded.
-- Evidently Marmeladov was a familiar figure here, and he had most 22 Crime and Punishment likely acquired his weakness for high-flown speeches from the habit of frequently entering into conversation with strangers of all sorts in the tavern.
-- And yet allthese questions were not new ones suddenly confronting him, they were old familiar aches.
-- He stood still, and gazed long and intently into the distance; this spot was especially familiar to him.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- This gained upon me as we went along; so that the nearer wedrew, and the more familiar the objects became that we passed, themore excited I was to get there, and to run into her arms.
-- Itappeared to my childish fancy, as I ascended to the bedroom whereI had been imprisoned, that they brought a cold blast of air into thehouse which blew away the old familiar feeling like a feather.
-- Thoughperfectly familiar with them, my conduct and manner weredifferent enough from theirs to place a space between us.
-- Here he made the acquaintance of the Doctor'sbeautiful young wife (paler than formerly, all this time; morerarely seen by me or any one, I think; and not so gay, but not lessbeautiful), and so became more and more familiar by degrees,until, at last, he would come into the school and wait.
-- We'd gone on, so far, in a mixture of confidential jest and earnest,that had long grown naturally out of our familiar relations, begunas mere children.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'In that respect how unlike dear Mrs. Elton, who wants to be wiser and wittier than all the world!I wonder how she speaks of the Coles what she calls them!How can she find any appellation for them, deep enough in familiar vulgar-ity?
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Just before dawn he was assisted in waking by the abnormal reverberation of familiar music.
-- Still, to a close observer, they are just as perceptible; the difference is that their media of manifestation are less trite and familiar than such well-known ones as the bursting of the buds or the fall of the leaf.
-- I should like to see the old familiar spot; but faith, I shouldn't know a soul there now."
-- The road appeared to be familiar to her, and she carefully scanned the fence as she slowly walked along.
-- "True, drink is a pleasant delight," said Jan, as one who repeated a truism so familiar to his brain that he hardly noticed its passage over his tongue; and, lifting the cup, Coggan tilted his head gradually backwards, with closed eyes, that his expectant soul might not be diverted for one instant from its bliss by irrelevant surroundings.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- To know its customs; to learn the language, and become familiar with the amusements of the capital, he must explore its recesses, good and bad, follow the studies that please him best, and form some idea of the treasures contained in galleries and museums.
-- Rastignac was impressed with a sense of the formidable power of the lackey who can accuse or condemn his masters by a word; he coolly opened the door by which the man had just entered the ante-chamber, meaning, no doubt, to show these insolent flunkeys that he was familiar with the house; but he found that he had thoughtlessly precipitated himself into a small room full of dressers, where lamps were standing, and hot-water pipes, on which towels were being dried; a dark passage and a back staircase lay beyond it.
-- He had been through a reasoning process familiar to most students.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It is so long before the mind can persuade itself that she whom we saw every day and whose very existence appeared a part of our own can have departed forever that the brightness of a beloved eye can have been extinguished and the sound of a voice so familiar and dear to the ear can be hushed, never more to be heard.
-- I loved my brothers, Elizabeth, and Clerval; these were 'old familiar faces,' but I believed myself totally unfitted for the company of strangers.
-- I passed through scenes familiar to my youth, but which I had not seen for nearly six years.
-- Before, I looked upon the accounts of vice and injustice that I read in books or heard from others as tales of ancient days or imaginary evils; at least they were remote and more familiar to reason than to the imagination; but now misery has come home, and men appear to me as monsters thirsting for each oth-er's blood.
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