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。
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- By great application, however, and after having remained during the space of sev-eral revolutions of the moon in my hovel, I discovered the names that were given to some of the most familiar objects of discourse; I learned and applied the words, 'fire,' 'milk,' 130 Frankenstein'bread,' and 'wood.'
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Seeing that he was employing familiar maneuvers to extricate himself from unpleasant conversation, she slippedher arm through his and said: "I was waiting for you.
-- The sight of Tom Slattery dawdling on his neighbors' porches, begging cotton seed for planting or a side of baconto "tide him over," was a familiar one.
-- The name had a familiar sound, somehow connected with something pleasantly scandalous, but hermind was on Ashley and she dismissed the thought.
-- Scarlett giggled as she saw three men dragged out of the line of her charms to investigate landmarks familiar tothe girls from childhood, and cut her eye sharply to see if Ashley had taken note.
-- She lookedabout the hall at the familiar faces, so assured of success, so brave, so devoted, and somehow a cold little chill set in ather heart Licked?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "So new to him," she muttered, "so old to me; so strange to him, so familiar to me; so melancholy to both of us!Call Estella."
-- Sometimes, she would coldly tolerate me; sometimes, she would condescend to me; sometimes, she would be quite familiar with me; sometimes, she would tell me energetically that she hated me.
-- And now, old chap," said Joe, conveying to me a sensation, first of burning and then of freezing, for I felt as if that familiar expression were applied to Miss Havisham,--"and now, old chap, may we do our duty!May you and me do our duty, both on us, by one and another, and by them which your liberal present--have-conweyed--to be--for the satisfaction of mind-of--them as never--" here Joe showed that he felt he had fallen into frightful difficulties, until he triumphantly rescued himself with the words, "and from myself far be it!"
-- My father is Miss Havisham's cousin; not that that implies familiar intercourse between them, for he is a bad courtier and will not propitiate her."
-- "Would you mind Handel for a familiar name?
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He heard a voice, and it seemed so familiar to him that he went towards it, and when he approached, Rapunzel knew him and fell on his neck and wept.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'He was amazed, how so impotent and grovelling an insect as I' (these were his expressions) 'could entertain such inhu-man ideas, and in so familiar a manner, as to appear wholly unmoved at all the scenes of blood and desolation which I had painted as the common effects of those destructive 168 Gulliver's Travelsmachines; whereof,' he said, 'some evil genius, enemy to mankind, must have been the first contriver.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'I certainly, sir,' returned Mrs. Sparsit, with a dignity serenely mournful, 'was familiar with the Italian Opera at a very early age.'
-- Remarking this at a glance, with the quick observation of his class, Stephen Blackpool bent his attentive face his face, which, like the faces of many of his order, by dint of long working with eyes and hands in the midst of a prodigious noise, had acquired the concentrated look with which we are familiar in the countenances of the deaf the better to hear what she asked him.
-- Bounderby,' said Harthouse, perfectly hearing this under-strain as it went on; 'your brother's face is quite familiar to me.
-- Thus easily did Stephen Blackpool fall into the loneliest of lives, the life of solitude among a familiar crowd.
-- They had stopped among a disorder of roses it was part of Mr. Bounderby's humility to keep Nickits's roses on a reduced scale and Tom sat down on a terrace-parapet, plucking buds and picking them to pieces; while his powerful Familiar stood over him, with a foot upon the parapet, and his figure easily resting on the arm supported by that knee.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Every one was familiar to me, having been catalogued by my own hand.
-- I could not but compare it to some familiar spirit, guiding us through the earth, and I dabbled my fingers in its tepid water, which sang like a naiad as we progressed.
-- I dare not call it a perilous descent, for I was already too familiar with that sort of work to look upon it as anything but a very ordinary affair.
-- We were familiar with all the details of this discussion, but were far from being aware then that since our departure the matter had entered upon a new phase.
-- We are, I am nearly convinced, near the little port: if this be not it," I added, carefully examining a creek which appeared singularly familiar to my mind.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Then, with a touch of familiar irony: 'but, look here, what about yourself?
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