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《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The word being, according to its Genoese emphasis, a confirmation, a contradiction, an assertion, a denial, a taunt, a compliment, a joke, and fifty other things, became in the present instance, with a significance beyond all power of written expression, our familiar English 'I believe you!'
-- Are you familiar with the place?'
-- And you think that at no time of your father's life was my name of Clennam ever familiar to him?'
-- He thought of her having been born and bred among these scenes, and shrinking through them now, familiar yet misplaced; he thought of her long acquaintance with the squalid needs of life, and of her innocence; of her solicitude for others, and her few years, and her childish aspect.
-- 'Dear dear,' said Flora, 'only to think of the changes at home Arthur cannot overcome it, and seems so natural, Mr Clennam far more proper since you became familiar with the Chinese customs and language which I am persuaded you speak like a Native if not better for you were always quick and clever though immensely difficult no doubt, I am sure the tea chests alone would kill me if I tried, such changes Arthur I am doing it again, seems so natural, most improper as no one could have believed, who could have ever imagined Mrs Finching when I can't imagine it myself!'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The first sound in the morning was her voice as she went about the house singing like a lark, and the last sound at night was the same cheery sound, for the girls never grew too old for that familiar lullaby.
-- Breakfast at that early hour seemed odd, and even Hannah's familiar face looked unnatural as she flew about her kitchen with her nightcap on.
-- 'I don't want a fashionable wedding, but only those about me whom I love, and to them I wish to look and be my familiar self.'
-- John did not find Meg's beauty diminished, though she beamed at him from behind the familiar coffee pot.
-- Presently the familiar tramp was heard in the dusk, and she ran out to meet him.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Though at the time I but ill comprehended not a few of his words, yet subsequent disclosures, when I had become more familiar with his broken phraseology, now enable me to present the whole story such as it may prove in the mere skeleton I give.
-- Almost any one must have noticed that all the fish familiar to landsmen have not a flat, but a vertical, or up-and-down tail.
-- Soon his steady, ivory stride was heard, as to and fro he paced his old rounds, upon planks so familiar to his tread, that they were all over dented, like geological stones, with the peculiar mark of his walk.
-- Where unrecorded names and navies rust, and untold hopes and anchors rot; where in her murderous hold this frigate earth is ballasted with bones of millions of the drowned; there, in that awful water-land, there was thy most familiar home.
-- "How wondrous familiar is a fool!"
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But, although his motive for looking steadily at Oliver no longer existed, the old idea of the resemblance between his features and some familiar face came upon him so strongly, that he could not withdraw his gaze.
-- The Dodger made no reply; but putting his hat on again, and gathering the skirts of his long-tailed coat under his arm, thrust his tongue into his cheek, slapped the bridge of his nose some half-dozen times in a familiar but expressive manner, and turning on his heel, slunk down the court.
-- The style of this reply, as well as the voice which delivered it, seemed familiar to Oliver's ears: but it was impossible to distinguish even the form of the speaker in the darkness.
-- The Jew was evidently too familiar with the ground he traversed to be at all bewildered, either by the darkness of the night, or the intricacies of the way.
-- The objects which had looked dim and terrible in the darkness, grew more and more defined, and gradually resolved into their familiar shapes.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And gravely glancing at Mr. Darcy, 'There is a fine old saying, which everybody here is of course familiar with: 'Keep your breath to cool your porridge'; and I shall keep mine to swell my song.'
-- 'My dear, Eliza, he must be in love with you, or he would never have called us in this familiar way.'
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I went so far with it in my imagination that I employed myself several days to find out proper places to put myself in ambuscade, as I said, to watch for them, and I went frequently to the place itself, which was now grown more familiar to me; but while my mind was thus filled with thoughts of revenge and a bloody putting twenty or thirty of them to the sword, as I may call it, the horror I had at the place, and at the signals of the barbarous wretches devouring one another, abetted my malice.
-- However, as my jealousy increased, and held some weeks, I was a little more circum-spect, and not so familiar and kind to him as before: in which I was certainly wrong too; the honest, grateful crea-ture having no thought about it but what consisted with the best principles, both as a religious Christian and as a grate-ful friend, as appeared afterwards to my full satisfaction.
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