The signs of drug addiction are familiar to most doctors.
毒瘾的症状大多数医生都熟悉。
It was a relief to be back in familiar surroundings.
回到熟悉的环境里让人松了一口气。
Beggars on the street are becoming a familiar sight.
街上出现乞丐的情况逐渐变得屡见不鲜。
This kind of situation was all too familiar (=very familiar) to John.
这种情形对约翰来说太熟悉了。
Her face seems vaguely familiar, but I can’t quite place her.
她看起来有点面熟,但我还是认不出她来。
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In everyday English, people often say that they know something rather than saying it is familiar: 在日常英语中,人们常说know something,不说it is familiar
The name of the restaurant was not familiar to me. → I didn't know the name of the restaurant. 我不知道那家餐厅的名字。
2be familiar with somethingUSED TO/ACCUSTOMED TOto have a good knowledge or understanding of something 通晓某事物,熟悉某事物
Are you familiar with this type of machine?
你熟悉这种机器吗?
I’m not familiar with her poetry.
我不熟悉她的诗作。
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be familiar with something• Are you familiar with his books?• And you took too much for granted by assuming your audience was familiar with sponges.• Here, however, all similarity between the piece Lucien was familiar with and what he saw being performed before him ended.• Most permit-seekers are middle-aged men who already are familiar with guns, Chelius said.• Nevertheless it is a mistake to think that the only literarymodes which exist are those one period is familiar with.• Now consider that imaginarytrain of mine you are familiar with, one light-second long.• Surely they must be familiar with his writing?• Taku Shanskan is familiar with my spirit and when I die I will go with him.• That was the nature of the oppression and the sense of being dominated which we all were familiar with.
3be on familiar terms with somebodyFRIENDLYto know someone well and be able to talk to them in an informal way 与某人交情很好,和某人关系友好
be familiar with something to have a good knowledge or understanding of something, because you have used it, read about it etc before
Before the interview, make sure you are familiar with the company’s main products.
It will take a little while to become familiar with the new software.
be used to something (also be accustomed to something formal) to have experienced something before, so that it no longer seems surprising, difficult, strange etc
I’m used to eating spicy food.
Jay found the job hard to begin with, but he soon got used to it.
Consumers have grown accustomed (=become accustomed)to having a lot of choice.
Our staff are accustomed to dealing with the needs of foreign clients.
be at home with something to feel happy and confident about doing or using something, especially because you have had a lot of practice
Tom’s lived in Moscow for 20 years and he’s completely at home with the language.
It takes a few weeks for people to feel at home with the system.
be comfortable with something/somebody to feel relaxed and not worried about doing something or being with someone
We’re all becoming increasingly comfortable with buying things online.
The activities are intended to help new students feel more comfortable with each other..
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familiar• She was singing along to a tune on the radio that sounded vaguely familiar.• The man seated at the next table looked faintly familiar.• By contrast, the memories of people my age are spookily familiar.• I don't like it when men I've just met are too familiar.• Mimicking the President's familiaraccent, DJ Rogers told his listeners that aliens had invaded.• It's nice to see a familiar face - I was afraid I wouldn't know anyone here.• He scanned the audience, searching for a familiar face.• Kylie soon became a familiarfigure at some of London's top fashionstores.• The local policeman is now a familiar figure in our school.• From the darkness between the semi-detached houses across the street came the familiar figure of JackStone.• Robbie got that familiargoofyexpression on his face as I told him the story.• That girl looks familiar. I'm sure I've met her before.• The giantcross has become a familiarlandmark to generations of San Franciscans.• Sanders has an easy, familiarstyle of writing.• It was a relief to be back in the familiarsurroundings of my hometown.• It was good to be back in familiar surroundings.• The first track on the album will be instantly familiar to Billie Holliday fans.• This kind of problem will be familiar to many marriedcouples.• Its strange shape has become familiar to us.• That's a familiar tune - what is it?• That morning she heard an old familiarvoice on the kitchen radio.• She came up to me and started talking in such a familiar way that I thought I must have met her before.• Gibson's name is familiar -- what else did he write?• By using and learning about the hardware and software, developing country professionals will become familiar with a variety of moderntechnologies.• Not only will that skill help your re sume, it will make you familiar with on-line job recruiting.• If customers' needs are to be recognized and met, designers and engineers must be familiar with sales and marketing.• Those familiar with VegetarianTimes already know how accessible the recipes are.
vaguely familiar• His voice, warm and slightly drunk, sounded vaguely familiar.• The other was of a man, plumpish and vaguely familiar.• The voice on the other end of the line was vaguely familiar.• The young man had seemed vaguely familiar.• Her face was vaguely familiar, and Floyd suddenly became aware that the Administrator was looking at him with a quizzicalsmile.• She seems vaguely familiar , but I can't quite remember where I know her from.• Although the old Victorian building with its spine of huttedwards was a vaguely familiar place, it was by no means home.• She began to feel vaguely familiar with the names of drinks and their prices.
familiar2 noun [countableC]
ROMa cat or other animal that lives with a witch and has magical powers 〔与女巫共居的〕妖兽,妖精
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familiar• Greenfly, whitefly, sawfly are his familiars.• Virtually every adult man, and a few older women, possessfamiliars.• Some will eventually feel the loneliness as passage, as the rending of the familiar that is part of coming of age.• He was not the conventionalstuff of which familiars were made, of course.
Originfamiliar
(1200-1300)Old Frenchfamilier, from Latinfamilia; → FAMILY