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well known to you; often seen or heard and therefore easy to recognize 熟悉的；常见到的；常听说的 to look/sound/seem familiar 看起来/听起来/似乎很熟悉 I couldn’t see any familiar faces in the room. 我在房间里看不到任何熟悉的面孔。 He's a familiar figure in the neighbourhood. 他在这个地区是大家熟悉的人物。 Then she heard a familiar voice. 然后她听到一个熟悉的声音。 The cast contains a number of familiar names. 演员阵容中有许多熟悉的名字。 The song was vaguely familiar. 这首歌有点耳熟。 - familiar to somebody
The smell is very familiar to everyone who lives near a bakery. 住在面包店附近的人都很熟悉这种气味。 Violent attacks are becoming all too familiar (= sadly familiar). 暴力攻击变成了司空见惯的现象。
Extra ExamplesHer face looked strangely familiar. 她的脸看上去有一种很奇怪的熟悉感。 His face looked awfully familiar. 他这张脸看上去非常眼熟。 His face was instantly familiar, even after all those years. 即使这么多年过去了，还是一下子认出了他的脸。 The name sounded vaguely familiar to her. 这个名字她听上去似曾相识。 The place felt faintly familiar to me. 这个地方我隐约觉得有点儿熟悉。 The report's conclusions were already familiar enough to the government. 政府对报告的结论已耳熟能详。 The room looked distinctly familiar. 这间房子看上去相当眼熟。 a name that was somehow familiar 不知为何总觉得熟悉的名字 a situation which has become all too familiar to most teachers 大部份教师都十分熟悉的情形 The company's brand has become a familiar sight. 该公司的品牌已经成为一个熟悉的景象。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs- be
- feel
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- extremely
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- familiar with something
knowing something very well 通晓；熟悉 an area with which I had been familiar since childhood 我自幼就了若指掌的一个地区 You will soon become familiar with the different activities. 你很快就会熟悉不同的活动。 Are you familiar with the computer software they use? 你熟悉他们使用的计算机软件吗？ She would have been familiar with the work of this 18th-century German philosopher. 她应该很熟悉这位18世纪德国哲学家的作品。 Ishii is clearly intimately familiar with his script and characters. 石井显然非常熟悉他的剧本和角色。
Extra ExamplesYou will need to be thoroughly familiar with our procedures. 你需要彻底了解我们的程序。 I'm not overly familiar with these issues. 我对这些问题不太熟悉。 I was now getting much more familiar with the local area. 我开始对当地情况有了更多的了解。 By now you will be familiar with the one-way system in the centre of town. 现在你应该熟悉市中心的单向系统了。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs- be
- seem
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- extremely
- fairly
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(of a person’s behaviour 人的行为 very informal, sometimes in a way that is unpleasant 随便的
Word OriginMiddle English (in the sense ‘intimate’, ‘on a family footing’): from Old French familier, from Latin familiaris, from familia ‘household servants, family’, from famulus ‘servant’.