| 单词 | familiar |
| 释义 | fa·mil·iar I. 1. < with familiars he has the unvarnished candor of old people and children — Janet Flanner > 2. < a mile away 269 … familiars or courtiers were buried — V.G.Childe > specifically 3. 4. < the loathsome toad, the witches' familiar — Harvey Graham > 5. a. < familiars of the measure — C.G.Poore > b. < familiars of the embassy — Rebecca West > II. 1. a. < his familiar friend — Marjory S. Douglas > b. < a prayer to the familiar sharks … which have exchanged souls with living men — C.E.Fox > c. < the girl with whom he has been familiar having to leave school — Evelyn M. Duvall > 2. obsolete < bland and familiar to the throne he came — Alexander Pope > 3. a. < familiar domestic happenings — G.F.Whicher > < it is convenient to refer to many of the natural acids by their familiar names — T.P.Hilditch > b. < a familiar resort … favored by couples with children — Betty de Sherbinin > 4. a. < a child's familiar access to his eminent … circle — W.V.O'Connor > b. < he learned to write a passable familiar essay — J.W.Krutch > < functional varieties may roughly be grouped together in the two classes familiar and formal writing and speaking — J.S.Kenyon > c. < he was rather noisily familiar with them — Robertson Davies > 5. of a wild animal — used to human company : not alarmed by proximity to people : moderately tame < he is tame and familiar and sings on the tree over your head or on the rock a few paces in advance — John Burroughs > 6. a. < he was a familiar figure at the opera — Edna Yost > < some familiar scent can carry one back to early childhood — Stuart Chase > b. < emotions which he has never experienced will serve his turn as well as those familiar to him — T.S.Eliot > c. < America's most familiar poet — Lewis Leary b. 1906 > < the new can be learned successfully only in terms of the familiar — W.M.Mason > 7. < familiar with what is being taught to our children in schools — Vera M. Dean > Synonyms: < she was constantly referring to dear friends by their Christian names, in a casual and familiar way — Havelock Ellis > < the familiar, if not rude tone, in which people addressed her — Nathaniel Hawthorne > intimate always indicates closeness of relationship and it usually suggests a closeness, warmth, personal nearness, or emotionalism which transcends and intensifies the more factual suggestion of familiar < intimate as man is with his habitat — L.A.White > < the intimate political relation subsisting between the President of the United States and the heads of departments — John Marshall > < intimate letters … love letters which were never written to be published — Havelock Ellis > < man never derives any intimate help, any heart sustenance, from his brother man, but from woman — Nathaniel Hawthorne > confidential stresses a reposing of confidence, a willingness to confide innermost thoughts and feelings < the growing harmony and confidential friendship which daily manifest themselves between their majesties — William Pitt †1778 > < a tone as sad and confidential as if he were … preluding a declaration of love — W.M.Thackeray > close in this sense suggests strong liking and accustomed agreement and compatibility leading to steady association < I would be with Adam a lot … she'd tag along, for she and Adam were very close — R.P.Warren > < being close to Peggy, [he] was aware that she … acted by her own secret intuitions — Morley Callaghan > thick indicates an accustomed close association or cooperation, often in devious ways or for dishonest purposes < he … does a lot of bail bond business … and is pretty thick with … the chief of police — Dashiell Hammett > < he'd told me that you and Pamela Dean were as thick as thieves — Dorothy Sayers > chummy takes its color from the word chum and describes easy, steady, confidential association with compatibility of interests < an unprecedented thing … for a captain to be chummy with the cook — Jack London > Synonym: see in addition common. |
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