There are familiar reasons for it. For one thing, there has been a great increase of literature. Once there was little to read, and that little became familiar. One would have been ashamed to pretend to culture and not to know such literature well. Now there is so much that one cannot know it all, and most men follow the line of least resistance. That line is not where great literature lies. Once the problem was how to get books enough for a family library. Now the problem is how to get library enough for the books.英文原著 · 《A Study of Bible》
Then that lady thickened the mystery. She seemed very familiar with the man Severne had been so familiar with.英文原著 · 《A Woman-Hater》
Then he heard a familiar voice observe, as a familiar grasp shook
his shoulder,--英文原著 · 《Books and Bookmen》
We have been amused by the airs of a naval captain and his wife, who are just come here. They complained that the merchant-service officers spoke FAMILIARLY to their children on board. QUEL AUDACE! When I think of the excellent, modest, manly young fellows who talked very familiarly and pleasantly to me on board the ST. LAWRENCE, I long to reprimand these foolish people.英文原著 · 《Letters from the Cape》
Oh, sing once more those dear, familiar lays, Whose gliding measure every bosom thrills, And takes my heart back to the happy days When first I sang them on my native hills! With the fresh feelings of the olden times, I hear them now upon a foreign shore-- The simple music and the artless rhymes! Oh, sing those dear, familiar lays once more, Those cheerful lays of other days-- Oh, sing those cheerful lays once more!英文原著 · 《Poems》
In the Notes I have made rather copious quotations from poems familiar to English scholars, because I hope that this book will go into the hands of many to whom they are not familiar, and to whom the original texts are not easily accessible. And yet, if they at all attain their end, the Notes must lead one to wish to know more of English poetry, of which Lanier's is but a part.英文原著 · 《Select Poems of Sidney Lanier》
Or identify the source of an outbreak that we aren't familiar with or identify the source of an outbreak that we aren't familiar with演讲 · 《What's left to explore ~ Nathan Wolfe》