1. Oddly shaped forms that are suspended from the ceiling and move in response to a gust of wind are quite familiar to everybody.
    人们所熟悉的是悬挂在天花板上、造型奇特、随风飘荡的雕塑品。

2. I am not very familiar with botanical names.
    我不太熟悉植物学方面的名称.

3. It is the kind of moment in history when, to summarize in the words of Alfred North Whitehead, familiar patterns fade, familiar solutions fail, and familiar options disappear.
    一个引起恐慌的时刻。我们不妨用阿尔弗雷德·诺思·怀特海德的话来加以归纳: 在历史上的这种时刻，熟悉的模式在消退，熟悉的解决办法在失效，熟悉的选择在消失。

4. Familiar matter of today?
    只把当今的日常小事诉说？

5. For Shakespeare his admiration was unbounded: he had made such an exhaustive study of the poet´s works that even the least important of his characters were familiar to him.
    至于莎士比亚，他更是充满了无限的崇敬之情：他对诗人的作品进行了如此彻底详尽的研究，以致于即使是最微不足道的小人物他都很熟悉。