"be familiar to"是一个英语词组,其意思是"对……熟悉"。这个词组的含义与其前缀"be-"和"familiar"的共同作用有关。具体来说,"be-"是一个表示状态的词缀,通常用于描述某事正在发生或发生中的状态,"familiar"则表示熟悉或不陌生,二者结合起来表达了对某事物熟悉的含义。
这个词组的读音为:"be"读成"bee"的音,"familiar"读成其本身的发音。
以下是使用"be familiar to"的几个例句:
1. "The book is very well-known and is very popular with readers, because it covers topics that are very familiar to them."(这本书非常知名,深受读者喜爱,因为它涵盖了读者非常熟悉的话题。)
2. "The author has written a novel that is very well-received by the public, because it is full of themes that are very familiar to people's lives."(作者写了一部深受公众喜爱的小说,因为它充满了人们生活中非常熟悉的主题。)
3. "I am very familiar with this topic, because I have written extensively on it in the past."(我对这个话题非常熟悉,因为过去我曾广泛地写过这方面的内容。)
使用这个短语时,通常表示某人对某个话题、概念或事物非常了解,或者某个话题、概念或事物被广泛地了解和接受。
此外,"be familiar to"还可以用于被动语态中,例如:"The topic is very familiar to most people."(这个话题对大多数人来说非常熟悉。)或者:"I am very familiar with my role as a teacher, because I have been doing it for many years."(我对我的教师角色非常熟悉,因为我已经做了很多年了。)在这些句子中,主语是不确定的,需要视情况而定,一般来说可以用泛指的代词(如 "people" 或 "it")来代替。