The bias towards familiar forms of activity is deeply entrenched.

对熟悉的活动形式的偏向根深蒂固。

But these familiar forms of work can deceive, for two reasons.

但这些熟悉的工作形式可能具有欺骗性，原因有两个。

Eventually, they took on more familiar forms, as the world saw its first forests of magnolias, oaks, and beech trees.

最终，随着世界看到第一批木兰、橡树和山毛榉树的森林，它们呈现出更熟悉的形式。

The other is that the now familiar form of the genre - books offering sentences that are practically and predictably useful - took some time to develop.

第二，现在人们熟悉的那种书籍体裁——提供一些实用句子，供日常生活使用，或应对可能情况的书籍——过了一段时间才发展起来。

You probably know metals from their most familiar forms a gold ring, a fireplace poker, a soda pop can but metals are actually a pretty diverse group.

你可能从金属最常见的形态了解它们，金戒指，壁炉拨火棍，汽水罐，但是金属其实有很多种。