You say: "Why do I sometimes blank on the names of totally familiar people when I try to introduce them?"

你说：“有时候，当我想介绍老熟人时，为什么却忘了他们的名字？”

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There are legal implications associated with that that I'm not totally familiar with yet.

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Any discovery rests on some recognition of the familiar, as something totally novel would not be recognized at all.

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The familiar golden sand beaches were totally black and no life existed on any of the sea cliffs.

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