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acquaintance

noun
/əˈkweɪntəns/
/əˈkweɪntəns/
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  1. [countable] a person that you know but who is not a close friend认识的人；泛泛之交；熟人
    • Claire has a wide circle of friends and acquaintances.克莱尔交游很广。
    • He's just a business acquaintance.他只是业务上认识的人。
    • I bumped into an old acquaintance on the train.我在火车上碰见一个老熟人。
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    • He was greeted as an old acquaintance.他得到老朋友一样的接待。
    • I bumped into a casual acquaintance in town.我在城里碰到个有点头之交的人。
    Topics Family and relationshipsb2
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • casual
    • new
    • close
    • …
    verb + acquaintance
    • bump into
    • meet
    • run into
    • …
    phrases
    • friends and acquaintances
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  2. [uncountable, countable] acquaintance (with somebody) (formal) slight friendship（与某人）认识，略有交情
    • He hoped their acquaintance would develop further.他希望他们的交情会进一步发展。
    • a man with whom I had a passing acquaintance我不甚了解的一个男子
    • I first met Simon in 2008 and struck up an acquaintance with him.我第一次见到西蒙是在2008年，并与他相识。
  3. [uncountable, countable] acquaintance with something (formal) knowledge of something（对某事物的）了解
    • I had little acquaintance with modern poetry.我对现代诗所知甚少。
    Extra Examples
    • her acquaintance with modern French philosophy她对现代法国哲学的了解
    • They have little acquaintance with colloquial English.他们对英语会话几乎一窍不通。
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • nodding
    • passing
    • slight
    • …
    verb + acquaintance
    • make somebody’s/​something’s
    • strike up
    • renew
    • …
    preposition
    • of somebody’s acquaintance
    • acquaintance with
    phrases
    • have an acquaintance with
    • on close acquaintance
    • on closer acquaintance
    • …
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    4. Word OriginMiddle English (in the sense ‘mutual knowledge, being acquainted’): from Old French acointance, from acointier ‘make known’, from late Latin accognitare, from Latin accognoscere, from ad- ‘to’ + cognoscere ‘come to know’.
Idioms
have a nodding acquaintance with somebody/something
  1. to only know somebody/something slightly与…有点头之交；对…略知一二
make somebody’s acquaintance | make the acquaintance of somebody
  1. (formal) to meet somebody for the first time与某人初次相见；结识某人
    • I am delighted to make your acquaintance, Mrs Baker.贝克太太，我很高兴与您相识。
    • I made the acquaintance of several musicians around that time.大约在那段时间，我结识了几位音乐家。
    • I first made his acquaintance in 1992.我是在1992 年认识他的。
of your acquaintance
  1. (formal) that you know所认识的；所了解的
    • No one else of my acquaintance was as rich or successful.我所认识的人当中，其他人都没有如此富有或者成功。
    • He introduced me to a lady of his acquaintance.他把我介绍给他认识的一位女士。
on first acquaintance
  1. (formal) when you first meet somebody初次相见时
    • Even on first acquaintance it was clear that he was not ‘the right type’.初次见面就看出他显然不是 “对路子的人”。
    • On first acquaintance she seemed a little odd.初次相识她显得有些古怪。

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