1 N-COUNT [oft with poss] 认识的人;泛泛之交 An acquaintance is someone who you have met and know slightly, but not well. 认识的人;泛泛之交
2 N-VAR [oft poss NOUN, on N] 认识;相识 If you have an acquaintance with someone, you have met them and you know them. 认识;相识
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...a writer who becomes involved in a real murder mystery through his acquaintance with a police officer. [+ with]
因为认识一位警官而参与到一件真实谋杀悬案调查的作家
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On first acquaintance she is cool and slightly distant.
初次相见时她表现冷淡并有点爱搭不理。
SYN relationship, association, exchange, knowledge
3 N-UNCOUNT 了解;熟悉 Your acquaintance with a subject is your knowledge or experience of it. 了解;熟悉 [formal]
4 PHRASE 与(某人)初次相识;结识(某人) When you make someone's acquaintance, you meet them for the first time and get to know them a little. 与(某人)初次相识;结识(某人) [formal]
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I first made his acquaintance in the early 1960s.
我与他初次相识是在20世纪60年代早期。
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I am so pleased to make your acquaintance, Mr Tweed.
很高兴认识您,特威德先生。
5 PHRASE [n PHRASE] 所认识的 A person of your acquaintance is someone who you have met and know. 所认识的 [formal]
Quotations
Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
And never brought to mind? Robert Burns Auld Lang Syne
I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance Samuel Johnson
acquaintance: a person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to Ambrose Bierce The Devil's Dictionary
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