acquaintance
noun /əˈkweɪntəns/
/əˈkweɪntəns/
Idioms - [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。
Wordfinder- acquaintance
- bond
- buddy
- companion
- comrade
- friend
- mate
- neighbour
- platonic
- playmate
Topics Family and relationshipsb2- 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。
Collocations Dictionaryadjective- casual
- new
- close
- …
- bump into
- meet
- run into
- …
- friends and acquaintances
- Claire has a wide circle of friends and acquaintances.
- [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。
- He hoped their acquaintance would develop further.
- [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。
- 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。
Collocations Dictionaryadjective- nodding
- passing
- slight
- …
- make somebody’s/something’s
- strike up
- renew
- …
- of somebody’s acquaintance
- acquaintance with
- have an acquaintance with
- on close acquaintance
- on closer acquaintance
- …
- I had little acquaintance with modern poetry.
词源Middle 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
- 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
- (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。
- I am delighted to make your acquaintance, Mrs Baker.
of your acquaintance
- (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。
- No one else of my acquaintance was as rich or successful.
on first acquaintance
- (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。
- Even on first acquaintance it was clear that he was not ‘the right type’.