acquaintance
英 [ə'kweɪnt(ə)ns]
美[ə'kwentəns]
- n. 熟人；相识；了解；知道
词态变化
复数: acquaintances;
英英释意
- 1. personal knowledge or information about someone or something
- 2. a relationship less intimate than friendship
- 3. a person with whom you are acquainted;
- "I have trouble remembering the names of all my acquaintances"
- "we are friends of the family"
英文词源
- acquaintance (n.)
- c. 1300, "state of being acquainted;" late 14c., "person with whom one is acquainted;" also "personal knowledge;" from Old French acointance "acquaintance, friendship, familiarity," noun of action from acointer (see acquaint). Acquaintant (17c.), would have been better in the "person known" sense but is now obsolete.
同义词辨析
friend, mate, acquaintance, pal
这些名词都有"朋友"之意。
friend： 一般用词，指某人喜爱并乐意与之相交往的人。
mate： 最普通用词，既可指好友、同事，又可指合伙人，还可指配偶的一方。
acquaintance： 指彼此相识，但交往不甚密切，相互间没有深厚情感的人。
pal： 口语用词，指十分要好的朋友。
考试真题
- If you tell an acquaintance you are a grandfather who recently lost his wife and who does volunteer work on weekends, several elements of your self-image are bought to light — the roles of grandparent, widower and conscientious citizen.
出自-2013年6月听力原文
- For a social epidemic to occur,however,each person so affected,must then influence his or her own acquaintances,who must in turn influence theirs,and so on;and just how many others pay attention to each of these people has little to do with the initial influential.
出自-2010年考研阅读原文
词组搭配
make the acquaintance of (或 make someone's acquain
meet someone for the first time and come to know them slightly
结识某人
实用场景例句
- He's just a business acquaintance.
- 他只是业务上认识的人。
牛津词典
- He hoped their acquaintance would develop further.
- 他希望他们的交情会进一步发展。
牛津词典
- I had little acquaintance with modern poetry.
- 我对现代诗所知甚少。
牛津词典
- I am delighted to make your acquaintance, Mrs Baker.
- 贝克太太，我很高兴与您相识。
牛津词典
- 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。
牛津词典
- No one else of my acquaintance was as rich or successful.
- 我所认识的人当中，没有一个人如此富有或者成功。
牛津词典
- 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”。
牛津词典
- Claire has a wide circle of friends and acquaintances .
- 克莱尔交游很广。
牛津词典
- I am so pleased to make your acquaintance, Mr Tweed.
- 很高兴认识您，特威德先生。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- ...a highly cultivated woman of our acquaintance.
- 我们认识的一位很有修养的女性
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- The proprietor was an old acquaintance of his...
- 业主是他的一位旧相识。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- I have a large circle of friends and acquaintances engaged in photography.
- 我在摄影界交游甚广。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- ...a writer who becomes involved in a real murder mystery through his acquaintance with a police officer...
- 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
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- 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。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- They had little or no acquaintance with philosophy or history...
- 他们在哲学或是历史方面几乎一无所知。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- 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。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- I have no personal acquaintance with him, I only know of him from television.
- 我个人和他并不熟, 我仅仅是在电视上看到过他.
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- Charles is shy and does not take the initiative in make acquaintance.
- 查理斯怕羞,不会主动结交朋友.
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- She picked up an acquaintance with a young man on the train.
- 她在火车上结识了一位年轻人.
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- I struck up an acquaintance with him while on my trip to Sichuan.
- 我是在去四川的路上和他认识的.
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- You made Lady Cho's acquaintance as a child?
- 你还是个孩子的时候就认识赵夫人了 吧 ?
电影对白
- I have never made his acquaintance.
- 我与他素昧平生.
《现代汉英综合大词典》
- He struck up an acquaintance with a girl on the train.
- 他在火车上结识了一位姑娘.
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