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acquaint

/uh-kweynt/US // əˈkweɪnt //UK // (əˈkweɪnt) //

相识,相识的人,相识的,认识

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to make more or less familiar, aware, or conversant: to acquaint the mayor with our plan.
    • : to furnish with knowledge; inform: to acquaint the manager with one's findings.
    • : to bring into social contact; introduce: She acquainted her roommate with my cousin.

Synonyms & Antonyms

verbinform oneself or another about something new
Forms: acquainted, acquainting

Examples

  • Back in January, she was a 38-year-old first-time mother who was getting acquainted with all the practical challenges of attempting to maintain some semblance of work-life balance.

  • The good news is that we’re already well acquainted with some members of the family.

  • While “there’s no upside to this pandemic,” she says, without it, the two surely would have never become acquainted.

  • While all conscious beings are acquainted with their consciousness, not all conscious beings are able to reflectively attend to their experience and form acquaintance-based concepts of it.

  • If the goal-directed nature of Reality is present within each particular conscious mind, it follows that any conscious mind is acquainted with the goal-directed nature of Reality.

  • Some of the colonists sincerely desired to acquaint and convert the Indians to Christianity.

  • It would do little or no good to acquaint the constable with their suspicion that the rascal might be the man named Cameron Smith.

  • Who will acquaint us when there is a concert, a choral service in church, or something wonderful to be seen at the fair?

  • At length the German commissioner arrived, and came to acquaint us that within two days we were to set out.

  • In the meantime Painted Weasel had ridden away to acquaint his companions with the plans of the war party.