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acquaintance

/uh-kweyn-tns/US // əˈkweɪn tns //UK // (əˈkweɪntəns) //

认识的人,熟人,熟悉的人,相识

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person known to one, but usually not a close friend.
    • : the state of being acquainted or casually familiar with someone or something: As far as I know, no one of my acquaintance has traveled around the world.
    • : personal knowledge as a result of study, experience, etc.: a good acquaintance with French wines.
    • : the persons with whom one is acquainted.

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Examples

  • As Coupang CEO Bom Kim sought to scale his business over the summer, Pham, previously considering an early retirement following his stint at Uber, was introduced by a mutual acquaintance, making their first meeting over video chat.

  • That’s why a picture of a new baby from a long-ago acquaintance will vault to the top of your Facebook feed, even if you haven’t seen any other posts by that person for years.

  • The slowing down of the glaciers is a private plan by a glaciologist of my acquaintance who doesn’t want to get into the geo-engineering wars.

  • I don’t want bloodshed or violence, and it hurts me to watch acquaintances and friends being beaten, and now I hear they’re getting ready to start shooting people.

  • So it seems like the answer is just to have a bunch of casual acquaintances to whom you can’t really feel anything terrible.

  • Should old acquaintance be forgot, just remember a few of the resolutions the Founding Fathers (would have) made this year.

  • Another acquaintance described Seevakumaran as “a creep,” who would “constantly hit on women.”

  • He insulted a female poet of his acquaintance by remarking “that she and her family were Jews.”

  • Not long ago, I mentioned the Victims of Communism Memorial to an acquaintance.

  • In the early 2000s, an acquaintance told Sun about the possibility of doing business in Ethiopia.

  • A child begins to make acquaintance with the images of things when set before a mirror.

  • He made the acquaintance of some courtiers, who felt or affected an interest in learning and in learned men.

  • By its operation Gordon Wright, the most sensible man of our acquaintance, is reduced to the level of infancy!

  • It was the Town Crier, with whom, as with a brother artist, he had picked acquaintance the day before.

  • For Lettice—the tender woman of his first acquaintance—had obviously experienced a moment of reaction.