acquaintance

英 [ə'kweɪntəns] 美 [ə'kweɪntəns]

• n. 熟人；相识；了解

双解释义

n. (名词)

1. [C]熟人

   a person that you know but who is not a close friend

2. [U][C]〈正〉了解

   knowledge of sth; know-ledge obtained through personal experience rather than careful study

详尽释义

n. 名词

1. 熟人，相识的人，朋友，旧相识，伙伴，认识的人
2. 相识，认识，相熟，结识
3. 了解，知道
4. 知识
5. 心得
6. 泛泛之交，略有交情
7. 与某人初次相见

英英释义

Noun:

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"
   

例句

用作名词 (n.)

1. He is not a friend of mine, only an acquaintance.
   他不是朋友我的,只是个熟人。
2. I made his acquaintance at a party.
   我是在一次聚会上认识他的。
3. Their acquaintance was of long standing.
   他们相识多年。
4. He has only a limited acquaintance with the matter.
   他对这件事的了解很有限。
5. Upon further acquaintance I found him a good youth.
   经过进一步的了解，我发现他是一个好青年。

常见句型

用作名词 (n.)

1. He hope their acquaintance would develop further.
   他希望他们的交情会有进一步发展。
2. The acquaintances were unworthy of her.
   这些相识的人都配不上她。
3. He is not a friend, only an acquaintance.
   他不是朋友,只是一位相识的人。
4. “Is he a friend of yours?”“No, just an acquaintance.”
   “他是你朋友吗？”“不是,认识而已。”
5. He is just a business acquaintance.
   他只是业务上认识的人。
6. We talked as if we were old acquaintances.
   我们就好像是老相识般谈话。
7. He is an old acquaintance of mine.
   他是我的一个旧相识。
8. My husband's cousin is an acquaintance of Lord Northcliffe.
   我丈夫的堂兄认识诺思克利夫勋爵。
9. We are casual acquaintances of a long railway journey.
   我们是在长途火车上偶然相识的。
10. We are only casual acquaintances.
    我们不过是泛泛之交。
11. She has a large acquaintance.
    她交游甚广。
12. We have many acquaintances in our neighbourhood.
    我们在邻近有很多熟人。
13. He has a lot of business acquaintances but very few real friends.
    他有许多商业上的熟人,但真正的朋友却很少。
14. I made some most agreeable acquaintances.
    我认识了几个非常合得来的人。
15. He doesn't want to cultivate her acquaintance.
    他不想结识她。
16. We continued our acquaintance for years.
    我们继续交往了多年。
17. Many people sought his acquaintance.
    许多人竭力想结识他。
18. He recognized Mr. Hunter as an old business acquaintance from his years in banking.
    他认出亨特先生是他在银行业工作那些年里相识的生意上的老熟人。
19. No one in their entire acquaintance smokes.
    在他们整个熟人圈子里,没有一个人抽烟。
20. He's one of my acquaintances.
    他是我的相识者之一。
21. He is a man of wide acquaintance.
    他是一个交游广阔的人。
22. Claire has a wide circle of friends and acquaintances.
    克莱尔交游很广。
23. They married on brief acquaintance.
    他们相识不久就结婚了。

～+ prep. -phrase

1. At least a nodding acquaintance with physics was essential.
   至少懂一点物理学还是必要的。
2. My acquaintance with his works is slight.
   我对他的作品所知不多。
3. Sadly, my acquaintance with Spanish literature is limited.
   可悲的是,我对西班牙文学的了解是有限的。
4. I have a nodding acquaintance with her.
   我和她只是点头之交。
5. I have struck up an acquaintance with him.
   我已与他结识。
6. I still keep up my acquaintance with him.
   我仍然和他保持朋友关系。
7. He has gained acquaintance with it.
   他已熟悉了它。
8. I'm afraid I have only a passing acquaintance with his works.
   恐怕我只看过几眼他的著作。
9. I resumed acquaintance with Guangzhou after an absence of 13 years.
   离开广州13年后我又熟悉了它。
10. I have a bowing acquaintance with German literature.
    我对德国文学略知一二。
11. He lacks a first-hand acquaintance with the country.
    他缺少对这个国家的直接了解。
12. He has only a limited acquaintance with the matter.
    他对此事的了解有限。
13. He has some acquaintance with German, but doesn't speak it fluently.
    他略懂一点德语,但说得不流利。
14. He has some acquaintance with statistics.
    他懂一点统计学。
15. He has widened his acquaintance with literature.
    他扩大了对文学的了解。
16. I had some acquaintance with the subject.
    我对这个主题略有所知。
17. We should enlarge our acquaintance with foreign countries.
    我们应该扩大对外国的了解。
18. Few American schoolboys escaped acquaintance with The Adventures of Tom Sawyer .
    很少有美国学生没有读过《汤姆·索亚历险记》。
19. He got the job through his acquaintance with the President.
    他因为认识总统而获得那个职位。

常用短语

用作名词 (n.)

make sb's acquaintance〔make the acquaintance of〕

与某人初次见面 meet sb for the first time

of sb's acquaintance

所认识的,所了解的 that sb knows

on first acquaintance

初次相见时 when you first meet sb

on closer〔further〕 acquaintance

经过进一步了解 when known for a (longer) period of time

词汇搭配

用作名词 (n.)

动词+～

• cultivate sb's acquaintance 刻意结交某人
• cut one's acquaintance 与某人绝交
• drop one's acquaintance 与某人绝交
• establish an acquaintance with sb 结识某人
• form an acquaintance with sb 结识某人
• make the acquaintance of sb 与某人初次见面
• renew one's acquaintance with sb 重新与某人交往
• scrape an acquaintance with sb 硬要与某人交友
• seek the acquaintance of sb 设法结交某人

形容词+～

• adequate acquaintance 充分了解
• agreeable acquaintance 令人愉快的相识
• bowing acquaintance 点头之交
• casual acquaintance 泛泛之交
• close acquaintance 知己
• entire acquaintance 整个熟人圈
• further acquaintance 进一步的了解
• general acquaintance 一般性的了解
• intimate acquaintance 非常熟悉
• large acquaintance 交游广泛
• limited acquaintance 不甚了解
• new acquaintance 新交,初交
• nodding acquaintance 点头之交
• old acquaintance 老相识
• passing acquaintance 偶然结识的人
• personal acquaintance 个人的相识
• profound acquaintance 透彻了解
• recent acquaintance 新朋友
• slight acquaintance 仅仅相识
• speaking acquaintance 泛泛之交
• superficial acquaintance 肤浅了解
• thorough acquaintance 彻底了解
• undesirable acquaintance 不受欢迎的朋友
• wide acquaintance 交游广泛

名词+～

• business acquaintance 业务上的熟人
• chance acquaintance 偶然结识的人

介词+～

• person of wide acquaintance 交游很广的人
• on closer acquaintance 进一步熟悉之后
• on further acquaintance 进一步熟悉之后

词语用法

n. (名词)

1. acquaintance的基本意思是“了解”,指知晓某方面的、由经验而非研究得到的具体知识,常指稍微的了解,是不可数名词,但有时可加不定冠词,尤其是有定语修饰时,表示某种程度的了解或认识。
2. acquaintance还可作“相识的人”解,指一般的认识,泛泛之交,多用作可数名词,也可用作集合名词。
3. acquaintance后常接with引起的介词短语。

词义辨析

n. (名词)

acquaintance, familiarity

• 这两个词都可表示“了解”,其区别仅在于前者是正式用词,指由经验而非研究所得的一般了解; 后者则是一般用词,指全面了解和掌握某种知识或情况等。

近反义词

【近义词】

• person slightly known
• distant friend
• friendship
• relationship
• association
• dealings
• awareness
• familiarity
• knowledge

【反义词】

• stranger
• intimate
• good friend
• ignorance
• unfamiliarity

派生词

n.(名词)

• acquaintanceship n. 相识；相熟