acquaintance

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

认识的人,熟人,熟悉的人,相识

Definitions

n.名词 noun

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.

nouna person known informally

Forms: acquaintances

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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.

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

认识的人,熟人,熟悉的人,相识

n.名词 noun

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.

nouna person known informally

Forms: acquaintances

Synonyms

Antonyms

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.