3N-UNCOUNT 了解;熟悉 Your acquaintance with a subject is your knowledge or experience of it. 了解;熟悉 [formal]
They had little or no acquaintance with philosophy or history. [+ with]
他们在哲学或是历史方面几乎一无所知。
4PHRASE 与(某人)初次相识;结识(某人) When you make someone's acquaintance, you meet them for the first time and get to know them a little. 与(某人)初次相识;结识(某人) [formal]
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。
I am so pleased to make your acquaintance, Mr Tweed.
很高兴认识您,特威德先生。
5PHRASE [n PHRASE]所认识的 A person of your acquaintance is someone who you have met and know. 所认识的 [formal]
...a highly cultivated woman of our acquaintance.
我们认识的一位很有修养的女性
Quotations
Should auld acquaintance be forgot, And never brought to mind?Robert BurnsAuld Lang Syne
I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintanceSamuel Johnson
acquaintance: a person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend toAmbrose BierceThe Devil's Dictionary