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

　cultivate sb's ～　刻意结交某人
　cut one's ～　与某人绝交
　drop one's ～　与某人绝交
　establish an ～ with sb　结识某人
　form an ～ with sb　结识某人
　make the ～ of sb　与某人初次见面
　renew one's ～ with sb　重新与某人交往
　scrape an ～ with sb　硬要与某人交友
　seek the ～ of sb　设法结交某人
　adequate ～　充分了解
　agreeable ～　令人愉快的相识
　bowing ～　点头之交
　casual ～　泛泛之交
　close ～　知己
　entire ～　整个熟人圈
　further ～　进一步的了解
　general ～　一般性的了解
　intimate ～　非常熟悉
　large ～　交游广泛
　limited ～　不甚了解
　new ～　新交，初交
　nodding ～　点头之交
　old ～　老相识
　passing ～　偶然结识的人
　personal ～　个人的相识
　profound ～　透彻了解
　recent ～　新朋友
　slight ～　仅仅相识
　speaking ～　泛泛之交
　superficial ～　肤浅了解
　thorough ～　彻底了解
　undesirable ～　不受欢迎的朋友
　wide ～　交游广泛
　business ～　业务上的熟人
　chance ～　偶然结识的人
　person of wide ～　交游很广的人
　on closer ～　进一步熟悉之后
　on further ～　进一步熟悉之后

　He hope their acquaintance would develop further.　他希望他们的交情会有进一步发展。
　The acquaintances were unworthy of her.　这些相识的人都配不上她。
　He is not a friend, only an acquaintance.　他不是朋友，只是一位相识的人。
　"Is he a friend of yours?""No, just an acquaintance."　“他是你朋友吗?”“不是，认识而已。”
　He is just a business acquaintance.　他只是业务上认识的人。
　We talked as if we were old acquaintances.　我们就好像是老相识般谈话。
　He is an old acquaintance of mine.　他是我的一个旧相识。
　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。
　We are casual acquaintances of a long railway journey.　我们是在长途火车上偶然相识的。
　We are only casual acquaintances.　我们不过是泛泛之交。
　She has a large acquaintance.　她交游甚广。
　We have many acquaintances in our neighbourhood.　我们在邻近有很多熟人。
　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。
　I made some most agreeable acquaintances.　我认识了几个非常合得来的人。
　He doesn't want to cultivate her acquaintance.　他不想结识她。
　We continued our acquaintance for years.　我们继续交往了多年。
　Many people sought his acquaintance.　许多人竭力想结识他。
　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。
　No one in their entire acquaintance smokes.　在他们整个熟人圈子里，没有一个人抽烟。
　He's one of my acquaintances.　他是我的相识者之一。
　He is a man of wide acquaintance.　他是一个交游广阔的人。
　Claire has a wide circle of friends and acquaintances.　克莱尔交游很广。
　They married on brief acquaintance.　他们相识不久就结婚了。
　At least a nodding acquaintance with physics was essential.　至少懂一点物理学还是必要的。
　My acquaintance with his works is slight.　我对他的作品所知不多。
　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。
　I have a nodding acquaintance with her.　我和她只是点头之交。
　I have struck up an acquaintance with him.　我已与他结识。
　I still keep up my acquaintance with him.　我仍然和他保持朋友关系。
　He has gained acquaintance with it.　他已熟悉了它。
　I'm afraid I have only a passing acquaintance with his works.　恐怕我只看过几眼他的著作。
　I resumed acquaintance with Guangzhou after an absence of 13 years.　离开广州13年后我又熟悉了它。
　I have a bowing acquaintance with German literature.　我对德国文学略知一二。
　He lacks a first-hand acquaintance with the country.　他缺少对这个国家的直接了解。
　He has only a limited acquaintance with the matter.　他对此事的了解有限。
　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。
　He has some acquaintance with statistics.　他懂一点统计学。
　He has widened his acquaintance with literature.　他扩大了对文学的了解。
　I had some acquaintance with the subject.　我对这个主题略有所知。
　We should enlarge our acquaintance with foreign countries.　我们应该扩大对外国的了解。
　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》。
　He got the job through his acquaintance with the President.　他因为认识总统而获得那个职位。

 ♣ make sb's acquaintance〔make the acquaintance of〕　
　与某人初次见面　 meet sb for the first time
　I am delighted to make your acquaintance, Mrs. Baker.　贝克太太，我很高兴与你相识。
　I'd been looking forward to making her acquaintance for a long time.　我很久以来一直盼望着与她结识。
　I made her acquaintance in Beijing.　我与她在北京结识。
　It was at the Mapstone's party that I first made his acquaintance.　我是在迈普斯顿的聚会上初次与他相识的。
　When did you make the acquaintance of his brother?　你是什么时候认识他兄弟的?
　I made the acquaintance of several musicians around that time.　大约在那段时间，我结识了几位音乐家。
　That evening he made the acquaintance of the young actress.　他在那个晚上结识了那位年轻的女演员。
 ♣ of sb's acquaintance　
　所认识的，所了解的　that sb knows
　I was wondering which men of my acquaintance she might be interested in.　我想知道她可能会对我认识的哪一些男人感兴趣。
　No one else of my acquaintance was as rich or successful.　我所认识的人当中，没有一个人如此富有或成功。
 ♣ on first acquaintance　
　初次相见时　when you first meet sb
　Even on first acquaintance it was clear that he was not "the right type".　初次见面就看出他显然不是“对路子的人”。
 ♣ on closer〔further〕 acquaintance　
　经过进一步了解　when known for a (longer) period of time
　On closer acquaintance, he proved to be a nice man.　对他进一步的了解证明他是一个挺不错的人。
　On closer acquaintance I found him a gentleman in the true sense of the word.　进一步熟悉之后，我发现他是一位名副其实的君子。
　Her manner seemed unpleasant at first, but she improved on further acquaintance.　起初她的举止让人很不愉快，但是经过进一步接触她改了许多。
　I wasn't sure about Darryl when I first met her, but on further acquaintance I rather like her.　刚认识达里尔时，我对她并没有把握，但在进一步了解中我却相当喜欢她。

 ♣ 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。

　［派生词］ acquaintanceship n.相识；相熟
　［同义词］ person slightly known, distant friend, friendship, relationship, association, dealings, awareness, familiarity, knowledge
　［反义词］ stranger, intimate, good friend, ignorance, unfamiliarity