Acquaintance

(noun.) personal knowledge or information about someone or something.

(noun.) a person with whom you are acquainted; 'I have trouble remembering the names of all my acquaintances'; 'we are friends of the family'.

(noun.) a relationship less intimate than friendship.

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• He might have seen his old acquaintance Amelia on her way from Brompton to Russell Square, had he been looking out. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• It will then be publicly seen that, on both sides, we meet only as common and indifferent acquaintance. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• I made the popularity of the subject a reason for going back to improve the acquaintance, and I have never since been the man I was. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• An acquaintance with the apprentices of booksellers enabled me sometimes to borrow a small one, which I was careful to return soon and clean. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• Buthe added, you surely have not known me as an old acquaintance all this time, and never mentioned it. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Mrs. Elton is very good-natured and agreeable, and I dare say her acquaintance are just what they ought to be. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• I soon fell into some acquaintance, and was very hospitably received. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• Mrs. Cholmondeley, her friend, is an acquaintance of mine; thus I see her every Sunday. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• I only wish I had the honour of being of her acquaintance. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• I asked him if he was much in love with his new acquaintance. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• She will drop the acquaintance entirely. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• I am sorry, said Lady Dedlock to Mr. Jarndyce, that we are not likely to renew our former acquaintance. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Mr. Miller,' said Mr. Pickwick to his old acquaintance, the hard-headed gentleman, 'a glass of wine? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• There was one person among his new acquaintance in Surry, not so leniently disposed. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• Our acquaintance looked surprised, and then, glancing down, he began to laugh. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• His acquaintances thought him enviable to have so charming a wife, and nothing happened to shake their opinion. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• He had many acquaintances among them, but few friends, and no one whom he loved. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• That is an uncommon advantage, and uncommon I hope it will continue, for it would be a great loss to _me_ to have many such acquaintances. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• You might marry a professional man, or somebody of that sort, by going into the town to live and forming acquaintances there. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• How can he go about making acquaintances? 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• At our time of life it is not so pleasant, I can tell you, to be making new acquaintances every day; but for your sakes, we would do anything. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• A perfect fury for making acquaintances on whom to impress their riches and importance, had seized the House of Dorrit. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• But I shall get away from people who have their own homes and their own children and their own acquaintances and their own this and their own that. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• Mr. Yorke knew every one, and was known by every one, for miles round; yet his intimate acquaintances were very few. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Some of Mrs. Rawdon Crawley's acquaintances, however, acknowledged her readily enough,--perhaps more readily than she would have desired. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• My chief acquaintances at this time were Charles Osborne, Joseph Watson, and James Ralph; all lovers of reading. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• On this occasion the Secretary was accompanied by Governor Brough of Ohio, whom I had never met, though he and my father had been old acquaintances. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• Becky's former acquaintances hated and envied her; the poor woman herself was yawning in spirit. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Mr. Hale had his own acquaintances among the working men, and was depressed with their earnestly told tales of suffering and long-endurance. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• Your acquaintances and mine must be separate. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.

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