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词汇 example_english_nodding-acquaintance
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nodding acquaintance with

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meanings of nod, acquaintanceand with


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nod
noun[C ]
uk /nɒd/ us /nɑːd/
a movement up and down with ...
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acquaintance
noun
uk /əˈkweɪn.təns/ us /əˈkweɪn.təns/
a person that you have met but do not ...
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with
preposition
uk /wɪð/ us /wɪð/
used to say that people or things are in a place together or are doing ...
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Examples of nodding acquaintance with


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I know that he has a noddingacquaintance with the subject.
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That amounts to more than a noddingacquaintance.
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I know of considerable areas where farmers have a noddingacquaintance with silage, but they have never taken the matter up seriously.
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I thank him for saying that 35 years in the building industry may have given me perhaps a noddingacquaintance with it.
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I can only claim a remote noddingacquaintance with that sort of thing.
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Anybody with a noddingacquaintance with the engineering industry knew that the dispute in that industry was coming months before it did.
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I think that all of us with even a noddingacquaintance with this industry will accept that there is considerable over-capacity.
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They have had to make a noddingacquaintance with equities in relation to their superannuation funds.
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Some of us who have a noddingacquaintance with colonial affairs know that in the realm of medicine, agriculture, teaching and engineering this problem is seen in its sharpest form.
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We must be quite sure today that the classicist has a noddingacquaintance with the science which will so largely shape the world he is to live in.
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