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词汇 example_english_close-acquaintance
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close acquaintance

collocation in English

meanings of closeand acquaintance


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close
adjective
uk /kləʊs/ us /kloʊs/
having direct family connections or shared beliefs, support, ...
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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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Examples of close acquaintance


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Lemon and colleagues hypothesised that the most intimate activities generate the greatest role support, because the responders have closeacquaintance with the subjects and their capacities.
I speak from a closeacquaintance with the work of residential staffs, especially in the child-care field.
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I lack that intimate and closeacquaintance with prisons and prison life which evidently he has obtained.
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It is essential that they should have closeacquaintance both with the people and with the problems with which they have to deal.
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It is due, as it seems to me, to its author's lack of closeacquaintance with his case.
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Those tourists will have paid several thousands of pounds for the trip and may expect value for money in the form of closeacquaintance with the wildlife.
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As he will know from closeacquaintance with the situation, although it is distressing in many ways, a number of initiatives have been taken that are achieving certain results.
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He speaks with knowledge and closeacquaintance with the motor car industry, which is, of course, such an important factor in the life and work of his constituency.
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Is he more expert than those who have had a closeacquaintance with foreign affairs for 16 or 17 years, and for six or seven years a very intimate acquaintance?
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We shall get a report, and we are only too ready to receive all relevant information from those who have closeacquaintance with the condition of these poor people.
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I think it is true to say that most families have over the years lost a relative, a friend or a closeacquaintance as the result of a road accident.
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This they did, and fun it was until they made an uncomfortably closeacquaintance with several 4.5 shells from a cruiser lurking in the vicinity.
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Detectives said they believed that the man in the recording was trying to send a message that a closeacquaintance had forced him to make the recording.
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Talk, for social capital theorists, is good, especially when it exposes us to the ideas, opinions, hopes and beliefs of people outside our narrow circle of close acquaintances.
In the 1980s he used to take pictures of his friends and close acquaintances as part of his artistic work.
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Elgar dedicated the piece to my friends pictured within, each variation being an affectionate portrayal of one of his circle of close acquaintances (see musical cryptogram).
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