考研英语高频词汇
acquaintance /əˈkweɪntəns/
考研真题共出现5次
n.熟人，相识
短语搭配：make acquaintance of 结识
真题例句1：For a social epidemic to occur, however, each person so affected, must then influence his or her own acquaintances, who must in turn influence theirs, and so on; and just how many others pay attention to each of these people has little to do with the initial influential. （2010年英语一text3P4）
真题翻译1：然而，要使一种社会流行病发生，每个受影响的人必须影响他或她自己的熟人，这些熟人又必须影响他们的熟人，以此类推;有多少人关注这些人，与最初的有影响力的人关系不大。
真题例句2： While in America the trend started as a reaction to the economic decline -- after the mass redundancies caused by downsizing in the late ’80s -- and is still linked to the politics of thrift, in Britain, at least among the middle-class downshifters of my acquaintance, we have different reasons for seeking to simplify our lives.（2001年text5P5）
真题翻译2：在美国，这种趋势最初是对经济衰退的一种反应——在80年代末缩减规模导致大量裁员之后——并且仍然与节俭的政治有关，而在英国，至少在我所认识的中产阶级中，我们寻求简化生活的原因不同。
真题例句3：It does not take a lifelong acquaintance to pick up various software programs. （1999年text3P4）
真题翻译3：掌握各种软件程序并不需要一辈子的熟识。
