Editura Global Info / Dicţionar englez-român

ACQUAINT

Pronunție (USA):

(GB):

Traducere în limba română

acquaint verb A. tranzitiv

1. (with) a face cunoştinţă, a familiariza (cu);

to be acquainted with a) a cunoaşte, a fi familiarizat cu, a se pricepe la; b) a fi la curent cu;

to become / to get acquainted with a) a se familiariza cu, a-şi însuşi; b) a afla că, a auzi de.

2. (with; that) a încunoştinţa, a înştiinţa, a informa, a comunica (despre; că).

acquaint verb B. reflexiv

to acquaint oneself with a se familiariza cu, a-şi însuşi.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

A few minutes made Emma acquainted with the whole.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

Certainly, my home at my uncle's brought me acquainted with a circle of admirals.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

Sir, said Mr. Littimer, without looking up, if my eyes have not deceived me, there is a gentleman present who was acquainted with me in my former life.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

You must stay to be acquainted with Mrs Wallis, the beautiful Mrs Wallis.

(Persuasion, de Jane Austen)

I shall be most happy to make her better acquainted with them.

(Northanger Abbey, de Jane Austen)

Oh! yes, extremely well; that is, I do not believe many people are acquainted with him, because Combe Magna is so far off; but they all think him extremely agreeable I assure you.

(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)

Every thing being settled between them, Mr. Darcy's next step was to make your uncle acquainted with it, and he first called in Gracechurch street the evening before I came home.

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)

I am well acquainted with the accused.

(Frankenstein, de Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

In the course of getting acquainted with a varied world, whirling on through the ever changing phases of it, he had learned a rule of conduct which was to the effect that when one played a strange game, he should let the other fellow play first.

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

When I heard that some one had been so anxious to get into the bedroom, in which no one but Joseph could have concealed anything—you told us in your narrative how you had turned Joseph out when you arrived with the doctor—my suspicions all changed to certainties, especially as the attempt was made on the first night upon which the nurse was absent, showing that the intruder was well acquainted with the ways of the house.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

TE-AR MAI PUTEA INTERESA