泛泛之交 [
fàn fàn zhī jiāo]
a speaking acquaintance
a casual acquaintance
a nodding acquaintance
be on speaking terms with ...
- 你们是好友还是泛泛之交?
Are you friends or cautious acquaintances? - 我择知己朋友重美貌,择泛泛之交重德行,择对头敌人重智慧。——奥斯卡王尔德。
I chooses my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, my enemies for their good intellects. --Oscar Wilde. - 有多少人可以拥有八个真正的朋友?据我所知少之又少。但我们会有泛泛之交和好友。
How many people actually have eight true friends? Hardly anyone I know. But some of us have all right friends and good friends.