to get to know sb · to meet sb for the first time

jié shí

j+ié·2nd tonesh+í·2nd tone

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The people we meet in books can delight us either because they resemble the friends we hold dear in real life, or because they are unfamiliar people that we are pleased to get to know.

我们在书中认识的人可以带给我们愉悦或是他们与我们生活中挚爱的朋友相似，或是因为他们是我们所不熟悉却乐于结识的人。

Learning Berber also gives me the chance to meet new people.

学习柏柏尔语也给了我结识新朋友的机会。