have only met once before (as ordained by fate) ❍ 有些人他并不认识，或者只不过～，他也亲热地招呼，仿佛是多年的老朋友。(周而复 《上海的早晨》 Ⅰ —477) He extended his greetings—cordial greetings—even to those people whom he did not know at all or whom he had only met once before,treating them like old friends of many years’standing.