a courtesy call

基本解释

I'm going to my wife's parents' house to pay them a courtesy call tomorrow.
我明天要到太太娘家去跟她父母亲拜年。
The first stop was a courtesy call on the Emirs of Bauchi State, who conferred the title of Dokajin of Bauchi – or "the one who maintains order" – on Mr. Wolfowitz.
在宝池州访问的首站是对该州埃米尔的礼节性拜会。在该州，埃米尔们授予沃尔福威茨“宝池州多卡金”的头衔，也就是“维持秩序者”。
"Polydora", are not enough people living in the beautiful woman paid a courtesy call.
“才女”，是生活中人们对不够漂亮的女人的礼节性称呼。
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Batarical Hatashmi(ph), one of the Sunni leaders, insists it was nothing more than a courtesy call.
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Mr. Clinton, trying to avoid offending Syria, went on to Damascus right after that to pay a courtesy call.
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But within those bounds, he made a courtesy call to Duffy to cancel their golf game for later that day.
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