I know that there is absolutely no need to give out definitions of a true friend.

我认识到没有必要给真正的朋友下定义。

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This is especially true of small things that show effort, such as going out of your way to buy your friend a book that you know he or she will like.

尤其是那些需要付出努力的小事情，比如你特意为你的朋友买了一本你知道他/她会喜欢的书。

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That is true even today. Fire is the grassland's friend and the forest's foe.

甚至在今天那也是正确的——大火是草地的朋友，森林的敌人。

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The remarkable thing is that 96% of people who accepted the friend request already had the true owner of the profile in their list of friends. (The same person was added to the their list two times because they were unaware of the false profile).

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And that's sadly proving true for our old friend Higgs Boson, who shot to fame last Summer but is now waking up to find only a handful of fans camped outside his collider.

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