We promised to stay friends for ever.

我们约定永远做朋友。

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How can you say no and stay friends?

我怎样能在说不的同时留住这个朋友？

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For example, when it comes to trying to stay friends for exchange letters and e-mails, she asid just say no.

例如，当遇到对方提出保持信件和电子邮件往来朋友关系的请求时，她只会回答不。

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Ekin Oz uses Facebook and Skype to stay in touch with family and friends back in Turkey.

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We tend to stay on campus. But... I have, I do have some friends who like go to New York or Boston,

所以我们基本上都待在校园内。不过……我有一些喜欢在空闲时间去纽约或者波士顿的朋友。

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you've got friends there, so you've got a place to stay.

你在那儿有朋友，所以有地方可住。

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These efforts at resurrecting dead customs are as self-conscious and, probably, as doomed as the get-togethers of lovers who try to stay friends after a breakup.

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He said he hoped to stay friends with "his boys" - Coolio, Terry and Verne - and that he wanted Verne, one of the world's smallest men, to win.

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Altman doesn't always stay with friends, so he tries to stay at a hotel chain where he can get points toward future stays or airline tickets.

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