This gave friends has a new definition, they are not your nearest and dearest but friends allow you to build out your context – building out who you are.

随即，在这些以组为中心的基础上，设计“me& my friends”的功能，这种功能可以使人们对自己的朋友作新的定义，他们可能并不完全是你最亲近的朋友，但这些“朋友”却能够构造出一个真实的你（译者注：所谓的物以类聚，人以群分）。

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But in the meantime, our interactions caused you to treat other people less positively, so you're likely to lose friends, and they in turn are likely to lose friends.

但同时，我们的相互影响作用使得你对待其他人没那么积极了，从而你就有可能失去朋友，然后他们之后也会失去朋友。

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But they say that 'old is Gold', and never to be sold, usually your childhood friends and high school friends are the only friends you will ever have for your lifetime.

但是人们常说“旧的都是金子”，并且从来不会出售掉。通常你孩提时和中学时的朋友是唯一你将会保持一生友谊的朋友。

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Because here the teachers are more friends, and in Germany they are more like parents and strict and stuff like that."

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Through Yale you know a lot of people and they don't have to be close friends but they are acquaintances.

通过耶鲁，你能认识很多人,这些人不一定是亲密的好朋友,他们只是相识的人。

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I'm quite excited to meet new friends and to see what they are all like over there.

我很喜欢结交新朋友，去看看那边的人是如何生活的。

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And I would like to say to the friendly American people that the American people are friends of Saudi Arabia and its people, and they are friends of the Arab and Muslim people, and they are also friends of humanity.

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Employees are supposed to refer to and quote from it when they are jabbed by friends and relatives with barbs about pharmaceutical-company greed.

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They want to convince us that they are our friends and do what they do to assist the economy, even if it means destroying the value of the U.S. dollar.

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