Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan says Israel is close to losing what he called its "best friend" in the area.

VOA: special.2010.06.05

This is why in the last passage on your sheet from the interview with Stefano Rosso, de Man is willing to venture on a categorical distinction between his own work and that of his very close friend, Jacques Derrida.

那就解释了为什么在纸上的最后一段,选自斯蒂法诺，罗素的采访，德曼愿意在自己的作品与他的密友雅克，德里达的作品,之间一个绝对的差别上冒险。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

It's difficult to imagine that as an expression of genuine grief over the death of a genuinely close friend would take the form of a poem so learned, so filled with remote literary allusions and obscure opinions.

这首诗是为表达对挚友逝去的真挚悲痛,却采取了这样一种如此博学，如此充满,遥远的幻境和隐晦的观点的形式,这确实是难以想象的。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

No one accepted. Dean Fidelman is a professional rock climber who was a close friend of John Bachar.

VOA: special.2009.12.09

She joined a close friend, Zilpah Grant, who had begun another private school, Ipswich Female Seminary.

VOA: special.2010.06.27

Missus Graham was a close friend of American and world leaders.

VOA: special.2009.04.26

In time she would become a close and valued friend.

VOA: special.2010.07.17

The other was a close friend,Ward Lamon.

VOA: special.2009.08.06

It didn't take long to convince Pinetop to record an album with his close friend and collaborator Willie "Big Eyes" Smith.

VOA: standard.2010.07.20

The two countries have, until recently, had close political and military ties and Turkey was widely seen as Israel's only friend in the region.

VOA: standard.2010.06.03

Jackson's close friend, the actress Elizabeth Taylor,said she was too distraught to issue a statement.

VOA: standard.2009.06.26