Another finding is that people who are married or work together do not have as much of an effect on happiness as friends do.

VOA: special.2009.01.21

You can gather your friends together and talk about how you can help him.

你可以把你的朋友们都找来，大家一起商量该怎么帮助他。

I get so upset 课堂 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

And then the rest of the epic contains the adventures of these two close friends, all of the things that they do together.

余下的故事，围绕着这两个亲近的朋友的,冒险旅程展开，他们形影不离。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

The loneliness spreads as neighbors who were close friends now spend less time together.

VOA: special.2010.01.06

Well our goal here was to answer that question for people and then hopefully facilitate friends getting together, shopping courses with each other, for each other, picking up syllabi and thus was born what we dub Harvard Courses.

我们的目的就是要解答这个问题,并希望可以使认识的朋友一起上课，选课的时候也有个商量，拿起教学大纲,从而诞生了这门哈佛课程。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

This means that people who are alike often become friends or spend time together.

VOA: special.2009.03.01

So my spare time I like to sometimes get together with friends,

所以在我空闲的时间，我喜欢和朋友聚会，

中央公园的时光 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

In other words, people who are similar become friends or do things together.

VOA: special.2010.06.13

But now, we're friends again, just not living together anymore.

但现在，我们又是朋友了，只是不一起住了。

布鲁克林的房价 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

To put it mildly, the group of friends I've had over the years and ran around together with, it was originally seven of us and the healthcare system in the United States has killed us all but two,".

VOA: standard.2009.06.13

I think we all understand the importance of children growing up together and having the opportunity to work together to become friends, to learn the results of conflicts and to basically interact in a social environment.

我们都明白,孩子共同成长,有机会合作是很重要的,他们要成为朋友，要知道发生冲突的后果,要在社会环境里互动。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

The New York meeting co-chaired by President Obama, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari was the first summit-level session of the informal Friends of Democratic Pakistan grouping, and it brought together leaders of some 25 countries and organizations.

VOA: standard.2009.09.24

Like Isis, whom we saw piecing together the body of Osiris, or like the sad friends of Truth picking up the torn limbs of that beautiful virgin, we are left to cull out and sort asunder the confused seeds of good and evil.

像伊西斯，我们看到的拼凑欧西里斯身体的女人，或是真理的悲伤的朋友找寻被撕碎的美丽纯洁的真理的肢体,我们被留下来做出选择对错和,把善恶迷惑的种子分离出来。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

We had our friends and we were singing songs together and they were making her hands clap 'cause when they were doing clapping, they want to hear her claps.

我们有一大群朋友，大家一块儿唱歌,孩子们让Harako拍掌,因为他们拍掌时，他们也想听见她拍掌。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选