It helped give meaning to her words. She often felt the faces of close friends when she was talking to them to discover their feelings.

VOA: special.2009.11.15

what I'm talking about is a space, a safe space in our lives with our closest friends, with our family, first and foremost, with ourselves, will we have the permission to be human.

我的意思是一个空间，生活中的私密空间，和挚友一起时，和家人在一起时，最重要的是面对自己时，我们要准许自己为人。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

I was talking to friends today and I'm amazed to see how everything changes in the world.

我今天跟朋友谈话，对这世上一切的变化很惊讶。

事业就是挑战 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

This is general communication between people, like friends talking to each other.

VOA: special.2010.06.20

We all know people who we thought to be our friends but we found out that they were talking behind our backs, or that they were operating to deceive us in some way or another.

我们都知道,原认为是朋友的人,却被发现,在我们背后讲坏话，或是想要,以任何方式欺骗我们之类的事情。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Then,aided by his faithful friends Donkey (a talking donkey,of course) and the swashbuckling, debonair Puss-In-Boots, he rescued Princess Fiona from the fire-breathing dragon.

VOA: standard.2010.05.27

So what you have is the account of Richard and his friends talking in the past, and you have the present narrator's parsing of how this language relates to topics that impinge upon their very context, the racial realities of the South.

理查和朋友的对话,呈现在面前，同时加入了陈述,关于这语言如何与影响上下文的话题相关，文中提到南方的种族现实。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

And you're talking over it with your friends and your friend says,

所以你就跟你的朋友谈了谈这事，你的朋友说，

The thing is 课堂 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人