It was a very, very important part of maintaining the friendship bounds that started at the beginning of the 12-week course and they will take them going forward.

这是维持友谊关系,至关重要的一步,为期12周的课程开始时,他们建立了友谊,而今后它将进一步发展。

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The former Prime Minister of the UK, Tony Blair, tried to maintain a friendly relationship with America.

英国前首相，托尼•布莱尔，曾努力维持与美国的友好关系。

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Student: Yeah. So the question is are any of these factors, particularly the big three, proximity, familiarity, and similarity-- ? Do they affect the maintenance of relationships?

学生：,你的问题是,有没有一个因素，尤其在这三大因素当中，即空间接近，，熟悉度和相似性-,会影响关系的维持？

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But you're simply unable to continue the relationship because there's no chemistry.

但你就是没法再维持这段关系了，因为你们俩之间没法擦出火花。

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or like whether you're strictly just roommates or you know,

你们之间是否仅仅维持室友的关系而已，

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India has to try to keep a balance to sort of...relationship and... some areas, there will be competition and few areas there will be conflict but there are many areas of shared interest sort of economic interest and trade between India and China has growing quite significantly.

印度必须竭尽全力维持,与两个国家关系的平衡。,有些领域会充满竞争,有些领域会出现冲突,但在大多数领域中印都有,共同的经济利益,中印贸易,也一直显著增长。

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What might lead to a commitment, ? a decision to make a commitment to make the relationship last?

为什么作出承诺，决定承诺维持双方的关系？

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We are basically committed to each other for sex but it's very hard to make those relationships last a long time because we might not have anything in common, we might not share anything with each other, we might not trust each other, we are not particularly bonded to each other.

我们基本上只有激情的承诺,长时间维持这种关系很困难,因为可能双方没有任何共同点，没有共享的东西，我们可能互不信任，不是特别亲近。

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