Close friends were allowed into the sickroom.

允许密友进入病房探视病人。

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I gave a dinner party for a few close friends.

我为几个密友举办了一个晚餐聚会。

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That evening, I gave a dinner party for a few close friends.

那天晚上，我设宴招待了几位密友。

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In Paris, Isabella became close friends with one of her classmates, Julia Gardner, whose family was from Boston, Massachusetts.

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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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But it's close to your job and it's close to your friends and it's close to your family.

但这个地方离你上班的公司很近，跟你的朋友们与家人也很近，

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Was it better to have a group composed of close friends who had worked together before?

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"She'll be taking it easy with family and close friends, " says representative Leslie Sloane.

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Under the new system, there would be an "unranked list" of family and close friends.

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