The study also shows that girls are more likely to be attracted by mobile phones than boys, and often use the Internet to talk to friends by social networking websites, such as Facebook and Twitter.

研究还显示，女孩比男孩更容易被手机吸引，她们经常通过 Facebook 和 Twitter 等社交网站与朋友聊天。

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People with five or more close friends are more apt to describe themselves as happy than those with fewer.

那些有五个或者更多亲密朋友的人会比那些朋友少的人更幸福。

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He said people were far more forgiving when family or friends behaved in away seen as rude than work colleagues.

他说，人们对家人或朋友的粗鲁行为比对待同事要宽容得多。

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This fury seemed strange, emanating as it did from a man who had always made it plain that he regarded friends as more important than policemen.

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And as an added benefit, more than likely your friends and family are not going to try and tell you how to run your business.

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This is rather more than just a few people whinging (as our friends from Oz would put it) about a small decline in battery life.

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