These friends-of-friends, people we might spend time with at social or work gatherings, might not be like us but they can still have a positive influence because we share the same sort of interests.

这些朋友的朋友，我们可能会一起进行社交或工作聚会的人，也许不像我们，但他们仍然会产生积极的影响，因为我们有相同的兴趣。

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Now, often, we do favors for friends because we like them and because we know that they'll repay us in the future. That's reasonable enough.

现在，我们常常会支持朋友们是因为喜欢他们并且知道在不久的将来会得到回报的，这是天经地义的。

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Some of my friends have got abroad last year.They are now studying in countries like the us, Britan, Germany and Australia.

我的一些朋友去年出国了。他们现在在一些国家像美国、英国、德国和澳大利亚学习。

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We have many other friends who are, like us, sad and lazy with no social lives and who spent their Christmas holidays catching up on entire seasons of Homeland and Downton Abbey.

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"Parents of young children do often send messages about, 'We can all be friends ... with everybody, ' ... but by adolescence, they start getting more nervous about this and they start thinking, 'Well you should be friends with people like you or like us, ' " said Killen.

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But we have good friends, like you, who have helped us in the past, who continue to help us.

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