I know him fairly well, but I wouldn't say we were really close friends.

我相当了解他，但并不是说我们是真正的密友。

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Is it really that odd that we're increasingly converting virtual friends to real, physically pokable ones as well as the other way around?

其他途径能交到的真心朋友，虚拟的网络也可以，网友一样能转变为真正的，活生生的朋友，这有什么好奇怪的呢?

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As well as words, I (like you) also love presents. I love buying presents for my friends and finding out what they would really like.

和话语一样，我也象你一样很喜欢礼物。

youdao

getting along well and just become really good friends.

我们相处得很愉快，然后就成为了好朋友。

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"I'm really good friends with Richard Stearman - he's done really, really well and had a really good season last year, " he noted.

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The mash is fermented for three days which as you know gives you beer, this is then continuously distilled in 3 separate copper plated columns before it is shipped to California where really clean water (4 parts per million) from a well in Mendocino is added by our friends at Charbay before we bottle and deliver it.

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