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friend

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n. 朋友；助手；赞助者
n. (Friend)人名；(英)弗兰德

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Veiseh can even put a date on when those tapes started recording: 15 December 2000, when he met his first girlfriend at his best friend's 16th birthday party.

When Katherine joined Facebook, some of her classmates at high school started to add her as a friend.

She looked at the list of over 500 friends she had on Facebook and realized some of them were not really friends at all.

Meeting people was the thing, and you went to coffee bars where you met friends and spent the evening.

Dogs, man’s best friends, have a clear strategy for dealing with angry owners—they look away.

These findings are in agreement with what you would expect from the evolutionary theory: those who like to make friends and help others can gather enough resources to make it through tough times.

The author thinks her friend made a rational decision in choosing a more hospitable place over an apparently elegant assisted living home.

Seek true pleasureTo have a meaningful, happy life we need friends.

Just because I have a business relationship with an individual and I can profit from that relationship, it does not necessarily mean that this person is my friend, Soupios says.

A friend recently took her mother to visit an expensive assisted living / nursing home near my town.

Think of a 3-year-old lost in the pleasures of finding out what he can and cannot sink in the bathtub, a 5-year- old beside herself with the thrill of putting together strings of nonsensical words with her best friends, or an 11-year-old completely absorbed in a fascinating comic strip.

That means we need modest, realistic expectations, and we need to teach people to cook food that's good enough to share with family and friends.

In some cases, schools should help children find new, more grown-up ways of doing the same things that are constant sources of joy: making art, making friends, making decisions.

A friend told me the following story.

He could not watch television except for two programs aweek, could not play with his friends after school until he finished his homework, and had to read two books a week and write book reports about them.

"Just because I have a business relationship with an individual and I can profit from that relationship, it does not necessarily mean that this person is my friend," Soupios says.

Forgetting how to operate a familiar object like a microwave oven, or forgetting how to drive to the house of a friend you've visited many times before can also be signs of something going wrong.

I have a friend coming round in the afternoon, but I'll be at home, so the day after tomorrow will be great.

They sent me an invitation with a note saying I could take a friend for free on the first day.

The German traveler Johann Winckelmann pioneered the field of art history with his comprehensive study of Greek and Roman sculpture; he was portrayed by his friend Anton Raphael Mengs at the beginning of his long residence in Rome.

Participation grows through friends and networks and if you realize that's how they're growing, you can start to take action and bring in other students, he said.

One prevalent quality we have found in teens' statements about themselves, their friends and their families is a strikingly positive emotional tone.

Nearly a decade ago it was predicted that viewers of Friends, a popular situation comedy, would soon be able to purchase a sweater like Jennifer Aniston's with a few taps on their remote control.

Most teens say they enjoy the company of both parents and friends.

It is fine and healthy for teens to cultivate their personal interests, and it is good news when young people enjoy harmonious relations with their family and friends.

But we also found little interest in civic life beyond the tight circles of their family and immediate friends.

Asked what they would like to change in the world, the students mentioned only personal concerns such as slowing down the pace of life, gaining good friends, becoming more spiritual, becoming either more materially successful or less materially oriented ( ' , depending on the student's values), and being more respectful of the Earth, animals and other people.

Working parents say they feel stressed, tired, rushed and short on quality time with their children, friends and partners.

Harvard Business School professor Leslie Perlow explains that when people feel the pressure to be always on, they find ways to accommodate that pressure, including altering their schedules, work habits and interactions with family and friends.

Londoner Rachel Taylor joined the campaign with the aim of making new friends.

The best form of advertising is probably word-of-mouth advertising which occurs when people tell their friends about the benefits of products or services that they have purchased.

Friends and other veterans of the process have warned Meg that the back and forth between editing parent and writing student can be traumatic (痛苦的).

Technology has cut out much of life's donkey work, and we have more freedoms than ever: we can wear what we like and communicate with hundreds of friends at once at the click of a mouse

survey, about half the teens polled said that their cell phone hadimproved their communication with friends.

They allow young people to exchange moment-by-moment experiences in their daily lives with special partners and thus to have a more continuous sense of connection with friends

For example, if a little boy's male friends are punished for crying, he will learn that "boys don't cry.

On occasions it is the fear that certain disclosures may be unacceptable to family or friends that motivates an individual to seek professional help.

Writer friends of mine pay good money to get the Freedom software that enables them to disable the very Internet connections that seemed so emancipating not long ago

Two friends of mine observe an "Internet sabbath（安息日）"every week, turning off their online connections from Friday night to Monday morning.

Other friends take walks and "forget" their cellphones at home

I don't attend services when I am there, and I have never meditated, there or anywhere; I just take walks and read and lose myself in the stillness, recalling that it is only by stepping briefly away from my wife and bosses and friends that I will have anything useful to bring to them.

The author takes walks and reads and loses himself in the stillness of the hermitage so that he can bring his wife and bosses and friends around him anthing valuable

It may seem obvious, but it's no longer enough simply to do business with our friends and neighbors here at home.

Amusa, who is traveling to India this spring to finish a book, then to Senegal to teach English, has ongoing conversations with her friends about how the Obama presidency has changed their daily lives and hopes to put some of those ideas, along with her global perspective, into her posts.

Then her best friend moved away.

Friendships are not made in a day, and the computer would be more acceptable as a friend if it simulated the gradual changes that occur when one person is getting to know another.

Her mother is a friend of Prof. Smith's.

Oh, Julie invited her friends over in the afternoon and they ate it all.

The testimony of his two friends.

People who lack close friends have greater levels of anxiety and depression than people who are close to others.

Ever since humanity began to farm our own food, we've faced the unpredictable rain that is both friend and enemy.

The German traveler Johann winckelmann pioneered the field of art history with his comprehensive study of Greek and Roman sculpture; he was portrayed by his friend Anton Raphael Mengs at the beginning of his long residence in Rome.

A friend in need is a friend indeed.

A friend of mine owns an area of land in western victoria.

Another time, he lent a friend money to buy a house.

At last they had seen a half-written letter in the pile in which my husband had given his new telephone number to a friend.

At the beginning, when friends offered to take her through her paces, I declined because I knew they had their own households to deal with.

Beauticians, bartenders, piano players and people with purple hats, Welty's people come from afternoons spent visiting with old friends, from walks through the streets of her native Jackson, miss.

Before the school year ended, I gave the kids a special gift, t-shirts with the words "verbs are your friends" on them.

But I will have to ask my friend first and we will come together.

But unlike school friends, 16-year-old Sarah is not spending half-term resting.

But when you share a story with your friends, you care a lot more how they react.

By then, Steve was having a hard time remembering the names of some of his friends.

Can I go out with friends, dad?

Cathy didn't expect any award but was still there to cheer on her friends and praise their accomplishments.

Enjoy yourselves while learning about web design and make new friends in the club.

Even though you might feel more comfortable going with a friend or partner, the office hour will go better if it's just you and the professor.

Heading back downtown toward her hotel, her big-city friends were amazed at the turn of events that had changed their big apple dinner into a Mississippi state reunion.

Help them to make more friends.

Her best friend was seriously hurt in a car crash.

Her friends came to help her when the war broke out.

Her friends didn't offer any help.

His friend started a firm in London.

However, there's only so much that prep books, websites, and older friends can teach.

However, they still did not know how to cope with mean-spirited jokes, or the sense of incompetence they might feel if they compared themselves to celebrities or more brilliant friends online.

I love coming here and seeing my family and all the friends I have made over the years.

I still remember visiting a friend who'd lived here for five years and I was shocked when I learnt she hadn't cooked once in all that time.

In cities all over the world, people go to cafés to relax alone or with friends.

In order to stay she's had to prove her language skills by taking a test which requires her to write a postcard to an imaginary friend.

In the store, I asked each of my kids to pick something they thought our "friend" there would appreciate.

It enabled her make more friends.

It really annoys me when Kate calls her friends during office hours.

It wasn't until her friend was badly hurt that kerry became aware of her habit of finding fault.

Many of Natalie's friends had lost their homes and were living far away.

My entire family is hearing, and so are all my friends.

My nature-loving friends had remembered to bring all the necessities of life.

Naomi, Melissa's best friend and a talented pianist, got to know about this and showed willingness to help.

On his 80th birthday, I sent him a letter, noting the things we all should be thankful for — good health, good friends and good outcomes.

On one of her trips to New York several years ago, Eudora Welty decided to take a couple of New York friends out to dinner.

Once when I was facing a decision that involved high risk, I went to a friend.

Over a third of mums felt they needed more training and around half said they missed going out with friends.

People, in general, are less warm here and it's hard to make friends.

Professors are not trained nurses, financial aid experts or your best friends.

She said: " children are using social media with family and friends and to play games when they are in primary school.

She was highly self-critical and also found fault with her friends.

Since finishing my studies at harvard and oxford, I've watched one friend after another land high-ranking, high-paying wall street jobs.

So she hired a truck to bring all the books to the houses of friends in the suburbs.

So, four days later, he called his friend greg, and the two drove back.

Some friends had lost their lives.

Stay in active communication with your friends.

Evidence shows that thousands of teachers and parents know a good thing when they see it and recommend Toknow to their friends.

That's how we found our home and how I learned that when people are kind, they are not strangers, only friends we haven't yet met.

The friends who introduced me to camping thought that it meant to be a pioneer.

The presenter will show how students can use Prezi to confidently present on a variety of topics, including introducing family, friends, and hobbies.

The school is going to send Harvold on a weekend trip to dublin with a friend, thanking him for his bravery.

The students who he's driven have gone on to become physicians, teachers and engineers, but what they've also got out of their time in school is finding a role model and a friend in Wilson.

The youngsters admitted planning trips around potential photo-opportunities and then messaging friends — and friends of friends — to demand "likes" for their online posts.

They couldn't see or hear each other and, by mistake, simon lowered his friend over the edge of a precipice.

We would see each other at various times and became friends.

Welty's new friends immediately sent a waiter to find a cab.

You may have chances to meet new people who'll become your lifelong friends.

You write an unkind message about someone, intending to send it to a friend, but accidentally send it to the person you're discussing.

Your friend can wait outside for the discussion.

Your lives are busy enough doing homework, playing sports, making friends, seeking after your dreams.

Yet it is precisely these non-celebrity influentials who,according to the two-step-flow theory,are supposed to drive social epidemics by influcencing their friends and colleagues directly.

And that’s the problem with a social cure engineered from the outside: in the real world, as in school, we insist on choosing our own friends.

An emerging body of research shows that positive health habits-as well as negative ones-spread through networks of friends via social communication.

Work with a professional photographer instead of your spouse or friend.

If you’re not sure, ask for honest feedback from trusted friends, colleagues and professionals.

Consumers passionate about a product may create "earned" media by willingly promoting it to friend,and a company may leverage "owned" media by sending e-mail alerts about products and sales to customers registered with its Website.

Parents, he says, can get a lot out of using their devices to speak to a friend or get some work out of the way.