朋友

朋友在我们的生活中起着重要的作用，尽管我们可能将友谊视为理所当然，但我们常常不清楚自己的交往方式。

虽然我们与许多人相处融洽，但我们通常是朋友，只有很少几个人-例如，学生的平均水平是每人约6人。在所有友好关系的情况下，两个人彼此喜欢并享受在一起。但是，除此之外，他们之间的亲密程度以及产生这种关系的原因。共同的利益千差万别。当我们认识人时，我们会考虑年龄，种族，经济状况，社会地位和智力等因素。尽管这些因素并不是最重要的，但与人相处时更加困难是年龄和背景的明显差异。

可以在辩论和讨论中保持一些友好的关系，但是对密友来说，通常有相似的想法和信念，对同伴有态度和兴趣，通常会谈论“处于相同的波长”。时间到了这一点。人们越紧密地参与进来，他们就越依赖彼此。人们想要做朋友的厚爱，而讨厌违背诺言。同样，朋友必须学会忍受烦人的习惯，并尝试去容忍意见分歧。

与婚姻相反，没有任何仪式来加强两个人之间的联系。但是，由于经历和情感的共享，彼此之间的支持和理解似乎建立了强大的纽带，可以克服背景的差异，打破彼此的分歧。年龄，阶级或种族的障碍。

英语翻译：

Friends play an important part in our lives,and although we may take friendship for granted,we often don't clearly understand how we make friends.While we get on well with a number of people,we are usually friends with only a very few----for example,the average among students is about 6 per person.In all the cases of friendly relationships,two people like one another and enjoy being together.but beyond that,the degree of intimacy between them and the reasons for the shared interests vary enormously.As we get to know people we take into account things like age,race ,economic conditions,social position,and intelligence.Although these factors are not of prime importance,it is more difficult to get on with people when there is a marked difference in age and background.

Some friendly relationships can be kept on argument and discussion,but it is usual for close friends to have similar ideas and beliefs,to have attitudes and interests in commen ---they often talk about "being on the same wavelength ".it generally takes time to reach this point.And the more intimately involved people become,the more they rely on one another .people want to do friends favours and hate to break a promise.Equally,friends have to learn to put up with annoying habits and try to tolerate differencesof opinion.

In contrast with marriage ,there are no friendship ceremonies to strengthen the association between two persons.But the supporting and understanding of each other that results from shared experiences and emotions does seem to create a powerful bond ,which can overcome differences in background ,and break down barriers of age, class or race.