friend

5 ENTRIES FOUND:

friend /ˈfrɛnd/ noun

plural friends

friend

/ˈfrɛnd/

noun

plural friends

Learner's definition of FRIEND

[count]

: a person who you like and enjoy being with朋友

I'd like you to meet my friend.我想讓你見見我的朋友。
She is such a good/close/dear friend (of mine).她是（我）非常要好的/親密的/親愛的朋友。
We're fast friends. = We're the best of friends.我們是最要好的朋友。
He's no friend of mine.他不是我的朋友。
He has always been a good friend to me. [=he has always helped or supported me as a good friend should]他一直是我的好友。
She's my best friend. [=my closest friend]她是我最要好的朋友。
We are childhood friends. [=we have been friends since we were children]我們從小就是朋友。
old friends [=people who have been friends for a long time]老朋友
She is an old family friend. = She is an old friend of the family. [=she has known and spent time with the family over many years]她是這家人的老朋友。
We are just friends. [=we are not in a romantic relationship]我們只是朋友。
He wants to be friends with my younger sister. [=he wants to be my sister's friend]他想成爲我妹妹的朋友。
She is best friends with my younger sister. [=she is my youngest sister's closest friend]她是我妹妹最好的朋友。

◊ Friend is sometimes used in a humorous or ironic way to refer to someone who is annoying or disliked.*friend有時用作诙諧或諷刺之意，指討厭的人

Has our friend with the rude attitude been bothering you lately?我們那位態度粗魯的朋友最近一直在煩你嗎？
Don't look now. Here comes your friend.現在别看，你的朋友來了。

: a person who helps or supports someone or something (such as a cause or charity)支持者；贊助者

She is a friend of the environment. [=she supports environmental causes]她支持環保事業。
The strikers knew they had a friend in the senator. [=knew that the senator supported them]罷工者知道參議院有人支持他們。
Are you friend or foe? [=do you support us or oppose us?]你是敵是友？

Friend : quaker

a friend in need is a friend indeed

— used to say that a friend who will help you when you need help is a true friend患難見真情；患難見知交

◊ To have friends in high places is to know people with social or political influence or power.有位高權重的朋友；有貴人相助

: to become someone's friend交朋友

— often + with

She's very good at making friends with people from all walks of life.她很善於結交各行各業的朋友。

— see ¹man