英语博客-北美风情 249 Friendship

 　　Over the years, some friends come and go, but others last a lifetime. This week at Culips, we’re talking about friends. First, we talk about childhood friendships and what that can be like, and we also talk about making friends as an adult, which can be much more complicated¹! Harp² and Maura also talk about a current topic: the effect of technology on friendships. If you’re online a lot, you might already have noticed how the Internet and social networking has changed some of your friendships. Do you still have a BFF?

　　Harp:I think the negative side of Facebook is that there are people who I didn’t want to be their friend back then, and then they find me on Facebook and I feel kind of rude not accepting their friend invitation, so sometimes I’ll accept it and then delete³ them a little bit later.

　　Maura:That’s true. The word friend has kind of changed, because you used to just have a friend in your life. And then you have a friend on Facebook, which isn’t really the same. And the word friend has almost become a verb. People talk about going on Facebook and friending a person, which means that you click that you want to be friends with them. It doesn’t mean that you have any special bond⁴ or that you have anything in common. It just means that you’ve made that friend connection on Facebook.

　　Harp:Yeah. Before I used to have a lot of friends on Facebook. But recently, in the last year or so, I’ve really cut back and deleted⁵ a lot of friends because I just want people there who I would want in my life even if Facebook didn’t exist.

1 complicated   

adj.错综复杂的，麻烦的，结构复杂的

参考例句：

• The poem is so complicated that I cannot make out its meaning.这首诗太复杂，我理解不了它的意思。
• This is the most complicated case I have ever handled.这是我所处理过的最为复杂的案子。

2 harp   

n.竖琴；天琴座

参考例句：

• She swept her fingers over the strings of the harp.她用手指划过竖琴的琴弦。
• He played an Irish melody on the harp.他用竖琴演奏了一首爱尔兰曲调。

3 delete   

vt.删除文字，擦去(字迹)

参考例句：

• If you delete 50 words,we can put the whole story on one page.如果你删掉50个字，我们可以把整篇报道安排在一个版面上。
• I selected a file and pressed the Delete key.我选定了一个文件，按下了删除键。

4 bond   

n.结合，债券，契约，粘合剂，保证人，键，关栈保留；vt.存入关栈，粘着；vi.结合

参考例句：

• This glue makes a good firm bond.这种胶水粘得很结实。
• His word is his bond.他是讲信用的。

5 deleted   

v.删除( delete的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• Your name has been deleted from the list. 你的名字已从名单上删掉。
• The offending paragraph was deleted. 令某些人不悦的那段话已经删除。