【新编大学英语】（第一册）Unit1 B 朋友必不可少（3/3）

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只要仔细一点，大家都可以听写的很好~I didn't always choose my friends. For years, I let fate choose them for me. A new job, a new city, an expensive apartment made me be friends with people I'd never have said hello to otherwise. But, as I grew older I grew impatient with some of my friends, and I decided that accidental relationships don't always survive changes in life. Those types of friends don't often help you during life's difficult times when you really need help.
We can be ourselves with our friends, and that is a wonderful thing; too precious a gift to deny other friends. It really doesn't take that much time, or that much effort to share the gift of making friends.我过去基本上不挑选朋友。多年以来，我让命运替我决定朋友。一份新工作，一座新城市，一幢昂贵的公寓，让我与原本连说声“你好”都不可能的人成了朋友。然而随着年岁的增长，我对有些朋友已变得不耐烦了，觉得这种因机遇建立的朋友关系有时会经不起生活变化的考验。这种类型的朋友，在你有困难真正需要帮助时并不一定会帮助你。
我们和朋友在一起时能够自然不做作，那是一件很了不起的事，是一份很珍贵的礼物，不能不送给其他朋友共同分享。结交朋友，享受友谊，其实并不需要花费那么多的时间，或那么多的努力。        
——译文来自: mannywang927