Friendship Friends play an important part in our lives,and although we may take friendship for granted,we often dont 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.wWw.xiNgkoo.coMIn 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 a powerful bond ,which can overcome differences in background ,and break down barriers of age, class or race.

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　　友谊在我们的生活中扮演着重要的角色，虽然我们可以把友谊视为理所当然，我们常常不清楚如何交朋友。虽然我们与很多人相处很好，我们通常只有极少数的例如----朋友，学生平均每人约为6，友好关系的情况下，两个人互相喜欢和享受可除此之外，他们的共同利益的原因之间的亲密程度差异很大，因为我们知道我们会考虑对方的年龄、种族、经济条件、社会地位和智力。虽然这些因素不是最重要的，它是更难以与人相处时，有一个标志年龄和背景差异。

　　一些友好关系在论据和讨论可以被保留，但它通常都有着相近的思想和信念的亲密朋友，有态度和兴趣他们经常谈论在同一个波长。一般需要时间到达这一点，人变得更亲密，他们更依赖另一个。人们想要做朋友厚待，憎恶背信弃义。同样，朋友之间要学会忍受恼人的习惯，试着去容忍差异与婚姻，友谊没有仪式来加强两人的关系。但支持和相互理解，共同的经历和情感的结果S似乎是一个强大的纽带，它可以克服背景差异，打破障碍的年龄，阶级或种族。