中英慣用短語:
  • v.  她像友一樣(待我), 而不像是我的母親.   more like a friend than a mother
  •   她原來是我妹妹的友.   It turned out that she was a friend of my sister
  • v.  她嚮老師告了她最好的友一狀.   She sneaked on her best friend to the teacher
  • n.  她周圍總有許多愛趕時髦的友.   She has always been surrounded with fashionable friends
  • n.  她和男朋友吵嘴了.   She's had a tiff with her boy-friend
  • n.  她哥哥的友護送她回傢.   Her brother's friend escorted her home
  • n.  她在人群中認出了她的友.   She spotted her friend in the crowd
  • n.  她多才多藝, 所有的友都很羨慕她.   Her many talents were the envy of all her friends
  • adj.  她忍受不了男友控製她感情的行為.   She found her boyfriend'spossessive behaviour intolerable
  • v.  她總(給友)惹麻煩.   She's always making trouble (for her friends).
  • n.  她把那些東西給她所有的友都看過了.   She has shown them to all her friends
  • adj.  她是個特殊的朋友.   She's a very special friend
  •   她是我們的老友. Old can also mean `former' or `previous'*old還可表示`先前的'或`早先的'   She's an old friend of ours.
  • conj.  她每次來都帶個朋友.   Whenever she comes, she brings a friend
  • adj.  她男友在場時, 她就顯得格外輕佻.   She gets very skittish when her boy-friend is around
  • prep.  她的朋友中最有錢的.   the richest of all her friends