Then Thorne spoke. "Mercedes--Dick Gale, an old friend--the best friend I ever had."
She swept the mantilla back over her head, disclosing a lovely face, strange and striking to Gale in its pride and fire, its intensity. "Senor Gale--ah! I cannot speak my happiness. His friend!"
"Yes, Mercedes; my friend and yours," said Thorne, speaking rapidly. "We'll have need of him. Dear, there's bad news and no time to break it gently. the priest did not come.英文原著 · 《Desert Gold》
Why had I gone there? He finished at last, and it was my turn to speak, but he had given me plenty of time, and my reply was ready. "I have heard you," I said. "Your words are good words. They are the words of a friend. 'I am the white man's friend,' you say; 'is he my friend? He went away secretly, saying no word; why did he go without speaking to his friend who had treated him well? Has he been to my enemy Managa?英文原著 · 《Green Mansions》
Thus we arrive at the conclusion that like is not the friend of like, nor unlike of unlike; and therefore good is not the friend of good, nor evil of evil, nor good of evil, nor evil of good. What remains but that the indifferent, which is neither good nor evil, should be the friend (not of the indifferent, for that would be 'like the friend of like,' but) of the good, or rather of the beautiful?英文原著 · 《Lysis》
They will then proceed to ask whether the enemy is the friend of the friend, or the friend the friend of the enemy?英文原著 · 《Lysis》
Then at this point, my boys, let us take heed, and be on our guard against deceptions. I will not again repeat that the friend is the friend of the friend, and the like of the like, which has been declared by us to be an impossibility; but, in order that this new statement may not delude us, let us attentively examine another point, which I will proceed to explain: Medicine, as we were saying, is a friend, or dear to us for the sake of health?英文原著 · 《Lysis》
"Oh, it is my friend who startled me. I wondered if among the wild rice some spirit voice was talking. How, how, my friend!" said Iktomi. The muskrat stood smiling. On his lips hung a ready "Yes, my friend," when Iktomi would ask, "My friend, will you sit down beside me and share my food?"英文原著 · 《Old Indian Legends》
So by "friend," do you mean "friendfriend," "gay friend," or "ex-boyfriend "who you're now platonic with But still might have a thing for you friend"?美剧 · 《The Big Bang Theory》
And he's got his worm friend and his mouse friend and his spider friend and his snail friend.美剧 · 《House of Cards》
My friend Ilana, not my best friend Ilana, but another Ilana who is my friend, was having a crisis, and I needed to text her "LOL." Well, you missed the whole episode.美剧 · 《Bojack Horseman》
Yeah, "friend of mine." "Friend of ours." - What do I call you? "Friend of ours," or... - You keep your mouth shut about me.电影 · 《Donnie Brasco (1997)》