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certify [s?:tifai] v. 证明；保证 accumulate [?kju:mjuleit] vi. 累积；积聚; vt. 积攒 acknowledge [?knlid?] vt. 承认；答谢；报偿；告知已收到 occasionally [?kei??n?li, ?u-] adv. 偶而，间或 uncomfortable [,nk?mf?t?bl] adj. 不舒服的；不安的 embarrass [imb?r?s] vt. 使局促不安；使困窘；阻碍 scare [skε?] vt. 惊吓；把…吓跑; vi. 受惊; n. ... circumstance [s?:k?mst?ns] n. 环境，情况；事件；境遇 diversion [daiv?:?n, di-] n. 转移；消遣；分散注意力 sake [seik] n. 目的；利益；理由；日本米酒 How To Tell Youre Becoming The Lame Friend 发布时间：2013-01-05 文章出自： 原文链接：点击查看 Your friends call you to go out and you don’t even look at your phone. It’s not that you don’t like them, it’s just that even to acknowledge the things they’re saying would make you feel guilty and uncomfortable. You’d rather listen to the sound of your vibrating phone and wait until it’s over than see the words which have actually been written to you. You know what it’s going to say — “Hey, we’re all meeting up at the bar at nine, wanna come out?” No, you don’t want to go out, and you’re tired of explaining it. It’s not that you’re sad. In fact, you’re happier than you’ve been in recent memory. You’re just not interested in doing things socially just for the sake of doing them. You like being by yourself, or maybe inviting a friend over for a movie, and getting to bed at a reasonable hour. And you know that announcing your desire to go to sleep would result in a million cries of “Oh, come on, don’t be so lame.” The thing is, you’re not sure if you’re lame or not by wanting to go to sleep early and not get drunk. You very well might be, but no amount of embarrassment is going to get you out of your apartment. You sometimes wonder about the things you’re missing, the people who are doing things without you, developing friendship and accumulating memories. The desire to join them occasionally wells up in you and spills over into actual social interaction — you join for a few drinks, you stay out for a while, you laugh with the jokes and catch up on the stories you’ve missed. And you can enjoy it. There’s nothi