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[标签:标题] 篇一：英语美文欣赏(带翻译) Friends or #39;Enemies?#39; When I was younger, my Dad used to tell me: quot;Boys don#39;t want to be your friend.quot; He then left the rest to my imagination. At the time, I didn#39;t agree. I thought: I can crack a good joke, I know how to shoot a hoop, and I#39;m a cheerful person (but not in an annoying way). What kind of boy wouldn#39;t want to be around that kind of girl? Turns out, my Dad was right. Not to be all quot;Samantha Brickquot; about it, but in my experience, single, heterosexual men aren#39;t actively looking for an exclusively platonic relationship with a woman they find sexually attractive. This of course is not a revolutionary concept. In fact, it seems pretty natural to me. Now, I will be the first to say that it is really and truly the most wonderful thing in the world if the attraction is mutual. But the Powers That Be seem to like to play these complicated little mating games with humans where the guy we want to re-enact scenes from 9? Weeks with sees our attractiveness level as akin to that of a discarded dishcloth, and the most physical we could see ourselves being with the guy who actually likes us is a game of ping pong over an especially long table. All of which means that someone usually ends up getting rejected. I#39;m sure I#39;m not alone when I say I have struggled with the scenario where I am not interested in a man romantically, but I want to keep him as a friend because he is funny and I enjoy his company, or he has shown himself to be that rare specimen known as quot;a nice, genuine person, quot; or he simply doesn#39;t mention his therapist in every other sentence. Rather than string him along and give him hope, I feel compelled to somehow communicate to him sooner rather than later that we#39;ll just be staying friends, nothing more. Otherwise, I think I am being unfair to him. Why should he waste his romantic stamina on me when there are loads of other single women out there who might fall ins