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美国人几乎没有哪一个一辈子不挪动地方。我们由小镇搬到城市又搬到郊区从中学到另一个州的大学由一个地区的某个工作岗位换到别的地方的更好的职位从把孩子养大的家搬到打算退休以后安度晚年的家。每一次搬家我们都不断地结交新朋友他们成为我们新生活的一部分。 Few Americans stay put for a lifetime. We move from town to city to suburb from high school to college in different state from a job in one region to a better job elsewhere from the home where weraise our children to the home wherewe plan to live in retirement. With each move we are forever making new friends who become part of ournew life at that time. 对许多人来说夏季是建立新友谊的特殊时间。当今上百万的美国人到国外渡假。实际上没有人指望一次旅行的结果会产生一个密友。但是一次旅行使友谊开始总是有可能的吧每个国家的人都很重视友谊吧 For many of us the summer is a special time for forming new friendships. Today millions of Americans vocation abroad and theygo not only to see new sights but also——in those places where they do not feel too strange with the hopeof meeting new people. No one really expects a vacation trip to produce a close friend. But surely the beginning of a friendship is possible Surely in every country people value friendship 他们确实都重视友谊。来自不同国度又从未见过面的两个人相遇之后困难不在于他们不珍视友谊而在于他们对于友谊所包含的内容以及友谊如何产生有不同的看法。在美国人最有可能去旅游的那几个欧洲国家友谊与其他更为随便的人际关系有很大的区别在这几个国家里友谊介入家庭生活的程度也各不相同。对于法国人、德国人或是英国人来说友谊一般包含更为特殊的内容承担更多的义务。 They do. The difficulty when strangers from two countries meet isnot a lack of appreciation of friendship but different expectationsabout what constitutes friendship and how it comes into being. In those European countries that Americans are most likely to visit friendship is quite sharply distinguished from other more casual relations and is differently related to family life. For a Frenchman a German or an Englishman friendship is usually more special and carries a heavier burden of commitment. 我们把朋友这个词用于广泛的人际关系——包括在一个新的地方刚刚认识几个星期的人关系密切的同事孩提时期的玩耍伙伴男人或女人直至心腹至交。这些关系对美国人来说实际上还是有差别的友情既可以是肤浅的、一般的、随情况而变的也可以是深厚而持久的。但对于只看到我们表面举止的欧洲人来说这种区别就不明显。 But as we use the word friend can be applied to wide range of relationships——to someone one has known for a few weeks in a new place to a close business associate to a childhood playmate to a man