Friend（结交）朋友
The script of this programme 本节目台词
Yang Li: Welcome to Authentic Real English. I’m Yang Li.
Diarmuid: And I’m Diarmuid. You know Li, it was so nice to meet your friends last night.
Yang Li: Oh, you liked meeting them? 穆达是在说我们昨天晚上的聚餐，他在餐桌上认识了我的许多朋友。
Diarmuid: Yeah, they’re really cool. I’ve ‘friended’ them already.
Yang Li: You’ve friended… you mean you’ve become friends with them?
Diarmuid: Well yes, we’ve become friends. But I also friended them.
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Do you like social networking?
Yang Li: Eh? Not sure I know what you mean.
Diarmuid: Well Li, I’m sure you know about social networking sites like Facebook, Bebo and Qzone?
Yang Li: Oh, social networking sites 社交网络。
Diarmuid: When you add someone to your friends list, you can say you add them, or simply friend them.
Yang Li: 在使用这些社交网络时如果你把某人的名字加到你的朋友名单里，加 add，那么你就便和这些人结识了 friend them 这里的 friend 是动词。
Examples
A: That Michael has so many Facebook friends.
B: I know, he just friends everyone he meets. He doesn’t have any real friends.
Yang Li: 就像汉语新词一样，英语中的许多新词语也都是从互联网上来的。
Diarmuid: It is indeed. It can be quite hard to keep up with all the changes!
Yang Li: 没错，要随时跟上互联网新词新语的动态可不是一件容易的事儿！
Diarmuid: Try surfing the web in English instead of Chinese sometimes – you’ll find lots of interesting words that you should be able to guess from their context.
Yang Li: 是的，如果你经常使用汉语上网浏览，那么在遇到英语网络词汇的时候，你基本上可以根据上下文来判断词义。
Diarmuid: And of course there’s our website, which is www.bbcukchina.com.
Yang Li: Bye for now.
Diarmuid: Bye.
