be friendsとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

be friends

1. To be in a state of friendship (with someone); to be friendly with someone, to get along.

   Let's be friends!

   I've been friends with her for years.

   I stopped being friends with John yesterday.

   We are friends.

   You can't force your coworkers to be more friends with you.

   • 1568, [Hugh Rhodes], The Booke of Nurture for men ſeruauntes, and children‎, Bread Street, London: Thomas Cast, page C.II:

     If vnkindneſſe happen, yet be friends againe

   • 1873 February 8, "The author of Rookstone" [Katharine S. Macquoid], “Too Soon”, in James Macaulay, editor, The Leisure Hour: A Family Journal of Instruction and Recreation‎, volume 22, number 1102, Religious Tract Society, page 84:

     "He has been here a quarter of an hour," says Ursula to herself; "he will go away soon, and I think we are less friends than ever, for it is worse to speak and not get right again than to be silent as we were last time." She feels despairing, and yet what can she do? She cannot begin to talk to Mr. Helder when he has turned his back on her.

   • 1944, George [Stuart] Gordon, “A Note on the World of King Lear” (chapter XI), in Shakespearian Comedy and Other Studies‎ (Reprinting), Oxford University Press, published 1961, page 118:

     The oldest boy will give away his things: and who loves him most? Who is most friends with him?

   • 2019, Ikunigomakinako, illustrated by Akiko Morishima, translated by Katie McLendon, edited by Lena Atanassova, Yuri Bear Storm‎, volume 2 (Manga), Tokyopop, page 41:

     Do you really have to stop being friends with Kureha, though?

   • 2021 July 3, Lisa Bonos, “Republicans have more friends across the political divide than Democrats, study finds”, in The Washington Post‎:

     Liberal women were the most likely to cut ties: A third said they stopped being friends with someone because of their politics.