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名詞

A companion; a friend; a comrade; a mate

用例

• 人を友とする
  to keep company with―associate with―one

• 風月を友とする
  to commune with nature
• 友を選べ
  Choose your companions well!
  Be choice of your company!
• 汝を益する友を選べ
  Choose such companions as will do you good!
• 善い友と交われ
  Keep good company!
• 悪い友と交わるな
  Avoid bad company!
• 人の善悪はその交わる友を見て知れ
  “A man is known by the company he keeps.”【イディオム・格言的】
• 友あり遠方より来たるまた楽しからずや
  Is it not delightful to have a friend come from afar?
• 友を得んと欲せば友となれ
  “The only way to gain a friend is to be one.”【イディオム・格言的】
• まさかの友こそ真の友
  “A friend in need is a friend indeed.”【イディオム・格言的】
• 友は類をもって集まる
  “Birds of a feather flock together.”【イディオム・格言的】
• 類は友を呼ぶ【イディオム・格言的】
  “Like attracts like”
  “Like draws to like.”
• 親しき友
  an intimate friend
  a bosom friend
  a chum
• 腹心の友
  a confidential friend
  a confidant
• 彼とは竹馬｛ちくば｝の友だ
  We have known each other since we were boys together.
• 断金の友、刎頸｛ふんけい｝の友
  devoted friends―sworn friends―Damon and Pythias
• 莫逆｛ばくぎゃく｝の友
  congenial spirits
• 勢利の友
  a fair-weather friend
• 酒の友
  a boon companion
• 遊び友
  a playmate
  a playfellow
• この子は遊び友が無い
  The child has no one to play with.