英和和英

動詞

make friendly (三人称単数 現在形 makes friendly, 現在分詞 making friendly, 過去形および過去分詞形 made friendly)

1. To act in a friendly or conciliatory way.
   • 1887, William Timothy Call, Josh Hayseed in New York, New York: Exceslsior, p. 78,^[1]

     What surprised me most, though, was the way the gals hung round for free tickets. ¶ They didn’t make any bones of it, but come up and made friendly with me the easiest I ever experienced. It was so sorter onusual that it took me quite a spell to git used to their sociable ways.

   • 1970, Joanne Greenberg, In the Sign, Chapter 10, New York: Avon, 1972, p. 120,^[2]

     “Here you have the word friendly,” the teacher said, pointing to another red-pencil wound. “You said, ‘dog and cat can not make friendly.’ We do not used that word in that way.”

   • 1996, Cynthia Voigt, Bad Girls, New York: Scholastic, Chapter 2, p. 49,^[3]

     She told them, the first time they came up to her to make friendly, that Blossom made her want to throw up.

   • 2004, George Pelecanos, Hard Revolution, Waterville, Maine: Thorndike Press, Part 1, Chapter Eleven,^[4]

     He tried to make friendly with some black guys who were new to the neighborhood but got limp handshakes and ice-cool eyes in return.

   • 2016, Neil McMahon, “Kerri-Anne Kennerley bares all for Mike Willesee on Sunday Night,” The Sydney Morning Herald, 11 April, 2016,^[5]

     Over many decades, Australian audiences have seen Kerri-Anne Kennerley do just about everything from making friendly with Hollywood superstars to doing the Macarena with the treasurer […]