關(guān)于友情的托福作文范文

　　Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Letting a friend make a mistake is better than saying or doing something which will destroy the friendship. Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.

　　你是否同意以下觀點？放任朋友犯錯與因制止他而破壞了友情相比，前者更好一些，請用具體的理由和事例來說明。

　　Before we can say what responsibilities friends have towards each other, we must first define what friendship is. “A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud,” said American essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson. Or, as inventor Henry Ford put it, “My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.” On a lighter （but no less meaningful） note,playwright Oscar Wilde claimed, “A true friend stabs you in the front.” What all these quotes have in common is this simple insight: A true friendship cannot be destroyed by words or actions, so long as they are honest. Thus, true friends will never let you make a mistake without telling you why you should think twice about your decision.

　　在談?wù)撆笥验g的責(zé)任之前，我們首先必須明確什么是友情。美國散文家拉爾夫·瓦爾多·愛默生曾說過：“朋友是我會真誠相待的人，在他面前我可以想到什么就說什么?！卑l(fā)明家亨利·福特是這樣定義友情的：“我比較好的朋友往往能發(fā)掘我比較好的一面。”我們來說點輕松的（但是依舊很有意義），劇作家奧斯卡·王爾德曾聲稱：“真朋友才會當(dāng)面中傷你?！彼羞@些引語共同說明的是這樣一個簡單的道理：只要朋友之間足夠真誠，真正的友誼不會因為言語或行動而遭到破壞。所以，真正的朋友絕不會任你犯錯而不告訴你為什么需要再三考慮你的決定。

　　Of course, it may not be easy for your friend to admit that you were right. Suppose, for example, your friend asks your advice on whether or not he should get a tattoo. Now, perhaps you yourself have no problem with tattoos in general, but what if your friend wants to get a tattoo of his girlfriend's name, in huge letters across the middle of his chest? As a true friend yourself, would it not be your duty to remind your friend that relationships are somewhat temporal, but tattoos are almost always pretty permanent?Perhaps you could suggest he get some sort of image on his chest, one that might remind him of his girlfriend, but one that he could also pass off as meaning something different if （when） he gets a new girlfriend.

　　當(dāng)然，讓你的朋友承認你是對的可能不容易。例如，設(shè)想一下，你的朋友問你他是否應(yīng)該去文身。通常來說，你自己不反對文身，但是如果他想把女朋友的名字用大大的字體文在整個胸口中央呢？身為朋友的你，是否有義務(wù)提醒他，他和女朋友的關(guān)系可能是短暫的，但是文身幾乎都是恒久的呢？或許你可以建議他在胸前做某種圖案，這種圖案可能會讓他想起女朋友，但是在他交了新女朋友之后也可以有其他解釋。

　　You would not be much of a friend if all you wanted was the chance, at some future date, to say, “I told you so.” Another proof of true friendship lies in what happens after you tell your friend why you think she is making a mistake and she goes ahead and does it anyway. Let's say your friend wants to marry someone you dislike （for any number of reasons-he likes to go to monster truck pulls; she enjoys the ballet）。 As her friend, you must tell her about your reservations; you must not keep quiet and hope for the best.But after she goes ahead and marries the guy, as her friend you must now be determined to support her in whatever happens, good or bad. “In the end,” said Martin Luther King,Jr., “we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” “Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity,”said Kahlil Gibran.

　　如果你想要的就是將來哪天對朋友說：“我告訴過你的”，那你還真挺不夠朋友的。另外一個證明真友情的辦法是，你告訴了朋友你覺得她在犯錯的原因之后，她依然故我，執(zhí)意去做了，那么之后的事態(tài)發(fā)展就能證明。比如，你的朋友想和一個你反感的人結(jié)婚（不管是出于什么理由，可能是因為他喜歡大腳車拉力賽，而她喜歡芭蕾）。身為她的朋友，你必須告訴她，在這個事情上你持保留意見，而不是保持沉默，盡量往好處想。但是她執(zhí)意和這個人結(jié)婚后，那么作為朋友，無論發(fā)生什么好的或壞的事情，你都必須堅定地支持她。小馬丁·路德·金說過：“后，我們記住的不會是敵人曾經(jīng)說過的話，而是朋友的沉默?！?/div>