Unit 1 Friendship 整體設計
proverbs on friends and friendship:
1. a friend to everybody is a friend to nobody.
2. a faithful friend is hard to find.
3. a friend without faults will never be found.
4. a true friend is known in the day of adversity.
5. a friend is never known till a man has need.
6. misfortune tests the sincerity of friends.
7. old friends and old wines are best.
8. everything is good when new, but friend when old.
9. familiar paths and old friends are the best.
10. a bosom friend afar brings distant land near.
11. friends may meet, but mountains never greet.
12. we can live without a brother, but not without a friend.
13. a life without a friend is a life without a sun.
14. a thousand friends are few, one enemy is too many.
15. a friend in court is better than a penny in purse.
16. between friends all is common.
17. when a friend asks, there is no tomorrow.
18. a ready way to lose friend is to lend him money.
19. friends are like fiddle-strings, they must not be screwed too tight.
20. an empty purse frightens many friends.
21. he that has a full purse never wants a friend.
22. friendship—one soul in two bodies.
23. friendship is love with understanding.
24. friendship multiplies joys and divides grieves.
25. friendship cannot stand always on one side.
26. friendship, the older it grows, the stronger it is.
suggested translations:
1. 廣交友，無深交。
2. 益友難得。
3. 沒有十全十美的朋友。
4. 疾風知勁草，患難見真情。
5. 需要之時方知友。
6. 患難見真情。
7. 陳酒味醇，老友情深。
8. 東西新的好，朋友老的好。
9. 熟路好遵循，老友最可珍。
10. 海內存知己，天涯若比鄰。
11. 朋友可相逢，高山永分離。
12. 我們生活中可以沒有兄弟，但不能沒有朋友。
13. 人生在世無朋友，猶如生活無太陽。
14. 朋友千人尚覺少，仇敵一人猶嫌多。
15. 囊中有錢，不如朝中有友。
16. 朋友之間不分彼此。
17. 朋友的要求不要拖。
18. 失友皆從借錢起。
19. 朋友像琴弦，不能擰太緊。
20. 囊中無分文，親友不上門。
21. 只要袋里有，不愁沒朋友。
22. 友誼就是兩人一條心。
23. 友誼是愛加上諒解。
24. 友誼可以增添歡樂，也可以分擔憂愁。
25. 來而不往非禮也。
26. 友誼地久天長。