I've been very lucky to have several professional string players as close friends.

我很幸运很有几个专业的弦乐演奏员和做了好朋友。

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Choose as close friends, people who will challenge and stimulate you intellectually and personally.

选择那些无论是在智力上，还是在个人方面能够挑战你和激励你的人作为亲密朋友。

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They would go on to work together for years as close friends and business associates, with Dennis as their leader.

他们将在一起工作很多年，既是朋友，又是生意伙伴，丹尼斯是他们的领导。

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The loneliness spreads as neighbors who were close friends now spend less time together.

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The results established a pattern that spread as people reported fewer close friends.

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Coleman, who counts Hall of Famers Hank Aaron and Frank Robinson as close friends, said he watched his son, now 23, drop baseball as a teenager for soccer the sport he starred in at Georgetown University.

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In the second half of his life as close friends submitted to one fatal illness after another Stevenson conceived an unlikely lust for life while touring the South Pacific, submitting to the roughest and most dangerous of conditions, but this time with barely a murmur.

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