Friendship is essential for the existence of society. People live in communities and work in co-operation so that they could protect themselves from nature. The successful accomplishment of any task calls for support from many people. It’s the friends who are willing to help us. Friendship is a guarantee of harmonious efforts.

友誼是社會存在的必需品。人們住在社區里，工作在公司里因而能夠保護自己不受自然的傷害。成功完成任何任務需要很多人的支持。是朋友愿意給我們提供幫助。友誼是和諧力量的一項保證。

In the widest sense, all people are friends. People live in a common society, co-operating and helping each other directly or indirectly all the time. From this respective, anyone could be a friend of others to a certain degree. And it’s this kind of friendship that makes society harmonious though competition is universal.

從最廣泛的意義上將，所有人都是朋友。人們居住在同一個社會，總會直接或間接地相互幫助合作。從這方面來講，任何人都可以成為別人某種程度上的朋友。正是這種友誼讓社會和諧，盡管競爭是普遍的。

A friend in need is a friend indeed. Unfortunately, people are so complex in the modern society due to various reasons. Sometimes, we don’t really know who are our real friends. Adversity is the touchstone of friendship. That is to say, in hard times, it is easy for us to test whether the friendship is ture or not. No matter what happens, a true friend will never leave you alone and will always be with you.

患難見真情。不幸的是，由于各種各樣的原因，現代社會的人們是如此復雜。有時候，我們真的不知道誰是我們真正的朋友。逆境是友誼的試金石。也就是說，在困難的時候，我們很容易測試友誼是真是假。不管發生什么事，一個真正的朋友永遠不會讓你獨自一人，而是永遠與你同在。