关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.

　　你是否同意以下观点？放任朋友犯错与因制止他而破坏了友情相比，前者更好一些，请用具体的理由和事例来说明。

　　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.

　　在谈论朋友间的责任之前，我们首先必须明确什么是友情。美国散文家拉尔夫·瓦尔多·爱默生曾说过：“朋友是我会真诚相待的人，在他面前我可以想到什么就说什么。”发明家亨利·福特是这样定义友情的：“我比较好的朋友往往能发掘我比较好的一面。”我们来说点轻松的（但是依旧很有意义），剧作家奥斯卡·王尔德曾声称：“真朋友才会当面中伤你。”所有这些引语共同说明的是这样一个简单的道理：只要朋友之间足够真诚，真正的友谊不会因为言语或行动而遭到破坏。所以，真正的朋友绝不会任你犯错而不告诉你为什么需要再三考虑你的决定。

　　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.

　　当然，让你的朋友承认你是对的可能不容易。例如，设想一下，你的朋友问你他是否应该去文身。通常来说，你自己不反对文身，但是如果他想把女朋友的名字用大大的字体文在整个胸口中央呢？身为朋友的你，是否有义务提醒他，他和女朋友的关系可能是短暂的，但是文身几乎都是恒久的呢？或许你可以建议他在胸前做某种图案，这种图案可能会让他想起女朋友，但是在他交了新女朋友之后也可以有其他解释。

　　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.

　　如果你想要的就是将来哪天对朋友说：“我告诉过你的”，那你还真挺不够朋友的。另外一个证明真友情的办法是，你告诉了朋友你觉得她在犯错的原因之后，她依然故我，执意去做了，那么之后的事态发展就能证明。比如，你的朋友想和一个你反感的人结婚（不管是出于什么理由，可能是因为他喜欢大脚车拉力赛，而她喜欢芭蕾）。身为她的朋友，你必须告诉她，在这个事情上你持保留意见，而不是保持沉默，尽量往好处想。但是她执意和这个人结婚后，那么作为朋友，无论发生什么好的或坏的事情，你都必须坚定地支持她。小马丁·路德·金说过：“后，我们记住的不会是敌人曾经说过的话，而是朋友的沉默。”

　　Friends who feel responsible for each other would never let the other make a mistake without input followed by support.

　　卡利尔·吉布朗说：“友谊永远意味着甜蜜的责任，而绝非某种机会。”觉得对彼此有责任的朋友绝不会任另一方犯错而不提意见，不给予支持。