What Are Fast Friends?什么是Fast Friends?

How do you usually describe good friends？ Once someone used “Youre a fast friend” to describe a friend. What does it mean， friends soon？ Of course not. Fast friend refers to a faithful and reliable friend.

你們平時是怎么形容好朋友的呢？曾經有人用“Youre a fast friend”來形容好友。這是什么意思，“朋友很快”嗎？當然不是。Fast friend是指忠實可靠的朋友。

Examples：

例句：

The two of them had been fast friends since college.

他們倆從大學開始就是好朋友。

So， how did the saying “fast friend” come from？

那么，fast friend這個說法是怎么來的呢？

Although many believe that the idiom “fast friends” means friends who developed a liking for one another quickly， the term is actually a shortened form of “steadfast friends”.

雖然很多人認為fast friends這個習語是指很快就喜歡上彼此的朋友，但這個說法實際上是“堅定的朋友”的縮寫形式。

The origin of the idiom “fast friends” comes from an even older version of the word “steadfast”—Old English triewe， meaning faithful， trustworthy， and steady in adhering to promises or friends.

fast friends這個習語源于“堅定不移”這個詞的古英語版——triewe這個詞，它的意思是“忠實，值得信賴，對承諾或朋友堅定不移”。

“Familiar words with partial meaning” is a common situation in English. In fact， in addition to the familiar “fast” meaning， fast also has many explanations.

“熟詞偏義”是英語中常見的情況。事實上，fast除了我們熟悉的“快的”的意思，還有很多解釋。

1. 作形容詞

①牢固的

The glue had set and my hand was stuck fast.

膠水凝固了，我的手被牢牢粘住。

②放蕩的

a fast crowd

一群生活放蕩的人

2. 作名詞

禁食期

The monk began a fast and prayed for happiness.

那個和尚開始禁食來祈福。

3. 作動詞

禁食

He fasts one day a week for health reasons.

他出于健康考慮每周禁食一天。

More expressions about friends：

更多關于朋友的表達：

1. bestie閨蜜

One of my besties bought me this amazing dress.

這條漂亮的裙子是我的一個閨蜜買給我的。

2. partner in crime死黨

We always get in trouble together. Youre my partner in crime！

我們總是一起闖禍。你真是我的死黨！

3. all-weather friend患難之交

We become all-weather friends from then on.

從那時起，我們就成了患難之交。

4. fair-weather friend不能共患難的朋友

He has realized that Bill is a fair-weather friend.

他已意識到比爾是個不能共患難的朋友。

Word Bank

steadfast /'stedfɑ?st/ adj. 堅定的；不動搖的

partial /'pɑ??l/ adj. 部分的；不完全的

It was only a partial solution to the problem.

all-weather /'??l'we??（r）/ adj. 適合各種氣候的；

全天候的

fair-weather /'fe?'we??/ adj. 同甘不共苦的；

只在順境中的