Mon pauvre ami, must I tell you that you have a terrible disease?

可怜朋友，难道一定要给你指出来，你得了一种可怕病了吗？”

But behind the facade of bon ami, there's a power struggle going on.

但是在这你侬侬外表之下，一权力较量正在上演。

" Not a particle, mon ami! And for once, perhaps, it is a pity" .

“一点儿也没有， 朋友！这一次，也许，很遗憾” 。

" Mon cher ami, I have succeeded — but succeeded to a marvel" !

“亲爱朋友，成功了——而且成功得令人惊叹”！

" You have a little idea, I see, mon ami! Capital. We progress" .

“你有点想法， 明白了，朋友！资本。们进步了” 。

" I think that you should write for the Kinema, mon ami, " he remarked at last.

“你应该电影院写作，朋友，”他最后说道。

" Mon ami, two people rarely see the same thing. You, for instance, saw a goddess. I — " he hesitated.

“朋友， 两个人很少看到相同东西。例如，你看到了一位女神。——” 他犹豫了一下。

Mon ami, for some reason, it was imperative that the crime should seem to have taken place later than it actually did.

朋友，出于某种原因， 犯罪似乎发生得比实际发生时间晚是当务之急。

" Mon ami, have you ever, when writing a letter, been arrested by the fact that you did not know how to spell a certain word" ?

“朋友，你有没有在写信时候，因不知道如何拼写某个单词而感到困惑”？

He took an immense amount of trouble to make himself agreeable to aging women, and it was not long before he was the ami de la maison, the household pet, in many an imposing mansion.

他煞费苦心地讨好上了年纪女人， 不久他就成了许多豪宅里ami de la maison， 即家庭宠物。 他和蔼可亲。

" Mon ami, " said Poirot, in his gentle ironical voice, " is it that we are to remain planted here all night — just because you have seen a beautiful young woman, and your head is in a whirl" ?

“朋友，”波洛用他温柔讽刺声音说，“们整晚都待在这里——就因你看到了一个美丽年轻女人，而你头在旋转”？