Or is it just a loose acquaintance?

还是只是泛泛之交？

I can only extend so much of myself...

我对于泛泛之交所能敞开的心扉。

Apparently, we look down on acquaintances more so than friends.

很明显，比起朋友，我们更容易瞧不起泛泛之交。

We should accept that most of our acquaintances — however much they might in theory want to be friendly — do not want to do so at the cost of looking inside their own minds.

我们应该接受的事实是，大多数泛泛之交，理论上，无论他们想表现得多么好，他们都不愿以窥视自己的内心世界为代价。

Nevertheless, we continued to talk to each other in a more or less friendly way. On a number of subjects we agreed very well. I sometimes thought that if we had met at another timeand place we might have become friends.

不过，我们还是保持着泛泛之交。与此同时，我们有很多地方又情相投。我有时认为，如果我们在其它时间和地点点相遇，也许会成为朋友。

It's easier to give them a polite nod than to ask what's wrong.

泛泛之交强过知根知底。

But my acquaintances vanished, taking the girls with them.

但我的泛泛之交都带着他们的女朋友离我远去了。

According to the study, a total of 11 interactions are required to move from acquaintance to friendship, with the average friendship taking 5.5 months to turn into something solid.

从“泛泛之交”发展成真正的朋友需要大约 11 次互动、每次至少交流 3 小时，平均需要 5 的时间。

Yeah, but a lot of us, I think, have casual friends.

yeah, 但我觉得我们很多人有泛泛之交。

If you want to be miserable, tons and tons of acquaintances will do just fine.

如果你想过得痛苦，认识一大堆泛泛之交就足够了。

And at work, colleagues tend to stay more as acquaintances.

在工作中，同事之间往往只保持泛泛之交。

But over the summer, they became more than acquaintances, if less than friends.

但在那夏天，他们的关系超越了泛泛之交，尽管还算不上真正的朋友。

Now this was not a casual relationship, it was a deeply embedded partnership.

这种关系并非泛泛之交，而是一种根深蒂固的伙伴关系。

The reason that we do this indirectness, this musing, you know, do you think you could please, et cetera, is friends and, or just casual acquaintances don't like to boss each other around like they're servants.

我们之所以采用这种间接的表达方式，比如“你知道吗， 你能不能，等等”，是因为朋友之间， 或者只是泛泛之交， 不喜欢像对待仆人那样直接命令对方。

But the point is, by doing that, I have now showcased to Trevor that we are not just like a casual person that we met once and I got his phone number.

但关键是，通过这样做，我已经向特雷弗展示，我们不仅仅是那种见过一次面、交换了电话号码的泛泛之交。

Like, even though we're not like close, close anymore, when I see him, it's more like we're acquaintances, but all the memories of the past are still there.

就像， 虽然我们现在已经不像以前那么亲密了，但当我见到他的时候， 感觉我们只是泛泛之交，但过去的回忆仍然都在。

When it comes to proximity, she cites research that concluded it takes 50 hours to become a casual friend and 200 hours to become a close friend.

关于亲近度，她引用了研究表明，成为泛泛之交需要50小时，而成为亲密朋友则需要200小时。

Beyond the questionnaire, there's also background checks on personal finances, along with  extensive and exhaustive interviews with friends, family, coworkers, and even the vaguest of  acquaintances.

除了调查问卷之外，还有对人财务的背景调查，以及详尽彻底的朋友、家人、同事甚至最泛泛之交的访谈。

His father was a friend of mine, a casual friend, and so he died when Mr. Lewis, Meriwether Lewis, was just a child.

他的父亲是我的朋友，算是泛泛之交吧，不过在梅里韦瑟·刘易斯先生还是孩子的时候，他就去世了。

And compared to people that I was like loosely connected with, those people actually were the more supportive people I noticed.

与那些我只有泛泛之交的人相比，我发现这些人实际上是更支持我的人。