生活英语|friending 加好友

Friending means to act as the friend of someone or to include in a list of designated friends on a person's social networking site.

Friending的意思是做某人的朋友或者将某人在社交网站上加为好友。

The word comes from a term coined by Shakespeare in Hamlet, act 1, scene 5: And what so poor a man as Hamlet is May do, to express his love and friending to you.

这个词最早源自莎士比亚戏剧《哈姆雷特》第一场第五幕中的一句对白：像哈姆雷特如此贫苦的人，要如何向你表达他的爱意和友情呢。

The coinage was largely overlooked for centuries. With the advent^{1 of the social network Facebook in 2004, friending became widely adopted.}

这个说法让人们忽略了好几百年，直到2004年社交网站Facebook迅猛进步，friending（加好友）一词才被广泛用。