我最喜欢的运动英语作文80词左右八年级（汇总20篇）

My favourite season is summer. I often wear my shorts and T-shirt. Sometimes I wear my jeans. In summer it is often sunny and hot. Sometimes rainy in summer. I usually swim with my father. Sometimes I eat ice-cream at home.

作文翻译：

我喜欢的季节是夏季，我经常穿我的衬衫和运动衫。有时我穿牛仔裤。夏天，天气经常是晴朗的、热的。有时是多雨的。我通常和我的父亲去游泳，有时在家吃冰激淋。

中秋节到了，爸爸买了一盒月饼。里面有8个，各种味道的都有。今天晚上，爸爸把月饼摆在桌上，我们围着桌子坐下。开始吃月饼了!我说："今天我来分月饼。"我把两个大的给爸爸，两个大的给妈妈，我自己要了两个小的。我说："剩下的两个给姐姐留着吧。"爸爸说我长大了，懂事了。我高兴极了。

To the Mid Autumn Festival, my father bought a box of moon cakes. There are 8 kinds of taste, have. This evening, my father put the cake on the table, we sat round the table. Began to eat the moon cake! I said: "today I points moon cake. "I have two big daddy, two big for my mother, I have two small. I said: "the rest of the two sister to keep it. "Dad said I grew up, and sensible. Im wild with joy.

一个多么愉快的中秋节啊!

What a Happy Mid Autumn Festival!

Nowadays,high school students hold different opinions about after-class activities.there are two quite different phenomenonena.

Some students are crazy about sports and some other activities.they spend much time in joining the outdoor activities and varies of groups , and also,making new friends.However,they pay a little attention to their studies.

On the contrary, some students spend almost of their time in studies and dont enjoy attending other activities.

In my opinion,I think neither of them is correct.I think we should study hard,but we also need time to relax ourselves,because if a one in a good state,he can do better.

I have a lot of like small animals. But my favorite animal is dog.

The puppy can be fun! It round little face with a pair of big eyes. Snow-white hair long below four flexible claws.

Familiar with, soon, I and the dog became my good friends. Every day I go to school, also want to go to the dog. Cant, have to again and again to make it home. When I returned home from school, the little dog ran to pick me up from a distance, it legs to pick on me, and with its little nose to smell of my hand.

Sometimes, it is very naughty, and it is the best cat playing with a friend. It is very obedient, as soon as I loudly shout: "the dog, dont tease." It shook tail to coming towards me.

I love my dog, it brought me endless fun!

我有许多喜欢的小动物。可是我最喜欢的小动物是小狗。

这只小狗可有意思了!它圆圆的小脸上嵌着一双水灵灵的大眼睛。雪白的毛下面长着四只灵活的爪子。

不久，我和小狗熟悉了，成了我的好朋友。每天我去上学，小狗也要去。没办法，只好一次又一次把它抱回家。我放学回家，小狗远远的跑来接我，它两腿扒在我身上，还用它的小鼻子闻我的手。

有时，它很淘气，去和它最好的朋友小猫逗着玩。它很听话，只要我大声一喊：“小狗，别逗了。”它摇着尾巴乖乖地朝我走来。

我最爱我的小狗，它给我带来了无穷的乐趣!

My favourite swimmer is Sun Yang. He swims very fast. He took part in the last Olympic Games. He is my hero. He is 21 years old. He is very tall. He is 198cm tall. He is cute. I love him。

Sun Yang became the first Chinese male swimmer to earn gold as he won the 400m freestyle with an Olympic record.

Sun overhauled South Korean rival Park Tae-hwan who had been reinstated into the final after being disqualified for a false start in his morning heat.

Defending champion Park had led for most of the race before Sun overtook him just after the final turn and went on to win.

Peter Vander kay was third with Great Britains David Carry 30 in seventh.

Carry is the oldest member of Team GBs swimming squad and said: "What a feeling. I cant believe it.

"A year ago I set myself the target of reaching the Olympic final. There have been some rocky patches. To have this awesome support behind me was fantastic."

Sun was on world record pace in the final 50 metres and although he narrowly missed out on that mark he did break Australian swimmer Ian Thorpes Olympic record.

I have a party on my eleven birthday, many friends give me the present. There is a doll, a pen, a music box, a notebook, a book and a flower. My faverite present is the flower. The flower is very beautiful. Its colour is red. I like to smell it. I put it in a bottle of water. My mother says it is a rose. I can plant it in the pot. I water the flower everyday. I wish it can be beautiful forever.

Lily i s a high school student. She wants to be a professional actress. As

a volunteer , she often volunteers her time to help other people . at the same

time she takes acting lessons. Now she has run out of money for acting lessons.

She needs to come up with ideas for making money. She called up parents to offer

children art lessons. She even put up signs for asking for jobs. Now she’ll be

able to continue her lessons, and she can become a professional actress one

day.

2020人教版英语八年级作文3

Jack is my friend. He likes playing computer games very much. He often sits

in the same way for too long without moving. Now he has a headache, sore eyes

and a sore back. He doesn’t sleep well at night, so he feels tired every

day.

I think he should take breaks away from the computer. He shouldn’t use the

computer for a long time. He should do eye exercises to relax his eyes and go to

bed early at night.

I think if he has a good rest, he will feel well soon.

如果你问我喜欢的小动物是什么？那我就告诉你，我喜欢的小动物是——小狗。

If you ask me what my favorite little animal is? Well, Ill tell you, my favorite little animal is puppy.

我家的小狗的毛是雪白雪白的，宛如雪落在小狗身上似的，漂亮极了！一双眼睛水汪汪的，好似刚刚下过一场春雨，雨点掉进了他眼里似的；它长着长长的尾巴，假如街边的尘土多，就可以用尾巴把尘土扫得干干净净的。

My little dogs fur is white and snowy, like snow falling on the puppy. Its so beautiful! A pair of eyes, watery, as if just under a spring rain, rain fell into his eyes; it has a long tail, if the street dust, you can use the tail sweep the dust clean.

有一次放学回家，我去看小狗。我那着骨头引它来吃，但它不但不吃，还一动不动的，好象被什么烦住了。原来，小狗就要生宝宝了……

Once I came home from school, I went to see the dog. I brought it to eat with the bone, but it not only did not eat, but also motionless, as if by what bother. It turned out that the puppy is going to have a baby......

宝宝出生后，我更疼爱小狗了。但好景不长，不幸的事情发生了。一天，小狗蹲在妈妈停车的位置上，那时妈妈回来了，妈妈一时看不见，小狗又睡着了，不知道。这时，妈妈把车停在那个位置上。就在这时候，小狗被妈妈撞死了。看到这情景，我伤心透了，连续哭了2个小时。

I loved the puppy more when I was born. But the good times dont last long unfortunate thing happened. One day, the puppy squatted in the parking place of mother. When mother came back, mother could not see it for a while, and the dog fell asleep again. I didnt know. At this moment, mother parked the car in that position. Just then, the puppy was killed by his mother. I was so sad when I saw the scene that I cried for 2 hours.

到了这个时候，我对小狗的感情依然还是那么深，我对小狗的死感到恋恋不舍。小狗，我爱你。

At this time, my feelings for the dog is still so deep, I feel unable to part of the dogs death. Puppy, I love you.

From grade one to now, all the teacher makes me very unforgettable, but there is a teacher let me never forget. I wont tell you who she is temporarily, let everyone guess.

She has a head of golden hair, and there were two small plait, although already 30 years old, but still dress up like a little girl, never grow old. Her, and a pair of jiongjiongweishen eyes, just like the eagle eye (eagle eyes are the brightest, see anything), as long as she saw the classmate speech or desertion, with his eyes looking at the students, the students immediately knowing, listen attentively, and there are some of my classmates speak in secretly, passing notes, read reference books, such as this thing she tell at a glance.

In class, she gave us, always very humor, when some classmates deserted, she said: "so-and-so is puppy love? In which a mm?" With all of us laughed. We answer this question, shes always staring at us, look forward to if we have the answer, it doesnt matter even if the answer is wrong.

She, who is it? Everyone should guess. These unique description, the unique appearance, unique style of class, only one teacher who has she is our dear English teacher, Ms huang!

从一年级到现在，所有老师都令我十分难忘，可是有一位老师让我永远不忘。我暂时先不告诉大家她是谁，让大家猜一猜。

她，有一头金黄的头发，还有两条小辫子，虽然已经三十几岁了，可却还是打扮得像小女孩一样，永远不会老。她，还有一双炯炯有神的眼睛，跟鹰眼一样(鹰的眼睛都是最亮的，什么都看到的)，她只要看到了有同学在讲话或是开小差，就用那双有神的眼睛盯那位同学一下，那同学马上就会意了，就专心听讲了，而且有一些同学在偷偷讲话、传纸条、偷看课外书啊，这之类的事她一眼就看出来了。

她，给我们上课时，总是十分幽默，有一些时候同学开小差了，她就说：“某某某是不是早恋啦?在想哪一个mm啊?”逗得我们大家都哈哈大笑。我们回答问题时，她总是用期待的眼神看着我们，如果我们有回答，就算回答错了也没关系。

她，是谁呢?大家应该都猜出来了吧。这些独特的描写、独特的外貌、独特的上课风格，只有一位老师有具备她就是我们敬爱的英语老师，Ms黄!

In 2000 Sydney Olympic Games, Li Xiaopeng and his teammates were outstanding, winning gold in the prestigious mens team event, a first for Chinas gymnasts. Li Xiaopeng also won an inpidual gold medal in the parallel bars.

However, due to a severe foot injury, Lis performance in 2004 Athens Olympic Games was unsatisfying. China finished 5th in the mens team final and Li only got a bronze in parallel bars after he had been unbeaten since 2000 in major competitions. Li Xiaopeng was tortured by a long-time ankle injury and eventually had an operation in 2005.

In 2008, after suffering through yet another injury, this time in his toe, he came back to compete in the Chinese Nationals and took gold in parallel bars in two World Cups, thus surpassing Li Ning in the number of world titles.

If Chinese men gymnastics can regain mens team event? If Li Xiaopeng will win his second personal Olympic gold medals? I hope so!

在2000年悉尼奥运会，李小鹏和他的队友们是如此优秀，在著名的男子团体赛金牌，为中国体操运动员第一名。李小鹏还获得了个人金牌的平行杆。

然而，由于严重的脚伤，在2004雅典奥运会里的表现不满意。中国队在决赛中名列第五，而在比赛中，他在比赛中获得了不败自从2000年，而在比赛中，他获得了一枚铜牌。李小鹏被一个长期的脚踝受伤，并最后有一个手术在2005。

在2008年，通过又一次伤病的痛苦后，这一次在他的脚趾，他就回到竞争的中国公民把金子在双杠两届世界杯，从而超越李宁在世界冠军的数量。

如果中国男子体操能恢复男子的队事件？如果李小鹏将赢得他的第二个人奥运会金牌？我希望如此！

我最喜欢的运动是打篮球，因为我爸爸是个超级篮球迷，从我记事起，每个六、日的早晨，我和妈妈都是被电视里球赛的解说声吵醒的，在这样的环境下长大的我，怎能不迷上篮球呢?每当我听到姚明、麦迪、乔丹等巨星的名字，在电视上看到他们潇洒的身影，我就心潮澎湃。

上个礼拜天，在我的再三恳求下，爸爸终于答应教我打蓝球。早晨的天空阴沉沉的，不时有几朵乌云飘过，我跟爸爸趋车来到了云大的篮球场。爸爸指了指蓝筐，“投几个，熟悉一下球性”这有何难?小菜一碟!我模仿明星们的摸样，起跑，跳跃。投蓝——没中。再来——又没中。我偷偷地环顾四周，生怕别人看见我的糗样，还好，没人注意，。我定了一下神，使出吃奶的力气，“嗖”这次干脆连蓝筐也没碰着。我的自信心受到了极大的挫败。爸爸走上前拍了拍我的肩膀，“学篮球，得从基本功练起。”

于是，爸爸教了我拍球，带球两个基本动作。雪越下越大时而刮来几阵狂风，把地上一层雪推向天空，展示她们优美的舞姿。麦迪，姚明等巨星在球场上飞驰的模样在我脑中挥之不去“他们也是这样苦吗?”我一边练，一边问自己“该回家了。”爸爸的呼唤传来后，我立刻抱起球，向爸爸跑去。迎着大雪，我俩回家去了。

雪更大了，雪花不时飞在我冰冷的身上，但我的心却是热的。我终于明白，那些巨星并不是我想的那样不识人间烟火，而是在背后用汗水与失败迎接着辉煌的黎明。我深深懂得要想人前显贵，就得背后受罪，只有吃得苦中苦，才能成为人上人!

打篮球，这就是我最喜欢的运动!

Sports do us good in many respects (TS). It goes without saying that taking exercises can build up our physical strength. In collective sports like basketball, volleyball, or football, we will learn the importance of cooperation. While taking part in sports game, we will try our best to win and arouse ourselves the competitive spirit. Sports can also help us relax after a period of exhausting work. However, as the saying goes, "there are two sides to everything", and sports is without exception. We may hurt other players or ourselves if we are not careful enough when participating in sports activities. What’s more, excessive or severe training can do harm to our health. My participation in sports tells me that sports can make us healthy both physically and psychologically. It is also a good way for people to know each other and can promote friendship between people. So long as we are carefully enough, sports can do us nothing but good.

导语：理解、友谊、团结和公平竞争是奥林匹克精神，你觉得作为一名奥林匹克运动员需要具备哪些条件呢?下面是yuwenmi小编为大家整理的优秀英语作文，欢迎阅读与借鉴，谢谢!

An Olympic athlete must be strong not only in body, but also in mind. They have to train for years to achieve the necessary strength and control over their sports to compete in the Olympics. This requires great discipline and self-sacrifice. Similarly, the Olympic athletes have to train their minds in order to compete under extreme mental pressure. In other words, and Olympic athlete must be in top condition both mentally and physically.

Speaking good English also requires great discipline and self-sacrifice. If you want to speak good English, you must be mentally and physically strong just like an Olympic athlete.

【参考译文】

一名奥林匹克运动员不但要有强健的体魄，而且要有良好的心理素质。为了在奥运会上一争高低，他们必须训练多年达到竞技必需的体能要求以及对项目的掌控程度。这需要严格的纪律和伟大的自我牺牲精神。同样，为了能在高强度的心理压力下进行比赛，奥林匹克运动员们必须锻炼他们的心理素质。换句话说，一位奥林匹克运动员要同时具备顶尖的身体素质和心理素质。

要说一口流利的英语同样需要严格的纪律和伟大的自我牺牲精神。如果你想说一口流利的英语，你就必须像奥林匹克运动员一样拥有强健的体魄和过硬的心理素质。

The Spring Festival is the most important traditional one in China. As an

important part of it, fireworks bring us happier atmosphere than usual. This

Spring Festival, Dad bought lots of fireworks as last year. On the eve, he

lighted them, and then they blossomed like flowers in the sky, with sweet sounds

and brilliant light. How beautiful! I was deeply moved, though every Spring

Festival I felt it. It brought me the beautiful feelings. At that moment I was

buried in the sea of happiness. And also it made me feel more about the

prosperity of our homeland.

Meanwhile, I was worried about the fireworks. First, setting off

firecrackers made a tremendous noise and caused serious air pollution. Also

childrens safety faced the crisis of getting burned or injured in the eyes.

Whats worse, many dustmens valuable time was wasted for fireworks pieces after

being set off dirtied the environment.

So I thought some day well have to forbid making and setting off

fireworks, though its a Chinese custom for hundreds of years.

Today our school hold a sports meeting.it begans at ninght aclock.there have many kinds of match such as high jumping,one_handred meters race,basketball and so on.i and my class cheers for our class.in the end our class ranks two and i feel cooperatiom and friendship is how important!

Sports Meeting

Last month we had a sports meeting.Though the weather wasnt very fine that day,the students were all very excited and the whole school was alive.

This time,I was even more excited.Because I went in for the sports meeting and my item was high jump.I didnt want to get any place,I only wanted to enjoy the game because I knew I wasnt good at sports.

When I got to the field with my friend.I was both excited and nervous.When I saw the first height,my heart could hardly heat.How high it was!It was higher than our desks.I couldnt believe my eyes.This was too high for me to jump over.I wasnt nervous at that timewhile I was a bit afraid.But I had gone there,I must have a try.

Not long after,the game began.The first person was great.He jumped over easily.I was too surprised to say a word.The second was good,too.The third nearly jumped over,but he wasnt bad…

It was my turn.I had a deep breath and then ran towards.In front of the pole,I began to jump.Oh,no!My right foot hit the pole.“I failed.” I thought.And then,another unlucky thing happened.I didnt stand firm and I tumbled.I hurt my back badly.At that moment I felt my back was broken.It was too painful.It seemed that the people around field all didnt know that,they only laughed at my foolish posture.After a very short rest,I stood up.

I push my pain back and then went out of the field with my red face.My friend hurried to come to me.He asked me if this was terrible.I was too pained with my back to answer his questions.I only shook my head.I was sad.Not only I had hurt my back but also I couldnt go on in the game.I had to see the others jump and wish them to get a good place.

Though I didnt have the whole game.I was still very happy.Because a lot of my classmates tried their best in the game and they got a lot of good places.They were all best in my eyes.I was thankful to them for doing their best for our class.

[校运动会英语作文

The Yangzte River is the longest river in China. And it s important and

helpful to us Chinese. But these days the Yangtze River is bringing us serious

floods.

Many villages were destroyed by floods. The floods made hundreds of

millions of people lose their homes, relatives and friends. Many children can t

go to school as usual .Now the foods have drawn the attention of the whole

world. People from abroad have offered their help too. In China, millions of

soldiers are busy fighting against the floods. They are working very hard. Many

of them have lost their lives in their attempt to save the villagers.

Though we can t help them to fight against floods, we should help them to

rebuild their homeland. We can present them our pocketmoney and clothes. I

believe most of the people will return to their homeland in the near future.

导语：中国有许多传统节日，你最喜欢的节日是什么呢?下面是yuwenmi小编为大家整理的优秀英语作文，欢迎阅读与借鉴，谢谢!

My favourite festival is Spring Festival. It’s in January or February. People in China celebrate it, and there are many things to do. We often celebrate Spring Festival by having a big dinner, visiting relatives and friends, getting some red packets and letting off fireworks. We often have a big dinner from the first day of Spring Festival to the last day. We often go to our relatives’ home and have a big dinner and also we have a big dinner at home. We often have many things to talk and we are very happy. After dinner, we watch the TV programs of CCTV. There are many plays, and we often laugh at them. At midnight, we don’t go to bed but wait for the new day. We always let off fireworks. It’s very exciting and interesting! At Spring Festival, we always visit our relatives and friends too. We go shopping with them, and children are very excited to visit their relatives because they can get some red packets from their relatives. There is some money in it and children can use it to buy toys, books or some snacks.

Spring Festival is very interesting, isn’t it?

【原文翻译】

我最喜欢的节日是春节。它在1月或2月。在中国人民庆祝，而且有很多事情要做。我们经常有一个大的晚餐，走亲访友，让一些红包，放烟花庆祝春节。我们往往有一个很大的晚餐从春节的第一天到最后一天。我们经常去我们的亲戚家有一个大的晚餐，我们也有一个大的在家里吃饭。我们往往有许多事情需要讨论，我们感到非常高兴。晚饭后，我们看中央电视台的电视节目。有许多戏剧，我们经常嘲笑他们。在午夜，我们不上床睡觉，但等待新的一天。我们总是放焰火。这是非常令人兴奋和有趣!在春节前，我们访问我们的亲戚和朋友。我们一起去逛街，和孩子们都非常兴奋探亲，因为从他们的亲属，他们可以得到一些红包。有一些钱，孩子们可以用它来购买玩具，书籍或一些零食。

春节是非常有趣的，不是吗?

The winter holiday is coming.I want to do something useful in the winter

holiday. If so,I think my winter holiday must be very great.

At school I dont do well in English. My brother is a college student.He

studies English and does well in it.So I first want him to help me in the winter

holiday.This time I must work hard at English.Every morning I want to listen to

English on the radio.Then I want to do more speaking with my brother.Im sure I

can become good at it by hard work.

编者小语：“每个人都有自己最喜欢的老师，我也是。我最喜欢的老师是魏小姐，我们的英语老师...”小编和大家一起分享2015小升初英语作文：我喜欢的老师，文章记叙了去超市做什么，买了那些东西，供同学们写作学习。

Everyone has his favorite teacher ,so do I. My favourite teacher is Miss Wei, our English teacher. We felt English very difficuit when we began to study English. Miss Wei had a good idea to solve the problem. One day, Miss Wei came into the classroom with some fruits, such as apples,bananas,and oranges. She said: “Today we are going to learn the names of the fruits. You can eat the fruits if you can tell me their names in English . ”All the students listened carefully and studied hard . Someone even stood up to answer questions. Class was over ,and the fruits were all eaten. From then on ,I am more and more interested in English, and I want to say from my heart: “ Thank you, Miss Wei!”

As long as everyone sacrificed a little love, the world will become a better future. We should love each other, the world will become better.

By my side everywhere people care for each other, which is a stranger to help me remember.

Nine years old that year summer vacation, I went to aunts house with two little cousin under 6 years old, only that thing happened.

I remember one day, I and several friends, two cousin when running in the back garden of an alley, saw a shabby umbrella. We looked curiously umbrella, playing a great, one by one to the other side of the umbrella. I are running forward, suddenly, a large stone stumbled me, me a stumble and fall down, a sharp and long thing cut my knee, I climbed up a look, and screamed; oh, my gosh! "A deep and thick wound is bleeding. Im nasty, I cry of pain, voice through several alley. Friend and cousin asked; what happened to you? We go to look for a person to come and save you. "I nodded. Aunt out busy and cant go to her. Is friend and cousin all have someone, neighbor aunt heard, saw I was bleeding knees, immediately turn out the medicine cabinet, carrying. She become a cabinet dig out a bottle of tincture of iodine, dip in with cotton, daub on my wound. Bullet, I looked at the aunt, her head sweat pour, return in mouth muttered; you is how to return a responsibility? Injuries like this is very serious... "I touched, gently said. thank you, aunt! "She is wound therapy for me, not to listen to me. In a short time, wound fully dressed. When I was about to thank aunt, she walked away, walked and said; you be careful next time, dont want a scar! "My tearful, others noisily said what, I also dont listen.

Later, my knee still left a scar, I will never forget the cold appearance, inner passion neighbor aunt of high character.

Out of the hand of our love, let us love each other.

只要人人都献出一点爱，世界将变成美好的未来。我们应该相互关爱，这个世界才会变的美好。

在我身边处处有人互相关爱，其中一位陌生人帮助我的是记忆深刻。

九岁那年的暑假，我去姑姑家带两个六岁以下的小表弟，才发生了那件事。

记得有一天，我和几位小伙伴、两个表弟在后花园的小巷奔跑时，看见了一把破烂不堪的雨伞。我们几个好奇地望望雨伞，一下玩性大发，一个接一个跳到伞的另一边去。我也正在向前跑，突然，一块大石头绊住了我，我一个踉跄，跌了下去，一根又尖又长的东西划伤了膝盖，我爬起来一看，惊呼;‘‘天啊!’’一条又深又粗的伤口正在不停地流血。我急了，疼痛难忍的我嚎啕大哭，声音穿过了好几条巷子。小伙伴和表弟问;‘‘你怎么样了?我们去找人来救你。’’我点了点头。姑姑出去忙了，不能求助于她。正在小伙伴和表弟满世界找人的时候，邻居阿姨闻声出来，一看见我正在淌血的膝盖，马上翻出医药箱，提着跑了过来。她从医药箱里翻出了一瓶碘酒，用棉花蘸一下，涂抹在我的伤口上。我咬咬牙，望了一下阿姨，她头上大汗满淋，嘴里还喃喃地说;‘‘你是怎么回事?伤成这样是很严重的……’’我感动了，轻轻地说;‘‘谢谢您，阿姨!’’她正在为我的伤口治疗，无心去听我的话。不一会儿，伤口完全包扎好了。我正要感谢阿姨时，她却走远了，边走边说;‘‘你下次小心点儿，希望别留下疤痕呀!’’我的眼泪夺眶而出，别人七嘴八舌地说些什么，我也听不进去了。

后来，我的膝盖上还是留了伤疤，我永远都不会忘记那位外表冷酷，内心热情的品德高尚的邻居阿姨。

伸出我们的友爱之手，让我们互相关爱。

My best friend is Xiao Yi. She has short hair. She has two big eyes and a small mouth. She is tall and thin. She lives on the tenth floor of a tall building. There are five people in her family.

Xiao Yi likes to do sports. She likes to play badminton and volley ball. Her favourite color is pink. Her favorite food is fish and vegetables, because they are healthy. Her hobby is reading books and riding a bike. She often plays the computer or goes shopping on the weekend. Sometimes we go to KFC together. We go there by car.

I like my best friend—XiaoYi. We are good friends.