befriend[bi'frend]

• vt.
  • 对…以朋友态度相待，与…交朋友，亲近：

    Hope befriended every stranger he met.

    霍普对他遇到的每个陌生人都以朋友相待。

    Faith was one of the few people in the class willing to befriend a new freshman.

    费思是班里愿意与新来的一年级新生交朋友的少数人之一。

  • 帮助，照顾，扶助：

    We are willing to befriend the weak and the poor.

    我们愿意扶助弱者与穷人。

    We befriended her when she first arrived in Beijing as a guest.

    她初到北京作客时，我们如同朋友一般地照顾她。