nearest and dearest

基本解釋

Those who are nearest and dearest to us,those whom we trust with
那些我們最親密，最親愛的人，那些我們托付幸福和名譽(yù)的人，也有可能背叛他們的信仰。
This gave friends has a new definition, they are not your nearest and dearest but friends allow you to build out your context – building out who you are.
隨即，在這些以組爲(wèi)中心的基礎(chǔ)上，設(shè)計(jì)“me& my friends”的功能，這種功能可以使人們對(duì)自己的朋友作新的定義，他們可能竝不完全是你最親近的朋友，但這些“朋友”卻能夠搆造出一個(gè)真實(shí)的你（譯者注：所謂的物以類聚，人以群分）。
Stanford sociologist Mark Granovetter discovered that many people find jobs not through their nearest and dearest but from "weak" connections: acquaintances and friends of friends.
斯坦福社會(huì)學(xué)家Mark Granovetter發(fā)現(xiàn)許多人竝不是通過他們最近和最親的人找到工作，而是通過“微弱的”人際關(guān)系：泛泛之交和朋友的朋友。

Survive beyond that period and you could still live a life without being a nuisance to your nearest and dearest.
ECONOMIST: Jeanne Calment