現在各類社交網站都有“加好友”的功能，而且friending一詞在幾年前就已是網絡流行熱詞。可是你知道嗎？這個詞最早是大文豪莎士比亞發明的哦。

Friending means to act as the friend of someone or to include (someone) 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“將某人在社交網站上加為好友”。

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.

這個詞最早來源于莎士比亞戲劇《哈姆雷特》第一場第五幕中的一句對白：像哈姆雷特這樣貧苦的人，要怎樣向你表達他的愛意和友情呢。

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

這個說法被人們忽視了好幾百年，直到2004年社交網站Facebook迅猛發展，friending（加好友）一詞才被廣泛使用。

（中國日報網英語點津 Helen）