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正确答案：But not all acquaintances are friends. We come to know many people either in the way of business or by mere chance—say having been at the same table at a dinner party. We may be on nodding or hand-shaking terms look up or correspond with each other on business call each other "friend" sometimes write to each other with the salutation of "Dear So-and-So" etc. All these are in fact nothing but civilities of social life as hypocritical as the polite formula dunshou (kowtow) or baibai (a hundred greetings) used after the signature in old-fashioned Chinese letter-writing. We may call them social intercourse but they seem to have very little in common with genuine friendship.
But not all acquaintances are friends. We come to know many people either in the way of business or by mere chance—say, having been at the same table at a dinner party. We may be on nodding or hand-shaking terms, look up or correspond with each other on business, call each other "friend", sometimes write to each other with the salutation of "Dear So-and-So", etc. All these are, in fact, nothing but civilities of social life, as hypocritical as the polite formula dunshou (kowtow) or baibai (a hundred greetings) used after the signature in old-fashioned Chinese letter-writing. We may call them social intercourse, but they seem to have very little in common with genuine friendship. 解析：第二句中，译文把原文中的原因状语译为英文中的介词短语“in the way of business or by mere chance”，表达更为简洁，符合英语的表达习惯；另外，译文在处理“如……”的例子时，用英语的衔接方法“say”引出，与全文的文体保持一致。第三句中，译文用“on…terms”表达出“见面时点头或握手”这种关系，从而把原文中所缺省的含义表达出来；另外，译文把“仁兄”、“顿首”、“百拜”这些汉语文化专项词译为“Dear So-and-So”，“dunshou (kowtow)…‘baibai(a hundred greetings)”，用相关文化信息表达出了它们的含义；再者，译文把“客套”译为“civilities”，把“仪式”译为“the polite formula”，把“虚伪”转换为形容词译为“hypocritical”，翻译准确、到位。最后一句中，泽文增加转折连词“but”，表达出汉语所体现的逻辑关系，使得句子意思表达清晰。