Deciding whom you choose as your friends--says as much about you--as it does them. 意思是 Deciding whom you choose as your friends shows what you are and this is the same to your friends.你选择怎样的朋友说明你是怎样的人,对你的朋友来说也同样如此.类似中文的物以类聚,人以群分吧.
He answered me warmly. He answered you warmly. He answered me as warmly as he answered you. He answered me as warmly as he does you. It says much about you. It says much about them. It says as much about you as it says about them. It says as much about you as it does them.
停顿点在friends后面,friends以前是主语,后面是谓语。全句的意思可以理解为:“选择什么样的人做朋友不仅仅表明你的好恶,也同样表明了他们的。” 本句话的核心结构是Deciding ... says, 后面再跟一个as much as 结构做say的状语,it does them 是个从句,做为介词as的宾语。这里哪个词可以翻译成好恶much about you, 直译是“关于你的...