fair-weather friend

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Sometimes you will meet fair-weather friends.
有时你会遇到不能与你共患难的朋友。
I'm a bit disappointed in John and David. It turned out they were only fair-weather friends .
我对约翰和大卫有点失望，原来他们不过是靠不住的酒肉朋友。
That boy is getting too close to those fair-weather friends. We need to get him back on the right track.
那个孩子和一些酒肉朋友越行越近，需要将他拉到正轨上来。
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The Saudis remain at best fair-weather friends to the US, while Israel's strength or weakness directly impacts US national security and geopolitical interests.
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What does seem predictable, however, is that at some point these arms will wind up in the hands of people who are not even our fair-weather friends.
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It could be that these fair-weather (if not actually false) friends have been encouraged in their intransigence by State Department interlocutors — many of whom appear to share Franco- Russian-Chinese hostility to the Bush goal of regime change in Iraq — to believe that the President will accede to efforts to dumb-down the U.S.-drafted resolution.
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someone who is a good friend when it is easy to be one and who stops being one when you are having problems