Chapter 70

You will all find, if you haven’t found it out already, that a time comes in every human friendship when you[113] must go down into the depths¹ of yourself, and lay bare what is there to your friend, and wait in fear for his answer. A few moments may do it; and it may be that you never do it but once. But done it must be, if the friendship is to be worth the name. You must find out what is there, at the very root and bottom of one another’s hearts; and if you are at one there, nothing on earth can, or at least ought, to sunder² you.

1 depths   

n.深( depth的名词复数 )；深处；深厚；浓度

参考例句：

• Marine life was discovered at depths previously thought to be azoic. 在先前被认为没有任何生命迹象的海洋深处发现了海洋生物。
• She gazed into the murky depths of the water. 她注视着那幽暗的水底。

2 sunder   

v.分开；隔离；n.分离，分开

参考例句：

• Lightning tore the tree in sunder.闪电把树劈成两半。
• Nothing can sunder our friendship.什么也不能破坏我们的友谊。