文/詹姆斯·巴雷特 译/李苹

It’s been over 25 years since the first episode of Friends aired, but the show remains more popular than ever.Over the course of 236 episodes, we watched our favorite gang navigate their 20s through jobs, marriages, breakups,kids, and ultimately, for some, moving out of New York City.No two characters were the same, each bringing something different and quirky to the group.

自《老友记》第一集播出以来，已逾25 年，但如今该剧的人气更胜过往。236 集里，我们看着我们最喜欢的这群人度过他们20 多岁的岁月，经历工作、结婚、分手、生子，最终，有些人搬离纽约。没有哪两个角色是相同的，每个角色都给老友团带来了不同和离奇的东西。

2We still have so many thoughts.Were Ross and Rachel actually on a break?What if Joey and Rachel actually worked out? Was it hard to like Ross when he was dating his student? Remember when Phoebe single-handedly stopped an airplane from taking off? It all got us thinking about our order of adoration.So after much consideration, here is our definitive ranking of the Friends characters,from favorite to least favorite.

2我们仍然思绪万千。罗斯和瑞秋当时真的分手了吗？如果乔伊和瑞秋真的在一起会怎样？和学生约会的罗斯很难招人喜欢吗？还记得菲比凭一己之力阻止飞机起飞吗？如此种种都让我们思考自己的喜爱顺序。因此，经过再三考虑，以下是我们对《老友记》角色的最终排名，喜爱程度从高到低。

Rachel Green

瑞秋·格林

3没有瑞秋这个角色，还有《老友记》吗？这部剧开头，瑞秋一袭婚纱闯入中央公园咖啡馆，逃离与巴瑞的婚礼。她出身富贵，没有爸爸的信用卡就不知如何生活，注定是个要被人低估的角色。但是，我们看着这1 0季里，她克服了种种困难。她改变了自己的故事，在朋友的一点帮助下维持生活。她向我们展示，你可以不结婚就生小孩，可以追随自己心中所爱，从服务员变身拉夫劳伦的买手。最重要的是，她下了飞机，我们对此欣喜万分。瑞秋·格林，你从来不是只鞋，但或许是个钱包。

3Is there even Friends without the Rachel? The show started with her barging into the Central Perk in her wedding dress escaping her nuptials to Barry.She was the character destined to be underestimated, the one who came from privilege and didn’t know how to live without daddy’s credit card.But as we watched over 10 seasons, she defied the odds.She changed her narrative and got by with a little help from her friends.She showed us that you can have a baby without being married and follow your passion going from waitress to buyer at Ralph Lauren.And, most importantly,she got off the plane.We’re so glad she got off the plane.Rachel Green,you were never a shoe … but maybe a purse1在《老友记》开头，逃婚的瑞秋与父亲通电话说“What if I don’t wanna be a shoe?What if I wanna be a purse, you know? Or a hat!”。shoe 需要成双，而purse 或hat 则是独立的。瑞秋这样讲是在表明自己想要独立的生活。.

Monica Geller

4Leave it to Monica to make her competitive side weirdly sexy.With a glowup2glow-up 指显著改变，适用于描述外貌的积极改变。of the century, she spent adolescence obese and ignored only to shed the weight to become a healthy and amazing chef.She even cut off Phoebe’s speech at Phoebe’s own wedding rehearsal because it was too long.Her apartment was home base for the group, always with her home-cooked meals.We cried through her struggle to get pregnant, and then cheered as she started her journey as a mother to twins.

莫妮卡·盖勒

4莫妮卡把她争强好胜的一面变得莫名性感。她女大十八变，青春期时肥胖、被人忽视，却减肥成功，成为一名健康、优秀的厨师。在菲比的婚礼彩排上，她甚至因为菲比的发言太长而打断菲比。她的公寓是老友团的大本营，总有她自己做的饭菜。我们为她艰难备孕而落泪，又为她成为双胞胎的母亲而欢呼。

Joey Tribbiani

5Could he be wearing any more clothes?!3钱德勒的重音和别人不一样，总把重音放在be 上。有次乔伊和钱德勒吵架，把钱德勒的衣服都穿在身上，还模仿他的口音说：“Could I be wearing any more clothes?”。There was a part of Joey that never grew up, and his genuine innocence and excitement for life (and food)was a laugh to watch.He always knew to ask, “How you doin’?” and made it abundantly clear that he doesn’t share food.Though this daytime soap star wasn’t the brightest of the bunch (he did lock himself in his media unit, leaving his and Chandler’s belongings ready for the thieving), we love him just as much.All these years later, we’re still swooning over his admiration for Chick and Duck.

Phoebe Buffay

乔伊·崔比安尼

5他还能穿得再多点吗？ 乔伊身上有一部分总是长不大，他发自内心的纯真和对生活（以及食物）的热情让人捧腹大笑。他总是知道要问“你好吗？”，而且十分明确地表示自己从不分享食物。虽然这位日间肥皂剧明星并非这帮人中头脑最灵光的（他曾把自己锁进娱乐柜，致使他和钱德勒的财物被偷），我们还是非常爱他。多年过去，我们还是为他对“小鸡”和“小鸭”的喜爱而着迷。

菲比·布菲

6菲比不需要朋友，她我行我素，但朋友们需要她。无论做什么，她都能让怪异变得很酷。毋庸置疑，“臭臭猫”是即兴演奏。她可以说是最无私的角色，总是确保她最在乎的人得到所需的一切。她疯了似的飙车送罗斯去机场，给老友团带来幽默，让我们看剧的时候希望有个像她一样的朋友。暴风雪中，菲比的婚礼在纽约市的大街中央举行，虽出乎她的意料，但这就是她想要的一切。希望她已经找到了“弗兰基”。

6Phoebe didn’t need friends; she marched to the beat of her own drum4march to the beat of one’s own drum 我行我素。.But they needed her.In anything she did, she made it cool to be weird.“Smelly Cat” was a jam, no questions asked.She’s arguably the most selfless of the characters, always making sure those who she cared most about had everything they needed.She drove like a madwoman to get Ross to the airport.She brought humor to the group, and watching made us wish we had a friend like her.Her wedding in the middle of a New York City street during a snowstorm wasn’t what she expected, yet it was everything she ever wanted.We hope she found the phalange5菲比给自己起的假名叫Regina Phalange。phalange 是“指骨；趾骨”，因为生僻且发音怪异，多次被菲比拿来当姓氏。.

Janice Hosenstein

7Oh...my...God … We know what you’re thinking: Why is Janice so high on this list? The real question is, why not? Janice was an instrumental character who threw everything off balance.She managed to have Chandler wrapped around her finger with her...charm?Definitely her charm.But what’s so recognizable about her is that we all know a “Janice” in our lives.She’s a loose cannon6loose cannon 大炮（指举止无法预料的知名人士）。who means well, is lovable,and will always find one at the most inopportune times (like seeing Rachel in labor).While we’re glad that she and Chandler didn’t work out (and that she didn’t buy the house next to Chandler and Monica), their awkward love affair is something that’s hard to forget, even if we try.

Ross Geller

8He’s fine, everyone.He’s fine!Takes fajitas out of oven without oven mitts on.Ross was the big brother of the group.He had a side of cool, but three more sides of nerd.He never failed to remind people that he was a doctor (of paleontology).He never really mastered his love life.From his first wife leaving him for a woman, to cheating and messing things up many times with Rachel (or were they on a break?),to saying Rachel’s name at the altar in London next to his fiancée, Emily, this guy couldn’t catch a break.It must have been learning from all those mistakes that he knew to chase Rachel down at the airport, finally getting her back.

珍妮斯·霍森施泰因

7我的……天……哪！我们知道你在想什么：为什么珍妮斯排名这么高？关键问题是，为什么不能呢？珍妮斯是打破一切平衡的关键角色。她将钱德勒玩弄于股掌，用的是她的……魅力？当然是魅力。但她最有辨识度的一点是，我们身边都有一位“珍妮斯”。她为人冒失，但心怀善意、招人喜欢，总会在最不合时宜的时候撞见别人的尴尬瞬间（比如遇见瑞秋分娩）。虽然我们很高兴她和钱德勒分手了（以及没买钱德勒和莫妮卡隔壁的房子），但很难忘记他们的尴尬恋情，尽管我们试图忘记。

罗斯·盖勒

8各位，他很好！他很好！他不戴烤箱手套就能把墨西哥卷从烤箱里拿出来。罗斯是老友团里的老大哥，他一分酷，三分呆，一举一动都在提醒别人，他是个（古生物学）博士。他从没真正掌握自己的爱情，从第一任妻子为了一个女人而离开他，到出轨、多次和瑞秋分手（他们是分手了吗？），再到伦敦婚礼上在未婚妻艾米莉旁边喊出瑞秋的名字，这家伙没能交上好运。他一定是从这些错误中得到教训，才知道去机场追瑞秋，最后挽回瑞秋。

Chandler Bing

9You could always depend on Chandler for interesting humor, ongoing banter, and sarcastic comments.But understanding his career? That was another story.It wasn’t until his stint in Tulsa that his job became clear (statistical analysis and data reconfiguration).In that same vein, it wasn’t until Monica and Chandler actually got together in London that we could imagine such a dream relationship.They proved that opposites do attract and that old friends make the best lovers.His friendship with Joey was more than wholesome,and we may or may not have teared up when Chandler made sure Joey would have his own room in his new house.Bad jokes aside, Chandler has a soft spot that is so kind.■

钱德勒·宾

9你总能见识到钱德勒的幽默风趣、接连不断的戏谑和冷嘲热讽的评论。但是你了解他的职业吗？那是另一回事了。直到他在塔尔萨就职，他的工作才变得明朗（统计分析和数据重构）。同样，直到莫妮卡和钱德勒在伦敦真的走到一起，我们才能想象这样一份理想的恋爱关系。他们证明，性格悬殊的两人确实相互吸引，老友是最好的情侣。他和乔伊的友谊非常健康向上，钱德勒确保自己的新家有乔伊的房间时，我们或许热泪盈眶了吧。撇开蹩脚笑话不谈，钱德勒内心柔软、善良。 □