!Mira que luna! Look at that moon! Resources for learning English
Fernando Olivera: El rapto.- TEXT FROM THE NOVEL The goldfinch by Donna Tartt (...) One night we were in San Antonio, and I was having a bit of a melt-down, wanting my own room, you know, my dog, my own bed, and Daddy lifted me up on the fairgrounds and told me to look at the moon. When "you feel homesick", he said, just look up. Because the moon is the same wherever you go". So after he died, and I had to go to Aunt Bess -I mean, even now, in the city, when I see a full moon, it's like he's telling me not to look back or feel sad about things, that home is wherever I am. She kissed me on the nose. Or where you are, puppy. The center of my earth is you". The goldfinch Donna Tartt 4441 English edition
jam
ReplyDelete1food [uncountable and countable] a thick sweet substance made from boiled fruit and sugar, eaten especially on bread [↪ jelly]:
strawberry jam
a jam sandwich
jam jars
2cars/people [countable] a situation in which it is difficult or impossible to move because there are so many cars or people:
Sorry we're late. We got stuck in a traffic jam.
3machine [countable] a situation in which a machine does not work because something is stopping a part from moving:
It caused a jam in the printer.
4difficult situation [countable usually singular] informal a difficult situation
(be/get) in/out of/into a jam
We became friends after he helped me out of a jam.
5music [countable]
a) a jam session
b) a song or piece of music, especially one by a rap or rock group
6 kick out the jams American English informal to play rock music loudly and with a lot of energy or emotion:
Make no mistake - these guys know how to kick out the jams.
7 jam tomorrow British English informal good things someone promises you, which never happen:
There is an element of 'jam tomorrow' about some of the government's policies.
Definition from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Advanced Learner's Dictionary.