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!Mira que luna! Look at that moon! Resources for learning English

!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

Saturday, March 26, 2011

26-03-2011. Today's collocations with the verb to spare.


spare   [spe@r, Am: sper]
I. vt

to spare a thought
to spare the time
to spare no expense



to spare sb's feelings no herir los sentimientos de alguien 
to spare sb sth ahorrar algo a alguien 
to spare no effort no escatimar esfuerzos
to go spare Brit inf volverse loco 


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  1. 1. (pardon) perdonar
    to spare sb's feelings no herir los sentimientos de alguien
    to spare sb sth ahorrar algo a alguien
    to spare no effort no escatimar esfuerzos
    2. (do without) prescindir de
    (time) disponer de
    II. adj
    1. (additional: key) de repuesto
    (room, minute) libre
    2. (remaining) sobrante
    3. liter (gaunt: build) enjuto, enjuta
    (meal) frugal, austero, austera
    to go spare Brit inf volverse loco
    III. n repuesto m

    source: Cambridge Dictionary.

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