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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

Thursday, April 21, 2011

English words with pictures. Sword. 21-04-2011.


sword [countable]
1 a weapon with a long pointed blade and a handle
2
 a/the sword of Damocles
literary a bad thing that might happen at any time:
The treaty hung like a sword of Damocles overFrench politics.
3
 put somebody to the sword
literary to kill someone with a sword
4
 turn/beat swords into ploughshares
literary to start using money, equipment, and skills for peaceful purposes rather than for fighting
➔ cross swords (with somebody)
 at cross1 (16)
 ; ➔ double-edged sword
 at double-edged (1)
Definition from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Advanced Learner's Dictionary.
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