!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
map [countable]
ReplyDelete1 a drawing of a particular area for example a city or country, which shows its main features, such as its roads, rivers, mountains etc:
According to the map we should turn left.
I'll draw a map of where we live.
on a map
I'm just trying to find Vancouver on the map.
map of
a large-scale map of Mexico City
street/road/route map
a full colour street map of Amsterdam
Do you know how to read a map (=understand the information it gives)?
2 a drawing of an area showing some kind of special feature, for example the type of rocks, weather, population etc [= chart]:
an archaeological map of the area
the colour weather map in the newspaper
political map (=one showing where political parties have power, or where countries are)
3 put something on the map to make a place famous:
It was the Olympic Games that really put Seoul on the map.
4 off the map informal a long way from any large town:
It's a small place in Nebraska. Right off the map.
➔ wipe something off the map at wipe1 (8)
Definition from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Advanced Learner's Dictionary.