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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, May 12, 2011

Daily updated English vocabulary with pictures. Nibble. 2011-12-05.


nib‧ble
1 [intransitive and transitive] to eat small amounts of food by taking very small bites:
He nibbled the biscuit cautiously.
nibble at
There's a fish nibbling at my bait.
nibble on
He nibbled on a piece of raw carrot.
2 [transitive] to gently bite someone in a loving way:
He began to nibble her ear affectionately.

nibble away at something 

phrasal verb
to take away small amounts of something so that the total amount is gradually reduced:
All these expenses are nibbling away at our savings.
The Scottish National Party is beginning to nibble away at Labour's majority.
Definition from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Advanced Learner's Dictionary.
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