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!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
plan‧et [countable]
ReplyDelete1 a very large round object in space that moves around the sun or another star:
Mercury is the smallest of all the planets.
Is there life on other planets?
the future of Planet Earth
! Do not say 'in a planet'. Say on a planet.
2
somebody is (living) on another planet
, what planet is somebody on? spoken used humorously to say that someone's ideas are not at all practical or sensible:
He thinks motherhood is glamorous - what planet is he on?
3
the planet
the world - used especially when talking about the environment:
a safer future for the planet
—planetary adjective [only before noun]
the planetary system
WORD FOCUS: space
vehicles used in space: spaceship, spacecraft, rocket, (space) shuttle, probe, satellite, space station
someone who travels in space: astronaut, cosmonaut Russian
parts of a rocket's journey: countdown, launch, blast-off/take-off/lift-off, leaving the earth's atmosphere, going into orbit, re-entering the earth's atmosphere,splashdown/touchdown
places and things in space: planet, moon, star, sun, satellite, solar system,constellation, galaxy, universe, the cosmos, black hole, quasar, comet, meteor,asteroid
the study of space: astronomyspace
➔ See also SPACE
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