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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
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
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fight‧er [countable]
ReplyDelete1 also fighter plane/aircraft/jet a small fast military plane that can destroy other planes:
He was shot down by enemy fighters.
a fighter pilot
2 someone who fights, especially as a sport
3 someone who keeps trying to achieve something in difficult situations:
James is a fighter - he never gives up.
➔ firefighter, freedom fighter
WORD FOCUS: plane
similar words: airplane also aeroplane British English, aircraft
planes that carry people: passenger plane, airliner, jumbo
a military plane: warplane, bomber, fighter
people on a plane: pilot, co-pilot, captain, flight crew, cabin crew, passenger, flight attendant, steward, air hostess
the place where a plane lands or takes off: runway, the tarmac, airport, aerodrome BrE old-fashioned
plane
➔ See also plane
Definition from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Advanced Learner's Dictionary.