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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

Sunday, August 14, 2011

BROKEN.


  • broken
  • 1

    piece of equipment

    not working properly:
  • The CD player's broken again.
  • Do you know how the phone got broken (=became broken)?
  • 2

    object

    in small pieces because it has been hit, dropped etc:
  • Mind the broken glass.
  • Wrap it up well so it doesn't get broken (=become broken) in the mail.
  • 3

    bone

    cracked because you have had an accident:
  • a badly broken leg
  • Gibbs had an X-ray which revealed no broken bones.
  • 4

    not continuous

    interrupted and not continuous:
  • a broken white line
  • a long noisy night of broken sleep
  • 5

    person

    extremely weak mentally or physically because you have suffered a lot:
  • He returned from the war a broken man.
  • 6

     broken English/French etc

    if you speak in broken English, French etc, you speak slowly and make a lot of mistakes because you only know a little of the language
  • 7

     broken home

    a family that no longer lives together because the parents havedivorced:
  • The majority of offenders do not come from broken homes.
  • 8

     broken marriage

    a marriage that has ended because the husband and wife do not live together any more
  • 9

     a broken heart

    a feeling of extreme sadness, especially because someone you love has died or left you:
  • I reckon she died of a broken heart.
  • Definition from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 
  • Advanced Learner's Dictionary.

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