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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

Monday, September 12, 2011

DAILY UPDATED VOCABULARY WITH PICTURES. CUP.



  • cup
  • 1

    for drinking

     [countable] a small round container, usually with a handle, that you use to drink tea, coffee etc[↪ saucer]:
  • Mathew picked up the cup and sipped his coffee.
  • She put her cup and saucer down on the table.
  • tea/coffee cup
  • Helen took the coffee cups into the kitchen.
  • paper/plastic/china etc cup
  • They drank cheap wine from plastic cups.
  • 2

    drink

     [countable] the liquid contained inside a cup
  • cup of
  • Let's go and have a cup of coffee.
  • Will you stay for a cup of tea?
  • Would you like another cup?
  • 3

    amount of liquid/food

     [countable]
  • a) a unit used in the US for measuring food or liquid in cooking, equal to eightfluid ounces or 237 millilitres:
  • Mix the butter with 1 cup of powdered sugar until light and fluffy.
  • b) also cupful the amount of liquid or food that a cup can hold:
  • Breakfast consisted of half a cup of milk and a dry biscuit.
  • 4

    sport competition

  • a) [countable] a specially shaped silver container, often with two handles, that is given as a prize in a competition, especially a sports competition:
  • The president of the club came to present the cup to the winners.
  • b) [singular] a sports competition in which a cup is given as a prize:
  • They've won the European Cup twice.
  • Germany's World Cup team
  • 5

    round thing

     [countable] something round and hollow that is shaped like a cup:
  • The flowers' white petals contrast handsomely with their lemon-yellow cups.
  • acorn cups
  • cup of
  • She held it in the cup of her hand.
  • 6

    golf

     [countable] American English a hole in the ground that you have to try to hit the ball into in the game of golf
  • 7

    clothing

     [countable]
  • a) the part of a bra that covers a woman's breast
  • b) American English a jockstrap
  • 8

    alcohol

     [uncountable and countable] British English a mixed alcoholic drink:
  • He's gone to get me some fruit cup.
  • 9

     not be your cup of tea

    spoken to not be the type of thing that you like:
  • Jazz just isn't my cup of tea - I prefer classical music.
  • 10

     in your cups

    British English old-fashioned drunk, or when drunk:
  • By the time Anthony arrived, Richard was already deep in his cups.
  • eggcup
  • Definition from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 
  • Advanced Learner's Dictionary.

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