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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, December 4, 2011

Daily updated vocabulary with pictures: barrier


bar‧ri‧er [countable]
1 a rule, problem etc that prevents people from doing something, or limits what they can do:
the removal of trade barriers (=something such as a tax that makes trade between countries difficult)
barrier to
Problems with childcare remain the biggest barrier to women succeeding at work.
barrier between
barriers between doctors and patients
The language barrier (=the inability to talk with someone because you speak a different language) makes debate impossible.
2 a type of fence or gate that prevents people from moving in a particular direction:
Crowds burst through the barriers and ran onto the pitch.
3 a physical object that keeps two areas, people etc apart
barrier between
The mountains form a natural barrier between the two countries.
4

 the 10-second/40% etc barrier

a level or amount of 10 seconds, 40% etc, that is seen as a limit which it is difficult to get beyond:
I'm hoping to crash the 20-second barrier in the final and get a bronze.

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