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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

Thursday, December 15, 2011

high



high comparative higher, superlative highest
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  • from bottom to top
  • measuring a long distance from the bottom to the top [≠ low]:
  • This is the highest mountain in Japan.
  • The camp was surrounded by a high fence.
  • 100 feet/30 metres etc high
  • waves up to 40 metres high
  • a ten-foot high statue
  • How high is the Eiffel Tower?
  • chest/waist/knee etc high (=as high as your chest etc)
  • The grass was knee-high.
  • ! Do not use high to describe people, animals, trees, plants, and narrow things of above average height. Use tall: You're getting very tall (NOT You're getting very high). | tall buildings (NOT high buildings) ➔ see usage note big1







Definition from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 
Advanced Learner's Dictionary.
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