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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

Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Compass



com‧pass
1 [countable] an instrument that shows directions and has a needle that always points north:
a map and compass

compass points/points of the compass (=the marks on a compass that show you north, south, east, west etc)
2 [countable] also compasses a V-shaped instrument with one sharp point and a pen or pencil at the other end, used for drawing circles or measuring distances on maps
3 [uncountable] formal the area or range of subjects that someone is responsible for or that is discussed in a book
compass of
Within the brief compass of a single page, the author covers most of the major points.
Definition from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Advanced Learner's Dictionary.
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