¡Mira que luna......! Look at that moon....! Resources for learning English: Off the hook

!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

Friday, January 6, 2012

Off the hook

Has the industry been let off the hook?

Has the battle to get sustainable fish on to the consumer's agenda - and plates - been hijacked by the fish industry? I wrote a story (Seafood lobby's fury at 'Stinky Fish' ads) for Sunday's Observer about the row betweenWWF, the Marine Stewardship Council and their fish industry backers.

You can find a sadly muted version of Stinky, a noisome and mouthy glove-puppet at, Panda.org, though it's beyond my technical abilities to find all but a few traces on YouTube of the viral video that caused all the offence. Any ideas?

deep-seated discuss
Definition:	(adjective) (Used especially of ideas or principles) deeply rooted; firmly fixed or held.
Synonyms:	deep-rooted, implanted, ingrained,planted
Usage:	He divined the fanatical love of freedom in her, the deep-seated antipathy for restraint of any sort.

misconstrue
Definition:	Interpret in the wrong way.
Synonyms:	be amiss, misapprehend, misconceive, misunderstand, misinterpret

¡Mira que luna......! Look at that moon....! Resources for learning English