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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

Saturday, February 11, 2012

CUID ADVANCED COURSE: (09-02-2012) Advanced vocabulary: riff-raff

RIFF-RAFF in context, translated into Spanish: http://www.linguee.es/espanol-ingles/search?source=auto&query=riff-raff

riff-raff  (The free dictionary)

riff-raff
noun rabbleundesirablesscumhoi polloi, dregs of society, canaille (French)ragtag and bobtail That helps to keep out the riff-raff.

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

riff-raff [ˈrɪfræf] N → gentuza fchusma f
and all the riff-raff of the neighbourhood → y todos los sinvergüenzas del barrio

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
Picture source: rankinbass.com

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