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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, June 28, 2012

balloon



  • bal‧loon [countable]
  • 1 an object made of brightly-coloured thin rubber, that is filled with air and used as a toy or decoration for parties:
  • Can you help me blow up these balloons?
  • He burst the balloon in my face.
  • 2 also hot air balloon a large bag of strong light cloth filled with gas or heated air so that it can float in the air. It has a basket hanging below it for people to stand in.:
  • a balloon flight over the Yorkshire Moors
  • 3 the circle drawn around the words spoken by the characters in a cartoon[= bubble]
  • 4

    a balloon payment

    American English money borrowed that must be paid back in one large sum after several smaller payments have been made:
  • a $10,000 balloon payment due in two years
  • 5

    the balloon goes up

    British English informal used to refer to the moment when a situation starts to become really bad:
  • We'll have to get out of there before the balloon goes up.

  • ➔ go down like a lead balloon

    at lead3 (3)
Definition from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Advanced Learner's Dictionary.
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