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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

Monday, July 2, 2012

roller, chimney, live vest, toothpaste



  • roll‧er [countable]
  • 1 a piece of equipment consisting of a tube-shaped piece of wood, metal etc that rolls over and over, used for painting, crushing, making things smoother etc:
  • a paint roller
  • a garden roller
  •  steamroller1 (1)
  • 2 [usually plural] a tube-shaped piece of metal or wood, used for moving heavy things that have no wheels:
  • The boats are taken down to the sea on rollers.
  • 3 a small plastic or metal tube used for making hair curl [= curler]
  • 4 a long powerful wave:
  • great Atlantic rollers
  • chim‧ney [countable]
  • 1 a vertical pipe that allows smoke from a fire to pass out of a building up into the air, or the part of this pipe that is above the roof:
  • We can't light a fire because the chimney hasn't been swept.
  • 2 a tall vertical structure containing a chimney [↪ smokestack]:
  • a factory chimney
  • 3 technical a narrow opening in tall rocks or cliffs that you can climb up
  • 4

    smoke like a chimney

     if someone smokes like a chimney, they smoke a lot of cigarettes or tobacco - used humorously
life vest [countable]
American English a life jacket
  • tooth‧paste [uncountable]
  • a thick substance that you use to clean your teeth

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