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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, March 18, 2014

to beat up: learning English while smiling

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beat up        
    1 beat up   beats up; beating up; beaten up
If someone beats a person up, they hit or kick the person many times.
   Then they actually beat her up as well.
   The government supporters are beating up anyone they suspect of favouring the demonstrators.
PHR-V  The form beat is used in the present tense and is the past tense

    2 beat up   beats up; beating up; beaten up
If you beat yourself up about something, you worry about it a lot or blame yourself for it. (INFORMAL)
   Tell them you don't want to do it any more. Don't beat yourself up about it.
   I don't beat myself up. I don't deal with things I can't handle.
PHR-V  The form beat is used in the present tense and is the past tense

    · beating-up   beatings-up
   There had been no violence, no beatings-up until then.
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