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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, May 3, 2014

Should doctors tell people they’re dying? Why soft-pedaling the grim reality could help patients live longer | National Post

Should doctors tell people they’re dying? Why soft-pedaling the grim reality could help patients live longer | National Post:


soft-pedal    
    soft-pedal   soft-pedals   soft-pedalling   soft-pedalled
If you soft-pedal something, you deliberately reduce the amount of activity or pressure that you have been using to get something done or seen.
   He refused to soft-pedal an investigation into the  scandal.
VB  (AM) soft-pedaling, soft-pedaled

to withhold  ocultar
withhold    
    withhold   withholds   withholding   withheld
If you withhold something that someone wants, you do not let them have it. (FORMAL)
   Police withheld the dead boy's name yesterday until relatives could be told.
   Financial aid for Britain has been withheld.
   The captain decided to withhold the terrible news even from his officers.
VB

    · withholding
   The withholding of property from the market may cause prices to be higher than normal.
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