!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
A xeriscape is a type of garden or landscape that relies on drought-tolerant plants so that watering is kept to a minimum or eliminated. The prefix "xeri" comes from the Greek word "xeros," which means "dry." The word "xeriscaping" originated in Colorado from a partnership among the Denver Water Department, Associated Landscape Contractors of Colorado and Colorado State University.
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Indigenous plants are those native to the locale in question. They are sometimes allowed to co-exist with lawn grass, exotic ground covers or garden vegetation, especially if they are not aggressive growers. Indeed, some homeowners favor them, growing native specimens in their landscapes either as a matter of principle or for practical reasons (e.g., they may be drought-resistant plants) -- or both.
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weed
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A weed is a wild plant that grows in gardens or fields of crops and prevents the plants that you want from growing properly.
With repeated applications of weedkiller, the weeds were overcome.
N-COUNT
2 weed weeds
Weed is a plant that grows in water and usually forms a thick floating mass. There are many different kinds of weed.
Large, clogging banks of weed are the only problem.
N-VAR
3 weed weeds weeding weeded
If you weed an area, you remove the weeds from it.
Caspar was weeding the garden.
The Hodges are busy weeding and planting.
VB
· weeding
She taught me to do the weeding.
N-UNCOUNT
4 weed
People sometimes refer to tobacco or marijuana as weed. (INFORMAL)
Two and a half years ago I gave up the evil weed.
N-UNCOUNT: also the N
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weed out
ReplyDeleteweed out weeds out; weeding out; weeded out
If you weed out things or people that are useless or unwanted in a group, you find them and get rid of them.
He is keen to weed out the many applicants he believes may be frauds.
A small group of neo-Nazis have infiltrated the ranks. We must weed them out as soon as possible.
PHR-V
= root out
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