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Hannover hit Bundesliga heights
Hit heights = atinge as alturas
Protest banners provided the backdrop to victory
Brackdrop = pano de fundo
Fans rail against the club president’s plan to take majority control of the club
Rail against = protestar
A second win from two games sent them into the international break in the fledgling table’s top four.
Formas da palavra:fledglings
1.SUBSTANTIVO CONTÁVEL
Afledglingis a young bird that has itsfeathersand islearningtofly.
Sinônimos:chick,nestling,young birdMais sinônimos de fledgling
2.ADJECTIVO[ADJECTIVEnoun]
You usefledglingtodescribea person, organization, or system that is new or without experience.
…the sound practical advice he gave to fledgling writers.
…Russia’s fledgling democracy
the ball is struck with the side of the mallet, rather than the end.
Strike Struck struck (atingir)
Mallet: martelo de jogar polo
The writer, having never realised this before, feels obliged to abandon his life’s work on the spot.
Spot = lugar
It’s a chillingly familiar feeling.
chillingly{adv.}; Friamente;assustadoramente
chill{subst.}: resfriado
To chill{v.}: gelar;desencorajar; relevar; descontrair
to chill{v. tr.}: resfriar
If you’re a native speaker, the hierarchy is ingrained in you.
Ingrained = arraigada
I’ve duly ordered a copy of the book
Duly = devidamente
The Dictionary of American Regional English istrying to encourage podcasters to employ endangered American wordsand expressions in the hope of preserving them.
Endangered: ameaçadas de extinção
This strikes me as a little bit hasty.
Strikes = me parece Hasty= precipitado/apressado
I don’t really fancy yolo’s chances in the long term.
Fancy= creio/suponho
I don’t really fancy yolo’s chances in the long term. We put up with the expression “you only live once” for a long time without anybody deciding it required a dedicated acronym.
Put to= tolerar
As a result, President Bush was able to cross off the 10th and final item on his administration’sbucket list.
A list of things (not necessarily written down) you want to do before kick the bucket (die)
Bucket = balde
Kick the bucket = “bater as botas”
I was well into my second decade of journalism before I found out that “enormity” is a synonym for monstrosity or wickedness – not hugeness.
wickedness: maldade
Wickednessis generally considered a synonym forevilorsinfulness. Among theologians and philosophers, it has themore specific meaningof evil committedconsciouslyand offree will.It can also be considered the quality or state of being wicked.
The term wickedness dates back to the 1300s and is derived from the wordswickedand-ness. Wicked is an extended form of the term wick meaning bad and is also associated with the Old English termwiccameaning wizard. There is not a corresponding verb to the term, but the term wretched is also associated with the term. The term -ness is a word forming element denoting action, quality or state and is typically added to an adjective or past participle to make it an abstract noun. It is an Old English term and also comes from the Proto-Germanic termin-assuand many other cognates.
A group of fans attempting to take out an injunction to block the move have already had their application rejected by a regional court, but there’s no sense that the battle is over.
Take out = Take outno sentido de conseguir um documento oficial.
Injuction = determinação formal, liminar
A normal eyebrow has about 250 to 300 hairs.
eyebrow = sobrancelha
At first it was not too obvious, but I started to note that some conversations abruptly stopped when I arrived, I heard whispers behind my back and even a few chuckles.
chuckles = risadinhas, sorriso leve
The flip side is, of course, ignorance, the proof and possibility of being wrong.
The magician flipped the card and showed it to the public.
Flip side - o lado reverso (geralmente o negativo)
Flip - virar
The father’s frown showed he was not pleased.
My son always frowns when it is bedtime.
frown = fazer cara feia (reprovar)
Seeds of freedom near their last gasp
Gasp = suspiro
Elizabeth covered her mouth to silence a giggle.
Giggle = chuckle = risadinha
At first glance it may seem that comparing an original with an allegedly illicit copy would be enough to identify the violation
glace = vista
The glare of the computer screen may strain the eyes.
Glare = brilho
An incorrigible joker off the pitch, his permanent grin switches automatically to a frown of concentration as soon as he crosses the white line.
Grin = sorriso (forçado, não pejorativo); a wide smile
This car has a good grip on curves.
A tight grip of the tennis racket is essential.
The child gripped his mother’s hand.
GRIP:
Aderência
Aperto
Agarrar
but I will break the arms of Pharaoh, and he shall groan before him with the groanings of a deadly wounded man.
groan: gemido
The bathroom is at the end of the hallway.
Hallway: corredor
He was mumbling something that I could not hear.
mumble: resmungar
My father mutters about everything; nothing pleases him.
muttle: murmurar
President Lula stated that he would not shove the Belo Monte project “down the throats” of the indigenous
Shove = empurrar
shove something down someone’s throat = empurrar goela abaixo
I shrugged because I did not know the answer to the question
to raise your shoulders and then lower them in order to say you do not know or are not interested
I breathed a sigh of relief when the plane landed.
Sigh = suspiro
I was so angry that I slammed the door on my way out.
The leader of the opposition slams the president’s policy.
Slam: bater/criticar (informal)
to (cause to) move against a hard surface with force and usually a loud noise;
informal: to criticize
Find some dry sticks and we’ll make a campfire.
To cause something to become fixed, for example with glue or another similar substance
Although her name is Clare, her little sister called her Lali, and somehow the name stuck.
“Where shall I put these books?” “Oh, just stick them on the table for now.”
Stick: gravetos
Consertar/Colar
Pegar
To put something somewhere, especially in a not very careful way:
The vegetation is very thick in the jungle.
Thick - grosso
Wrap them in aluminium foil and keep them in the fridge, in the vegetable draw.
Wrap - embrulhar
The eggs were fresh and hence satisfactory.
Hence - consequentemente = therefore, so
(used to introduce a logical conclusion) from that fact or reason or as a result.
She conveyed the message to me.
Convey = transmitir
Below ten per cent of the total of all verbs from his four Early Modern English subperiods, but does exceed the five per cent level from about 1600 onwards.
onwards = em diante
It is much cooler in the shade.
Shade = sombra (no sentido de
Shade, therefore, denotes a general state, while shadow implies a shape.
Martin gave her a cheeky grin.
Cheeky = atrevido Grin = sorriso (forçado, não pejorativo); a wide smile
If you describe a person or their behaviour as cheeky, you think that they are slightly rude or disrespectful but in a charming or amusing way.
Dr. Johnson was one of the first lexicographers to pay close attention to what is referred to in Modern English as the phrasal verb; and he couldn’t have been any more accurate in stressing just how frequently we use them, and how dumbfounded foreigners are by them.
dumbfounded = estupefato
Why do prhasal verbs exist if there are already perfectly good single-word verbs that possess the same meaning? I really had no retort for him, but I became obsessed in finding the answer.
retort = a quick answer that is angry or funny: to return (an accusation, epithet, etc.) upon the person uttering it.
uttering = proferir/pronunciar
When producing an utterance, a speaker’s illocutionary intention is his intention to perform some illocutionary act(s) in uttering those words.
She sat through the whole meeting without uttering a word.
utter = proferir/pronunciar
utter = total utterly = totalmente
Gerard will open the debate and I will sum up
resumir = give a brief summary.
They were bragging about how easy it had been
brag = gabar
As a pronoun,onecan also function in an impersonal, objective manner, standing for the writer or for all people who are like the writer or for the average person or for all people who belong to a class.
Stand for = significa/tolera/apoia
Language is always changing, evolving, and adapting to the needs of its users.
Evolve = evoluir
The change is so slow that from year to year we hardly notice it, except to grumble every so often about the ‘poor English’ being used by the younger generation!
Grumble = reclamar
Every so often = de vez em quando
We all know a slightly different set of words and constructions, depending on our age, job, education level, region of the country, and so on.
Slightly = levemente Slight = pequeno Slightest = o menor
As young people interact with others their own age, their language grows to include words, phrases, and constructions that are different from those of the older generation. Some have a short life span (heardgroovylately?), but others stick around toaffect the languageas a whole.
Span = período
stick around= remain in or near a place (ficar de perto)
Four hundred years ago, the wordpeasewas used to refer to either a single pea or a bunch of them, but over time, people assumed thatpeasewas a plural form, for whichpeamust be the singular. Therefore, a new word,pea, was born.
Pea= ervilha
Makes it crackrather thanshatter.
Crack = quebrar/rachar
Rather than = em vez de
Shatter = estilhaçar
Rather than viewing human beings as passive subjects who were at the whims of the associations
Rather than = em vez de
At the whims = sob os caprichos
The15th AmendmentgaveAfrican-Americanstheright to votefor the first time, while the government cracked down on theKu Klux Klan.
Crack down: reprimir
I reckon he is with us at least four days out of seven.
Reckon: contar/avaliar
4 out 7: quatro de sete
The relationship between the Illinois politician and the New York editor traveled over many bumps – starting with a scandal over travel reimbursement in 1848.
Travel over bumps: passar por dificuldades
Bumps: solavancos
Reimbursement: reembolso
The relationship between the Illinois politician and the New York editor traveled over many bumps – starting with a scandal over travel reimbursement in 1848.
Travel over bumps: passar por dificuldades
Bumps: solavancos
Reimbursement: reembolso
As a newly elected Congressman, Greeley “scoured the House for ‘abuses,’ and soon hit upon the members’ prevalent habit of pocketing some ready money by charging the government for more mileage than they actually covered between their homes and Washington - since a loophole in the law enabled them to collect on the basis of circuitous routes.
To scoure: vasculhar (ou limpar)
Hit upon: deparar/descobrir/inventar/pensar (imaginar trombando numa ideia que se oferece);
Mileage: milhagem
loophole - brecha
Circuitous - tortuosos (of a route or journey) longer than the most direct way
Though a strong partisan, he voted against the bulk of his party once or twice.
Partisan - partidário
Bulk of his party = a massa do seu partido
I was often in his company thenceforward until his death, and long on terms of friendly intimacy with him, I never heard him tell an anecdote or story.
Thenceforward: daí em diante
Long: por muito tempo
A decade later, their relationship was strained again by Greeley’s support of Stephen Douglas’ campaign for reelection to the Senate
Strained: If arelationshipis strained,problemsarespoilingit.
= Tenso (showingthat someone isnervousorworried)
What do you like to do in your spare time?
Spare time = tempo livre
I was plagued by this one question: Who I am?
Plagued = atormentado Plague = tormenta/praga
I’m going to play just the first half of video for you, for the sake of time.
For the Sake of time = por causa do tempo/questão do tempo
When he was dying, he had this little fluffy dog coddled right next to him
to coddle: mimar
to protect and treat someone or something with great care
Donations are vital to our ability to reach out to people around the world.
Reach out = alcançar /ajudar
He is a shallow person who cares only about money.
Shallow = superficial
I try to imagine what would happen, if I, a forty-something, 6-feet, fat, bearded guy, would meet a young woman like Kalina in a train, lean over to her and ask her in my nicest voice: “What do you want to do before you die?”
to lean over: inclinar-se
Don’t agree to a date only out of pity
Out of a pity = por pena
You don’t owe them an explanation, but if you actually have a good reason there’s no harm in mentioning it.
Harm= prejuízo
A reader recently wrote to ask me if she should turn down a guy she thought was really great but wasn’t physically attracted to, and if so, how should she do it without being too harsh?
Turn down= recusar
Harsh: Severo/ríspido
I consulted some men in my circle of acquaintances for their take on the issue.
acquaintances: conhecidos
Take on: assumir
Take on me: preste atenção em mim
You’re a nice guy, but I’m just not into you in that way.” It’s clear and not wishy-washy, but it’s not quite as blunt as actually stating that you find him unattractive.
wishy-washy: indeciso
If yousaythat someone iswishy-washy, you arecriticalof them because their ideas are notfirmorclear.
Stating: afirmando/declarando
Blunt: brusco
Aroeira is the ideal place for a weekend break or a well deserved holiday with family, friends orasatwosome.
Twosome: casal/par/dupla
Threesome: trio
Foursome: quarteto
By the time they were grilled hard enough to hold the load without disintegrating, the doughnuts just became greasyhoboblankets
Hobo(es): someone who does not have ajobor ahouseand whomovesfrom oneplaceto another
2. a migratory worker
Greasy: gorduroso (no sentido figurado: of a person or their manner, effusively polite in a way that is felt to be insincere and repulsive.
As penance for its cruelties against the slaves, Ana Jansen would have been condemnedtorambleatthe streets of the city in the friday nights, in a covered cart pulled for decapitated horses, under the command of a coachman equally mutilated.
Penance: penitência
Ramble: vagar
Ramble on: divagar
1 walk for pleasure, typically without a definite route.
2 talk or write at length in a confused or inconsequential way.
When you pay for something, it kind of holds you accountable
holdsomeoneaccountable: tornar responsável
Toholdsomeoneaccountablemeans the person is being asked to explain why they did (or didn’t do) something. In our personal lives, weholdpeopleaccountableall the time.
Accountabilityis not a form of punishment. … The word “accountable” means answerable for actions or decisions.
Suzy tossed her bag onto the sofa
Toss:Throw (something) somewhere lightly, easily, or casually.
For example: “Suzy tossed her bag onto the sofa
Suzy tossed her bag onto the sofa
Toss:Throw (something) somewhere lightly, easily, or casually.
For example: “Suzy tossed her bag onto the sofa
Controversy surrounds the recipient, the fate of her sons, and the authorship of the letter.
Recipient: destinatário
Fate: destino
Snow had blocked off several streets.
Interditar
he lifted his trophy over his head
Lift = levantar
Gloucester’s Karin ‘Kaz’ Tappouras loves to run a marathon, some much so, that she runs one every weekend.
So much so = tanto é assim
House and Senate leaders have sketched out a deal on paid leave and minimum wage weeks ahead of the next legislative session.
Sketched out = esboçado
Paid leave = licença (férias) remunerada
Malta chief of staff resigned over journalist murder
Resigned= pediu demissão
With the help of ketamine, researchers rewrite memories in a bid to curb harmful drinking
Bid = tentativa/oferta Curb= amenizar Harmful= nocivo/prejudicial
With the help of ketamine, researchers rewrite memories in a bid to curb harmful drinking
Bid = tentativa/oferta Curb= amenizar Harmful= nocivo/prejudicial
Lectures were called off so students could cram for finals
the ashtray by the bed wascrammed withcigarette butts
it’s amazing how you’ve managed tocrameveryonein
they all crammed into the car
Cram: estudar em cima da hora
Cram: Enter/force (people or things) into a place or container that is or appears to be too small to contain them.
Lecture: palestra
Call off: cancelada
Ashtray: ash cinza, tray bandeja - cinzeiro
If you keep missing classes, you’re going to end up failing your grade and having to repeat it.
End up: vai acabar (falhando na prova)
In a standing position, I want you to bend down and put your arms either side of your feet. Jumping back with your foot, I want you to go into a push-up position and keep your core tight
Standing = de pé
Bend down = curvar-se
Stiff penalty for crashing drunk into cornfield near Stratford
Stiff= rígido/duro
Is it OK to smack your child? Australians are divided, but the practice is dying out
Smack = bater
Dying out = acabar
He had survived World War II as a child and later served in the army himself, and the experience seemed to harden him.
Harden = endurecer
Shecarrieda very bulkypackageon thebus
Bulky: toobigand taking up too muchspace
You won’t bewarmenough in that flimsydress.
Wespentthenightin a flimsywoodenhut.
Flimsy: frágil
Hut: cabana/barraca/choupana
storming out of her room, she ran slap into Luke
Storm out: To leave or exit (some place) in a very angry and animated manner
One possibility is to require corporal punishers to attend, as punishment, specialised programs focused on family violence, with a view to bringing home to them the nature and effects of corporal punishment.
To attend: comparecer
Asthe teacherwent around collectinghomework, i started to getspicy armpits.
spicy armpits: The uncomfortablefeeling youget in yourarmpitswhen you feelanxiousor nervous.
Suit wrinkled from sitting
Terno enrugado de sentar
He was legitdrivingthecarwith all thedoorsopen.
Legit: used tomean”actually” when youwantto say that youthinksomething is verysurprisingordifficulttobelieve:
he cuddles the baby close
they cuddled together to keep out the cold
hold close in one’s arms as a way of showing love or affection.
lie or sit close and snug (confortável)
And that was probably her real reason for not testifying, not thoselameexcuses
My boss tells me a Lame joke and I laughed, because I need a raise
Lame= esfarrapada, insatisfatório, ruim (piada)
The first time I saw it sent me shivers down my spine
Shiver: arrepio
The images painted on the rock are haunting.
Haunting: assustador
She heard the car start up and the sound of the engine slowly faded into the distance.
Fade (verb): gradually grow faint and disappear - enfraquecer
to reproduce the form that enabled them to eliminate FC Seoul in the quarter-final match, the Qatariscanraise eyebrowsoncemore.
Raise eyebrows: surpreender
the biblical apologists, just because are right on this one,may”throwaparty”because there’s no total acquittal of guilt in this situation.
Throw a party: dar uma festa, have a party (sentido literal)
she watched him peel an apple with deliberate care
To peel = descascar
How do you get a toned stomach?
“’Toned’ commonlymeanshaving some muscle and lower body fat; a more athletic look. It doesn’tmeanhaving the skin pulled tight to the muscle or any anatomically impossible action. No exercise pulls the skin to the muscle, but decreasing body fat can help reduce the distance.
If you tend toholdagrudge, you don’t let it go when you feel someone’s insulted or wronged you.
If you tend toholdagrudge, you don’t let it go when you feel someone’s insulted or wronged you. I hope you won’tholdagrudgeagainst me for bringing it up.Grudgecomes from the now dead Middle English word “grutch,” which meant “to complain or grumble.” Someone who bears agrudgemight often be grouchy
When I was little I used to like sliding on thepolishedfloorin mysocks.
Slide: deslizar/escorregar
Iwas hyped upbecause I wanted to do well
Hype: excitar/estimular
put the place out of commission
Out of comission= fora de serviço
I would tell you about our entire Saturday, butto cut a long story short, we worked in the garden for over 10 hour
(cut a) long story short= encurtar história
When you receive vendor of choice after a year long of grueling vicious drawn out battle.
Vendor: fornecedor/vendedor
Grueling: exaustivo
Drawn out: prolongado
When the menstarttalkingaboutfootball, I justzoneout.
Zone out: tostoppayingattentionand nothearorseewhat is around you for ashortperiodoftime
I Sharted
Shit + fart: expel feces accidentally when breaking wind (= b.w.: fart)
The entrepreneurial model looks at a business as if it were a product sitting on a shelf and competing for the customer’s attention against a whole shelf of competing products (or business)
Shelf: prateleira
Drape individual plants with nets,pegging downthe edges”
Drape: armar
Edge: beira, aresta
Peg down: fixando
Peg: adeviceused tofastensomething into aparticularplace
Pregador (de roupa inclusive), algo que fixa (gancho, suporte)
A grasp is an act of taking, holding or seizing firmly with the hand. An example of a grasp is the handshake, wherein two people grasp one of each other’s like hands.
Grasp: agarrar, apertar, segurar
Seize: sinônimo, tb usado como aproveitar
Trim the grass using a sharp mower
Trim: make (something) neat or of the required size or form by cutting away irregular or unwanted parts (aparar)
Neat: arrumar
Mower: cortador de grama
Arsenal had a blistering start to the 2007/08 season but they crumbled under pressure
Blistering: empolgante
Crumble: desmoronou
The Tyneside outfit would go on to stretch their lead over Manchester United to 12 by the end of January.
Outfit (informal): a group of people undertaking a particular activity together, as a group of musicians, a military unit, or a business concern.
Stretch their lead (esticar a liderança) aumentar a vantagem
He lives with a lurking fear of exposure as a fraud
Lurking: remaining hidden so as to wait in ambush
Ficar à espreita
She poured a little whiskey into a glass
Poured: derramou
What Jack and Murray don’t understand is that without an Organization Chart, everything hinges on luck and good feelings,
Hinge: dobradiça
Hinge on: depender
Hinge on luck: depender da sorte
After all, their life savings are at stake.
At stake: (suas economias estavam) em jogo
Votes cast by labor unions on behalf of their members
Behalf: in the interests of a person, group, or principle.
Cast:cast (v.) c.1230, from O.N. kasta “to throw.” The noun sense of “a throw” (c.1300) carried an idea of the form the thing takes after it has been thrown, which led to varied meanings, such as “group of actors in a play” (1631). OED finds 42 distinct noun meaning and 83 verbal ones, with many sub-definitions. A cast in the eye preserves the older sense of “warp, turn,” in which it replaced O.E. weorpan (see warp), and is itself largely superseded now by throw.
And upon completing this one preparatory act, a sense of order swept through Jack and Murray. A sense of elation.
Upon: [sentido de consequência] em
Swept: swep - varrer
Elation: great happiness
I spent time indulging myself with secret feasts
Indulging: saciando
Feast: festa, banquete
Anything less than that is sheer arrogance
Sheer: pura (usado pra enfatizar)
Yououghtto visit your friends once in a while.
Oughtis different from other auxiliary verbs:itis followed by a to-infinitive.Oughtexpresses ideas such as duty, necessity and moral obligation.Itis not as forceful as must, butitis stronger than should.
Oughtto is mainly used when we talk of a moral obligation or duty.Mustis used to express the ‘need of the hour’ or necessity, which has to be done.
Employees in Virginia are “at will,” which means they can be terminated at any time for any reason and severance is not typically required. When employment ends, however, an employer may offer a severance package to an employee in exchange for the employee’s waiver of rights.
At will: à vontade
Severance: “severance package” verbas indenizatórias
Waiver of rights: renuncia de direitos
She stumbled over atoy.
Stumble: tropeçar
he was booed and heckled when he tried to address the demonstrators
Heckle: interrupt (a public speaker) with derisive (expressing contempt or ridicule) or aggressive comments or abuse
To boo: say “boo” to show disapproval or contempt (desprezo).
He steered the boat slowly toward the busy quay.
Steer: conduzir/dirigir
Quay (= kíi): cais
Shepausedto stir somemilkintohercoffee.
Stir: mexer/misturar
He was making progress, albeit rather slowly
Albeit: although (embora)
Change the skirt if it gets frazzled”
Frazzle: desgastar
The driver tip-toes as he tries to avoid slipping on the slippery road.

Tip-toes: andar na ponta dos pés
he will waive all rights to the money
Waive: renunciar
Some believe that no new laws are needed because responsible pit bull owners can be relied on to breed a mentally stable model and keep the dog out of dangerous situations.
Rely on: contar com/ confiar
Breed: raças
“I strolled around the city”
Passear
A program to give the infants the human touch they crave.
To crave: anseiam/suplicam
Check out our anti itch balm selection for the very best in unique or custom, handmade pieces from our salves & balms shops.
Itch: coceira
Balm: bálsamo
Salve: pomada/balsamo
“You’re looking quite wizened today,” is a something you should never, ever say to your grandmother, no matter how shriveled with age she might be.
Wizened: shriveled (enrugado) or wrinkled (enrugado) with age.
More recently, in the 1970s in Asia, a wizened, tough old Chinese Communist, Deng Xiaoping, was quoted as saying that “to get rich is glorious”—thereby unleashing the pent-up desire of a fifth of the world’s population and jolting China out of its age-old poverty.
Wizened: enrugado pela idade
Thereby: assim (portanto)
Pent up: reprimido
Jolting: push or shake (someone or something) abruptly and roughly.
The ambulance arrived outside, siren blaring
Blaring: soar- make or cause to make a loud, harsh (desagradável) sound.
Obviously, just pumping up the desire level—or, for that matter, extolling greed, which is different from either wealth or desire—won’t necessarily make anyone rich. Cultures that promote desire and pursue wealth do not necessarily attain it. On the other hand, cultures that preach the virtues of poverty usually get precisely what they pray for.
Pumping up: aumentando (nesse sentido)
Extolling: exaltando
Greed: ganância
Attain: succeed in achieving (something that one desires and has worked for)
It was only with humanity’s ability to produce an economic surplus that the first true wealth system became possible.
Surplus: excedente
In a satirical play performed during a famine in 1528, a character declares, “I shall kill myself.… And it will be even better, because I myself shall eat me, and so I shall die well-nourished.” Grim humor in an even grimmer era.
Grim: sombrio
Dad would have tomake do withan old car.
Make do with: se contentar
The chairman of Time Warner Telecom attributes its success in a weak economy to its “sound business fundamentals” despite the odd fact that its stock price had plummeted 90 percent in the previous twelve months.
plummeted: despencar
Odd: estranho
What exactly we mean by that term, however, remains extremely hazy.
Hazy: nebuloso
The wretched conditions of the slums
Wretched: miserável
Slum: favela
He slams the door behind him as he leaves
To slam: Shut (a door, window, or lid -tampa) forcefully and loudly.
Everywhere, as we’ll see later, attempts to change or replace an industrial-era agency spark resistance from its traditional beneficiaries and their allies.
Spark:
ignite.
“the explosion sparked a fire
Despite decades of bloodshed and internal suppression, the Soviet regime (1917–1991) never completed the industrialization that its founders promised.
Bloodshed: derramamento de sangue
As theburningplanelanded, theterrifiedpassengersscrambledforthedoor.
Scramble: se mover rapida e atrapalhadamente (triedtoreachthedoorquickly)
The country’seconomyisslowlygrindingto ahalt.
grind to a halt: tostopor nolongerworkwell
Grind: moer
Halt: bring or come to an abrupt stop.
Many users unwittingly expose their personal details to strangers online
Witting: done in full awareness or consciousness; deliberate
Unwittingly: involuntariamente
The lighter the camera, the harder it is to hold steady
Steady: firme
I leaped across the threshold.
Leap: saltar
threshold (trâshold): soleira da porta, sentido figurado: limite inicial de alguma coisa, entrada
Software managers who insist they need a long time to complete a project catch flak from bosses and from department chieftains whose work might be slowed or disrupted. On the other hand, I.T. managers who promise quick results are frequently fired when subsequent glitches impede progress.
Flak: Flak typically refers to the anti-aircraft fire coming at one from anti-aircraft guns (figurado: críticas)
Glitches: falhas (tilt, pau, bizil, informal). 1960s (originally US): of unknown origin. The original sense was ‘a sudden surge of current’, hence ‘malfunction, hitch’ in astronautical slang.
Asurge currentisa sudden increaseincurrentusually caused by a voltage imbalance.
Airfares have been slashed on mostdomesticroutes.
Slash: tocutsomeone or something with asharpbladein aquick,swingingaction: (acima, sentido figurado: cortar)
If you thought it was impossible to die of laughter and that tickling was always harmless, you’d be wrong. This horrible torture method can lead to death by aneurysm.
Tickling: fazer cócegas
Spain cut its rates by half a percent but no other country has followed suit.
Follow suit: Seguir o exemplo
Michael Tighe’s arm and head suddenly lurched into the aisle.
Lurch: tremer (left in lurch: abandonar)
Aisle: corredor
A raw material, also known as a feedstock, unprocessed material, or primary commodity, is a basic material that is used to produce goods.
Raw material: materia prima
Anderson talked about a single mom friend venting about how hard it was to get one kid ready for school in the morning while the other waited.
Venting: desafogando
Hethoughtcomputerswould be just a fad.
Fad: modismo, mania
Today, in their race to the top, competing states boast less about limestone and coal than about their great universities,.
Boast: se gabar
A firm of builders undertook the construction work
Undertake: assumir (sentido de se encarregar)
Smugglers, armed with fake papers and aided by bribed officials, slip easily past frontier guards.
Smugglers: contrabandistas
Aided: ajudado
Bribed: subornados
Slip past: To circumvent or circumnavigate someone or something in a surreptitious or inconspicuous manner; to avoid or evade someone or something
“I didn’t come here totalkabout that,” he said huffily.
huffily: agressivamente
they startedpushing and shovingpeople out of the way
Shove: empurrar (empurrão)
“I naively thought having wealth would bring happiness
Naively: ingenuamente
Navely: umbigo
Hong Kong and Bangkok tend to be lumped together in travel brochures.
(verb) Lump: put in an indiscriminate mass or group; treat as alike without regard for particulars
Noun= caroço
Brochure: folhetos
I must get hold of Vanessa to see if she can babysit.
Get hold of: to find andspeakto someone about something (entrar em contato)
It is necessary to destroy their capacity to wage war
Wage (verb): empreender/travar
carry on (a war or campaign)
Now protesters are invited to meet with these leaders and much of the fizz has gone out of the movement.
Fizz: efervescência
The photos purportedly show Nina with a lover
Supostamente
Attempts to harness solar energy
Harness: control and make use of (natural resources), especially to produce energy.
Put a harness on (a horse or other draft animal) - arrear
Noun: arreio
Mo Salah’s amazing body transformation from skinny Chelsea flop to ripped Liverpool superstar
To Rip: rasgar
Ripped: rasgado (como no português, pouca gordura no corpo, malhado)
Flop: fracasso
“there is a crisis looming”
(of an event regarded as ominous or threatening) seem about to happen.
Isiah Murrietta-Golding, fleeing the police, tumbles over a metal fence,head over heels.
To flee: fugir
To tumble: tombar
To be ‘head over heels’ is to be very excited (ou apaixonado).
In a literal sense the expression also refers to turning cartwheels (pirueta) to demonstrate one’s excitement.
Example of how language can communicate meaning even when it makes no literal sense. After all, our head is normally over our heels (calcanhares). The phrase originated in the 14th century as ‘heels over head’, meaning doing a cartwheel or somersault (cambalhota).
Their frenzied responses could include yanking foreign investments back home, restoring trade barriers, drastically reshuffling import-export patterns
Frenzied: frenético
Yanking: arrancar
Reshuffling: reorganizar
The demand for fans has soared due to the hot weather.
Soar: disparar/ subir
Tosoarmeans more than just to fly; it means to rise swiftly, to feel the wind slipping below you as you ride it higher, higher, higher. Flying is just moving through the air.Soaring, though, suggests exhilaration, even joy.
At that point, China roared into the fray, cramming even cheaper products into the crowded global market and especially into the United States.
Roar into the fray: rugiu para a briga (entrou para briga)
Cramming: force (people or things) into a place or container that is or appears to be too small to contain them (2- estudar em cima da hora). = Entuxar
Crowded: lotado
The river here is not tidal
Tidal: relativo à maré
Tide: maré
A man who has never uttered a singlecuss
Utter: proferir (pode ser ‘total’ tb)
Cuss: xingamento
A climber was killed when he plummeted 300 feet down an icy gully
Climber: alpinista
To plummet: despencar
Plummet (noun): peso, contrapeso, prumo
A move that could hasten peace talks
Hasten: acelerar/apressar
The Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s deputy director, Eugene Tattini, estimated that the event drew ten billion hits on the Internet
Deputy: delegado
Drew: de draw, sentido de conseguir, trazer
Pedestrians scurried for cover
Scurry: move hurriedly with short quick steps
early 19th century: abbreviation ofhurry-scurry, reduplication ofhurry.
One can, of course, quibble with these numbers and far-out speculations.
Quibble: queixar-se
Far-out: longínqua
Fundamentalistbeliefsholdswayoverwholedistricts,ensuringthepopularityofreligiousleaders.
Hold sway: to havepoweror a verystronginfluence:
He tucked his shirt into his trousers
Tuck: enfiar/arregaçar, dobrar
push, fold, or turn (the edges or ends of something, especially a garment (vestuário) or bedclothes) so as to hide them or hold them in place
Tucked away: esconder
Biggest and most powerful corporations have all dutifully sat in economists classrooms listening to them, poring over their texts and imbibing their key ideas.
Dutifully: obedientemente
Poring: debruçando
Imbibing: absorb or assimilate (ideas or knowledge)
That forecast, derided as wildly optimistic, was one of the more modest predictions the administration has made about the economy over the past three years.
Derided: ridicularizado
The department still appeared to be stiff-arming the media.
Stiff: rígido
Stiff-arm: tackle (enfrentar) or fend off (a person) by extending an arm rigidly.
Fend-off: defender
Fend: look after and provide for oneself, without any help from others. Middle English (in the sense ‘defend’): shortening ofdefend.
So many disparate projections are issued by economists that they are often bundled together into a “consensus forecast” in hopes that the resulting average will prove more accurate than its individual guesses.
To issue: publicar
Bundle: a collection of things or quantity of material tied or wrapped up together (pacote/feixe)
“the village is slowly being killed off by piecemeal development”
Piecemeal: characterized by unsystematic partial measures taken over a period of time. Adv: pouco a pouco. Noun: fragmentado
Flattery will get you nowhere, she quipped
Flattery: bajulação
Quip: make a witty (espirituoso) remark (observação)
= Brincadeira
In the cramped entresol over Madame’s quarters, he made a deep study of agricultural economics.
Cramped: apertado (cramps tb é cólica)
Entresol: mezanino, sobreloja
Hyping profits led to the spectacular spate of business scandals that marked the turn of the millennium.
Hype: exagerar (no sentido de divulgar/publicizar)
Spate: serie (de eventos)
The nearby sheep stampeded as if they sensed impending danger
Stampeded: (of horses, cattle, or other animals) rush wildly in a sudden mass panic.
= Debandada
Six aircraft jettisoned their loads in the sea
Jettisoned: throw or drop (something) from an aircraft or ship
late Middle English (as a noun denoting the throwing of goods overboard to lighten a ship in distress)
She was mesmerized by the blue eyes that stared so intently into her own
mesmerized: hold the attention of (someone) to the exclusion of all else or so as to transfix them.
=Hipnotizado
You should check the small printwith a fine-tooth comb
Fine-tooth comb: pente fino
Comb: pente /pentear
Police are treating the fire as arson
Arson: incêndio (culposo)
The shrill of a smoke detector filled the air
Shrill: estridente
A national minimum wage remained the cornerstone of policy
Cornerstone: pedra angular, pilar
Their determination had been blunted.
To be blunt, many of the candidates cannot read or write.
1) atenuar
2) falar honestamente sem ser polido
3) notsharporpointed (cego, não afiado)
Tirar o gume = embotar
disagreement had threatened to topple the government
Topple: cair, derrubar, ruir
This is a personal manifesto, a plea from me to you.
Plea: apelo
Sherippedthe letterupinto tiny pieces.
Rip up: despedaçar
Rip out: arrancar (de dentro de alguma coisa)
Rip off: arrancar fora
Rip up: tear (=rasgar/tb lágrima)
An elephant is exceedingly difficult to housebreak
Housebreak: domesticar
“Non-working time may now be more important to economic welfare than working time; yet the attention paid by economists to the latter dwarfs any paid to the former.”
Dwarfs: verbo ‘é menor’
Former: primeiro, antigo
She clung to Joe’s arm
Cling (cling-clung-clung): agarrar, aderir
“a young man was to begirded withthe belt of knighthood”
To gird: surround; encircle
“I’ve been having a siege of headaches”
Siege: sítio (sitiar = besiege)
“I seized Nathan and hurled him into the lobby
Seize: agarrar
Hurled: lançar/arremessar
They ask questions and no longer tug their forelocks in awe of the doctor’s white lab coat.
Forelock: franja
Awe: admiração/reverência/temor
Tug: dar puxão
tug (one’s) forelock: to show excessive deference toward someone in a superior position. An allusion to the former act of pulling one’s frontmost hair in lieu of having a hat to tip.
In lieu: no lugar de (instead)
She was stillranting onabout the unfairness of it all
Rant: speak or shout at length in a wild, impassioned way.
a spell of ranting; a tirade
= discurso retórico
Expressão: rant and rave
Talk loudly and vehemently, especially in anger, as in: There you go again,rantingand raving about the neighbor’s car in your driveway. This idiom is a redundancy, sincerant and ravemean just about the same thing, but probably survives on account of its alliterative appeal.
She walked forwardburdened witha wooden box
Burden: FARDO, carga
Verbo: carregar
The crew hailed a fishing boat”
Crew: tripulação, equipe técnica
Hail: acenou
Hail tb é granizo, verbo inclusive
Jim was touting his wares
Tout: Attempt to sell (something), typically by pestering (incomodando) people in an aggressive or bold manner (ousado).
Ware: objetos de cerâmica, louça
Change the skirt if it gets frazzled
Frazzle: desgastar
cause to feel completely exhausted; wear out (wear tb é usado no sentido de ‘usado’)
Political violence was rampant.
Rampant: (especially of something unwelcome or unpleasant) flourishing or spreading unchecked.
scholars muststrive againstbias
Strive: struggle or fight vigorously
the fish spawn among fine-leaved plants
(of a fish, frog, mollusk, crustacean, etc.) release or deposit eggs
= Desovar (noun tb = ovas)
our daughters whooped as theyplunged intothe sea
Plunge: jump or dive quickly and energetically
Mergulhar, afundar
Whoop: a loud cry of joy or excitement.
the media dubbed anorexia “the slimming disease”
Dubbed: apelidar
The paper has lost millions of readers since its heyday in 1964
Heyday: apogeu
designer label clothes are just expensive rip-offs
Rip-off: a fraud or swindle, especially something that is grossly overpriced.
Once it begins to spread across your organization it will trickle outward to the community or customers.
Trickle: sentido de fluxo líquido (espalhar, gotejar), gota
Outward: para fora (-ward, sentido, como em toward)
His car guzzles gas
eat or drink (something) greedily.
Greedly : avidamente
Greed: ganância
any gardener will at firstbalk atenclosing the garden
Balk: hesitate or be unwilling to accept an idea or undertaking.
Undertake: commit oneself to and begin (an enterprise or responsibility); take on.
Enclosing: cercar
The time has now come once again to pull together into a coherent summary and overview the many strands we have so far uncoiled.
Strand: fios entrelaçados que formam outro fio (não achei correspondente linguístico)
Uncoiled: desenrolado, desenlaçado
a document duly signed and authorized by the inspector
Duly: devidamente
the roar made the dogs scatter
Scatter: espalhar, dispersar
Faces peeked from behind the curtains
Peek: espiar (no sentido de olhar escondido)
skewer the cubes of beef, using six to eight per skewer
Skewer: espetar/espeto
Days of rain have left parts of Alabama awash in millions of gallons of dingy water that overflowed from sanitary sewer systems.
Awash: inundado
Dingy: sombrio,
Sewer: esgoto
he steered the boat slowly toward the busy quay
Steer: (of a person) guide or control the movement of (a vehicle, vessel, or aircraft), for example by turning a wheel or operating a rudder (leme).
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