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to doom

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/duːm/

death, destruction, or any very bad situation that cannot be avoided:
(morte , ruína, destruição)
- A sense of doom hung over the entire country.
- The newspapers are always
full of doom and gloom (= bad news and unhappiness) these days.

to be the certain cause of someone or something having a bad end, esp. to die or to fail:
(condenar)
- The project or the “plan” is doomed to failure
- Are we doomed to repeat the mistakes of the past?

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crickets

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/ˈkrɪk.ɪt/ ASPIRATION
grilos

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i don´t wanna recognize her when you´re done

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chop-sticks

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take it - got it

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i pulled up your bank account and you are broke

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1 – Pull up no sentido de “encostar” um veículo, ou seja, pará-lo:

  • If you will just pull up beside that curb, I’ll get out of the car here.
    Se você puder apenas encostar/parar ao lado daquele meio fio, eu sairei do carro aqui.
  • If I pull up the car any further, I am going to hit the curb!

2 – Conseguir informações de um computador também é pull up. Nesta situação, podemos usar diversos verbos para passar essa ideia. Veja abaixo:
- Pull up the sports website so we can check the score of the game.
Abra o website de esportes para que nós possamos checar a pontuação do jogo.
- Haley pulled up the weather forecast so we can see what type of clothes we 
should pack.

3 – Pull up no sentido de puxar:

  • The construction workers pull up their supplies by using a crane.
  • The rock climbers used rope to pull up their climbing supplies on the cliff.
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