reading Flashcards
i was tring to find the page i left off
ducktailed
hairstyle
lean down over the top of my desk
inclinar se pra baixo
- i´ll lean down to tie my shoes
- Someone pushed me while I was leaning down to pick up a piece of paper.
We usually lean forward to place our head in a position where we can more easily see, hear or say something, e.g., “She leaned forward and whispered, ‘I love you,’ in my ear” and “I had to lean forward a bit so I could hear what they were talking about on TV. My wife had a headache, so I had turned the volume down.”
When we lean over, we often lean sideways to say or hear something, e.g., “In class today, Tom leaned over to me and made a rather nasty remark about the professor’s hair.” We can also use it to mean positioning the top portion of our body above someone or something, e.g., “Bob leaned over the desk and handed his client the document” and “Narcissus leaned over the water to admire his reflection.” Then the meaning is very similar to ‘lean forward.’
In my experience, we use ‘lean in’ to mean bending towards a central place for some private communication, e.g., “When Molly told us that she had some news about Tom’s divorce, we all leaned in to hear what she had to say.”
i said with a sniff
/snɪf/
to smell something by taking air in through your nose:
- Take a sniff of this medicine - it smells horrible, doesn’t it?
- She sniffed at her glass of wine before tasting it.
- Dogs are sometimes used at airports to sniff out (= find by smelling) drugs in people’s luggage.
- Dogs love sniffing each other.
- He was expelled from school for sniffing glue
to take air in quickly through your nose, usually to stop the liquid inside the nose from flowing out:
- You’re sniffing a lot - do you have a cold?
sit straight
intimate how could he have shared them to somebody else
nape
/neɪp/
the back of the neck:
- She kissed the nape of his neck.
assoar o nariz
Could you blow your nose instead of sniffing?
