Unit 3- Relationships Flashcards
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thick
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Grosso
espesso
cheio
denso
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thin
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Fino
magro
estreito
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wired world
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Mundo conectado
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Defunct
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extinto
falecido
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in the flesh
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- Alive.
2. In person; present.
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Far greater
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bem maior
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Acquaintances
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conhecidos
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Make up
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To put in the order arrange
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given person
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Determinada pessoa
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Faced it by
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Enfrentado
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Hit it off
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to have a good relationship with
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Fit in
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vb
- (tr) to give a place or time to: if my schedule allows it, I’ll fit you in.
- (intr, adverb) to belong or conform, esp after adjustment: he didn’t fit in with their plans.
Se encaixar
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Spark
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Faísca
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Same wavelength
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Same page
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My children grow up
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👍🏼
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absence
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Ausência
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Kick the bucket
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Chutar o pau da barraca
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Strain
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The state of being subjected to such demands or stresses: trying to work under great strain.
Tenso
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From the outside
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Vendo de fora
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Inaccurate
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Inexato
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Stems from
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Originate
Deriva de
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upsetting her
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Perturba-la
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Different takes
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Think of a problem or situation in different ways
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Enabled to take a joke
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Não sabe brincar
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ill tempered
Mal humorado
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Patch up
Remendar
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Talk thinks over
Conversar sobre as coisas
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Start afresh
Começar de novo
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Attempt
Tentativa
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Deal with
Have to do with
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go back a long way
If two people have known each other for a long time
| Ex : Justin and I were at college together so we go back a long way.
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paths cross
if two people's paths cross, they meet by chance It was a pleasure to meet you. I hope our paths cross again soon.
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By chance
An accidental or unpredictable event.
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sympathetic
Compreensivo
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on speaking terms
Friendly enough to talk
If you are not on speaking terms with someone, you refuse to speak to them because you are angry with them:
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Fall out
informal to argue with someone and stop being friendly with them:
He left home after falling out with his parents.
She'd fallen out with her boyfriend over his ex-girlfriend.
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Wind up
› to find yourself in an unexpected and usually unpleasant situation, especially as a result of what you do:
If he keeps doing stuff like that he's going to wind up in prison!
You don't want to wind up homeless, do you?
Dar corda
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take a shine to
To like spontaneously.
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Spreading thinly
To work in too many projects
| To do many things at the same time
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Get on someone nerves
to annoy someone a lot:
We really got on each other's nerves when we were living together.
Please stop making that noise! It really gets on my nerves.
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Talk down to
› to speak to someone in a simple way, as if the person cannot understand things as well as you can:
Our history teacher never talks down to us.
2. To speak with insulting condescension: talked down to her subordinates.
3. To silence (a person), especially by speaking in a loud and domineering manner.
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look down on sb
(also look down your nose at sb)
— phrasal verb
to think that you are better than someone:
She thinks they look down on her because she doesn't have a job.
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look up to sb
| — phrasal verb
to admire and respect someone:
| He'd always looked up to his uncle.
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see eye to eye
If two people see eye to eye, they agree with each other:
My sisters don't see eye to eye with me about the arrangements.
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take a shine
To like spontaneously
Ex: everyone is taken a shine to her
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rub (someone) the wrong way
To annoy; irritate: "One can see ... how [his] expression of his ideals and intentions must have rubbed many people the wrong way" (Christopher Lehmann-Haupt).
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Rub
Esfregar
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hatch·et
1. A small, short-handled axe for use in one hand.
| 2. A tomahawk.
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bury the hatchet
To stop an argument and become friends again:
Can't you two just bury the hatchet?
Fazer as pazes
Bury( enterrar)
to cease (cessar)hostilities and become reconciled
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let bygones be bygones
› used to tell someone that they should forget about unpleasant things that happened in the past, and especially to forgive and forget something bad that someone has done to them :
Just let bygones be bygones and be friends again.
Bygone: passado
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patch sth up
| — phrasal verb
to try to improve a relationship after there have been problems:
Jackie and Bill are still trying to patch up their marriage.
Did you manage to patch things up with her after your row?
› to repair something, especially in a simple and temporary way
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pull strings for
there is two meanings to this expression.. To pull someone' strings means that you are making them do what you want to do like you would a marionette ie puppet on strings that only moves when someone pulls the strings. The second meaning I think is what you what. When someone pulls strings it means they have some inside power into something and they can get
something done faster than the regular person. Suppose you
wanted to have a medical exam and were told you would have to wait two months. Well I am a doctor and your friend so I go behind the scenes and 'pull some strings' and get you in tomorrow. Using your connections to get something done faster or something done that wouldn't normally be done.
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lose your temper
suddenly become angry:
The children behaved so badly that I lost my temper.
Perder a paciência
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keep your temper
to succeed in staying calm and not becoming angry:
| I found it hard to keep my temper with so many things going wrong.
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make a mountain out of a molehill
› to make a slight difficulty seem like a serious problem:
You're making a mountain out of a molehill. You wrote one bad essay - it doesn't mean you're going to fail.
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I was joke
Don't take offense
Don't make a big issue of it
Don't take it the wrong way
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talk over something
| — phrasal verb
› to discuss something:
| We should get together and talk this over.
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put sth behind you
› If you put an unpleasant experience behind you, you stop thinking about it, so that it does not affect your life:
Like any divorce, it was a painful business but I've put it all behind me now.
› If you put a bad experience or your own bad behaviour behind you, you do not let it affect your life now:
It's over. You need to put it behind you now, and make plans for the future.
