terça-feira, 26 de novembro de 2013

Dicas (e dúvidas)



crisma: confirmation
argila: clay
mensalidade da faculdade: college tuition
ferias coletivas: collective holidays
festa de fim de ano (na empresa): the office holiday party
abastecer o carro: fill up the car
matricular crianças na creche: Enroll children in nursery school
amamentar (mamadeira)/amamentar (seio): Bottle feed/breast feed
estudar sozinho, por conta própria: To do self-study
me deixa inchado: make me bloated
educado: well-mannered
dar o calote nos débitos: to default on a debt
balcão da companhia aérea – ticket counter
tanque de lavar roupas: laundry sink 
avançar sinal: to jump the traffic lights
cão farejador: sniffer dog
desvio de septo: nasal septum deviation
arredondar (número)para: to round down to (ex.: I rounded 92 down to 90)
lapiseira: mechanical pencil
desejo por comida: food craving
chá de panela: shower tea
fazer greve de fome: to go on hunger strike
concertar os pés da mesa (desnivelados: to fix uneven table legs
hipócrita: Hypocritical
resultado de uma situação (ruim): aftermath

Expressões idiomáticas:
.upper hand: n.A position of control or advantage
.to put a dressing on a hand (fazer um curativo sobre a mão)
.come up with: To bring forth, discover, or produce: came up with a cure for the disease.
Thefreedictionary
.to shut somebody up: to stop talking or making a noise, or to make someone do this: I wish you'd shut up for a moment and listen to what the rest of us have to say. Just shut up and get on with your work! My dad never stops talking. It's impossible to shut him up!
. First come, first served: something that you say which means that the people who ask for something first will be the ones who get it, when there is not enough for everyone
Thefreedictionary
.She really gets under my skin when she says that.(Ela me deixa com os nervos à flor da pele quando diz isso.)englishexperts

.“know one's own mind”:Be certain about what one wants; be decisive. For example, Don't ask him; he's so tired that he doesn't know his own mind, or She certainly knows her own mind when it comes to giving stage directions.http://www.yourdictionary.com/know-one-s-own-mind

. Debt burden
A debt burden is a large amount of money that one country or organization owes to another and which they find very difficult to repay. NOUN...the massive debt burden of the Third World.http://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/debt-burden

.'Basis Point - BPS':The relationship between percentage changes and basis points can be summarized as follows: 1% change = 100 basis points, and 0.01% = 1 basis point.http://www.investopedia.com/terms/b/basispoint.asp

.a results-driven personality

Expressões ligadas a internet:

cable/wireless internet
high-speed internet
broadband internet
.co (second-level domain), Internet second-level domain used to denote commercial organizations in many countries

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