INGL_EXERCICIOS_RAFAELA
exhausting. For those politically engaged, life
TO HAUNT = to appear as a phantom
(assombrar). A haunted house. To hang out
constantly to go to a place often to go often in a
place
TO BE WROUGHT WITH = to be adorned
with to be filled with to be engraved decorated
with. It was broke down under the weight of
emotionally overwrought Faulknerian prose.
STARK = straightforward, without
adornments, objective. A stark person = a
rigid/stern person. A stark comment =
coarse/rough (pouco delicado). A stark truth =
plain/open/objective. The result is a realistic
fable (fábula), at once stark, exciting and
economical (save up on words).
TO QUAVER/ TO QUIVER = to tremble.
Oscillating, wobbling shaky, unstable. He
expresses his own quavering judgments.
GRUESOME / GRUELING = unpleasant. A
gruesome fruit (nojenta sem sabor)
TO CHART = fretar to chart a flight. A
charted flight. To make known by a map
uncharted feelings = unknown
TO TAP INTO = to tap into resources, oil
reserves one’s strength, feelings = to establish a
connection with them. He is overcome by his
untapped feelings toward her and sets out to
release her.
TO TEND = to care for. He is tending her
wounds
INASMUCH AS = because.
X He is serving out his days.
INSOVAR AS = in a degree to the extent that
AT THE MERCY OF = a mercê de. He isn’t
completely at the mercy of its local chaos and
ugliness
HARROWING = daunting, tormenting
in South Africa was harrowing
TO RIDE OFF ON HORSEBACK
To ride a bike a motorcycle a horse a skate, a
bus a rollercoaster
I go on foot
I go by bus
I go by plane
I am on a bike
I am on a horse
I am on a bus
I am on a plane
OFF = 1) opposite of on (position/surfaces) 2)
to move away from to stand away from
TO BREAK DOWN UNDER = to collapse.
To break down under torture, under pressure,
under weight of age, under expectations, under
tension.
TO FILL IN = to complete to fill an empty
space, (preencher). Fill in the blanks
TO FILL OUT = to complete 100% to fill
completely every thing (preencher tudo). His
voice fills out the book in an unbroken present
tense
TO FILL UP = to complete a vassel a
recipient (encher). Fill up my glass, please.
TO STAND TALL = to be proud, to stand out
proudly. America stood tall as the undisputed
superpower
LAX GOOD NATURE = permissive opposite
of stringent.
TO SERVE OUT = to complete, to exhaust.