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cringed
I cringed for a minute
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contrair os músculos involuntariamente; encolher-se por medo ou subserviência
crippled
Ironically, startups were often crippled by the very
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incapacitada, debilitada, defeituosa.
crippling
Just as a person’s credit rating is available anywhere in the world, so their contract rating will also be available, and so there will be no place to hide from a broken contract save by going ‘off the grid' completely, which would be economically cr
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paralisante, impeditivo, v. incapacitar, engraquecer, debilitar, ferir, interferir
criterion
“If, in fact, there are enough people who no longer think those are both true, impeachment is designed to deal with that.” For this reason, actual evidence of misconduct may not be the most important criterion in determining which Presidents get impe
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padrão, critério
critters
... amazing interaction with these critters.
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criatura, bicho
crocuses
We usually, in Vancouver, start having some flowers come up in February, in fact; you know, crocuses, daffodils, those sorts of things.
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Açafrão
cronies
... went out with his cronies playing cards or drinking...
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amigos intimos, colegas, comparsas
crook
... by hook or by crook.
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Trapaceiro
crooked
We are made from crooked timber, vulnerable to illusions,...
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torto
crookedly
... tooth is coming in crookedly or not properly and...
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de forma entortada
crooks
... Have we eradicated crooks in Brazil?
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vigaristas
crop off
So if you just crop off the tail and with...
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cortar fora
cropper
... a built- in image cropper that will allow you...
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cultivador
cropping
... evolution and awareness myself cropping up all over China.
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recorte
cropping up
... evolution and awareness myself cropping up all over China.
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crop up: brotar, surgir abruptamente
crosscut
... support while wielding a crosscut saw.)
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atalho
crotch
... so hard into his crotch, I couldn't breathe.
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genitais, entre-pernas
crouched
Mark: And trying to get in the oven and you’re crouched in the thing.
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agachado, de cócoras...
crowned
His fence is crowned with barbed wire.
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coroado.
crown jewels
Crown jewels.
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jóias da coroa
crows
“If you sing it, I might know it,” he said, after Dykstra called for the Counting Crows.
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s. corvo; cacarejo de galo
crow's
What I’m trying to tell you here is crow’s feet is good.
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corvo
crucially
It must give our immigration officers the resources they need to stop illegal immigration and also to stop visa overstays, and, crucially, the legislation must end chain migration.
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crucialmente
crumble
Why, then, do most people believe that a society will crumble without a coercive and monopolistic social agency at its core?
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desintegrar-se
crumbling
... some logic in my crumbling kaleidoscope, until I saw...
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desmoronado
crumbly
... and that's much more crumbly, so it blew up...
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quebradiço, espedaçado
crumbs
My favorite being," Cheese crumbs spread before a pair...
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farelos
crummy
Mark: Speaking of the weather, though, given that it is a crummy time of year, I know that you are planning on going to South America.
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sujo
crumple
... you use them, you crumple them up, and then...
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amarrotar
crunch
... indicate that the complexity crunch is only going to...
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Moment of truth, critical point, Crux, a crucial point or situation, crise, triturar
crunchy
It was a little bit crunchy, actually.
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crocante
crusher
Just a crusher."
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triturador
crushing
... readers found more soul- crushing and repressive than life...
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esmagar, comprimir
crust
... I've done OK. The Crust of the Matter The...
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casca
crux
So, what we’re really saying is that, and I think this is the crux of the matter, that the gays want to say our marriage, our union is as natural, as honorable, as wonderful as any other union.
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ponto crucial
cuddles
little excuses; we want to have little cuddles with them.
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afagos
cuddly
... such as Paro, a cuddly robotic seal, have been...
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fofinho; carinhoso.
cuff
... have to license this cuff or this sleeve because...
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s. punho; bainha; bofetada, v. esmirrar, esbofetar
cuffs
... pockets or around the cuffs, you know the bottoms,...
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punho, bainha
cul de sac
cul de sac
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beco sem saída
cull
Cull and cut any fluff,...
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refugo
culprit
The culprit?
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culpado
culprits
But there’s been a spike in fevers unrelated to the usual culprits like dengue.
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acusado, réu
cunt
... for calling them a cunt."
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A crude way to refer to female sex organs
cup holders
... up with cars with 15 cup holders, right?
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porta-copos
curated
... scrolling through others’ carefully curated photos can make people...
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curadoria
curb
The mid-range estimate is more than three feet by the end of this century, depending on how much humans do to curb the production of greenhouse gases.
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freio
curbing
... a charity dedicated to curbing loneliness.
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frear, desacelerar, conter
curbs
... road markings, or even curbs, cars drive more slowly...
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barbela; beira da calçada; parapeito de um poço; meio-fio, sarjeta
curd
... craft-- making fermented bean curd, in this case.
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coalhada
curl
And I curl up into a little...
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enrolar
curled
... corners of the photographs curled.
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enroscado
curled up
... did I know, lying curled up in my prim baby...
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enrolado (em posição fetal)
currant
... a touch of black currant or raspberry.
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groselha
curtail
The framework deal includes pledges to strengthen the European Union and curtail the number of migrants entering Germany.
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restringir, reduzir
curtailing
But if the President is just being himself—talking in the same way that he talked during the campaign—then the Vice-President and the Cabinet would find it very difficult.” The power of impeachment is a more promising tool for curtailing a defective
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cerceamento
curtailment
... would also mean the curtailment of humanity's future potential,...
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contingenciamento
cushy
You’ve got to do the cushy kind of stuff, I guess.
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confortável, agradável
cuss
Can I cuss on your show?
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xingar (Cuss - to swear because you are annoyed by something)
cut out for this
cut out for this
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cortado para isso
cutouts
... can include extensions, insets, cutouts, and augmentations— making it...
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recortes
dabble
what needs to be done, and therefore, you’re in dabble mode.
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borrifar
dabbled
... French and you have dabbled in Spanish.
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v. respingar água; interessar-se por
dabbling
The amount of time people spend on Facebook, just dabbling in
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v. respingar água; interessar-se por
daffodils
We usually, in Vancouver, start having some flowers come up in February, in fact; you know, crocuses, daffodils, those sorts of things.
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narciso (uma flor)
dainty
Umm, you know, it’s a wall, it doesn’t have a huge amount of decoration and lots of little dainty flourishes, you know, it has, umm, some turrets and some, uhh, crenellations is what it’s called when the wall kind of goes up and down at the top, but
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guloseima
dairies
Tête de Moine is often served with fruit or fresh French bread, or simply as a decorative yet edible garnish for a cheese platter. Today, Tête de Moine cheese is still produced by small local dairies near Bellelay.
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laticínios
dairy
... pantries, its buttery and dairy-- aided to crowd his...
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leite
dais
... up to the iconic dais at the United Nations...
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estrado/ pulpito?
daisies
and wonderful and rainbows and daisies and beautiful and I’ll be thin.”
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margaridas
dale
Certainly Dale Carnegie is a course that I highly recommend that people go to and that would bolster their confidence. Even the audio version of it or do you think they should go to the course itself?
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s. vale, várzea
damning
I got an advance look at it, along with a first interview about it with D’Antonio, and while it has a mostly measured tone, it presents an entirely damning portrait of Pence.
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condenável
damp
There were a couple days where it was quite windy but, generally, they get very little wind, so even at minus 10 it really doesn’t feel colder than plus 3 or 4 or 5 degrees here in Vancouver where it’s so damp.
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desânimo / depressão / úmido
dampening
... high elasticity or high dampening.
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amortecimento
damsel
So if I save the damsel in distress from the evil prince, it could be that my dream is about situations in which I feel helpless, or conversely, cause pain to others—not necessarily my role as the hero. These ideas, and many more, come into play
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donzela
dandelion
course I forget all of it when I was choking on my dandelion.
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dente de leão
danes
And the Danes have in their own way been quite active in Afghanistan.
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dinamarqueses
dangling
So, I don’t want to be dangling from something over a gorge or whatever.
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suspender, pendurar
dart
", and people would see this, I was probably ten or nine at the time, this young kid trying to sell seeds, and you know they would buy a couple packs, and if I sold, say twenty packs of seeds, then I could choose from a list of toys or things (Whoa)
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dardo
dashboard
truly matter and work toward a report or “dashboard” that essentially replaces the P&L;, cash flow,
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painel
dashed
In this difficult first period it is always wise to take the counsel of professionals and family members with experience or others whom you trust, while always maintaining the right to make the final decision yourselves. After coming to grips wi
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desapontado, deprimido
dash off emails
... native speakers who just dash off emails and other texts without...
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precipitar fora e-mails
daunted
Don't be daunted.
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assombrado, afastado, amedrontado
daunting
of you will say, "That’s so daunting, I can even get enough energy to
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desencorajador, intimidante
dawned
Umm, but then it dawned on me that this is the end of a story and the beginning is clear, the middle’s clear, and it kind of, I don’t want to say it wrote itself ‘cause it was hard work writing it, but it was all in my mind and I’d written some bits
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amanhecer
daybreak
It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity.
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aurora
daydreams
Synonymous with daydreams, pipe dreams, and all other dreams unlikely to come to fruition, castles in the air are at best a hopeful vision, and at worst, a hopeless illusion. Although the phrase “castles in the air” (the original phrase was “cas
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sonhar acordado, devaneios
dazzle
It’s hard to dazzle us.
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deslumbrar
dazzled
... help but come away dazzled by what they have...
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deslumbrados
dazzling
The candidates to become leader of the Labour Party in Britain in 2015 lost to Jeremy Corbyn not because he is a dazzling political talent so much as because they were indistinguishably bland.
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deslumbrante; ofuscante
dazzly
... all the bright and dazzly things, but also the...
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deslumbrante
deadlock
In Germany, Chancellor Angela Merkel is a big step closer to ending her country’s prolonged political deadlock.
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congelamento, entrave, impasse.
deadlocked
Congress deadlocked, and the country's problems--...
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impasse
deadpans
And finally, he deadpans us and says," Why...
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dizer algo de maneira divertida
dearest
... with two of her dearest friends, these older women,...
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mais querido
dearly
Parking spots are notoriously hard to find, and many residents pay dearly for a permanent off-street parking spot.
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muito caro
dearth
... short, there was a dearth of material to help...
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falta, carência, escassez
death knell
death knell
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sentença de morte
debunk
... regard; any attempt to debunk them will a) necessarily...
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desmascarar
debunking
... it's like, if he's debunking it, then I don't...
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v. menosprezar, rebaixar, ridicularizar;
debunks
... Talk on motivation that debunks that we work for...
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desmascara
decadence
There are few cities with as great a reputation for decadence as New Orleans.
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decadência
decathlete
11:42 What he was was a decathlete of nation-building, of problem-solving, of troubleshooting in the world’s worst places and in the world’s most broken places.
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decatleta
deceit
He tweeted- “The United States has foolishly given Pakistan more than $33 billion in aid over the last 15 years, and they have given us nothing but lies and deceit.”
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fraude, dolo
deceiving
lying, deceiving, defying each other, lots of back talking, cheating, that
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iludindo
decency
(In the satirical biopic “W.,” about the life of the younger Bush, the head of the fraternity is shown telling incoming freshmen, during a beer-drenched initiation ritual, “Delta Kappa brothers are men of honor, decency, and God-given character.
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decëncia, decoro
decimated
... workers, technology has completely decimated their work, and it...
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dizimada
decked
Every year for the first 2 weeks of March this time, you know, thousands of delegates of the National People's Congress stream towards the Great Hall of the People on Tiananmen Square, which is decked out with red flags and hammer and sickle emblems.
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adornada
deconfliction
... said the Humanitarian Coordinator: deconfliction, strong collaboration with the...
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desflorestação
decoy
... were using armored vehicles, decoy cars, changing patterns of...
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armadilha, isca
deductible
... going to pay the deductible anyway the rest of...
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franquia?
deemed
... their marriage dowries are deemed too small.
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supostamente
deer
... stood there like a deer in the headlights and...
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cervo
defective
... and instead use a defective implementation which disables the...
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defeituoso
defendant
... except to benefit the defendant;
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réu
defer
The two men agreed to defer any action for a couple of days.
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vt. adiar, acatar // vi. vi submeter-se, condescender
defiance
Mr. Darby pointed out: "every time a prospect tried to bow me out, without buying, I saw that child standing there in the old mill, her big eyes glaring in defiance, and I said to myself, 'I’ve gotta make this sale.'
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desafio, desacato, desafiador
deflect
... designed to distract and deflect.
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desviar
deflected
Judge Eboe-Osuji deflected the significance of remarks reportedly made by the US national security advisor earlier this month, that the ICC was an “illegitimate court,” urging countries to focus on why the Rome Statue was adopted.
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defletido
deflecting
... shield for the atmosphere, deflecting solar wind particles around...
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desviar.
defrocked
The church defrocked him.
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desmembrado
defuse
The experts who saw this storm coming say much more of this lies ahead, a time bomb for our children and grandchildren to defuse.
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neutraliazar; desarmar
defying
lying, deceiving, defying each other, lots of back talking, cheating, that
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desafiando
deity
... wonder whether, like the deity in the film, God...
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divindade
delay
... was inconclusive, because the delay was too short to...
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atraso
deletion
deletion of features that“ heavy...
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Eliminação
delicacy
A lot of it consisted of dried fish and other types of Russian delicacy and a lot of noodles that you heated up with hot water.
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delicadeza
delusion
... men are under the delusion that the population's penis...
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desilusão
delved
And I’m assuming I haven’t really delved too much into it, but I’m assuming there was some sort of relationship between my parents' attitude towards making life decisions and what I ended up doing in my life later on.
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mergulhou
delving
Democrats -- and some Republicans -- were quick on Tuesday to claim that Trump was ridding himself of an investigator who was delving too deeply into ties between his associates and Russia.
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Aprofundar, escavar, pesquisar.
demeanour
... Mr Annan had the demeanour of a monk.
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comportamento
demise
By any rational standard, modern States are the last and greatest remaining predators – and that the danger has not abated with the demise of communism and fascism.
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legar; morrer; legado
demoted
... demeaned and trashed and demoted and blacklisted and fired.
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rebaixado de posto
denizens
... in a tweet, Chinese denizens took to social media...
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habitante, cidadão;
dent
In 2005, it was totally... And so - look, I mean it’s not the right time but that is - Steve Jobs said I want to leave a dent in the universe.
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abalo, estrago
depicts
This is a carpet that depicts the battle between Italy and Ethiopia because Italy invaded Ethiopia in the 1930s.
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retrata
depleted
* Oil and Gas Reservoirs: If you can put carbon dioxide into an aquifer, you can also put it into a depleted gas or oil well.
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esvaziado
depletes
What you’re making it mean is that it’s somehow depletes
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esgota
depleting
... thing to the next, depleting neural resources as you...
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Esgotando
deposed
Obama said he has made a strong commitment to remove the sanctions, saying it would be a mistake for Iraq to be burdened by the sins of a deposed dictator.
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depor, testemunhar; destituir
depot
The Syrian military says missiles hit an army depot in a suburb northeast of Damascus early this morning.
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depósito
depreciated
... on how they have depreciated it, then you can...
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depreciado
derail
going to derail you.
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Descarrrilhar, Sabotar, Mudar a direção
derailleur
Another problem with shifting gears on bicycles is that the derailleur—the mechanism that moves the chain between gears of different sizes—is by nature imprecise.
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descarrilador
derided
On August 6th, after a tape recording surfaced which captured him orchestrating the coverup, he was abandoned by Republicans who had previously derided the Watergate scandal as a witch hunt.
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Ridicularizado
derision
... a certain amount of derision, because I have found...
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n. escárnio, zombaria
derive
I derive enormous pleasure from speaking other languages, whether I am at home or traveling.
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obter, inferir, deduzir, derivar, produzir
derrick
So, I had to build an oil derrick which is one of those towers out of matches.
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grua
desist
His attorney has sent cease-and-desist letters to Bannon and to the publisher.
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desistir, renunciar
despicable
Donald Trump’s, the president’s remarks, his despicable and loathsome remarks about people, where they come — the countries they came from, gives the Democrats an opening, an advantage, if not a challenge, to raise this issue.
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desprezível
despondent
“He seemed to be despondent but not depressed,” Baker said later, of the President.
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Desanimado, desesperado, abatido, desencorajado in low spirits from loss of hope or courage
desultory
“Desultory”: ramble on; continue talking or writing in a desultory manner; basically, sort of disorganized.
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sem propósito
détente
... delivered a stunning diplomatic détente with North Korea and...
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détente/ trégua/ alívio
dethroned
The conservative columnist George Will seized on Pence’s speech to write that Pence had dethroned Trump as “America’s most repulsive public figure.”
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destronado
detour
and then you have to do a detour, you’re going to go to the store on the
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desvio
detours
... with delays, traffic, or detours, the estimates remain highly...
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desvios, voltas, retornos
detoxify
... they form channels to detoxify the blood; in the...
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Desintoxicar
detract
We have been uncomfortable with the premise that a capable European Union in defense matters might detract or pull away resources that could be committed to NATO or that the European side of NATO would use the EU to, you might say, “pre-cook” positio
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Diminuir, depreciar, difamar
detracts
Steve:... which I think detracts from it.
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difamar, desacreditar
detrimental
In fact, they’re positively detrimental.
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danoso, prejudicial
devalued
... fueled volatility and further devalued the lira against other...
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desvalorizada
devilish
Consider also the devilish brilliance and beauty of...
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diabólico
devising
Build a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) First The idea that a startup builds its product for a small group of initial customers rather than devising a
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inventar, planejar, desenvolver; deixar de herança
devoid
Although this description is somewhat of an oversimplification, the result is a substance that is almost completely devoid of moisture, and yet not damaged in any other way.
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desprovido
devolve
... and dinner tables will devolve into total chaos.
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transferir; delegar
dexterity
... the universe, with manual dexterity and two cognitive minds.
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habilidade, perícia, destreza
diagrammatically
This customer discovery step uses Alexander Osterwalder’s business model canvas to diagrammatically illustrate how a company intends to make money.
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Esquematicamente
diarrhoeal
... serious outbreak of the diarrhoeal disease on record.
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diarreico
dice
... of a roll of dice in each round moves...
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dados
dicey
... be a lot more dicey: extreme climate conditions, radicalism...
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arriscado, imprevisível
dicking
... a lot of time dicking around.
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lambendo
dictum
... for Mr Bolsonaro— whose dictum might be“ they tortured,...
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dito
diehard
... will say thatshe's a diehard at the hockey games.
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teimoso, duro de matar
diffidence
... in terms of modest diffidence; never using, when I...
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desconfiança
dig
They are people that I totally dig,
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v. cavar; escavar; gostar; entender; começar; perceber
dikes
Those dikes have burst.
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dique, represa, canal
dim
Thus Sally’s DRO would take a dim view of her polluting activities, since it would be on the hook for any property damage her factory causes.
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turvo
ding
... actually made a new ding.
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n. toque, barulho; (EUA) amasso, afundamento; batida; (Gíria Australiana) festa, celebração; (Termo Ofensivo usado na Austrália) pessoa grega ou italiana; pessoa de origem italiana ou grega v. tocar a campainha
dinginess
... rust, corrosion, and general dinginess.
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Sujeira, desbotamento
dings
Your windshield's got dings in it and the...
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slang(giria) para pequenos furos, reentrâncias
dint
... National Statistics(ONS), by dint of asking a simple...
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por meio de
diphtheria
... noting that measles and diphtheria outbreaks have been contained.
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difteria
dipping
The Albanian path emerged at an idyllic beach where I stripped down and went skinny-dipping.
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mergulho
dips
If demand dips, the extra power goes to waste—and the power company loses potential profits.
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mergulhar, diminuir
dire
In the absence of such accountability, America believes the International Community should act to assist the state and in dire circumstances, the UN Security Council may be required to establish mechanisms for specific situations.
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horrivel
disarray
Howard H. Baker, Jr., a former senator who became Reagan’s chief of staff in February, 1987, found the White House in disarray.
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confusão, desordem
disclosed
Help us understand exactly what information has been apparently inadvertently disclosed here that might be of use to enemies of the United States.
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revelar, desvelar, divulgado
discourse
At the same time, it is ironic perhaps, I say ironic because in one sense, many Europeans are always astonished about the, and troubled by the religious overtone of some of our political discourse and how at times obsessed Americans seem to be with r
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discurso
discreet
Tens of thousands of discreet rules, 60 steps to suspend...
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discreto
discreetly
(“Isn’t that sweet?”) I remember sitting in the back yard of the Gretzky-now-Dykstra estate, overlooking the pool and the Santa Monica Mountains, and discreetly texting childhood friends with giddy disbelief.
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discretamente
discrete
Thus there are no discrete chapters on the Law...
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adj. distinto, separado, descontínuo
discretionary
... some what we call discretionary time.
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discricionário
disembody
... can, first of all, disembody a group of people,...
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desencarnar
disenchantment
Yes, he’s inflicting great damage upon this country, and he will leave in his wake great disenchantment, disillusionment.
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desencanto
disenfranchises
... of states, actually permanently disenfranchises you if you have...
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privações
disfavor
... age, has fallen into disfavor, except for young girls.
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desprezo
disfranchisement
Disfranchisement of political rights is forbidden, the loss or suspension of which
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Desprendimento
disgraceful
... come to accept a disgraceful national epidemic as some...
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vergonhoso
disguise
... is a blessing in disguise, because it woke us...
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s. disfarce; fantasia, cobertura; máscara
disheartened
... just going to feel disheartened or guilty because youweren't...
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desencorajado, *desanimado*, abatido

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