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hurled
... of God, the projectile hurled by Zeus himself?
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v. atirar, arremessar
hurly burly
hurly burly
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hurly corpulento
hurtling
... storms, and they go hurtling through interplanetary spacetowards planets...
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arremessado
hush
... the national coffers to hush them up.
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acalmar; mandar calar; aquietar; silêncio
husks
... in love with become husks of themselves, they're shadows...
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casca
hustle
Like I said, I’m going to leave that conversation off for another day, but we had to get all the regulatory approvals in all 51 jurisdictions in the United States for doing this, where you’re not actually sending an adjuster out to measure what happe
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agitação
hustles
... not talking like side hustles sort of thing.
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pressa
hut
I mean it’s a drive past this place called The Bike Hut, it’s right next to AT&T Park on the Embarcadero.
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cabana
hymn
... most famous for, a hymn that he wrote:" Amazing...
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Hino;
hype
Whether or not the reality lives up to the hype (or will in the future), I don’t know.
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badalação, alarde, publicidade
hypeyness
hypeyness to it.
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hypeyness
hyphens
... of Enodis who use hyphens to connect their countries...
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hífen ou traçinho
hypocritical
His morality is strictly backstreet Sunday school hypocritical cant picked up in Peterborough or Rugeley or some such God-awful place.
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hipócrita
i can get terribly worked up about
i can get terribly worked up about
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Eu posso ficar muito empolgado com
icicles
Goldsworthy uses only natural materials for his pieces, including icicles, leaves, rocks, and dirt.
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massa pendente de gelo, estalactite
icky
negative, made me feel icky.
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nojento, repulsivo
idiosyncratic
... including about a dozen idiosyncratic phrases that he repeated...
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exclusivo
idle
Whilst some progress has been made in mobilizing resources, he said that urgent action is needed to drive progress: “that means galvanizing political support across governments and local communities; building momentum for change in corporate boardroo
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à toa, ocioso, sem valor
idle chit chat
... form of flattery and idle chit- chat.
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conversa fiada
idly
At various points, he started idly scrolling through his “Rolodex,” or his contacts, which he described as “the one thing I never lost.” The Rolodex serves as a reminder of wild times (and not-so-wild: “That’s my P.O.
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preguiçosamente, sem tomar atitudes;
idyllic
I wasn’t supposed to have this idyllic perfect childhood.
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simples; idílico; tranqüilo, sossegado
if
If you don’t believe that you’re worth a lot then it’s
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se
i just took stock
So I just took stock in where I was...
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Eu só fiz um balanço
i kid you not
i kid you not
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eu não estou brincando com você
ill treatment
... he was facing further ill- treatment and torture.
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Maus tratos
illy
In our household, the number one staple food, ahead of milk, butter, and flour, is coffee—our favorite brand being Illy, which produces especially good results in our superautomatic coffee machine.
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Illy
imbibe
... if you want to imbibe a culture, if you...
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absorver, inalar, assimilar (idéias), beber
imbued
The position is imbued with moral authority; the...
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imbuída
immigrated
... of Tsinghua who have immigrated to Canada have had...
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Imigrou;
impaired
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prejudicado
impairment
Frances wrote, “He may be a world-class narcissist, but this doesn’t make him mentally ill, because he does not suffer from the distress and impairment required to diagnose mental disorder.
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defeito, falha, estrago
impels
... crime or transgression that impels them to seek clemency,...
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impele (estimular)
impending
... first sign of the impending cleansing was the breakdown...
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iminente
imperiled
... and democratic countries seemed imperiled.
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em perigo
impinges
A crucial factor for successful business is an understanding of the broad legal framework within which business operates; computing graduates need to be aware in particular of how law impinges on information technology.
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Impacta
impoverished
And where you have civil wars, it almost automatically translates into kids losing their parents or one of their parents, and in some cases families becoming impoverished.
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esgotado
imprint
has to do with your contribution to yourself, your imprint on your life
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imprimir, impressão
impromptu
... give a five- minute impromptu speech on your personal...
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improvisado
i mustered up
Female 2: I mustered up the courage to ask...
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Eu reuni-me
in
In a digital world where content reigns over all, we all know that we need content, but we’re not sure what type and why.
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em, no, ao, de, entrar
inattentive
Aides observed that he was increasingly inattentive and inept.
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desatento, destraído
incensed
Congress was incensed; Senator Carl Schurz, of Missouri, compared Johnson to “a wounded and anger-crazed boar.” Eventually, the President engineered a showdown with Congress, by deliberately breaking a law against firing a Cabinet secretary without S
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indignado
inconspicuous
Here in San Francisco, if you want to appear inconspicuous in public, the best way to do so is to wear leather, dye your hair in fluorescent colors, and have all your visible skin tattooed, pierced, or both.
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imperceptível
inculcate
... have had occasion to inculcate my opinions, and persuade...
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inculcar
inculcating
It’s not just a matter of teachers or universities today inculcating the idea that everything should be free.
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reforçar uma ideia repetindo-a exaustivamente
indebted
He is ideologically indebted to both Patrick Buchanan and Goldman Sachs.
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endividado
indebtedness
... no civil imprisonment for indebtedness except in the case...
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endividamento
indentation
The tip of the piston has a small indentation or hole, and just behind the tip is usually a gasket of some kind to ensure an airtight seal—perhaps a rubber O-ring or simply some waxed string.
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entalhe
indentured
These people were called indentured servants.
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contratado
indentures
... persuaded, and signed the indentures when I was yet...
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Escrituras
indictable
Noah Feldman, a Harvard Law School professor who specializes in constitutional studies, argues that, even without evidence of an indictable crime, the Administration’s pattern of seemingly trivial uses of public office for private gain “can add up to
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indictable
indicted
“In fact, I just signed an impeach petition.” By August, many of his top aides had been indicted, and polls showed that fifty-seven per cent of the public believed that Nixon should be removed from office.
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Acusado
indignities
Got to have something to look forward to.” Conversation with Dykstra is always free-associative, and this led into a digressive discussion of the indignities of prison—where, he said, he read a book from start to finish for the first time in his life
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Indignidades
indoctrination
Child soldiers are deprived of their families, schools, health systems and religious institutions that help provide moral direction. Shaka Ssali: Well, first of all, it provides what you would call a negative role model to society because as kids,
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doutrinação
inducements
... have besides some other inducements.
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incentivo
indulge
didn’t give yourself so many choices to indulge in self-‐doubt?
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ceder ao desejo, entregar-se a
indulging
indulging in.
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to allow yourself or another person to have something enjoyable, especially more than is good for you:
inedible
... unlike wild and often inedible varieties of bananas, which...
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não comestível
infamous
Science is infamous for appearing on the cover of Wired magazine while blowing through $35 million
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infame
infancy
... technology is in its infancy— likely a decade or...
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infancia
infatuated
He's also self- infatuated.
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apaixonado
infer
... these and we can infer the payoff to the...
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v. deduzir, inferir; chegar a conclusão; dar dica; supor
inflicted
... disaster-- not just self- inflicted but from the skies,...
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Ocasionando
infused
... or parliamentary framework, and infused as it is with...
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infundido, inspirar
ingenious
But physicists are ingenious, and with the support...
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engenhoso, astuto
ingenuity
... enormous amount of scientific ingenuity.
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engenho, talento, habilidade
ingrained
... our thoughts are so ingrained in us that we...
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impregnado
inhabits
He inhabits a closed world that one adviser recently described to me as “Fortress Trump.” Rarely venturing beyond the White House and Mar-a-Lago, he measures his fortunes through reports from friends, staff, and a feast of television coverage of hims
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habita
inhibited
The traditional hierarchical structure of Japanese society has inhibited the input of the younger generation towards solving these problems.
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inibido
initiate
Because the Republican leadership in the House of Representatives will almost certainly not initiate the ouster of a Republican President, the first step in any realistic path to impeachment is for Democrats to gain control of the House.
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iniciar
injunction
... aware of any biblical injunction to“ go forth and...
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determinação
ink
Replacement ink cartridges, however, often cost an arm and a leg, in some cases making your total cost per page higher over the long run than if you’d purchased a more expensive laser printer.
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tinta
inked
... administration(under Barack Obama) inked the accord, but it...
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entintou
inkjet
Another example is color inkjet printers, which used to be fairly expensive but now routinely sell for well under US$100.
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jato de tinta
inlet
... established directly across the inlet on the north shore.
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entrada
innermost
From going into the innermost workings of the brain,...
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íntimo
inning
“You don’t feel the fucking energy,” he says, after the turn of an inning.
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ciclo, periodo de atividade
innocuous
Thus, some advice to wiki wannabes: if you feel weird about modifying a wiki page, try just rewording a sentence, fixing some punctuation, or doing something similarly innocuous.
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inocente, não prejudica; não insulta; inofensivo
inns
... at any of the Inns of Court, either at...
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estalagens
innuendo
... with hidden motives and innuendo," Where are you from?"
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insinuação, indireta (na maioria das vezes vergonhosas)
inquiries
Office of Government Ethics received more than thirty-nine thousand public inquiries and complaints, an increase of five thousand per cent over the same period at the start of the Obama Administration.
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inquéritos
insatiable
... is proving to be insatiable.
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insaciável
inscrutable
Of course, it also sometimes happens that a dream remains entirely inscrutable even after an hour of intense discussion.
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adj. inescrutável, impenetrável, que não se pode entende-lo; fundo, tapado
insidious
I will say that I think that this is an insidious problem.
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insidioso, traiçoeiro
insistence
It lays out his disregard for science, evident in his onetime insistence that smoking doesn’t cause cancerand a belief that alarms about climate change were “a secret effort to increase government control over people’s lives for some unstated diaboli
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insistência
insofar
It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note, insofar as her citizens of color are concerned.
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enquanto
insofar as what
Insofar as what I like to do...
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na medida em que
in spite of
in spite of
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Apesar de
in spite of it
... of the United States in spite of it.
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apesar disto
installment
It’s the latest installment of Leading Edge, our weekly science series.
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capítulo, fascículo, parte, continuação (de uma série)
installments
A couple of years ago, though, in place of books or DVDs, my wife and I got a letter in the mail saying that we were about to begin receiving our Christmas gift from my parents in monthly installments.
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parcelas
instances
Man Cannot Buy Bread Alone There were a few instances I needed to consider in which simply getting from place to place was not enough.
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ocasiões, casos
instill
... that if you can instill some interest in science...
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induzir, insinuar
instilling
Instilling this confidence will help him have faith in himself and work on his own behalf throughout the course of his entire life.
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introduzir graduadamente
insulating
A wall made of straw bales also has dramatically higher insulating properties than a standard wooden wall, making buildings that use them very energy-efficient.
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isolante
insulation
... balloon; the foam provides insulation as well as a...
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Isolamento
insulator
... concrete is a good insulator, monolithic concrete domes are...
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isolador
insults
... armor that keeps environmental insults out so that we...
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insultos
insurer
Achmed’s insurer also only makes money if Sally does not pollute.
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segurador
inter alia
Later, Rene Cassin was, inter alia, the President of the...
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a proposito, entre outras coisas, designadamente
interchangeably
As a result, we use the terms somewhat interchangeably
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indistintamente
interconnectedness
sense the interconnectedness of all that exists.
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interconectividade
intercourse
... some time prior to intercourse."
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intercâmbio, relacionamento
interest rate hikes
The problem Interest rate hikes by the US Federal...
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aumento das taxas de juros
interlopers
... sentiment that immigrants are interlopers who take advantage of...
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intrusos
interlude
... peace was a mere interlude between wars.
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descanso, intervalo
intermingle
25, 2016 An illustrated tour of the Brooklyn neighborhood, where condos and banks intermingle with long-standing Polish markets and restaurants.
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Intercalar
interpreting
I mean the reality is he is governing as if he is the President of a Third World country: power is held by family and incompetent loyalists whose main calling card is the fact that Donald Trump can trust them, not whether they have any expertise.” Ve
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interpretação
interweaving
To me there’s a strong interweaving between the political and the personal, which is why both are in the motto of the podcast.
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entrelaçamento
in the bush
in the bush
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no Mato
in the upper strata of fruit stardom
... variety of other designations in the upper strata of fruit stardom, based on different metrics...
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na camada superior do estrelato de frutas
into the groove
... so, we've really gotten into the groove of... we own different...
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no túmulo
intractable
I’m always on the lookout for interesting books, and only my budget keeps my habit from becoming truly intractable.
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adj. intratável, teimoso, rebelde
inveterate
The inveterate diplomatKofi Annan helped define...
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muito antigo
invigorated
... does... you do feel invigorated when you're teacher.
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revigorado
invoked
The spirits can be invoked from beneath the Great...
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invocada
inwardly
They're still thinking very inwardly.
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interiormente
iota
... be changed by one iota, and to be current...
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pouquinho, bocadinho, pitada
ire
So whenever someone visits a relative’s house where the paper is rolling the “wrong” way, they’ll change it—prompting considerable ire from whoever lives there.
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ira, raiva
irks
It irks me... when I hear...
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irrita
ironing
... for work, you know, ironing clothes, having a shower,...
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passando a ferro
islet
... cells, liver cells, pancreatic islet cells-- captured the attention...
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ilhota
is rendered useless
however this calculation is rendered useless when taking into consideration...
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torna-se inútil
i summed it up
i summed it up
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Eu resumi tudo
iterated
Webvan iterated their strategy and their search for a business model by firing executives.
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Iterado
iterating
First of all they realized that iterating along the way experimenting was incredibly valuable.
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perform or utter repeatedly.
it has paid off
... because, basically, I think it has paid off for them.
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valeu a pena
it was packed to the gills
It was packed to the gills.
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completamente lotado
iv
to an IV and be put into a coma until I lost all the weight I needed.
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intravenous
i've been cashing out on
... it's a legacy that I've been cashing out on.
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Estive correndo em
i've kind of fallen out of favor
... that yellow circle because I've kind of fallen out of favor.
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Eu meio que caí de lado
jacked up
... using Shoe Bands, I jacked up my bench press by...
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levantado
jamesaltucher
It’s funny, my blog is at JamesAltucher.com, but I do most of my posts, really, on my email list.
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JamesAltucher
jammed
My email is getting jammed packed with stuff, and I keep missing things potentially.
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apertar, calçar; apinhar; comprimir; interferir; *enrascar-se*; morder; pressionar; perturbar a transmissão
jamming
And I'm jamming away on this thing,...
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interferencia eletronica intencional (apertar, comprimir, interterir)
jarring
... do remember the most jarring.
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chocante, gritante, berrante
jawed
... that they'll stare slack- jawed at their first baseball...
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maxilar mandíbula
jaws
Jaws formed first; teeth came...
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mandíbulas, molares
jazzes
... but that's not what jazzes me.
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animar
jeered
When members of Congress returned to their home districts in March, outrage erupted at town-hall meetings, where constituents jeered Republican officials, chanting “Do your job!” and “Push back!” The former South Carolina governor Mark Sanford, who i
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zombar
jeez
Todd: Jeez!
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Caramba!
jellyfish
... could say," Imagine a jellyfish waltzing in a library...
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água-viva
jennings
JOANNE ELGART JENNINGS:
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Jennings
jeopardy
He got a law degree in, like, five states, and, like, won ‘Jeopardy’ three times.
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s. perigo, risco, colocar em risco, arriscar-se
jerk
... to have someone else jerk the strings that tie...
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empurrão
jerseys
Dykstra’s hotel key had become demagnetized, earlier, and he was proud of the fact that he hadn’t erupted on the staff out of frustration, but the delay in resolving the problem patiently meant that there were no Mets hats or jerseys in evidence amon
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camisas
jiggles
A Bounce in Your Step I have always understood that there is some sort of swinging or bouncing mechanism in a pedometer that jiggles each time you take a step, thus causing a ratchet to move (in mechanical models) or incrementing a counter (in electr
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sacodi
jigsaw
As I’ve said before, it’s like a jigsaw puzzle.
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quebra cabeça
jinx
Jill: Don't jinx it!
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má sorte, azar
jitter
And although virtually every modern camcorder has a built-in device to compensate for the jitter caused by small hand movements, long handheld shots—especially those taken while walking, as is natural for camcorder users—typically include a fair amou
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tremor
jolly
For he’s a jolly good fellow!
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alegre, contente
jolt
I jolt myself out of it.
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balançar, sacudir; golpe
jot
Steve: Get down, you see, like jot down, write down and so, again, it’s that word “have”.
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anotar rapidamente
jot down
jot down
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anotar
jotted
The idea is simple: someone registers a book on this Web site, and in so doing gets a unique ID number that can be jotted down inside the front cover, along with the site’s URL.
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anotei; rabiscou; redigiu
jousting
... dozen other locals are jousting at a monthly quiz...
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disputando
judicious
Composition, lighting, audio recording, judicious use of camera angles, panning, zooming, and so on all require practice and a certain degree of artistic sensibility; these do not come in the box with your camcorder.
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judicioso, prudente
juiciest
Pinterest pin that says you could be juiciest peach in the world but there’s
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suculento
jumbled
... of those things all jumbled up together.
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misturar; misturar-se; confundir; confundir-se; estar confundido
jumpsuit
... good in an orange jumpsuit, you'll never know.
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Macacão
juncture
That’s extremely helpful at this juncture What are we going to do?
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conjuntura, crise, ponto/momento crítico, junção
junkie
At that time, Astronaut Ice Cream was not available just anywhere, and this curious novelty was too good for my mom, a confirmed ice cream junkie, to pass up.
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Drogado
junkies
make the call about pivots, but the company needs to have data junkies, A/B testers, statisticians, and
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viciados
just plain
just plain
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simplesmente
kafkaesque
Steve: You know, there’s something almost Kafkaesque about this whole thing.
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adj. absurdo, sem sentido, esquisito;
kafuffle
... because they heard the kafuffle.
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disturbance
keen
meets a unique set of obstacles, but Campbell’s keen insight was that the outline of these stories is
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"louco por"
keeners
I guess it would be a matter of getting some "keeners".
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mais apurados, mais empenhados
kettle
You were on the grind working hard and I was playing mixed slow pitch softball which is a different kettle of fish.
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chaleira; panela, caldeira
keyed
... about Apophis, because you're keyed in to all the...
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com chave
keypad
... few clicks on the keypad, I announced:“ Looks like 11...
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teclado
khakis
A retired ballplayer, age fifty-five and dressed in golf attire (sneakers, khakis, cap), approaches the lower tier of seats at Citi Field and is rebuffed by an usher.
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cáqui
kicked off
... collected$500, but Do Bands kicked off a new summer camp,...
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dar o pontapé inicial, iniciar algo
kidney
... region of space, this kidney- bean- shaped region called...
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rim; disposição, humor; temperamento; tipo
kindle
Kindle, kindle the flame because you need that emotional involvement which comes from listening, and listening to things that we like, where like the voice content we find interesting and I would throw, and I agree with you by the way.
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acender
kinship
... an immediate sense of kinship.
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parentesco
kitsch
They have a 1-800-GENOCIDE number -- this is going to sound very kitsch, but for those of you who may not be, I mean, may be apolitical, but interested in doing something about genocide, you dial 1-800-GENOCIDE and you type in your zip code, and you
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vulgar, barato, de mau gosto
kittens
They're like, you know, kittens.
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gatinhos
kleptocracy
Trade Trump for Pence and you go from kleptocracy to theocracy.
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cleptocracia
klick
We got a four klick hump to our number...
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km
knack
My own little running joke, the point of which is to ridicule the absurdity of the “no final prepositions” rule, is to put prepositions both at the beginnings and ends of phrases, where they would in some languages be called “postpositions.” Thus, I
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talento especial, habilidade
kneel
... blindfolded, and forced to kneel, as the silencer of...
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ajoelhar
kneepads
... if I brought my kneepads."
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joelheiras
knell
You’ve spent all this time putting this resume together; you just don’t see the inconsistencies, or you don’t see the spelling mistakes or you don’t see the bad grammar or whatever. STEVE: It certainly does, because, as you say, we get lots of a
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anunciar coisa ruim tocar sinos de luto
knelt
... guards came down, I knelt. I begged for my...
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ajoelhou-se
knickknacks
Jill: Yeah, I mean there’s so many of these little stores around that have just knickknacks and trinkets and just little things and a lot of women like all that kind of stuff.
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enfeite, adereço, jóia
knighthood
If that doesn’t get you a knighthood, what will?
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nobreza, fidalguia
knit
I occasionally encountered trade barriers. The paper industry in Japan was a tightly knit community of users, producers and government officials.
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atar; enlaçar; unir;
knitting
Things you can receive by monthly subscription include: gourmet cheese, minerals (for rock collectors), potato chips, sock-knitting kits, trout flies, tea, jam, pasta, pastries, magic tricks, oysters, candles, condoms, quilt blocks, nesting dolls, so
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knit - tricotar
knobby
They don’t look like much: small knobby lumps that resemble-if you’re being generous-shrunken brains.
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nodoso, protuberâncias, com nós
knockoff
... which was a terrible knockoff of Craig's List for...
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nocautear
knock off
... these designsbecause they can't knock off the logo.
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nocautear
knock out
knock out
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Nocaute
knock over
knock over
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derrubar
know thyself
... other words, you must know thyself.
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conhece a ti mesmo
knuckle down
knuckle down
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junta para baixo
knuckle under
knuckle under
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ceder
kooks
... see a lot of kooks.
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indivíduo estranho; idiota; tolo; pessoa desequilibrada
koran
... the Torah or the Koran or the Christian Holy...
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Alcorão
laced
Okay so anyway we’re pretty straight laced and boring.
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