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memoir
... wrote this book, this memoir called" Eat, Pray, Love"...
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livro de memórias
menace
He professes no longer to like baseball, at least in its current incarnation—the scarcity of balls in play, the camaraderie among opponents, the absence of menace—but he can’t help offering a few pointed observations about, say, the left fielder’s in
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ameaça
menacing
... the slaveholders were still menacing us from the sidelines.
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menace: v. ameaçar, arriscar, colocar em perigo
mend
The only thing to do was to wait for my internet provider to mend the connection.
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v. compor, reparar, consertar, remendar, retocar, emendar, corrigir, reformar - s. conserto; cura; melhoramento
mending
How Sisyphean this task was of mending, and yet aware of that complexity, humbled by it, he wasn’t paralyzed by it.
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consertando
merited
This idea seems to be catching on so rapidly that I thought it merited a bit more research.
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merecido
merrily
But you can get around it, and surprisingly enough, one way to do so is to use water to dry your clothes. Small Change We eventually found a home with a conventional washer and dryer, and I forgot all about the combination devices until I wen
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Alegremente
merry
... no seesaws, jungle gyms, merry- go- rounds, climbing ropes,...
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alegre, divertido
merry go rounds
... no seesaws, jungle gyms, merry- go- rounds, climbing ropes, nothing that...
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Carrosséis
mesmerized
So mesmerized were we by the heretofore unseen homes and yards of Bayview Drive, we didn’t notice ourselves walking right into the domain of a vicious gang of eight year olds.
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hipnotizado, preso, pregado
mic
... take control of the mic, and manipulate and control...
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microfone
microlending
... talked about, in particular, microlending, which is a tiny...
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microcrédito
middens
... from the Salish peoples' middens.
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pilha
midget
... not, it's a taller midget.
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anão
midst
All they had to do is look around and see the opportunities in their midst.
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meio, centro
midwife
... institutions, but was the midwife of our constitution.
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parteira
miffed
Mark: Kate, here in our office, drove in today and was quite miffed, I guess, by the fact that down here, lower down the hill, there’s no snow, whereas she was shoveling her driveway this morning.
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enervar, humilhar, causar rancor
mighty
... had many resources and mighty ambitions, but the one...
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forte, poderoso
mildly
... at me with a mildly incredulous look on their...
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adv. suavemente, docemente, indulgentemente, pacificamente
mileage
Your mileage may vary
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milhagem (número de milhas)
milked
Well, she was born in Canada, but her parents came over from there and she was raised on a farm where there was always baking and they milked their own cows and always lots of cooking going on, so she’s like that.
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ordenhadas
milling
... even manufacture it through milling.
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moer; trituração
milongueros
So a lot of milongueros-- the tango dancers will...
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milongueiros
mimic
to mimic it, that they would then be able to experience it if they did
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imitar
mince
OK, let me not mince words.
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moer, moida
mind
Mark: Well, you know, Santa is not a mind reader.
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Mente; cabeça; pensamento; ideia; opinião; atenção; memória; alma; razão. V. lembrar-se; prestar atenção; notar; cuidar de; dedicar-se; obedecer. Se importar com
mind bending
... passionate about explaining the mind- bending ideas of relativity to...
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ocupar dobrar
mind boggling
think this is so mind- boggling awesome.
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incompreensível
mindless
The Internet and television can bring knowledge and information, but also offensive sexuality and mindless violence into the home.
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descuidado, estupido, insensivel; negligente
mind over matter
Steve: Mind over matter.
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mente sobre a matéria
mind you
... the fruits of progress, mind you.
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veja bem
mined
... rock ready to be mined.
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explorado
mingle
(Be sure not to mingle or
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misturar
mired
We now have the lowest unemployment rate in 17 years, good economic news, as you reported earlier in the show, and yet he remains mired in the mid-30s, where a great majority of people do not think he’s honest, do not think he’s level-headed.
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atolado
miscarried
She'd miscarried.
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abortou
mischief
Someone's bloody well making mischief.
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travessura
mischievous
I’m twenty-seven.” The women got up and left, and Dykstra smiled, mischievous.
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pernicioso
misconstrual
But it's a misconstrual.
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mal interpretado
misdeeds
When the case reached the Senate, Clinton’s lawyers capitalized on his popularity and presented his misdeeds in the broader context of his Presidency.
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crimes
misdemeanors
... low- level crimes, like misdemeanors, 70 to 80 percent.
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contravenções
misgivings
owning your misgivings, owning things that you did that you’re not
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s. temor, medo, preocupação, dúvida
misleading
As readers will realize, this analogy is wholly misleading.
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enganador
misnomer
... printing is actually a misnomer.
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termo impróprio
mistakenly
Russian officials said they planned to send the S-300 missiles to Syria after a Russian plane was mistakenly shot down last week — an act that Moscow blamed on Israeli pilots.
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equivocadamente, por engano
mistletoe
(Really) and another thing I would do, around Christmas time, you know America is the tradition of putting mistletoe up on the roof for Christmas, well I would climb trees, cut the mistletoe and then again I would walk door-to-door and say,"Would you
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ramo de visco usado como decoração em árvores de Natal
mistrial
Last month, the judge declared a mistrial after prosecutors withheld evidence from the defense.
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mau julgamento
misuse
Taking the rules of language too far For all its shortcomings, I’m quite fond of the English language and have always been a bit bothered when people misuse it.
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desvia
mitt
... wide eyes and a mitt on their hand, soaking...
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luva, mitene;
mixed up
... her neighbour had become mixed up in drugs.
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atrapalhado, confundido
moaning
... electronic music][speaking Russian][moaning][dramatic music] Go get...
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gemido, suspiro
moats
The opposite is also true: filled-in ditches and moats, with their deeper soil, can lead to taller, greener plants and “positive” crop marks.
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fossos
mob
And Fury wields the weapons of the mob, the stone and knife.
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multidão
mock
Most of the time you can mock-up the web page or create a demo
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simulado, falso, imitado, zombado
mockups
sales materials and, where possible, product demos or mockups.
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maquetes
modals
Steve: “I might not.” I think all of those are given the general term of modals.
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conduta
module
... thinking about creating a 6 module video e- course filled...
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módulo
mogul
Casino mogul Steve Wynn denied today that he has sexually harassed or assaulted multiple women.
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pessoa influente; magnata
mogully
... don't go down the mogully runs or the black...
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pequenos montes duros ou colisão em uma pista de esqui
moguls
... most well- known movie moguls in all of Hollywood--...
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s. pessoa influente
mold
... again, bananas break the mold.
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mofo
moldings
Moldings, of course, refer to...
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Molduras
molds
... mixture was pressed into molds and allowed to harden.
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mofo; dar forma a, moldar; emoldurar; imitar
mole
And the day in a random town featured a hell of a homemade chicken mole and a visit to a 16th-century monastery that did not even show up on TripAdvisor (leading me to suspect that the company may be biased toward halal chicken stands in West Africa.
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toupeira
momentous
This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice.
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adj. muito importante
mongering
... the media's constant doom- mongering with its fixation on...
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alarmismo, pânico
mongers
... as“ terrorists” and“ coup mongers”, it says.
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golpistas
moniker
For New Englanders, the term nor’easter is familiar, but this time a new moniker entered the popular lexicon.
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apelido
monsoon
... getting ready for the monsoon in Bombay, India.
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monção(vento)
mooching
The other one is about this guy who never says no and he’s got a girlfriend on the side and he promises to her, he promises to his wife, he’s got some guy mooching on him and he can never say no to anyone and he just has this tremendously complicated
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vadiagem
moose
Not moose, but water.
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alce
mopping up
mopping up
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enxugando
morale
I look after morale of the back- benchers,...
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moral
moray
Jill: Yeah, yeah, they can but they’re pretty docile, generally, and they sort of stay back and there are moray eels and it was fantastic.
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moréia
morose
... Times" has become increasingly morose and the world's broadcasts...
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rabugento
morphine
... I used to give morphine, Dilaudid at the drop...
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morfina
morphs
It changes, and it morphs in response to stimuli.
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morphs
morsel
A little bite-size morsel.
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pedaço, parte
moth
He was drawn to the flames, he chased the flames, he was like a moth to the flames.
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traça
motif
The second one is that I hear or there is a sense in my limited exposure to the sort of - what I call the rock star motif of what entrepreneurism is, in - especially in Silicon Valley, and it’s good.
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motivo
motionless
... a difficulty, yet a motionless, unwearying struggle, congenial to...
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imóvel
motley
One was a motley collection of volunteers who...
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heterogêneo, variado, diversificado
motorcade
On Capitol Hill, protesters chanted “Impeach Forty-five!” In West Palm Beach, a motorcade ferrying him from the Trump International Golf Club to Mar-a-Lago had to take a circuitous route to avoid demonstrators.
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comboio.
motorway
... km(135 miles) on the motorway to Boa Vista, the...
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auto-estrada, highway, expressway, freeway
mould
A lot of people nowadays are trying to use the business model mould, think about innovation, it’s the opposite.
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mofo, molde, moldar
mounds
In recent weeks, archeologists in light aircraft, hobbyists with drones, and even people walking through their local parks have discovered Iron Age farms in South Wales, a Roman road passing near Basingstoke, burial mounds in Ireland, and the outline
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montes, morros,
mourner
... a singleton, a funeral mourner, or simply a companion...
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luto, parente do defunto
mow
... I was at it, mow the lawn.
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cortar
moxie
... everyone would dig my moxie, and I was right.
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force of character, determination, or nerve.
muddied
And Donald Trump has muddied the waters by being here, being there, being there, but mostly pretty restrictionist.
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sujar-se na lama, enlamear, enturvar; turvo, lamacento; enlamaçado, enlameado; *obscuro*
muddy
... little bit of the muddy area.
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lamacenta, barrento
mudslides
News Wrap: Deadly California mudslides block highways, destroy homes.
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deslizamentos de terra
muesli
So far today, I went to the supermarket and bought some muesli.
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cereal matinal
muffle
The book persuasively illustrates what an ineffectual congressman he was, apart from cozying up to the Koch brothers, Betsy DeVos and other rich Republican donors; the clumsiness and vanity of his one term as governor of Indiana, for which he did som
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abafar
mug
“I haven’t seen you in a long time.” Dykstra’s mug shot has been in the news recently.
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canecão
mulishness
... even I, in my mulishness, even I have brushed...
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teimosia
multiyear
That company built a “virtual world” on the web using a multiyear waterfall development model.
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plurianual
mumble
... listen to people who mumble.
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If you mumble, you speak very quietly and not at all clearly with the result that the words are difficult to understand.
mumbling
... he had heard people mumbling and grumbling--" I have...
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v. resmungar; murmurar; mastigar sem dentes
mumbling and grumbling
... he had heard people mumbling and grumbling--" I have heard it...
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resmungando e resmungando
mumbo jumbo
mumbo jumbo
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patranhas
mummy
You sleep in high-tech mummy-style sleeping bags covered with animal pelts; although the air temperature in the room is below freezing, your body remains toasty warm.
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s. embalsamento, múmia; mamãe
munition
According to the Cluster Munition Monitor 2018, States parties to...
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Munição
murky
because they’re afraid that it’ll pull them into this dark, murky hole that
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escuro, turvo, melancólico
mused
There’s always a first time—it’ll happen to you, too—when you got to peel and reveal, dude, and you wait for the blood to flow.” He mused, “I don’t know if you can run out of stuff, or whatever?” Here might be a good time to mention that there was a
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v. meditar, afundar-se na meditação, pensar
mush
... to turn completely into mush in your mouth, so...
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mingau
mushy
In London, a city not known for its air-conditioning, the parks turned brown, the road surfaces went mushy in the afternoon ferment, and the nights became unbearably still.
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mole como mingau; piegas
musing
musing.
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meditando
musni
Omar Musni, UN News.
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musni
muster
The best we can muster up is," I don't...
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passar em revista; fazer chamada; reunir para inspeção; juntar; *mostrar; exibir
musty
As we stood there in that musty old mill, Mr. Darby repeated the story of the unusual conquest, and finished by asking, "What can you make of it?
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mofado
muted
your selves, if you're muted, and ask me a...
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atenuado; apagado
mutineers
... did not supply the mutineers with radios, which he...
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revoltosos
mutinous
... meet several times with mutinous officers intent on toppling...
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amotinado
mutt
So, he’'s a mutt but he’'s great.
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vira-lata
muttered
I find myself pining for those simpler days when a lethargic salutation muttered under ones breath initiated a friendship that could last a lifetime.
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murmurar, resmungar
muzzled
... numbers, the press was muzzled, civil society was crushed,...
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amordaçados
myriad
... will turn into a myriad of quasi- police states,...
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bastante, muito
nag
Now if you find that they are, then I would – without trying to nag you – that maybe it might be beneficial to listen to them in sequence, because it is a pyramid building of knowledge that we’re trying to do here, so I think that it may be worth doi
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chato, importunar
nagging
Sometimes I awake from one of my dreams uncertain of whether it really happened or not, and with a nagging sense that a vital piece of information has been lost—that the dream was trying to tell me something important.
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irritante, perturbante
nailed
The fear of making a move before the last detail is nailed
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pregar
nailing
Steve: Or nailing the paneling, you know,...
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pregar; apertar com pregos;
nail it down
... learn that lesson and nail it down, but it's impossible to...
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apegarsse a isso
name tag
... design a brand new name tag, right?
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crachá
nannies
... side by side with nannies and domestic workers and...
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babás
nanny
Dave: Yeah, he murdered his, umm, his nanny.
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BABÁ; ama de criança
nannying
... me waiting tables and nannying to pay the bills...
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babá
napkin
... in the back of napkin potentially, that's a metaphor...
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guardanapo
nastier
We’ll find something that’s nastier.
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mais maldoso
natch
That was the only time anyone in the house ever drank coffee (another corrupting influence, natch), and I think that one small jar must have lasted well over a decade.
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naturalmente, de certo
naughty
Olivia: He's a very naughty boy sometimes.
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danadinho
navel
... bearing plants(think of navel oranges) normally propagate only...
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umbigo; centro
naysayers
When you introduce a product or service and you find out that there is resistance to it, don’t make yourself crazy trying to fix it for the naysayers.
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n. one who refuses, one who says no
need
I guess some of these students who might have an academic background, need to learn how to communicate with business people.
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necessidade; precisão, carência; pobreza
needy
someone doesn’t want to hang out with me, I don’t get all needy and
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carente
ne'er do wells
ne'er do wells
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ne'er fazer poços
neophytes
... who are sort of neophytes who are not at...
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beginner, iniciantes
nestled
... a very nice resort nestled in amongst these large...
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v. nestle: aninhar, abrigar
net
But pursuing languages was like a net for me, allowing me to catch opportunities that would otherwise have passed me by. One example occurred in 1981.
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rede
newfangled
... feels like an odd, newfangled, non- word. Stress and...
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ultramoderno
newish
I’m the newish political correspondent on the "Chronicle".
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bastante novo
newsletter
... sober- looking two- page newsletter from the organization that...
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boletim informativo
nexus
Because it's in that nexus that we actually begin...
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nexo; ligação, vínculo
nibs
... ground the resulting cocoa nibs together with pure cane...
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ponta
niceties
It's not about the niceties of these details.
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sutilezas
niece
... got to hug a niece he had never been...
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sobrinha
nifty
It's really nifty, exploration.
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atraente, esperto, engenhoso, elegante
nightgown
... home alone in my nightgown, I got a phone...
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camisola
nightmarish
There was undeniable poignancy in his own story’s nightmarish turn, in light of the slogan he’d devised for The Players Club: “keep living the dream.” So I sent him an e-mail, inviting him to a ballgame.
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atemorizante, apavorante; de pesadelo
nimble
This is one point because I think it speaks to how nimble one needs to be and how sort of brutally self-honest and self-aware you need to be as you go through this process.
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ágil, ligeiro, hábil
nip and tuck
... they would like a nip and tuck here and there.
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Nip e Tuck
noble
... the surface of this noble idea lurk extraordinarily pesky...
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nobre
nobleman
I believe it was Voltaire who said of a certain French nobleman that he spoke six languages and had nothing to say in any of them. However, speaking a foreign language fluently can be invaluable in building relationships of trust.
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nobre
no brainer
... this seems like a no- brainer, a long- overdue exercise—...
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acéfalo
no nonsense
... and Bolsonaro has promised no- nonsense fixes, including loosening gun...
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sem brincadeiras
noonish
... from about I guess noonish Saturday until, well even...
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Perto de meio-dia; meio-dia mais ou menos.
nor'easter
Surprising as it seemed, the experts saw it coming, an epic nor’easter, a full moon high tide and a rising sea, all conspiring to swallow up swathes of Boston with an icy cold winter flood.
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tempestade
norse
A Norse explorer, Leif Erickson, sailed his boat from Greenland around the northeastern coast of the continent.
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escandinavo
northernmost
Matacom was a leader of the Wampanoag tribe that lived in the northernmost colonies.
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no extremo norte
nosed
... a little baby bottle- nosed dolphin named Dolly.
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adj que tem focinho, que tem nariz
notches
... park still bear the notches from loggers' springboards used...
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entalhes
nother
... really get a whole nother angle on what's out...
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abreviatura de another (um outro)
nozzle
Yet another variation on this theme is called Multi-Jet Modeling; it uses an apparatus similar to an inkjet head that deposits layers of a special polymer with a very low melting point; it hardens as soon as it leaves the nozzle.
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bocal
nozzles
There’s also a relatively new printer type that “prints” onto powder (as SLS does) but replaces the laser with a moving print head containing a number of nozzles just like those in an inkjet printer.
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bocal, extremidade
nuclei
... but keeps the cell nuclei intact, so you end...
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núcleos
nudge
... some state dollars, to nudge owners like Ron Roth...
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cutucar
nudged
I was nudged, let's say, by our...
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acotovelar; cutucar
nudges
If that subtly nudges you to feel about...
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cutucadas
nudging
... biological stress response is nudging you to tell someone...
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cutucando
nudity
... rape, sexual slavery, forced nudity, and mutilation.”
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nudez
nugget
chicken nugget foods, and that’s not what I’m talking about.
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pepita
nukes
As we saw, they haven’t even gravitated towards protecting our ports or reigning in loose nukes.
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armas nucleares
numb
We numb vulnerability-- when we're waiting...
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dormente
nun
And here’s what you really need to know, is that she’s a nun and she
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freira
nursed
... back to her mother, nursed for a minute or...
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amamentei
nurture
And, you know, if it were only possible to nurture sort of an interest in language with young children and somehow allow them the freedom to explore so that they maintain that interest.
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nutrir, alimentar, educar, estimular, criar
nutshell
That’s customer discovery in a nutshell.
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casca de noz
nutty
They have a distinctive odor, which is sometimes referred to as "nutty" or "musky"-or, by those of a less poetic bent, "stinky."
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agradável, chanfrado
oat
... that bar, with its oat flour base, could hardly...
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aveia
obliges
Can I get a picture with you?” Dykstra obliges, smiling with his lips pursed to mask the fact that he is awaiting a new set of teeth to replace the ones that he alleges were knocked out by California prison guards, in 2012.
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obriga
obliterated
Syria obliterated buildings in Idlib province, the largest area still held by rebels.
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obliterate - apagar; destruir
oblivious
oblivious to this.
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esquecido, distraído; *desatento*
oblong
... four sides of an oblong object.
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adj. retangular s. paralelogramo
obnoxious
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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antipático, detestável
obsequious
He started, as I mentioned, to get in the room with evil, to not denounce, and became almost obsequious when he won the nickname Serbio, for instance, and even when he negotiated with the Khmer Rouge would black-box what had occurred prior to enterin
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obsequioso
obsequiousness
And his obsequiousness is his own best route to the Oval Office, which may very well be God’s grand plan.
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obsequiosidade
octopus
... study showed that an octopus in captivity can recognize...
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polvo
odds
For now, Democrats and Republicans are at odds over whether there has to be an immigration deal before they can agree on a spending plan to keep the government funded.
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desacordo, probabilidades
oeuvre
... line in the entire oeuvre of Alfred Kinsey.
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criação, obra de arte
off and on
off and on
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desligado e ligado
offhand
... emerged later, through an offhand comment.
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improvisadamente
offing
... that are on the offing at the regional level,”...
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o mar largo
offshore
... us away to an offshore J 2 EE coding gulag?
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longe da costa, em alto-mar, atividades fora do país
off the bat
... for example, right away, off the bat, as we say, right...
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imediatamente; logo de cara
off the cuff
off the cuff
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de improviso
oh this is rigged in my favor
Oh, this is rigged in my favor.
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oh isso é manipulado a meu favor
ointment
... groups is called" the ointment".
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pomada
ombudswoman
After Ecuador's ombudswoman called its passport requirement“...
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fiscal/ observadora de eventuais violações públicas
omen
Shortly after my story was published, beneath the headline “Nails Never Fails,” Dykstra spent six hundred thousand dollars on a lavish launch party for The Players Club that remains fixed in my mind, in retrospect, as an omen from the delirium of 200
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Presságio
ominous
ominous music] I heard it...
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ominoso, fatal; ameaçador; sinistro, nefasto; agourento
omit
... agents, and those who omit themselves
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omitir

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