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shallots
BRIGITTE: Of course, onions, shallots, and the garlic- don't...
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chalota (tipo de tempero)
shallows
... the safety of the shallows, but at night, they...
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àguas rasas, raso, nao fundo (piscina, rio, etc); banco de areia
shalt
S: So how can you be in the situation where the director of the school says “thou shalt not speak for six months”.
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deverás
sham
But it's not a complete sham.
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simulação, fingimento, fraude
shan't
I shan't draw on it immediately.
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não deve
shanty
... was Southland, a small shanty community on the western...
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favela
shards
... is shattered into little shards.
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Estilhaços
sharecrop
The uncle operated a large farm on which a number of colored sharecrop farmers lived.
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fazendeiro que utiliza fazenda de outra pessoa para plantar, e recebe uma parte do lucro da plantação
sharecropper
The creator is a sharecropper in this story.
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meeiro
shatter
When the news reveals that one such dude “might have been a creep at Yale,” she added, “it doesn't shatter any illusions.” On Monday, an open letter from alumnae who stand in support of Ramirez—and Ford—began to circulate online.
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romper, quebrar, destruir
shattering
... to share a pretty shattering insight that might forever...
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estilhaçando
shatters
So materials must be chosen (or created) very carefully, and the entire assembly must also be well shielded, in case the wheel shatters due to a defect or other problem.
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estilhaça
shawn
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Shawn
shed
... learning is going to shed some light on what...
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irradiar, dispersar, perder (pele, cabelos etc.), livrar-se; galpão
shedding
... says brain studies are shedding light on the pieces...
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Derramando
sheds
The plant never sheds the leaves; the two...
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vazar, deixar cair, derramar; perder
shelled
... by hand, roasted them, shelled them, and then ground...
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adj. descascado; bombardeado, arrebentado
shelling
... reported civilian casualties by shelling urban areas, saying there...
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bombardeio
shelve
... believe we need to shelve the never- ending War...
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arquivar
shenanigans
... put up with these shenanigans is because it wants...
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travessuras
shibboleths
... shading off into racist shibboleths is rightwing.
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padrão de fala
shied away
... heard of it but shied away from it.
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esquivaram
shield
The fact that people still cling to the belief that the State is required to resolve disputes is amazing, since modern courts are out of the reach of all but the most wealthy and patient, and are primarily used to shield the powerful from competition
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escudo
shimmers
... today. Jurassic Park still shimmers in part of Madagascar,...
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brilha
shires
Good, sound men from the Shires.
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condutores
shirk
I’m not talking about the wishful idealism that allows us to just sit on the sidelines or shirk from a fight.
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esquivar
shirttail
... where people have their shirttail hanging out to me...
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parte de baixo de trás da camisa
shitty
I always had a realization of when leadership was shitty, and I’m not a person that can follow shitty leadership.
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cagado
shivering
... you just stand there shivering half the time.
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trêmulo
shopkeepers
... comfortably with all the shopkeepers in our neighbourhood by...
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lojistas
shoreline
... right there on the shoreline?
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litoral, margem da praia, linha de costa
shore up
... urge the West to shore up the liberal world order...
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fortalecer
shoring
The good news, for what it’s worth, is after Sergio and 21 others were killed that day in the attack on the U.N., the military created a search and rescue unit that had the cutting equipment, the shoring wood, the cranes, the things that you would ha
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Escorando
shortfall
... there is an anticipated shortfall of skilled workers as...
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déficit
shout out
shout out
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gritar
shove
Being the deferential type, I did not push and shove to gather up the candy, and by the time I got to it, all the good stuff was gone.
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empurrar, impulsionar; enfiar; compelir
shovel
He staked a claim and went to work with pick and shovel.
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pá, pá de ferro
shoveling
... in fact, that after shoveling about two scoops of...
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arrastar; cavar com a pá; remover com a pá
showcased
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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exibir
showdown
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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confronto
showering
Relations between Russia and Britain have been reduced to a new form of megaphone diplomacy, with each side showering the other with accusations and counter-accusations.
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banho, cobrindo, despejando
shred
The whole operation is so refreshingly low-key and straightforward that it easily sucks in anyone who likes books and has even a shred of generosity.
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s. pedaço, tira, retalho; partícula, fragmento
shrewd
... these estimates were quite shrewd, sophisticated, and(it would...
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astuto
shrill
21 When the uncle reached the spot where the child was standing, she quickly stepped forward one step, looked up into his eyes, and screamed at the top of her shrill voice, "MY MAMMY’S GOTTA HAVE THAT FIFTY CENTS!"
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grito estridende
shrimps
Those mothers were taking crabs and shrimps from the rice paddies and putting it into the meals so they had more protein.
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camarões
shrouded
to be a new path, often shrouded in uncertainty, fear and doubt.
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coberto, envolvido
shuffle
But anyway, you go there, you hear people cough, shuffle around, whatever.
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arrastar os pés/misturar
shutter
... has developed is a shutter that can open and...
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obturador
shuttle
There’s also a commuter train that extends down the peninsula from San Francisco to San Jose, airport shuttle vans, and of course plentiful taxis.
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v. ir e voltar; transferir em viagens de ida e volta /s. veículo que transporta pessoas num trajeto curto
sickle
... an investor that this sickle cell or this Tay-...
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foice
sidelong
He turned to some young women on his left, and said, “I played center field.” Sensing skepticism, he added, “Yeah, for the Mets.” “You?” one asked, exchanging sidelong glances with her friend.
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oblíquo
sidestep
The Japanese consumer electronics company said that it would relocate to Amsterdam in October to sidestep the risk of tax problems related to the UK’s exit from the European Union next March.
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esquivar, dar um passo para o lado
sidestepped
... the end, Mr Annan sidestepped his boss, Boutros Boutros-...
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esquivou-se
sideswiped
It’s going to be things knocking you from outside, but to me, it’s not any different in life That’s kind of how life is; I mean, everything is going great and awesome, then something with health or somebody around you just gets sideswiped, where it s
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golpear de lado strike (someone or something) with or as if with a glancing blow.
sideways
I saw you turn your head sideways, we’re going with it.
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lateralmente
sighs
Dykstra, gesturing toward the mound, asks, “Is that deGrom?” The usher nods, and sighs.
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suspiros
signpost
... that rage is a signpost, perhaps, that you value...
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poste de sinalização
silkier
... does seem a little silkier!"
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mais sedoso
silt
... is soiled with the silt that seems to be...
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lama
simmering
The consequences of a simmering global trade dispute have been “almost unnoticeable” for US consumers, Mr Trump claimed, arguing that steep import duties have allowed his administration to forge a “very strong bargaining position”.
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fervendo
sing
The sun... Sing it.
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cantar
siniy
... goluboy," and dark blue," siniy.
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sinônimo
sipping
... your living room floor, sipping bourbon, and teach yourself...
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dando bicadas (bebida)
sips
... would have a few sips.
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gole, trago
sisyphean
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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Sissyphean
skeem
John: It was a bit difficult cause it takes a lot to get used to reading everything on the screen, and it’s, actually as far as like marking papers and grading them, it’s easier for you because you can just highlight something and make it red and be
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skeem
skeletal
I always make at least a skeletal plan, but I’m ready to drop it in a flash if something better comes up.
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esquelético
sketches
... there were two little sketches of the arts of...
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ESBOÇOS; v=delinear, traçar; anotação, registro, descrição, desenho, rascunho
sketchy
I was a bit sketchy on the actual structural...
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superficial, incompleto, imperfeito, esquemático; esboçado, projetado; incompleto; como um esboço; grosseiro;
skew
... funding so they will skew or spend a lot...
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inclinar, deformar, distorcer; curva.
skewed
Secondly, the distribution of mineral, lumber and drilling rights is directly skewed towards bribery and corruption, because States rarely sell the land, but rather just the resource rights.
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v. inclinar; desviar para o lado; entortar os olhos, olhar de soslaio
skewing
... expected to see some skewing of the results based...
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v. inclinar; desviar para o lado; entortar os olhos, olhar de soslaio
skid
... where they began as skid roads.
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escorregar - derrapar
skim
(Skim the book another time on your private jet or yacht or Sunfish.)
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Ler por alto; Descartar; Tirar a espuma de
skimmed
... buy only the cream skimmed from the top.
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desnatado
skipping
At the time, most ballpoint designs were prone to leaking, skipping, and drying out.
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s. pulo, salto; omissão; supressão; capitão de equipe de boliche; elevador de mina v. saltar, saltitar, pular; omitir; fugir
skirt
Ruth: Akane, you’ve got a new skirt!
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saia
skrim
... through that kind of skrim curtain is to never...
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Skrim
skunk
... got sprayed by a skunk.
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indivíduo desprezível; gambá; grosseiro
skunked
... Gordie had just been skunked.
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esculhambar
skunks
... have a lot of skunks around here.
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gambás
slab
But then, many uncomfortable experiences are worth having, and it’s not every night you get to drink vodka out of an ice glass while watching the Northern Lights, and then sleep on a slab of ice.
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placa, fatia, lajota
slabs
... chain- link and metal slabs.
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lajes
slack
I thank my sons for their tireless work on behalf of the campaign, and thank their wives and children — (cheers, applause) — for taking up their slack as their husbands and dads have spent so many weeks away from home.
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frouxo, preguiçoso, lento
slacks
Todd: OK, and how about if you want to buy a nice suit, you want to buy slacks and a jacket and a tie and a dress shirt, how much would that cost?
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calças - mais calça social
slam dunk
... are close to a slam dunk, if there ever is...
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enterrada (no basquete); something that is a sure to occur; a foregone conclusio
slammed
... of a rifle bullet, slammed into the Earth.
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s. pancada forte, ação de fechar com violência; censura, crítica negativa (gíria) v. bater, dar golpes; surrar (gír.)
slammed down
... and tomatoes; the sun slammed down on the thin steel...
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baixar com força, bater com força?
slams
... know whatthey're doing and slams into me I'm defenseless.
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bater, surrar / critica negativa
slant
"Why," the Chinaman exclaimed, "the queer slant of your eyes.
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inclinação, tendencia, ponto de vista
slapped
... with China, after Trump slapped tariffs on another$200 billion...
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esbofetear
slash
... next 60 seconds and we'll slash a payment and send...
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cortar; barra; reduzir
slashed
On Thursday, a grocery chain had slashed the price 75 percent for a promotion.
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to slash = cortar, reduzir
slashing
And he's been slashing research budgets.
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cortante
slate
... my book" The Blank Slate," I argued that the...
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lousa
slaughtered
... Muslims have been systematically slaughtered.
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abatido; assassinado; abatido; chacinado
sleazy
... instead of considering networking sleazy, we reframed the way...
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sórdido, barato
sleek
Sea lions got sleek.
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suave, brando, liso
sleepers
Onesies and sleepers.
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macacão de dormir, pijama?
sleet
Jill: It was snowing, sleet, there was sleet and...
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Granizo
sleigh
Steve: Sleigh bells, you know, “sleigh” for example.
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trenó
sleighing
The winter Olympics are for snow sports – things like ski-ing, ice-skating and bob-sleighing.
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Trenó
slender
The magnet briefly pulls one of the two slender pieces of metal in the switch out of contact with the other, breaking the circuit, and these breaks are what the counter counts.
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adj. delgado, fino, magro; estreito; escasso
slew
... took up with a slew of lovers.
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uma enorme quantidade; gíria
slicer
It’s the world’s most clever cheese slicer, and it’s designed to work with just one very special kind of cheese. Not Your Father’s Cheese Growing up in the United States, I was conditioned to think of cheese as an ingredient or a topping, not
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fatiador
slick
... had a journal-- a slick journal-- a" Journal of...
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liso; astuto, esperto; inteligente, brilhante; escorregadio; excelente, ótimo (gíria)
slickest
... sent the coolest, hottest, slickest new gadgets.
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habilidoso; esperto, matreiro; excelente (gíria); tb liso, escorregadio
slide
Pop the cheese right onto the spindle, slide on the handle, and you can crank out cheese flowers to your heart’s content.
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deslizar, escorregar
slight
Without in any way meaning to slight the fine work of the bakers and produce sellers who contributed to the day’s find, something about the large number of factors that had to randomly converge to produce that experience struck me as cosmically signi
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adj. leve; sem muito valor; fino, frágil; modesto, parco, escasso;
slings
... from some of the slings and arrows of getting...
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pedradas
slipped
We will never forget them, nor the last time we saw them, this morning, as they prepared for their journey and waved goodbye and "slipped the surly bonds of earth" to "touch the face of God.
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deslizado
slit
Kevin Bieksa got slit with a skate on his calf muscle.
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fenda, brecha, racha
sliver
... of Malawi, the small sliver of a country in...
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fatia, lasca; posta
slobbering
Mark: Now your hands smell and you don’t want them slobbering on your pants, but now that I have a dog
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babando
slog
... it is a long slog.
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(UK) trabalho árduo
slop
... running around in the slop, mud, dirt, whatever, all...
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poça; umidade, água entornada
slopped
... stuff just kind of slopped out.
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derramou
sloppiness
Sloppiness, for one.
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negligencia
sloppy
... if native speakers are sloppy in their speech and...
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desleixado
sloshing
... measuring these electrical currents, sloshing back and forth in...
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espirrar; borrifar, asperzir,
sloths
) In a tropical rain forest, most of the animal life makes its home in the canopy—not just birds but monkeys, sloths, snakes, and a variety of insects.
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s. preguiça, indolência; preguiça (animal)
slough
As soon as that sand gets saturated with water, it’s just going to slough off.
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lamaçal
slugfest
It was a slugfest.
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pancadaria
sluggish
... cortex will be more sluggish.
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preguiçoso, indolente, vadio, vagabundo, ocioso
slugs
Slugs became snails.
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lesmas
slumber
Here's me at a slumber party a few days...
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repouso, descanso
slump
... misery of the economic slump.
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crise
slunk
Mark: And then slunk back not very happy...
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v. safar-se, fugir, escapar; dar a luz prematuramente
slurpee
The bomb cyclone turned Nantucket waves into Slurpee slush.
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tipo de picolé
slushy
Sunday was really wet because it was kind of slushy by then, but it’s great because you can fall and slide around, oh yeah.
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lamacento
slut
... me aside for some slut straight out of vassar.
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prostituta, puta, vagabunda; mulher má, mulher suja
sluts
It operated mostly outside university bounds because of penalties it had incurred after a now infamous incident five years prior, when a pack of pledges thronged the freshman residential quadrangle to shout an initiation chant: “No means yes, yes mea
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vadias
sly
It has a sly habit of slipping in by the back door, and often it comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.
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dissimulado, manhoso
smack
Miki: Ah, no, it’s not really a college town, of course, because it’s right smack in the middle of a metropolitan area which is the Bay Area, and just right across the bay from San Francisco.
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palmada; beijo estalado; estalo de lábios; pancada, tapa; som agudo; pequena porção; veleiro
smacked
Critics said the decision smacked of interference by Erdogan,...
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n 1 gosto, aroma, sabor, ressaibo. 2 indício, traço, noção, laivos. • vi ter gosto ou sabor. /n 1 estalo feito com os lábios. 2 beijoca. 3 pancada, palmada. 4 estalo (como o de chicote).
smattering
... these are just a smattering of the molecules that...
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n. conhecimento limitado, conhecimento superficial adj. plano, simples, de pouco conhecimento smatter n. conhecimento limitado, conhecimento superficial v. falar superficialmente (um idioma, etc)
smear
There have also been smear campaigns by Government- aligned...
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borrão/ difamação
smears
... forth between the small smears.
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mancha, v. spread something across or over a surface;
smidge
... mystery is just a smidge too much responsibility to...
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Small amount of price, usually +/- 1/8 or 1/4.
smirk
We smirk because we believe that...
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sorriso forçado, falso
smog
Nick: And the other thing that we do remember is that we could look back and see in the direction of Beijing and you could see all the smog and pollution, uhh, kind of hovering on top of Beijing.
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poluição
smokestacks
In 19th century England, when industrial smokestacks began belching fumes into the orchards of apple farmers, the farmers took the factory-owners to court, citing the common-law tradition of restitution for property damage.
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chaminés
smothering
They busted open Mexico's smothering monopolies.
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sufocando, abafando...
smudge
You've got a smudge on your blouse.
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mancha; sujeira; fumaça sufocante; fogo, fogueira (combater os insetos)
smudging
This ink, which has a consistency similar to rubber cement, is also waterproof and resistant to smudging.
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manchar
smug
And they use smug left-wing arguments about political correctness to feed their voters' sense of being looked down on.
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presunçoso
smuggled
He was smuggled into the jail at...
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contrabandeado
smugglers
... also victimized by degenerate smugglers, like when 71 people perished...
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contrabandistas
snacked
It’s almost like you’ve energetically snacked all day, because you’re
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petiscar
snap
snap at her, and then you have this pasted on smile that is just seething
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estalar, quebrar, retrucar asperamente
snapper
Jill: We got things that are very similar to here; you know, snapper or just grilled.
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s. tipo de tartaruga; tipo de peixe; diretor de trabalho (gíria)
snares
Fish traps exist to capture fish. Once you’ve caught the fish you can forget the trap. Rabbit snares exist to capture rabbits. Once you’ve got the rabbit you can forget the snare. Words exist to capture meaning. Once you’ve g
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armadilha (traps)
snark
I thought my rightness justified my rudeness -- harsh tones, raised voices, insults, interruptions -- but that strategy is ultimately counterproductive. Dialing up the volume and the snark is natural in stressful situations, but it tends to bring the
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Snark
snarls
He snarls, comes at me with...
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rosnados
snatch
He'd pop up and snatch the glasses off a classmate's face, or spit at the teacher.
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agarrar, apanhar, tentar pegar
snatched
... right since you just snatched him up.
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arrancado, arrebatado
snatchers
... Invasion Of The Body Snatchers.
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ladrões
sneak
Just trying to like sneak around the person and nod and wave.
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enfiar-se; escapar, esquivar-se; alcagüetar, entregar, dedurar
sneering
They must stop sneering at nationalism, but claim it for themselves and fill it with their own brand of inclusive civic pride.
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sarcástico
sneeze
... as a salad bar sneeze guard for planets.
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espirrar
sneezed
... caught a cold and sneezed and died in a...
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Espirrou, espirrava, espirrado
sniffer
... manual author and semen- sniffer Theodoor van De Velde--
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inalador, respirador
sniffing
There were a number of dogs playing on the beach—catching sticks and Frisbees, sniffing the tourists, and generally having a good time.
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fungar
snippet
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trecho
snippets
... silenced because there were snippets in that video, a...
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s. recorte, retalho; fragmento, pedaço cortado
snitch
Being told I'm a" snitch" is really fun.
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delatar
snooze
Outside of any text messages and that sort of thing, that’s really all I have to look for when I hopefully don’t push the snooze button.
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soneca
snort
... even suggested we should snort oxytocin... to become more...
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roncar, urrar; bufar; esfolegar; tomar um gole
snout
It can be tricky-not to mention dangerous-to get between the snout of a pig and a truffle it’s trying to dig up. Certain breeds of dogs, after a period of training, can be nearly as effective as pigs at finding truffles, but less likely to eat t
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focinho
snowshoeing
Mark: Head up there snowshoeing or maybe cross- country...
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caminhadas na neve
snuck
... on an errand and snuck away and picked up...
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n. gatuno, ladrão; dedo-duro, (gíria); desprezível, ordinário; sorrateiro v. enfiar-se; escapar, esquivar-se; alcagüetar, entregar, dedurar (gír.); roubar, carregar (gír.)
snuff
... the Yanomami blowing that snuff up their noses, that...
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cheirar, inalar
snuggle
books or cuddle or snuggle or watch TV together.
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aconchegar
soak
... Hershey did originally) to soak up some of the...
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ensopar
soaks
... that pain sponges and soaks in, I just really...
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soak v. enxaguar; ensopar; absorver; entrar; explorar, cometer preços abusivos
soap operas
Watch Oprah and soap operas?
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novelas
soared
And my spirit soared free, like a great...
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elevar-se
soaring
... with Bolsonaro, has blamed soaring violence in north- eastern...
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alto, subindo
soars
... isolated volcanic massif that soars above the Caribbean coastal...
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Sobe
sobering
Well, it was sobering, sobering story, certainly got our attention, along with these talks.
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sóbrio
sober looking
... handed me a very sober- looking two- page newsletter from...
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Olhar sóbrio
sock
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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meia
sockets
... cameras in its eye- sockets.
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s. tomada (também em informática); oco, buraco; encaixe; pedestal; (informática) tomada, dispositivo que transfere receptor/emissor na rede
soggy
... the filling and getting soggy.
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encharcado
soiled
... the river itself is soiled with the silt that...
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Sujado
sojourn
... but also during their sojourn among enemies.’12 The Romans...
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residir temporariamente
sojourning
... and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to...
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peregrinando
solace
The estate is an easy drive from the industrial cities of Nottingham and Sheffield, and for the last three-quarters of a century it has provided the general public with the solace of a fine slice of English countryside—a lake, some lawn, an avenue of
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consolo
solemnly
One day at lunchtime, my friend Brad gathered a few of us geeky types together on the playground and solemnly handed each of us a small, shiny object.
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solenemente
soles
... shoes with swan- skin soles, who proffered the viands...
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sole s. sola do pé; sola; solha (tipo de peixe) v. pôr solas
somebody
I don’t think I’ve ever met somebody who doesn’t love Hawaii who’s been there.
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alguém
somerset
In the autumn of 2000 I went on honeymoon to Somerset—a beautiful rural region in the south-west of Britain.
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Salto mortal
soot
One egregious example often cited is a group of houses downwind from a new factory which works day and night to coat them in soot.
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fuligem
sooty
... much as 95 percent, the sooty mix coming out of...
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coberto de fuligem
sophomore year
... think it was maybe sophomore year in college when Facebook...
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no segundo ano
sorceress
Reputedly a sorceress and able to change shape at will, Morgan le Fay was sometimes said to live below the sea in a crystal palace that could also rise above the surface.
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feiticeira, bruxa
sorely
Business Model Generation he provided a visual ontology and a clear vernacular that was sorely needed, and it became clear that this was the tool to organize startup hypotheses.
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dolorosamente, muito
sorority
“When we had a mixer with them, they didn't even want to talk to us,” a classmate who is in a sorority told me recently.
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clube de moças
soundbite
Soundbite of laughter)
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frase de efeito
sour
It’s inside bacon and sour cream is nice and Jack cheese.
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azedo

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