"John ratted on his sister to their parents". "The thief ratted on his companions to avoid jail time" — Rat on = betray someone or to inform an authority about someone's bad behavior betray = trair behavior = comportamento jail = cadeia companions = parças/amigos

TO /tu:/ noção de direção, ir para algum lugar, movimento, destino

FOR /fûr/ noção de finalidade, propósito

PADRÕES - GOING TO - SHOW TO - LISTEN TO

PADRÕES - do for - translate for - fight for

"Teenagers scrolling down their facebook feeds while walking on the streets are sitting ducks for thieves".

"John is always rabbiting on about his many dates with many girls"

I can't wait to meet her She can't wait to find a new job I can't wait for my vacation I can't hardly wait to buy a new computer

TOO / AS WELL / ALSO TOO: no final das frases. SEMPRE. TOO MUCH: demais, antes de adv ou adj AS WELL: frases afirmativas. No final. NOT ONLY, BUT ALSO ALSO: ...

ALSO 1. frase + ponto final + ALSO + frase que adicione uma ideia a primeira frase 2. entre o pronome e o verbo

I don't care whether you're driving a hybrid or an SUV. If you're headed for a cliff, you have to change direction. That's what the American people called for in November, and that's what we intend to deliver.

My father calls acting 'a state of permanent retirement with short spurts of work.'

On the surface we all act like we all love each other and we're free and easy, and actually we're far more moralistic than any other society I've ever lived in.

I like mountains and oceans and stuff, which is where I've always felt some sort of power of meaning, but that's not necessarily spiritual.

Evolution has ensured that our brains just aren't equipped to visualise 11 dimensions directly. However, from a purely mathematical point of view it's just as easy to think in 11 dimensions, as it is to think in three or four.

I would love to have a rapper on one of my songs, like Ludacris, or the 'it's so hot in here' guy, Nelly.

I was not afraid of the press or the militants. It was uncomfortable, but I was not afraid. With respect to the press, I knew I knew more than they knew about city matters. With respect to the militants, I understood it. I mean, everybody believed in those days that they were being screwed, you know, that somebody was getting ahead of them.

We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.

Our rewards in heaven are a result of God's crowning His own gifts.

True Americanism is practical idealism. Its aims, instead of being materialistic and mechanical, are idealistic to the point of being Utopian. In this way, the U.S. can provide and express ideals that strike a chord in humans everywhere - a declaration of independence on behalf of all the peoples of the world.

I'm straight. I. Love. Men. I love men.

I want a guy I can go hiking with, who wants to do outdoorsy stuff. It's so much fun to be out in nature and who better to do that with than the person you're dating?

In the face of evil detachment is a dubious virtue.

I just like sitting at home, chilling and watching a movie.

I feel like I'm as mischievous as you can be while still never wanting to hurt anyone's feelings. I really want everyone to be happy all the time, but I do like seeing what new things you can talk about.

Well, I think the Republican Party is the more populist party.

A writer has an inescapable voice. I think it's inherent in the nature, and I think that we don't control it anymore than we control what we want to write about.

In 1858 I received the degree of D. S. from the Lawrence Scientific School, and thereafter remained on the rolls of the university as a resident graduate.

There is an emerging subgenre of British nonfiction in which journalists from 'The Guardian' fearlessly recount their own derring-do in David-and-Goliath battles waged against omnipotent state interests in the pursuit of Big Important Truths.

The one thing that I have been struck with, after coming here to Congress is, how many people in Washington, D.C. talk about job loss like they are talking about the weather, or a natural disaster like an earthquake.

Whenever I've done anything where I feel like, 'Oh, it would be smart to do that,' it's always been a mistake. Whenever I do the 'Oh, it would be fun to do that,' it's always paid dividends.

My work as an artist is completely separate from my work as a philanthropist.

The old Romans all wished to have a king over them because they had not yet tasted the sweetness of freedom.

By means of microscopic observation and astronomical projection the lotus flower can become the foundation for an entire theory of the universe and an agent whereby we may perceive Truth.