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Descrição
FlashCards por Pedro Tirado, atualizado more than 1 year ago
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Criado por Pedro Tirado
mais de 8 anos atrás
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| Questão | Responda |
| bump into | |
| ran into | also (bump into ) 1. Lit. to move inadvertently or crash into someone. Excuse me. I didn’t mean to bump into you. The child on the bicycle nearly ran into me. 2. Fig. to chance on someone; to meet someone by chance. (Not normally with physical contact.) Guess who I bumped into downtown today? I ran into Bill Jones yesterday. |
| come across | |
| go off | The bomb is going to go off. The bomb went off. The alarm go off (For explosives to explode or fire. For alarms to ring suddenly) |
| Make out | often used in the negative with can't and couldn’t. to see, hear, or understand (something or someone), often with difficulty. He couldn't make out the thing on the horizon. |
| Come into | To recieve something (usually money or property) after somenone's death Peter came into a fortune when his father died. |
| Finish off | New government will have to finish off recently passed employment laws |
| Look back on | The elderly couple are looking back on their weeding |
| Drop off | 1 He dropped his wife off. (to stop a vehicle and let someone get out. to take something o someone to a place and leave it there) 2 He sat in his favourite armchair and dropped off (to fall asleep) |
| Mistake for | I frightened myself last night when I mistook a piece of old rope for a dangerous snake. -- to think wrongly that (one thing or person) is (another thing or person). -- |
| Going on about | talk too much - he is always going on about his kids - |
| take on | Employ / accept more responsability When my mother left us, I took on looking after my little sister. He was taken on by a very important company |
| take up | start a new activity/ocupy/arrest/deal/ The piano takes up too much space. We'll move it somewhere else. Sam was taken up by mistake. I think I would like to take up a secretary course. Has Mary thought of taking up on the job? You won't believe it, but Robert has taken up with Sally's sister. |
| take to | start to like (encariñarse) Alice took to Pedro from the moment she met him. |
| take back | return. Take back this book as soon as possible. |
| take off | remove I took my coat off and put it in the closet but now it's gone! I got to the office five minutes late and they took it off (descontar) my salary. The plane takes off at seven, we have plenty of time for a drink. Jerry is so good at taking off (imitantdo) Jack Nicholson. |
| take down | Could you take that box down the shelf? I can't reach it. (bajar) The students took down a lot of notes on that subject. |
| take in | fully understand Susan can't take in the fact that her boyfriend has lied to her. There was so much noise that I couldn't take your explanation in. |
| take over | take control. I would like the architect to take over the project if you don't mind. the president take the country over |
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