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Unit 3- Relationships Flashcards

1
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thick

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Grosso
espesso
cheio
denso

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thin

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Fino
magro
estreito

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wired world

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Mundo conectado

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Defunct

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extinto

falecido

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in the flesh

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  1. Alive.

2. In person; present.

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Far greater

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bem maior

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Acquaintances

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conhecidos

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Make up

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To put in the order arrange

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9
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given person

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Determinada pessoa

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10
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Faced it by

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Enfrentado

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11
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Hit it off

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to have a good relationship with

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Fit in

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vb

  1. (tr) to give a place or time to: if my schedule allows it, I’ll fit you in.
  2. (intr, adverb) to belong or conform, esp after adjustment: he didn’t fit in with their plans.

Se encaixar

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13
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Spark

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Faísca

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14
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Same wavelength

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Same page

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15
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My children grow up

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👍🏼

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16
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absence

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Ausência

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17
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Kick the bucket

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Chutar o pau da barraca

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Strain

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The state of being subjected to such demands or stresses: trying to work under great strain.

Tenso

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From the outside

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Vendo de fora

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20
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Inaccurate

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Inexato

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21
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Stems from

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Originate

Deriva de

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22
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upsetting her

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Perturba-la

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23
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Different takes

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Think of a problem or situation in different ways

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24
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Enabled to take a joke

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Não sabe brincar

25
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ill tempered

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Mal humorado

26
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Patch up

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Remendar

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Talk thinks over

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Conversar sobre as coisas

28
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Start afresh

A

Começar de novo

29
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Attempt

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Tentativa

30
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Deal with

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Have to do with

31
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go back a long way

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If two people have known each other for a long time

Ex : Justin and I were at college together so we go back a long way.

32
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paths cross

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if two people’s paths cross, they meet by chance It was a pleasure to meet you. I hope our paths cross again soon.

33
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By chance

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An accidental or unpredictable event.

34
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sympathetic

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Compreensivo

35
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on speaking terms

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Friendly enough to talk

If you are not on ​speaking ​terms with someone, you ​refuse to speak to them because you are ​angry with them:

36
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Fall out

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informal to ​argue with someone and ​stop being ​friendly with them:
He ​left ​home after ​falling out with his ​parents.
She’d ​fallen out with her ​boyfriend over his ex-girlfriend.

37
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Wind up

A

› to ​find yourself in an ​unexpected and usually ​unpleasant ​situation, ​especially as a ​result of what you do:
If he ​keeps doing ​stuff like that he’s going to ​wind up in ​prison!
You don’t ​want to ​wind up ​homeless, do you?
Dar corda

38
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take a shine to

A

To like spontaneously.

39
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Spreading thinly

A

To work in too many projects

To do many things at the same time

40
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Get on someone nerves

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to ​annoy someone a lot:
We really got on each other’s nerves when we were ​living together.
Please ​stop making that ​noise! It really gets on my nerves.

41
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Talk down to

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› to ​speak to someone in a ​simple way, as if the ​person cannot ​understand things as well as you can:
Our ​history ​teacher never talks down to us.

  1. To speak with insulting condescension: talked down to her subordinates.
  2. To silence (a person), especially by speaking in a loud and domineering manner.
42
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look down on sb
(also look down your nose at sb)
— phrasal verb

A

to ​think that you are ​better than someone:

She ​thinks they ​look down on her because she doesn’t have a ​job.

43
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look up to sb

— phrasal verb

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to ​admire and ​respect someone:

He’d always ​looked up to his ​uncle.

44
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see eye to eye

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If two ​people see ​eye to ​eye, they ​agree with each other:
My ​sisters don’t see ​eye to ​eye with me about the ​arrangements.

45
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take a shine

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To like spontaneously

Ex: everyone is taken a shine to her

46
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rub (someone) the wrong way

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To annoy; irritate: “One can see … how [his] expression of his ideals and intentions must have rubbed many people the wrong way” (Christopher Lehmann-Haupt).

47
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Rub

A

Esfregar

48
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hatch·et

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  1. A small, short-handled axe for use in one hand.

2. A tomahawk.

49
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bury the hatchet

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To ​stop an ​argument and ​become ​friends again:
Can’t you two just bury the ​hatchet?

Fazer as pazes

Bury( enterrar)

to cease (cessar)hostilities and become reconciled

50
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let bygones be bygones

A

› used to ​tell someone that they should ​forget about ​unpleasant things that ​happened in the past, and ​especially to ​forgive and ​forget something ​bad that someone has done to them :
Just ​let bygones be bygones and be ​friends again.

Bygone: passado

51
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patch sth up

— phrasal verb

A

to ​try to ​improve a ​relationship after there have been ​problems:
Jackie and Bill are still ​trying to ​patch up ​their ​marriage.
Did you ​manage to ​patch things up with her after ​your ​row?
› to ​repair something, ​especially in a ​simple and ​temporary way

52
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pull strings for

A

there is two meanings to this expression.. To pull someone’ strings means that you are making them do what you want to do like you would a marionette ie puppet on strings that only moves when someone pulls the strings. The second meaning I think is what you what. When someone pulls strings it means they have some inside power into something and they can get
something done faster than the regular person. Suppose you
wanted to have a medical exam and were told you would have to wait two months. Well I am a doctor and your friend so I go behind the scenes and ‘pull some strings’ and get you in tomorrow. Using your connections to get something done faster or something done that wouldn’t normally be done.

53
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lose your temper

A

suddenly ​become ​angry:
The ​children ​behaved so ​badly that I ​lost my temper.

Perder a paciência

54
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keep your temper

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to ​succeed in ​staying ​calm and not ​becoming ​angry:

I ​found it hard to ​keep my temper with so many things going ​wrong.

55
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make a mountain out of a molehill

A

› to make a ​slight ​difficulty ​seem like a ​serious ​problem:
You’re making a mountain out of a ​molehill. You ​wrote one ​bad ​essay - it doesn’t ​mean you’re going to ​fail.

56
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I was joke

A

Don’t take offense
Don’t make a big issue of it
Don’t take it the wrong way

57
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talk over something

— phrasal verb

A

› to ​discuss something:

We should get together and talk this over.

58
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put sth behind you

A

› If you put an ​unpleasant ​experience behind you, you ​stop ​thinking about it, so that it does not ​affect ​your ​life:
Like any ​divorce, it was a ​painful ​business but I’ve put it all behind me now.
› If you put a ​bad ​experience or ​your own ​bad ​behaviour behind you, you do not ​let it ​affect ​your ​life now:
It’s over. You need to put it behind you now, and make ​plans for the ​future.

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