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Read in English - Uma Menira Divertida de Aprender Inglês - Livro PDF
Read in English - Uma Menira Divertida de Aprender Inglês - Livro PDF
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Total Control
I am in total control, but don’t tell my wife.
Vocabulary Help
❖ tell (tell, told, told) - contar
❖ wife - esposa
Tomorrow
Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow you may work.
Vocabulary Help
❖ merry - alegre
❖ tomorrow - amanhã
Rocker
You’re getting old when you’re sitting in a rocker and you can’t get it started.
Vocabulary Help
❖ rocker - cadeira de balanço
❖ get it started - colocar para funcionar
Politicians
The only way for a reporter to look at a politician is down.
Vocabulary Help
❖ only way - única maneira
❖ look at - olhar
❖ look down - desprezar
❖ politician - político
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Statistics on Sanity
The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from
some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they are okay, then
it’s you.
Rita Mae Brown
Vocabulary Help
❖ sanity - sanidade
❖ mental illness - doença mental
Opportunities
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don’t recognize
them.
Vocabulary Help
❖ disguised - disfarçadas
❖ hard work - trabalho duro
❖ people - pessoas
❖ recognize - reconhecer
Getting Fat
Middle age is when you have stopped growing at both ends, and have begun to grow
in the middle.
Vocabulary Help
❖ middle age - meia-idade
❖ grow (grow, grew, grown) - crescer
❖ both ends - ambos os lados
❖ middle - meio
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Kind Words
You can get a lot more done with a kind word and a gun, than with a kind word
alone.
Al Capone
Vocabulary Help
❖ get a lot more done - fazer muito mais
❖ kind words - palavras gentis
❖ gun - arma
❖ alone - apenas
Health
Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing.
Redd Foxx
Vocabulary Help
❖ health nuts - pessoas obsecadas com a saúde
❖ feel stupid - sentir-se estúpido
❖ lying in hospitals - deitados em hospitais
❖ die (dying) - morrer (morrendo)
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Hens
Why do hens lay eggs?
If they dropped them, they’d break.
Vocabulary Help
❖ hens - galinhas
❖ drop - deixar cair
❖ break - quebrar
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Competence
Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder
Dr. Laurence J. Peter
Vocabulary Help
❖ truth - verdade
❖ beauty - beleza
❖ contact lenses - lentes de contato
❖ beholder - observador
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Laughing
They laughed at Einstein. They laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed
at Bozo the Clown.
Carl Sagan
Vocabulary Help
❖ laugh - rir
❖ clown - palhaço
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Happy Marriages
What nonsense people talk about happy marriages! A man can be happy
with any woman so long as he doesn’t love her.
Oscar Wilde
Vocabulary Help
❖ nonsense - idiotice
❖ people - pessoas
❖ happy marriages - casamentos felizes
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Vocabulary Help
❖ rule - regra
❖ luggage - bagagem
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Lies
There are a lot of lies going around.... and half of them are true.
Winston Churchill
Vocabulary Help
❖ lies - mentiras
❖ going around - por aí
❖ half of them - metade delas
❖ true - verdadeiras
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Vocabulary Help
❖ aim - mirar
❖ moon - lua
❖ miss - errar
❖ hit - atingir
❖ star - estrela
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Vocabulary Help
❖ clothes - roupas
❖ think (think, thought, thought) - pensar
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Getting Old
You’re getting old when you get the same sensation from a rocking chair that you
once got from a roller coaster.
Vocabulary Help
❖ getting old - ficando velho
❖ rocking chair - cadeira de balanço
❖ roller coaster - montanha-russa
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Bad Grades
Teacher: Well, at least there’s one thing I can say about your son.
Father: What’s that?
Teacher: With grades like these, he couldn’t be cheating.
Vocabulary Help
❖ at leat - ao menos, no mínimo
❖ grades - notas
❖ cheat - colar
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Distress
A disease incurred by exposure to the prosperity of a friend.
Ambrose Bierce, “The Devil’s Dictionary”
Vocabulary Help
❖ disease - doença
❖ incurred by - causada por
❖ prosperity - prosperidade
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Bad Men
A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good
one.
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Vocabulary Help
❖ bad man - homem ruim
❖ once or twice - uma vez ou duas
❖ thankful - grata
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Vocabulary Help
❖ aging process - processo de envelhecimento
❖ slow down - desacelerar
❖ work its way - achar o caminho
❖ through - através
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Failure
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
Henry Ford
Vocabulary Help
❖ failure - fracasso
❖ begin (begin, began, begun) - começar
❖ again - novamente
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Smoking
Anyone seen smoking will be assumed to be on fire and will be summarily put out.
Vocabulary Help
❖ smoking - fumando
❖ assumed - assumir
❖ to be on fire - estar pegando fogo
❖ put out - apagado
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Barbie
Have you heard about the new “barbie”?
She’s called divorcee barbie.
She comes with all of Ken’s belongings!!!
Vocabulary Help
❖ hear (hear, heard, heard) - ouvir
❖ belongings - posses
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Tools
Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.
Arthur R. Miller
Vocabulary Help
❖ must - precisa
❖ shape - moldar
❖ tools - ferramentas
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What Is a Committee?
What is a committee? A group of the unwilling, picked from the unfit, to do the
unnecessary.
Richard Harkness
Vocabulary Help
❖ unwilling - sem vontade
❖ pick - pegar
❖ unfit - inadequados
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Perfection
The closest to perfection a person ever comes is when he fills out a job application
form.
Stanley J. Randall
Vocabulary Help
❖ closest to - mais próximo de
❖ fill out - preencher
❖ application form - formulário de emprego
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Furniture
Shin: A device for finding furniture in the dark.
Vocabulary Help
❖ shin - canela da perna
❖ find (find, found, found) - encontrar
❖ furniture - mobília
❖ dark - escuro
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Action
At my age, “getting a little action” means I don’t need to take a laxative
Vocabulary Help
❖ age - idade
❖ little action - ação
❖ mean - significar
❖ laxative - laxante
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Make no Questions
If you know the answer to a question, don’t ask.
Petersen Nesbit
Vocabulary Help
❖ know (know, knew, known) - conhecer
❖ answer - resposta
❖ ask - perguntar
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Going Fishing
My wife says if I go fishing one more time, she’s going to leave me. Gosh, I’m going
to miss her.
Vocabulary Help
❖ go fishing - ir pescar
❖ leave me - me abandonar
❖ miss her - sentir falta dela
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Punishment
Little Johnny: Teacher, would you punish me for something I didn’t do?
Teacher: Of course not.
Little Johnny: Good, because I didn’t do my homework.
Vocabulary Help
❖ punish - punir
❖ homework - dever de casa
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Statistics
Statistics show that at the age of seventy, there are five women to every man. Isn’t
that the darnedest time for a guy to get those odds?
Vocabulary Help
❖ age - idade
❖ darnedest - impróprio, danado
❖ guy - cara
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Poets
Immature poets imitate, mature poets steal.
T.S. Eliot, “Philip Massinger”
Vocabulary Help
❖ immature - imaturos
❖ steal (steal, stole, stolen) - roubar
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Lifetime
A lifetime isn’t nearly long enough to figure out what it’s all about.
Vocabulary Help
❖ lifetime - vida
❖ long enough - longa o suficiente
❖ figure out - descobrir
❖ what it´s all about - do que se trata
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Praise
I would gladly raise my voice in praise of women, only they won’t let me raise my
voice.
Winkle
Vocabulary Help
❖ gladly - alegremente
❖ raise - levantar
❖ praise - elogio
❖ won´t (will not) - não irão
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New Clothes
Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of
clothes.
Henry David Thoreau
Vocabulary Help
❖ beware - cuidado
❖ enterprises - empresas
❖ clothes - roupas
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Knowledge
Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know.
Michel de Montaigne
Vocabulary Help
❖ believe - acreditar
❖ least know - o que menos sabemos
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Windows
Q: Why don’t they let government workers look out the window in the morning?
A: So they will have something to do in the afternoon.
Vocabulary Help
❖ look out the window - olhar pela janela
❖ something to do in the afternoon - alguma coisa para fazer a tarde
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Generations
It’s hard to say when one generation ends and the next begins — but it’s somewhere
around nine or ten at night.
Charles Ruffing
Vocabulary Help
❖ hard to say - difícil dizer
❖ begin - começar
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Luck
You’re getting old when getting lucky means you find your car in the parking lot.
Vocabulary Help
❖ lucky - sortudo
❖ means - significa
❖ find - encontrar
❖ parking lot - estacionamento
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Grow Up
I may be getting older, but I refuse to grow up!
Vocabulary Help
❖ get older - ficar mais velho
❖ refuse - recusar-se
❖ grow up - crescer
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Optimization
Premature optimization is the root of all evil.
D.E. Knuth
Vocabulary Help
❖ premature - prematura
❖ root of all evil - raiz de todo o mal
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Phoneless Cord
For people who like peace and quiet: a phoneless cord.
Vocabulary Help
❖ people - pessoas
❖ peace - paz
❖ phoneless cord - fio sem telefone
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Purpose in Life
All my life I always wanted to be somebody. Now I see that I should have been more
specific.
Vocabulary Help
❖ somebody - alguém
❖ life - vida
❖ see (see, saw, seen) - ver
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Vocabulary Help
❖ diapers - fraldas
❖ politicians - políticos
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Nowlan’s Theory
He who hesitates is not only lost, but several miles from the next freeway exit.
Vocabulary Help
❖ lost - perdido
❖ miles - milhas
❖ freeway - autoestrada
❖ exit - saída
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Vocabulary Help
❖ old age - idade avançada
❖ loss of memory - perda de memória
❖ forget (forget, forgot, forgotten) - esquecer
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Wisdom
Age doesn’t always bring wisdom. Sometimes age comes alone.
Vocabulary Help
❖ bring (bring, brought, brought) - trazer
❖ wisdom - sabedoria
❖ age - idade
❖ alone - sozinha
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Self-Made Man
No self-made man ever did such a good job that some woman didn’t want to make
some alterations.
Kim Hubbard
Vocabulary Help
❖ self-made man - homem que venceu por si próprio
❖ good job - bom trabalho
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Maslow’s Maxim
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you treat everything like a nail.
Vocabulary Help
❖ tool - ferramenta
❖ hammer - martelo
❖ nail - prego
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Mediocrity
After all, it is only the mediocre who are always at their best.
Jean Giraudoux
Vocabulary Help
❖ after all - depois de tudo
❖ only - apenas
❖ always - sempre
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Mortality
It’s very inconvenient to be mortal — you never know when everything may sud-
denly stop happening.
Vocabulary Help
❖ suddenly - subitamente
❖ happen - acontecer
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Modeling
When God created man before he created woman, remember that artists make models
first before they make masterpieces.
Vocabulary Help
❖ God - Deus
❖ remember - lembrar
❖ masterpieces - obras de arte
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My Dog
Teacher: Desmond, your composition on “My Dog” is exactly the same as your
brother’s. Did you copy his?
Desmond: No, teacher, it’s the same dog!
Vocabulary Help
❖ same dog - mesmo cachorro
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Miseries
Of all men’s miseries, the bitterest is this: to know so much and have control over
nothing.
Herodotus
Vocabulary Help
❖ bitterest - mais amarga
❖ know so much - saber tanto
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Research
Research is what I’m doing when I don’t know what I’m doing.
Wernher von Braun
Vocabulary Help
❖ research - pesquisa
❖ do (do, did, done) - fazer
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Sexy Men
If a man is bald at the front, he is a thinker. If he is bald at the back he is sexy. If he
is bald from front to back he thinks he is sexy.
Vocabulary Help
❖ bald - careca
❖ thinker - pensador
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Vocabulary Help
❖ discovery - descobrimento
❖ knowledge - conhecimento
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Theoretical Chemistry
All theoretical chemistry is really physics; and all theoretical chemists know it.
Richard P. Feynman
Vocabulary Help
❖ theoretical chemistry - química teórica
❖ know (know, knew, known) - saber
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Word of Honor
The best way to keep one’s word is not to give it.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Vocabulary Help
❖ keep one’s word - manter a palavra
❖ not to give it - não dá-la
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Women
Worlds are conquered, galaxies destroyed — but a woman is always a woman.
Kirk, “The Conscience of the King”, stardate 2818.9
Vocabulary Help
❖ conquer - conquistar
❖ destroy - destruir
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Prisoners
Each man is his own prisoner, in solitary confinement for life.
Vocabulary Help
❖ own - próprio
❖ confinement - confinamento
❖ life - vida
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The Truth
What one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.
John Lilly
Vocabulary Help
❖ believe - acreditar
❖ true - verdade
❖ become - tornar-se, vir a ser
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Vocabulary Help
❖ happiness - felicidade
❖ disregard - desconsideração
❖ everybody - todos
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To Be Loved
To be loved is very demoralizing.
Katharine Hepburn
Vocabulary Help
❖ demoralizing - desmoralizante
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The Hypocondriac
Doctor to patient: I have good news and bad news: the good news is that you are not
a hypochondriac.
Vocabulary Help
❖ good news - boas notícias
❖ bad news - más notícias
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Vocabulary Help
❖ deep need - necessidade profunda
❖ complain - reclamar
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❖ worth having - vale a pena possuir
❖ cheat - enganar, trapacear
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