Verbos Irregulares da Língua Inglesa

Present Tense	Simple Past	Past Participle	Tradução
abide	abode	abode	obedecer a lei; permanecer; sobreviver
awake	awoke	awoke awaked	acordar; despertar-se
be	was	been	ser; estar; existir
bear	bore	borne born	dar a luz; sustentar; tolerar; sofrer; produzir; usar
beat	beat	beaten	bater; espancar; superar; vibrar; palpitar
become	became	become	se tornar; se transformar; ser digno de; assentar
begin	began	begun	começar
bend	bent	bent	curvar; entortar; franzir; dirigir; desistir
bet	bet	bet	apostar
bid	bade	bidden	oferecer; convidar; ordenar; desejar; leiloar
bind	bound	bound	atar; amarrar; obrigar
bite	bit	bit bitten	morder; engolir a isca
bleed	bled	bled	sangrar, perder sangue; destilar; tirar dinheiro de alguém
blow	blew	blown	soprar, encher; ventar; assobiar; estourar; fazer soar
break	broke	broken	quebrar; romper; violar; interromper; cancelar; falir
breed	bred	bred	procriar; gerar; fazer criação; educar; ensinar
bring	brought	brought	trazer; servir; causar; executar; induzir
build	built	built	construir, edificar; fabricar
burn	burnt	burnt	queimar; incendiar; carbonizar
burst	burst	burst	arrebentar; explodir; brotar; exclamar
buy	bought	bougth	comprar
cast	cast	cast	arremessar, jogar; derrubar; sobrepujar; espalhar; computar; calcular; moldar; imaginar; (no teatro:) distribuir os papéis
catch	caught	caught	pegar; capturar; entender; adquirir (uma doença); surpreender; complicar-se
choose	chose	chosen	escolher, selecionar, preferir
cling	clung	clung	pegar-se; unir-se; aderir
clothe	clad	clad	vestir, cobrir
come	came	come	vir; chegar; consentir; suceder; atingir o orgasmo
cost	cost	cost	custar; importar em
creep	crept	crept	engatinhar; arrastar-se no chão; andar de rasto
crow	crew	crowed	cacarejar; vociferar; emitir som característico de prazer
cut	cut	cut	cortar; partir; reduzir; recortar; castrar
deal	dealt	dealt	dar; distribuir; repartir; dividir; espalhar; negociar
dig	dug	dug	cavar; escavar; gostar; entender; começar; perceber
do	did	done	fazer; funcionar; cuidar de ; parar; mostrar; jogar; enganar
draw	drew	drawn	puxar; tirar; extrair; desenhar; descrever; traçar; adiantar-se; atrair
dream	dreamt	dreamt	sonhar
drink	drank	drunk drunken	beber
drive	drove	driven	dirigir; viajar; levar; conduzir; guiar; compelir; excitar
dwell	dwelt	dwelt	residir; ficar por um tempo; enfatizar, insistir em
eat	ate	eaten	comer; destruir; devorar; mastigar
fall	fell	fallen	cair; descer; abaixar-se; diminuir; ceder; morrer; abandonar
feed	fed	fed	alimentar; nutrir; abastecer; satisfazer; manter
feel	felt	felt	sentir; perceber; experimentar; apalpar
fight	fought	fought	lutar, disputar; batalhar, combater, guerrear
find	found	found	achar; encontrar; descobrir; julgar; prover, fornecer, abastecer; perceber, notar; resolver
flee	fled	fled	fugir, escapar; evitar; correr
fling	flung	flung	lançar; arremessar; atirar; invadir; saltar; dedicar-se à-
fly	flew	flown	voar; viajar (aérea); fazer voar; fugir; correr; pilotar; flutuar; saltar; lançar-se
forbear	forbore	forborne	abster-se, deixar de-, conter-se; evitar
forbid	forbade	forbidden	proibir; impedir; evitar; vetar
forget	forgot	forgotten	esquecer
forgive	forgave	forgiven	perdoar; desculpar, absolver; abrir mão
forsake	forsook	forsaken	abandonar, desertar, largar; abrir mão de
freeze	froze	frozen	congelar; refrigerar; gelar
get	got	got	receber; conseguir; obter; adquirir; pegar (doença); entender; chegar; causar; induzir; decorar; procriar; buscar
give	gave	given	dar; entregar, conceder; render-se; premiar; pagar; enfraquecer-se; preparar (festas, etc)
go	went	gone	ir; viajar; chegar; partir; caminhar; marchar; mover-se
grind	ground	ground	triturar; pulverizar; afiar; amolar; ralar; esfregar; ranger os dentes; persistir (nos estudos)
grow	grew	grown	crescer; vegetar; cultivar; brotar; desenvolver-se; progredir; tornar-se
hang	hung	hung	enforcar; ser enforcado; (informática) travar, parar de funcionar
have	had	had	ter; possuir; receber; pegar; necessitar; causar
hear	heard	heard	escutar, ouvir
heave	hove	hove	levantar, puxar; elevar; tirar; empurrar; arremessar
hew	hewed	hewn	reduzir; cortar (com machado); talhar
hide	hid	hidden hid	esconder-se; esconder, ocultar
hit	hit	hit	bater, ferir; atingir, alcançar
hold	held	held	segurar; alimentar; guardar; pensar; acreditar; organizar; preparar; presidir
hurt	hurt	hurt	ferir; doer; magoar; estragar; danificar
keep	kept	kept	guardar; ficar; cumprir; sustentar; deixar; continuar; dirigir; criar; possuir
kneel	knelt	knelt	ajoelhar-se
knit	knit	knit	tricotar; atar; enlaçar; unir; ligar; fazer renda ou meia; trabalhar a ponto de malha
know	knew	known	saber; conhecer; entender; perceber; ter conhecimento
lay	laid	laid	deitar; descansar; estar deitado; encostar-se; repousar; estar situado
lead	led	led	conduzir, guiar, comandar, pilotar, levar, dirigir; governar; dominar-se; capitanear
lean	leant	leant	inclinar, reclinar, apoiar, recurvar; amparar; firmar; apoiar-se, recurvar-se, inclinar-se; abaixar; desviar
leap	leapt	leapt	saltar, pular, transportar; cobrir (os animais)
learn	learnt	learnt	estudar; aprender; descobrir; informar-se; decorar
leave	left	left	deixar; largar; sair; separar-se; abandonar; cessar; desistir de; renunciar a
lend	lent	lent	emprestar, conceder, dar, proporcionar, outorgar; doar; combinar com; acrescentar
let	let	let	deixar; permitir; dar; alugar; fretar; conceder; descobrir
lie	lay	lain	mentir; enganar
light	lit	lit	clarear; acender; queimar; descer (do carro, etc); cair (escolha); pousar; acontecer
lose	lost	lost	perder; desperdiçar; arruinar; gastar; sofrer perdas; escapar de-; não entender
make	made	made	fazer; criar; causar; tornar
mean	meant	meant	pensar; significar; ter em vista; tencionar; pretender; querer dizer
meet	met	met	encontrar; encontrar-se; reunir-se; receber; conhecer; abastecer
melt	melted	molten	derreter; fundir; gastar; evaporar; dissolver; enternecer; consumir
pay	paid	paid	pagar; saldar; satisfazer
put	put	put	colocar; pôr; enfiar; sinalizar; situar; propor; oferecer
read	read	read	ler; aprender; aconselhar; avisar; estudar; interpretar
rend	rent	rent	rasgar; arrancar
rid	rid	rid	libertar; resgatar; livrar (-se)
ride	rode	ridden	cavalgar; montar; passear
ring	rang	rung	tocar (sino, campainha); telefonar; envolver
rise	rose	risen	levantar; subir; elevar-se; erguer-se
run	ran	run	correr; fugir; executar; executar um programa (informática); ativar; administrar; fazer; calcular; comprir; continuar; vazar; despir-se;
saw	sawed	sawn	serrar
say	said	said	dizer; contar; recitar; pensar; alegar; afirmar
see	saw	seen	ver; entender; preocupar-se; verificar; experimentar; acompanhar; encontrar-se; observar
seek	sought	sought	procurar, pedir; liberar; exigir; perseguir atrás; tentar
sell	sold	sold	vender; comerciar; negociar; liquidar; trapacear (gíria); atrair fregueses; trair (gíria)
send	sent	sent	mandar; remeter; despachar; enviar; produzir; emitir; derramar; espalhar; dar prazer (gíria)
set	set	set	pôr, colocar; preparar; usar; arrumar; causar; marcar; servir; ajustar
sew	sewed	sewn	costurar; juntar, pregar
shake	shook	shaken	sacudir; agitar; tremer; chocar; apertar (mãos)
shed	shed	shed	derramar; vazar; deixar cair; tirar, tirar roupa ; fazer sangrar; projetar
shine	shone	shone	brilhar, luzir, cintilar, resplandecer; lustrar (sapato); distinguir
shoe	shod	shod	calçar; recobrir com finalidade de proteção ou reforço
shoot	shot	shot	atirar; caçar; lançar; mandar; fotografar; voar; disparar; mandar; impor; arremessar
show	showed	shown	mostrar; descobrir; testemunhar; provar; apresentar; mostrar-se; aparecer; ensinar; exibir
shred	shred	shred	cortar em pedaços; picar; retalhar; rasgar
shrink	shrank	shrunk shrunken	contrair-se; encolher-se; contrair, encolher; recuar
shut	shut	shut	fechar; cerrar; tampar; trancar; tapar; fechar-se; trancar-se
sing	sang	sung	cantar; murmurar; rugir; zumbir; uivar; alcagüetar; avisar; cortejar (gíria, como cantar)
sink	sank	sunk	afundar; afogar; regar; mergulhar; descer, cair, descer; morrer, falecer; penetrar
slay	slew	slain	matar, assassinar; destruir, arruinar
sleep	slept	slept	dormir; descansar; deitar (com alguém)
slide	slid	slid	deslizar, escorregar; chupar
sling	slung	slung	atirar na funda; elevar, erguer; atar; atirar, arremessar; pendurar, colocar na presilha
smell	smelt	smelt	cheirar; feder; perfurmar; sentir cheiro; farejar; perceber; suspeitar
smite	smote	smitten	golpear; ferir; matar; bater; castigar; mover; excitar; destruir; bater-se; chocar-se
sow	sowed	sown	semear; espalhar, disseminar
speak	spoke	spoken	falar; dizer; contar; expressar; discursar; lembrar a-; afirmar
speed	sped	sped	apressar-se; mover com velocidade; dirigir muito rápido; ser feliz; ser bem sucedido; adiantar; aviar; despachar
spell	spelt	spelt	soletrar; escrever de forma certa; ser algo que significa
spend	spent	spent	gastar, tirar; perceber; divertir-se, passar (tempo)
spill	spilt	spilt	entornar; derramar; escorregar; deixar cair; alcagüetar, contar
spin	span	spun	protelar; dilatar; prolongar, adiar; fiar; fazer girar; virar-se
spit	spat	spit	cuspir; escarrar; vomitar; emitir o som do cuspe; expelir; pingar (chuva)
spoil	spoilt	spoiled	estragar; corromper; mimar (de mais); estragar-se; roubar, saquear, furtar
spread	spread	spread	dilatar-se, estender-se; espalhar, esparramar; disseminar, difundir, propagar; arrumar (mesa); achatar
spring	sprang	sprung	saltar, lançar-se; libertar-se; aparecer, mostrar-se; brotar, nascer; deixar cair; "cair" sobre-
stand	stood	stood	pôr de pé; suster; sustentar; colocar; aguentar; honrar; manter-se; permanecer
steal	stole	stolen	roubar; furtar; infiltrar-se
stick	stuck	stuck	cravar, fincar, meter, enterrar; pregar; aderir, prender; afixar; vacilar; parar; enganar; lograr
sting	stung	stung	picar, ferroar, ferretoar, aguilhoar; doer , atormentar; trapacear
stink	stank	stunk	feder; enojar
strew	strewed	strewn	espalhar, polvilhar, aspergir
stride	strode	stridden	caminhar; cavalgar
strike	struck	struck stricken	golpear; ferir; bater; surpreender; descobrir
string	strung	strung	amarrar; pendurar; enfiar; esticar
strive	strove	striven	aspirar; tentar, esforçar-se
swear	swore	sworn	jurar; prestar juramento; xingar
sweat	sweat	sweat	suar
sweep	swept	swept	varrer; lavar; pentear; arrastar
swell	swelled	swelled swollen	inchar (-se); crescer; encher (os pneus)
swim	swam	swum	nadar; flutuar; boiar
swing	swung	swung	balançar
take	took	taken	pegar; tirar; tomar; segurar; agarrar; receber; capturar; aprisionar; aceitar; fotografar; empregar; adotar; entender; guiar; conseguir
teach	taught	taught	ensinar; educar
tear	tore	torn	chorar, lacrimejar; rasgar, rachar
tell	told	told	contar; saber; perceber; descobrir; ordenar
think	thought	thought	pensar; acreditar
thrive	throve	thriven	ter sucesso
throw	threw	thrown	jogar; parir; impressionar
thrust	thrust	thrust	empurrar
tread	trod	trodden	pisar, andar, pôr os pés
wake	woke	waked	acordar; despertar; acordar-se
wear	wore	worn	vestir; trancar; experimentar (roupas, jóias, etc); colocar (óculos); exibir; mostrar; gastar; cansar; esgotar; durar
weave	wove	woven	tecer, entrelaçar, trançar; contorcer-se (entre obstáculos); bordar; criar (trama); tramar
weep	wept	wept	chorar; verter lágrimas; gotejar, deixar escapar; exudar, vazar
wet	wet	wet	umedecer; sujar; molhar; fazer xixi na cama, molhar-se (à noite); urinar
win	won	won	vencer; ganhar; conseguir; obter; conseguir; alugar; convencer; ganhar o coração de-
wind	wound	wound	girar, rodar; enrolar-se; enroscar-se; recobrir, encobrir, encapar; recobrir-se, revestir-se; modificar a direção
wring	wrung	wrung	arrancar; obrigar, forçar; tirar a força; entortar; pressionar; segurar com força; espremer
write	wrote	written	escrever; anotar; compor; inscrever

Loucos e Santos

Escolho meus amigos não pela pele ou outro arquétipo qualquer, mas pela pupila.
Tem que ter brilho questionador e tonalidade inquietante.
A mim não interessam os bons de espírito nem os maus de hábitos.
Fico com aqueles que fazem de mim louco e santo.
Deles não quero resposta, quero meu avesso.
Que me tragam dúvidas e angústias e agüentem o que há de pior em mim.
Para isso, só sendo louco.
Quero os santos, para que não duvidem das diferenças e peçam perdão pelas injustiças.
Escolho meus amigos pela alma lavada e pela cara exposta.
Não quero só o ombro e o colo, quero também sua maior alegria.
Amigo que não ri junto, não sabe sofrer junto.
Meus amigos são todos assim: metade bobeira, metade seriedade.
Não quero risos previsíveis, nem choros piedosos.
Quero amigos sérios, daqueles que fazem da realidade sua fonte de aprendizagem, mas lutam para que a fantasia não desapareça.
Não quero amigos adultos nem chatos.
Quero-os metade infância e outra metade velhice!
Crianças, para que não esqueçam o valor do vento no rosto; e velhos, para que nunca tenham pressa.
Tenho amigos para saber quem eu sou.
Pois os vendo loucos e santos, bobos e sérios, crianças e velhos, nunca me esquecerei de que "normalidade" é uma ilusão imbecil e estéril.

Oscar Wilde

FRASES EM INGLÊS SOBRE O VALOR DA AMIZADE

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"Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born."
- Anais Nin

"My friends are my estate."
- Emily Dickinson
"A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out."
"A friend is one who walks in when others walk out"
-Walter Winchell
"A friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else."
- Len Wein - Sent by Paulo Louro
"A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words."
- Sent by Donna Roberts
"A friend is one who believes in you when you have ceased to believe in yourself."
- Sent by Lysha
"Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow.
Don't walk behind me, I may not lead.
Walk beside me and be my friend."
- Albert Camus (also attributed to Maimonidies). Sent by clovers
"A hug is worth a thousand words. A friend is worth more."
- Sent by Jasmine Fitzwilliam
"Everyone is a friend, until they prove otherwise."
- sent by Steve
"Every person is a new door to a different world."
- from movie "Six Degrees of Seperation" (thanks to Steve's Famous Quotes)
"It takes a long time to grow an old friend."
- by John Leonard (thanks to Steve's Famous Quotes)



"Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you."
- Elbert Hubard
"I get by with a little help from my friends."
- John Lennon
"Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up."
- Bible: Ecclesiastes
"Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet; and two others at first speech are old friends."
- Mary Catherwood
"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather is one of those things that give value to survival."
- C. S. Lewis
"I might give my life for my friend, but he had better not ask me to do up a parcel."
- Logan Pearsall Smith
"Friends are the most important ingredient in this recipe of life."
- (sent by Dior Yamasaki)
"The better part of one's life consists of his friendships."
- Abraham Lincoln, (sent by Heather Myers)
"The love of my life is the love between friends."
- (sent by Jess)
"One's best friend is oneself."
- (sent by Jess)
"A Friend is someone who knows all about you and loves you anyway!!!"
- (sent by Heather Tallent)
"To be depressed is to be lonely; to have a friend is to be happy..."
- Guido
The following Girl Scouts Motto has been submitted by many people in varying forms, so I've just placed the three most popular versions on:
1) "Make new friends and keep the old, one is silver and the other gold"
2) "Make new friends, both young and old, one in Silver, the other Gold."
3) "Make new friends but keep the old, some are silver and others are Gold"

4}"I have a hand, and you have another; put them together and we have each other."

"Strangers are just friends waiting to happen."
- (sent by Steve Klaka)
"Sometimes you pick your friends, sometimes they pick you."
- (sent by Steve Klaka)
"The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him, his own."
-Benjamin Disraeli
"Though our communication wanes at times of absence, I'm aware of a strength that emanates in the background."
-Claudette Renner
"I can trust my friends. These people force me to examine, encourage me to grow."
-Cher
"Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being."
-Goethe


"Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You canít have too many friends because then youíre just not really friends."

"No love, no friendship, can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever."
- Francois Mocuriac - Sent in by spiff
"Give others freedom to be themselves. Appreciate the differences between their ways an yours."
- (sent by Jennifer Chen)
"Friends are the Bacon Bits in the Salad Bowl of Life."
- "Pizza Place Sign", (sent by Rory Bristol)
The following 5 quotes were sent by Danielle N. Redfield - Thanks!! :) :)
"Friendship is one mind in two bodies."
- Mencius
"Truth and tears clear the way to a deep and lasting friendship."

"True friendship is never serene."
- Mariede Svign
"Friendship: a building contract you sign with laughter and break with tears."

"Friends are God's way of taking care of us."
"It's the friends you can call up at 4am that matter."
- Marlene Dietrick

"A friend is a gift you give yourself."
- Robert Louis Stevenson, (sent by Julio Fung)
"Friend - a person known well to another and regarded with liking, affection and loyalty."
- Collins English Dictionary
"A new friendship is like an unripened fruit - it may become either an orange or a lemon"
- Emma Stacey
"Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success."
- Oscar Wilde
"Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,
Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel;
But do not dull thy palm with entertainment
Of each new-hatch'd, unfledg'd comrade."
- William Shakespeare
"Friendship with oneself is all-important because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world."
- Eleanor Roosevelt
"If you judge people, you have no time to love them."
- Mother Teresa
"I will speak ill of no man, and speak all the good I know of everybody."
- Benjamin Franklin
"Misfortune shows those who are not really friends."
- Aristotle
"Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy you must have somebody to divide it with."
- Mark Twain
"Thus nature has no love for solitude, and always leans, as it were, on some support; and the sweetest support is found in the most intimate friendship."
- Cicero
"Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind."
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"The best mirror is an old friend."
- George Herbert



"What is a friend? A single soul in two bodies."
- Aristotle
"The friendship that can cease has never been real."
- Saint Jerome
"I count myselt in nothing else so happy
As in a soul rememb'ring my good friends."
- William Shakespeare
"I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true old man's milk and restorative cordial."
- Thomas Jefferson
"Sir, more than kisses, letters, mingle souls;
For, thus friends absent speak."
- John Donne
"Too late we learn, a man must hold his friend
Unjudged, accepted, trusted to the end."
- John Boyle O'Reilly
"Friends have all things in common."
- Plato
"Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods."
- Artistotle
"My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me."
- Henry Ford
"What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. They are but trifles, to be sure but, scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable."

"No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence."
- George Eliot
"It is a sweet thing, friendship, a dear balm,
A happy and auspicious bird of calm..."
- Shelly
"The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away."
- Wilson Mizner
"The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters."
- Thomas Jefferson
"One can never speak enough of the virtues, the dangers, the power of shared laughter."
- Francoise Sagan
"Friendship is always a sweet responsibilty, never an oppourtunity."
- Kahil Gibran
"There is magic in the memory of schoolboy friendships; it softens the heart, and even affects the nervous system of those who have no heart."
- Bejamin Disraeli
"I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends."
- Walt Whitman
"True friendship is never serene."
- Marquise de Sevigne
"When friends stop being frank and useful to each other, the whole world loses some of its radiance."
- Anatole Broyard
"Friends are born, not made."
- Henry Adams
"This communicating of a man's self to his friend works two contrary effects; for it redoubleth joy, and cutteth griefs in half."
- Francis Bacon
"Life is partly what we make it, and partly what is made by the friends whom we choose."
- Tehyi Hsieh
"There is no hope of joy except in human relations."
- Antoine de Sainte-Exupery
"The making of friends, who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man's success in life."
- Edward Everett Hale
"Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies; they are ready enough to tell them."
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
"The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward. Is not friendship divine in this?"
- Henry David Thoreau
"Friendship that flows from the heart cannot be frozen by adversity, as the water that flows from the spring cannogt congeal in winter."
- James Fenimore Cooper
"Friendship without self interest is one of the rare and beautiful things in life."
- James Francis Byrnes
"Never kiss a friend. If you have deeper feelings, never reveal them. You will lose that friend forever..."
- sent by David
"Do not save your loving speeches
For your friends till they are dead;
Do not write them on their tombstones,
Speak them rather now instead.
- Anna Cummins
"True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd,
Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest."
- Alexander Pope
"Best friends are like diamonds, precious and rare
False friends are like leaves, found everywhere."
- Anoymous (sent by Deanne Pigdon)
"Every man should have a fair-sized cemetary in which to bury the faults of his friends."
- Henry Brooks Adams
"We are all angels with only one wing...we can fly only embracing each other."

APRENDA ESTAS EXPRESSÕES ( LEARN THESE EXPRESSIONS) It is raining cats and dogs = Está chovendo muito

Over the moon = Estar feliz / Estar no mundo da lua de tão contente

On the crest of a wave = Estar por cima

Kill two birds with one stone = Matar dois coelhos com uma cajadada só

To put the cat out of the beg = Contar um segredo / Não esconder o jogo

What's up? = E aí, como é que é? (informal)

Make yourself at home / ease / comfortable = Sinta-se em casa / Fique à vontade

Help yourself / Be my guest / Go ahead (informal) = Sirva-se

Let's keep in touch = Vamos manter contato

Look at/on the bright side = Veja o lado bom das coisas

Look here! = Escuta aqui!

Look lively! = Acorda! (pedindo atenção)

I will always be there for you = Sempre estarei ao seu lado

Good thinking = Bem pensado

To be in a bad/good mood = Estar de mau/bom humor

Snitcher = Dedo-duro

I think so = Acho que sim

I don't think so = Acho que não

Nothing ventured, nothing gained = Quem não arrisca, não petisca

No pain, no gain = Quem não arrisca não petisca

On second thought = Pensando bem

As far as I know... = Que eu saiba...

As good as it gets! = Melhor é impossível!

As if! = Até parece!

As lost as a nun on a honeymoon = Mais perdido que cego em tiroteio

At rock bottom = No fundo do poço / Estar por baixo

Fair game = Presa fácil

Fair play = Jogo limpo

And so what? = E daí?

A cat may look at a king = Olhar não tira pedaço

All in good time = Tudo a seu tempo

And I am a Dutchman = E eu acredito em Coelhinho da Páscoa / Papai Noel (para expressar descrença)

Anything goes! = Vale tudo!

To be a bad egg = Não ser flor que se cheire

Bite your tongue! = Vira essa boca pra lá!

Lies don't travel far = Mentira tem perna curta

Cheer down! = Menos, menos! (quando alguém exagera)

Clear the way! = Abram caminho!

Credit where credit is due = Verdade seja dita

Damned if you do, damned if you don't = Se correr o bicho pega, se ficar o bicho come

  

Expressões Idiomáticas - Idioms

A Língua Inglesa possui algumas armadilhas para quem não a fala como língua materna, dentre elas estão as Expressões Idiomáticas (Idioms), que são figuras de linguagem onde um termo ou a frase assume um significado diferente do que as palavras teriam isoladamente. Assim, não basta saber o significado das palavras que formam a frase, é preciso olhar para todo o grupo de palavras que constitui a expressão para entender o seu significado. As Expressões Idiomáticas trazem conotações diferentes, que, na maioria das vezes, estão relacionadas às suas origens. É importante salientar que os idiomatismos não foram criados para serem armadilhas para os falantes estrangeiros, pelo contrário, elas tornam o Inglês Falado (Spoken English) mais natural. Relacionamos abaixo alguns exemplos de Expressões Idiomáticas mais usadas pelos falantes nativos da Língua Inglesa.

Act your age = Não seja infantil All day long = O dia todo Beyond a shadow of doubt = Sem sombra de dúvida

Blood is thicker than water = Os laços de família são mais fortes
Cross my heart = Juro por Deus

Everybody says so =Todos falam assim!
For goodness’ sake! = Pelo amor de Deus!
Good Lord! = Meu Deus!

Hand in Hand = De mãos dadas I did quite well = Sai-me muito bem Keep your eyes peeled = Fique atento

Leave it to me = Deixa comigo
Like hell! = Uma ova!
May I have the floor? = Posso falar?

Mum’s the word = Boca de siri

Never heard of = Nunca ouvi dizer
Never mind = Deixa prá lá / Não tem importância
Once and for all = De uma vez por todas
One never knows = Nunca se sabe
Pretty soon = Em breve
Quite a bit = muito, um montão, bastante, um bocado
Right over there = Logo ali
See you there = Até lá
Shoot the works = Manda brasa
Talk is cheap = Falar é fácil
Thank God = Graças a Deus
It is up to you = Você que sabe
You know best = Você é quem sabe
Take your time = Não se apresse

So far, so good? = Até aqui, tudo bem? It is not your business = Não é da sua conta To kick the bucket = Bater as botas / Morrer

How come? = Como é que pode?
How are you doing? = Como está?

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Frases e expressões nossas traduzidas ditas em inglês:

A seguir você verá expressões do nosso dia a dia traduzidas ao pé da letra para o inglês, tornando-as engraçadas. Lembre-se, porém, de que esse modo literalmente traduzido de nossas expressões idiomáticas e dizeres não corresponde ao modo como o falante de inglês fala. Eles têm as suas próprias expressões idiomáticas, de acordo com a própria cultura. É justamente o aspecto "nonsense" dessas traduções literais abaixo, feitas por um falante de português brasileiro, que confere a elas o humor característico:

- I am more I! - Eu sou mais eu!

- Tea with me that I book your face - "Chá" comigo que eu livro sua cara.

- Do not come that it does not have - Não vem que não tem.

- Wrote, didn't read, the stick ate - Escreveu, não leu, o pau comeu.

- To release the hen - Soltar a franga.

- She is full of nine o'clock - Ela é cheia de nove horas.

- Between, my well - Entre, meu bem. - I'm completely bald of knowing it - Estou completamente careca de ouvir isso. - To kill the snake and show the stick - Matar a cobra e mostrar o pau. - Can you please break my branch? - Você quebra meu galho, por favor?

- The wood is eating - O pau "tá" comendo!

- Uh! I burned my movie! Oh! - Ah não! Queimei meu filme! Oh!

- I'm with you and I don't open! - "Tô" contigo e não abro!

- I will wash the mare - Vou lavar a égua.

- You traveled on the mayonnaise - Viajou na maionese. - Who advises friend is - Quem avisa amigo é. - Do you think this is mother Joanne's house? - Você pensa que aqui é a casa da mãe Joana?

- Go catch little coconuts - Vai catar coquinho!

- You are by out - Você está por fora.

- You are very face of wood! - Você é muito cara-de-pau!

- They are trying to cover the sun with the sieve. - Eles estão tentando cobrir o sol com a peneira.

- If you run, the beast catches, if you stay, the beast eats. - Se correr, o bicho pega, se ficar, o bicho come. - I have to peel this pineapple - Tenho que descascar este abacaxi. - Don't fill my bag. - Não enche o meu saco. - I need to take water out of my knees - Preciso tirar água do joelho. - It already was! - Já era!

- Before afternoon than never! - Antes tarde do que nunca.

- Do you want a good-good? - Você quer um bombom?

- Oops, gave Zebra - Ops, deu Zebra. - You can take your little horse out of the rain! - Pode tirar o cavalinho da chuva! - Bird Mary, full of grace - Ave Maria, cheia de graça. - Go comb monkeys! - Vá pentear macacos!

- The goalkeeper took a chicken - O goleiro tomou um frango. - The cow went to the swamp! - A vaca foi pro brejo!

ALGUMAS FRASES EM INGLÊS TRADUZIDAS AO PÉ DA LETRA PARA O PORTUGUÊS.

Aseguir você verá expressões do nosso dia a dia traduzidas ao pé da letra para o inglês, tornando-as engraçadas. Lembre-se, porém, de que esse modo literalmente traduzido de nossas expressões idiomáticas e dizeres não corresponde ao modo como o falante de inglês fala. Eles têm as suas próprias expressões idiomáticas, de acordo com a própria cultura. É justamente o aspecto "nonsense" dessas traduções literais abaixo, feitas por um falante de português brasileiro, que confere a elas o humor característico:

- I am more I! - Eu sou mais eu!
- Tea with me that I book your face - "Chá" comigo que eu livro sua cara.

- Do not come that it does not have - Não vem que não tem.
- Wrote, didn't read, the stick ate - Escreveu, não leu, o pau comeu.
- To release the hen - Soltar a franga.
- She is full of nine o'clock - Ela é cheia de nove horas.

- Between, my well - Entre, meu bem. - I'm completely bald of knowing it - Estou completamente careca de ouvir isso. - To kill the snake and show the stick - Matar a cobra e mostrar o pau. - Can you please break my branch? - Você quebra meu galho, por favor?

- The wood is eating - O pau "tá" comendo!
- Uh! I burned my movie! Oh! - Ah não! Queimei meu filme! Oh!
- I'm with you and I don't open! - "Tô" contigo e não abro!
- I will wash the mare - Vou lavar a égua.

- You traveled on the mayonnaise - Viajou na maionese. - Who advises friend is - Quem avisa amigo é. - Do you think this is mother Joanne's house? - Você pensa que aqui é a casa da mãe Joana?

- Go catch little coconuts - Vai catar coquinho!
- You are by out - Você está por fora.
- You are very face of wood! - Você é muito cara-de-pau!
- They are trying to cover the sun with the sieve. - Eles estão tentando cobrir o sol com a peneira.

- If you run, the beast catches, if you stay, the beast eats. - Se correr, o bicho pega, se ficar, o bicho come. - I have to peel this pineapple - Tenho que descascar este abacaxi. - Don't fill my bag. - Não enche o meu saco. - I need to take water out of my knees - Preciso tirar água do joelho. - It already was! - Já era!

- Before afternoon than never! - Antes tarde do que nunca.
- Do you want a good-good? - Você quer um bombom?

- Oops, gave Zebra - Ops, deu Zebra. - You can take your little horse out of the rain! - Pode tirar o cavalinho da chuva! - Bird Mary, full of grace - Ave Maria, cheia de graça. - Go comb monkeys! - Vá pentear macacos!

- The  goalkeeper took a chicken - O goleiro tomou um frango. - The cow went to the swamp! - A vaca foi pro brejo!

 LET'S LAUGH  FOLKS!

At School

The Science Teacher

The science teacher explained to his class that long waves can go round objects but short waves cannot. Seeing blank faces, he picked up his hat, held it in front of his face and asked the nearest pupil, "Can you see my face?" "No sir." "Can you hear my voice?" "Yes sir." "What does that show?" He hoped for the answer that sound waves are long and light waves short, but the boy retorted hopefully, "You're talking through your hat, sir." *

*be talking through your hat = to talk nonsense - to be talking about a subject as if you know a lot about it when in fact you know very little.
Good Manners
A teacher was giving her class of small children a lesson on good manners.
"Suppose, by mistake, you step on a lady's foot. What do you do?"
"I say pardon me."
"Very good. Now suppose the lady, to reward you, gives you a coin. What do you do?"
"Step on the other foot to get a second one."
Don't generalize

In a school in the States, the teacher had just described Christopher Columbus' discovery of America.
"Just imagine, children, if he had not risked the ocean, you would not be here today. Wasn't he marvellous?"
All the children cheered, except one.
"Aren't you pleased young fellow?"
"No miss."
"Why?"
"I'm an Indian."

LINDOS PENSAMENTOS EM INGLÊS  SOBRE A AMIZADE

1.    If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you.
2.    True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
3.    Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend.
4.    Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
5.    I'll lean on you and you lean on me and we'll be okay.
6.    Everyone hears what you say. Friends listen to what you say. Best friends listen to what you don't say.
7.    We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other everywhere
8.    My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.
9.    Hold a true friend with both your hands.
10.    A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.
11.    Pass this on to all of your FRIENDS, even if it means sending it to the person that sent it to you. And if you receive this email many times from many different people, it only means that you have many FRIENDS. And if you get it but once, do not be discouraged for you will know that you have AT LEAST ONE GOOD FRIEND. Ever Loving Friend --

The 15 Most Common White Lies and Why

Everyone tells a white lie on occasion, it’s just a question of why.  Some white lies save relationships, some ease a hectic situation, and others buy us time.  The list could go on forever.  Stretching the truth is a natural component of human instinct because it’s the easy way out.  We all do it, so there is no reason to deny it.  Honestly, I think the world is probably a better place because of our white lies.
As long as we aren’t hurting others or breaking the law, these innocent lies can make life more pleasant.  They can absorb potential friction between our varying personalities and vacillating moods as we nudge into one another on the quest through our daily routine.  Most of these white lies only stretch an interpretation of what the truth actually is anyways.  Given our rigid optimism to each lead a tailored ideal life, white lies simply cushion us from ourselves.
Here’s my list of the 15 most common white lies and why we tell them:

1. It wasn’t me! – Because some things just aren’t worth taking credit for.
2. The table will be ready in 5 minutes. – Because it sounds a lot better than 15 minutes.
3. Oh, yeah.  That makes sense. – Because option B involves admitting that I am clueless.
4. Thank you so much!  I just love it! – Because telling someone that their gift sucked would make me look like an insensitive jerk.
5. Yeah, you look great in that dress. – Because it’s better than being slapped.
6. Oh, things would have been different if I was there! – Because I’m Superman and I can always make a difference… or at least that’s how I want others to perceive of me.
7. No, officer… I have no idea how fast I was going. – Because claiming ignorance is sometimes better than admitting to insubordination.
8. I’m 29. – Because 29 is like 20 years younger than 30.
9. Yeah, I’ll start working on that ASAP! – Because telling you I have 10 things to do first would just irritate you.
10. Yes, John was with me last night. – Because that’s what friends do… we agree and ask questions later.
11. My resume is 5 pages long for a good reason. – Because I’m darn good at bullshittin’!
12. Man, that sucker was 10 feet long! – Because anything less would be boring.
13. Yeah, I was a badass on my high school football team! – Because I want to be seen by others in an even stronger light than I see myself.
14. I’m 21, 6’5, with a muscular build. – Because you can’t see me in this online chat room… ha ha!
15. I thought I already sent that email out.  I’m sure I did. – Because telling you that it was a low priority and I forgot would probably hurt our relationship.