Word of the day: Sludge / As the story goes

Word of the day

Sludge:  barro, lama, borra, sedimento, depósito,gelo fragmentado, que boia na água, esgoto, lixo industrial

Synonyms: guck (or gook), mire, muck, ooze, slime, slop, mud, slush

“ After a day of heavy rain, the fairgrounds had turned into pure sludge.”

“I can't bring myself to read that sludge.”

(www.merriam-webster.com)

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As the story goes    

                                                                                    

-conforme dizem                                                                                            

-de acordo com a história

- de acordo com o que se conta       

 “As the story goes, Rome was founded  by a pair of feuding brothers who were allegedly raised by wolves. Romulus and Remus.” 

(De acordo com a história, Roma foi fundada por dois irmãos que estavam sempre brigando, e que foram alegadamente criados por lobos”…) (www.megaessays.com / Jan. 30, 2011)

(Conversação em Inglês:Frases e Expressões Úteis- Flávio Cruz)

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Word of the day: Sludge

Sludge: barro, lama, sedimento, depósito, gelo fragmentado, que boia na água, esgoto, lixo industrial

Synonyms: guck, mire, muck, ooze, slime, slop, sludge, slush, goo, mush, mud, slop, slurry

“ After a day of heavy rain, the fairgrounds had turned into pure sludge.”

“ I can't bring myself to read that sludge.”   (www.merriam-webster.com)

Word of the day: SLUDGE

Sludge: barro, lama, borra, sedimento, depósito, gelo fragmentado, que boia na água, esgoto, lixo industrial.

Synonyms: guck (or gook), mire, muck, ooze, slime, slop, mud, slush

“After a day of heavy rain, the fairgrounds had turned into pure sludge.”  (www.merriam-webster.com)

word of the day: Predicament

Predicament: situação desagradável ou difícil, apuro

Synonyms: bind, box, catch-22, corner, dilemma, fix, hole, impasse, jam, mire, pickle, quagmire, rabbit hole, rattrap, spot, sticky wicket, swamp

“The governor has gotten himself into quite a predicament.”

“I don't know how to get out of the predicament I'm in.” (www.merriam-webster.com)

“The captain of archers fidgeted and coughed and rolled his eyes at his men, as if such cupidity and dishonor were an inevitable but minor aspect of the human predicament …” (Michael Chabon, New York Times Magazine, 6 May 2007}

Obs.:” in a pretty predicament”: “ num apuro tremendo.”