PalTalk: Conversação em inglês sem gastar nada Expressões Irlandesas - III

Expressões informais no mundo dos relacionamentos

Curso Avançado: leitura Por: Adir em 10/06/2008

Encontro no BarHoje trago um pequeno texto com expressões bem informais no mundo dos relacionamentos com sua explicação em inglês. Confira:

Last night I was at a bar with my friend Mike and he told me that a girl was checking me out. I was kind of shy to go say hello because the last time I did this the girl thought I was coming on to her and she blew me off before I even had the chance to introduce myself. Mike said that he wasn´t surprised because I usually strike out after using my pick-up lines. But I guess that girl was just playing hard to get and that reminded me of Laura Smithson. A year ago some mutual friends fixed us up because they thought we would hit it off. Turns out she was on the rebound so I didn’t want to get involved. I tried to let her down easy but she got furious and threw a fit in front of the whole restaurant.

Explicação das expressões em negrito:

Check out – to look, to observe someone

Come on to someone – to flirt with someone

Blow someone off – to reject someone

Strike out – to fail

Pick-up lines – “cantadas”

Play hard to get – pretend not to be interested

Fix someone up – introduce someone (with love intentions)

Hit it off – enjoy each other´s company

On the rebound – eager to get back into a relationship after recently ending one

Let someone down easy – to reject someone gently

Throw a fit – make a scene

See you next time!

Prof. Adir Ferreira - www.adirferreira.com

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3 comentários em “Expressões informais no mundo dos relacionamentos”

  1. Mary disse:
    June 11th, 2008 at 6:03 am

    1. Where did the story take place? (In a bar).
    2. What did Mike’s friend want to do? (meet a girl).
    3. Who was Laura? (a woman who was nterested in Mike’s friend)
    4. What happened with Laura? (She became angry in public).
    5. Why did Mike’s friend not want to date Laura? (She had just ended a relationship).
    6. In your country is a bar a good place to meet someone?
    7. Do you have a dating story to tell?

  2. Philippe Gebara disse:
    June 12th, 2008 at 8:43 pm

    Qual o significado de “turns out” em “Turns out she was on the rebound”?

  3. Adir Ferreira disse:
    June 15th, 2008 at 9:42 am

    Philippe, “it turns out” é usado para indicar o fato mais importante de uma conversa, ou uma mudança. Poderíamos traduzi-lo por “Acontece que”. Também existe a expressão “turn out to be” que é “vir a ser”. Ex. She could barely sing but she turned out to be a famous singer. (Ela mal podia cantar mas veio a ser uma cantora famosa.) Ajudou? Qualquer coisa escreve de volta e obrigado por visitar o English Experts!

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