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Jan 15, 2021 · Jan 15, 2021. #1. VOA Learning English - Health and Lifestyle 2020: A Year in Review Words such as face mask, PPE, quarantine, and vaccine became part of our everyday language. We spoke about super-spreader events, contact tracing, and shelter-in-place orders. We also learned to keep our social distance and to isolate ourselves.
Jan 30, 2014 · Central France. English UK. Jan 30, 2014. #3. Usually a shelter is practical, as in Andygc's example, and a haven is figurative, as in a tax haven. Maybe in some cases either would do, but I can't think straight away of an example... Or they may overlap, as in: "My garden is a haven for wildlife. It provides shelter for many birds and animals ...
Nov 13, 2007 · Nov 13, 2007. #5. 'Shelter in place' es: Refugio en el lugar; sin embargo, como expresión, también se puede traducir [aparte de las opciones que ya te han dado] como: 'Refúgiese/Quédese donde está'; 'Resguárdese en el sitio'; 'Permanezca en el lugar [donde se encuentra]'; en fin, lo que se adapte a tu contexto. Saludos cordiales, Tesalia.
Aug 17, 2018 · English & Spanish, USA born. Aug 17, 2018. #1. In dependency court, a court to establish guardianship and a place for a dependent youth to live because they were abandoned or abused etc. by a past guardian (s), there is a hearing held called a “shelter care hearing”. I imagine I could just interpret this as “una audiencia de tutela ...
Apr 22, 2018 · Back 100 or 200 years in Europe, "poorhouses" were also called "workhouses". The poor people in them were put to work, and they worked long hours for very little pay. Your text says her mother "worked" there. That is very different from modern charitable places that feed and shelter people, without demanding work in return.
Jun 7, 2008 · If one Googles for 'put up,' this is the first thing that appears: put up. phrasal verb of put. 1. stay temporarily in accommodation other than one's own home. "we put up at a hotel in the city centre". ===. This is clearly intransitive and almost the exact wording inquired about. P.
Dec 7, 2009 · Dec 7, 2009. #2. Interestingly, I would say 'search for shelter ' but 'find some shelter '. I don't know why.*. In both cases, the other choice is also correct and means the same, but just strikes me as a little less idiomatic. 'A shelter' is a little bit different: it's a thing that can serve as shelter, such as a cave, a hut, a hollow tree.
Mar 31, 2017 · Mar 31, 2017. #2. . "Standing in" would tend to mean standing within an enclosed or defined area: He was standing in the doorway to shelter from the rain. She was standing in the middle of the road. He was standing in the shadows of love. "Standing at" means standing at a defined or specific place: He was standing at the bus stop.
Jun 27, 2019 · Shall shelter the despot or the slave -> shall no longer have within it, either despots or slaves. Click to expand... I agree with you, but my friend insists that because there is a comma between sireland and shall, you cannot put no more at the end of this sentence "shall shelter the despot or the slave no more".
2 Julio 2007. #3. It has both literal and figurative meanings - essentially it means "shelter". In the figurative sense, it might simply mean to hide away from a situation. In the literal sense, it might mean to take shelter from rain; or "cover" can also be used in the context of a gun fight: if one person wants to move across open territory ...
