Dizionario Portoghese - Inglese

português - English

quadra in inglese:

1. block block


Such a person will often go a block out of his way to avoid meeting a person of the opposite sex.
Every author suffers from writer's block from time to time.
I need sun block.
Nothing can change the look of a city so dramatically as the sudden appearance of a block of offices which towers above all the surrounding buildings.
From time to time, a proposal to pull down a much-loved old building to make room for a new block of flats, raises a storm of angry protest.
I'll kill you! Knock your block off and grind you underfoot! You shithead! Die!
A warehouse full of illegal fireworks blew up and destroyed a whole city block.
And, above all, I will ask you to join in the work of remaking this nation, the only way it's been done in America for 221 years — block by block, brick by brick, calloused hand by calloused hand.
The modern world is a crowd of very rapid racing cars all brought to a standstill and stuck in a block of traffic.
As the attendees of the DTA General Meeting will be offered the block rate, when you reserve Marriott Hotel for me, please notify them that I will attend it.
One hutong connects with another, siheyuans connect with other siheyuans to form a block, and blocks join with other blocks to form the whole city.
Just how well can masks block the, even smaller than pollen, yellow sand dust? I think it much more of a nuisance than pollen.
The manager blocked his suggestion because he didn’t like it.
This block of apartments is a building that takes both the environment and health into consideration. From now on we want to further expand this system and knowhow.
Almost all implementations of virtual memory divide the virtual address space of an application program into pages; a page is a block of contiguous virtual memory addresses.

2. court court


Prosecutors in court have to substantiate their claims in order to prove a suspect is guilty.
The attitude of the court toward young criminals is different from its attitude toward adult criminals.
For the crime of first degree murder, this court hereby sentences you to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
In Shakespeare's time, in the sixteenth century, tennis was very popular at the English court.
In court role judge.
King Henry VIII had a tennis court at Hampton Court, his palace on the River Thames, not very far from London.
That is why the U.S. government has gone to court to protect the right of women and girls to wear the hijab, and to punish those who would deny it.
There appeared at this time a lady at Court, who drew the eyes of the whole world; and one may imagine she was a perfect beauty, to gain admiration in a place where there were so many fine women.
The judge, though a stickler for the dignity of the bench, was a great pipe smoker and allowed the attorneys the privilege of smoking in court.
The state court effected unconstitutional legislation without the federal government noticing.
In court facing charges of obscenity, the American actress Mae West was asked by the judge if she was trying to show disrespect to the court, whereupon she answered, "No, your honor, I'm trying not to show it".
Also as they are in an intimate relationship they are in a situation where it is easy for them to suffer from violence and difficult for them to bring complaints about that to court.
The Court has no fears for the safety of the Christian religion. It does not believe that the rock upon which Christianity stands can ever be shaken.
About 14,000 of these usually have tickets for the Center Court.
Never were finer women or more accomplished men seen in any Court, and Nature seemed to have taken pleasure in lavishing her greatest graces on the greatest persons.