sexta-feira, julho 16, 2004

"O Inglês Sem Mestre"

windbag [´windbæg]
s.
reservatório de ar, saco de ar;
fole de cornamusa;
(joc.) pulmões;
(coloq.) pessoa que fala muito mas nada diz de importante;
(polit.) pessoa que fala como José Sócrates.

# Lançado por PSA às 5:36:00 da manhã
"In North America the black bear was seen by [Samuel] Hearne swimming for hours with widely open mouth, thus catching, like a whale, insects in the water. Even in so extreme a case as this, if the supply of insects were constant, and if better adapted competitors did not already exist in the country, I can see no difficulty in a race of bears being rendered, by natural selection, more and more aquatic in their structure and habits, with larger and larger mouths, till a creature was produced as monstrous as a whale."
Darwin, Charles; "The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection" (On the origin and transitions of organic beings with peculiar habits and structure)