dictionnaire Portugais - Anglais

principal Anglais:

1. parent

A good coach is like a parent to the players.

Sooner or later, every parent has to have a talk with their children about the birds and the bees.

He's the new CEO from the parent company in France.

Which parent does the child resemble?

Find things out for yourself instead of having a parent or a teacher tell you.

Where are your parents?

When you're a parent it's important to set a good example for your children.

It was a mistake for such a young parent to have, and raise a child.

As a parent I was in a truly pitiable state.

A parent or teacher should bring home to children the pleasure of reading.

Eh? Where's Keiko? "Said she's got a parent and child meeting so she'll be late."

Let me ask you something, Dad, she began, in a tone of patiently controlled exasperation that every experienced parent is familiar with.

My parents asked about you.

My grandson and my granddaughter have tall parents.

When i was a children, I had absent parent.

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2. main

main problem

Patterns of freeze-up and breakup influence the distribution and number of seals, the polar bear's main prey.

Let us remember that, if this financial crisis taught us anything, it's that we cannot have a thriving Wall Street while Main Street suffers.

I sat down to translate the sentence shown on the main page into my native language, and half an hour and two dozen sentences later I had to convince myself to stop.

Smokers are as aware as anybody else of the disadvantages of their hobby, but manage to live with that knowledge for two main reasons.

The accountants and finance analysts all have their own departmental office two blocks away from the business's main branch.

The main streets of many small towns have been all but abandoned thanks, in large part, to behemoths like Wal-Mart.

All sweaters of this type are out of stock now. We'll order them from the main store in Tokyo.

In the main, I am in favor of political reform if meaningful changes are made.

That would lead to the production of more carbon dioxide, the main gas responsible for global warming.

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The report from the National Development and Reform Committee says that the advance in rural high-speed telecommunication infrastructure is the main reason for the increase in Internet users.

In English there are eight main parts of speech: noun, verb, adjective, adverb, pronoun, preposition, conjunction and finally interjection.

About the wedding ... It's a once-in-a-lifetime chance to be the main attraction, so instead of doing it on a shoestring, why not pull out all the stops and make a great show of it?

Nearly all siheyuans had their main buildings and gates facing south for better lighting, so a majority of hutongs run from east to west.

Anglais mot "principal"(main) se produit dans des ensembles:

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3. principal

Today, automobiles have taken the place of horses as the principal means of transportation.

principal reason

The principal called him to account for being absent without an excuse.

The organization plays a principal role in wildlife conservation.

The principal cause of death in refugee camps is the lack of nourishment.

He said that their principal would go there the next day.

This is an interesting case where there is no principal determining element.

The definition of principal is the first or highest in importance. An example of a principal ingredient is flour in bread.

My principal is Mrs Lidia Kącala.

Diana kept missing lessons, so the school principal telephoned her parents.

That was my principal reason for moving.

The instalment for my loan is $110 a month. $100 goes toward paying off the principal and the $10 is for the interest.

The principal severely reproved the students whenever they made a mess in the hallway.

The principal made a rule for the purpose of giving a good school life to the students.

I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.

Anglais mot "principal"(principal) se produit dans des ensembles:

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4. major

major problem

It seems the navy jets had a major screw-up in navigation and they bombed their own troops by mistake.

Guess what the managing director started off the meeting by saying. The first thing out of his mouth was an announcement of some major restructuring.

Large-scale surface currents are already known to exist, and major currents below the ocean surface, too, are being found.

The major religions in China are Taoism, Buddhism, Islam and Christianity.

Japan has had the experience of being hit by major earthquake disasters, since it is a country which has historically had many earthquakes.

The Lockheed scandal is a worldwide corruption scandal involving the major American plane manufacturer Lockheed. It came to light in February 1976 and revolved mainly around the acceptance of passenger plane contracts.

Capital investments planned by major Japanese businesses for this year have been revised upward in view of an improving economic outlook.

Japanese companies have set up factories on every continent, and Japanese banks help finance many of the world's major economic programs.

While one of them sped around major parts of the property on the mower, a second made a few sweeps at some tall weeds on the edge of my wife's garden, and the third got into the truck and smoked a cigarette.

Japan consists of four major islands and over 3,000 small islands, and is about equal to California in area.

In the midst of the dollar falling hard against the Yen and other major Eastern currencies the Chinese Yuan, with China effectively taking a 'dollar peg' policy, has become cheap.

It would be a great convenience if English were to become everybody's major language.

Major Cold: It's the day of the year that the cold is most severe, but you could also say that Spring is just coming around the corner.

The methods used to overcome stress are different for men and women: drinking is the major method used by men, while women deal with stress by chatting.