Brazilian Portuguese English Dictionary

Português brasileiro - English

bem in English:

1. well well


Well, the night is quite long, isn't it?
The little kitten fell into the deep water well, so the children used a bucket and string to help it out.
Well, let's go.
I feel in my bones that they will never get along well together.
He did well in all subjects, particularly mathematics.
Both teams are well matched. The game will be an interesting one.
It is difficult to find a well paid permanent job.
Judging from his report, the project seems to be going well.
Parents are proud of their children when they do well in school.
His favorite baseball team is the Giants, but he likes the Lions as well.
Well, we've finished at last.
Children aren't naturally obedient any more than they're naturally well mannered.
Air as well as sunlight is, needless to say, indispensable to our daily life.
If you want to learn a foreign language well, you should speak that language with native speakers as often as you can.
If you go on drinking so much, you may well end up an alcoholic.

English word "bem"(well) occurs in sets:

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2. sake sake


A brewery we finance has made a new sweet sake and brought some to us asking us to try it.
For heavens sake.
A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. And to act so is immoral.
Imagine, for the sake of argument, a tribal group in which mother-son incest was countenanced.
An adventurous sort, Lester downed the whole bottle of habu sake in one show-stopping chug. Only the snake was left, securing Lester as an Okinawan national treasure.
It is a toss-up whether to drink sake or whiskey; too much of either results equally in drunken revelry.
Cheap sake makes you sick.
Whoo! I'm feeling that sake. I'm getting blurred vision and it's hard to walk.
For the sake of completeness, let us mention that the ring R - considered as a module over itself - has submodules of arbitrarily large finite length.
For God’s sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself!
For the sake of children in need, we cooperated to collect donations.
I'm saying "For the sake of Earth's environment," but actually it's "For the sake of the people living on Earth."
My husband likes to have a drink in the evening. He drinks 6 or more bottles of sparkling wine and 5 or 6 bottles of warm sake. Sometimes he has a day where he doesn't drink, but it has never lasted for more than two days.
What harm would it do, if a man told a good strong lie for the sake of the good and for the Christian church … a lie out of necessity, a useful lie, a helpful lie, such lies would not be against God, he would accept them.
For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

English word "bem"(sake) occurs in sets:

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