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Como
Converter Fahrenheit para Celsius?
Como dizer "mormaço" em
inglês?
06/21/10 -
SUMMER!!!!!!!
Today is officially summer in the
Northern Hemisphere!! Finally!
I
know... if you are in the Southern Hemisphere you
could care less (você nem liga) for my
summer, right? You are getting the
cool days (dias frios) already,
chilly nights (noites geladas), and
may even have some frost (geada) if
you are down south. Good time for hot
cocoa (chocolate quente),
bonfire (fogueira), and a
cozy home (lar aconchegante) smelling
like home made bread (pão caseiro/pão
feito em casa).
That's my view of winter... what is yours?
What do you like the most about
winter?
Or
about summer? - if you are now as happy as a clam in your
first day of summer, like I am!!!
Write to LEP telling
your weather preferences. You practice, I help you
with your text, and you learn more! Weather is a big
issue in the USA. Americans are always concerned
about it, checking the weather channels on TV,
radio, and Internet. If you are talking to an
American, or if you are in the USA for a visit,
you'd better know a bit about weather words and
temperature conversion. It will help your
conversation!
Here in Rockford this morning the
temperature is around 71ºF (around
22ºC). It's
overcast (or cloudy) and
sultry.
Hmmmm... Fahrenheit and
Celsius conversion? That's a little
tricky... but there is an equation to convert
these temperature scales.
Veja como fazer a
conversão de Celsius para Fahrenheit, e
vice-versa.
Seu amigo americano
diz que está 75ºF onde ele mora. E você quer saber a
quantos graus Celsius essa temperatura
equivale.
De Fahrenheit para
Celsius, você faz a seguinte equação:
ºF - 32 /
9 x 5 = ºC
(the temperature given in Fahrenheit,
minus 32, divided by 9, times 5, equals the
temperature in Celsius).
Cool, huh?
So, 75
ºF is 23.88 ºC (you
can round it up to 24 ºC)
Qual a temperatura agora no Rio
Grande do Sul, BR? 16ºC?
Se você está conversando com seu amigo americano,
ele talvez não tenha a noção de quantos
graus Fahrenheit esse número representa, então
você converte, com a equação oposta à primeira (de
trás para frente, invertendo as operações):
ºC / 5 x 9 + 32
= ºF
(the
temperature given in Celsius, divided by
5, times 9, plus 32, equals the
temperature in
Fahrenheit).
So, 16ºC
is 60.8 ºF (you can round it up to
61ºF)
Enough
of numbers! Back to words, now:
O dia
está nublado e
com mormaço
=>
It's
overcast (or cloudy) and
sultry.
A primeira
vez que eu quis dizer a palavra "mormaço" em
inglês, foi uma complicação. Eu não sabia a
palavra e o jeito foi explicar: "that hot,
humid, heavy air that makes you very hot and
unconfortable and makes it difficult to breathe."
The person I was talking to, understood what I was
meaning. The word for "mormaço", as I learned
later, is "sultry"
/'sãltri/.
More words:
Fog
/ mist / haze = neblina
Foggy / misty / hazy morning =
manhã com
neblina
Dew
/du:/ = orvalho
(I love to take pictures of flowers covered
with morning dew.)
Happy Summer to you, above the equator line;
and Happy Winter to you, below the equator line!
Whatever is the season, remember to have
fun!

Dúvidas
de gramática, cultura, expressões
idiomáticas
em inglês?
Drop me a line
at:
A Nut
of Culture:
Fahrenheit
/'færənhaɪt/
is a family name
(sobrenome). Gabriel Daniel
Fahrenheit (1686–1736) was a
German physicist who invented a
system for measuring temperature
by using a mercury-filled
thermometer; therefore
called Fahrenheit
Scale.
Celsius
/'selsjəs/ is a family name,
too. Anders Celsius (1701-1744)
was a Swedish astronomer who invented
the
Centigrade
temperature scale; therefore, Celsius
Scale.
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