Dizionario Portoghese - Inglese

português - English

era in inglese:

1. era


The Medieval Era gave way to the Renaissance.
A samurai in the Edo era carried two swords.
The era of inventions and discoveries.
On December 27th of the 12th year of the Taisho era, the crown prince was shot at by Nanba Daisuke.
In China too glass is being excavated out of graves from the Era of Warring States.
In order to return to our era, what should we do?
That museum has a superb collection of Celtic era cultural artifacts.
Glass developed dramatically in the Roman era when glass blowing techniques were invented.
In the era of email, I'm so happy when a friend sends me a real letter.
Records are particularly scarce for this era, perhaps owing to a long series of natural disasters which befell the capital.
It is said that the Communist era ended up with the fall of the Berlin Wall.
I wish I lived in a different era: one in the past; when life was slower.
After the long era of Cold War, they finally improved their relationship.
In the contemporary era, people are more interested in technology than in human interaction.
During the Stalinist era, prisoners at concentration camps became slaves in service of the state.

2. age


Act your age.
Singer and actress Selena Gomez started her career at age seven on the children's public television show "Barney and Friends."
Tom lied about his age, so Mary thought he was much older than he really was.
Roger Miller entered the United States Army at the age of seventeen. He was sent to an army base near Atlanta, Georgia.
As humans age, their physical strength declines.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
I love looking at everyone's colorful kimonos on Coming of Age Day.
Carbon dating was performed on the sample to determine its age.
Louis Braille, who was blind from the age of three, invented a way for the blind to read.
A working man should be paid in proportion to his skill, not his age.
Old age creeps upon us unnoticed.
I never for a moment imagined that I would still be doing this kind of thing at my age.
Can a child of her age distinguish good from bad?
Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
At the age of six he had learned to use the typewriter and told the teacher that he did not need to learn to write by hand.

3. was


She has a good command of English though she was brought up in Japan.
I was hired.
Was she a high school student? "Yes, she was."
I can't go out, because I was injured a week ago in an accident.
By the time we had walked four miles, he was exhausted.
I knew that he was trying to use that money to become governor.
The project was a joint effort by students from three different classes.
The banker's pay cut was temporary, not permanent.
In 1958, the statue was built in the Hiroshima Peace Park.
The car's left-turn signal was broken.
Our vacation was so much fun that we decided to stay an extra week.
I could understand the first few sentences, but the rest of his speech was all Greek to me.
The industrialist found a wealthy financier to help him weather the storm which was inevitable.
His explanation was not satisfactory.
He was let out after serving just two years of his four-year prison sentence.