Dizionario Portoghese - Inglese

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maior in inglese:

1. greatest


The world's greatest singers and most of its famous musicians have been fat or at least decidedly plump.
Allah is the greatest!
In the greatest of all works of art everything had been realized, I could give nothing, and my restless mind tired of passive contemplation.
For even as we celebrate tonight, we know the challenges that tomorrow will bring are the greatest of our lifetime — two wars, a planet in peril, the worst financial crisis in a century.
The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and have it found out by accident.
The royal navy of England hath ever been its greatest defense and ornament; it is its ancient and natural strength; the floating bulwark of our island.
The greatest wisdom has no shape; the greatest vessel is the latest to be completed; the greatest music has the most tenuous notes.
Never were finer women or more accomplished men seen in any Court, and Nature seemed to have taken pleasure in lavishing her greatest graces on the greatest persons.
Reason is the greatest enemy that faith has: it never comes to the aid of spiritual things, but--more frequently than not --struggles against the divine Word, treating with contempt all that emanates from God.
Eleanor though the daughter of a king and brought up in the greatest luxury determined to share misfortune with her husband.
The greatest number came from Europe, but many also came from Latin America, Asia, Africa, Australia, and Canada.
It can be said, in fact, that research, by exploring the greatest and the smallest, contributes to the glory of God which is reflected in every part of the universe.
The mind's greatest good is the knowledge of God, and the mind's highest virtue is to know God.

2. greater


Their influence becomes greater every day, but they are uncreative and can't make value judgements.
I'll give you our answer after we go into your proposal in greater detail.
A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.
I ate a greater burdock tempura.
Are you creating for us a future world where there is a greater danger of skin cancer, weakened bodies, less food and fewer plants and animals?
It is out of the question for me to built a new house till my income becomes greater.
The greater the genius, the longer it takes the world to find it out and understand it.
As a rule, the more fundamental a new truth, the greater will be its practical possibilities.
Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution.
Television has the advantage of providing sports fans with greater convenience.
The chances of success are greater if the business man knows the ropes, and also has more funds at his disposal.
Accordingly, besides noun declension patterns, there also existed a greater variety of verb conjugation patterns than in Modern English.
The seals surface more frequently then, so a bear's chance of catching one at a breathing hole is greater after nightfall.
At no period of our ancient history does there appear to have been greater attention paid to the culture of the female mind than during the age of Elizabeth and at no time has there existed a greater number of amiable and respectable women.