Visão de Mundo: Contratando um Malabarista

Gerente do Circo: há quanto tempo você é
malabarista?
Candidato: há cerca de 6 anos
Gerente do Circo: você pode segurar 3 bolas, 4 bolas
e 5 bolas?
Candidato: sim, sim, sim.
Gerente do Circo: você trabalha com objetos em
chamas?
Candidato: certamente.
Gerente do Circo: ... facas, machados, caixas abertas,
charutos e chapéus-coco?
Candidato: eu posso fazer malabarismos com tudo.
Gerente do Circo: você faz algum monólogo
engraçado junto com o malabarismo?
Candidato: faço e é hilariante.
Gerente do Circo: bem interessante, acho que você
está empregado.
 Candidato: Humm... você não quer me
ver fazendo malabarismos ?
Gerente do Circo: puxa, eu não pensei
nisso!

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Tradução: The electricity in my house

Question: The electricity in my house keeps shutting off?

Its a 2 story 3 bedroom house built in about 1997

recently within the last 2 days the electricity in the down stairs area kitchen and living room area have been shutting off at about the same time between 7 and 8 thirty

the kitchen and the living room are connected

Anyways since this started happening ive had to go to the fuse box and Im not sure which switch it is because its dark but there's a switch that its like it between the on and off position and I have to turn it all the way to the off position then back to the on and everything works again like normal

what could be the problem

Additional Details
and when this happens the refrigerator still works

but all the lights lamps and the tv shuts off and doesn't work Best



Answer chosen by asker:

The breaker that you describe is tripped. It sensed an overload or a fault and cut power to the circuit to save your wiring and your house (and maybe your life). What you are doing is resetting it. Now comes the fun part...

Why did it trip? Either overloaded circuit (the space heater that was mentioned is a good candidate for this) or short-circuit in the wiring.

This house is not too old. While not impossible, it is unlikely that the breaker is bad. It is probably working fine and doing exactly what its manufacturer designed and built it to do.

Call a licensed electrician, if necessary, and find the cause very soon or the breaker may stop doing its job. This is a good way to meet your local professional firefighters and see them in action, up close and personal.

Vocabulário:

• Shutting off: desligando
• Fuse box: caixa de disjuntores
• Switch: disjuntor
• On position: ligado
• Off position: desligado
• To turn: ligar (ou desligar)
• Works: funciona
• Lights lamps: luzes
• Breaker: disjuntor
• Is tripped: desarmou
• Overload: sobrecarga
• Fault: falha
• Cut power: desligou
• Wiring: fiação
• Resetting it: religá-los
• Trip: desarmou
• Overloaded: sobrecarregado
• Short-circuit: curtocircuito
• Licensed electrician: eletricista autorizado

Crônica: Little John and the Pot

One day little John borrowed a pot from his neighbour Manoel. The next day he brought it back with another little pot inside. "That's not mine," said Manoel. "Yes, it is," said little John. "While your pot was staying with me, it had a baby."
Some time later little John asked Manoel to lend him a pot again. Manoel agreed, hoping that he would once again receive two pots in return. However, days passed and little John had still not returned the pot. Finally Manoel lost patience and went to demand his property. "I am sorry," said little John. "I can't give you back your pot, since it has died." "Died!" screamed Manoel, "how can a pot die?" "Well," said little John, "you believed me when I told you that your pot had had a baby."

Coloque as frases traduzidas em ordem:

1. — Morreu, exclamou Manoel.
2. Um dia Manoel cansou-se e foi exigir seu utensílio de volta.
3. — Bom, replicou Joãozinho: — Você não tinha acreditado que a panela teve um filhote? Então!
4. Alguns dias depois, Joãozinho pediu ao Manoel que lhe emprestasse a panela novamente.
5. — É sim, disse Joãozinho.
6. Um dia Joãozinho pediu emprestado uma panela de seu vizinho Manoel.
7. — Não poso lhe devolver a panela, pois ela morreu.
8. No dia seguinte ele trouxe a panela de volta com outra dentro.
9. — Esta outra não é minha, disse Manoel.
10. — Enquanto sua panela esteve comigo ela teve um filhote.
11. Manoel se apressou em empresta-la, esperando receber em dobro.
12. — Como é que uma panela poderia morrer?
13. No entanto, os dias passaram e Joãozinho não trazia a panela de volta.
14. — Sinto muito, disse Joãozinho.