Em Viana, os taxímetros marcam, na bandeirada 1,
uma quantia inicial de R$ 4,50 e mais R$ 0,10 por
cada 100 metros rodados. Ao final de quatro
quilômetros percorridos, o valor a ser pago pela
corrida será de:
“Alice wasn’t very trustworthy. On the contrary, she
needed constant supervision. Even though she lived
off the money inherited from her father, she had been
caught stealing twice from her boss. It had come to
light that she also faked some invoices and pocketed
the money.”
The expression “on the contrary” (line 1) can not be
replaced by:
“Alice wasn’t very trustworthy. On the contrary, she
needed constant supervision. Even though she lived
off the money inherited from her father, she had been
caught stealing twice from her boss. It had come to
light that she also faked some invoices and pocketed
the money.”
When we say that Alice “lived off the money
inherited from her father”, we meant: