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sinking into oblivion

  • 1 канувший в вечность

    Русско-английский большой базовый словарь > канувший в вечность

  • 2 caer en la oscuridad

    (v.) = fall into + obscurity, sink into + oblivion, sink into + obscurity, fade into + obscurity, fade into + oblivion
    Ex. The acid rain literature illustrated the 1st paradigm, where journals from the unadjusted literature were thrust forward in the adjusted literature, and no unadjusted journal fell into obscurity.
    Ex. Our deliberate and passionate ambition is to avoid the traps of soulless, dead villages turned into museums, slowly sinking into oblivion.
    Ex. Some of them enjoy loyal followings within Russia while others briefly shone before sinking into obscurity.
    Ex. But he may be put under house arrest, a dire fate for a man who is terrified of fading into obscurity.
    Ex. The music industry as we know it is slowly fading into oblivion.
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    (v.) = fall into + obscurity, sink into + oblivion, sink into + obscurity, fade into + obscurity, fade into + oblivion

    Ex: The acid rain literature illustrated the 1st paradigm, where journals from the unadjusted literature were thrust forward in the adjusted literature, and no unadjusted journal fell into obscurity.

    Ex: Our deliberate and passionate ambition is to avoid the traps of soulless, dead villages turned into museums, slowly sinking into oblivion.
    Ex: Some of them enjoy loyal followings within Russia while others briefly shone before sinking into obscurity.
    Ex: But he may be put under house arrest, a dire fate for a man who is terrified of fading into obscurity.
    Ex: The music industry as we know it is slowly fading into oblivion.

    Spanish-English dictionary > caer en la oscuridad

  • 3 caer en desuso

    to fall into disuse
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    (v.) = fall into + disuse, fall out of + fashion, go out of + use, lapse, fall into + disfavour, die out, drop from + sight, go out of + favour, pass away, fall into + desuetude, fall into + desuetude, pass into + desuetude, sink into + desuetude, sink into + oblivion
    Ex. However, from the sixties, competition for the railway worker's leisure time from public libraries, service clubs and the humble television meant that many branch libraries fell into disuse.
    Ex. Rotundas were widely used for all but the most formal texts in the fifteenth century, but fell out of fashion during the sixteenth century, surviving longest in Spain.
    Ex. The English, French, and Dutch bastardas went out of use by the mid sixteenth century.
    Ex. The Act was finally allowed to lapse in 1695 and the Stationers' Company was unable to protect its members' rights against those who chose to infringe them.
    Ex. The printed catalogue has fallen into disfavour, and been replaced by card catalogues, and, more recently, on-line catalogues.
    Ex. These changes accelerated through much of the nineteenth century, with the older material such as the chivalric romance dying out about the 1960s.
    Ex. The older material, such as the chivalric romances, dropped from sight.
    Ex. The author follows the history through to the point, in the latter part of the nineteenth century, when mirror-image monograms went out of favour and were replaced by straightforward monograms.
    Ex. These tools are useable for analytical studies of how technologies emerge, mature and pass away.
    Ex. Probably only one in a hundred girls who give birth clandestinely even knows that an edict of King Henry II, now fallen into desuetude, once made their action punishable by death.
    Ex. Probably only one in a hundred girls who give birth clandestinely even knows that an edict of King Henry II, now fallen into desuetude, once made their action punishable by death.
    Ex. To make a very long story unacceptably short, espionage passed into desuetude after the Reagan years.
    Ex. It is clear now that after a time, with her marriage sinking into desuetude, Vivien entered into a sexual relationship with Russell.
    Ex. Our deliberate and passionate ambition is to avoid the traps of soulless, dead villages turned into museums, slowly sinking into oblivion.
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    (v.) = fall into + disuse, fall out of + fashion, go out of + use, lapse, fall into + disfavour, die out, drop from + sight, go out of + favour, pass away, fall into + desuetude, fall into + desuetude, pass into + desuetude, sink into + desuetude, sink into + oblivion

    Ex: However, from the sixties, competition for the railway worker's leisure time from public libraries, service clubs and the humble television meant that many branch libraries fell into disuse.

    Ex: Rotundas were widely used for all but the most formal texts in the fifteenth century, but fell out of fashion during the sixteenth century, surviving longest in Spain.
    Ex: The English, French, and Dutch bastardas went out of use by the mid sixteenth century.
    Ex: The Act was finally allowed to lapse in 1695 and the Stationers' Company was unable to protect its members' rights against those who chose to infringe them.
    Ex: The printed catalogue has fallen into disfavour, and been replaced by card catalogues, and, more recently, on-line catalogues.
    Ex: These changes accelerated through much of the nineteenth century, with the older material such as the chivalric romance dying out about the 1960s.
    Ex: The older material, such as the chivalric romances, dropped from sight.
    Ex: The author follows the history through to the point, in the latter part of the nineteenth century, when mirror-image monograms went out of favour and were replaced by straightforward monograms.
    Ex: These tools are useable for analytical studies of how technologies emerge, mature and pass away.
    Ex: Probably only one in a hundred girls who give birth clandestinely even knows that an edict of King Henry II, now fallen into desuetude, once made their action punishable by death.
    Ex: Probably only one in a hundred girls who give birth clandestinely even knows that an edict of King Henry II, now fallen into desuetude, once made their action punishable by death.
    Ex: To make a very long story unacceptably short, espionage passed into desuetude after the Reagan years.
    Ex: It is clear now that after a time, with her marriage sinking into desuetude, Vivien entered into a sexual relationship with Russell.
    Ex: Our deliberate and passionate ambition is to avoid the traps of soulless, dead villages turned into museums, slowly sinking into oblivion.

    Spanish-English dictionary > caer en desuso

  • 4 zapomnienie

    -a; nt
    ( niepamięć) oblivion; ( roztargnienie) forgetfulness

    pójść lub odejść ( perf) w zapomnienie — to sink lub fall into oblivion

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    n.
    1. (= niepamięć) oblivion, obscurity, neglect, eclipse; pójść l. odejść w zapomnienie fall/fade/sink into oblivion, be thrown on the scrap heap, be lost in the mists of time; ocalić coś od zapomnienia save from sinking into oblivion; wydobyć kogoś/coś z zapomnienia bring sb/sth back from oblivion; skazywać coś na zapomnienie consign sth to oblivion; pozostawać w zapomnieniu remain in eclipse/oblivion; chwilowe zapomnienie memory lapse.
    2. (= roztargnienie) absent-mindedness, forgetfulness; (zostawić coś) przez zapomnienie through a lapse of memory.
    3. (= oderwanie od rzeczywistości) oblivion, abstraction; szukać zapomnienia w czymś seek oblivion in sth; napój zapomnienia lit. nepenthe; rzeka zapomnienia waters of forgetfulness; dający zapomnienie oblivious.

    The New English-Polish, Polish-English Kościuszko foundation dictionary > zapomnienie

  • 5 despiadado

    adj.
    merciless, cruel, inhuman, cold-hearted.
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    1 ruthless, merciless
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    (f. - despiadada)
    adj.
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    ADJ [persona] heartless; [ataque] merciless
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    - da adjetivo < persona> ruthless, heartless; <ataque/crítica> savage, merciless
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    = hard-hearted, relentless, savage, ruthless, remorseless, implacable, inexorable, cold-blooded, ferocius, unsparing, merciless, soulless, ferocious, heartless, cutthroat, unforgiving.
    Ex. For her refusal, Isabella has received a great deal of blame from subsequent critics, who call her a hard-hearted prude.
    Ex. They need to be relentless in their fight for adequate funding so that the library service and the profession are not jeopardised.
    Ex. The most vulnerable nations are Burma, Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam, which have all experienced savage war and civil unrest in recent years.
    Ex. The ruling also coincided with a flood of mergers and acquisitions that transformed gentlemen publishers into ruthless entrepreneurs.
    Ex. The population explosion and the remorseless growth of knowledge are discussed.
    Ex. The implacable reduction in the dissemination of public documents constitutes a rebarbative policy that threatens the quality of reference services in libraries.
    Ex. The inexorable tide of automation seems to be threatening the existence of old-fashioned, handwritten copymarking.
    Ex. He was a cold-blooded killer, cardsharp, gambler and a consumptive who also ran several confidence scams.
    Ex. Fuller's novel make for a form of intellectual clarity, even if that clarity, paradoxically, is expressed in a ferocious hell-bent manner.
    Ex. The book is so ferociously unsparing in detailing the systematic torment as well as wanton cruelty that the reconstruction of the past is often unbearable.
    Ex. The author discusses art critic Harry Quilter, usually remembered today as 'Arry,' the butt of merciless lampooning by J.M. Whistler.
    Ex. Our deliberate and passionate ambition is to avoid the traps of soulless, dead villages turned into museums, slowly sinking into oblivion.
    Ex. One by one, he wiped the floor with opponents who had spoken in the debate -- with a ferocious blend of rant, rhetoric and rumbustious counterattack.
    Ex. However, I knew there was a problem when I actually cared more about the relationship between the secondary characters of Josh McCool, heartless flunky of Warren's, and Mia.
    Ex. As the saying goes, 'Be as innocent as a lamb, and as wily as a fox' -- shrewdness is a valuable attribute in this cutthroat world.
    Ex. Unlike other Swedish illustrators, he used the time consuming and unforgiving technique of wood engraving for his illustrations.
    ----
    * actuar de un modo despiadado = play + hardball.
    * ser despiadado = play + hardball.
    * * *
    - da adjetivo < persona> ruthless, heartless; <ataque/crítica> savage, merciless
    * * *
    = hard-hearted, relentless, savage, ruthless, remorseless, implacable, inexorable, cold-blooded, ferocius, unsparing, merciless, soulless, ferocious, heartless, cutthroat, unforgiving.

    Ex: For her refusal, Isabella has received a great deal of blame from subsequent critics, who call her a hard-hearted prude.

    Ex: They need to be relentless in their fight for adequate funding so that the library service and the profession are not jeopardised.
    Ex: The most vulnerable nations are Burma, Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam, which have all experienced savage war and civil unrest in recent years.
    Ex: The ruling also coincided with a flood of mergers and acquisitions that transformed gentlemen publishers into ruthless entrepreneurs.
    Ex: The population explosion and the remorseless growth of knowledge are discussed.
    Ex: The implacable reduction in the dissemination of public documents constitutes a rebarbative policy that threatens the quality of reference services in libraries.
    Ex: The inexorable tide of automation seems to be threatening the existence of old-fashioned, handwritten copymarking.
    Ex: He was a cold-blooded killer, cardsharp, gambler and a consumptive who also ran several confidence scams.
    Ex: Fuller's novel make for a form of intellectual clarity, even if that clarity, paradoxically, is expressed in a ferocious hell-bent manner.
    Ex: The book is so ferociously unsparing in detailing the systematic torment as well as wanton cruelty that the reconstruction of the past is often unbearable.
    Ex: The author discusses art critic Harry Quilter, usually remembered today as 'Arry,' the butt of merciless lampooning by J.M. Whistler.
    Ex: Our deliberate and passionate ambition is to avoid the traps of soulless, dead villages turned into museums, slowly sinking into oblivion.
    Ex: One by one, he wiped the floor with opponents who had spoken in the debate -- with a ferocious blend of rant, rhetoric and rumbustious counterattack.
    Ex: However, I knew there was a problem when I actually cared more about the relationship between the secondary characters of Josh McCool, heartless flunky of Warren's, and Mia.
    Ex: As the saying goes, 'Be as innocent as a lamb, and as wily as a fox' -- shrewdness is a valuable attribute in this cutthroat world.
    Ex: Unlike other Swedish illustrators, he used the time consuming and unforgiving technique of wood engraving for his illustrations.
    * actuar de un modo despiadado = play + hardball.
    * ser despiadado = play + hardball.

    * * *
    ‹persona› ruthless, heartless; ‹ataque/crítica› savage, merciless
    * * *

    despiadado
    ◊ -da adjetivo ‹ persona› ruthless, heartless;


    ‹ataque/crítica› savage, merciless
    despiadado,-a adjetivo merciless, ruthless
    ' despiadado' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    acerba
    - acerbo
    - bárbara
    - bárbaro
    - despiadada
    English:
    cold-blooded
    - cold-hearted
    - cutthroat
    - merciless
    - pitiless
    - remorseless
    - ruthless
    - unmerciful
    - vicious
    - cold
    * * *
    despiadado, -a adj
    [persona] merciless; [trato] inhuman, pitiless; [ataque] savage, merciless
    * * *
    adj ruthless
    * * *
    despiadado, -da adj
    cruel: cruel, merciless, pitiless
    * * *
    despiadado adj hard-hearted / heartless / ruthless

    Spanish-English dictionary > despiadado

  • 6 abúlico

    adj.
    abulic, indifferent, lacking energy, lacking in energy.
    m.
    abulic person, person lacking in energy.
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    1 apathetic, lacking in willpower
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    - ca adjetivo apathetic
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    Ex. Our deliberate and passionate ambition is to avoid the traps of soulless, dead villages turned into museums, slowly sinking into oblivion.
    * * *
    - ca adjetivo apathetic
    * * *

    Ex: Our deliberate and passionate ambition is to avoid the traps of soulless, dead villages turned into museums, slowly sinking into oblivion.

    * * *
    apathetic
    * * *

    abúlico,-a adjetivo apathetic, spineless
    ' abúlico' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    abúlica
    * * *
    abúlico, -a
    ♦ adj
    apathetic, lethargic
    ♦ nm,f
    apathetic o lethargic person
    * * *
    adj apathetic, lacking in energy
    * * *
    abúlico, -ca adj
    : lethargic, apathetic

    Spanish-English dictionary > abúlico

  • 7 desalmado

    adj.
    cruel, inhuman, heartless, conscienceless.
    past part.
    past participle of spanish verb: desalmar.
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    1 (malvado) wicked
    2 (cruel) cruel, heartless
    ► nombre masculino,nombre femenino
    1 (malvado) wicked person
    2 (cruel) cruel person, heartless person
    * * *
    ADJ cruel, heartless
    * * *
    - da masculino, femenino
    * * *
    = cold-blooded, soulless, heartless.
    Ex. He was a cold-blooded killer, cardsharp, gambler and a consumptive who also ran several confidence scams.
    Ex. Our deliberate and passionate ambition is to avoid the traps of soulless, dead villages turned into museums, slowly sinking into oblivion.
    Ex. However, I knew there was a problem when I actually cared more about the relationship between the secondary characters of Josh McCool, heartless flunky of Warren's, and Mia.
    * * *
    - da masculino, femenino
    * * *
    = cold-blooded, soulless, heartless.

    Ex: He was a cold-blooded killer, cardsharp, gambler and a consumptive who also ran several confidence scams.

    Ex: Our deliberate and passionate ambition is to avoid the traps of soulless, dead villages turned into museums, slowly sinking into oblivion.
    Ex: However, I knew there was a problem when I actually cared more about the relationship between the secondary characters of Josh McCool, heartless flunky of Warren's, and Mia.

    * * *
    desalmado1 -da
    heartless, callous
    desalmado2 -da
    masculine, feminine
    heartless o callous swine ( colloq)
    * * *

    desalmado,-a
    I adjetivo cruel, heartless
    II sustantivo masculino y femenino heartless person: solo un desalmado cometería un crimen así, only a cruel, heartless person could have committed such a crime
    ' desalmado' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    desalmada
    English:
    fiend
    - fiendish
    * * *
    desalmado, -a
    ♦ adj
    heartless
    ♦ nm,f
    heartless person;
    es un desalmado he's completely heartless
    * * *
    I adj heartless
    II m, desalmada f
    :
    es un desalmado he is heartless
    * * *
    desalmado, -da adj
    : heartless, callous

    Spanish-English dictionary > desalmado

  • 8 indiferente

    adj.
    1 indifferent.
    2 unresponsive, apathetic, having little or no interest.
    f. & m.
    indifferent person.
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    1 indifferent
    \
    me es indiferente I don't care
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    adj.
    * * *
    ADJ
    1) (=impasible) [actitud, mirada] indifferent

    dejar indiferente a algn: esas imágenes no pueden dejarnos indiferentes — those images cannot fail to move us

    permanecer o quedarse indiferente — to remain indifferent (a, ante to)

    2) (=que da igual)

    -¿desea salir por la mañana o por la tarde? -me es indiferente — "do you want to leave in the morning or the afternoon?" - "it makes no difference to me o I don't mind"

    es indiferente que vengáis hoy o mañana — it makes no difference o it doesn't matter whether you come today or tomorrow

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    a) (poco importante, de poco interés)

    es indiferente que salga hoy o mañana — it doesn't matter o it makes no difference whether it goes today or tomorrow

    ¿té o café? - me es indiferente — tea or coffee? - either

    me es indiferente su amistad — I'm not concerned o (colloq) bothered about his friendship

    b) ( poco interesado) indifferent

    indiferente al peligro — indifferent to o unconcerned about the danger

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    = listless, unsympathetic, indifferent, half-hearted [halfhearted], uninterested, regardless, uncaring, unconcerned, detached, impassive, unengaged, apathetic, careless, feckless, insouciant, nonchalant, nonplus, nonplussed [nonplused], soulless, unemotional.
    Ex. Rejuvenation of listless, stagnant, or failing library operations is possible through renewal methods dependent on strengthening the communication function.
    Ex. But of its four sentences, the third was so determined to present a grammatically structured metaphor for its meaning that it dazzled my eye, never mind my already unsympathetic brain.
    Ex. Contrary to popular belief, people who have been deaf from birth are not indifferent to aesthetic literature.
    Ex. Yet the response from government has been half-hearted at best.
    Ex. Other staff of the library remained at best uninterested in the project and at worst resented it as a diminution of traditional library services.
    Ex. What can we do is rethink our query, or we can 'bash on regardless' using the power of the computer to perform lots more searches in the hope that 'something will turn up'.
    Ex. The principal problem which faces archives is that of saving significant material from indiscriminate destruction by ignorant or uncaring owners.
    Ex. Then, with an elfin smile she said: 'You see, I haven't been entirely unconcerned!'.
    Ex. The attention good literature pays to life is both loving and detached.
    Ex. There is a commonly-held stereotype which views librarians as being isolated, uninformed, unengaged, impassive, and either uninterested in, or ignorant of, the world around them.
    Ex. There is a commonly-held stereotype which views librarians as being isolated, uninformed, unengaged, impassive, and either uninterested in, or ignorant of, the world around them.
    Ex. In World War 2 librarians generally sympathised with Britain, but many were isolationist or apathetic during the early years = En la Segunda Guerra Mundial los bibliotecarios generalmente simpatizaban con Gran Bretaña, aunque muchos mantuvieron una actitud no intervencionista o indiferente durante los primeros años.
    Ex. They will spend time trying to ascribe reasons to the variations whereas the true facts are that the citer was simply sloppy and careless.
    Ex. The author wrings sick humor from its feckless heroes' forlorn attempts to escape from a drug habit that they do not really enjoy any longer.
    Ex. Adopting an insouciant attitude toward empirical research -- shorn of such seemingly tough-minded concepts as objectivity and transparency -- makes her point more plausible.
    Ex. Certainly the explanation was remarkably in accordance with the nonchalant character of the noble lord who gave it.
    Ex. I remember reading an interview where Boll was nonplus about it, but then days later the site got shut down.
    Ex. Considering all that has happened to them, the cousins were nonplussed.
    Ex. Our deliberate and passionate ambition is to avoid the traps of soulless, dead villages turned into museums, slowly sinking into oblivion.
    Ex. Australian researchers have observed that four to eight year-old boys who have an unemotional temperament are less responsive to discipline.
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    * de un modo indiferente = listlessly.
    * mostrarse indiferente = give + Nombre + the cold shoulder, turn + a cold shoulder to, cold-shoulder.
    * * *
    a) (poco importante, de poco interés)

    es indiferente que salga hoy o mañana — it doesn't matter o it makes no difference whether it goes today or tomorrow

    ¿té o café? - me es indiferente — tea or coffee? - either

    me es indiferente su amistad — I'm not concerned o (colloq) bothered about his friendship

    b) ( poco interesado) indifferent

    indiferente al peligro — indifferent to o unconcerned about the danger

    * * *
    = listless, unsympathetic, indifferent, half-hearted [halfhearted], uninterested, regardless, uncaring, unconcerned, detached, impassive, unengaged, apathetic, careless, feckless, insouciant, nonchalant, nonplus, nonplussed [nonplused], soulless, unemotional.

    Ex: Rejuvenation of listless, stagnant, or failing library operations is possible through renewal methods dependent on strengthening the communication function.

    Ex: But of its four sentences, the third was so determined to present a grammatically structured metaphor for its meaning that it dazzled my eye, never mind my already unsympathetic brain.
    Ex: Contrary to popular belief, people who have been deaf from birth are not indifferent to aesthetic literature.
    Ex: Yet the response from government has been half-hearted at best.
    Ex: Other staff of the library remained at best uninterested in the project and at worst resented it as a diminution of traditional library services.
    Ex: What can we do is rethink our query, or we can 'bash on regardless' using the power of the computer to perform lots more searches in the hope that 'something will turn up'.
    Ex: The principal problem which faces archives is that of saving significant material from indiscriminate destruction by ignorant or uncaring owners.
    Ex: Then, with an elfin smile she said: 'You see, I haven't been entirely unconcerned!'.
    Ex: The attention good literature pays to life is both loving and detached.
    Ex: There is a commonly-held stereotype which views librarians as being isolated, uninformed, unengaged, impassive, and either uninterested in, or ignorant of, the world around them.
    Ex: There is a commonly-held stereotype which views librarians as being isolated, uninformed, unengaged, impassive, and either uninterested in, or ignorant of, the world around them.
    Ex: In World War 2 librarians generally sympathised with Britain, but many were isolationist or apathetic during the early years = En la Segunda Guerra Mundial los bibliotecarios generalmente simpatizaban con Gran Bretaña, aunque muchos mantuvieron una actitud no intervencionista o indiferente durante los primeros años.
    Ex: They will spend time trying to ascribe reasons to the variations whereas the true facts are that the citer was simply sloppy and careless.
    Ex: The author wrings sick humor from its feckless heroes' forlorn attempts to escape from a drug habit that they do not really enjoy any longer.
    Ex: Adopting an insouciant attitude toward empirical research -- shorn of such seemingly tough-minded concepts as objectivity and transparency -- makes her point more plausible.
    Ex: Certainly the explanation was remarkably in accordance with the nonchalant character of the noble lord who gave it.
    Ex: I remember reading an interview where Boll was nonplus about it, but then days later the site got shut down.
    Ex: Considering all that has happened to them, the cousins were nonplussed.
    Ex: Our deliberate and passionate ambition is to avoid the traps of soulless, dead villages turned into museums, slowly sinking into oblivion.
    Ex: Australian researchers have observed that four to eight year-old boys who have an unemotional temperament are less responsive to discipline.
    * de un modo indiferente = listlessly.
    * mostrarse indiferente = give + Nombre + the cold shoulder, turn + a cold shoulder to, cold-shoulder.

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    1
    (poco importante, de poco interés): es indiferente que salga hoy o mañana it doesn't matter o it makes no difference o it's immaterial whether it goes today or tomorrow
    ¿té o café? — me es indiferente tea or coffee? — either o I don't mind o it makes no difference
    no me cae mal, me es indiferente I don't dislike her, I don't really have any feelings one way or the other
    todo lo que no sea de su especialidad le es indiferente he's not interested in anything that isn't connected with his speciality
    me es indiferente su amistad I'm not concerned o ( colloq) bothered about his friendship
    2 (poco interesado) indifferent
    se mostró totalmente indiferente ante mi propuesta he was totally indifferent to o uninterested in my suggestion
    indiferente A algo indifferent TO sth
    indiferente al peligro indifferent to o unconcerned about the danger
    permanecieron/se mostraron indiferentes a mis súplicas they remained/they were indifferent to my pleas
    3
    (poco amable, afectuoso): conmigo es fría e indiferente she's cold and distant with me, she treats me coldly and with indifference
    4 (mediocre) indifferent
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    indiferente adjetivo
    a) (poco importante, de poco interés):

    ◊ es indiferente que venga hoy o mañana it doesn't matter o it makes no difference whether he comes today or tomorrow;

    me es indiferente su amistad I'm not concerned o (colloq) bothered about his friendship

    indiferente a algo indifferent to sth
    indiferente adjetivo
    1 (irrelevante) unimportant: le es indiferente el color, colour makes no difference to her
    2 (impasible) indifferent: es indiferente a mi dolor, he doesn't care about my grief
    ' indiferente' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    fresca
    - fresco
    - igual
    - despreocupado
    - displicente
    - frío
    - resbalar
    English:
    care
    - cold
    - hard
    - indifferent
    - listless
    - lukewarm
    - nonchalant
    - skin
    - unconcerned
    - unemotional
    - uninterested
    - detached
    - uncaring
    - unresponsive
    - unsympathetic
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    1. [indistinto] indifferent;
    me es indiferente [me da igual] I don't mind, it's all the same to me;
    me es indiferente que vayas o no it's all the same to me whether you go or not;
    ¿prefieres hacerlo hoy o mañana? – me es indiferente would you rather do it today or tomorrow? – I don't mind
    2. [apático]
    siempre se muestra indiferente he always seems so apathetic;
    es indiferente a la miseria ajena other people's suffering means nothing to him;
    no puedo permanecer indiferente ante tanto sufrimiento I cannot remain indifferent in the face of so much suffering;
    su belleza me deja indiferente her beauty leaves me cold o does nothing for me
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    adj
    1 indifferent
    2 ( irrelevante) immaterial
    * * *
    1) : indifferent, unconcerned
    2)
    ser indiferente : to be of no concern
    me es indiferente: it doesn't matter to me
    * * *
    indiferente adj (persona) indifferent / not interested
    ser indiferente to make no difference / not to matter
    serle indiferente a alguien not to mind / not to care

    Spanish-English dictionary > indiferente

  • 9 insulso

    adj.
    1 dull, unentertaining, boring, uninteresting.
    2 tasteless, bland, dull, insipid.
    * * *
    1 (comida) insipid, tasteless
    2 (persona) dull
    * * *
    ADJ
    1) [comida] tasteless, insipid
    2) [charla, persona] dull
    * * *
    - sa adjetivo
    a) < comida> insipid, tasteless, bland
    b) < persona> insipid, dull; <conversación/libro> dull
    * * *
    = listless, bland, insipid, unexciting, unmoving, soulless, vapid.
    Ex. Rejuvenation of listless, stagnant, or failing library operations is possible through renewal methods dependent on strengthening the communication function.
    Ex. While bending over backwards to avoid bias biographies present their subjects' lives in a bland and uninteresting way = Al hacer lo imposible por evitar la parcialidad, las biografías presentan las vidas de las personas de una forma sosa y poco atractiva.
    Ex. Otherwise, the result will probably be too small and insipid to be of any real use.
    Ex. The author argues that the advantages for higher education are unclear, and rather unexciting.
    Ex. The outcome is strangely unmoving.
    Ex. Our deliberate and passionate ambition is to avoid the traps of soulless, dead villages turned into museums, slowly sinking into oblivion.
    Ex. Television has become so vapid and devoid of information that I didn't see the point of watching the presidential debate.
    ----
    * de un modo insulso = prosaically, listlessly.
    * * *
    - sa adjetivo
    a) < comida> insipid, tasteless, bland
    b) < persona> insipid, dull; <conversación/libro> dull
    * * *
    = listless, bland, insipid, unexciting, unmoving, soulless, vapid.

    Ex: Rejuvenation of listless, stagnant, or failing library operations is possible through renewal methods dependent on strengthening the communication function.

    Ex: While bending over backwards to avoid bias biographies present their subjects' lives in a bland and uninteresting way = Al hacer lo imposible por evitar la parcialidad, las biografías presentan las vidas de las personas de una forma sosa y poco atractiva.
    Ex: Otherwise, the result will probably be too small and insipid to be of any real use.
    Ex: The author argues that the advantages for higher education are unclear, and rather unexciting.
    Ex: The outcome is strangely unmoving.
    Ex: Our deliberate and passionate ambition is to avoid the traps of soulless, dead villages turned into museums, slowly sinking into oblivion.
    Ex: Television has become so vapid and devoid of information that I didn't see the point of watching the presidential debate.
    * de un modo insulso = prosaically, listlessly.

    * * *
    insulso -sa
    1 ‹comida› insipid, tasteless, bland
    2 ‹persona› insipid, dull; ‹conversación/libro› dull
    * * *

    insulso
    ◊ -sa adjetivo


    b) ‹ persona› insipid, dull;

    ‹conversación/libro› dull
    insulso,-a adjetivo insipid: es una persona muy insulsa, he's a very dull person
    ' insulso' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    insulsa
    English:
    insipid
    - tame
    - uninspired
    - bland
    - nondescript
    - unexciting
    * * *
    insulso, -a adj
    1. [comida] bland, insipid
    2. [persona, libro] insipid, dull
    * * *
    adj bland, insipid
    * * *
    insulso, -sa adj
    1) insípido: insipid, bland
    2) : dull

    Spanish-English dictionary > insulso

  • 10 кануть в вечность

    1. pass into oblivion
    2. sink into oblivion

    Русско-английский большой базовый словарь > кануть в вечность

  • 11 Versenkung

    f
    1. sinking
    2. THEAT. trapdoor
    3. umg., fig.: ( spurlos) in der Versenkung verschwinden disappear (from the face of the earth); Person: disappear ( oder fade) from the scene; ( wieder) aus der Versenkung auftauchen resurface, reappear; Person: auch reappear ( oder re-emerge) on the scene
    4. geistige etc.: (inward) contemplation
    * * *
    die Versenkung
    trapdoor; sinking
    * * *
    Ver|sẹn|kung
    f
    1) (= das Versenken) sinking; (von Leiche, Sarg) lowering; (von eigenem Schiff) scuttling
    2) (THEAT) trap(door)
    3) (= das Sichversenken) immersion

    jdn aus seiner Versenkung reißen — to tear sb from (his absorption or immersion in) his book/work etc

    innere/mystische Versenkung — inner/mystic contemplation

    4) (inf)

    in der Versenkung verschwinden — to vanish; (berühmter Mensch, Buch etc) to vanish or disappear from the scene, to sink into oblivion

    aus der Versenkung auftauchen — to reappear; (Mensch auch) to re-emerge (on the scene)

    * * *
    Ver·sen·kung
    f
    ▪ die \Versenkung [einer S. gen [o von etw dat]] sinking/lowering/retracting etc. [sth]
    2. (das Sichversenken) contemplation no art, no pl (in + akk of
    3. THEAT trap[door]
    4.
    ▶ aus der \Versenkung auftauchen (fam) to re[-]emerge on the scene
    ▶ in der \Versenkung verschwinden to vanish [or disappear] from the scene
    * * *
    1) s. versenken 1), 2): sinking; lowering; retraction
    2)

    in der Versenkung verschwinden — (fig. ugs.) vanish from the scene; sink into oblivion

    * * *
    1. sinking
    2. THEAT trapdoor
    3. umg, fig:
    (spurlos) in der Versenkung verschwinden disappear (from the face of the earth); Person: disappear ( oder fade) from the scene;
    (wieder) aus der Versenkung auftauchen resurface, reappear; Person: auch reappear ( oder re-emerge) on the scene
    4. geistige etc: (inward) contemplation
    * * *
    1) s. versenken 1), 2): sinking; lowering; retraction
    2)

    in der Versenkung verschwinden — (fig. ugs.) vanish from the scene; sink into oblivion

    * * *
    f.
    sinking n.

    Deutsch-Englisch Wörterbuch > Versenkung

  • 12 to|nąć

    impf (tonęła, tonęli) vi 1. (pogrążać się w wodzie) [osoba, łódka, gałąź] to go under, to sink; (topić się) [osoba, zwierzę] to drown
    - nie umiał pływać i zaczął tonąć he couldn’t swim and started drowning
    - delfin uratował tonącego a dolphin saved a drowning person
    - przeładowana tratwa szybko tonęła an overloaded raft was sinking a. going under rapidly
    - ratunku, tonę! help! I’m drowning! ⇒ utonąć
    2. (iść na dno) [okręt] to founder ⇒ zatonąć 3. (zapadać się) [osoba, stopy] to sink
    - nogi toną w błocie feet sink into mud
    4. przen. (mieć w nadmiarze) to drown przen. (w czymś in sth); to be inundated przen. (w czymś with sth); (być zagłuszanym) to be drowned (out) (w czymś by sth)
    - toniemy (po uszy) w pracy/papierach we’re drowning in work/papers, we’re inundated with work/papers
    - jego słowa/głosy ptaków tonęły w huku fal his words/the birds’ cries were drowned by the roaring waves ⇒ utonąć
    5. (być otoczonym) to be (completely) covered (w czymś in a. with sth)
    - tonące w śniegu alpejskie wioski snowbound Alpine villages
    - szczyty tonące w chmurach summits enveloped in clouds
    - dom tonął w zieleni the house was covered in greenery
    - miasto tonęło w ciemnościach the town was in total darkness
    - sala tonęła w powodzi świateł the hall was flooded with light
    ■ tonąć (po uszy) w długach to be drowning in debt, to be up to one’s ears in debt
    - tonąć we łzach to dissolve into floods of tears
    - tonąć w mrokach dziejów książk. to be lost in the mists of time
    - tonąć w niepamięci książk. to sink a. fade into oblivion

    The New English-Polish, Polish-English Kościuszko foundation dictionary > to|nąć

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