Minister of Culture

consejo de ministros — (=grupo) cabinet; (=reunión) cabinet meeting

ministro/a de Asuntos Exteriores — Foreign Secretary, Secretary of State (EEUU)

ministro/a de Hacienda — Chancellor of the Exchequer, Secretary of the Treasury (EEUU)

ministro/a de (la) Gobernación, ministro/a del Interior — Home Secretary, Secretary of the Interior (EEUU)

ministro/a en visita — Chile examining magistrate

Ex: It is easy to forget that in negotiations in Brussels, ministers of the member states usually do begin talking from different standpoints as a matter of course.

Juan tiene mucha cultura — Juan is very knowledgeable o widely-read

un hombre de gran cultura — a very knowledgeable o cultured man

es una persona de gran cultura — she's a very well-educated o cultured person

es una persona de gran cultura — she's a very well-educated o cultured person

Ex: For instance, we find that children's literature, alternative culture, radical movements, and ethnic themes don't get adequate treatment.

Ex: He picked up his briefcase, returned the papers, and hurried off.

Su Ilustrísima — † [al referirse a un obispo] His Grace

Vuestra Ilustrísima — † [al dirigirse a un obispo] Your Grace, Your Lordship

• echar a correr — to start running, break into a run

• hacer algo a todo correr — to do sth as fast as one can

voy a cerrar la ventana porque corre un poco de aire — I'm going to shut the window because there's a bit of a draught o draft (EEUU)

el camino corre por un paisaje pintoresco — the road runs o goes through picturesque countryside

• correr paralelo a, una cadena montañosa que corre paralela a la costa — a chain of mountains that runs parallel to the coast

el tiempo corre — time is getting on o pressing

al o con el correr del tiempo — over the years

en estos o los tiempos que corren — nowadays, these days

en los tiempos que corren es difícil encontrar personas tan honradas — it's hard to find people as honest as him these days o nowadays

• correr a cargo de algn, eso corre a cargo de la empresa — the company will take care of that

• correr con algo, correr con los gastos — to meet o bear the expenses

Carl Lewis ha decidido no correr los 100 metros — Carl Lewis has decided not to run (in) o compete in the 100 metres

correr un toro — to run in front of and avoid being gored by a charging bull for sport

no quería correr la misma suerte de su amigo — he didn't want to suffer o undergo the same fate as his friend

lo corrieron de la casa con gritos y patadas — they chucked him kicking and screaming out of the house *

corre, ponte los zapatos! — hurry o quick, put your shoes on!

no corras tanto que te equivocarás — don't rush it o don't do it so quickly, you'll only make mistakes

esa moto corre mucho — that motorcycle is o goes really fast

dejar correr algo — to let something go

la cremallera no corre — the zipper (AmE) o (BrE) zip is stuck

el mes que corre — in the current month (frml)

correr con algo — < con gastos> to pay something; < con organización> to be responsible for something

corre, ponte los zapatos! — hurry o quick, put your shoes on!

no corras tanto que te equivocarás — don't rush it o don't do it so quickly, you'll only make mistakes

esa moto corre mucho — that motorcycle is o goes really fast

dejar correr algo — to let something go

la cremallera no corre — the zipper (AmE) o (BrE) zip is stuck

el mes que corre — in the current month (frml)

correr con algo — < con gastos> to pay something; < con organización> to be responsible for something

Ex: At this disclosure, a flush flowed from Leforte's cheeks to her neck.

Ex: This may help to improve the service librarians can give face to face with clients.

Ex: So we see extraordinary hardships cheerfully borne (indeed, apparently enjoyed) by zealous mountaineers, earnest single-handed yachtsmen floating round the world, and all-weather fishing-hobbyists sit patiently at the side of, and sometimes in, rivers, undeterred by the paucity of their catches.

Ex: This is an immutable axiom, which can be assumed to hold true for the foreseeable generations of computing systems and systems analysts.

un día se hartará y se marchará — one of these days she'll get tired o get fed up * of it all and leave

• hartarse de algo/algn — to get tired of sth/sb, get fed up with sth/sb *, get sick of sth/sb *

me estoy hartando de todo esto — I'm getting tired of o fed up with * o sick of * all this

ya me he hartado de esperar — I've had enough of waiting, I'm tired of o fed up with * o sick of * waiting

se hartó de que siempre lo hicieran blanco de sus burlas — he got fed up with * o sick of * o tired of always being the butt of their jokes

hartarse de — [+ comida] to gorge o.s. on, stuff o.s. with *

se hartaron de uvas — they gorged themselves on grapes, they stuffed themselves with grapes *

me harté de agua — I drank gallons o loads of water *

• hartarse a o de algo, en esa exposición puedes hartarte de cultura griega — in that exhibition you can get your fill of Greek culture

• hartarse a o de hacer algo, en vacaciones me harté a o de tomar el sol — I sunbathed all day on holiday

• comieron hasta hartarse — they gorged o stuffed * themselves

Ex: 'That new project he's been busting himself and everyone else over is way behind schedule and Peterson is getting fed up'.

se le desataron los zapatos — his shoelaces came untied o undone

se desató en injurias contra el ministro — frm he unleashed a torrent of abuse against the minister