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  • 1 волновать

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    These questions have agitated scientists for thousands of years.

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    These questions have agitated scientists for thousands of years.

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  • 3 вопрос

    (= проблема) question, problem, matter, issue, item, point
    • Анализ проводится для ответа на следующие вопросы. - The analysis seeks to answer the following questions.
    • Более тонким вопросом является... - It is a more delicate matter to...
    • В главе 2 мы вернемся к этому вопросу и попытаемся показать, что... - In Chapter 2 we shall return to this question and try to show that...
    • В подобной ситуации мы могли бы задать два вопроса:... - In such a situation, we might ask two questions:...
    • В свете этого законен вопрос... - In light of this, one can legitimately ask...
    • В статье [1] Смит поднял вопрос, имеющий существенный интерес. - A point of considerable interest was raised by Smith [1].
    • В частности, должны быть рассмотрены три вопроса. - Three questions in particular have to be considered.
    • Возможно, наиболее насущным вопросом является... - The most urgent question, perhaps, is...
    • Возникает вопрос, действительно ли... - The question arises whether...
    • Возникает вопрос, действительно ли возможно (установить, увидеть и т. п.)... - The question arises as to whether it is possible to...
    • Возникает вопрос, действительно ли обратное (утверждение и т. п.) выполняется необходимо. - A question arises as to whether the converse necessarily holds.
    • Вопрос... все еще остается, в основном, без ответа, хотя... - The question of... is still largely unanswered, although...
    • Это вопрос договоренности, что... - It is a matter of convention that...
    • Далее в приложении мы исследуем данный вопрос. - We explore this topic further in the appendix.
    • Данный вопрос возник, поскольку... - This issue is raised here because...
    • До тех пор, пока не..., этот вопрос не получал ответа. - The question remained unanswered until...
    • Интересные, но трудные вопросы возникают, когда... - Interesting but difficult questions arise when...
    • Здесь мы заканчиваем обсуждение этих вопросов. - At this point we bring our discussion of these matters to a close.
    • Итак, напрашивается следующий вопрос. - Hence the following question suggests itself:
    • Многие авторы поставили под вопрос справедливость этого утверждения... - Many authors have questioned the validity of this statement.
    • Можно задаться вопросом, действительно ли... - It may be asked whether...
    • Мы (еще) увидим, что данные вопросы тесно взаимосвязаны. - We shall see that these questions are closely related.
    • Мы вынуждены задаться вопросом, действительно ли... - We are led to inquire whether...
    • Мы избежали вопроса, действительно ли... - We have evaded the question as to whether...
    • Мы начинаем с вопроса о... - Let us begin by asking about...
    • Мы не будем входить в рассмотрение этого сложного вопроса. - We shall not enter into this complicated question.
    • Мы не будем затрагивать вопрос о... - We shall not touch on the question of...
    • Мы не будем обсуждать вопрос, действительно ли... - We shall not discuss the question of whether...
    • Мы обсуждаем вопрос о том, действительно ли... - We are discussing the question of whether...
    • Мы обсуждаем вопрос о том, что такое... - We are discussing the question of what is...
    • Мы обязаны ответить на вопрос, действительно ли... - We must answer the question whether...
    • Мы рассмотрим эти вопросы позднее. - We shall deal with these matters later.
    • На этот вопрос нельзя дать определенный ответ. - The answer to this question is not known with certainty.
    • Нам предстоит решить вопрос... - We have to solve the problem...
    • He рассматривались вопросы... - No consideration has been given to questions of...
    • Не самый маловажный из этих вопросов это... - Not least among these questions is...
    • Некоторые из этих вопросов получат развитие в следующей главе. - Some of these points will be developed further in the next chapter.
    • Обратимся теперь к вопросу выбора... - We now turn to the matter of selecting...
    • Один ответ на данный вопрос находится в концепции... - One answer to this question lies in the concept of...
    • Один существенный вопрос, который необходимо отметить, состоит в том, что... - One vital point to be noticed is that...
    • Однако это всего лишь вопрос удобства, а никак не... - But this is merely a matter of convenience, and is not...
    • Важным является вопрос, действительно ли... - One important question is whether...
    • Основной вопрос состоит в том, как мы должны приступить к задаче... - The main question is how we should approach the problem of...
    • Основным вопросом данной главы является... - Our main business in this chapter is to...
    • Оставляя на некоторое время в стороне вопрос, действительно ли... - Putting aside for a moment the question whether...
    • Остается еще вопрос, действительно ли... - It remains to be seen whether...
    • Остается ответить еще на многие другие вопросы. - Many other questions remain to be answered.
    • Остается рассмотреть вопрос о... - It remains to take up the question of...
    • Ответ на этот вопрос дается... - The answer to this question is provided by...
    • Первый из этих вопросов влечет за собой... - The first of these questions involves...
    • Перед нами встал вопрос,... - We were confronted with a question:...
    • Позднее мы вернемся к вопросу о... - Later we shall turn to the question of...
    • Предварительный обзор данного вопроса был бы неполным без... - A preview of this subject would be incomplete without...
    • Прежде чем..., необходимо уделить серьезное внимание этим и другим вопросам. - These and other questions need to be given serious attention before...
    • Принципиальным вопросом является, действительно ли... - A major issue is whether...
    • Применимость этой процедуры все еще находится под вопросом. - The viability of this procedure is still in question; This procedure is still open to question.
    • Разумно задать вопрос... - A reasonable question is:...
    • Рассмотрим сначала вопрос о... - Let us first consider the question of...
    • Рассмотрим этот вопрос далее. - We consider this question a little further.
    • Следующим вопросом является, действительно ли... - The next question is whether...
    • Существенным вопросом теперь является, действительно ли... - The essential question now is whether...
    • Существенным вопросом, на который следует ответить, является: действительно ли... - A major question to be answered is whether...
    • Теперь возвратимся к вопросу, поставленному в самом начале этой главы. - We now return to the question posed at the beginning of the chapter.
    • Теперь возникает вопрос, а действительно ли... - The question now arises as to whether...
    • Теперь возникает вопрос, как могут птицы ориентироваться после захода солнца. - The question now arises as to how birds can navigate after sunset.
    • Теперь можно было бы задать вопрос, действительно ли... - The question may now be raised whether...
    • Теперь мы должны рассмотреть вопрос, действительно ли... - We must now take up the question of whether...
    • Теперь мы задаемся вопросом, действительно ли... - We now ask whether...
    • Теперь мы подходим к одному важному вопросу. - Now we come to an important question.
    • Теперь мы способны ответить на несколько вопросов, которые... - This puts us in a position to answer several questions which...
    • Чтобы ответить на этот вопрос, давайте... - То answer this question, let us...
    • Чтобы ответить на этот вопрос, мы... - То answer this we shall...
    • Чтобы ответить на этот вопрос, мы должны принять во внимание, что... - То answer this question, we must take into account that...
    • Чтобы ответить на этот вопрос, нам надо более детально рассмотреть... - То answer this question we need to look more closely at...
    • Это новые вопросы, так как... - These questions are new because...
    • Это важный вопрос. - This is an important matter.
    • Это действительно глубокий вопрос. - This is indeed a deep question.
    • Это не вполне решает вопрос. - This does not quite settle the matter.
    • Это простой вопрос. - It is a simple matter.
    • Этот вопрос является фундаментальным. - This question is fundamental.

    Русско-английский словарь научного общения > вопрос

  • 4 marear

    v.
    1 to make sick.
    los viajes en barco me marean I get seasick when I travel by boat
    2 to make dizzy.
    me marea con sus quejas she drives me up the wall with her complaining
    4 to be a pain (informal) (fastidiar).
    ¡niño, deja de marear! you naughty boy! stop annoying me!
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    1 (producir malestar) to make sick
    2 (aturdir) to make dizzy
    3 familiar (molestar) to annoy
    ■ deja ya de marear, niño stop being a nuisance
    1 (en general) to get sick; (en el coche) to get carsick; (en el mar) to get seasick; (en avión) to get airsick
    2 (sentir vértigo) to get dizzy; (a punto de desmayarse) to feel faint
    3 (emborracharse) to get tipsy
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    1. VT
    1) (Med)
    2) (=aturdir)
    3) (=emborrachar)
    4) (=confundir)

    no grites tanto, que me mareas — don't shout so much, I can't hear myself think

    ¡decídete y no me marees más! — make up your mind and stop going on at me!

    5) Caribe, Méx (=engañar) to cheat
    2.
    VI †† (Náut) to sail, navigate
    3.
    See:
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    1.
    verbo transitivo
    a) (Med) ( con náuseas) to make... feel sick o queasy; (con pérdida de equilibrio, etc) to make... dizzy
    b) ( confundir) to confuse, get... confused o muddled
    2.
    marear vi (arc) to navigate
    3.
    marearse v pron
    a) (Med)

    siempre se marea en el coche/en barco — he always gets carsick/seasick

    b) ( confundirse) to get muddled o confused
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    ----
    * marear a Alguien = have + Nombre + jump through the hoops.
    * marear la perdiz = kick to + death, go round in + circles, beat about/around + the bush.
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    1.
    verbo transitivo
    a) (Med) ( con náuseas) to make... feel sick o queasy; (con pérdida de equilibrio, etc) to make... dizzy
    b) ( confundir) to confuse, get... confused o muddled
    2.
    marear vi (arc) to navigate
    3.
    marearse v pron
    a) (Med)

    siempre se marea en el coche/en barco — he always gets carsick/seasick

    b) ( confundirse) to get muddled o confused
    * * *
    * marear a Alguien = have + Nombre + jump through the hoops.
    * marear la perdiz = kick to + death, go round in + circles, beat about/around + the bush.
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    marear [A1 ]
    vt
    1 ( Med):
    el olor a pintura me marea the smell of paint makes me feel sick o queasy
    las luces la mareaban the lights were making her dizzy
    el vino lo mareó the wine made him feel drunk o light-headed
    2 (confundir) to confuse, get … confused o muddled
    me mareas con tantas preguntas you're confusing me o making my head spin with all these questions, you're getting me confused o muddled with all these questions
    me mareó más con su explicación his explanation confused me even more o got me even more confused o muddled
    ■ marear
    vi
    ( arc); to navigate
    1 ( Med):
    siempre se marea en el coche/en barco/en avión he always gets carsick/seasick/airsick
    miró hacia abajo y se mareó he looked down and felt o went dizzy
    bebió dos copas y se mareó she had two drinks and started to feel drunk o light-headed
    2 (confundirse) to get muddled o confused
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    marear ( conjugate marear) verbo transitivo
    a) (Med) ( con náuseas) to make … feel sick o queasy;

    ( con pérdida de equilibrio) to make … dizzy
    b) ( confundir) to confuse, get … confused o muddled;


    marearse verbo pronominal

    (— en barco) to get seasick;
    (— en avión) to get airsick;
    ( perder el equilibrio) to feel dizzy;
    ( con alcohol) to get tipsy
    b) ( confundirse) to get muddled o confused

    marear verbo transitivo
    1 (producir náuseas) to make sick
    (producir desfallecimiento) to make dizzy
    2 fam (molestar) to confuse, puzzle: me marea con tanta orden contradictoria, he confuses me with all his contradictory orders
    ' marear' also found in these entries:
    English:
    overpower
    - over
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    ♦ vt
    1. [provocar náuseas en] to make sick;
    [en coche, avión] to make travel-sick; [en barco] to make seasick;
    los viajes en barco me marean I get seasick when I travel by boat
    2. [aturdir] to make dizzy;
    marear la perdiz to beat about the bush
    3. Fam [fastidiar] to annoy;
    me marea con sus quejas she drives me up the wall with her complaining
    ♦ vi
    1. [emborrachar]
    este vino marea this wine goes to your head
    2. Fam [fastidiar] to be a pain;
    ¡niño, deja de marear! stop being such a pain!
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    I v/t
    1 make feel nauseous, Br
    make feel sick
    2 fig ( confundir) confuse
    II v/i navigate
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    marear vt
    1) : to make sick
    los gases me marearon: the fumes made me sick
    2) : to bother, to annoy
    * * *
    marear vb to make feel sick

    Spanish-English dictionary > marear

  • 5 Philosophy

       And what I believe to be more important here is that I find in myself an infinity of ideas of certain things which cannot be assumed to be pure nothingness, even though they may have perhaps no existence outside of my thought. These things are not figments of my imagination, even though it is within my power to think of them or not to think of them; on the contrary, they have their own true and immutable natures. Thus, for example, when I imagine a triangle, even though there may perhaps be no such figure anywhere in the world outside of my thought, nor ever have been, nevertheless the figure cannot help having a certain determinate nature... or essence, which is immutable and eternal, which I have not invented and which does not in any way depend upon my mind. (Descartes, 1951, p. 61)
       Let us console ourselves for not knowing the possible connections between a spider and the rings of Saturn, and continue to examine what is within our reach. (Voltaire, 1961, p. 144)
       As modern physics started with the Newtonian revolution, so modern philosophy starts with what one might call the Cartesian Catastrophe. The catastrophe consisted in the splitting up of the world into the realms of matter and mind, and the identification of "mind" with conscious thinking. The result of this identification was the shallow rationalism of l'esprit Cartesien, and an impoverishment of psychology which it took three centuries to remedy even in part. (Koestler, 1964, p. 148)
       It has been made of late a reproach against natural philosophy that it has struck out on a path of its own, and has separated itself more and more widely from the other sciences which are united by common philological and historical studies. The opposition has, in fact, been long apparent, and seems to me to have grown up mainly under the influence of the Hegelian philosophy, or, at any rate, to have been brought out into more distinct relief by that philosophy.... The sole object of Kant's "Critical Philosophy" was to test the sources and the authority of our knowledge, and to fix a definite scope and standard for the researches of philosophy, as compared with other sciences.... [But Hegel's] "Philosophy of Identity" was bolder. It started with the hypothesis that not only spiritual phenomena, but even the actual world-nature, that is, and man-were the result of an act of thought on the part of a creative mind, similar, it was supposed, in kind to the human mind.... The philosophers accused the scientific men of narrowness; the scientific men retorted that the philosophers were crazy. And so it came about that men of science began to lay some stress on the banishment of all philosophic influences from their work; while some of them, including men of the greatest acuteness, went so far as to condemn philosophy altogether, not merely as useless, but as mischievous dreaming. Thus, it must be confessed, not only were the illegitimate pretensions of the Hegelian system to subordinate to itself all other studies rejected, but no regard was paid to the rightful claims of philosophy, that is, the criticism of the sources of cognition, and the definition of the functions of the intellect. (Helmholz, quoted in Dampier, 1966, pp. 291-292)
       Philosophy remains true to its classical tradition by renouncing it. (Habermas, 1972, p. 317)
       I have not attempted... to put forward any grand view of the nature of philosophy; nor do I have any such grand view to put forth if I would. It will be obvious that I do not agree with those who see philosophy as the history of "howlers" and progress in philosophy as the debunking of howlers. It will also be obvious that I do not agree with those who see philosophy as the enterprise of putting forward a priori truths about the world.... I see philosophy as a field which has certain central questions, for example, the relation between thought and reality.... It seems obvious that in dealing with these questions philosophers have formulated rival research programs, that they have put forward general hypotheses, and that philosophers within each major research program have modified their hypotheses by trial and error, even if they sometimes refuse to admit that that is what they are doing. To that extent philosophy is a "science." To argue about whether philosophy is a science in any more serious sense seems to me to be hardly a useful occupation.... It does not seem to me important to decide whether science is philosophy or philosophy is science as long as one has a conception of both that makes both essential to a responsible view of the world and of man's place in it. (Putnam, 1975, p. xvii)
       What can philosophy contribute to solving the problem of the relation [of] mind to body? Twenty years ago, many English-speaking philosophers would have answered: "Nothing beyond an analysis of the various mental concepts." If we seek knowledge of things, they thought, it is to science that we must turn. Philosophy can only cast light upon our concepts of those things.
       This retreat from things to concepts was not undertaken lightly. Ever since the seventeenth century, the great intellectual fact of our culture has been the incredible expansion of knowledge both in the natural and in the rational sciences (mathematics, logic).
       The success of science created a crisis in philosophy. What was there for philosophy to do? Hume had already perceived the problem in some degree, and so surely did Kant, but it was not until the twentieth century, with the Vienna Circle and with Wittgenstein, that the difficulty began to weigh heavily. Wittgenstein took the view that philosophy could do no more than strive to undo the intellectual knots it itself had tied, so achieving intellectual release, and even a certain illumination, but no knowledge. A little later, and more optimistically, Ryle saw a positive, if reduced role, for philosophy in mapping the "logical geography" of our concepts: how they stood to each other and how they were to be analyzed....
       Since that time, however, philosophers in the "analytic" tradition have swung back from Wittgensteinian and even Rylean pessimism to a more traditional conception of the proper role and tasks of philosophy. Many analytic philosophers now would accept the view that the central task of philosophy is to give an account, or at least play a part in giving an account, of the most general nature of things and of man. (Armstrong, 1990, pp. 37-38)
       8) Philosophy's Evolving Engagement with Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science
       In the beginning, the nature of philosophy's engagement with artificial intelligence and cognitive science was clear enough. The new sciences of the mind were to provide the long-awaited vindication of the most potent dreams of naturalism and materialism. Mind would at last be located firmly within the natural order. We would see in detail how the most perplexing features of the mental realm could be supported by the operations of solely physical laws upon solely physical stuff. Mental causation (the power of, e.g., a belief to cause an action) would emerge as just another species of physical causation. Reasoning would be understood as a kind of automated theorem proving. And the key to both was to be the depiction of the brain as the implementation of multiple higher level programs whose task was to manipulate and transform symbols or representations: inner items with one foot in the physical (they were realized as brain states) and one in the mental (they were bearers of contents, and their physical gymnastics were cleverly designed to respect semantic relationships such as truth preservation). (A. Clark, 1996, p. 1)
       Socrates of Athens famously declared that "the unexamined life is not worth living," and his motto aptly explains the impulse to philosophize. Taking nothing for granted, philosophy probes and questions the fundamental presuppositions of every area of human inquiry.... [P]art of the job of the philosopher is to keep at a certain critical distance from current doctrines, whether in the sciences or the arts, and to examine instead how the various elements in our world-view clash, or fit together. Some philosophers have tried to incorporate the results of these inquiries into a grand synoptic view of the nature of reality and our human relationship to it. Others have mistrusted system-building, and seen their primary role as one of clarifications, or the removal of obstacles along the road to truth. But all have shared the Socratic vision of using the human intellect to challenge comfortable preconceptions, insisting that every aspect of human theory and practice be subjected to continuing critical scrutiny....
       Philosophy is, of course, part of a continuing tradition, and there is much to be gained from seeing how that tradition originated and developed. But the principal object of studying the materials in this book is not to pay homage to past genius, but to enrich one's understanding of central problems that are as pressing today as they have always been-problems about knowledge, truth and reality, the nature of the mind, the basis of right action, and the best way to live. These questions help to mark out the territory of philosophy as an academic discipline, but in a wider sense they define the human predicament itself; they will surely continue to be with us for as long as humanity endures. (Cottingham, 1996, pp. xxi-xxii)
       In his study of ancient Greek culture, The Birth of Tragedy, Nietzsche drew what would become a famous distinction, between the Dionysian spirit, the untamed spirit of art and creativity, and the Apollonian, that of reason and self-control. The story of Greek civilization, and all civilizations, Nietzsche implied, was the gradual victory of Apollonian man, with his desire for control over nature and himself, over Dionysian man, who survives only in myth, poetry, music, and drama. Socrates and Plato had attacked the illusions of art as unreal, and had overturned the delicate cultural balance by valuing only man's critical, rational, and controlling consciousness while denigrating his vital life instincts as irrational and base. The result of this division is "Alexandrian man," the civilized and accomplished Greek citizen of the later ancient world, who is "equipped with the greatest forces of knowledge" but in whom the wellsprings of creativity have dried up. (Herman, 1997, pp. 95-96)

    Historical dictionary of quotations in cognitive science > Philosophy

  • 6 Fragerei

    f; -, en; pej. questions Pl.; hör auf mit deiner Fragerei I wish you’d stop asking all these questions
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    Fra|ge|rei [fraːgə'rai]
    f -, -en
    questions pl
    * * *
    Fra·ge·rei
    <-, -en>
    [fra:gəˈrai]
    f (pej) questions pl
    deine \Fragerei geht mir auf die Nerven! your stupid questions get on my nerves!
    * * *
    Fragerei f; -, en; pej questions pl;
    hör auf mit deiner Fragerei I wish you’d stop asking all these questions

    Deutsch-Englisch Wörterbuch > Fragerei

  • 7 cambiar

    v.
    cambiar de to change
    cambiar de casa to move (house)
    cambiar de trabajo to move o change jobs
    María cambió la enagua y se ve bien Mary changed the skirt and it looks nice.
    El dolor cambió a Pedro Grief changed Peter.
    María cambió los tragos Mary changed the drinks.
    2 to change gear (automobiles) (de marchas).
    3 to exchange, to barter, to switch, to change.
    María cambió la enagua y se ve bien Mary changed the skirt and it looks nice.
    El dolor cambió a Pedro Grief changed Peter.
    María cambió los tragos Mary changed the drinks.
    Ella cambió lugares con la mesera She exchanged places with the waitress.
    Todo cambia Everything changes.
    4 to get change.
    Ricardo cambió para el teléfono Richard got change for the phone.
    5 to change on.
    Me cambió toda la perspectiva The whole perspective changed on me.
    * * *
    (unstressed i)
    Present Indicative
    Present Subjunctive
    Imperative
    cambia (tú), cambie (él/Vd.), cambiemos (nos.), cambiad (vos.), cambien (ellos/Vds.).
    * * *
    verb
    2) exchange, swap
    3) move
    * * *
    1. VT
    1) (=modificar) to change
    2) (=intercambiar) to exchange, swap *

    te cambio el rotulador verde por el rojo — I'll exchange my green pen for that red one, I'll swap you the green pen for the red one *

    ¿me cambias el sitio? — can we change places?, can we swap places? *

    3) (=reemplazar) to change

    ¿les has cambiado el agua a los peces? — have you changed the water in the fish tank?

    ¿me lo puede cambiar por otra talla? — could I change o exchange this for another size?

    4) (=trasladar) to move
    5) (Econ, Com) to change

    tengo que cambiar 800 euros en o LAm a libras — I have to change 800 euros into pounds

    ¿tienes para cambiarme 50 euros? — have you got change for a 50-euro note?

    2. VI
    1) (=volverse diferente) [persona, situación] to change; [voz] to break

    si es así, la cosa cambia — if it's true, that changes things, well that's a different story then

    2)

    • cambiar de — [+ actitud, canal, dirección] to change; [+ casa] to move

    cuando no le interesa algo, cambia de tema — whenever he isn't interested in something, he changes the subject

    • cambiar de dueño — to change hands

    • cambiar de idea u opinión — to change one's mind

    • cambiar para mejor/peor — to change for the better/worse

    camisa 1), tercio 2)
    3) (Transportes) to change
    4) (Radio)

    ¡cambio! — over!

    ¡cambio y corto!, ¡cambio y fuera! — over and out!

    3.
    See:
    * * *
    1.
    verbo transitivo
    1)
    a) (alterar, modificar) <horario/imagen/persona> to change
    b) (de lugar, posición)

    cambiar algo/a alguien DE algo: cambiar los muebles de lugar to move the furniture around; nos van a cambiar de oficina they're going to move us to another office; cambié las flores de florero — I put the flowers in a different vase

    c) ( reemplazar) <pieza/fecha/sábanas> to change
    d) <niño/bebé> to change
    2) ( canjear) <sellos/estampas> to swap, to trade (esp AmE); < compra> to exchange, change

    si no le queda bien lo puede cambiar — if it doesn't fit, you can exchange o change it

    cambiar algo por algo — <sellos/estampas> to swap o (esp AmE) trade something for something; < compra> to exchange o change something for something

    te cambio este libro por tu pluma — I'll swap you o trade this book for your pen

    cambiarle algo a alguien: ¿quieres que te cambie el lugar? — do you want me to swap o change places with you?

    3) (Fin) to change

    ¿me puedes cambiar este billete? — can you change this bill (AmE) o (BrE) note for me?

    cambiar algo a or (Esp) en algo — to change something into something

    cambié 100 libras a or (Esp) en dólares — I changed 100 pounds into dollars

    2.
    1)
    a) ciudad/persona ( alterarse) to change

    cambiar para peor/mejor — to change for the worse/better

    está/lo noto muy cambiado — he's changed/he seems to have changed a lot

    así la cosa cambia — oh well, that's different

    b) (Auto) to change gear
    c) ( hacer transbordo) to change

    cambio y corto or fuera — over and out

    2) cambiar de to change

    cambiar de idea or opinión — to change one's mind

    3.
    cambiarse v pron
    a) (refl) ( de ropa) to change, to get changed
    b) (refl) <camisa/nombre/peinado> to change

    ¿te cambiaste los calcetines? — did you change your socks?

    c)
    d) (recípr) <sellos/estampas> to swap, to trade (esp AmE)
    e) cambiarse de to change
    f) (CS) ( mudarse de casa) to move
    * * *
    = alter, change, reshape [re-shape], reverse, revolutionise [revolutionize, -USA], shift, turn into, undergo + transformation, amend, redraw [re-draw], swing, morph, reengineer [re-engineer], metamorphose, refashion, move along, reschedule, convert, take + a turn, turn + Nombre + (a)round, shunt between, switch.
    Ex. Even the same collection some years on will have altered, and the device, in order to remain effective, must evolve in keeping with the development of the collection.
    Ex. A scheme should permit changes in terminology as subjects change their names.
    Ex. I do not think I am alone in believing there is a need for significant change, for reshaping our educational programs as well as our institutional goals and philosophies.
    Ex. Entry of the number '11' reverses the present blacklisting status.
    Ex. It was pointed out that the practices of the profession were not being totally revolutionized overnight.
    Ex. In general, then, a post-co-ordinate index is simpler to produce than a pre-co-ordinate index, because it shifts the responsibility for co-ordination of index terms to the searcher.
    Ex. But the incompleteness of information can be turned into an asset by challenging students to specify what additional information they would like and how they would attempt to get it.
    Ex. This is because names of women authors frequently undergo transformations as a result of marriage and divorce; political jurisdictions also are annexed or gain independence and sometimes a new name; etc.
    Ex. This article shows how to amend and cancel orders and how to arrange delivery by telefacsimile.
    Ex. the Internet has fundamentally redrawn the way in which people can organize themselves.
    Ex. The article has the title 'The pendulum swings to the right: censorship in the eighties'.
    Ex. The librarians have the capabilities to morph sucessfully to keep in sync, so to speak, with the new technologies.
    Ex. Libraries in general, and the corporate library in particular, must reengineer to take their rightful place in the new age.
    Ex. Each of these three standards metamorphosed and had an impact far beyond the anticipation of all but the most far-sighted.
    Ex. The basic thesis of the book under review is that throughout his career Rembrandt restlessly fashioned and refashioned his self.
    Ex. As university libraries move along this continuum they will become evolutionary, non-hierarchical, entrepreneurial and horizontal.
    Ex. The 2005 second edition originally slated for 4th of May 2005 has been rescheduled for 2-4 August 2005.
    Ex. All listings for the final thesaurus must be converted to the format appropriate for typing, printing or input to a computer data base.
    Ex. All went well, and with the addition of two new people, computer science took a turn.
    Ex. When he was younger he really turned the library around, from a backwater, two-bit operation to the respected institution it is today.
    Ex. Till then, he will continue living out of a suitcase and shunt between the two continents.
    Ex. Role reversal seeks to answer some of these questions by having ordinary men and women switch genders for a month.
    ----
    * actitud + cambiar = attitude + go.
    * ansias de cambiar de sitio = itchy feet.
    * cambiando = a-changing.
    * cambiando de asunto = on another topic, on another matter, on another note, on other matters.
    * cambiando de tema = on another topic, on another matter, on another note, on other matters.
    * cambiar a = switch over, switch to, transmute into, move to, change over to.
    * cambiar a la situación anterior = reverse.
    * cambiar Algo en Otra Cosa = turn + Nombre + into.
    * cambiar Algo para bien = turn + Nombre + into a good thing.
    * cambiar con el paso del tiempo = change over + time.
    * cambiar con el tiempo = change over + time.
    * cambiar con el transcurso del tiempo = change over + time.
    * cambiar de... a... = switch from... to....
    * cambiar de actitud = change + attitude.
    * cambiar de aire = move on to + pastures new.
    * cambiar de aires = change + scenery.
    * cambiar de ambiente = change + scenery.
    * cambiar de cantinela = change + Posesivo + tune.
    * cambiar de cara = arrange + countenance.
    * cambiar de dueño = change + hands.
    * cambiar de entorno = change + scenery.
    * cambiar de estrategia = change + tack.
    * cambiar de fondos = turn over.
    * cambiar de forma = shape-shift.
    * cambiar de forma de vivir = turn + Posesivo + life around.
    * cambiar de formato = reformat [re-format].
    * cambiar de lugar = relocate, resite [re-site].
    * cambiar de manos = change + hands.
    * cambiar de marcha = gear.
    * cambiar de nuevo al estado anterior = change back.
    * cambiar de opinión = change + Posesivo + mind, change + feet, change + Posesivo + tune.
    * cambiar de opinión a mitad de camino = change + horses in midstream.
    * cambiar de orientación = reposition [re-position].
    * cambiar de parecer = change + Posesivo + mind, change + Posesivo + tune.
    * cambiar de parecer a mitad de camino = change + horses in midstream.
    * cambiar de política a mitad de camino = change + horses in midstream.
    * cambiar de posición = transpose, reposition [re-position].
    * cambiar de postura = reconsider + position.
    * cambiar de propietario = change + hands.
    * cambiar de proveedor = churn.
    * cambiar de residencia = relocate.
    * cambiar de rumbo = branch off + on a side trail, change + tack.
    * cambiar de servicio = churn.
    * cambiar de sitio = shuffle.
    * cambiar de táctica = change + tack.
    * cambiar de una vez a otra = change from + time to time, vary + from time to time.
    * cambiar de velocidad = gear.
    * cambiar dirección = change + direction.
    * cambiar el decorado = change + the scenery.
    * cambiar el énfasis = shift + focus, shift + emphasis.
    * cambiar el paisaje = change + the scenery.
    * cambiar el precio = reprice.
    * cambiar el ritmo = change + the pace.
    * cambiar el techo de un edificio = re-roof.
    * cambiar el título = retitle.
    * cambiar el tono = modulate.
    * cambiar la instalación eléctrica = rewire.
    * cambiar las cosas desde dentro = change + things from the inside.
    * cambiar las espadas por arados = turn + swords into ploughshares.
    * cambiar la situación = change + the course of events.
    * cambiar las prioridades de... a... = shift + emphasis from... to....
    * cambiar las tornas = turn + the tables (on).
    * cambiar la vida = change + life.
    * cambiarle el agua al canario = pee, take + a leak, have + a leak.
    * cambiar lo acontencido = change + the course of events.
    * cambiar marchas = shift + gears.
    * cambiar para bien = change for + the better.
    * cambiar para mejor = change for + the better.
    * cambiar + Posesivo + vida = turn + Posesivo + life around.
    * cambiar radicalmente de postura = do + an about-face.
    * cambiar rápidamente = jump.
    * cambiarse de casa = move + house.
    * cambiarse de ropa = change.
    * cambiarse rápidamente = slip into + Posesivo + clothes.
    * cambiar tanto que resulta irreconocible = change + beyond (all) recognition.
    * cambiar velocidades = gear.
    * cosas + cambiar inesperadamente = things + take a turn for the unexpected.
    * dejar sin cambiar = leave + unchanged.
    * habitación para cambiar bebés = baby changing room.
    * hacer cambiar = swing + Persona.
    * hacer cambiar las cosas = turn + the tide on.
    * las cosas + cambiar = pendulum + swing.
    * la suerte + cambiar = the tide + turn.
    * no cambiar = keep + it up, keep up + the good work, keep up + the great work, stand + pat.
    * que cambia con el tiempo = ever-changing [ever changing], time-variant, ever-shifting.
    * que cambia la vida = life-changing, life-altering.
    * que se puede cambiar de tamaño = resizeable [re-sizeable].
    * sala para cambiar bebés = baby changing room.
    * situación + cambiar = tide + turn.
    * vida + cambiar por completo = turn + Posesivo + life around.
    * * *
    1.
    verbo transitivo
    1)
    a) (alterar, modificar) <horario/imagen/persona> to change
    b) (de lugar, posición)

    cambiar algo/a alguien DE algo: cambiar los muebles de lugar to move the furniture around; nos van a cambiar de oficina they're going to move us to another office; cambié las flores de florero — I put the flowers in a different vase

    c) ( reemplazar) <pieza/fecha/sábanas> to change
    d) <niño/bebé> to change
    2) ( canjear) <sellos/estampas> to swap, to trade (esp AmE); < compra> to exchange, change

    si no le queda bien lo puede cambiar — if it doesn't fit, you can exchange o change it

    cambiar algo por algo — <sellos/estampas> to swap o (esp AmE) trade something for something; < compra> to exchange o change something for something

    te cambio este libro por tu pluma — I'll swap you o trade this book for your pen

    cambiarle algo a alguien: ¿quieres que te cambie el lugar? — do you want me to swap o change places with you?

    3) (Fin) to change

    ¿me puedes cambiar este billete? — can you change this bill (AmE) o (BrE) note for me?

    cambiar algo a or (Esp) en algo — to change something into something

    cambié 100 libras a or (Esp) en dólares — I changed 100 pounds into dollars

    2.
    1)
    a) ciudad/persona ( alterarse) to change

    cambiar para peor/mejor — to change for the worse/better

    está/lo noto muy cambiado — he's changed/he seems to have changed a lot

    así la cosa cambia — oh well, that's different

    b) (Auto) to change gear
    c) ( hacer transbordo) to change

    cambio y corto or fuera — over and out

    2) cambiar de to change

    cambiar de idea or opinión — to change one's mind

    3.
    cambiarse v pron
    a) (refl) ( de ropa) to change, to get changed
    b) (refl) <camisa/nombre/peinado> to change

    ¿te cambiaste los calcetines? — did you change your socks?

    c)
    d) (recípr) <sellos/estampas> to swap, to trade (esp AmE)
    e) cambiarse de to change
    f) (CS) ( mudarse de casa) to move
    * * *
    = alter, change, reshape [re-shape], reverse, revolutionise [revolutionize, -USA], shift, turn into, undergo + transformation, amend, redraw [re-draw], swing, morph, reengineer [re-engineer], metamorphose, refashion, move along, reschedule, convert, take + a turn, turn + Nombre + (a)round, shunt between, switch.

    Ex: Even the same collection some years on will have altered, and the device, in order to remain effective, must evolve in keeping with the development of the collection.

    Ex: A scheme should permit changes in terminology as subjects change their names.
    Ex: I do not think I am alone in believing there is a need for significant change, for reshaping our educational programs as well as our institutional goals and philosophies.
    Ex: Entry of the number '11' reverses the present blacklisting status.
    Ex: It was pointed out that the practices of the profession were not being totally revolutionized overnight.
    Ex: In general, then, a post-co-ordinate index is simpler to produce than a pre-co-ordinate index, because it shifts the responsibility for co-ordination of index terms to the searcher.
    Ex: But the incompleteness of information can be turned into an asset by challenging students to specify what additional information they would like and how they would attempt to get it.
    Ex: This is because names of women authors frequently undergo transformations as a result of marriage and divorce; political jurisdictions also are annexed or gain independence and sometimes a new name; etc.
    Ex: This article shows how to amend and cancel orders and how to arrange delivery by telefacsimile.
    Ex: the Internet has fundamentally redrawn the way in which people can organize themselves.
    Ex: The article has the title 'The pendulum swings to the right: censorship in the eighties'.
    Ex: The librarians have the capabilities to morph sucessfully to keep in sync, so to speak, with the new technologies.
    Ex: Libraries in general, and the corporate library in particular, must reengineer to take their rightful place in the new age.
    Ex: Each of these three standards metamorphosed and had an impact far beyond the anticipation of all but the most far-sighted.
    Ex: The basic thesis of the book under review is that throughout his career Rembrandt restlessly fashioned and refashioned his self.
    Ex: As university libraries move along this continuum they will become evolutionary, non-hierarchical, entrepreneurial and horizontal.
    Ex: The 2005 second edition originally slated for 4th of May 2005 has been rescheduled for 2-4 August 2005.
    Ex: All listings for the final thesaurus must be converted to the format appropriate for typing, printing or input to a computer data base.
    Ex: All went well, and with the addition of two new people, computer science took a turn.
    Ex: When he was younger he really turned the library around, from a backwater, two-bit operation to the respected institution it is today.
    Ex: Till then, he will continue living out of a suitcase and shunt between the two continents.
    Ex: Role reversal seeks to answer some of these questions by having ordinary men and women switch genders for a month.
    * actitud + cambiar = attitude + go.
    * ansias de cambiar de sitio = itchy feet.
    * cambiando = a-changing.
    * cambiando de asunto = on another topic, on another matter, on another note, on other matters.
    * cambiando de tema = on another topic, on another matter, on another note, on other matters.
    * cambiar a = switch over, switch to, transmute into, move to, change over to.
    * cambiar a la situación anterior = reverse.
    * cambiar Algo en Otra Cosa = turn + Nombre + into.
    * cambiar Algo para bien = turn + Nombre + into a good thing.
    * cambiar con el paso del tiempo = change over + time.
    * cambiar con el tiempo = change over + time.
    * cambiar con el transcurso del tiempo = change over + time.
    * cambiar de... a... = switch from... to....
    * cambiar de actitud = change + attitude.
    * cambiar de aire = move on to + pastures new.
    * cambiar de aires = change + scenery.
    * cambiar de ambiente = change + scenery.
    * cambiar de cantinela = change + Posesivo + tune.
    * cambiar de cara = arrange + countenance.
    * cambiar de dueño = change + hands.
    * cambiar de entorno = change + scenery.
    * cambiar de estrategia = change + tack.
    * cambiar de fondos = turn over.
    * cambiar de forma = shape-shift.
    * cambiar de forma de vivir = turn + Posesivo + life around.
    * cambiar de formato = reformat [re-format].
    * cambiar de lugar = relocate, resite [re-site].
    * cambiar de manos = change + hands.
    * cambiar de marcha = gear.
    * cambiar de nuevo al estado anterior = change back.
    * cambiar de opinión = change + Posesivo + mind, change + feet, change + Posesivo + tune.
    * cambiar de opinión a mitad de camino = change + horses in midstream.
    * cambiar de orientación = reposition [re-position].
    * cambiar de parecer = change + Posesivo + mind, change + Posesivo + tune.
    * cambiar de parecer a mitad de camino = change + horses in midstream.
    * cambiar de política a mitad de camino = change + horses in midstream.
    * cambiar de posición = transpose, reposition [re-position].
    * cambiar de postura = reconsider + position.
    * cambiar de propietario = change + hands.
    * cambiar de proveedor = churn.
    * cambiar de residencia = relocate.
    * cambiar de rumbo = branch off + on a side trail, change + tack.
    * cambiar de servicio = churn.
    * cambiar de sitio = shuffle.
    * cambiar de táctica = change + tack.
    * cambiar de una vez a otra = change from + time to time, vary + from time to time.
    * cambiar de velocidad = gear.
    * cambiar dirección = change + direction.
    * cambiar el decorado = change + the scenery.
    * cambiar el énfasis = shift + focus, shift + emphasis.
    * cambiar el paisaje = change + the scenery.
    * cambiar el precio = reprice.
    * cambiar el ritmo = change + the pace.
    * cambiar el techo de un edificio = re-roof.
    * cambiar el título = retitle.
    * cambiar el tono = modulate.
    * cambiar la instalación eléctrica = rewire.
    * cambiar las cosas desde dentro = change + things from the inside.
    * cambiar las espadas por arados = turn + swords into ploughshares.
    * cambiar la situación = change + the course of events.
    * cambiar las prioridades de... a... = shift + emphasis from... to....
    * cambiar las tornas = turn + the tables (on).
    * cambiar la vida = change + life.
    * cambiarle el agua al canario = pee, take + a leak, have + a leak.
    * cambiar lo acontencido = change + the course of events.
    * cambiar marchas = shift + gears.
    * cambiar para bien = change for + the better.
    * cambiar para mejor = change for + the better.
    * cambiar + Posesivo + vida = turn + Posesivo + life around.
    * cambiar radicalmente de postura = do + an about-face.
    * cambiar rápidamente = jump.
    * cambiarse de casa = move + house.
    * cambiarse de ropa = change.
    * cambiarse rápidamente = slip into + Posesivo + clothes.
    * cambiar tanto que resulta irreconocible = change + beyond (all) recognition.
    * cambiar velocidades = gear.
    * cosas + cambiar inesperadamente = things + take a turn for the unexpected.
    * dejar sin cambiar = leave + unchanged.
    * habitación para cambiar bebés = baby changing room.
    * hacer cambiar = swing + Persona.
    * hacer cambiar las cosas = turn + the tide on.
    * las cosas + cambiar = pendulum + swing.
    * la suerte + cambiar = the tide + turn.
    * no cambiar = keep + it up, keep up + the good work, keep up + the great work, stand + pat.
    * que cambia con el tiempo = ever-changing [ever changing], time-variant, ever-shifting.
    * que cambia la vida = life-changing, life-altering.
    * que se puede cambiar de tamaño = resizeable [re-sizeable].
    * sala para cambiar bebés = baby changing room.
    * situación + cambiar = tide + turn.
    * vida + cambiar por completo = turn + Posesivo + life around.

    * * *
    cambiar [A1 ]
    vt
    A
    1 (alterar, modificar) ‹horario/imagen› to change
    eso no cambia nada that doesn't change anything
    esa experiencia lo cambió mucho that experience changed him greatly
    2 (de lugar, posición) cambiar algo/a algn DE algo:
    cambiar los muebles de lugar to move the furniture around
    voy a cambiar el sofá de lugar I'm going to put the sofa somewhere else o move the sofa
    nos van a cambiar de oficina they're going to move us to another office
    me cambiaron de clase they put me in another class, they changed me to o moved me into another class
    cambié las flores de florero I put the flowers in a different vase
    3 (reemplazar) ‹pieza/rueda/bombilla/sábanas› to change
    han cambiado la fecha del examen they've changed the date of the exam
    cambiarle algo A algo:
    le cambió la pila al reloj she changed the battery in the clock
    le han cambiado el nombre a la tienda they've changed the name of the shop
    cámbiale el pañal a la niña change the baby's diaper ( AmE) o ( BrE) nappy
    4 ‹niño/bebé› to change
    B (canjear) ‹sellos/estampas› to trade ( AmE), to swap ( BrE)
    si no le queda bien lo puede cambiar if it doesn't fit, you can change it
    cambiar algo POR algo ‹sellos/estampos› to swap or ( esp AmE) trade sth FOR sth ‹compra› to exchange or change sth FOR sth:
    quiero cambiar esta blusa por otra or una más grande I'd like to change o exchange this blouse for a larger size
    te cambio este libro por tus lápices de colores I'll trade this book for your crayons, I'll swap you this book for your crayons
    cambiarle algo A algn:
    ¿quieres que te cambie el sitio? do you want to trade o swap o change o ( frml) exchange places?, do you want me to swap o change o ( frml) exchange places with you?
    C ( Fin) to change
    ¿dónde puedo cambiar dinero? where can I change money?
    ¿me puedes cambiar este billete? can you change this bill ( AmE) o ( BrE) note for me?
    cambiar algo A or ( Esp) EN algo to change sth INTO sth
    quiero cambiar estas libras a or en dólares I'd like to change these pounds into dollars
    ■ cambiar
    vi
    A
    1 «ciudad/persona» (variar, alterarse) to change
    ha cambiado para peor/mejor he's changed for the worse/better
    está/lo noto muy cambiado he's changed/he seems to have changed a lot
    ya verás como la vida te hace cambiar you'll change as you get older
    así la cosa cambia oh well, that's different o that changes things
    le está cambiando la voz his voice is breaking
    2 ( Auto) to change gear
    3 (hacer transbordo) to change
    4
    (en transmisiones): cambio over
    cambio y corto or fuera over and out
    B cambiar de to change
    cambiar de color to change color
    la tienda ha cambiado de dueño the shop has changed hands
    he cambiado de idea or opinión or parecer I've changed my mind
    el avión cambió de rumbo the plane changed course
    cambiar de marcha to change gear
    no cambies de tema don't change the subject
    cambió de canal he changed channel(s)
    1 ( refl) (de ropa) to change, to get changed
    2 ( refl) ‹camisa/nombre/peinado› to change
    ¿te has cambiado los calcetines? have you changed your socks?
    3 cambiarse POR algn to change places WITH sb
    no me cambiaría por ella I wouldn't change places with her, I wouldn't trade ( AmE) o ( BrE) swap places with her ( colloq)
    4 ( recípr) ‹estampas/sellos› to trade ( AmE), to swap ( BrE)
    nos hemos cambiado los relojes we've traded o swapped watches
    5 cambiarse de to change
    me cambié de sitio I changed places
    cambiarse de casa to move house
    cámbiate de camisa change your shirt
    6 (CS) (mudarse de casa) to move
    * * *

     

    cambiar ( conjugate cambiar) verbo transitivo
    1
    a) (alterar, modificar) ‹horario/imagen/persona› to change

    b) (de lugar, posición):


    cambié las flores de florero I put the flowers in a different vase
    c) ( reemplazar) ‹pieza/fecha/sábanas› to change;


    cambiarle el nombre a algo to change the name of sth
    d) ‹niño/bebé› to change

    e) (Fin) to change;

    cambié 100 libras a or (Esp) en dólares I changed 100 pounds into dollars
    2 ( canjear) ‹sellos/estampas› to swap, to trade (esp AmE);
    cambiar algo por algo ‹sellos/estampas› to swap o (esp AmE) trade sth for sth;
    ‹ compra› to exchange o change sth for sth;
    ◊ ¿quieres que te cambie el lugar? do you want me to swap o change places with you?

    verbo intransitivo
    a) [ciudad/persona] to change;


    le está cambiando la voz his voice is breaking
    b) (Auto) to change gear


    ◊ cambiar de avión/tren to change planes/train

    d) cambiar de algo ‹de tema/canal/color› to change sth;


    cambiar de sentido to make (AmE) o (BrE) do a U-turn
    cambiarse verbo pronominal

    b) ( refl) ‹camisa/nombre/peinado› to change;

    cambiarse de algo ‹de camisa/zapatos› to change sth;

    cambiarse de casa to move house;
    cámbiate de camisa change your shirt
    c) cambiarse por algn to change places with sb

    d) ( recípr) ‹sellos/estampas› to swap, to trade (esp AmE)


    cambiar
    I verbo transitivo
    1 to change
    2 (cromos, etc) to swap, (en un comercio) exchange
    3 (un tipo de moneda por otro) to change
    II verbo intransitivo to change
    cambiar de casa, to move (house)
    cambiar de idea, to change one's mind
    cambiar de sitio, to move
    cambiar de trabajo, to get another job
    cambiar de velocidad, to change gear
    ' cambiar' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    bando
    - camisa
    - chaqueta
    - desnaturalizar
    - girar
    - idea
    - impresión
    - infranqueable
    - lucha
    - parecer
    - torna
    - tornar
    - trasladar
    - volverse
    - arrepentirse
    - color
    - lado
    - lugar
    - marcha
    - mudar
    - reubicar
    - tema
    - transformar
    - tren
    - variar
    - voltear
    - vuelta
    English:
    about-face
    - about-turn
    - abruptly
    - alter
    - anyhow
    - change
    - change around
    - change over
    - dead
    - debate
    - doctor
    - frame
    - gear
    - hold
    - into
    - lighting
    - mind
    - modify
    - move
    - move about
    - move around
    - move on
    - prerogative
    - rearrange
    - replace
    - reverse
    - shift
    - shift about
    - shift around
    - stationary
    - steadily
    - subject
    - swap
    - swap for
    - swap round
    - swing
    - switch
    - switch over
    - tack
    - think
    - tune
    - vary
    - barter
    - break
    - budge
    - course
    - disguise
    - exchange
    - get
    - hand
    * * *
    ♦ vt
    1. [alterar, modificar] to change;
    han cambiado la fecha de salida they've changed o altered the departure date;
    quiere cambiar su imagen she wants to change her image;
    el divorcio lo ha cambiado por completo the divorce has changed him completely, he has changed completely since the divorce;
    cambió su sonrisa en llanto her smile turned to tears;
    tus disculpas no cambian nada your apologies don't change anything
    2. [trasladar] to move;
    tenemos que cambiar las sillas de lugar we have to move the chairs;
    cambiaron la sede central a Buenos Aires they moved their headquarters to Buenos Aires;
    lo van a cambiar a otro colegio they're going to move him to another school
    3. [reemplazar] [rueda, sábanas] to change;
    tenemos que cambiar la lavadora we have to get a new washing machine;
    tengo que cambiar el agua del acuario I have to change the water in the fish tank, I have to put some fresh water in the fish tank;
    cambiar un artículo defectuoso to exchange a faulty item;
    si no está satisfecho, lo puede cambiar if you're not satisfied with it, you can change it;
    tuve que cambiarle una rueda al coche I had to change one of the wheels on the car;
    cambiaré este tornillo por otro más largo I'll swap this screw for a longer one;
    Fam
    ¡cambia el disco o [m5]rollo, que ya aburres! you're getting boring! can't you talk about anything else?
    4. [intercambiar] to swap;
    cambiar cromos/sellos to swap picture cards/stamps;
    cambiar impresiones to compare notes, to exchange views;
    cambiar algo por algo to exchange sth for sth;
    cambié mi reloj por el suyo I swapped watches with him;
    he cambiado mi turno con un compañero I swapped shifts with a colleague;
    ¿te importaría cambiarme el sitio? would you mind swapping o changing places with me?
    5. [dinero] to change;
    en aquel banco cambian dinero they change money at that bank;
    ¿me podría cambiar este billete en monedas, por favor? could you give me change for this note in coins, please?;
    cambiar dólares en euros to change dollars into euros
    6. [bebé] to change
    ♦ vi
    1. [alterarse] to change;
    ha cambiado mucho desde el accidente she has changed a lot since the accident;
    la situación no ha cambiado mucho there has been little change in the situation;
    algunas personas no cambian nunca some people never change;
    ya crecerá y cambiará she'll change as she gets older;
    cambiar a mejor/peor to change for the better/worse;
    en ese caso, la cosa cambia that's different, that changes everything;
    le ha cambiado la voz his voice has broken
    2.
    cambiar de to change;
    cambiar de autobús/tren to change buses/trains;
    Fig
    cambiar de camisa/chaqueta to change one's shirt/jacket;
    cambiar de canal [de TV] to turn over, to change channels;
    cambiar de casa to move (house);
    cambiar de color to change colour;
    cambiar de dueño to change hands;
    cambiar de idea/intención to change one's mind/plans;
    cambiar de manos [dinero, vehículo] to change hands;
    cambiar de ritmo to change pace;
    cambiar de rumbo to change course;
    cambiar de sexo to have a sex change;
    cambiar de sitio to change place, to move;
    cambiar de táctica to change one's tactics;
    cambiar de trabajo to move o change jobs
    3. Aut [de marchas]
    cambiar (de marcha) to change gear;
    cambiar a segunda to change into second gear
    4. Meteo to change, to shift;
    el viento cambió the wind changed
    * * *
    I v/t change ( por for); compra exchange ( por for)
    II v/i change;
    cambiar de lugar change places;
    cambiar de marcha AUTO shift gear, Br change gear;
    cambiar de tren change trains;
    cambiar de coche get a new car;
    parecer change one’s mind
    * * *
    1) alterar, modificar: to change
    2) : to exchange, to trade
    1) : to change
    2)
    cambiar de velocidad : to shift gears
    * * *
    1. (en general) to change
    si no te va bien, te lo cambiaremos if it doesn't fit, we'll change it
    ¿dónde puede cambiar las libras en euros? where can I change my pounds into euros?
    2. to exchange / to swap [pt. & pp. swapped]
    cambiar de opinión / parecer to change your mind

    Spanish-English dictionary > cambiar

  • 8 maternidad

    f.
    1 motherhood.
    2 maternity hospital (hospital).
    3 maternity home, maternity hospital.
    * * *
    1 maternity, motherhood
    2 (hospital) maternity hospital
    * * *
    noun f.
    * * *
    SF
    1) (=estado) motherhood, maternity
    2) (=hospital) (tb: casa de maternidad) maternity hospital
    * * *
    a) ( estado) motherhood, maternity
    b) ( hospital) maternity hospital; ( sala) maternity ward
    * * *
    = motherhood, parenthood, childbearing [child-bearing], maternity hospital.
    Ex. Who can be against training one's staff to make them more effective? It's like being against motherhood and apple pie.
    Ex. The specific focus of the study is to take up these questions in relation to education and preparation for parenthood.
    Ex. Providing retraining courses for females returning to librarianship after childbearing will improve the profession's status and image.
    Ex. If data sampled at maternity hospitals are once transmitted to the data server on LAN via the public telephone circuit, these data are available for the specialists on LAN.
    ----
    * baja por maternidad = maternity leave, parental leave, maternal leave.
    * casa de maternidad = maternity home.
    * permiso por maternidad = maternity leave, maternal leave.
    * * *
    a) ( estado) motherhood, maternity
    b) ( hospital) maternity hospital; ( sala) maternity ward
    * * *
    = motherhood, parenthood, childbearing [child-bearing], maternity hospital.

    Ex: Who can be against training one's staff to make them more effective? It's like being against motherhood and apple pie.

    Ex: The specific focus of the study is to take up these questions in relation to education and preparation for parenthood.
    Ex: Providing retraining courses for females returning to librarianship after childbearing will improve the profession's status and image.
    Ex: If data sampled at maternity hospitals are once transmitted to the data server on LAN via the public telephone circuit, these data are available for the specialists on LAN.
    * baja por maternidad = maternity leave, parental leave, maternal leave.
    * casa de maternidad = maternity home.
    * permiso por maternidad = maternity leave, maternal leave.

    * * *
    1 (estado) motherhood, maternity
    2 (hospital) maternity hospital; (sala) maternity ward
    * * *

    maternidad sustantivo femenino


    ( sala) maternity ward
    maternidad sustantivo femenino maternity, motherhood
    ' maternidad' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    baja
    - excedencia
    English:
    maternity
    - maternity ward
    - motherhood
    - parenthood
    * * *
    1. [cualidad] motherhood
    maternidad subrogada surrogate motherhood, surrogacy
    2. [hospital] maternity hospital;
    [sección] maternity ward
    * * *
    f maternity, motherhood;
    casa de maternidad maternity hospital
    * * *
    1) : maternity, motherhood
    2) : maternity hospital, maternity ward

    Spanish-English dictionary > maternidad

  • 9 alejar de

    v.
    1 to separate from, to drive from.
    2 to separate from, to remove away from.
    * * *
    (v.) = lead far from, draw + Nombre + away from, wean away from
    Ex. We cannot address these questions in this discussion, as they would lead us far from our topic.
    Ex. Libraries are beginning to recognize that customers have choices for their information needs nd that some of these choices are drawing customers away from the library in increasing numbers, and perhaps for good.
    Ex. Fortunately, banks have successfully weaned people away from pawnshops and moneylenders.
    * * *
    (v.) = lead far from, draw + Nombre + away from, wean away from

    Ex: We cannot address these questions in this discussion, as they would lead us far from our topic.

    Ex: Libraries are beginning to recognize that customers have choices for their information needs nd that some of these choices are drawing customers away from the library in increasing numbers, and perhaps for good.
    Ex: Fortunately, banks have successfully weaned people away from pawnshops and moneylenders.

    Spanish-English dictionary > alejar de

  • 10 assommant

    assommant, e (inf) [asɔmɑ̃, ɑ̃t]
    adjective
    ( = ennuyeux) deadly boring (inf)
    * * *
    (colloq), assommante asɔmɑ̃, ɑ̃t adjectif
    1) ( ennuyeux) deadly boring (colloq)
    2) ( agaçant)
    * * *
    asɔmɑ̃, ɑ̃t adj assommant, -e
    (= ennuyeux) deadly boring, deadly dull
    * * *
    1 ( ennuyeux) [travail, soirée, livre, personne] deadly boring○; c'est assommant de faire la vaisselle it's a real drag○ doing the dishes;
    2 ( agaçant) tu es assommant avec tes questions/conseils you're a real pain○ with your questions/advice.
    ( féminin assommante) [asɔmɑ̃, ɑ̃t] adjectif
    1. [ennuyeux] boring, tedious
    2. [fatigant]
    tu es assommant, à la fin, avec tes questions! all these questions are getting really annoying!

    Dictionnaire Français-Anglais > assommant

  • 11 paternidad

    f.
    fatherhood.
    * * *
    1 paternity
    2 (autoría) authorship
    * * *
    SF
    1) (=estado, situación) fatherhood, parenthood
    2) (Jur) paternity
    * * *
    1) ( del padre)
    a) (Der) paternity (frml)
    b) ( circunstancia) fatherhood

    la paternidad lo ha cambiado — fatherhood o being a father has changed him

    2) ( de los padres) parenthood
    3) ( autoría) authorship
    * * *
    = parenthood, fatherhood, paternity.
    Ex. The specific focus of the study is to take up these questions in relation to education and preparation for parenthood.
    Ex. The author concludes that children would get an incomplete image of fatherhood and would benefit from more books presenting strong and positive father images.
    Ex. Establishing paternity gives a child born outside of marriage the same legal rights as a child born to married parents.
    ----
    * baja por paternidad = paternal leave.
    * permiso de paternidad = paternity leave.
    * permiso por paternidad = paternal leave.
    * prueba de paternidad = paternity test.
    * test de paternidad = paternity test.
    * * *
    1) ( del padre)
    a) (Der) paternity (frml)
    b) ( circunstancia) fatherhood

    la paternidad lo ha cambiado — fatherhood o being a father has changed him

    2) ( de los padres) parenthood
    3) ( autoría) authorship
    * * *
    = parenthood, fatherhood, paternity.

    Ex: The specific focus of the study is to take up these questions in relation to education and preparation for parenthood.

    Ex: The author concludes that children would get an incomplete image of fatherhood and would benefit from more books presenting strong and positive father images.
    Ex: Establishing paternity gives a child born outside of marriage the same legal rights as a child born to married parents.
    * baja por paternidad = paternal leave.
    * permiso de paternidad = paternity leave.
    * permiso por paternidad = paternal leave.
    * prueba de paternidad = paternity test.
    * test de paternidad = paternity test.

    * * *
    A
    1 (del padre) paternity
    no reconoció la paternidad del niño he did not acknowledge paternity of the child ( frml), he denied being the father of the child
    la paternidad lo ha cambiado mucho fatherhood o being a father has really changed him
    2 (de los padres) parenthood
    la paternidad acarrea muchas responsabilidades parenthood entails many responsibilities
    la paternidad responsable family planning
    B (autoría) authorship
    se le atribuye la paternidad de este invento this invention has been attributed to him, he has been credited with this invention
    * * *

    paternidad sustantivo femenino
    1 ( del padre)
    a) (Der) paternity (frml)


    ◊ la paternidad lo ha cambiado fatherhood o being a father has changed him

    2 ( de los padres) parenthood
    paternidad sustantivo femenino paternity, fatherhood
    ' paternidad' also found in these entries:
    English:
    parenthood
    - paternity
    - fatherhood
    * * *
    1. [calidad de padre] fatherhood
    paternidad responsable responsible parenthood
    2. Der paternity;
    prueba de paternidad paternity test
    3. [creación] authorship;
    la paternidad del proyecto es suya he devised the project
    * * *
    f paternity, fatherhood;
    prueba de paternidad paternity test
    * * *
    1) : fatherhood, paternity
    2) : parenthood
    3) : authorship

    Spanish-English dictionary > paternidad

  • 12 връзка

    1. tie
    връзки за обуща shoe-laces, bootlaces
    3. (еднакви предмети, свързани заедно) bunch, string
    връзка вестници a packet of newspapers
    връзка ключове a bunch of keys
    връзка лук a rope of onions
    връзка репички a bunch of radishes
    връзка риба a string of fish
    4. анат. ligament, copula
    5. хим. linkage; bond
    6. прен. bond, tie, link, connection, relation, contact
    връзката между теорията и практиката the connection between theory and practice
    жп. връзка railway connection
    има връзка между влаковете the trains connect
    тясна връзка между А и Б a close bond between A and В
    между А и Б има никаква връзка there is no relationship between A and В
    това няма никаква връзка с въпроса this is irrelevant to the subject, this has no bearing on the subject
    разг. that is beside the point
    във връзка с in connection with
    във връзка с това in this connection, with regard to this
    във връзка съм с be in touch with
    във връзка сме един с друг we are in touch (with each other)
    тези въпроси са във взаимна връзка these questions are interrelated/interconnected
    без връзка neither here nor there, without any apparent connection
    жива връзка между... и... (the) living bond between... and...
    причинна връзка a causal connection/relationship/nexus
    слаба връзка a tenuous tie
    тайна връзка a secret tie
    телефонна връзка telephone communication/contact, telephone-line
    делови връзки business relations
    културни връзки cultural relations
    приятелски връзки friendly relations, ties of friendship
    роднински връзки ties of relationship, kinship ties
    стари връзки old links/connections
    търговски връзки trade relations/contacts
    човек с широки връзки a man with a wide acquaintance (ship)
    чрез връзки through patronage, by pulling strings
    влизам във връзка с get in touch with, establish/take up contact with
    загубвам връзка с lose touch with
    имам силни връзки know the right people
    използувам връзките си pull strings, do some string-pulling
    поддържам връзки maintain touch/communication, keep in touch/contact (с with)
    поддържам лични връзки cultivate personal contacts (с with)
    създавам си връзки form connections, make contacts
    установявам връзки establish contact, enter into relations (с with)
    7. mex. ( свързване) tie, coupling
    8. воен. intercommunication, signals, liaison
    (за човек) contact man
    без връзка с without reference to
    * * *
    връ̀зка,
    ж., -и 1. tie; \връзкаи за обувки shoe-laces, boot-laces;
    2. ( вратовръзка) (neck-)tie;
    3. ( еднакви предмети, свързани заедно) bunch, string; \връзкаа вестници a packet of newspapers; \връзкаа ключове a bunch of keys; \връзкаа лук a rope of onions; \връзкаа репички a bunch of radishes; \връзкаа риба a string of fish;
    4. анат. ligament, copula;
    5. хим. linkage; bond;
    6. прен. bond, tie, link, connection, relation, contact; без \връзкаа neither here nor there; влизам в телефонна \връзкаа c get through to; влизам във \връзкаа с get in touch with, establish/take up contact with; жп \връзкаа railway connection; \връзкаи с обществеността public relations; във \връзкаа съм с be in touch with; делови \връзкаи business relations; жива \връзкаа между … и … (the) living bond between … and …; загубвам \връзкаа с lose touch with; използвам \връзкаите си pull strings, do some string-pulling; има \връзкаа между влаковете the trains connect; имам много \връзкаи have many ties, have backstairs influence; имам силни \връзкаи know the right people; кръвни \връзкаи ties of blood; любовна \връзкаа liaison; (love-)affair; разг. fling; поддържам лични \връзкаи cultivate personal contacts (c with); поставям някого във \връзкаа c put s.o. in touch with; причинна \връзкаа a casual connection/relationship/nexus; приятелски \връзкаи friendly relations, ties of friendship; родствени \връзкаи ties of relationship, kinship ties; скъсвам всички \връзкаи с cut all ties/links with; слаба \връзкаа a tenuous tie; стари \връзкаи old links/connections; създавам си \връзкаи form connections, make contacts; тайна \връзкаа a secret tie; тези въпроси са във взаимна \връзкаа these questiones are interrelated/interconnect; телефонна \връзкаа telephone communication/contact, telephone-line; това няма никаква \връзкаа с въпроса this is irrelevant to the subject, this has no bearing on the subject, that is beside the point; търговски \връзкаи trade relations/contacts; тясна \връзкаа между a close bond between; установявам \връзкаи establish contact, enter into relations (c with); човек с добри \връзкаи a well-connected man; човек с широки \връзкаи a man with a wide acquaintance(ship); чрез \връзкаи through patronage, by pulling strings, by the old-boy network;
    7. техн. ( свързване) tie, coupling;
    8. воен. intercommunication, signals, liaison; • \връзка (за човек) contact man; без \връзкаа c without reference to.
    * * *
    alliance: marriage-връзкаs - брачни връзки; bootlace (за обувки); bunch: a връзка of radishes - връзка репички; commissure; communication; concatenation; connection{kx`nekSn}: in връзка with - във връзка с; contact; cord{kO:d} (анат.); lace; liaison (воен.); ligament; nexus{`neksxs}; reference: diplomatic връзкаs - дипломатически връзки; relationship; tie{tai}; truss
    * * *
    1. (вратовръзка) (neck-)tie 2. (еднакви предмети, свързани заедно) bunch, string 3. (за човек) contact man 4. mеx. (свързване) tie, coupling 5. tie 6. ВРЪЗКА вестници a packet of newspapers 7. ВРЪЗКА ключове a bunch of keys 8. ВРЪЗКА лук a rope of onions 9. ВРЪЗКА репички a bunch of radishes 10. ВРЪЗКА риба а string of fish 11. ВРЪЗКАта между теорията и практиката the connection between theory and practice 12. анат. ligament, copula 13. без ВРЪЗКА neither here nor there, without any apparent connection 14. без ВРЪЗКА с without reference to 15. влизам в непосредствена ВРЪЗКА с make direct contact with 16. влизам в телефонна ВРЪЗКА с get through to 17. влизам във ВРЪЗКА с get in touch with, establish/ take up contact with 18. воен. intercommunication, signals, liaison 19. връзки за обуща shoe-laces, bootlaces 20. във ВРЪЗКА с in connection with 21. във ВРЪЗКА с това in this connection, with regard to this 22. във ВРЪЗКА сме един с друг we are in touch (with each other) 23. във ВРЪЗКА съм с be in touch with 24. делови връзки business relations 25. дипломатически връзки diplomatic relations 26. жива ВРЪЗКА между... и... (the) living bond between... and... 27. жп. ВРЪЗКА railway connection 28. загубвам ВРЪЗКА c lose touch with 29. използувам връзките си pull strings, do some string-pulling 30. има ВРЪЗКА между влаковете the trains connect 31. имам много връзки have many ties 32. имам силни връзки know the right people 33. кръвни връзки ties of blood 34. културни връзки cultural relations 35. любовни връзки liaison, (love-)affair 36. между А и Б има никаква ВРЪЗКА there is no relationship) between A and В 37. поддържам връзки maintain touch/communication, keep in touch/contact (c with) 38. поддържам лични връзки cultivate personal contacts (c with) 39. поставям някого във ВРЪЗКА с put s. o. in touch with 40. прекъсвам дипломатическите си връзки break off/sever diplomatic relations with 41. прен. bond, tie, link, connection, relation, contact 42. причинна ВРЪЗКА a causal connection/relationship/ nexus 43. приятелски връзки friendly relations, ties of friendship 44. разг. that is beside the point 45. роднински връзки ties of relationship, kinship ties 46. семейни връзки family ties 47. скъсвам всички връзки с cut all ties/links with 48. слаба ВРЪЗКА a tenuous tie 49. стари връзки old links/connections 50. създавам си връзки form connections, make contacts 51. тайна ВРЪЗКА a secret tie 52. тези въпроси са във взаимна ВРЪЗКА these questions are interrelated/interconnected 53. телефонна ВРЪЗКА telephone communication/contact, telephone-line 54. това няма никаква ВРЪЗКА с въпроса this is irrelevant to the subject, this has no bearing on the subject 55. търговски връзки trade relations/contacts 56. тясна ВРЪЗКА между А и Б a close bond between A and В 57. установявам връзки establish contact, enter into relations (c with) 58. установявам дипломатически връзки с establish diplomatic relations with 59. хим. linkage;bond 60. човек с добри връзки а well-connected man 61. човек с широки връзки a man with a wide acquaintance(ship) 62. чрез връзки through patronage, by pulling strings

    Български-английски речник > връзка

  • 13 Creativity

       Put in this bald way, these aims sound utopian. How utopian they areor rather, how imminent their realization-depends on how broadly or narrowly we interpret the term "creative." If we are willing to regard all human complex problem solving as creative, then-as we will point out-successful programs for problem solving mechanisms that simulate human problem solvers already exist, and a number of their general characteristics are known. If we reserve the term "creative" for activities like discovery of the special theory of relativity or the composition of Beethoven's Seventh Symphony, then no example of a creative mechanism exists at the present time. (Simon, 1979, pp. 144-145)
       Among the questions that can now be given preliminary answers in computational terms are the following: how can ideas from very different sources be spontaneously thought of together? how can two ideas be merged to produce a new structure, which shows the influence of both ancestor ideas without being a mere "cut-and-paste" combination? how can the mind be "primed," so that one will more easily notice serendipitous ideas? why may someone notice-and remember-something fairly uninteresting, if it occurs in an interesting context? how can a brief phrase conjure up an entire melody from memory? and how can we accept two ideas as similar ("love" and "prove" as rhyming, for instance) in respect of a feature not identical in both? The features of connectionist AI models that suggest answers to these questions are their powers of pattern completion, graceful degradation, sensitization, multiple constraint satisfaction, and "best-fit" equilibration.... Here, the important point is that the unconscious, "insightful," associative aspects of creativity can be explained-in outline, at least-by AI methods. (Boden, 1996, p. 273)
       There thus appears to be an underlying similarity in the process involved in creative innovation and social independence, with common traits and postures required for expression of both behaviors. The difference is one of product-literary, musical, artistic, theoretical products on the one hand, opinions on the other-rather than one of process. In both instances the individual must believe that his perceptions are meaningful and valid and be willing to rely upon his own interpretations. He must trust himself sufficiently that even when persons express opinions counter to his own he can proceed on the basis of his own perceptions and convictions. (Coopersmith, 1967, p. 58)
       he average level of ego strength and emotional stability is noticeably higher among creative geniuses than among the general population, though it is possibly lower than among men of comparable intelligence and education who go into administrative and similar positions. High anxiety and excitability appear common (e.g. Priestley, Darwin, Kepler) but full-blown neurosis is quite rare. (Cattell & Butcher, 1970, p. 315)
       he insight that is supposed to be required for such work as discovery turns out to be synonymous with the familiar process of recognition; and other terms commonly used in the discussion of creative work-such terms as "judgment," "creativity," or even "genius"-appear to be wholly dispensable or to be definable, as insight is, in terms of mundane and well-understood concepts. (Simon, 1989, p. 376)
       From the sketch material still in existence, from the condition of the fragments, and from the autographs themselves we can draw definite conclusions about Mozart's creative process. To invent musical ideas he did not need any stimulation; they came to his mind "ready-made" and in polished form. In contrast to Beethoven, who made numerous attempts at shaping his musical ideas until he found the definitive formulation of a theme, Mozart's first inspiration has the stamp of finality. Any Mozart theme has completeness and unity; as a phenomenon it is a Gestalt. (Herzmann, 1964, p. 28)
       Great artists enlarge the limits of one's perception. Looking at the world through the eyes of Rembrandt or Tolstoy makes one able to perceive aspects of truth about the world which one could not have achieved without their aid. Freud believed that science was adaptive because it facilitated mastery of the external world; but was it not the case that many scientific theories, like works of art, also originated in phantasy? Certainly, reading accounts of scientific discovery by men of the calibre of Einstein compelled me to conclude that phantasy was not merely escapist, but a way of reaching new insights concerning the nature of reality. Scientific hypotheses require proof; works of art do not. Both are concerned with creating order, with making sense out of the world and our experience of it. (Storr, 1993, p. xii)
       The importance of self-esteem for creative expression appears to be almost beyond disproof. Without a high regard for himself the individual who is working in the frontiers of his field cannot trust himself to discriminate between the trivial and the significant. Without trust in his own powers the person seeking improved solutions or alternative theories has no basis for distinguishing the significant and profound innovation from the one that is merely different.... An essential component of the creative process, whether it be analysis, synthesis, or the development of a new perspective or more comprehensive theory, is the conviction that one's judgment in interpreting the events is to be trusted. (Coopersmith, 1967, p. 59)
       In the daily stream of thought these four different stages [preparation; incubation; illumination or inspiration; and verification] constantly overlap each other as we explore different problems. An economist reading a Blue Book, a physiologist watching an experiment, or a business man going through his morning's letters, may at the same time be "incubating" on a problem which he proposed to himself a few days ago, be accumulating knowledge in "preparation" for a second problem, and be "verifying" his conclusions to a third problem. Even in exploring the same problem, the mind may be unconsciously incubating on one aspect of it, while it is consciously employed in preparing for or verifying another aspect. (Wallas, 1926, p. 81)
       he basic, bisociative pattern of the creative synthesis [is] the sudden interlocking of two previously unrelated skills, or matrices of thought. (Koestler, 1964, p. 121)
        11) The Earliest Stages in the Creative Process Involve a Commerce with Disorder
       Even to the creator himself, the earliest effort may seem to involve a commerce with disorder. For the creative order, which is an extension of life, is not an elaboration of the established, but a movement beyond the established, or at least a reorganization of it and often of elements not included in it. The first need is therefore to transcend the old order. Before any new order can be defined, the absolute power of the established, the hold upon us of what we know and are, must be broken. New life comes always from outside our world, as we commonly conceive that world. This is the reason why, in order to invent, one must yield to the indeterminate within him, or, more precisely, to certain illdefined impulses which seem to be of the very texture of the ungoverned fullness which John Livingston Lowes calls "the surging chaos of the unexpressed." (Ghiselin, 1985, p. 4)
       New life comes always from outside our world, as we commonly conceive our world. This is the reason why, in order to invent, one must yield to the indeterminate within him, or, more precisely, to certain illdefined impulses which seem to be of the very texture of the ungoverned fullness which John Livingston Lowes calls "the surging chaos of the unexpressed." Chaos and disorder are perhaps the wrong terms for that indeterminate fullness and activity of the inner life. For it is organic, dynamic, full of tension and tendency. What is absent from it, except in the decisive act of creation, is determination, fixity, and commitment to one resolution or another of the whole complex of its tensions. (Ghiselin, 1952, p. 13)
       [P]sychoanalysts have principally been concerned with the content of creative products, and with explaining content in terms of the artist's infantile past. They have paid less attention to examining why the artist chooses his particular activity to express, abreact or sublimate his emotions. In short, they have not made much distinction between art and neurosis; and, since the former is one of the blessings of mankind, whereas the latter is one of the curses, it seems a pity that they should not be better differentiated....
       Psychoanalysis, being fundamentally concerned with drive and motive, might have been expected to throw more light upon what impels the creative person that in fact it has. (Storr, 1993, pp. xvii, 3)
       A number of theoretical approaches were considered. Associative theory, as developed by Mednick (1962), gained some empirical support from the apparent validity of the Remote Associates Test, which was constructed on the basis of the theory.... Koestler's (1964) bisociative theory allows more complexity to mental organization than Mednick's associative theory, and postulates "associative contexts" or "frames of reference." He proposed that normal, non-creative, thought proceeds within particular contexts or frames and that the creative act involves linking together previously unconnected frames.... Simonton (1988) has developed associative notions further and explored the mathematical consequences of chance permutation of ideas....
       Like Koestler, Gruber (1980; Gruber and Davis, 1988) has based his analysis on case studies. He has focused especially on Darwin's development of the theory of evolution. Using piagetian notions, such as assimilation and accommodation, Gruber shows how Darwin's system of ideas changed very slowly over a period of many years. "Moments of insight," in Gruber's analysis, were the culminations of slow long-term processes.... Finally, the information-processing approach, as represented by Simon (1966) and Langley et al. (1987), was considered.... [Simon] points out the importance of good problem representations, both to ensure search is in an appropriate problem space and to aid in developing heuristic evaluations of possible research directions.... The work of Langley et al. (1987) demonstrates how such search processes, realized in computer programs, can indeed discover many basic laws of science from tables of raw data.... Boden (1990a, 1994) has stressed the importance of restructuring the problem space in creative work to develop new genres and paradigms in the arts and sciences. (Gilhooly, 1996, pp. 243-244; emphasis in original)

    Historical dictionary of quotations in cognitive science > Creativity

  • 14 soûler

    soûler° [sule]
    ➭ TABLE 1
    1. transitive verb
       a. ( = rendre ivre) (inf) soûler qn [personne] to get sb drunk ; [boisson] to make sb drunk
       b. ( = fatiguer) (inf) soûler qn to make sb's head spin
    2. reflexive verb
    ► se soûler (inf) ( = s'enivrer) to get drunk
    • se soûler à la bière/au whisky to get drunk on beer/on whisky
    * * *
    sule
    1.
    1) ( rendre ivre) [personne] to get [somebody] drunk [personne]; [alcool] to make [somebody] drunk [personne]
    2) ( griser) [odeur, parfum, grand air] to intoxicate [personne]
    3) (colloq) ( étourdir)

    tu me soûles avec tes histoires — give me a break, my head is spinning!


    2.
    se soûler verbe pronominal
    1) ( s'enivrer) to get drunk (à, avec on)
    2) ( se griser)
    * * *
    sule vt
    1) (= rendre ivre)

    soûler qn [personne] — to get sb drunk, [boisson] to make sb drunk

    2) fig (= épuiser par ses bavardages)

    soûler qn — to make sb's head spin, to make sb's head reel

    * * *
    soûler verb table: aimer
    A vtr
    1 ( rendre ivre) [personne] to get [sb] drunk [personne]; [alcool] to make [sb] drunk [personne]; ils cherchaient à la soûler au gin/à la bière they were trying to get her drunk on gin/on beer;
    2 ( griser) [odeur, parfum, grand air] to intoxicate [personne];
    3 ○( étourdir) tu nous soûles avec tes histoires/discours you make our heads spin with your stories/speeches; ce voyage m'a soûlée the trip left me reeling.
    B se soûler vpr
    1 ( s'enivrer) to get drunk; se soûler à la bière to get drunk on beer; se soûler la gueule◑ to get sloshed○, to get pissed◑;
    2 ( se griser) se soûler de qch to become intoxicated with sth [paroles, musique]; se soûler de travail to get punch-drunk from work.
    [sule] verbe transitif
    1. (familier) [rendre ivre]
    2. [étourdir] to make dizzy ou giddy
    tu me soûles, avec tes questions! you're making me dizzy with all these questions!
    ————————
    se soûler verbe pronominal intransitif
    2. [s'étourdir]

    Dictionnaire Français-Anglais > soûler

  • 15 ключом к данным вопросам является

    Mathematics: the key to these questions lies (within), the key to these questions lies with (...)

    Универсальный русско-английский словарь > ключом к данным вопросам является

  • 16 ankommen

    (unreg., trennb., ist -ge-)
    I v/i
    1.
    a) arrive (in + Dat at, in); ankommen in (+ Dat) auch reach, get (to); gut ankommen Person: arrive safely; Paket: get there all right (Am. umg. alright); am Ende / Ziel ankommen get to the end / destination; zu Hause ankommen arrive ( oder get) home; der Zug soll um zehn Uhr ankommen the train is due (to arrive) at ten o’clock; ist der Brief bei dir angekommen? did you get the letter (all right)?;
    b) be born; bei jemandem ist ein Baby angekommen s.o. has had a baby ( oder new arrival hum.)
    2. umg. come (along oder up), turn up, intrude, Am. butt in; da kommt sie schon 'wieder an! here she comes again!; womit kommst 'du schon wieder an? what do you want now ( oder this time)?; dauernd kommt er mit seinen Fragen an he keeps coming ( oder intruding) with all these questions; komm mir aber nachher nicht an und... just don’t come running to me afterwards and...
    3. umg. (angestellt werden) get a job ( bei with)
    4. umg. (Anklang finden) go down well ( bei with); nicht ankommen be a flop, go down badly; groß ankommen bei (go down a) bomb with; damit kommt er bei mir nicht an that cuts no ice with me; Publikum 2
    5. ankommen gegen be able to cope with, (jemanden) get the better of; gegen sie kommt er nicht an he’s no match for her, he can’t compete with her, he hasn’t got a chance with her; gegen die Opposition etc. kommen wir nicht an the opposition etc. is too strong for us
    6. unpers. (abhängen von): es kommt ( ganz) darauf an it (all) depends (on) (ob whether); darauf soll es ( mir) nicht ankommen that’s not the problem, that doesn’t matter to me; das käme auf einen Versuch an we’d have to give it a try
    7. unpers. (wichtig sein): worauf es ankommt, ist... the important thing is...; es kommt ( ihm oder bei ihm) nicht auf den Preis an it doesn’t matter how much it costs (money is no object for him); wenn es darauf ankommt, ist er immer da: when it comes to the crunch, when it really matters, when the going gets tough; jetzt kommt es auf jede Sekunde an every second counts (now); auf einen Euro mehr od. weniger kommt es nicht an the odd euro more or less doesn’t matter ( oder doesn’t make any difference); darauf kommt es jetzt auch nicht mehr an that doesn’t matter any more now, that won’t make any difference now
    8. unpers. (riskieren): es auf etw. ankommen lassen (be prepared to) risk s.th.; ich lasse es darauf ankommen I’ll wait and see what happens
    II vt/i: die Entschuldigung oder sich zu entschuldigen kam ihr oder sie hart oder schwer an she found it hard ( oder it was hard on her) to apologize
    III v/t geh. befall, come over s.o.; es kam ihn die Lust an zu (+ Inf.) he suddenly had the urge to (+ Inf.)
    * * *
    to arrive; to reach; to get in
    * * *
    ạn|kom|men ['anko-] sep irreg aux sein
    1. vi
    1) (= eintreffen) to arrive; (Zug, Bus etc) to get in, to arrive

    bist du gut angekommen? — did you arrive safely?, did you get there all right?

    bei etw angekommen sein — to have reached sth, to have got to sth

    das Kind soll in 6 Wochen ankommen — the baby is due (to arrive) in 6 weeks

    2) (= Anklang, Resonanz finden)(bei with) to go down well; (Mode, Neuerungen) to catch on

    ein Lehrer, der bei seinen Schülern ausgezeichnet ankommt — a teacher who is a great success with his pupils, a teacher who hits it off marvellously (Brit) or marvelously (US) with his pupils

    3) (inf) (= auftreten, erscheinen) to come along; (= wiederholt erwähnen) to come up (mit with)

    komm mir nachher nicht an und verlange, dass ich... — don't come running to me afterwards wanting me to...

    komm mir nur nicht wieder damit an, dass du Astronaut werden willst — don't start up again with this business about (your) wanting to be an astronaut

    4)

    (= sich durchsetzen) gegen etw ankommen (gegen Gewohnheit, Sucht etc) — to be able to fight sth

    er ist zu stark, ich komme gegen ihn nicht an — he's too strong, I'm no match for him

    2. vi impers
    1)

    (= wichtig sein) an — sth matters

    darauf kommt es ( uns) an — that is what matters (to us)

    es kommt darauf an, dass wir... — what matters is that we...

    auf eine halbe Stunde kommt es jetzt nicht mehr an — it doesn't matter about the odd half-hour, an extra half-hour is neither here nor there (inf)

    2) (= abhängig sein) to depend (
    auf +acc on)

    es käme auf einen Versuch an — we'd have to give it a try

    es kommt ( ganz) darauf an, in welcher Laune er ist — it (all) depends (on) what mood he's in

    3) (inf)

    es darauf ankommen lassen — to take a chance, to chance it

    er ließ es in der Prüfung darauf ankommen — he took a chance in the exam

    er ließ es auf einen Streit/einen Versuch ankommen — he was prepared to argue about it/to give it a try

    3. vt
    (= sein, erscheinen)

    etw kommt jdn schwer/hart an — sth is difficult/hard for sb

    das Rauchen aufzugeben, kommt ihn sauer an — he's finding it difficult to give up smoking

    * * *
    1) (to reach (a place, the end of a journey etc): They arrived home last night; The parcel arrived yesterday.) arrive
    2) (to register at a hotel as a guest or at an airport as a passenger: We checked in last night.) check in
    3) ((of plays, behaviour etc) to be received (well or badly): The play didn't go over at all well the first night.) go over
    * * *
    an|kom·men
    I. vi Hilfsverb: sein
    1. TRANSP (ein Ziel erreichen) to arrive
    seid ihr auch gut angekommen? did you arrive safely?
    2. (angeliefert werden)
    ▪ [bei jdm] \ankommen to be delivered [to sb]
    ▪ bei etw dat \ankommen to reach sth
    4. (fam: sich nähern) to approach
    schau mal, wer da ankommt! [just] look who's coming!
    5. (fam: Anklang finden)
    ▪ [bei jdm] \ankommen Sache to go down well [with sb]; Person to make an impression [on sb]
    der neue Chef kommt gut an the new boss is well liked [or is a real [or big] hit
    6. (sich durchsetzen)
    ▪ gegen jdn/etw \ankommen to get the better of sb/sth
    gegen diesen Flegel von Sohn kommt sie nicht mehr an she can't cope with her brat of a son any more
    ▪ gegen etw akk \ankommen to break [or fam kick] a habit
    gegen eine Arbeitsüberlastung \ankommen to cope with an excess of work
    gegen Vorurteile \ankommen to break down prejudices
    ▪ [jdm] [mit etw dat] \ankommen to speak [to sb] [about sth]
    nachher kommst du mir wieder damit an afterwards you'll come back to me about it [and say...]
    mit so einem alten Auto brauchen Sie bei uns nicht anzukommen! don't bother [coming to] us with such an old banger!
    kommen Sie mir bloß nicht schon wieder damit an! [just] don't start harping on about that again!
    9. (eine Stellung/einen Studienplatz finden)
    ▪ [bei jdm] [mit etw dat] \ankommen to be taken on [or accepted] [by sb] [with sth]
    bist du mit deiner Bewerbung bei Siemens angekommen? were you successful with your job application to [or at] Siemens?
    10. (geboren werden)
    ▪ [bei jdm] \ankommen to be born [to sb]
    das Baby kommt in zwei Monaten an the baby is due in two months
    bei meiner Frau ist gerade ein Junge angekommen! my wife has just given birth to a [baby] boy!
    II. vi impers Hilfsverb: sein
    ▪ auf etw akk \ankommen sth matters [or is important]
    ▪ es kommt darauf an, dass what matters is that
    bei diesem Job kommt es sehr darauf an, dass man kreativ arbeiten kann what matters in this job is that one is able to work creatively
    2. (von etw abhängen)
    ▪ auf jdn/etw \ankommen to be dependent on sb/sth
    du glaubst, ich schaffe es nicht? na, das käme auf einen Versuch an! you don't think I can manage it? well, I'll give it a [damn good] try! [or fam do my damnedest!]
    das kommt darauf an it [or that] depends
    ▪ darauf \ankommen, dass/ob it depends on/on whether
    alles kommt darauf an, ob wir rechtzeitig fertig werden it all depends on whether we're ready in time
    es kommt darauf an, dass ich gesund bleibe it depends on me staying healthy
    es auf etw akk \ankommen lassen to risk [or chance] sth
    es darauf \ankommen lassen (fam) to risk [or chance] it
    lass es lieber nicht darauf \ankommen! don't leave it to chance!
    lassen wir es also darauf \ankommen! let's risk [or chance] it!
    III. vt Hilfsverb: sein (geh: sich für jdn darstellen)
    jdn leicht/schwer [o hart] \ankommen to be easy/hard for sb
    die Arbeitslosigkeit meines Mannes kommt mich schon schwer an I'm finding my husband's unemployment hard
    es kommt jdn leicht/schwer [o hart] an, etw zu tun to be easy/hard for sb to do sth
    * * *
    unregelmäßiges intransitives Verb; mit sein
    1) (eintreffen) arrive; < letter, parcel> come, arrive; < bus, train, plane> arrive, get in

    seid ihr gut angekommen? — did you arrive safely or get there all right?

    2) (herankommen) come along
    3) (ugs.): (Anklang finden)

    [bei jemandem] [gut] ankommen — go down [very] well [with somebody]

    er ist ein Typ, der bei den Frauen ankommt — he is the sort who is a success with women

    4)

    gegen jemanden/etwas ankommen — be able to cope or deal with somebody/fight something

    es kommt auf jemanden/etwas an — (jemand/etwas ist ausschlaggebend) it depends on somebody/something

    es kommt auf etwas (Akk.) an — (etwas ist wichtig) something matters (Dat. to)

    es kommt [ganz] darauf an, ob... — it [all] depends whether...

    es kommt [ganz] darauf od. drauf an — (ugs.) it [all] depends

    es käme auf einen Versuch an — it's or it would be worth a try

    6)

    es auf etwas (Akk.) ankommen lassen — (etwas riskieren) [be prepared to] risk something

    es d[a]rauf ankommen lassen — (ugs.) take a chance; chance it

    * * *
    ankommen (irr, trennb, ist -ge-)
    A. v/i
    1. arrive (
    in +dat at, in);
    ankommen in (+dat) auch reach, get (to);
    gut ankommen Person: arrive safely; Paket: get there all right (US umg alright);
    am Ende/Ziel ankommen get to the end/destination;
    zu Hause ankommen arrive ( oder get) home;
    der Zug soll um zehn Uhr ankommen the train is due (to arrive) at ten o’clock;
    ist der Brief bei dir angekommen? did you get the letter (all right)?; (geboren werden) be born;
    bei jemandem ist ein Baby angekommen sb has had a baby ( oder new arrival hum)
    2. umg come (along oder up), turn up, intrude, US butt in;
    da kommt sie schon 'wieder an! here she comes again!;
    womit kommst 'du schon wieder an? what do you want now ( oder this time)?;
    dauernd kommt er mit seinen Fragen an he keeps coming ( oder intruding) with all these questions;
    komm mir aber nachher nicht an und … just don’t come running to me afterwards and …
    3. umg (angestellt werden) get a job (
    bei with)
    4. umg (Anklang finden) go down well (
    bei with);
    nicht ankommen be a flop, go down badly;
    groß ankommen bei (go down a) bomb with;
    damit kommt er bei mir nicht an that cuts no ice with me; → Publikum 2
    5.
    ankommen gegen be able to cope with, (jemanden) get the better of;
    gegen sie kommt er nicht an he’s no match for her, he can’t compete with her, he hasn’t got a chance with her;
    kommen wir nicht an the opposition etc is too strong for us
    6. unpers (abhängen von):
    es kommt (ganz) darauf an it (all) depends (on) (
    ob whether);
    darauf soll es (mir) nicht ankommen that’s not the problem, that doesn’t matter to me;
    das käme auf einen Versuch an we’d have to give it a try
    7. unpers (wichtig sein):
    worauf es ankommt, ist … the important thing is …;
    nicht auf den Preis an it doesn’t matter how much it costs (money is no object for him);
    wenn es darauf ankommt, ist er immer da: when it comes to the crunch, when it really matters, when the going gets tough;
    jetzt kommt es auf jede Sekunde an every second counts (now);
    auf einen Euro mehr weniger kommt es nicht an the odd euro more or less doesn’t matter ( oder doesn’t make any difference);
    darauf kommt es jetzt auch nicht mehr an that doesn’t matter any more now, that won’t make any difference now
    8. unpers (riskieren):
    es auf etwas ankommen lassen (be prepared to) risk sth;
    ich lasse es darauf ankommen I’ll wait and see what happens
    B. v/t & v/i:
    schwer an she found it hard ( oder it was hard on her) to apologize
    C. v/t geh befall, come over sb;
    es kam ihn die Lust an zu (+inf) he suddenly had the urge to (+inf)
    * * *
    unregelmäßiges intransitives Verb; mit sein
    1) (eintreffen) arrive; <letter, parcel> come, arrive; <bus, train, plane> arrive, get in

    seid ihr gut angekommen? — did you arrive safely or get there all right?

    2) (herankommen) come along
    3) (ugs.): (Anklang finden)

    [bei jemandem] [gut] ankommen — go down [very] well [with somebody]

    er ist ein Typ, der bei den Frauen ankommt — he is the sort who is a success with women

    4)

    gegen jemanden/etwas ankommen — be able to cope or deal with somebody/fight something

    es kommt auf jemanden/etwas an — (jemand/etwas ist ausschlaggebend) it depends on somebody/something

    es kommt auf etwas (Akk.) an — (etwas ist wichtig) something matters (Dat. to)

    es kommt [ganz] darauf an, ob... — it [all] depends whether...

    es kommt [ganz] darauf od. drauf an — (ugs.) it [all] depends

    es käme auf einen Versuch an — it's or it would be worth a try

    6)

    es auf etwas (Akk.) ankommen lassen — (etwas riskieren) [be prepared to] risk something

    es d[a]rauf ankommen lassen — (ugs.) take a chance; chance it

    * * *
    v.
    to arrive v.
    to get to v.

    Deutsch-Englisch Wörterbuch > ankommen

  • 17 con sentido

    = meaningful, purposeful, in a meaningful way
    Ex. Each operator has a filing value which has been designate in order to ensure that terms appear in the index string in an order that will produce a meaningful set of index entries.
    Ex. To do this is to thwart the goal of eliciting genuine dialogue -- candid, searching, and purposeful discussion -- and motivating students to think, to study, to weigh ideas, and to develop their own solutions.
    Ex. If there is no god, it might eventually be possible to answer these questions in a meaningful way, a way that actually explains something.
    * * *
    = meaningful, purposeful, in a meaningful way

    Ex: Each operator has a filing value which has been designate in order to ensure that terms appear in the index string in an order that will produce a meaningful set of index entries.

    Ex: To do this is to thwart the goal of eliciting genuine dialogue -- candid, searching, and purposeful discussion -- and motivating students to think, to study, to weigh ideas, and to develop their own solutions.
    Ex: If there is no god, it might eventually be possible to answer these questions in a meaningful way, a way that actually explains something.

    Spanish-English dictionary > con sentido

  • 18 de forma lógica

    Ex. If there is no god, it might eventually be possible to answer these questions in a meaningful way, a way that actually explains something.
    * * *

    Ex: If there is no god, it might eventually be possible to answer these questions in a meaningful way, a way that actually explains something.

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    Ex. If there is no god, it might eventually be possible to answer these questions in a meaningful way, a way that actually explains something.
    * * *

    Ex: If there is no god, it might eventually be possible to answer these questions in a meaningful way, a way that actually explains something.

    Spanish-English dictionary > de manera lógica

  • 20 de modo lógico

    Ex. If there is no god, it might eventually be possible to answer these questions in a meaningful way, a way that actually explains something.
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    Ex: If there is no god, it might eventually be possible to answer these questions in a meaningful way, a way that actually explains something.

    Spanish-English dictionary > de modo lógico

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