either...+or

por el amor al arte — hum just for the fun of it

hacer el amor a — (=cortejar) to court; (=hacer sexo) to make love to

¿qué tal andas de amores? — (fam) how's your love life? (colloq)

por amor al arte — (fam) just for the fun of it

por (el) amor de Dios — ( mendigando) for the love of God; ( expresando irritación) for God's sake!

tu amorcito está al teléfono — (fam & hum) your beloved is on the telephone (hum)

amor mío or mi amor — my darling, my love

¿qué tal andas de amores? — (fam) how's your love life? (colloq)

por amor al arte — (fam) just for the fun of it

por (el) amor de Dios — ( mendigando) for the love of God; ( expresando irritación) for God's sake!

tu amorcito está al teléfono — (fam & hum) your beloved is on the telephone (hum)

amor mío or mi amor — my darling, my love

Ex: The phenomena studied by disciplines may be either concrete entities, such as adolescent, motor car, dog or diamond or abstract ideas such as love, beauty or hate.

Ex: According to Freud, during the anal stage autonomy is either forged or blunted.

Ex: The plastic sleeving material can be purchased either in continuous rolls of varying widths from which lengths can be cut or in flat sleeves of graded widths which are ready for use without cutting.

Ex: Dykstra, M., 'PRECIS: a primer', published in 1985, offers the long-awaited 'idiot's guide' to PRECIS indexing.

Ex: If it were decided to introduce a cloakroom, it would be planned in the space presently used by either newspapers or the short-loan collection, by opening a door from the entrance lobby.

Ex: The UDC, in its basic structure, predates CC and, as we shall see, it lacks much of this latter scheme's consistency and predictability.

Ex: The situation is rather different from pre-war days when living costs were lower and writers would try to get by on very small incomes from writing.

Ex: These will be established in keeping with the principles established earlier.

ocurrió unos momentos antes — it happened a few moments earlier o before

el edificio que habían comenzado dos años antes — the building that had been started two years before o previously

no te vayas sin antes consultarle — don't go without o before consulting her first, don't go without consulting her beforehand, don't go until you've consulted her

lo vio antes que yo — he saw it first o before I did o before me

• antes de algo — before sth

la cena estará lista para antes de las nueve — dinner will be ready by o before nine

una semana antes de la firma del contrato — a week before o prior to más frm signing the contract

• el año 27 antes de Cristo — 27 BC, 27 before Christ

• antes de hacer algo — before doing sth

antes de salir del coche, asegúrese de que están las ventanillas cerradas — before you get o before getting out of the car, make sure that the windows are closed

• mucho antes de algo — long before sth

mucho antes de conocerte — a long time before I met you o meeting you, long before I met you o meeting you más frm

• antes de o que nada — [en el tiempo] first of all; [indicando preferencia] above all

• poco antes de algo — just o shortly before sth

• antes de que — + subjun before

antes no pasaban estas cosas — these things didn't use to happen before o in the past

• de antes, nuestra casa de antes — our old house, our previous house

ya no soy el mismo de antes — I'm not the same person I was o I used to be

ya no se hacen películas como las de antes — they don't make films like they used to o like they did in the old days

no te he podido llamar antes — I couldn't call you sooner o earlier

• cuanto antes — as soon as possible

• lo antes posible — as soon as possible

cada vez se casan los hijos antes — kids get married at a younger o an earlier age these days

• antes de algo — before sth

no cederemos: antes gastamos todo nuestro dinero — we shall never give up: we would rather o sooner spend all our money

• antes bien, antes al contrario — but rather

• antes no — Chile, Méx just as well, luckily

vi lo furiosa que estaba, antes no te pegó — I saw how angry she was, just as well o luckily she didn't hit you

• antes que hacer algo — rather than doing sth

me lo deberías haber dicho antes — you should have told me before o earlier

llámame antes de salir — call me before leaving o you leave

antes me muero! — I'd rather o sooner die!

me lo deberías haber dicho antes — you should have told me before o earlier

llámame antes de salir — call me before leaving o you leave

antes me muero! — I'd rather o sooner die!

Ex: It will be a long time before all documents are available in machine-readable form.

Ex: These will be established in keeping with the principles established earlier.

Ex: Either armor piercing or high explosive ammunition may be selected with the flick of a switch.

Ex: Young people stated that they were wary of using either the pill or injectable contraceptives because they believed that these methods would make them sterile.

Ex: The two moulds, which were twins, were oblong wire sieves mounted on wooden frames, and the deckle was a removable wooden rim which could be fitted to either mould to make it into a tray-like sieve with a raised edge.

uno de esos aparatos para hacer café — one of those coffee machines o coffee-making things *

aparatos de mando — (Aer) controls

aparatos periféricos — (Inform) peripherals

• al aparato, -¿puedo hablar con Pilar Ruiz? -al aparato — "can I speak to Pilar Ruiz?" - "speaking"

ya respira sin ayuda del aparato — she can now breathe without the apparatus o device

aparato dental, aparato de ortodoncia — brace, braces pl (EEUU)

aparato ortopédico — surgical appliance, orthopaedic aid, orthopedic aid (US)

aparatos — braces (pl)

aparatos — braces (pl)

Ex: The abstracts of research papers will typically represent the methodology employed, in particular, apparatus, equipment, tools, materials.

Ex: Metered pricing would cause CD-ROM databases to behave in a similar way to online databases, in which a metering system is built into the CD-ROM and the meter is monitored either when the old CD-ROM is returned or remotely, using an online link.

Ex: I wouldn't expect you to be detailed in your report in terms of where the bookmobile would stop around town and where you'd park it.