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1 difícil
difícil adjetivo 1 ‹ examen› hard, difficult;◊ me fue muy difícil decírselo it was very hard o difficult for me to tell him;es difícil de hacer/entender it's difficult o hard to do/understand 2 ( poco probable) unlikely; veo difícil que gane I doubt if she'll win
difícil adjetivo
1 (que cuesta trabajo o esfuerzo intelectual) difficult, hard
difícil de explicar, difficult to explain
difícil de soportar, hard to bear
2 (improbable) unlikely: es difícil que suceda, it is unlikely that that will happen
3 (una persona) difficult ' difícil' also found in these entries: Spanish: amarre - cañón - compaginación - concienciarse - delicada - delicado - despreocuparse - disyuntiva - engorrosa - engorroso - escabrosa - escabroso - escala - espinosa - espinoso - estrechamiento - gustar - harta - harto - hueso - impronunciable - insensible - judicatura - lance - mas - onerosa - oneroso - papelón - respirar - sí - tocha - tocho - viabilidad - arrecho - caprichoso - contentar - costar - creer - duro - epopeya - especial - esperar - esquivo - fregado - hacer - ingrato - jodido - malabarismo - mancha - manchar English: arduous - around - awkward - beating - choose - climb - concentrate - cumbersome - desperately - difficult - distance - dodgy - elusive - embark - folly - for - gap - grammar - hard - hard-won - housekeeper - immensely - injustice - lean - mess - problematic - problematical - realize - replacement - ruggedness - scramble - shake off - situation - so - sticky - stiff - surely - think ahead - to - tough - tricky - trying - agonizing - deep - demanding - going - increasingly - keep - likely - plight -
2 put across
v + o + adv, v + adv + o \<\<idea/message\>\> comunicar*to put something across to somebody — hacerle* entender algo a algn
VT + ADV1) (=communicate) [+ idea] comunicar; [+ meaning] hacer entender•
to put o.s. across — (=present o.s.) presentarseto put o.s. across well — saber presentarse bien
he puts himself across as a sympathetic, caring person — da la impresión de ser una persona comprensiva, compasiva
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to put sth across to sb — (=explain) explicar algo a algn; (=convey) hacer entender algo a algn2)• to put one across on sb * — engañar a algn
* * *v + o + adv, v + adv + o \<\<idea/message\>\> comunicar*to put something across to somebody — hacerle* entender algo a algn
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