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1. noun1) (the hour of the day: What time is it?; Can your child tell the time yet?) hora2) (the passage of days, years, events etc: time and space; Time will tell.) tiempo3) (a point at which, or period during which, something happens: at the time of his wedding; breakfast-time.) momento; hora4) (the quantity of minutes, hours, days etc, eg spent in, or available for, a particular activity etc: This won't take much time to do; I enjoyed the time I spent in Paris; At the end of the exam, the supervisor called `Your time is up!') tiempo5) (a suitable moment or period: Now is the time to ask him.) momento6) (one of a number occasions: He's been to France four times.) vez7) (a period characterized by a particular quality in a person's life, experience etc: He went through an unhappy time when she died; We had some good times together.) época, período; momentos8) (the speed at which a piece of music should be played; tempo: in slow time.) tempo
2. verb1) (to measure the time taken by (a happening, event etc) or by (a person, in doing something): He timed the journey.) cronometrar2) (to choose a particular time for: You timed your arrival beautifully!) escoger el momento de/para•- timeless- timelessly
- timelessness
- timely
- timeliness
- timer
- times
- timing
- time bomb
- time-consuming
- time limit
- time off
- time out
- timetable
- all in good time
- all the time
- at times
- be behind time
- for the time being
- from time to time
- in good time
- in time
- no time at all
- no time
- one
- two at a time
- on time
- save
- waste time
- take one's time
- time and time again
- time and again
time1 n1. tiempowhat do you do in your free time? ¿qué haces en tu tiempo libre?2. vezhow many times have you been to Italy? ¿cuántas veces has estado en Italia?3. horawhat time is it? ¿qué hora es?all the time todo el tiempo / constantementefor the time being por el momento / de momentoit's time... es hora de que...time2 vb calcular el tiempo / cronometrartr[taɪm]1 (period) tiempo2 (short period) rato3 (of day) hora■ what time is it? qué hora es?■ this time next week, we'll be on the beach la semana que viene a esta hora, estaremos en la playa■ by the time he gets here, it'll be time to go home cuando llegue él, será la hora de volver a casa4 (age, period, season) época5 (occasion) vez nombre femenino■ how many times have you been to London? ¿cuántas veces has estado en Londres?■ the last time I saw her,... la última vez que la vi,...6 (suitable moment) momento7 SMALLMUSIC/SMALL compás nombre masculino8 SMALLBRITISH ENGLISH/SMALL la hora de cerrar■ time now please! ¡hora de cerrar!9 familiar (imprisonment) condena1 (measure time) medir la duración de, calcular; (races, etc) cronometrar2 (schedule) estar previsto,-a■ the bomb was timed to explode during the parade la bomba estaba preparada para explotar durante el desfile1 veces nombre femenino plural■ 4 times 5 is 20 4 por 5 son 20, 4 veces 5 son 20\SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALL(and) about time ya era horaall the time todo el rato, todo el tiempoat all times siempreat any time en cualquier momentoat no time nuncaat one time en un tiempoat the same time al mismo tiempoat the time / at that time entoncesat times a vecesbehind the times anticuado,-abehind time tardefor the time being de momentofrom time to time de vez en cuandoin no time (at all) en seguidain time to the music al compás de la músicamany a time a menudonot to give somebody the time of day no darle a alguien ni la horaon time puntualone/two/three at a time de uno en uno/de dos en dos/de tres en trestime after time una y otra veztime's up se acabó el tiempo, ya es la horato beat time marcar el compásto be ahead of one's time adelantarse a su épocato be badly/well timed (remark) ser inoportuno,-a/oportuno,-ato give somebody a hard time ponérselo difícil a alguien, hacérselo pasar mal a alguiento have a bad time pasarlas negrasto have a good time pasarlo biento have a lot of time for somebody caerle bien alguien a unoto have no time for somebody/something no soportar a alguien/algo, no tener tiempo para alguien/algoto keep up with the times estar al díato move with the times estar al díatime and motion study estudio de productividadtime bomb bomba de relojeríatime limit límite nombre masculino de tiempo, plazo límitetime off tiempo libretime out descansotime warp salto en el tiempotime zone huso horario1) schedule: fijar la hora de, calcular el momento oportuno para2) clock: cronometrar, medir el tiempo de (una competencia, etc.)time n1) : tiempo mthe passing of time: el paso del tiemposhe doesn't have time: no tiene tiempo2) moment: tiempo m, momento mthis is not the time to bring it up: no es el momento de sacar el tema3) : vez fshe called you three times: te llamó tres vecesthree times greater: tres veces mayor4) age: tiempo m, era fin your grandparents' time: en el tiempo de tus abuelos5) tempo: tiempo m, ritmo m (en música)6) : hora fwhat time is it?: ¿qué hora es?at the usual time: a la hora acostumbradato keep time: ir a la horato lose time: atrasar7) experience: rato m, experiencia fwe had a nice time together: pasamos juntos un rato agradableto have a rough time: pasarlo malhave a good time!: ¡que se diviertan!8)at times sometimes: a veces9)for the time being : por el momento, de momentofrom time to time occasionally: de vez en cuandoin time punctually: a tiempoin time eventually: con el tiempotime after time : una y otra vezadj.• a plazos adj.• de tiempo adj.• del tiempo adj.• horario, -a adj.n.• duración s.f.• edad s.f.• espera s.f.• hora s.f.• plazo s.m.• tempo s.m.• tiempo s.m.• vez s.f.• época s.f.v.• cronometrar v.• regular v.• tomar los tiempos (Deporte) v.
I taɪm1) noun2) u (past, present, future) tiempo mas time goes by o passes — a medida que pasa el tiempo, con el paso or el correr del tiempo
at this point o moment in time — en este momento, en el momento presente
time and tide wait for no man — el tiempo pasa inexorablemente; (before n) < travel> en el tiempo
time machine — máquina f del tiempo
3) u (time available, necessary for something) tiempo mcould I have five minutes of your time? — ¿podría concederme cinco minutos?
to make time for something — hacer(se)* or encontrar* tiempo para algo
to make time — ( hurry) (AmE colloq) darse* prisa, apurarse (AmL)
I spend all my time reading/thinking — me paso todo el tiempo leyendo/pensando
it takes time to get used to the climate — lleva or toma tiempo acostumbrarse al clima
it's worth taking a little extra time over the job — vale la pena dedicarle un poco más de tiempo al trabajo
to take one's time: just take your time tómate todo el tiempo que necesites or quieras; you took your time! cómo has tardado!; to buy time ganar tiempo; to have a lot of/no time for somebody/something: I have no time for people like her no soporto a la gente como ella; I've got a lot of time for him me cae muy bien; to have time on one's hands: I had time on my hands me sobraba el tiempo; to play for time — tratar de ganar tiempo
they lived in Paris for a time/for a long time — vivieron un tiempo/mucho tiempo or muchos años en París
long time no see! — (colloq) tanto tiempo (sin verte)!
some time later they moved to Brussels — (un) tiempo después se mudaron a Bruselas, tras cierto tiempo se mudaron a Bruselas
for some considerable time o for quite some time now there have been rumors that... — hace ya bastante tiempo que se rumorea que...
in an hour's/three months'/ten years' time — dentro de una horaes meses/diez años
cooking time — tiempo m de cocción
your time's up — se te (or les etc) ha acabado el tiempo
for the time being — por el momento, de momento
to serve o (colloq) do time — cumplir una condena, estar* a la sombra (fam)
5) (in phrases)all the time — ( constantly) constantemente; ( the whole period) todo el tiempo
in time — ( early enough) a tiempo; ( eventually) con el tiempo
all in good time — cada cosa a su tiempo, todo a su debido tiempo
in no time (at all) — rapidísimo, en un abrir y cerrar de ojos, en un santiamén
6) u ( airtime) (Rad, TV) espacio m7) u c (for journey, race, task) tiempo mwhat's your fastest time over 400m? — ¿cuál es tu mejor tiempo or marca en los 400 metros?
8) u ( with respect to work)to take o (BrE also) have time off — tomarse tiempo libre
9)a) c (epoch, age) (often pl) época f, tiempo mat one time — en una época or un tiempo, en otros tiempos
in times of crisis — en épocas or tiempos de crisis
in Tudor times — en la época de los Tudor, en tiempos de los Tudor
there was a time when o time was when... — hubo un tiempo cuando...
in times to come — en el futuro, en tiempos venideros
to be ahead of one's time: he's ahead/he was ahead of his time se ha adelantado/se adelantó a su época; to be behind the times \<\<ideas\>\> ser* anticuado, estar* desfasado; \<\<person\>\> estar* atrasado de noticias (fam); to keep up with o abreast of the times — mantenerse* al día
b) u ( with respect to a person's life)that was before your time — eso fue antes de que tú nacieras (or empezaras a trabajar aquí etc)
I've seen some funny things in my time but... — he visto cosas raras en mi vida pero...
10)a) u ( by clock) hora fwhat's the time?, what time is it? — ¿qué hora es?
do you have the time? — ¿tienes hora?
the time is ten minutes to ten — son las diez menos diez minutos, son diez para las diez (AmL exc RPl)
to be able to tell the time o (AmE also) tell time — saber* (decir) la hora
British Summer Time — horario m de verano
Eastern Standard Time — ( in US) hora f de la costa atlántica
not to give somebody the time of day — no darle* a algn ni la hora
to pass the time of day (with somebody): now she never even passes the time of day with me ahora ni siquiera me saluda; we passed the time of day charlamos un ratito; (before n) time switch temporizador m; time zone — huso m horario
b) c u ( of event) hora fdo you know the times of the trains? — ¿sabes el horario de los trenes?
time FOR something/to + INF: we have to arrange a time for the next meeting tenemos que fijar una fecha y hora para la próxima reunión; is it time to go yet? ¿ya es hora de irse?; it's time you left o you were leaving es hora de que te vayas; at breakfast time — a la hora del desayuno
11) c ( point in time)at the present/this particular time — en este momento/este preciso momento
by that o this time we were really worried — para entonces ya estábamos preocupadísimos
from that time on — a partir de entonces, desde entonces
it's high time somebody did something — ya es hora or ya va siendo hora de que alguien haga algo
she's resigned, and not before time — ha renunciado, y ya era hora
my/her time has come — me/le ha llegado el momento
to die before one's time — morir* tempranamente or prematuramente
12) c (instance, occasion) vez fI've been there many a time o many times — he estado allí en numerosas ocasiones or muchas veces
nine times out of ten — en el noventa por ciento de los casos, la gran mayoría de las veces
let's leave it for another o some other time — dejémoslo para otro momento
you paid (the) last time — la última vez or la otra vez pagaste tú
for the last time: no! — por última vez no!
let's try one more time — probemos otra vez or una vez más
13) (in phrases)about time: it's about time someone told him ya es hora or ya va siendo hora de que alguien se lo diga; I've finished - and about time too! he terminado - ya era hora!; ahead of time: the first stage was completed ahead of time la primera fase se terminó antes de tiempo; any time: come any time ven cuando quieras or en cualquier momento; call me any time between nine and eleven llámame a cualquier hora entre las nueve y las once; I'd rather work for Mary any time yo prefiero trabajar para Mary, toda la vida (y cien años más); they should be here any time (now) en cualquier momento llegan, deben de estar por llegar de un momento al otro; at a time: four at a time de cuatro en cuatro or (AmL tb) de a cuatro; one at a time! de a uno!, uno por uno! or uno por vez!; I can only do one thing at a time sólo puedo hacer una cosa a la or por vez; for months at a time durante meses enteros; at the same time ( simultaneously) al mismo tiempo; ( however) (as linker) al mismo tiempo, de todas formas; at times a veces; at this time (AmE) ahora, en este momento; every time: I make the same mistake every time! siempre cometo el mismo error!; gin or whisky? - give me whisky every time! ¿ginebra or whisky? - para mí whisky, toda la vida; every o each time (as conj) ( whenever) cada vez; from time to time de vez en cuando; on time ( on schedule): the buses hardly ever run on time los autobuses casi nunca pasan a su hora or puntualmente; she's never on time nunca llega temprano, siempre llega tarde; time after time o time and (time) again — una y otra vez
14) c ( experience)to have a good/bad/hard time — pasarlo bien/mal/muy mal
have a good time! — que te diviertas (or que se diviertan etc)!, que lo pases (or pasen etc) bien!
don't give me a hard time — (esp AmE) no me mortifiques
thank you for a lovely time — gracias por todo, lo hemos pasado estupendamente
15) u ( Mus) compás mout of time — descompasado, fuera de compás
to beat/keep time — marcar*/seguir* el compás
to mark time — ( march on the spot) marcar* el paso; ( make no progress) hacer* tiempo; (before n)
time signature — llave f de tiempo
it's four times bigger — es cuatro veces más grande; (before n)
times table — tabla f de multiplicar
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a) ( Sport) cronometrarb) ( choose time of)the demonstration was timeed to coincide with his arrival — la hora de la manifestación estaba calculada para coincidir con su llegada
[taɪm]his shot was badly timed — no calculó bien el momento en que debía chutar/disparar
1. N1) (gen) tiempo mas time goes on or by — con el (paso del) tiempo, a medida que pasa/pasaba el tiempo
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for all time — para siempre•
Father Time — el Tiempo•
to find (the) time for sth — encontrar tiempo para algohow time flies! — ¡cómo pasa el tiempo!
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to gain time — ganar tiempo•
half the time he's drunk — la mayor parte del tiempo está borracho•
to have (the) time (to do sth) — tener tiempo (para hacer algo)•
to make up for lost time — recuperar el tiempo perdido•
it's only a matter or question of time before it falls — solo es cuestión de tiempo antes de que caiga•
to take time, it takes time — requiere tiempo, lleva su tiempoit'll take time to get over the loss of her family — le llevará tiempo superar la pérdida de su familia
take your time! — tómate el tiempo que necesites, ¡no hay prisa!
you certainly took your time! — iro ¡no es precisamente que te mataras corriendo!
to have time on one's hands —
once you retire you'll have time on your hands — cuando te hayas jubilado, tendrás todo el tiempo del mundo
- kill time- pass the time of day with sb- play for time- be pressed for timespare, waste•
have you been here all this time? — ¿has estado aquí todo este tiempo?•
for the time being — por ahora, de momento•
a long time — mucho tiempoa long time ago — hace mucho (tiempo), hace tiempo
she'll be in a wheelchair for a long time to come — le queda mucho tiempo de estar en silla de ruedas por delante
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in no time at all — en un abrir y cerrar de ojos•
it will last our time — durará lo que nosotros•
a short time — poco tiempo, un ratoa short time after — poco (tiempo) después, al poco tiempo
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for some time past — de algún tiempo a esta parteafter some time she looked up at me/wrote to me — después de cierto tiempo levantó la vista hacia mí/me escribió, pasado algún tiempo levantó la vista hacia mí/me escribió
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in a week's time — dentro de una semanain two weeks' time — en dos semanas, al cabo de dos semanas
- do timeserve3) (at work)full-time, part-time, short-time•
he did it in his own time — lo hizo en su tiempo libre or fuera de (las) horas de trabajo4) (=moment, point of time) momento m•
about time too! — ¡ya era hora!•
come (at) any time (you like) — ven cuando quierasit might happen (at) any time — podría ocurrir de un momento a otro or en cualquier momento
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at times — a veces, a ratosat all times — siempre, en todo momento
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to die before one's time — morir tempranonot before time! — ¡ya era hora!
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between times — en los intervalos•
by the time he arrived — para cuando él llegóby this time — ya, antes de esto
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to choose one's time carefully — elegir con cuidado el momento más propicio•
the time has come to leave — ha llegado el momento de irse•
at a convenient time — en un momento oportuno•
at any given time — en cualquier momento dado•
her time was drawing near — (to give birth) se acercaba el momento de dar a luz; (to die) estaba llegando al final de su vida•
it's high time you got a job — ya va siendo hora de que consigas un trabajo•
at my time of life — a mi edad, con los años que yo tengo•
at no time did I mention it — no lo mencioné en ningún momento•
now is the time to go — ahora es el momento de irse•
from that time on — a partir de entonces, desde entonces•
at one time — en cierto momento, en cierta época•
this is neither the time nor the place to discuss it — este no es ni el momento ni el lugar oportuno para hablar de eso•
at the present time — actualmente, en la actualidad•
at the proper time — en el momento oportuno•
at the same time — (=simultaneously) al mismo tiempo, a la vez; (=even so) al mismo tiempo, por otro lado•
until such time as he agrees — hasta que consienta•
at that time — por entonces, en aquel entonces, en aquella épocabide•
at this particular time — en este preciso momento5) (by clock) hora fwhat's the time? — ¿qué hora es?
the time is 2.30 — son las dos y media
"time gentlemen please!" — "¡se cierra!"
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to arrive ahead of time — llegar temprano•
at any time of the day or night — en cualquier momento or a cualquier hora del día o de la noche•
to be 30 minutes behind time — llevar 30 minutos de retraso•
it's coffee time — es la hora del café•
it's time for the news — es (la) hora de las noticias•
let me know in good time — avíseme con anticipaciónto start in good time — partir a tiempo, partir pronto
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have you got the (right) time? — ¿tiene la hora (exacta)?•
we were just in time to see it — llegamos justo a tiempo para verlo•
a watch that keeps good time — un reloj muy exacto•
just look at the time! — ¡fíjate qué hora es ya!, ¡mira qué tarde es!see closing, opening•
to be on time — [person] ser puntual, llegar puntualmente; [train, plane] llegar puntual6) (=era, period) tiempo m, época fin Elizabethan times — en tiempos isabelinos, en la época isabelina
what times they were!, what times we had! — ¡qué tiempos aquellos!
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to be ahead of one's time — adelantarse a su época•
that was all before my time — todo eso fue antes de mis tiempos•
to be behind the times — [person] estar atrasado de noticias; [thing, idea] estar fuera de moda, haber quedado anticuado•
how times change! — ¡cómo cambian las cosas!•
to keep abreast of or up with the times — ir con los tiempos, mantenerse al día•
the times we live in — los tiempos en que vivimos•
in modern times — en tiempos modernos•
to move with the times — ir con los tiempos, mantenerse al díasign•
time was when... — hubo un tiempo en que...7) (=experience)to have a bad or rough or thin time (of it) — pasarlo mal, pasarlas negras
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to have a good time — pasarlo bien, divertirse•
we have a lovely time — lo pasamos la mar de bien *big-timeto make the big time — alcanzar el éxito, triunfar
8) (=occasion) vez fI remember the time he came here — recuerdo la ocasión en que vino por aquí, me acuerdo de cuando vino por aquí
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to carry three boxes at a time — llevar tres cajas a la vezfor weeks at a time — durante semanas enteras or seguidas
it's the best, every time! — ¡es el mejor, no hay duda!
give me beer every time! — ¡para mí, siempre cerveza!
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the first time I did it — la primera vez que lo hice•
last time — la última vez•
many times — muchas vecesmany's the time... — no una vez, sino muchas...
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next time — la próxima vez, a la próxima (esp LAm)•
several times — varias veces•
this time — esta vez•
at various times in the past — en determinados momentos del pasado9) (Mus) compás min 3/4 time — al compás de 3 por 4
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to beat time — marcar el compás•
in time to the music — al compás de la música•
to keep time — llevar el compásbeat 2., 4), mark II, 2., 7)•
to get out of time — perder el compás10) (Math)it's five times faster than or as fast as yours — es cinco veces más rápido que el tuyo
11) (Mech)2. VT1) (=schedule) planear, calcular; (=choose time of) [+ remark, request] elegir el momento parathe race is timed for 8.30 — el comienzo de la carrera está previsto para las 8.30
the bomb was timed to explode five minutes later — la bomba estaba sincronizada para explotar cinco minutos más tarde
ill-timed, well-timedthe strike was carefully timed to cause maximum disruption — se había escogido el momento de la huelga para ocasionar el mayor trastorno posible
to time o.s. — cronometrarse
3.CPDtime and motion study N — estudio m de tiempos y movimientos
time capsule N — cápsula f del tiempo
time check N — (Sport) control m de tiempos
can I have a time check, please? — ¿qué hora es ahora, por favor?
time clock N — reloj m registrador, reloj m de control de asistencia
time deposit N — (US) depósito m a plazo
time difference N — diferencia f horaria
time exposure N — (Phot) exposición f
time frame N — margen m de tiempo
time fuse N — temporizador m, espoleta f graduada, espoleta f de tiempo
time lag N — (=delay) retraso m; (=lack of synchronization) desfase m
time limit N — plazo m, límite m de tiempo; (=closing date) fecha f tope
time loan N — (US) préstamo m a plazo fijo
time machine N — máquina f de transporte a través del tiempo
time management N — gestión f del tiempo
time management consultant N — consultor(a) m / f de gestión del tiempo
time management course N — curso m de gestión del tiempo
time management skills NPL — técnicas fpl de gestión del tiempo
time management training N — formación f en gestión del tiempo
time off N — (=free time) tiempo m libre
you'll have to take some time off when your wife has her operation — tendrás que tomarte unos días de vacaciones cuando operen a tu mujer
time out N — (esp US) (Sport) (also fig) tiempo m muerto
to take time out (from sth/from doing sth) — descansar (de algo/de hacer algo)
time payment N — (US) pago m a plazos
time saver N —
time sheet N — = time card
time signal N — señal f horaria
time signature N — (Mus) compás m, signatura f de compás
time slice N — fracción f de tiempo
time switch N — interruptor m horario
time trial N — (Cycling) prueba f contra reloj, contrarreloj f
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I [taɪm]1) noun2) u (past, present, future) tiempo mas time goes by o passes — a medida que pasa el tiempo, con el paso or el correr del tiempo
at this point o moment in time — en este momento, en el momento presente
time and tide wait for no man — el tiempo pasa inexorablemente; (before n) < travel> en el tiempo
time machine — máquina f del tiempo
3) u (time available, necessary for something) tiempo mcould I have five minutes of your time? — ¿podría concederme cinco minutos?
to make time for something — hacer(se)* or encontrar* tiempo para algo
to make time — ( hurry) (AmE colloq) darse* prisa, apurarse (AmL)
I spend all my time reading/thinking — me paso todo el tiempo leyendo/pensando
it takes time to get used to the climate — lleva or toma tiempo acostumbrarse al clima
it's worth taking a little extra time over the job — vale la pena dedicarle un poco más de tiempo al trabajo
to take one's time: just take your time tómate todo el tiempo que necesites or quieras; you took your time! cómo has tardado!; to buy time ganar tiempo; to have a lot of/no time for somebody/something: I have no time for people like her no soporto a la gente como ella; I've got a lot of time for him me cae muy bien; to have time on one's hands: I had time on my hands me sobraba el tiempo; to play for time — tratar de ganar tiempo
they lived in Paris for a time/for a long time — vivieron un tiempo/mucho tiempo or muchos años en París
long time no see! — (colloq) tanto tiempo (sin verte)!
some time later they moved to Brussels — (un) tiempo después se mudaron a Bruselas, tras cierto tiempo se mudaron a Bruselas
for some considerable time o for quite some time now there have been rumors that... — hace ya bastante tiempo que se rumorea que...
in an hour's/three months'/ten years' time — dentro de una hora/tres meses/diez años
cooking time — tiempo m de cocción
your time's up — se te (or les etc) ha acabado el tiempo
for the time being — por el momento, de momento
to serve o (colloq) do time — cumplir una condena, estar* a la sombra (fam)
5) (in phrases)all the time — ( constantly) constantemente; ( the whole period) todo el tiempo
in time — ( early enough) a tiempo; ( eventually) con el tiempo
all in good time — cada cosa a su tiempo, todo a su debido tiempo
in no time (at all) — rapidísimo, en un abrir y cerrar de ojos, en un santiamén
6) u ( airtime) (Rad, TV) espacio m7) u c (for journey, race, task) tiempo mwhat's your fastest time over 400m? — ¿cuál es tu mejor tiempo or marca en los 400 metros?
8) u ( with respect to work)to take o (BrE also) have time off — tomarse tiempo libre
9)a) c (epoch, age) (often pl) época f, tiempo mat one time — en una época or un tiempo, en otros tiempos
in times of crisis — en épocas or tiempos de crisis
in Tudor times — en la época de los Tudor, en tiempos de los Tudor
there was a time when o time was when... — hubo un tiempo cuando...
in times to come — en el futuro, en tiempos venideros
to be ahead of one's time: he's ahead/he was ahead of his time se ha adelantado/se adelantó a su época; to be behind the times \<\<ideas\>\> ser* anticuado, estar* desfasado; \<\<person\>\> estar* atrasado de noticias (fam); to keep up with o abreast of the times — mantenerse* al día
b) u ( with respect to a person's life)that was before your time — eso fue antes de que tú nacieras (or empezaras a trabajar aquí etc)
I've seen some funny things in my time but... — he visto cosas raras en mi vida pero...
10)a) u ( by clock) hora fwhat's the time?, what time is it? — ¿qué hora es?
do you have the time? — ¿tienes hora?
the time is ten minutes to ten — son las diez menos diez minutos, son diez para las diez (AmL exc RPl)
to be able to tell the time o (AmE also) tell time — saber* (decir) la hora
British Summer Time — horario m de verano
Eastern Standard Time — ( in US) hora f de la costa atlántica
not to give somebody the time of day — no darle* a algn ni la hora
to pass the time of day (with somebody): now she never even passes the time of day with me ahora ni siquiera me saluda; we passed the time of day charlamos un ratito; (before n) time switch temporizador m; time zone — huso m horario
b) c u ( of event) hora fdo you know the times of the trains? — ¿sabes el horario de los trenes?
time FOR something/to + INF: we have to arrange a time for the next meeting tenemos que fijar una fecha y hora para la próxima reunión; is it time to go yet? ¿ya es hora de irse?; it's time you left o you were leaving es hora de que te vayas; at breakfast time — a la hora del desayuno
11) c ( point in time)at the present/this particular time — en este momento/este preciso momento
by that o this time we were really worried — para entonces ya estábamos preocupadísimos
from that time on — a partir de entonces, desde entonces
it's high time somebody did something — ya es hora or ya va siendo hora de que alguien haga algo
she's resigned, and not before time — ha renunciado, y ya era hora
my/her time has come — me/le ha llegado el momento
to die before one's time — morir* tempranamente or prematuramente
12) c (instance, occasion) vez fI've been there many a time o many times — he estado allí en numerosas ocasiones or muchas veces
nine times out of ten — en el noventa por ciento de los casos, la gran mayoría de las veces
let's leave it for another o some other time — dejémoslo para otro momento
you paid (the) last time — la última vez or la otra vez pagaste tú
for the last time: no! — por última vez no!
let's try one more time — probemos otra vez or una vez más
13) (in phrases)about time: it's about time someone told him ya es hora or ya va siendo hora de que alguien se lo diga; I've finished - and about time too! he terminado - ya era hora!; ahead of time: the first stage was completed ahead of time la primera fase se terminó antes de tiempo; any time: come any time ven cuando quieras or en cualquier momento; call me any time between nine and eleven llámame a cualquier hora entre las nueve y las once; I'd rather work for Mary any time yo prefiero trabajar para Mary, toda la vida (y cien años más); they should be here any time (now) en cualquier momento llegan, deben de estar por llegar de un momento al otro; at a time: four at a time de cuatro en cuatro or (AmL tb) de a cuatro; one at a time! de a uno!, uno por uno! or uno por vez!; I can only do one thing at a time sólo puedo hacer una cosa a la or por vez; for months at a time durante meses enteros; at the same time ( simultaneously) al mismo tiempo; ( however) (as linker) al mismo tiempo, de todas formas; at times a veces; at this time (AmE) ahora, en este momento; every time: I make the same mistake every time! siempre cometo el mismo error!; gin or whisky? - give me whisky every time! ¿ginebra or whisky? - para mí whisky, toda la vida; every o each time (as conj) ( whenever) cada vez; from time to time de vez en cuando; on time ( on schedule): the buses hardly ever run on time los autobuses casi nunca pasan a su hora or puntualmente; she's never on time nunca llega temprano, siempre llega tarde; time after time o time and (time) again — una y otra vez
14) c ( experience)to have a good/bad/hard time — pasarlo bien/mal/muy mal
have a good time! — que te diviertas (or que se diviertan etc)!, que lo pases (or pasen etc) bien!
don't give me a hard time — (esp AmE) no me mortifiques
thank you for a lovely time — gracias por todo, lo hemos pasado estupendamente
15) u ( Mus) compás mout of time — descompasado, fuera de compás
to beat/keep time — marcar*/seguir* el compás
to mark time — ( march on the spot) marcar* el paso; ( make no progress) hacer* tiempo; (before n)
time signature — llave f de tiempo
it's four times bigger — es cuatro veces más grande; (before n)
times table — tabla f de multiplicar
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a) ( Sport) cronometrarb) ( choose time of)the demonstration was timeed to coincide with his arrival — la hora de la manifestación estaba calculada para coincidir con su llegada
his shot was badly timed — no calculó bien el momento en que debía chutar/disparar
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1. transitive verb,1) (possess) habenI have it! — ich hab's[!]
and what have you — (coll.) und so weiter
2) (obtain) bekommenlet's not have any... — lass uns... vermeiden
come on, let's have it! — (coll.) rück schon raus damit! (ugs.)
3) (take) nehmen4) (keep) behalten; habenhave breakfast/dinner/lunch — frühstücken/zu Abend/zu Mittag essen
6) (experience) haben [Spaß, Vergnügen]7) (suffer) haben [Krankheit, Schmerz, Enttäuschung, Abenteuer]; (show) haben [Güte, Freundlichkeit, Frechheit]8) (engage in)9) (accept)I won't have it — das lasse ich mir nicht bieten
10) (give birth to) bekommen11) (coll.): (swindle)ever been had! — da bist du ganz schön reingefallen (ugs.)
12) (know)I have it on good authority that... — ich weiß es aus zuverlässiger Quelle, dass...
13) (as guest)14) (summon)he had me into his office — er hat mich in sein Büro beordert
15) (in coll. phrases)you've had it now — (coll.) jetzt ist es aus (ugs.)
2. auxiliary verb,this car/dress has had it — (coll.) dieser Wagen/dieses Kleid hat ausgedient
I have/I had read — ich habe/hatte gelesen
I have/I had gone — ich bin/war gegangen
having seen him — (because) weil ich ihn gesehen habe/hatte; (after) wenn ich ihn gesehen habe/nachdem ich ihn gesehen hatte
if I had known... — wenn ich gewusst hätte...
2) (cause to be)have something made/repaired — etwas machen/reparieren lassen
have the painters in — die Maler haben
have somebody do something — jemanden etwas tun lassen
have a tooth extracted — sich (Dat.) einen Zahn ziehen lassen
3)she had her purse stolen — man hat ihr das Portemonnaie gestohlen
4) (expr. obligation)I only have to do the washing-up — ich muss nur noch den Abwasch machen
3. nounI have only to see him to feel annoyed — ich brauche ihn nur zu sehen, und ich ärgere mich
Phrasal Verbs:- academic.ru/33887/have_off">have off- have on- have out* * *(to have or keep (something) in case or until it is needed: If you go to America please keep some money in reserve for your fare home.) in Reserve halten* * *[hæv, həv]<has, had, had>1. (forming past tenses)he has never been to Scotland before er war noch nie zuvor in Schottlandwe had been swimming wir waren schwimmen gewesenI've heard that story before ich habe diese Geschichte schon einmal gehörtI wish I'd bought it ich wünschte, ich hätte es gekauftI've passed my test — \have you? congratulations! ich habe den Test bestanden — oh, wirklich? herzlichen Glückwunsch!they still hadn't had any news sie hatten immer noch keine Neuigkeiten2. (experience)she had her car stolen last week man hat ihr letzte Woche das Auto gestohlenhe had a window smashed es wurde ihm eine Scheibe eingeschlagen3. (render)▪ to \have sth done etw tun lassen4. (must)▪ to \have [or \have got] to do sth etw tun müssenwhat time \have we got to be there? wann müssen wir dort sein?do I \have to? muss ich [das] wirklich?had I/she/he etc. done sth,... hätte ich/sie/er etc. etw getan,..., wenn ich/sie/er etc. etw getan hätte,...if only I'd known this wenn ich das nur gewusst hätteII. TRANSITIVE VERB<has, had, had>1. (possess)he's got green eyes er hat grüne Augen; (own) etw haben [o besitzen]I don't have [or haven't got] a car ich habe [o besitze] kein Autodo you have a current driving licence? haben Sie einen gültigen Führerschein?she has a degree in physics sie hat einen Hochschulabschluss in Physikto \have [or esp BRIT, AUS \have got] the time (know the time) die Uhrzeit haben, wissen, wie spät [o wie viel Uhr] es ist; (have enough time) Zeit haben\have you got the time? kannst du mir die Uhrzeit sagen?will you \have time to finish the report today? reicht es Ihnen, den Bericht heute noch zu Ende zu schreiben?2. (suffer from)to \have cancer/polio Krebs/Polio haben, an Krebs/Polio erkrankt seinto \have a cold erkältet sein, eine Erkältung haben3. (feel)at least she had the good sense to turn the gas off zumindest war sie so schlau, das Gas abzudrehenhe had the gall to tell me that I was fat! hat er doch die Frechheit besessen, mir zu sagen, ich sei dick!to \have the decency to do sth die Anständigkeit besitzen, etw zu tunto \have the honesty to do sth so ehrlich sein, etw zu tunto \have patience/sympathy Geduld/Mitgefühl habenI \haven't any sympathy for this troublemaker ich empfinde keinerlei Mitleid mit diesem Unruhestifter4. (engage in)to \have a bath/shower ein Bad/eine Dusche nehmen, baden/duschento \have a party eine Party machento \have a swim schwimmento \have a try es versuchenI'd like to \have a try ich würde es gern einmal probierento \have a walk spazieren gehen, einen Spaziergang machen5. (consume)I haven't had shrimps in ages! ich habe schon ewig keine Shrimps mehr gegessen!\have a cigarette/some more coffee nimm doch eine Zigarette/noch etwas Kaffeewe're having sausages for lunch today zum Mittagessen gibt es heute Würstchento \have a cigarette eine Zigarette rauchento \have lunch/dinner zu Mittag/Abend essen6. (experience)we're having a wonderful time in Venice wir verbringen eine wundervolle Zeit in Venedigwe didn't \have any difficulty finding the house wir hatten keinerlei Schwierigkeiten, das Haus zu findenwe'll soon \have rain es wird bald regnenlet's not \have any trouble now! bloß kein Ärger jetzt!to \have fun/luck Spaß/Glück haben\have a nice day/evening! viel Spaß!; (to customers) einen schönen Tag noch!7. (receive)I've just had a letter from John ich habe gerade erst einen Brief von John erhaltenokay, let's \have it! okay, her [o rüber] damit! famto let sb \have sth back jdm etw zurückgebento \have news of sb Neuigkeiten von jdm erfahrenmy mother's having the children to stay die Kinder bleiben bei meiner Mutterwe had his hamster for weeks wir haben wochenlang für seinen Hamster gesorgtthey've got Ian's father staying with them Ians Vater ist bei ihnen zu Besuchthanks for having us danke für Ihre Gastfreundschaftthey solved their problems, and she had him back sie haben ihre Probleme gelöst und sie ist wieder mit ihm zusammento \have sb to visit jdn zu [o auf] Besuch habento \have visitors Besuch haben9. (feature)the new model has xenon headlights das neue Modell ist mit Xenon-Scheinwerfern ausgestattet10. (exhibit)this wine has a soft, fruity flavour dieser Wein schmeckt weich und fruchtig11. (comprise)a week has 7 days eine Wochen hat [o geh zählt] 7 Tage12. (have learned)to \have [a little] French/German Grundkenntnisse in Französisch/Deutsch haben13. (think)14. (be obliged)you simply \have to see this film! diesen Film musst du dir unbedingt anschauen!15. (give birth to)to \have a child ein Kind bekommenmy mother was 18 when she had me meine Mutter war 18, als ich geboren wurdeto be having a baby (be pregnant) ein Baby bekommen, schwanger sein16. (render)to \have [or esp BRIT, AUS \have got] sth ready (finish) etw fertig haben; (to hand) etw bereit haben17. (induce)▪ to \have sb do sth jdn [dazu] veranlassen, etw zu tun▪ to \have sb/sth doing sth jdn/etw dazu bringen, etw zu tunthe film soon had us crying der Film brachte uns schnell zum WeinenGuy'll \have it working in no time Guy wird es im Handumdrehen zum Laufen bringen18. (request)▪ to \have sb do sth jdn [darum] bitten, etw zu tunI'll \have the secretary run you off a copy for you ich werde von der Sekretärin eine Kopie für Sie anfertigen lassen19. (find)20. (place)she had her back to me sie lag/saß/stand mit dem Rücken zu mir21. (hold)she had the dog by the ears sie hielt den Hund fest an den Ohrento \have [or esp BRIT, AUS \have got] sb by the throat jdn bei [o an] der Kehle [o Gurgel] gepackt haben▪ to \have sb mit jdm Sex habenhow many men have you had? wie viele Männer hast du gehabt?£80 for a CD? you've been had! 80 Pfund für eine CD? dich hat man ganz schön übern Tisch gezogen! famthe GNP of Greece? you \have me there das BSP von Griechenland? da hab ich nicht den leisesten Schimmer famI think I'm going to have myself an ice cream Ich glaub', ich gönne mir ein Eisdon't worry about it anymore — just go and have yourself a nice little holiday mach dir mal keine Gedanken mehr darüber — genieße erstmal deinen Urlaub26.▶ to not \have sb/sth doing sth nicht erlauben [o zulassen], dass jd/etw etw tutwe \have it! wir haben es!rumour has it that... es geht das Gerücht [um], dass...▶ to have had it ( fam: be broken) hinüber sein fam, ausgedient haben; (be tired) fix und fertig sein fam; (be in serious trouble) dran fam [o sl geliefert] seinif she finds out, you've had it! wenn sie es herausfindet, bist du dran [o ist der Ofen aus]! fam▶ to have had it with sb/sth ( fam) von jdm/etw die Nase [gestrichen] voll haben fam, jdn/etw satthabenI've had it with his childish behaviour! sein kindisches Benehmen steht mir bis hier oben!there's no real Italian cheese to be had round here man bekommt hier nirgendwo echten italienischen KäseI won't \have it! kommt nicht infrage [o fam in die Tüte]!I'm not having any squabbling in this house ich toleriere in diesem Haus keine ZankereiI'm not having your behaviour spoil my party ich werde mir meine Feier durch dein Benehmen nicht verderben lassenI wont have you insult my wife ich lasse es nicht zu, dass Sie meine Frau beleidigen▶ to \have [or esp BRIT, AUS\have got] nothing on sb ( fam: be less able) gegen jdn nicht ankommen, mit jdm nicht mithalten können; (lack evidence) nichts gegen jdn in der Hand haben, keine Handhabe gegen jdn habenhe's a good player, but he's got nothing on his brother er spielt gut, aber seinem Bruder kann er noch lange nicht das Wasser reichenIII. NOUN( fam)the \haves and the \have-nots die Besitzenden und die Besitzlosen* * *[hv] pret, ptp had, 3rd pers sing present has When have is part of a set combination, eg have a look, have a dream, have a good time, look up the noun.1. AUXILIARY VERB1) habenThe verb haben is the auxiliary used with most verbs to form past tenses in German. For important exceptions see (b).to have seen/heard/eaten — gesehen/gehört/gegessen haben
I have/had seen — ich habe/hatte gesehen
I have not/had not or I haven't/I hadn't seen him — ich habe/hatte ihn nicht gesehen
had I seen him, if I had seen him — hätte ich ihn gesehen, wenn ich ihn gesehen hätte
having said that he left — nachdem or als er das gesagt hatte, ging er Note the tenses used in the following:
I have lived or have been living here for 10 years/since January — ich wohne or lebe schon 10 Jahre/seit Januar hier
2) seinThe verb sein is used with verbs of motion, eg. gehen, fahren, or verbs implying development, eg. wachsen, and to form past tenses.to have gone/run — gegangen/gelaufen sein
3)you've seen her, haven't you? — du hast sie gesehen, oder nicht?you haven't seen her, have you? — du hast sie nicht gesehen, oder?
you haven't seen her – yes, I have — du hast sie nicht gesehen – doch or wohl (inf)
you've made a mistake – no, I haven't — du hast einen Fehler gemacht – nein(, hab ich nicht)
you've dropped your book – so I have — dir ist dein Buch hingefallen – stimmt or tatsächlich
have you been there? if you have/haven't... — sind Sie schon mal da gewesen? wenn ja/nein or nicht,...
I have seen a ghost – have you? — ich habe ein Gespenst gesehen – wahrhaftig or tatsächlich?
I've lost it – you haven't! (disbelieving) — ich habe es verloren – nein!
2. MODAL AUXILIARY VERB__diams; to have to do sth (= to be obliged) etw tun müssenI have (got esp Brit) to do it — ich muss es tun or machen
she was having to get up at 6 o'clock each morning — sie musste jeden Morgen um 6 Uhr aufstehen
it's got to be or it has to be the biggest scandal this year — das ist todsicher der (größte) Skandal des Jahres
I don't have to do it — ich muss es nicht tun, ich brauche es nicht zu tun
you didn't have to tell her — das mussten Sie ihr nicht unbedingt sagen, das hätten Sie ihr nicht unbedingt sagen müssen or brauchen
he doesn't have to work — er braucht nicht zu arbeiten, er muss nicht arbeiten
3. TRANSITIVE VERB1) = possess habenhave you (got esp Brit) or do you have a car? — hast du ein Auto?
to have something/nothing to do — etwas/nichts zu tun haben
I have (got esp Brit) work/a translation to do — ich habe zu arbeiten/eine Übersetzung zu erledigen
I must have more time —
she has (got esp Brit) blue eyes — sie hat blaue Augen
what time do you have? (US) — wie viel Uhr hast du? (inf), wie spät hast du es?
2) = receive, obtain, get habenI have it on good authority that... — ich habe aus zuverlässiger Quelle gehört or erfahren, dass...
I must have something to eat — ich brauche etwas zu essen, ich muss dringend etwas zu essen haben
there are no newspapers to be had —
I'll have the bed in this room — das Bett möchte or werde ich in dieses Zimmer stellen
thanks for having me — vielen Dank für Ihre Gastfreundschaft __diams; to let sb have sth
please let me have your address I'll let you have it for £50 — geben Sie mir bitte Ihre Adresse ich gebe es dir für £ 50
3)= eat, drink, take
to have breakfast — frühstückento have lunch/dinner — zu Mittag/Abend essen
will you have a drink/cigarette? — möchten Sie etwas zu trinken/eine Zigarette?
what will you have? – I'll have the steak — was möchten or hätten Sie gern(e)? – ich hätte or möchte gern das Steak
he had a cigarette/drink/steak —
have another one — nimm noch eine/einen/eines; (drink) trink noch einen; (cigarette) rauch noch eine
4) = catch, hold (gepackt) habenme by the throat/the hair — er hatte or hielt mich am Hals/bei den Haaren gepackt
him where I want him —
the champion had him now — der Meister hatte ihn jetzt fest im Griff or in der Tasche (inf)
5)= suffer from
he has diabetes — er ist zuckerkrank, er hat Zucker (inf)6)= experience
to have a pleasant evening — einen netten Abend verbringento have a good time — Spaß haben, sich amüsieren
8)= go for
to have a walk — einen Spaziergang machen, spazieren gehen9)= give birth to
to have a child or baby —she is having a baby in April she had twins — sie bekommt or kriegt (inf) im April ein Kind sie hat Zwillinge bekommen or geboren or gekriegt (inf)
our cat has had kittens — unsere Katze hat Junge gekriegt (inf) or bekommen
10)= cause to be
I had him in such a state that... — er war in einer solchen Verfassung, dass...he had the police baffled —
she nearly had the table over (Brit) — sie hätte den Tisch beinahe umgekippt or zum Umkippen gebracht
11)= maintain, insist
as he has it, Paul is guilty — er besteht darauf, dass Paul schuldig istas he had it, Paul isn't guilty — er wollte nichts davon hören, dass Paul schuldig ist
has it —
as the Bible/Shakespeare has it — wie es in der Bibel/bei Shakespeare steht
12)= refuse to allow
in negative sentences I won't have this nonsense — dieser Unsinn kommt (mir) nicht infrage or in Frage!I won't have this sort of rudeness! —
I won't have him insulted —
I won't have him insult his mother — ich lasse es nicht zu, dass er seine Mutter beleidigt
13) = wish mögenwhich one will you have? —
as fate would have it,... — wie es das Schicksal so wollte,...
what would you have me do? — was wollen Sie, dass ich mache?
to have one's hair cut — sich (dat) die Haare schneiden lassen
to have a suit made — sich (dat) einen Anzug machen lassen
have it mended — geben Sie es in Reparatur, lassen Sie es reparieren
he had his arm broken — er hat/hatte einen gebrochenen Arm
I've had three windows broken — (bei) mir sind drei Fenster eingeworfen worden __diams; to have sb do sth = make them do
I'll have you know... — Sie müssen nämlich wissen...
I had my friends turn against me — ich musste es erleben, wie or dass sich meine Freunde gegen mich wandten
she soon had them all reading and writing — dank ihres Engagements konnten alle schon bald lesen und schreiben __diams; to have had it
if I miss the last bus, I've had it — wenn ich den letzten Bus verpasse, bin ich geliefert (inf) or ist der Ofen aus (inf) __diams; let him have it! (inf) gibs ihm! (inf) __diams; have it your own way machen Sie es or halten Sie es, wie Sie wollen __diams; to be had ( inf
* * *A s1. the haves and the have-nots die Begüterten und die Habenichtse, die Reichen und die Armen2. Br umg Trick mB v/t prät und pperf had [hæd], 2. sg präs obs hast [hæst], 3. sg präs has [hæz], obs hath [hæθ], 2. sg prät obs hadst [hædst]1. allg haben, besitzen:he has a house (a friend, a good memory);we can’t have everything man kann nicht alles haben;you have my word for it ich gebe Ihnen mein Wort darauf;I had the whole road to myself ich hatte die ganze Straße für mich allein;2. haben, erleben:we had a fine time wir hatten viel Spaß, wir hatten es schön3. a) ein Kind bekommen4. behalten:5. Gefühle, einen Verdacht etc haben, hegenfrom von):(not) to be had (nicht) zu haben, (nicht) erhältlich7. (erfahren) haben:I have it from reliable sources ich habe es aus verlässlicher Quelle (erfahren);I have it from my friend ich habe oder weiß es von meinem FreundI had a glass of sherry ich trank ein Glas Sherry;have another sandwich nehmen Sie noch ein Sandwich!;what will you have? was nehmen Sie?;9. haben, ausführen, (mit)machen:10. können, beherrschen:she has no French sie kann nicht oder kein Französisch;have sth by heart etwas auswendig können11. (be)sagen, behaupten:he will have it that … er behauptet steif und fest, dass …;12. sagen, ausdrücken:as Byron has it wie Byron sagt13. umg erwischt haben:he had me there da hatte er mich (an meiner schwachen Stelle) erwischt, da war ich überfragt14. Br umg jemanden reinlegen:you have been had man hat dich reingelegt oder übers Ohr gehauen15. haben, dulden:I won’t have it mentioned ich will nicht, dass es erwähnt wird;he wasn’t having any umg er ließ sich auf nichts ein;16. haben, erleiden:they had broken bones sie erlitten Knochenbrüche;he had a shock er bekam einen Schock17. (vor inf) müssen:he will have to do it er wird es tun müssen;we have to obey wir haben zu oder müssen gehorchen;18. (mit Objekt und pperf) lassen:I had a suit made ich ließ mir einen Anzug machen;they had him shot sie ließen ihn erschießen19. mit Objekt und pperf zum Ausdruck des Passivs:he had a son born to him ihm wurde ein Sohn geboren;I’ve had some money stolen mir ist Geld gestohlen worden20. (mit Objekt und inf) (veran)lassen:have them come here at once lass sie sofort hierherkommen;I had him sit down ich ließ ihn Platz nehmen21. (mit Objekt und inf) es erleben, dass:I had all my friends turn against me ich erlebte es oder ich musste es erleben, dass sich alle meine Freunde gegen mich wandtenI would have you to know it ich möchte, dass Sie es wissenI had rather go than stay ich möchte lieber gehen als bleiben;you had best go du tätest am besten daran, zu gehen;he better had das wäre das Beste(, was er tun könnte)C v/i1. obs eilen:have after sb jemandem nacheilen3. they had until July 3 sie hatten bis zum 3. Juli Zeit4. I have to ich muss;do you have to? muss das sein?D v/aux1. haben:I have seen ich habe gesehen2. sein:I have it! ich habs! (ich habe die Lösung gefunden);he has had it umga) er ist reingefallen,b) er hat sein Fett (seine Strafe) weg,I didn’t know he had it in him ich wusste gar nicht, dass er dazu fähig ist oder dass er das Zeug dazu hat;I have nothing against him personally ich habe nichts gegen ihn persönlich;a) jemandem in keiner Weise überlegen sein,b) nichts gegen jemanden in der Hand haben, jemandem nichts anhaben können have it (all) over sb umg jemandem (haushoch) überlegen sein;he has it over me that … umg er ist mir insofern voraus, als …;* * *1. transitive verb,1) (possess) habenI have it! — ich hab's[!]
and what have you — (coll.) und so weiter
2) (obtain) bekommenlet's not have any... — lass uns... vermeiden
come on, let's have it! — (coll.) rück schon raus damit! (ugs.)
3) (take) nehmen4) (keep) behalten; haben5) (eat, drink, etc.)have breakfast/dinner/lunch — frühstücken/zu Abend/zu Mittag essen
6) (experience) haben [Spaß, Vergnügen]7) (suffer) haben [Krankheit, Schmerz, Enttäuschung, Abenteuer]; (show) haben [Güte, Freundlichkeit, Frechheit]8) (engage in)9) (accept)10) (give birth to) bekommen11) (coll.): (swindle)I was had — ich bin [he]reingelegt worden (ugs.)
12) (know)I have it on good authority that... — ich weiß es aus zuverlässiger Quelle, dass...
13) (as guest)14) (summon)15) (in coll. phrases)you've had it now — (coll.) jetzt ist es aus (ugs.)
2. auxiliary verb,this car/dress has had it — (coll.) dieser Wagen/dieses Kleid hat ausgedient
I have/I had read — ich habe/hatte gelesen
I have/I had gone — ich bin/war gegangen
having seen him — (because) weil ich ihn gesehen habe/hatte; (after) wenn ich ihn gesehen habe/nachdem ich ihn gesehen hatte
if I had known... — wenn ich gewusst hätte...
have something made/repaired — etwas machen/reparieren lassen
have a tooth extracted — sich (Dat.) einen Zahn ziehen lassen
3)4) (expr. obligation)3. nounI have only to see him to feel annoyed — ich brauche ihn nur zu sehen, und ich ärgere mich
Phrasal Verbs:- have off- have on- have out* * *(a) temperature expr.fiebern v. (take) pity on someone expr.mit jemandem Mitleid haben ausdr. (to possess) v.besitzen v. v.(§ p.,p.p.: had)= bekommen v.haben v.(§ p.,pp.: hatte, gehabt) -
63 superar
v.1 to beat.queremos superar los resultados del año pasado we want to improve on o beat last year's resultsme superó por dos décimas de segundo she beat me by two tenths of a secondsuperar algo/a alguien en algo to beat something/somebody for somethingnos superan en número they outnumber usme supera en altura/inteligencia he's taller/cleverer than me2 to overtake, to pass.3 to overcome.superar un examen to get through an examtener algo superado to have got over somethingEllos superan la adversidad They overcome adversity.4 to surpass, to exceed, to best, to excel.María supera a sus colegas Mary surpasses her colleagues.5 to outdo, to win over.* * *1 (exceder) to surpass, exceed, excel2 (obstáculo etc) to overcome, surmount1 (sobrepasarse) to excel oneself2 (mejorarse) to improve oneself, better oneself* * *verb1) to surpass2) overcome* * *1. VT1) (=aventajar) [+ contrincante, adversario] to overcome; [+ límite] to go beyond; [+ récord, marca] to breaksuperar a algn en algo: superó al adversario en cuatro puntos — she beat her opponent by four points
2) (=pasar con éxito) [+ dificultad] to overcome; [+ enfermedad, crisis] to get overha tenido que superar muchos obstáculos en su vida — she has had to overcome a lot of obstacles in her life
3) [+ etapa] to get past4) [+ prueba, examen] to pass2.See:* * *1.verbo transitivo1)a) (ser superior a, mayor que) to exceed, go beyond2)a) (vencer, sobreponerse a) <timidez/dificultad/etapa> to overcome; < trauma> to get overya hemos superado la etapa más difícil — we've already got(ten) through o over the most difficult stage
b) (frml) <examen/prueba> to pass2.superarse v pron to better oneself* * *= beat, circumvent, go beyond, outperform [out-perform], outweigh, overcome, overtake, score over, outgrow, surpass, survive, go far beyond, extend + far beyond, top, outbalance, outrank, weather, get through, one-up, outwit, outdo, outsmart, ride out, exceed, outfox, go + past, outrun [out-run], best, trump, move on from, go + one better.Ex. It would certainly beat the usual file clerk.Ex. Plainly, the familiarization stage is circumvented in a computer-based indexing system with machine-assigned terms.Ex. Maybe the answer is some kind of localized Ceefax or Oracle information service that could be obtained free through one's television set but went beyond the mainly trivia that these services currently provide.Ex. Numerous experiment have tried to determine if free-text searching outperform searching with the aid of a controlled index language.Ex. It may be decided that the practical impediments to the distribution and assignment of such numbers outweigh their potential usefulness.Ex. Analytical cataloguing seeks to overcome physical packaging.Ex. Why have card-based systems been overtaken by computer databases?.Ex. A Permuterm index scores over a Double-KWIC index in that it avoids repetitive printing of one title.Ex. The advantages of the system far surpass any disadvantages.Ex. The chairwoman of the board had decided that as part of the screening process those who had successfully survived the initial winnowing should furnish the board with tangible evidence of how they might perform on a specific assignment.Ex. These changes in the physical form of the catalog have implications which go far beyond changes in form or even in improvements in speed and convenience to the catalog user.Ex. We have seen that the relationships of the Publications Office with the institutions and other bodies of the European Communities may in theory, but do not yet in practice extend far beyond those with the six managing institutions.Ex. As public library circ declines, spending continues to top inflation.Ex. The large profits to be made in this field will outbalance the problems that may lie ahead.Ex. One node in the star graphic completely outranks the others, while the other six themselves are interchangeable.Ex. The small publishers seem to be weathering the industry changes, and have expectations of growth.Ex. I think that the so-called average person often exhibits a great deal of heroism in getting through an ordinary day.Ex. This remake of William Castle's action adventure adds a genuinely supernatural plot to the old story of the duplicitous wife scheming to kill her husband but being one-upped by his even more ingenious counterplots.Ex. Two dangerous trysts are spied upon by a third and hostile party, whose presence is detected by the lovers who act in consort to outwit him.Ex. This novel is narrated by William, an underachiever who is constantly outdone by his charming and lovable identical twin brother.Ex. Smart and speedy start-ups blindside mature companies with their inventiveness then grow up into mature companies and are outsmarted in their turn.Ex. Without any significant restructuring, the LIS programme in Iran will provide little in the way of riding out the rapid transition that the field is currently experiencing.Ex. In the same way, files of item record cards can be difficult to manage if the file size exceeds, say, 2000 cards.Ex. It also led to a continuing guerilla war between the authorities and caricaturists who sought to evade, outfox, or entirely defy them.Ex. Unfortunately, its conclusions are completely pedestrian, rarely going past the fact that there were old people in England in the late Middle Ages.Ex. But he was wiry and wily, too, and he could often out-run, track, back-track, double-back, and finally dodge unseen in the subway.Ex. Back in 2001, the tossed salad they prepared fed some 5,000, which then bested the record held by a community in Utah in the United States.Ex. If prejudice is allowed to trump the rights that all citizens should enjoy, then everyone's freedoms are ultimately endangered.Ex. He is moving on from the past and looking forward to a tremendous future helping to educate parents from his personal experiences.Ex. I think Murray will go one better than Wimbledon, but will lose to Federer again in the final.----* ayudar a superar = get + Nombre + through.* capaz de adaptarse y superar adversidades = resilient.* con el propósito de superarse uno mismo = self-improvement-oriented.* nada supera a = nothing beats....* no superar la prueba de = not stand the test of.* ser difícil de superar = take + some beating.* sin ser superado = unsurpassed.* superar Algo = put + Nombre + behind.* superar barreras = hurdle + barriers.* superar el intento = resist + effort.* superar el miedo = overcome + Posesivo + fear, conquer + fear.* superar el nerviosismo = overcome + nervousness.* superar el problema de credibilidad = overcome + credibility gap.* superar en número = outnumber.* superar la barrera del tiempo = cross + time barriers.* superar la etapa de = move on from.* superar las expectativas = exceed + expectations.* superarse a sí mismo = pull + Reflexivo + up(wards) by + Posesivo + (own) bootstraps.* superarse a Uno Mismo = make + the best of + Reflexivo.* superarse para hacer frente a Algo = rise to + meet.* superar una barrera = conquer + barrier.* superar una crisis = ford + crisis, survive + crisis.* superar una deficiencia = overcome + weakness.* superar una dificultad = overcome + difficulty, get over + difficulty.* superar una limitación = overcome + limitation, tackle + limitation.* superar un análisis minucioso = stand up to + scrutiny, stand up to + examination.* superar una situación difícil = weather + the bumpy ride, weather + the storm.* superar un examen = pass + examination, pass + an exam.* superar un obstáculo = overcome + obstacle, jump over + hurdle, overcome + barrier, conquer + barrier.* superar un peligro = overcome + danger.* superar un problema = surmount + problem, conquer + problem, get over + problem.* verse superado sólo por = be second only to.* * *1.verbo transitivo1)a) (ser superior a, mayor que) to exceed, go beyond2)a) (vencer, sobreponerse a) <timidez/dificultad/etapa> to overcome; < trauma> to get overya hemos superado la etapa más difícil — we've already got(ten) through o over the most difficult stage
b) (frml) <examen/prueba> to pass2.superarse v pron to better oneself* * *= beat, circumvent, go beyond, outperform [out-perform], outweigh, overcome, overtake, score over, outgrow, surpass, survive, go far beyond, extend + far beyond, top, outbalance, outrank, weather, get through, one-up, outwit, outdo, outsmart, ride out, exceed, outfox, go + past, outrun [out-run], best, trump, move on from, go + one better.Ex: It would certainly beat the usual file clerk.
Ex: Plainly, the familiarization stage is circumvented in a computer-based indexing system with machine-assigned terms.Ex: Maybe the answer is some kind of localized Ceefax or Oracle information service that could be obtained free through one's television set but went beyond the mainly trivia that these services currently provide.Ex: Numerous experiment have tried to determine if free-text searching outperform searching with the aid of a controlled index language.Ex: It may be decided that the practical impediments to the distribution and assignment of such numbers outweigh their potential usefulness.Ex: Analytical cataloguing seeks to overcome physical packaging.Ex: Why have card-based systems been overtaken by computer databases?.Ex: A Permuterm index scores over a Double-KWIC index in that it avoids repetitive printing of one title.Ex: The advantages of the system far surpass any disadvantages.Ex: The chairwoman of the board had decided that as part of the screening process those who had successfully survived the initial winnowing should furnish the board with tangible evidence of how they might perform on a specific assignment.Ex: These changes in the physical form of the catalog have implications which go far beyond changes in form or even in improvements in speed and convenience to the catalog user.Ex: We have seen that the relationships of the Publications Office with the institutions and other bodies of the European Communities may in theory, but do not yet in practice extend far beyond those with the six managing institutions.Ex: As public library circ declines, spending continues to top inflation.Ex: The large profits to be made in this field will outbalance the problems that may lie ahead.Ex: One node in the star graphic completely outranks the others, while the other six themselves are interchangeable.Ex: The small publishers seem to be weathering the industry changes, and have expectations of growth.Ex: I think that the so-called average person often exhibits a great deal of heroism in getting through an ordinary day.Ex: This remake of William Castle's action adventure adds a genuinely supernatural plot to the old story of the duplicitous wife scheming to kill her husband but being one-upped by his even more ingenious counterplots.Ex: Two dangerous trysts are spied upon by a third and hostile party, whose presence is detected by the lovers who act in consort to outwit him.Ex: This novel is narrated by William, an underachiever who is constantly outdone by his charming and lovable identical twin brother.Ex: Smart and speedy start-ups blindside mature companies with their inventiveness then grow up into mature companies and are outsmarted in their turn.Ex: Without any significant restructuring, the LIS programme in Iran will provide little in the way of riding out the rapid transition that the field is currently experiencing.Ex: In the same way, files of item record cards can be difficult to manage if the file size exceeds, say, 2000 cards.Ex: It also led to a continuing guerilla war between the authorities and caricaturists who sought to evade, outfox, or entirely defy them.Ex: Unfortunately, its conclusions are completely pedestrian, rarely going past the fact that there were old people in England in the late Middle Ages.Ex: But he was wiry and wily, too, and he could often out-run, track, back-track, double-back, and finally dodge unseen in the subway.Ex: Back in 2001, the tossed salad they prepared fed some 5,000, which then bested the record held by a community in Utah in the United States.Ex: If prejudice is allowed to trump the rights that all citizens should enjoy, then everyone's freedoms are ultimately endangered.Ex: He is moving on from the past and looking forward to a tremendous future helping to educate parents from his personal experiences.Ex: I think Murray will go one better than Wimbledon, but will lose to Federer again in the final.* ayudar a superar = get + Nombre + through.* capaz de adaptarse y superar adversidades = resilient.* con el propósito de superarse uno mismo = self-improvement-oriented.* nada supera a = nothing beats....* no superar la prueba de = not stand the test of.* ser difícil de superar = take + some beating.* sin ser superado = unsurpassed.* superar Algo = put + Nombre + behind.* superar barreras = hurdle + barriers.* superar el intento = resist + effort.* superar el miedo = overcome + Posesivo + fear, conquer + fear.* superar el nerviosismo = overcome + nervousness.* superar el problema de credibilidad = overcome + credibility gap.* superar en número = outnumber.* superar la barrera del tiempo = cross + time barriers.* superar la etapa de = move on from.* superar las expectativas = exceed + expectations.* superarse a sí mismo = pull + Reflexivo + up(wards) by + Posesivo + (own) bootstraps.* superarse a Uno Mismo = make + the best of + Reflexivo.* superarse para hacer frente a Algo = rise to + meet.* superar una barrera = conquer + barrier.* superar una crisis = ford + crisis, survive + crisis.* superar una deficiencia = overcome + weakness.* superar una dificultad = overcome + difficulty, get over + difficulty.* superar una limitación = overcome + limitation, tackle + limitation.* superar un análisis minucioso = stand up to + scrutiny, stand up to + examination.* superar una situación difícil = weather + the bumpy ride, weather + the storm.* superar un examen = pass + examination, pass + an exam.* superar un obstáculo = overcome + obstacle, jump over + hurdle, overcome + barrier, conquer + barrier.* superar un peligro = overcome + danger.* superar un problema = surmount + problem, conquer + problem, get over + problem.* verse superado sólo por = be second only to.* * *superar [A1 ]vtA1 (ser superior a, mayor que) to exceed, go beyondun éxito que supera todas las expectativas a success which goes beyond o exceeds o surpasses all expectationsla realidad supera a la ficción fact o truth is stranger than fictionel horror de estas escenas supera todo lo imaginable the horror of these scenes goes beyond anything one could imaginenadie lo supera en experiencia ni habilidad nobody can surpass him in experience or skill, nobody can surpass his experience or skillnos superan en número they outnumber ussupera en estatura a su hermano mayor he's taller than his elder brothersupera en tres puntos la cifra de ayer it is three points higher than yesterday's figure, it surpasses yesterday's figure by three points2 (mejorar) to beatlogró superar su propio récord he managed to beat his own recordese método está totalmente superado that method has been completely supersededB1 (vencer, sobreponerse a) ‹timidez/dificultad/etapa› to overcometrata de superar estas diferencias try to overcome o get over these differencesno ha logrado superar el trauma que le supuso el accidente he has not got(ten) over the trauma of the accidentya hemos superado la etapa más difícil we've already got(ten) through o over the most difficult stagehace tres meses que rompimos pero ya lo tengo superado we split up three months ago but I've got(ten) over it o I'm over it now2 ( frml); ‹examen/prueba› to passto better oneself* * *
superar ( conjugate superar) verbo transitivo
1
nadie lo supera en experiencia no one has more experience than him;
supera en estatura a su hermano he's taller than his brother
2
‹ trauma› to get over
superarse verbo pronominal
to better oneself
superar verbo transitivo
1 (estar por encima de) to exceed: tu hermana te supera en altura, your sister is taller than you
la temperatura superó los treinta grados, the temperature rose above thirty degrees
(expectativas) esto supera todo lo imaginado, this defies the imagination
(un récord, una marca) to beat, break
2 (pasar, sobreponerse) to overcome
(un examen) to pass, get through
' superar' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
atonía
- ganar
- sacar
- salir
- salvar
- sobreponerse
- vencer
- volver
- cabeza
- creces
- exceder
- marca
English:
beat
- beating
- carry through
- coast
- corner
- deal with
- excel
- get over
- get past
- handicap
- improve on
- outdo
- outnumber
- overcome
- overtake
- pull through
- surmount
- surpass
- top
- exceed
- get
- negotiate
- out
- over
- rise
- shrug
- survive
- transcend
* * *♦ vt1. [aventajar] to beat;superar algo/a alguien en algo to beat sth/sb for sth;nos superan en número they outnumber us;me supera en altura/inteligencia he's taller/cleverer than me2. [sobrepasar] [récord] to break;queremos superar los resultados del año pasado we want to improve on o beat last year's results;me superó por dos décimas de segundo she beat me by two tenths of a second3. [adelantar] to overtake, to pass;superó a su rival en la recta final she overtook her rival on the home straight5. [complejo, crisis, enfermedad] to overcome, to get over;no ha superado la pérdida de su mujer he has not overcome the loss of his wife;tener algo superado to have got over sth6. [examen, prueba] to pass* * ** * *superar vt1) : to surpass, to exceed2) : to overcome, to surmount* * *superar vb2. (pasar) to pass3. (ser mejor) to be better / to surpass4. (ser más) to be more / to be overel porcentaje de aprobados supera el 85% the percentage of passes is over 85% -
64 mano
f (pl -i) handa portata di mano within reachfuori mano out of the way, not easy to get atfig alla mano approachabledi seconda mano second-handdare una mano a qualcuno give someone a handmettere mano a qualcosa start somethinglavo le pentole che sporco a mano a mano I wash the dirty pots as I go alongtenersi per mano hold handsman mano che as (and when)ha le mani bucate money just slips through his fingersmani in alto! hands up!* * *mano s.f.1 hand: mani affusolate, callose, tozze, slender, horny, stubby hands; la mano destra, sinistra, the right, left hand; le linee della mano, the lines of the hand; mi sono fatto male alla mano, I hurt my hand; vai a lavarti le mani, go and wash your hands; avere qlco. in mano, to have sthg. in one's hand; battere le mani, to clap (one's hands); consegnare, trasportare qlco. a mano, to deliver, to carry sthg. by hand; passeggiare mano nella mano, to walk hand in hand; alzare la mano, to put one's hand up; voto per alzata di mano, voting by show of hands // mani in alto!, hands up!; giù le mani!, hands off! // (calcio) fallo di mano, hands ball // avere le mani pulite, sporche, (anche fig.) to have clean, dirty hands; il nostro è un partito dalle mani pulite, there's no taint of corruption in our party // stringere la mano, le mani a qlcu., to shake hands with s.o.; qua la mano!, let's shake hands!; stretta di mano, handshake2 (parte, lato) side: contro mano, (di veicoli ecc.) on the wrong side of the road; tenere la propria mano, (nella circolazione stradale) to keep to one's own side of the road3 (potere, balìa) hand; power: cadde in mano al nemico, he fell into the enemy's hands; i terroristi hanno ancora in mano cinque ostaggi, the terrorists still have five hostages in their hands; il mio destino è nelle tue mani, my fate is in your hands; quella proprietà non è più nelle sue mani, that property is no longer in his hands; quell'uomo è in mia mano, that man is in my power; avere in mano il successo, to have success within one's grasp4 (scrittura) handwriting, (form.) hand: di sua mano, in his own hand; ha una bella mano, he has beautiful handwriting5 (tocco) touch (anche fig.): mano da maestro, masterly touch; si riconosce facilmente la mano di un maestro, it is easy to recognize the hand of a master; mano leggera, (di medico ecc.) light touch; dare l'ultima mano a un quadro, to give the finishing touch to a work // avere la mano pesante, to be heavy-handed6 (strato di colore, vernice ecc.) coat: mano di finitura, finishing coat; mano di fondo, primer (o priming o undercoat); una mano di vernice, a coat of varnish; mano isolante, sealer; occorre dare un'altra mano di bianco al soffitto, we have to give another coat of white to the ceiling7 (alle carte) hand: mano fortunata, lucky hand; facciamo ancora una mano, let's play one more hand // chi è di mano?, (a chi tocca iniziare il gioco?) whose lead is it?8 mano d'opera → manodopera.◆ FRASEOLOGIA: fatto a mano, handmade; tessuto a mano, handwoven // (mus.): pezzo a quattro mani, a piece for four hands; suonare a quattro mani, to play piano duets // di mano in mano, from hand to hand // a mani vuote, empty-handed // a piene mani, in (o by) handfuls: attinse a piene mani dai classici, he drew liberally on the classics // a mano armata, by force of (o under) arms: rapina a mano armata, holdup (o armed robbery) // a man salva, with impunity (o unopposed) // paga sempre denaro alla mano, (pronta cassa) he always pays (in) cash (o ready money); presentarsi al controllo documenti alla mano, have your documents ready for checking // scappare, sfuggire di mano, to slip through one's fingers: il vaso mi è sfuggito di mano accidentalmente, the vase slipped out of my hands accidentally; la situazione gli è sfuggita di mano, he couldn't keep the situation in hand (o he lost control of the situation); mi è sfuggito dalle mani un buon affare, a good deal slipped through my fingers // ho in mano le prove di quanto asserisco, I have evidence of what I say in my hands // di prima, di seconda mano, first-hand, second-hand: articolo di seconda mano, second-hand article; notizie di prima mano, first-hand news // disegno a mano libera, free-hand drawing // luogo fuori mano, out of the way place // una persona alla mano, an easygoing person // gli restituirò il denaro man mano, I shall give him the money back little by little; man mano che andava avanti si stancava sempre più, as he went on he got more and more tired; man mano che invecchia diventa sempre più avaro, the older he gets the meaner he grows // ha le mani di pastafrolla, he's a butterfingers // ho le mani legate, (fig.) my hands are tied // avere le mani in pasta, to have one's finger in the pie // me ne lavo le mani, I wash my hands of it // mi prudono le mani!, I could hit you! // mettere le mani su qlco., to lay hands on sthg. // non ci metterei la mano sul fuoco, I would not stake my life on it (o wouldn't swear to it) // possono darsi la mano, (fig.) they are two of a kind // puoi darmi una mano, per piacere?, can you give me a hand, please? // alzare le mani contro qlcu., to lift one's hand against s.o. // avere le mani bucate, to be a spendthrift // avere le mani lunghe, (per rubare) to have light fingers; un uomo svelto di mano, (ladruncolo) a light-fingered man (o a pilferer) // il nuovo direttore ha le mani lunghe, (facile a toccare le donne) the new manager can't keep his hands to himself // tenere qlco. a portata di mano, to have sthg. handy (o at hand o within easy reach o ready) // avere qlco. per le mani, to have sthg. in hand // fare la mano a qlco., to get one's hand in at sthg. // caricare la mano, to exaggerate // chiedere, domandare la mano di qlcu., to ask s.o.'s hand in marriage // essere in buone mani, to be in good hands // fare man bassa di qlco., to plunder (o loot) sthg.; i ragazzi hanno fatto man bassa di tutto ciò che c'era da mangiare, the kids made short work of everything that there was to eat // il cavallo gli ha preso la mano, he lost control of the horse; farsi prendere la mano da qlco., to lose control of sthg. // forzare la mano a qlcu., to force s.o.'s hand // lasciare mano libera a qlcu., to allow (o to give) s.o. a free hand // mi sarei mangiato le mani per essermi lasciato sfuggire quell'affare, I could kick myself for losing that deal // menar le mani, to fight // non ho ancora potuto metter mano al nuovo lavoro, I still haven't been able to get started on (o get down to) that new job // mettere mano alla penna, to put pen to paper // mettere mano alla spada, to draw one's sword // mettere mano alla borsa, (fig.) to open one's purse strings // mettere le mani avanti, to be on the safe side: in ogni caso ti conviene metter le mani avanti e definire al più presto la tua posizione, in any case it would be a good idea for you to play safe and clarify your position as soon as possible // mettersi in mano a, nelle mani di un buon medico, to put oneself into the hands of a good doctor // portare qlcu. in palma di mano, to hold s.o. in the palm of one's hand // prendere il coraggio a due mani, to take one's courage in both hands // stare con le mani in mano, to twiddle one's thumbs (o to remain idle): non stare lì con le mani in mano!, don't stand there doing nothing! (o twiddling your thumbs!) // tendere la mano, (elemosinare) to beg; tendere la mano a qlcu., to hold out a hand to s.o. (o to give a helping hand to s.o. o to give s.o. a hand) // tener mano a qlcu., to aid and abet s.o. // toccare con mano (qlco.), to see (sthg.) for oneself // venire alle mani, to come to blows // la mano sinistra non sappia quello che fa la destra, (prov.) let not your left hand know what your right hand is doing // una mano lava l'altra, (prov.) you scratch my back and I'll scratch yours.* * *['mano]sostantivo femminile1) handsalutare qcn. con la mano — to wave at sb.
-i in alto, su le -i! — hands up!
tenere qcs. in mano — to hold sth. in one's hand
prendere qcn. per mano — to take sb. by the hand (anche fig.)
attingere qcs. a piene -i — fig. to pick up handfuls of sth.
sporcarsi le -i — to dirty one's hands, to get one's hands dirty (anche fig.)
mettere mano al portafogli — to put one's money where one's mouth is, to put one's hand in one's pocket
2) (aiuto)dare una mano a qcn. — to give o lend sb. a (helping) hand
3) (indicando il controllo, il possesso) handavere qcs. sotto mano — to have sth. on hand
tenere qcs. a portata di mano — to keep sth. handy
essere nelle -i di qcn. — [potere, impresa] to be in sb.'s hands
cadere nelle -i di qcn. — to fall into sb.'s hands
di prima, seconda mano — firsthand, second-hand
4) (stile)fare o prendere la mano a to get one's hand in; avere la mano leggera to have a light touch; avere la mano pesante to be heavy-handed; avere la mano felice — to be skillful o skilled
6) gioc. (a carte) handpassare la mano — to pass (anche fig.)
8) (di colore) coat, layer9) a manofare qcs. a mano — to do o make sth. by hand
10) alla mano (pronto da usare, esibire)minacciare qcn. coltello alla mano — to threaten sb. at knife point
è arrivata con prove alla mano — she had concrete proof; (semplice) [ persona] informal
11) man mano, (a) mano a mano little by littleman mano che — as
12) fuori mano [paese, sentiero] out of the way; [ abitare] off the beaten track••chiedere la mano di qcn. — to ask for sb.'s hand
avere le -i di burro o di pastafrolla to be butterfingered; arrivare a -i vuote to arrive empty-handed; qua la mano! put it there! shake! give o slip me some skin! AE; man forte manforte; una mano lava l'altra you scratch my back and I'll scratch yours; essere preso con le -i nel sacco to be caught red-handed; alzare le -i su qcn. mettere le -i addosso a qcn. to lay a finger o hand on sb.; mettere le -i avanti to play (it) safe; stare con le -i in mano to sit o stand idly by; avere le -i lunghe (rubare) to be light- o nimble-fingered, to have sticky fingers colloq.; (essere influente) to have a lot of influence; avere le -i in pasta to have a finger in every pie; farsi o lasciarsi prendere la mano to lose control of the situation; toccare con mano — to experience first hand
* * *mano/'mano/ ⇒ 4sostantivo f.1 hand; salutare qcn. con la mano to wave at sb.; -i in alto, su le -i! hands up! mano nella mano hand in hand; passare di mano in mano to pass from hand to hand; tenere qcs. in mano to hold sth. in one's hand; tenersi per mano to hold hands; prendere qcn. per mano to take sb. by the hand (anche fig.); attingere qcs. a piene -i fig. to pick up handfuls of sth.; a -i nude with one's bare hands; suonare il piano a quattro -i to play a duet on the piano; disegnare a mano libera to draw freehand; rapina a mano armata armed robbery; sporcarsi le -i to dirty one's hands, to get one's hands dirty (anche fig.); mettere mano al portafogli to put one's money where one's mouth is, to put one's hand in one's pocket3 (indicando il controllo, il possesso) hand; cambiare mano to change hands; avere qcs. sotto mano to have sth. on hand; mi è capitato tra le -i I just happened to come across it; tenere qcs. a portata di mano to keep sth. handy; essere nelle -i di qcn. [potere, impresa] to be in sb.'s hands; prendere in mano la situazione to take matters into one's own hands; in buone -i in good hands; in -i sicure in safe hands; cadere nelle -i di qcn. to fall into sb.'s hands; di prima, seconda mano firsthand, second-hand4 (stile) riconoscere la mano di un artista to recognize an artist's style5 (denotando l'abilità) fare o prendere la mano a to get one's hand in; avere la mano leggera to have a light touch; avere la mano pesante to be heavy-handed; avere la mano felice to be skillful o skilled8 (di colore) coat, layer9 a mano fare qcs. a mano to do o make sth. by hand; fatto a mano handmade; dipinto a mano hand-painted10 alla mano (pronto da usare, esibire) minacciare qcn. coltello alla mano to threaten sb. at knife point; è arrivata con prove alla mano she had concrete proof; (semplice) [ persona] informal11 man mano, (a) mano a mano little by little; preferisco informarli man mano I prefer to inform them as I go along; man mano che as12 fuori mano [paese, sentiero] out of the way; [ abitare] off the beaten trackchiedere la mano di qcn. to ask for sb.'s hand; ci metterei la mano sul fuoco I'm willing to bet on it; fare man bassa to sweep the board; venire alle -i to come to blows; avere le -i di burro o di pastafrolla to be butterfingered; arrivare a -i vuote to arrive empty-handed; qua la mano! put it there! shake! give o slip me some skin! AE; man forte→ manforte; una mano lava l'altra you scratch my back and I'll scratch yours; essere preso con le -i nel sacco to be caught red-handed; alzare le -i su qcn., mettere le -i addosso a qcn. to lay a finger o hand on sb.; mettere le -i avanti to play (it) safe; stare con le -i in mano to sit o stand idly by; avere le -i lunghe (rubare) to be light- o nimble-fingered, to have sticky fingers colloq.; (essere influente) to have a lot of influence; avere le -i in pasta to have a finger in every pie; farsi o lasciarsi prendere la mano to lose control of the situation; toccare con mano to experience first hand. -
65 live
I 1. [lɪv]verbo transitivo (conduct) vivere2.to live a peaceful, healthier life — vivere una vita tranquilla, più sana
1) (dwell) [ animal] vivere; [ person] vivere, abitare; (in permanent dwelling) abitarethey live at number 7 — vivono o abitano al numero 7
to live together, alone — vivere o abitare insieme, da solo
to live in — vivere o abitare in [house, apartment]
2) (lead one's life) vivereto live in luxury, in the computer age vivere nel lusso, nell'era informatica; to live for vivere per [ family]; to live through sth. passare attraverso o vivere [ experience]; they lived happily ever after — (in story) vissero felici e contenti
3) (remain alive) vivere; (survive) sopravvivereas long as I live... — finché vivrò...
I'll live! — scherz. sopravviverò!
4) (subsist) vivereto live on o off nutrirsi solo di [ fruit]; vivere di [ charity]; vivere di o con [ wage]; to live off sb. vivere a spese o alle spalle di qcn.; to live on junk food — mangiare solo schifezze
to live with — accettare [situation, fact]; sopportare [ noise]
to live with oneself — vivere in pace con se stessi, non pensarci
come on! live a little! — su, lasciati andare!
you haven't lived until you've been to... — non puoi dire di aver vissuto finché non sei andato a
•- live in- live on- live out••II 1. [laɪv]to live it up — colloq. spassarsela, darsi alla bella vita
1) (not dead) [person, animal] vivoreal live — in carne e ossa, vivo e parlante
3) el. sotto tensione5) (capable of exploding) [ gun] carico; (unexploded) [ bomb] inesploso2.* * *I 1. [liv] verb1) (to have life; to be alive: This poison is dangerous to everything that lives.)2) (to survive: The doctors say he is very ill, but they think he will live; It was difficult to believe that she had lived through such an experience.)3) (to have one's home or dwelling (in a particular place): She lives next to the church; They went to live in Bristol / in a huge house.)4) (to pass (one's life): He lived a life of luxury; She lives in fear of being attacked.)5) ((with by) to make enough money etc to feed and house oneself: He lives by fishing.)•- - lived- living 2. noun(the money etc needed to feed and house oneself and keep oneself alive: He earns his living driving a taxi; She makes a good living as an author.) il vivere- live-in
- live and let live
- live down
- live in
- out
- live on
- live up to
- within living memory
- in living memory II 1. adjective1) (having life; not dead: a live mouse.)2) ((of a radio or television broadcast etc) heard or seen as the event takes place; not recorded: I watched a live performance of my favourite opera on television; Was the performance live or recorded?)3) (full of energy, and capable of becoming active: a live bomb)4) (burning: a live coal.)2. adverb((of a radio or television broadcast etc) as the event takes place: The competition will be broadcast live.)- lively- liveliness
- livestock
- live wire* * *I 1. [lɪv]verbo transitivo (conduct) vivere2.to live a peaceful, healthier life — vivere una vita tranquilla, più sana
1) (dwell) [ animal] vivere; [ person] vivere, abitare; (in permanent dwelling) abitarethey live at number 7 — vivono o abitano al numero 7
to live together, alone — vivere o abitare insieme, da solo
to live in — vivere o abitare in [house, apartment]
2) (lead one's life) vivereto live in luxury, in the computer age vivere nel lusso, nell'era informatica; to live for vivere per [ family]; to live through sth. passare attraverso o vivere [ experience]; they lived happily ever after — (in story) vissero felici e contenti
3) (remain alive) vivere; (survive) sopravvivereas long as I live... — finché vivrò...
I'll live! — scherz. sopravviverò!
4) (subsist) vivereto live on o off nutrirsi solo di [ fruit]; vivere di [ charity]; vivere di o con [ wage]; to live off sb. vivere a spese o alle spalle di qcn.; to live on junk food — mangiare solo schifezze
to live with — accettare [situation, fact]; sopportare [ noise]
to live with oneself — vivere in pace con se stessi, non pensarci
come on! live a little! — su, lasciati andare!
you haven't lived until you've been to... — non puoi dire di aver vissuto finché non sei andato a
•- live in- live on- live out••II 1. [laɪv]to live it up — colloq. spassarsela, darsi alla bella vita
1) (not dead) [person, animal] vivoreal live — in carne e ossa, vivo e parlante
3) el. sotto tensione5) (capable of exploding) [ gun] carico; (unexploded) [ bomb] inesploso2. -
66 compensar
v.1 to make up for (valer la pena).no me compensa (perder tanto tiempo) it's not worth my while (wasting all that time)2 to compensate, to balance, to compensate for, to make for.El dinero compensa la pérdida The money compensates the loss.El jefe compensa a la chica The boss compensates the girl.El juez compensó a María por el accidente The judge compensated Mary for...3 to clear.El juez compensó el caso de Ricardo The judge cleared John's case.* * *1 (pérdida, error) to make up for2 (indemnizar) to compensate, indemnify3 TÉCNICA to balance, compensate4 familiar (merecer la pena) to be worth one's while* * *verb* * *1. VT1) (=indemnizar) to compensate ( por for)lo compensaron con 100 dólares por los cristales rotos — he received 100 dollars compensation for the broken windows
¿cómo puedo compensarte por lo que has hecho por mí? — how can I repay you for what you have done for me?
2) (=equilibrar) [+ pérdida, falta] to compensate for, make up for; [+ efecto, bajada] to compensate for, offset; [+ gastos] to repay, reimburse; [+ error] to make amends forle ponen luz artificial para compensar la falta de sol — they put in artificial lighting to compensate for o make up for the lack of sunlight
3) (Mec) [+ ruedas] to balance4) (Econ) [+ cheque] to clear2.VIno compensa — it's not worth it, it's not worthwhile
te compensa hacerlo — it's worth you doing it, it's worth your while doing it o to do it
compensa gastarse más dinero ahora y ahorrarlo después — it pays to spend more now and save money later, it's worth spending more now to save money later on
* * *1.verbo intransitivo2.no compensa hacer un viaje tan largo — it's not worth making such a long journey; (+ me/te/le etc)
compensar vt1)a) ( contrarrestar) <pérdida/deficiencia> to compensate for, make up for; < efecto> to offsetb) < persona>lo compensaron con $2.000 por los daños — he was awarded $2,000 compensation in damages
quisiera compensarte de alguna manera por la molestia — I would like to repay you in some way for all your trouble
2) < cheque> to clear3.compensarse v prona) fuerzas (recípr) to compensate each other, cancel each other outb) pérdida/efectose compensa con una rebaja en los impuestos — it is offset by o compensated for by tax cuts
* * *= compensate, offset, repay, even out, balance, make + amends (for/to), balance out, requite.Ex. Whatever the immediate difficulties may be, they will be more than compensated for by the long-term benefits of automated bibliographic control.Ex. Space requirements are less and capital outlay is considerably less, though this is offset by the higher maintenance costs.Ex. The administrator will be more than repaid by high staff morale for all the trouble-shooting and unglamorous behind-the-scenes planning.Ex. But damp paper was still preferred for much ordinary printing until late in the nineteenth century, partly because it evened out the minor inequalities of used type in the days before the introduction of hot-metal composing machines which cast type afresh for each job.Ex. It often requires careful diplomacy by acquisitions librarians to balance sharp faculty interests.Ex. The scholarships were established in 1979 to help make amends for the state's history of excluding blacks from the university.Ex. If you do this it should balance out some of the negative thoughts you're having and know that in the end que sera sera, what's meant to be will be.Ex. The sultan requited the king of China's present by sending him ten swords with scabbards encrusted in pearls.----* compensar a Alguien = make + it + up to + Alguien.* compensar por = make up for, outweigh, outbalance.* * *1.verbo intransitivo2.no compensa hacer un viaje tan largo — it's not worth making such a long journey; (+ me/te/le etc)
compensar vt1)a) ( contrarrestar) <pérdida/deficiencia> to compensate for, make up for; < efecto> to offsetb) < persona>lo compensaron con $2.000 por los daños — he was awarded $2,000 compensation in damages
quisiera compensarte de alguna manera por la molestia — I would like to repay you in some way for all your trouble
2) < cheque> to clear3.compensarse v prona) fuerzas (recípr) to compensate each other, cancel each other outb) pérdida/efectose compensa con una rebaja en los impuestos — it is offset by o compensated for by tax cuts
* * *= compensate, offset, repay, even out, balance, make + amends (for/to), balance out, requite.Ex: Whatever the immediate difficulties may be, they will be more than compensated for by the long-term benefits of automated bibliographic control.
Ex: Space requirements are less and capital outlay is considerably less, though this is offset by the higher maintenance costs.Ex: The administrator will be more than repaid by high staff morale for all the trouble-shooting and unglamorous behind-the-scenes planning.Ex: But damp paper was still preferred for much ordinary printing until late in the nineteenth century, partly because it evened out the minor inequalities of used type in the days before the introduction of hot-metal composing machines which cast type afresh for each job.Ex: It often requires careful diplomacy by acquisitions librarians to balance sharp faculty interests.Ex: The scholarships were established in 1979 to help make amends for the state's history of excluding blacks from the university.Ex: If you do this it should balance out some of the negative thoughts you're having and know that in the end que sera sera, what's meant to be will be.Ex: The sultan requited the king of China's present by sending him ten swords with scabbards encrusted in pearls.* compensar a Alguien = make + it + up to + Alguien.* compensar por = make up for, outweigh, outbalance.* * *compensar [A1 ]vino compensa hacer un viaje tan largo para quedarse sólo tres días it's not worth making such a long journey just to stay three days(+ me/te/le etc): no me compensa hacerlo por tan poco dinero it's not worth my while doing it for so little moneyno creo que le compense venirse hasta aquí para trabajar dos horas I don't think it's worth her coming here (just) to work two hours■ compensarvtA1 ‹pérdida› to compensate for, make up for; ‹efecto› to offset2 ‹persona› compensar a algn POR algo to compensate sb FOR sthlo compensaron con $2.000 por los daños he was awarded $2,000 compensation in damagesquisiera compensarte de alguna manera por la molestia I would like to repay you in some way for all your troubleB ‹cheque› to clear1 «fuerzas» ( recípr) to compensate each other, cancel each other out2«pérdida/efecto»: compensarse CON algo: esto se compensa con una rebaja en los impuestos this is offset by o compensated for by tax cuts* * *
compensar ( conjugate compensar) verbo intransitivo:
no me compensa it's not worth my while
verbo transitivo
1
‹ efecto› to offset;
◊ lo compensaron con $2.000 por los daños he was awarded $2,000 compensation in damages
2 ‹ cheque› to clear
compensarse verbo pronominal [ fuerzas] ( recípr) to compensate each other, cancel each other out
compensar
I verbo transitivo
1 (equilibrar) to make up for
2 (indemnizar) to compensate (for)
II verbo intransitivo (merecer la pena) to be worthwhile: no me compensa vivir tan lejos, it's not worth my while to live so far away
' compensar' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
amortizar
- comida
- comido
- gratificar
- suplir
- recuperar
- resarcir
English:
amends
- atone
- compensate
- good
- hedge
- make up
- make up for
- offset
- redeem
- cancel
- even
- off
* * *♦ vt1. [contrarrestar] to make up for;su talento compensa la falta de educación formal her talent makes up for the fact that she lacks a formal education;compensaron las pérdidas con las ganancias the profit they made cancelled out their lossesla compensaron con 2 millones she got 2 million in compensation;te compensaré por el esfuerzo I'll make it worth your while♦ vito be worthwhile;no compensa it's not worth it;no me compensa (perder tanto tiempo) it's not worth my while (wasting all that time);compensa más comprarlo a granel it pays o it's more economical to buy it in bulk♦ See also the pronominal verb compensarse* * *I v/t compensate ( por for)II v/i figbe worthwhile* * *compensar vt: to compensate for, to make up forcompensar vi: to be worth one's while* * *compensar vb1. (contrarrestar) to make up for / to compensateel jefe nos compensará las horas extras con un aumento de sueldo the boss will compensate us for the overtime with a pay rise3. (valer la pena) to be worth your while -
67 valorar
v.1 to value (tasar) (propiedad, obra).la casa está valorada en 25 millones the house is valued at 25 million2 to evaluate, to assess.su actuación ha sido valorada muy positivamente her performance has been judged very favorablyel peor valorado entre todos los candidatos the least favored among the candidates3 to value.valoran mucho los conocimientos de inglés they value a knowledge of English very highly4 to appraise, to price, to evaluate, to give an estimate on.María valora los bienes Mary appraises the assets.5 to appreciate, to value, to cherish, to esteem.Ella valora los regalos She appreciates the gifts.6 to appreciate to.María valora poder caminar de nuevo Mary appreciates to be able to walk again7 to weigh.Ellos valoraron la decisión The weighed the decision.* * *1 (tasar) to value, calculate the value of2 (aumentar el valor) to raise the value of\valorar a alguien en mucho figurado to hold somebody in high esteem* * *verb1) to assess, evaluate2) value* * *VT1) (=tasar) [+ joya, obra de arte] to value (en at); [+ daños, pérdidas] to assess (en at)las pérdidas han sido valoradas en miles de millones — the damage has been estimated o assessed at thousands of millions
2) (=apreciar) [+ cualidad] to value, appreciateno sabes valorar la amistad — you don't value o appreciate friendship
un trabajo no valorado por la sociedad — it is a job which is not valued o appreciated by society
"se valorarán los conocimientos de inglés" — "knowledge of English an advantage"
3) (=revalorizar) to raise the value of4) (Quím) to titrate* * *verbo transitivoa) <joya/cuadro> to value; <pérdida/daño> to assessla casa está valorada en... — the house is valued at...
las pérdidas se valoran en varios millones de dólares — the damage is estimated at several million dollars
b) (frml) <trabajo/actuación> to assessvalorar algo positivamente/negativamente — to consider something to be positive/negative
c) <amistad/lealtad> to value* * *= appraise, rate, value, respect, cherish, prize [prise, -USA], hold + Nombre + dear.Ex. Historical archives may be briefly be defined as that portion of the total mass of records which, being no longer current, have been appraised and selected for permanent preservation.Ex. A questionnaire sought to determine which selection aids were rated as being important and which were seldom used.Ex. Often, the facilities offered by a co-operative may not be as sophisticated as those available from software vendors, but the support of a group of libraries is valued.Ex. She paid everyone the compliment of respecting what is subtle and unique in each of them.Ex. The British Museum Reading Room is filled with cranks, hacks, poverty-stricken scholars who cherish their hobby.Ex. She was so poor that she had nothing but one single hen, which she prized as the apple of her eye.Ex. Cuts in Government agriculture spending are an attack on everything we hold dear in this country.----* valorar Algo mucho = value + Nombre + highly.* * *verbo transitivoa) <joya/cuadro> to value; <pérdida/daño> to assessla casa está valorada en... — the house is valued at...
las pérdidas se valoran en varios millones de dólares — the damage is estimated at several million dollars
b) (frml) <trabajo/actuación> to assessvalorar algo positivamente/negativamente — to consider something to be positive/negative
c) <amistad/lealtad> to value* * *= appraise, rate, value, respect, cherish, prize [prise, -USA], hold + Nombre + dear.Ex: Historical archives may be briefly be defined as that portion of the total mass of records which, being no longer current, have been appraised and selected for permanent preservation.
Ex: A questionnaire sought to determine which selection aids were rated as being important and which were seldom used.Ex: Often, the facilities offered by a co-operative may not be as sophisticated as those available from software vendors, but the support of a group of libraries is valued.Ex: She paid everyone the compliment of respecting what is subtle and unique in each of them.Ex: The British Museum Reading Room is filled with cranks, hacks, poverty-stricken scholars who cherish their hobby.Ex: She was so poor that she had nothing but one single hen, which she prized as the apple of her eye.Ex: Cuts in Government agriculture spending are an attack on everything we hold dear in this country.* valorar Algo mucho = value + Nombre + highly.* * *valorar [A1 ]vtA1 (tasar) ‹joyas/cuadros› to value; ‹pérdidas/daños› to assess valorar algo EN algo:el cuadro está valorado en 2 millones de dólares the picture is valued at 2 million dollarslas pérdidas se valoran en varios millones de dólares the damage is estimated at several million dollarsuna vida no se puede valorar en dinero you cannot put a value on a person's life2 ( frml) (considerar) to assessvaloró la actuación de su predecesor he assessed his predecessor's performance(+ compl): valoran positivamente esta nueva política they consider o judge this new policy to be positivesu cambio de actitud fue valorado negativamente her change of attitude was viewed unfavorably3 (apreciar, estimar) to appreciateno sabes valorar la amistad you don't appreciate the true value of friendship, you don't value friendship as you shouldvaloraba muy poco su dedicación he attached very little value to her dedicationvaloro mucho su lealtad I value your loyalty very highly[ S ] se valorará experiencia experience an advantageB ( Quím) to titrate* * *
valorar ( conjugate valorar) verbo transitivo
‹pérdida/daño› to assess;
valorar algo en algo to value/assess sth at sth;
valorar verbo transitivo
1 (dar un valor, precio) to value
2 (tener en estima, consideración) to value: no valora lo que estás haciendo, he doesn't appreciate what you are doing
' valorar' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
cotizar
- estimar
- invalorable
English:
appreciate
- assess
- price
- value
- appraise
- estimate
- evaluate
- prize
* * *valorar vt1. [tasar] [obra de arte] to value;[daños] to assess, to estimate;la casa está valorada en 25 millones the house is valued at 25 million2. [evaluar] to evaluate, to assess;su actuación ha sido valorada muy positivamente her performance has been judged very favourably;el peor valorado entre todos los candidatos the least favoured among the candidates3. [apreciar] to value;no saben valorar el trabajo de los enseñantes they do not value the work that teachers do;valoran mucho los conocimientos de inglés they value a knowledge of English very highly* * *v/t1 ( tasar) value (en at)2 ( estimar) appreciate, value* * *valorar vt1) evaluar: to evaluate, to appraise, to assess2) apreciar: to value, to appreciate* * *valorar vb to value -
68 alguien
pron.1 someone, somebody (alguna persona).¿hay alguien ahí? is anyone there?2 somebody (persona de importancia).se cree alguien she thinks she's somebody (special)* * *1 (afirmativo) somebody, someone; (interrogativo, negativo) anybody, anyone■ ¿hay alguien? is anyone there?■ ¿conoces a alguien que tenga coche? do you know anyone with a car?* * *pron.1) somebody, someone2) anybody, anyone* * *PRON [gen] somebody, someone; [en frases interrogativas] anybody, anyonesi viene alguien — if somebody comes, if anybody comes
¿viste a alguien? — did you see anybody?
* * *pronombre somebody, someone; (en frases interrogativas, condicionales, etc) anybody, anyone; ( esperando respuesta afirmativa) somebody, someonealguien con experiencia — somebody o someone with experience
¿ha llamado alguien? — has anybody o anyone called?
si alguien preguntara — if anybody o anyone should ask
¿cómo llegaste? ¿te trajo alguien? — how did you get here? did somebody o someone bring you?
* * *= anybody, anyone, one, somebody, someone.Ex. An authority file that is not accessible to anybody is only a limited authority file.Ex. Anyone using LC copy and the AACR is well aware of the stimulating challenges provided by superimposed headings.Ex. None of these labels is entirely accurate, in that some packages which one would want to include in this category do not match one or other of these labels.Ex. I know very little about the cataloging in Germany, and I trust that there is somebody in this audience who knows more than I do.Ex. Someone familiar with the terminology of the subject that the index covers will find the index easy to use.----* alguien que no es especialista = non-specialist [nonspecialist].* casarse con alguien de dinero = marry into + money, marry + a fortune, marry + money.* casarse con alguien rico = marry into + money, marry + a fortune, marry + money.* estar saliendo con alguien = be in a dating relationship.* matar a alguien = take + life.* * *pronombre somebody, someone; (en frases interrogativas, condicionales, etc) anybody, anyone; ( esperando respuesta afirmativa) somebody, someonealguien con experiencia — somebody o someone with experience
¿ha llamado alguien? — has anybody o anyone called?
si alguien preguntara — if anybody o anyone should ask
¿cómo llegaste? ¿te trajo alguien? — how did you get here? did somebody o someone bring you?
* * *= anybody, anyone, one, somebody, someone.Ex: An authority file that is not accessible to anybody is only a limited authority file.
Ex: Anyone using LC copy and the AACR is well aware of the stimulating challenges provided by superimposed headings.Ex: None of these labels is entirely accurate, in that some packages which one would want to include in this category do not match one or other of these labels.Ex: I know very little about the cataloging in Germany, and I trust that there is somebody in this audience who knows more than I do.Ex: Someone familiar with the terminology of the subject that the index covers will find the index easy to use.* alguien que no es especialista = non-specialist [nonspecialist].* casarse con alguien de dinero = marry into + money, marry + a fortune, marry + money.* casarse con alguien rico = marry into + money, marry + a fortune, marry + money.* estar saliendo con alguien = be in a dating relationship.* matar a alguien = take + life.* * *somebody, someone; (en frases interrogativas, condicionales, etc) anybody, anyone; (esperando respuesta afirmativa) somebody, someonealguien se lo debe haber dicho somebody o someone must have told heralguien con experiencia somebody o someone with experience¿ha llamado alguien? has anybody o anyone called?si alguien preguntara por qué if anybody o anyone should ask why¿cómo llegaste? ¿te trajo alguien? how did you get here? did somebody o someone bring you?* * *
alguien pronombre
somebody, someone;
(en frases interrogativas, condicionales, etc) anybody, anyone;
( esperando respuesta afirmativa) somebody, someone;◊ alguien con experiencia somebody o someone with experience;
¿ha llamado alguien? has anybody o anyone called?;
si alguien preguntara if anybody o anyone should ask
alguien pron indef (afirmativo) somebody, someone
(interrogativo) anybody, anyone: ¿hay alguien ahí?, is anyone there?
' alguien' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
A
- abandonar
- ablandar
- ablandarse
- achuchar
- acoger
- acreditar
- adelantar
- agarrar
- agradecer
- aguar
- albergue
- animar
- añorar
- antecedente
- aparecer
- aprecio
- apretar
- bailar
- balanza
- banda
- batir
- batuta
- braga
- bronca
- buenaventura
- cabal
- caballo
- cabeza
- cable
- cabronada
- cagarse
- calar
- calco
- caldo
- calendario
- calentar
- callar
- calle
- cama
- cambiazo
- caña
- canela
- cantar
- capote
- cara
- cargar
- carrete
- carta
- cartilla
English:
abuse
- accommodate
- account
- accountable
- acquaint
- acquaintance
- acquit
- act
- advantage
- advice
- afraid
- agreement
- ahead
- aid
- alienate
- allow
- allowance
- ally
- amends
- amount to
- anathema
- angry
- anybody
- anyone
- apologize
- appeal
- asinine
- ask
- ask about
- ask after
- ask for
- ask in
- ask out
- ask round
- assemble
- associate
- at
- attempt
- attention
- audition
- authorize
- awe
- back
- back up
- bail out
- bang
- barrel
- beck
- belief
- bell
* * *alguien pron1. [alguna persona] someone, somebody;[en interrogativas] anyone, anybody;alguien tiene que habernos oído someone o somebody must have heard us;¿hay alguien ahí? is anyone o anybody there?;¿cómo lo sabes?, ¿te lo ha contado alguien? how do you know, did someone o somebody tell you?;si alguien lo quiere, que lo diga if anyone o anybody wants it, they should say so2. [persona de importancia] somebody;se cree alguien she thinks she's somebody (special);algún día llegará a ser alguien she'll be somebody (important) one day* * *pron1 en frases afirmativas somebody, someone;en su empresa es alguien he’s a somebody in his company* * *alguien pron: somebody, someone* * *alguien pron1. (en frases afirmativas) someone / somebody2. (en frases interrogativas) anyone / anybody¿conoces a alguien que sepa hablar japonés? do you know anyone who speaks Japanese? -
69 confiado
adj.1 trusting, confident, assured, confiding.2 unsuspecting, trustful, not suspicious.past part.past participle of spanish verb: confiar.* * *1→ link=confiar confiar► adjetivo1 (crédulo) unsuspecting, gullible2 (seguro) confident, self-confident3 (engreído) self-satisfied; (presumido) conceited* * *(f. - confiada)adj.1) confident2) trusting* * *ADJ1) (=seguro) confident2) (=ingenuo) trusting3) (=vanidoso) vain, conceited* * *- da adjetivoa) [ser] ( crédulo) trustingb) [estar] ( seguro)confiado en algo: está muy confiado en que lo van a llevar he's convinced they're going to take him; no estés tan confiado — don't get over-confident
* * *= unwary, unsuspecting, sanguine, trustful, trusting, confident (in).Ex. Experience has shown that the vastness of this as yet unordered field holds many pitfalls for the unwary librarian and researcher.Ex. There has been little planning about what to do about the huge quantities of unevaluated and perhaps unwanted information which threatens to engulf the unsuspecting user.Ex. A historical outline of the study of personality is given with particular emphasis on the concept of the 4 humours: choleric, melancholic, phlegmatic and sanguine.Ex. They should be more trustful of their colleagues and to use information technology to a larger extent.Ex. Yet without this trusting support for the editorial expertise of the publishers such books could not be published at all.Ex. Experience of IT in USA is associated not infrequently with the confounding of confident expectations.----* confiados, los = unsuspecting, the.* * *- da adjetivoa) [ser] ( crédulo) trustingb) [estar] ( seguro)confiado en algo: está muy confiado en que lo van a llevar he's convinced they're going to take him; no estés tan confiado — don't get over-confident
* * *= unwary, unsuspecting, sanguine, trustful, trusting, confident (in).Ex: Experience has shown that the vastness of this as yet unordered field holds many pitfalls for the unwary librarian and researcher.
Ex: There has been little planning about what to do about the huge quantities of unevaluated and perhaps unwanted information which threatens to engulf the unsuspecting user.Ex: A historical outline of the study of personality is given with particular emphasis on the concept of the 4 humours: choleric, melancholic, phlegmatic and sanguine.Ex: They should be more trustful of their colleagues and to use information technology to a larger extent.Ex: Yet without this trusting support for the editorial expertise of the publishers such books could not be published at all.Ex: Experience of IT in USA is associated not infrequently with the confounding of confident expectations.* confiados, los = unsuspecting, the.* * *confiado -da1 [ SER] (crédulo) trustingen estos tiempos no es bueno ser tan confiado these days it's not wise to be so trustingentró muy confiado sin saber que le habían preparado una trampa he came in confidently o unsuspectingly, not knowing that they had set a trap for him2 [ ESTAR] (seguro) confiado EN algo:está muy confiado en que lo van a llevar he's convinced they're going to take himno estés tan confiado, esos exámenes pueden ser muy difíciles don't get over-confident o don't be too sure of yourself, those exams can be extremely hard* * *
Del verbo confiar: ( conjugate confiar)
confiado es:
el participio
Multiple Entries:
confiado
confiar
confiado◊ -da adjetivo
b) [estar] ( seguro):
no estés tan confiado don't get over-confident
confiar ( conjugate confiar) verbo intransitivo
confiamos en su discreción we rely o depend on your discretionb) ( estar seguro) confiado en algo to be confident of sth;
confiamos en poder llevarlo a cabo we are confident that we can do it;
confiemos en que venga let's hope she comes
verbo transitivo confiadole algo a algn ‹ secreto› to confide sth to sb;
‹trabajo/responsabilidad› to entrust sb with sth
confiarse verbo pronominal
◊ no te confíes demasiado don't get overconfident o too confidentb) (desahogarse, abrirse) confiadose a algn to confide in sb
confiado,-a adjetivo
1 (que tiene confianza en los demás) trusting, unsuspecting: con lo confiado que es le van a engañar muchas veces, he's such an unsuspecting person that he'll often be misled
2 (esperanzado) está confiada en que aprobará, she's confident that she'll pass
(seguro, tranquilo) self-confident
confiar
I verbo transitivo
1 (poner bajo la tutela) to entrust: le confié la educación de mi hija, I entrusted him with my daughter's education
2 (decir reservadamente) to confide
II verbo intransitivo (fiarse de) confiar en, to trust: no confío en ella, I don't trust her
(contar con) no confíes en su ayuda, don't count on his help
' confiado' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
confiada
English:
trustful
- trusting
- unsuspecting
* * *confiado, -a adj1. [seguro] confident;estar confiado to be confident;estar demasiado confiado to be overconfident;estoy confiado en que todo acabará bien I'm confident everything will turn out all right;se mostró confiado he was confident2. [crédulo] trusting;ser confiado to be trusting* * *adj trusting* * *confiado, -da adj1) : confident, self-confident2) : trusting♦ confiadamente adv* * *confiado adj hopeful -
70 conocimiento
m.1 knowledge.hablar/actuar con conocimiento de causa to know what one is talking about/doingponer algo en conocimiento de alguien to bring something to somebody's attention, to inform somebody of somethingtener conocimiento de algo to be aware of somethingha llegado a mi conocimiento que estás insatisfecho it has come to my attention that you are not happy2 consciousness (sentido, conciencia).perder/recobrar el conocimiento to lose/regain consciousnessestaba tumbado en el suelo, sin conocimiento he was lying unconscious on the floor3 awareness, consciousness, cognizance.* * *2 (sensatez) good sense3 (conciencia) consciousness\con conocimiento de causa with full knowledge of the factsperder el conocimiento to lose consciousnessponer algo en conocimiento de alguien to make something known to somebody, inform somebody of somethingrecobrar el conocimiento to regain consciousness, come roundtener conocimiento de algo to know about something* * *noun m.1) knowledge* * *SM1) (=saber) knowledgeconocimientos — (=nociones) knowledge sing
mis pocos conocimientos de filosofía/cocina — my limited knowledge of philosophy/cookery
2) (=información) knowledgeel encuentro tuvo lugar sin conocimiento público — the meeting took place without the public's knowledge
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dar conocimiento de algo, dimos conocimiento del robo a la policía — we informed the police about the robbery•
llegar a conocimiento de algn — to come to sb's attention o notice•
tener conocimiento de algo, aún no tenemos conocimiento de su detención — we still do not know that he has been arrestedse les informó al tenerse conocimiento del suceso — they were informed as soon as it was known what had happened
desea ponerlo en conocimiento público — he wants it brought to the public's attention, he wishes it to be made public
el Ministro ha puesto en conocimiento del rey su decisión — the minister has informed the king of his decision
conocimiento de causa, hacer algo con conocimiento de causa — to be fully aware of what one is doing
3) (=consciencia) consciousnessrecobrar o recuperar el conocimiento — to regain consciousness
4) (=sentido común) common sense5) (Jur) cognizance frm6) (Com)* * *1)a) ( saber) knowledgeb) conocimientos masculino plural ( nociones) knowledge2) (frml) ( información)dar conocimiento de algo a alguien — to inform o (frml) apprise somebody of something
pongo en su conocimiento que... — (Corresp) I am writing to inform you that...
llegar a conocimiento de alguien — to come to somebody's attention o notice (frml)
con conocimiento de causa: obró con conocimiento de causa (frml) he took this step, fully aware of what the consequences would be; hablo con conocimiento de causa — I know what I'm talking about
3) ( sentido) consciousnessperder/recobrar el conocimiento — to lose/regain consciousness
4) ( entendimiento)aún es pequeño, no tiene todavía conocimiento — he's not old enough to understand
* * *= cognition, competency, enlightenment, expertise, familiarisation [familiarization, -USA], familiarity, insight, knowledge, learning, acquaintance, understanding, cognisance [cognizance, -USA], connoisseurship, consciousness.Ex. The information-processing model of cognition, and developments in artificial intelligence encourage such comparisons = El modelo de la cognición sobre el procesamiento de la información de y los avances de la inteligencia artificial fomentan este tipo de comparaciones.Ex. SLIS programmes intended to 'produce' librarians with competency in the use of IT have to be designed.Ex. Considered as necessary work in the interest of humanity and general enlightenment, bibliography gains ground as the years pass.Ex. Its primary function is to provide a centre for software and hardware expertise for its members.Ex. Step 1 Familiarisation: This first step involves the indexer in becoming conversant with the subject content of the document to be indexed.Ex. The most effective searchers are those who have both system experience and some familiarity with the subject area in which they are searching.Ex. The human indexer works mechanically and rapidly; he should require no insight into the document content.Ex. These factors form the basis of the problems in identifying a satisfactory subject approach, and start to explain the vast array of different tolls used in the subject approach to knowledge.Ex. It is the responsibility of educators to stretch their student's intellects, hone their skills of intuitive judgment and synthesis, and build a love of learning that will sustain them beyond the level of formal education.Ex. It is only with accumulating experience and many years of close study and acquaintance with bibliographic works that a really substantial body of knowledge of the potential of bibliographic sources is acquired.Ex. We librarians ought to have a clearer understanding of our stock-in-trade (books) and their function of social mechanism.Ex. The passive cognisance of growth causes considerable difficulties = El conocimiento pasivo del crecimiento causa dificultades importantes.Ex. This book explores the underlying institutional factors that help museum-based connoisseurship and aestheticism and university-based critical theory and revisionist scholarship exist.Ex. For example, the latter are unlikely to engage themselves in conservation issues as these now press upon the professional consciousness of librarians.----* actualizar los conocimientos = upgrade + Posesivo + skills.* adquirir conocimiento = gain + knowledge, glean + knowledge, acquire + knowledge, build up + knowledge.* ampliar el conocimiento = expand + Posesivo + knowledge, expand + Posesivo + knowledge, widen + knowledge, broaden + knowledge, deepen + understanding.* ampliar las fronteras del conocimiento = push back + the frontiers of knowledge.* análisis de áreas del conocimiento = domain analysis.* análisis de dominios del conocimiento = domain analysis.* aprendizaje rico en conocimiento = knowledge-rich learning.* área de conocimiento = area of study.* área del conocimiento = area of knowledge, discipline, subject field, field of activity, knowledge domain, discipline of knowledge.* aumentar el conocimiento = expand + Posesivo + knowledge, deepen + awareness.* aumento del conocimiento = knowledge building.* bannco de conocimiento = knowledge bank.* basado en el conocimiento = knowledge-based.* basado en las disciplinas del conocimiento = discipline-based.* bibliotecario con conocimientos de medicina = informationist.* búsqueda del conocimiento = quest for/of knowledge.* campo del conocimiento = field of knowledge.* centrado en el conocimiento = knowledge-centric.* ciencia del conocimiento = cognitive science.* compartir el conocimiento = knowledge sharing, pool + knowledge.* con conocimiento = authoritatively.* con conocimiento básico en el manejo de la información = information literate [information-literate].* con conocimiento básico en el uso de la biblioteca = library literate [library-literate].* con conocimiento de = appreciative of, conversant with.* con conocimiento de causa = knowingly, knowingly.* con conocimiento de informática = computer literate [computer-literate].* con conocimiento en el uso de Internet = Internet-savvy.* con conocimientos en = versed in.* con conocimientos sobre el correo electrónico = e-mail literate.* con el conocimiento de que = on the understanding that.* conjunto de conocimientos = body of knowledge.* conocimiento académico = academic knowledge.* conocimiento acumulado sobre un tema = lore.* conocimiento básico = working familiarity, working knowledge.* conocimiento científico = scientific knowledge.* conocimiento compartido = knowledge sharing.* conocimiento de base = foundation study.* conocimiento de cómo sobrevivir en el bosque = woodcraft.* conocimiento de embarque = bill of lading.* conocimiento de la existencia = awareness.* conocimiento de lengua = language skill.* conocimiento del objeto = object knowledge.* conocimiento de los diferentes soportes = media competency.* conocimiento detallado = intimate knowledge.* conocimiento de un área temática = area knowledge.* conocimiento documentado = recorded knowledge.* conocimiento enciclopédico = factual knowledge.* conocimiento en tecnología = technological skill.* conocimiento específico = expert knowledge.* conocimiento experto = expert knowledge, expertise.* conocimiento explícito = explicit knowledge.* conocimiento factual = declarative knowledge.* conocimiento humano = human consciousness.* conocimiento humano, el = human record, the.* conocimiento indígena = indigenous knowledge.* conocimiento lingüístico = language skill.* conocimiento mutuo = mutual knowledge.* conocimiento pasivo = nodding acquaintance.* conocimiento pleno = awareness.* conocimiento práctico = working knowledge, procedural knowledge.* conocimiento previo = foreknowledge.* conocimientos = knowledge base [knowledge-base].* conocimientos básicos = literacy.* conocimientos básicos de búsqueda, recuperación y organización de informació = information literacy.* conocimientos básicos de documentación = information literacy.* conocimientos básicos de informática = computer literacy.* conocimientos básicos en tecnología = technical literacy.* conocimientos básicos sobre el uso de las bibliotecas = library skills.* conocimientos de tecnología = techno-savvy, tech-savvy.* conocimientos en el manejo de la información = info-savvy.* conocimiento sobre una materia = subject knowledge.* conocimientos requeridos = job specs.* conocimiento tácito = tacit knowledge, tacit knowledge, tacit knowledge.* conocimiento técnico = know-how, technical knowledge.* conocimiento teórico = declarative knowledge.* con poco conocimiento de las nuevas tecnologías = technologically challenged.* corpus de conocimiento = corpus of knowledge.* crear un fondo común de conocimientos = pool + knowledge.* cúmulo de conocimiento = repository of knowledge, knowledge repository.* decisión con conocimiento de causa = informed decision.* difundir el conocimiento = spread + knowledge.* director ejecutivo de la gestión del conocimiento = knowledge executive.* dominio del conocimiento = knowledge domain.* economía basada en el conocimiento = knowledge driven economy.* economía del conocimiento = knowledge economy.* Era del Conocimiento, la = Knowledge Age, the.* estructuración del conocimiento = knowledge structuring.* examinar los conocimientos = test + knowledge.* falta de conocimiento = unfamiliarity.* filtro del conocimiento = knowledge filter.* fomentar el conocimiento = advance + knowledge.* fondo común de conocimientos = pool of knowledge, pool of expertise.* frontera del conocimiento = frontier of knowledge.* fundamentos del conocimiento, los = foundations of knowledge, the.* gestión del conocimiento = knowledge management (KM).* gestor del conocimiento = knowledge worker, knowledge manager.* hacer avanzar el conocimiento = push back + the frontiers of knowledge.* hacer gala del conocimiento que uno tiene = air + knowledge.* hacer perder el conocimiento = knock + Nombre + out, knock + Nombre + unconscious.* hacer uso de un conocimiento = draw on/upon + knowledge.* impartir conocimiento = impart + knowledge.* inculcar conocimiento = instil + knowledge.* ingeniería del conocimiento = knowledge engineering.* ingeniero del conocimiento = knowledge engineer.* institucion del conocimiento = institution of learning.* intercambio de conocimientos = learning exchange, cross-fertilisation [cross-fertilization, -USA], cross-fertilisation of knowledge.* jefe de los servicios de gestión del conocimiento = chief knowledge officer (CKO).* metaconocimiento = meta-knowledge.* navegación por el conocimiento = knowledge navigation.* navegador del conocimiento = knowledge navigator.* obtener conocimiento = gain + an understanding.* ofrecer conocimiento = package + knowledge.* perder el conocimiento = lose + Posesivo + senses, pass out, lose + Posesivo + consciousness.* pérdida del conocimiento = unconsciousness, fainting, fainting fit, loss of consciousness.* personas sin conocimientos técnicos, las = non-technical, the.* presentar conocimiento = package + knowledge.* producto del conocimiento = knowledge record.* profundizar en el conocimiento = deepen + knowledge.* propagar el conocimiento = propagate + knowledge.* proporcionar conocimientos técnicos = supply + know-how.* quedarse sin conocimiento = lose + Posesivo + consciousness, pass out.* rama del conocimiento = branch of learning.* recobrar el conocimiento = regain + Posesivo + consciousness.* recuperar el conocimiento = regain + Posesivo + consciousness.* red de conocimiento = knowledge network.* servidor del conocimiento = knowledge server.* sin conocimiento = unconscious.* sin conocimiento de causa = unbeknown to, unbeknownst to.* sintetizar el conocimiento = synthesise + knowledge.* sistema basado en el conocimiento = knowledge-base system.* sistema de gestión del conocimiento = knowledge management system (KMS).* sociedad basada en el conocimiento = knowledge based society.* sociedad del conocimiento = knowledge society.* Sociedad para el Conocimiento Global = Global Knowledge Partnership.* suministrar conocimientos técnicos = supply + know-how.* tener conocimiento de = be privy to, be aware of.* toma de decisiones con conocimiento de causa = informed decision making.* tomar decisiones con conocimiento de causa = make + informed decisions.* transferencia de conocimiento = transfer of knowledge, knowledge transfer.* utilizar los conocimientos de Uno = put + Posesivo + knowledge to work.* * *1)a) ( saber) knowledgeb) conocimientos masculino plural ( nociones) knowledge2) (frml) ( información)dar conocimiento de algo a alguien — to inform o (frml) apprise somebody of something
pongo en su conocimiento que... — (Corresp) I am writing to inform you that...
llegar a conocimiento de alguien — to come to somebody's attention o notice (frml)
con conocimiento de causa: obró con conocimiento de causa (frml) he took this step, fully aware of what the consequences would be; hablo con conocimiento de causa — I know what I'm talking about
3) ( sentido) consciousnessperder/recobrar el conocimiento — to lose/regain consciousness
4) ( entendimiento)aún es pequeño, no tiene todavía conocimiento — he's not old enough to understand
* * *= cognition, competency, enlightenment, expertise, familiarisation [familiarization, -USA], familiarity, insight, knowledge, learning, acquaintance, understanding, cognisance [cognizance, -USA], connoisseurship, consciousness.Ex: The information-processing model of cognition, and developments in artificial intelligence encourage such comparisons = El modelo de la cognición sobre el procesamiento de la información de y los avances de la inteligencia artificial fomentan este tipo de comparaciones.
Ex: SLIS programmes intended to 'produce' librarians with competency in the use of IT have to be designed.Ex: Considered as necessary work in the interest of humanity and general enlightenment, bibliography gains ground as the years pass.Ex: Its primary function is to provide a centre for software and hardware expertise for its members.Ex: Step 1 Familiarisation: This first step involves the indexer in becoming conversant with the subject content of the document to be indexed.Ex: The most effective searchers are those who have both system experience and some familiarity with the subject area in which they are searching.Ex: The human indexer works mechanically and rapidly; he should require no insight into the document content.Ex: These factors form the basis of the problems in identifying a satisfactory subject approach, and start to explain the vast array of different tolls used in the subject approach to knowledge.Ex: It is the responsibility of educators to stretch their student's intellects, hone their skills of intuitive judgment and synthesis, and build a love of learning that will sustain them beyond the level of formal education.Ex: It is only with accumulating experience and many years of close study and acquaintance with bibliographic works that a really substantial body of knowledge of the potential of bibliographic sources is acquired.Ex: We librarians ought to have a clearer understanding of our stock-in-trade (books) and their function of social mechanism.Ex: The passive cognisance of growth causes considerable difficulties = El conocimiento pasivo del crecimiento causa dificultades importantes.Ex: This book explores the underlying institutional factors that help museum-based connoisseurship and aestheticism and university-based critical theory and revisionist scholarship exist.Ex: For example, the latter are unlikely to engage themselves in conservation issues as these now press upon the professional consciousness of librarians.* actualizar los conocimientos = upgrade + Posesivo + skills.* adquirir conocimiento = gain + knowledge, glean + knowledge, acquire + knowledge, build up + knowledge.* ampliar el conocimiento = expand + Posesivo + knowledge, expand + Posesivo + knowledge, widen + knowledge, broaden + knowledge, deepen + understanding.* ampliar las fronteras del conocimiento = push back + the frontiers of knowledge.* análisis de áreas del conocimiento = domain analysis.* análisis de dominios del conocimiento = domain analysis.* aprendizaje rico en conocimiento = knowledge-rich learning.* área de conocimiento = area of study.* área del conocimiento = area of knowledge, discipline, subject field, field of activity, knowledge domain, discipline of knowledge.* aumentar el conocimiento = expand + Posesivo + knowledge, deepen + awareness.* aumento del conocimiento = knowledge building.* bannco de conocimiento = knowledge bank.* basado en el conocimiento = knowledge-based.* basado en las disciplinas del conocimiento = discipline-based.* bibliotecario con conocimientos de medicina = informationist.* búsqueda del conocimiento = quest for/of knowledge.* campo del conocimiento = field of knowledge.* centrado en el conocimiento = knowledge-centric.* ciencia del conocimiento = cognitive science.* compartir el conocimiento = knowledge sharing, pool + knowledge.* con conocimiento = authoritatively.* con conocimiento básico en el manejo de la información = information literate [information-literate].* con conocimiento básico en el uso de la biblioteca = library literate [library-literate].* con conocimiento de = appreciative of, conversant with.* con conocimiento de causa = knowingly, knowingly.* con conocimiento de informática = computer literate [computer-literate].* con conocimiento en el uso de Internet = Internet-savvy.* con conocimientos en = versed in.* con conocimientos sobre el correo electrónico = e-mail literate.* con el conocimiento de que = on the understanding that.* conjunto de conocimientos = body of knowledge.* conocimiento académico = academic knowledge.* conocimiento acumulado sobre un tema = lore.* conocimiento básico = working familiarity, working knowledge.* conocimiento científico = scientific knowledge.* conocimiento compartido = knowledge sharing.* conocimiento de base = foundation study.* conocimiento de cómo sobrevivir en el bosque = woodcraft.* conocimiento de embarque = bill of lading.* conocimiento de la existencia = awareness.* conocimiento de lengua = language skill.* conocimiento del objeto = object knowledge.* conocimiento de los diferentes soportes = media competency.* conocimiento detallado = intimate knowledge.* conocimiento de un área temática = area knowledge.* conocimiento documentado = recorded knowledge.* conocimiento enciclopédico = factual knowledge.* conocimiento en tecnología = technological skill.* conocimiento específico = expert knowledge.* conocimiento experto = expert knowledge, expertise.* conocimiento explícito = explicit knowledge.* conocimiento factual = declarative knowledge.* conocimiento humano = human consciousness.* conocimiento humano, el = human record, the.* conocimiento indígena = indigenous knowledge.* conocimiento lingüístico = language skill.* conocimiento mutuo = mutual knowledge.* conocimiento pasivo = nodding acquaintance.* conocimiento pleno = awareness.* conocimiento práctico = working knowledge, procedural knowledge.* conocimiento previo = foreknowledge.* conocimientos = knowledge base [knowledge-base].* conocimientos básicos = literacy.* conocimientos básicos de búsqueda, recuperación y organización de informació = information literacy.* conocimientos básicos de documentación = information literacy.* conocimientos básicos de informática = computer literacy.* conocimientos básicos en tecnología = technical literacy.* conocimientos básicos sobre el uso de las bibliotecas = library skills.* conocimientos de tecnología = techno-savvy, tech-savvy.* conocimientos en el manejo de la información = info-savvy.* conocimiento sobre una materia = subject knowledge.* conocimientos requeridos = job specs.* conocimiento tácito = tacit knowledge, tacit knowledge, tacit knowledge.* conocimiento técnico = know-how, technical knowledge.* conocimiento teórico = declarative knowledge.* con poco conocimiento de las nuevas tecnologías = technologically challenged.* corpus de conocimiento = corpus of knowledge.* crear un fondo común de conocimientos = pool + knowledge.* cúmulo de conocimiento = repository of knowledge, knowledge repository.* decisión con conocimiento de causa = informed decision.* difundir el conocimiento = spread + knowledge.* director ejecutivo de la gestión del conocimiento = knowledge executive.* dominio del conocimiento = knowledge domain.* economía basada en el conocimiento = knowledge driven economy.* economía del conocimiento = knowledge economy.* Era del Conocimiento, la = Knowledge Age, the.* estructuración del conocimiento = knowledge structuring.* examinar los conocimientos = test + knowledge.* falta de conocimiento = unfamiliarity.* filtro del conocimiento = knowledge filter.* fomentar el conocimiento = advance + knowledge.* fondo común de conocimientos = pool of knowledge, pool of expertise.* frontera del conocimiento = frontier of knowledge.* fundamentos del conocimiento, los = foundations of knowledge, the.* gestión del conocimiento = knowledge management (KM).* gestor del conocimiento = knowledge worker, knowledge manager.* hacer avanzar el conocimiento = push back + the frontiers of knowledge.* hacer gala del conocimiento que uno tiene = air + knowledge.* hacer perder el conocimiento = knock + Nombre + out, knock + Nombre + unconscious.* hacer uso de un conocimiento = draw on/upon + knowledge.* impartir conocimiento = impart + knowledge.* inculcar conocimiento = instil + knowledge.* ingeniería del conocimiento = knowledge engineering.* ingeniero del conocimiento = knowledge engineer.* institucion del conocimiento = institution of learning.* intercambio de conocimientos = learning exchange, cross-fertilisation [cross-fertilization, -USA], cross-fertilisation of knowledge.* jefe de los servicios de gestión del conocimiento = chief knowledge officer (CKO).* metaconocimiento = meta-knowledge.* navegación por el conocimiento = knowledge navigation.* navegador del conocimiento = knowledge navigator.* obtener conocimiento = gain + an understanding.* ofrecer conocimiento = package + knowledge.* perder el conocimiento = lose + Posesivo + senses, pass out, lose + Posesivo + consciousness.* pérdida del conocimiento = unconsciousness, fainting, fainting fit, loss of consciousness.* personas sin conocimientos técnicos, las = non-technical, the.* presentar conocimiento = package + knowledge.* producto del conocimiento = knowledge record.* profundizar en el conocimiento = deepen + knowledge.* propagar el conocimiento = propagate + knowledge.* proporcionar conocimientos técnicos = supply + know-how.* quedarse sin conocimiento = lose + Posesivo + consciousness, pass out.* rama del conocimiento = branch of learning.* recobrar el conocimiento = regain + Posesivo + consciousness.* recuperar el conocimiento = regain + Posesivo + consciousness.* red de conocimiento = knowledge network.* servidor del conocimiento = knowledge server.* sin conocimiento = unconscious.* sin conocimiento de causa = unbeknown to, unbeknownst to.* sintetizar el conocimiento = synthesise + knowledge.* sistema basado en el conocimiento = knowledge-base system.* sistema de gestión del conocimiento = knowledge management system (KMS).* sociedad basada en el conocimiento = knowledge based society.* sociedad del conocimiento = knowledge society.* Sociedad para el Conocimiento Global = Global Knowledge Partnership.* suministrar conocimientos técnicos = supply + know-how.* tener conocimiento de = be privy to, be aware of.* toma de decisiones con conocimiento de causa = informed decision making.* tomar decisiones con conocimiento de causa = make + informed decisions.* transferencia de conocimiento = transfer of knowledge, knowledge transfer.* utilizar los conocimientos de Uno = put + Posesivo + knowledge to work.* * *A1 (saber) knowledgetiene algunos conocimientos de inglés he has some knowledge of English, he knows some EnglishB ( frml)(información): dio conocimiento del suceso a las autoridades he informed o ( frml) apprised the authorities of the incidentpuso el hecho en conocimiento de la policía she informed the police of the incident, she reported the incident to the policepongo en su conocimiento que … ( Corresp) I am writing to inform you that …al tener conocimiento del suceso upon learning of the incident ( frml)a esas horas no se tenía todavía conocimiento de la noticia at that time we/they still had not heard the newsciertas personas tienen conocimiento de sus actividades certain people are aware of her activitiesllegar a conocimiento de algn to come to sb's attention o notice ( frml)con conocimiento de causa: obró con conocimiento de causa ( frml); he took this step, fully aware of what the consequences would bete lo digo con conocimiento de causa I know what I'm talking aboutCompuesto:bill of lading, waybillC (sentido) consciousnessperder el conocimiento to lose consciousnesscuando recobró el conocimiento when he regained consciousness, when he came to o roundestar sin conocimiento to be unconsciousD(entendimiento): aún es pequeño, no tiene todavía conocimiento he's not old enough to understand* * *
conocimiento sustantivo masculino
poner algo en conocimiento de algn to inform sb of sth;
tener conocimiento de algo to be aware of sth
◊ perder/recobrar el conocimiento to lose/regain consciousness;
estar sin conocimiento to be unconscious
conocimiento sustantivo masculino
1 knowledge
2 (conciencia) consciousness
3 conocimientos, knowledge
♦ Locuciones: perder/recobrar el conocimiento, to lose/regain consciousness
con conocimiento de causa, with full knowledge of the facts
' conocimiento' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
braga
- ciencia
- conciencia
- desfallecer
- desvanecerse
- dominio
- error
- orientación
- parcela
- revelar
- sentida
- sentido
- experiencia
- perder
- pérdida
- reanimar
- recobrar
- saber
English:
acquaintance
- air
- black out
- blackout
- cognizance
- come to
- comprehensive
- consciousness
- familiarity
- grounding
- improve
- knock out
- knowledge
- notice
- privy
- recover
- self-awareness
- sketchy
- superficial
- thorough
- unconsciousness
- black
- knock
- know
- pass
* * *conocimiento nm1. [saber] knowledge;hablar/actuar con conocimiento de causa to know what one is talking about/doing;puso el robo en conocimiento de la policía she informed the police of the burglary;ponemos en su conocimiento que se ha detectado un error en el programa this is to inform you that an error has been detected in the program;no teníamos conocimiento de su dimisión we were not aware that he had resigned;al tener conocimiento del accidente, acudió inmediatamente al hospital when she found out about the accident she immediately went to the hospital;ha llegado a mi conocimiento que estás insatisfecho it has come to my attention that you are not happy2.conocimientos [nociones] knowledge;tengo algunos conocimientos de informática I have some knowledge of computers, I know a bit about computers;nuestros conocimientos acerca de la enfermedad son muy limitados our knowledge of the disease is very limited, we know very little about the disease3. [sentido, conciencia] consciousness;perder el conocimiento to lose consciousness;recobrar el conocimiento to regain consciousness;estaba tumbado en el suelo, sin conocimiento he was lying unconscious on the floor4. [juicio] (common) sense;no tiene todavía conocimiento para saber lo que es peligroso he doesn't yet have a sense of danger* * *m1 knowledge;poner alguien en conocimiento de algo inform s.o. of sth;para su conocimiento for your information;conocimientos pl ( nociones) knowledge sg2 MED consciousness;perder el conocimiento lose consciousness;sin conocimiento unconscious;recobrar el conocimiento regain consciousness* * *conocimiento nm1) : knowledge2) sentido: consciousness* * *1. (en general) knowledge2. (sentido) consciousness -
71 aburrir
v.1 to bore.este trabajo me aburre this job is boringaburre a todo el mundo con sus batallitas he bores everyone with his old stories2 to be boring, to bore, to dull, to pall.Este juego aburre This game is boring.3 to tire, to weary, to bore, to bore the pants off.María aburre a Ricardo con su charla Mary tires Richard with her chattering.4 to be boring to.Aburre estudiar sola It is boring to study alone.* * *1 to bore2 (cansar) to tire1 to get bored (con/de/por, with)\aburrirse como una ostra familiar to be bored stiff* * *verb* * *1. VT1) [gen] to bore; (=cansar) to tire, weary2) ** [+ dinero] to blow *; [+ tiempo] to waste2.See:* * *1.verbo transitivo to bore2.aburrirse v prona) ( por falta de entretenimiento) to get boredb) ( hartarse)aburrirse de algo/alguien — to get tired of o fed up with something/somebody
aburrirse de + inf — to get tired of -ing
* * *= pall, bore, wear + a little thin, weary.Ex. The experience of 'flying through' virtual worlds to discover the identities of hundreds of criptics nodes palls very quickly.Ex. Frustrated by the limitations on developing work relationships with students, and bored with the demands of the library, she returned to teaching English.Ex. His jauntiness can wear a little thin, and the buff will be sorry there is no index, but there is much to be grateful for in this book.Ex. She wearies of the constant procession of visitors, and the round of invitations and commissions, which swallow up her time.----* aburrirse como ostras = be bored stiff, be bored to death, be bored to tears, be bored out of + Posesivo + mind.* aburrirse (con) = be bored (with).* no aburrir a Alguien con todos los detalles = spare + Nombe + all the details.* * *1.verbo transitivo to bore2.aburrirse v prona) ( por falta de entretenimiento) to get boredb) ( hartarse)aburrirse de algo/alguien — to get tired of o fed up with something/somebody
aburrirse de + inf — to get tired of -ing
* * *= pall, bore, wear + a little thin, weary.Ex: The experience of 'flying through' virtual worlds to discover the identities of hundreds of criptics nodes palls very quickly.
Ex: Frustrated by the limitations on developing work relationships with students, and bored with the demands of the library, she returned to teaching English.Ex: His jauntiness can wear a little thin, and the buff will be sorry there is no index, but there is much to be grateful for in this book.Ex: She wearies of the constant procession of visitors, and the round of invitations and commissions, which swallow up her time.* aburrirse como ostras = be bored stiff, be bored to death, be bored to tears, be bored out of + Posesivo + mind.* aburrirse (con) = be bored (with).* no aburrir a Alguien con todos los detalles = spare + Nombe + all the details.* * *aburrir [I1 ]vtto boreestas reuniones me aburren these meetings bore me, I find these meetings boring o tediousno aburras a la abuela con tus historias don't bore Granny with your stories1 (por falta de entretenimiento) to get borednunca me había aburrido tanto I'd never been so bored2 (hartarse) aburrirse DE algo/algn to get tired OF o fed up WITH sth/sbse aburrió de hacer lo mismo todos los días he got tired of o fed up with doing the same thing every day, he tired of doing the same thing every day* * *
aburrir ( conjugate aburrir) verbo transitivo
to bore
aburrirse verbo pronominal
aburrirse de hacer algo to get tired of doing sth
aburrir verbo transitivo to bore
♦ Locuciones: aburrir a las ovejas, to be incredibly boring
' aburrir' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
amuermar
- cansar
- empalagar
- martirizar
- asquear
- chorear
English:
bore
* * *♦ vtto bore;este trabajo me aburre this job is boring;aburre a todo el mundo con sus batallitas he bores everyone with his old stories;me aburre tener que madrugar todos los días it's really tiresome having to get up early every day* * *v/t bore* * *aburrir vt: to bore, to tire* * *aburrir vb1. (cansar) to bore2. (resultar pesado) to be boring -
72 acumular
v.to accumulate.le gusta acumular recuerdos de sus viajes she likes collecting souvenirs of her tripsMaría acumula sus cosas viejas Mary accumulates her old stuff.María acumula tiquetes Mary accumulates=collects tickets.* * *1 to accumulate, pile up, build up2 (gente) to gather* * *verbto accumulate, amass, gather* * *1.VT [+ posesiones] to accumulate; [+ datos] to amass, gather2.See:* * *1.verbo transitivo <riquezas/poder> to accumulate; < experiencia> to gain2.* * *= accumulate, cumulate, heap, amass, pile, build up, mount, hoard, stockpile, stash, rack up, pile up, store up, cache, tot up, tote up.Ex. Bureaux can be useful for proving trials, and the deferment of commitments until a suitable size of data base has been accumulated in the computer system.Ex. Publish changes as they are accepted, in a periodical publication, cumulating these in a new edition of all or parts of the schedules, as suitable.Ex. It is true that assignments were being heaped upon him with immense rapidity, but he would be able to sort them out and contrive solutions.Ex. Many libraries amass a considerable amount of community literature, some of which is kept on permanent display.Ex. The first thing I did was pile them one on another and then sit on them while I looked at my other presents.Ex. A small committee of librarians, whenever they could spare time from their existing jobs and in their own time, began to build up a card file of information on available resources in the city.Ex. Finally, the scores of amendments, which had been issued to change rules or clarify their meaning, had mounted to the point where catalogers copies of the AACR were seriously out-of-date, if they were not bulging with tip-ins.Ex. What one might call 'fetishistic bibliomania' is a disease -- and few serious book-readers, let alone librarians, are free from a squirrel-like proclivity to hoard books.Ex. This type of dairies are generally interested in stockpiling annual ryegrass as a source of high-quality winter forage.Ex. When I went to the little boys/girls room to relieve myself I was suprised to see the amount of loo rolls stashed in the corner.Ex. How many honorary doctorates has the Judge racked up since then?.Ex. As the bills piled up and the little money she had dried up, friends and neighbors began to worry that she didn't have a prayer.Ex. Large volumes of water can be stored up for irrigation by erecting an earthen or masonry dam across the lower part of the vally of a river or stream.Ex. Previous studies in which squirrels were provisioned with an abundant supply of food found a reduction in the rate of caching.Ex. Babies cry for an average of five hours a day for the first three months and tot up 51 days in their first year, according to survey.Ex. When you tote up the carbon emissions caused by clearing land to grow corn, fertilizing it and transporting it, corn ethanol leaves twice the carbon footprint as gasoline.----* acumular atrasos = build up + backlogs.* acumular demasiado estock = overstock.* acumular experiencia = garner + experience.* acumular polvo = gather + dust, collect + dust.* acumular problemas = build up + problems.* acumular reservas = stockpile.* acumularse = accrue.* * *1.verbo transitivo <riquezas/poder> to accumulate; < experiencia> to gain2.* * *= accumulate, cumulate, heap, amass, pile, build up, mount, hoard, stockpile, stash, rack up, pile up, store up, cache, tot up, tote up.Ex: Bureaux can be useful for proving trials, and the deferment of commitments until a suitable size of data base has been accumulated in the computer system.
Ex: Publish changes as they are accepted, in a periodical publication, cumulating these in a new edition of all or parts of the schedules, as suitable.Ex: It is true that assignments were being heaped upon him with immense rapidity, but he would be able to sort them out and contrive solutions.Ex: Many libraries amass a considerable amount of community literature, some of which is kept on permanent display.Ex: The first thing I did was pile them one on another and then sit on them while I looked at my other presents.Ex: A small committee of librarians, whenever they could spare time from their existing jobs and in their own time, began to build up a card file of information on available resources in the city.Ex: Finally, the scores of amendments, which had been issued to change rules or clarify their meaning, had mounted to the point where catalogers copies of the AACR were seriously out-of-date, if they were not bulging with tip-ins.Ex: What one might call 'fetishistic bibliomania' is a disease -- and few serious book-readers, let alone librarians, are free from a squirrel-like proclivity to hoard books.Ex: This type of dairies are generally interested in stockpiling annual ryegrass as a source of high-quality winter forage.Ex: When I went to the little boys/girls room to relieve myself I was suprised to see the amount of loo rolls stashed in the corner.Ex: How many honorary doctorates has the Judge racked up since then?.Ex: As the bills piled up and the little money she had dried up, friends and neighbors began to worry that she didn't have a prayer.Ex: Large volumes of water can be stored up for irrigation by erecting an earthen or masonry dam across the lower part of the vally of a river or stream.Ex: Previous studies in which squirrels were provisioned with an abundant supply of food found a reduction in the rate of caching.Ex: Babies cry for an average of five hours a day for the first three months and tot up 51 days in their first year, according to survey.Ex: When you tote up the carbon emissions caused by clearing land to grow corn, fertilizing it and transporting it, corn ethanol leaves twice the carbon footprint as gasoline.* acumular atrasos = build up + backlogs.* acumular demasiado estock = overstock.* acumular experiencia = garner + experience.* acumular polvo = gather + dust, collect + dust.* acumular problemas = build up + problems.* acumular reservas = stockpile.* acumularse = accrue.* * *acumular [A1 ]vt‹riquezas/poder› to accumulate, amass; ‹experiencia› to gainto accumulatese acumula mucho polvo aquí a lot of dust accumulates o gathers herelos intereses se van acumulando the interest is accumulating o ( frml) accruing, the interest is piling up ( colloq)el trabajo se iba acumulando work was piling o mounting up* * *
acumular ( conjugate acumular) verbo transitivo ‹riquezas/poder› to accumulate;
‹ experiencia› to gain
acumularse verbo pronominal [ trabajo] to pile up, mount up;
[ intereses] to accumulate;
[ deudas] to mount up;
[ polvo] to accumulate
acumular verbo transitivo to accumulate
' acumular' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
perecedera
- perecedero
English:
accumulate
- amass
- build up
- collect
- gather
- hoard
- pile up
- run up
- stockpile
- store
- store up
- accrue
- build
* * *♦ vtto accumulate;le gusta acumular recuerdos de sus viajes she likes collecting souvenirs of her trips;el tren fue acumulando retrasos en las diferentes paradas the train got further and further delayed at every stop* * *v/t accumulate* * *acumular vt: to accumulate, to amass* * *acumular vb to accumulate -
73 decir
v.1 to say.decir que sí/no to say yes/nodice que no viene she says (that) she is not coming¿cómo se dice “estación” en inglés? how do you say “estación” in English?dicen que va a ser un verano muy seco they say it's going to be a very dry summerElla dijo la razón She said the reason.Ella dijo incongruencias She said=uttered inconsistencies.Esa historia dice algo cierto That story says something that is true.2 to tell.¿quién te lo ha dicho? who told you that?¿qué quieres que te diga? what do you want me to say?, what can I say?decir a alguien que haga algo to tell somebody to do somethingdecir la verdad to tell the truthDecirle la verdad a Ricardo To tell the truth to Richard= To tell Richard the truth.Le dije I told him.3 to recite, to read.4 to tell, to show.eso lo dice todo that says it alldecir mucho (en favor) de to say a lot for5 to call.le dicen la carretera de la muerte they call it the road of death6 to say to.Ella había dicho hacer eso She had said to do that.7 to say about.Ese estudio dice mil años That study says about one thousand years.* * *Present IndicativePast IndicativeFuture IndicativeConditionalPresent SubjunctiveImperfect SubjunctiveFuture SubjunctiveImperativePast Participledicho,-a.* * *verb1) to say2) tell3) speak•- decirse* * *DECIR ¿"Say" o "tell"? Decir se puede traducir por say o por tell. Por regla general, say simplemente {dice} y tell {informa} u {ordena hacer algo}. ► Decir generalmente se traduce por say en estilo directo. Normalmente no lleva un complemento de persona pero si se menciona a quién se está dirigiendo el hablante, el complemento de persona tiene que ir precedido por la preposición to: "Ya son las tres", dije "It's already three o'clock," I said "¡Qué tiempo más malo!" Eso fue lo único que me dijo "What awful weather!" That's all he said to me ► En estilo indirecto, decir se puede traducir por say cuando simplemente se cuenta lo que alguien ha dicho. Si say lleva complemento de persona, este se coloca después del complemento directo: Dijo que se tenía que marchar He said he had to leave Me dijo algo que no entendí He said something to me that I didn't understand ► Decir se traduce por tell cuando se {informa} o se {ordena hacer algo}. Suele llevar un objeto de persona sin la preposición to: Me dijo que tenía una entrevista de trabajo He told me he had a job interview ¡Te he dicho que no lo toques! I told you not to touch it! ► Hay algunos usos idiomáticos en los que decir se traduce por tell aunque no lleva complemento de persona. Por ejemplo: to tell the truth (decir la verdad) y to tell a lie (decir una mentira). Otros verbos ► Si decir va acompañado de un calificativo en español, a menudo se puede traducir al inglés por otros verbos que no sean say o tell: "Lo he perdido todo", dijo entre sollozos "I've lost everything," she sobbed Dijo con voz ronca algo sobre necesitar un médico He croaked something about needing a doctor Para otros usos y ejemplos ver la entrada Para otras expresiones con el participio, ver dicho.1. VERBO TRANSITIVO1) (=afirmar) to sayya sabe decir varias palabras — she can already say several words, she already knows several words
- tengo prisa -dijo — "I'm in a hurry," she said
viene y dice: -estás despedido — * he goes, "you're fired" *
olvídalo, no he dicho nada — forget I said anything
¿decía usted? — you were saying?
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[como] dicen los madrileños — as they say in Madridcomo iba diciendo... — as I was saying...
¿cómo ha dicho usted? — pardon?, what did you say?
decir que to say (that)•
decir para {o} entre [sí] — to say to o.s.dicen que... — they say (that)..., people say (that)...
el cartel dice claramente que... — the sign says clearly {o} clearly states that...
decir que sí/no — to say yes/no
-¿viene? -dice que sí — "is she coming?" - "she says she is {o} she says so"
adiós 2.la miré y me dijo que sí/no con la cabeza — I looked at her and she nodded/shook her head
¿quién te lo dijo? — who told you?
se lo dije bien claro, pero no me hizo caso — I told her quite clearly, but she didn't take any notice of me
tengo algo que decirte — there's something I want to tell you, I've got something to tell you
decir a algn que ({+ indic}) to tell sb (that)hoy nos dicen las notas — they're telling {o} giving us our results today
decir a algn que ({+ subjun}) (=ordenar) to tell sb to ({+ infin}); (=pedir) to ask sb to ({+ infin})¿no te digo que no puedo ir? — I've already told you I can't go
3) (=contar) [+ mentiras, verdad, secreto] to tellverdad 1)4) (=llamar) to call¿cómo le dicen a esto en Perú? — what do they call this in Peru?
se llama Francisco, pero le dicen Paco — his name is Francisco, but he's known as Paco
le dicen "el torero" — he's known as "el torero"
en México se le dice "recámara" al dormitorio — in Mexico they say "recámara" instead of "dormitorio"
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me dijo de [todo] — he called me all the names under the sun5) (=opinar) to saypodemos ir a Portugal, ¿tú qué dices? — we could go to Portugal, what do you say?
¿tu familia qué dice de la boda? — what does your family say about the wedding?
6) [rectificando]había 8, digo 9 — there were 8, I mean 9
¡qué digo! — what am I saying?
7) [texto] to say•
como dice el [refrán]... — as the saying goes...8) [+ misa] to say9) [locuciones en indicativo]digo... — Méx well, er...
mis súbditos se presentarán ante mí ¡he dicho! — my subjects shall appear before me: I have spoken!
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y dice [bien] — and he is quite right•
[como quien] dice — (=de alguna manera) so to speak; (=aproximadamente) in a way, more or lessaunque no es el director es, como quien dice, el que manda en la empresa — although he isn't the manager, he's the person in charge, so to speak, of the company
está, como quien dice, aquí al lado — it's just round the corner, as they say
como quien no dice nada — quite casually, as though it wasn't important
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[lo mismo] digo — likewise- gracias por todo -lo mismo digo — "thank you for everything" - "likewise!" {o} "thanks to you too!"
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pero dice [mal] — but he is wrong•
pues si esto te parece mucha gente, no te digo [nada] en verano — if you think this is a lot of people, you should see it in summer•
no lo digo [por] ti — I'm not referring to you, I'm not getting at you•
sí, [porque tú] lo digas — yes, sir, aye, aye, captain! iró•
¿[qué me] dices? — [sorpresa] you don't say!, well I never!; [incredulidad] come off it!•
[si tú] lo dices — if you say so•
eso digo [yo] — that's (just) what I saydeberías buscar trabajo, vamos, digo yo — you ought to look for a job, that's what I say, if you ask me, you ought to look for a job
¡si te lo digo yo! — of course it's true!
¡lo digo yo y basta! — you will do it because I say so!
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¡[y que] lo digas! — you can say that again!10) [locuciones en infinitivo]•
[dar] que decir (a la gente) — to make people talk, set tongues wagging•
[es] decir — that is (to say)mi prima, es decir, la hija de Ana — my cousin, that is (to say) Ana's daughter
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[ir] a decir, ¡a mí me lo vas a decir! — you're telling me!•
es [mucho] decir — that's saying something•
[ni que] decir tiene que... — it goes without saying that...•
[no hay más] que decir — there's nothing more to say•
para decirlo con otras [palabras] — to put it another way, in other words•
decir [por] decir — to talk for talking's sake•
[por así] decirlo — so to speak•
[querer] decir — to mean¿qué quiere decir "spatha"? — what does "spatha" mean?
¿qué quiere usted decir con eso? — what do you mean by that?
¿querrás decir un millón, no un billón? — do you mean a million rather than a billion?
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[ya es] decir — that's saying somethingles ha costado más cara que mi casa, y eso ya es decir — it cost them more than my house did, and that's saying something
11) [locuciones en subjuntivo, imperativo]no es que yo lo diga, pero... — it's not because I say so, but...
es, digamos, un comerciante — he's a dealer, for want of a better word, he's a sort of dealer
¡haberlo dicho!, ¡me lo hubieras dicho! — you could have told me {o} said!
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digámoslo [así] — so to speak, for want of a better word•
digan [lo que] digan — whatever they say•
y [no] digamos... — not to mention...y su madre, no digamos — not to mention his mother
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no es muy guapa [que] digamos — she's not what you'd call pretty, she's not exactly prettyno estuvo muy cortés, que digamos — he wasn't what you'd call polite, he wasn't exactly polite
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¡[no me] digas! — [sorpresa] you don't say!, well I never!; [incredulidad] come off it!•
¿qué [quieres] que te diga? — what can I say?12) [locuciones en condicional]¿cómo (lo) diría yo? — how shall I put it?
¿cómo diríamos? — how shall I put it?
¡quién lo diría! — would you believe it!, who would have thought it!
13) el qué diránse preocupa mucho por el qué dirán — she's always worried about what people will say {o} think
2. VERBO INTRANSITIVO1) [invitando a hablar]-¿te puedo pedir un favor? -dime — "can I ask you a favour?" - "go ahead"
¿diga?, ¿dígame? — [al teléfono] hello?
usted dirá — [invitando a hablar] go ahead; [sirviendo bebida] say when; [en tienda] can I help you?
-¿te gustaría cambiar de coche? -¡hombre, ya me dirás! — "would you like a new car?" - "you bet I would!"
2) (=indicar)su mirada lo dice todo — her expression says it all {o} speaks volumes
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eso dice mucho [de] su personalidad — that says a lot about her personalityuna situación que tan mal dice de nuestro gobierno — a situation which shows our government in such a bad light
3.See:* * *III 1.¿cientos de personas? - bueno, es un decir — hundreds of people? - well, figuratively speaking
verbo transitivo1) <palabra/frase/poema> to say; <mentira/verdad> to tellya dice `mamá' — he says `mama' now
no digas esas cosas, por favor — please don't say things like that
¿cómo pudiste decir eso? — how could you say that?
¿eso lo dices por mí? — are you referring to me?
dicen or se dice que es el hombre más rico del país — he is said to be the richest man in the country
no se dice `andé', se dice `anduve' — it isn't `andé', it's `anduve'
¿cómo se dice `amor' en ruso? — how do you say `love' in Russian?
bonita, lo que se dice bonita, no es — she's not what you would call pretty
es el sábado; ni que decir tiene que estás invitado — it's on Saturday; you're invited, but that goes without saying
¿tendrá tiempo de hacerlo? - dice que sí — will he have time to do it? - he says he will
¿no lo encontró? - dice que no — didn't he find it? - no, he says he didn't
¿qué tal? ¿qué decís? — (RPl fam) hi, how are things? (colloq)
2)¿sabes qué me dijo? — do you know what he told me?; (expresando sorpresa, indignación, etc) do you know what he said to me?
fue algo espantoso, todo lo que te diga es poco — it was terrible, I can't begin to tell you how terrible
3)a) (expresando o transmitiendo órdenes, deseos, advertencias)decirle a alguien que + subj — to tell somebody to + inf
b)4) ( por escrito) to say¿qué dice aquí? — what does it say here?
5) ( llamar) to call6) (sugerir, comunicar)la forma de vestir dice mucho de una persona — the way someone dresses says a lot/tells you a lot about them
¿te dice algo ese nombre? — does that name mean anything to you?
7)8)¿qué quiere decir esta palabra? — what does this word mean?
¿qué quieres decir con eso? — what do you mean by that?
¿quieres decir que ya no te interesa? — do you mean (to say) that you're no longer interested?
9) (opinar, pensar) to think¿y los padres qué dicen? — what do her parents think of it?, how do her parents feel about it?
quién lo hubiera dicho! — who would have thought o believed it?
habría que regalarle algo, no sé, digo yo — we ought to buy her a present, well, I think so anyway
es muy fácil - si tú lo dices... — it's very easy - if you say so...
10) (en locs)a decir verdad — to tell you the truth, to be honest
2.con decirte que: no me lo perdonó nunca, con decirte que ni me saluda... he's never forgiven me, he won't even say hello to me; decir por decir: lo dijo por decir he didn't really mean it; es decir that is; mi cuñada, es decir la mujer de Rafael my sister-in-law, Rafael's wife that is; es mucho decir: es la mejor película del año - eso ya es mucho decir it's the best movie of the year - I wouldn't go that far; he dicho! that's that o final!; no me digas! no!, you're kidding o joking! (colloq); por así decirlo so to speak; que digamos: no es muy inteligente que digamos he's not exactly o he's hardly what you'd call intelligent; que no se diga! shame on you!; que no se diga que no somos capaces! I don't want people saying that we can't do it; y (ya) no digamos or (AmL) y no se diga: le cuestan mucho las matemáticas y no digamos la física he finds mathematics very difficult, and as for physics...; el qué dirán (fam): siempre le ha importado el qué dirán — she's always been worried what other people (might) think; ver tb dicho I
decir via) ( invitando a hablar)papá - dime, hijo — dad - yes, son?
quería pedirle un favor - usted dirá — I wanted to ask you a favor - certainly, go ahead
tome asiento, usted dirá — (frml) take a seat, and now, what can I do for you?
b) (Esp) ( al contestar el teléfono)3.¿diga? or ¿dígame? — hello?
decirse v prona) (refl) to say... to oneselfb) (recípr) to say.... to each otherc) (enf)* * *= declare, put, read, say, state, tell, volunteer, make + the point that, let + Nombre + know, let + it be known, observe, bid, reflect, utter, tender, hip, call + the tune.Ex. 24.17 declares Enter a body created or controlled by a government under its own name unless it belongs to one or more of the types listed in 24.18.Ex. As one respondent from this end of the information spectrum put it, 'Context is all in the information world'.Ex. This error message is displayed in the upper right-hand corner of the screen and reads: DAWT008, 107, DFCR....Ex. In conclusion, it should not be necessary to say that instructions and guiding must be as brief as possible.Ex. Short abstracts are generally preferred, but there are instances where the most effective approach is to cite the original unamended, and to state that this is what has been done.Ex. Program function key 1 (FP1) tells DOBIS/LIBIS to stop whatever it is doing and go back to the function selection screen.Ex. 'Anything wrong?' 'Oh, I'm okay, I guess,' volunteered Datto cautiously.Ex. However, they do make the very important point that the notation is not an essential part of the scheme.Ex. Then the secretary, having rallied herself, said forlornly 'I'll let him know you're here in a minute'.Ex. It can certainly be status-conferring to let it be known in social conversation that one has read the latest Fay Weldon book, but if the group one is in never reads Fay Weldon anyway and could not care less what she has written then the victory is a somewhat hollow one.Ex. 'All this is not very likely,' she observed at last, 'not only because of the strength of the selection process -- its imperviousness to proof before an arbitrator'.Ex. 'Sit down please,' he bade her.Ex. 'Now, you know, I could merely turn this over to the two division or all the department heads and let them decide,' reflected Bough.Ex. The ideal was forever etched in his consciousness from the day Crane uttered it: a good librarian working anywhere is a credit and benefit to libraries everywhere.Ex. 'Well,' Stanton tendered, 'one candidate clearly has the superior experience -- Kass'.Ex. He was aghast after having been hipped to the fact there are hookers on the Internet.Ex. As long as we allow other people to pay the piper, they will continue calling the tune in Africa.----* ¡eso se dice pronto! = easier said than done.* ¿lo dices en broma? = you must be kidding!.* a decir de todos = by all accounts.* a decir verdad = to tell the truth, if the truth be known, if the truth be told, in all truth, in truth, fact is, the fact is (that), to be fair.* a decir verdad... = the fact of the matter is that....* arriesgarse a decir = hazard.* atreverse a decir = go + (as/so) far as to say.* aunque a decir verdad = Mind you.* aventurarse a decir = venture.* baste decir que = suffice (it) to say.* como dice el dicho = as the saying goes, so the saying goes.* como dice el refrán = as the saying goes, so the saying goes.* continuar diciendo = go on.* cumplir lo que se dice = live up to + Posesivo + claim.* decían las malas lenguas que = rumour had it that.* decir adiós = bid + Nombre + goodbye, bid + adieu, kiss + Nombre + goodbye, bid + farewell, wave + a bye.* decir adiós (a) = say + goodbye (to).* decir adiós al pasado = bid + farewell + to the past.* decir adiós con la mano = wave + goodbye.* decir adiós con un gesto = signal + goodbye.* decir a favor de = say in + favour of.* decir Algo = break + the news.* decir Algo a Alguien = let + Nombre + in on.* decir Algo de un modo colérico = flame out.* decir Algo que es obvio por sí mismo = state + the obvious.* decir balbuceando = splutter, sputter.* decir bolas = fib.* decir bromeando = quip.* decir chorradas = bullshit.* decir con desdén = sneer.* decir con desprecio = sneer.* decir con la boca llena = say in + full confidence.* decir con mal humor = spit out.* decir con toda confianza = say in + full confidence.* decir con voz + Adjetivo = say in + a + Adjetivo + voice.* decir de un modo enfadado = spit out.* decir disparates = shoot off + at the mouth, talk + rubbish, talk + nonsense, talk through + Posesivo + hat.* decir en confianza = confide.* decir en defensa de = say in + defence of.* decir entrecordamente = splurt out.* decir en voz alta = say + out loud, say in + a loud voice.* decir en voz baja = say under + Posesivo + breath, say in + a low voice, say in + a quiet voice.* decir + esperar = express + hope.* decir estupideces = talk + rubbish, talk + nonsense, talk through + Posesivo + hat.* decir gilipolleces = talk + nonsense, talk + rubbish, bullshit, talk through + Posesivo + hat.* decir humorísticamente = quip.* decir inesperadamente = blurt out, pipe.* decir la última palabra = hear + the final word, outface.* decir la verdad = tell + the truth, speak + the truth, come + clean.* decir la verdad sobre = give + Nombre + the lowdown on.* decir la verdad, toda la verdad y nada más que la verdad = to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.* decirlo = come out with + it.* decir lo que Uno piensa = speak up, speak out.* decir mentirijillas = fib.* decir mentirillas = fib.* decir mucho de Algo = speak + volumes.* decir pamplinas = bullshit.* decir + poseer = claim.* decir que Uno se siente cómodo con Algo = express + comfort with.* decir que Uno se siente confortable con Algo = express + comfort with.* decir que Uno siente lo que le ha pasado a Otra Persona = express + sympathy for.* decir rápidamente sin parar = rattle off.* decir resoplando = snort.* decir sandeces = talk + rubbish, talk + nonsense, bullshit, talk through + Posesivo + hat.* decirse = grapevine + carry + the story, make out to be, word + go (a)round.* decirse que = be reputed to.* decir suspirando = sigh.* decir tonterías = talk + rubbish, talk + nonsense, talk through + Posesivo + hat.* decir una grosería = make + rude remark.* demostrar lo que Uno dice = make + good + Posesivo + claim.* dicen las malas lenguas que = rumour has it that.* digamos por ejemplo = let us say, say.* dime con quién andas y te diré quién eres = you are known by the company you keep.* dime con quién andas y te diré quién eres = you are known by the company you keep.* el tiempo dirá = time will tell.* el tiempo lo dirá = only time will tell.* enterarse de lo que Uno quiere decir = catch + Posesivo + drift, get + Posesivo + drift.* es decir = i.e. (latín - id est), in other words, that is, that is to say, which is to say.* es más fácil decirlo que hacerlo = easier said than done.* estar a punto de decir = be on the tip of + Posesivo + tongue to say.* esto no quiere decir que = this is not to say that.* expresar lo que Uno quiere decir = make + Posesivo + point.* hablar sin decir nada = waffle.* hacer lo que uno dice que es capaz de hacer = live up to + Posesivo + claim.* huelga decir = needless to say.* la gente dice que = rumour has it that.* ¿lo dices en broma? = you must be joking!.* me atrevo a decir = may I say.* ni que decir tiene que = it goes without saying that, needless to say.* no decir a Alguien lo que está ocurriendo = leave + Nombre + in the dark.* no decir nada = keep + quiet.* no decir nada a nadie = lips + seal.* no decir palabrotas = watch + Posesivo + mouth.* ¡no digas palabrotas! = watch your language!.* no hace falta decir que = it goes without saying that, needless to say.* no preguntes porque no te puedo decir la verdad = ask no questions and hear no lies.* no saber qué decir = be at a loss for words, be lost for words.* no ser tan bueno como se dice = not + it's cracked up to be.* para comenzar diremos que = to begin with.* para decir la verdad = to be honest.* por decirlo así = so to speak, in a manner of speaking.* por decirlo de alguna manera = so to speak.* por decirlo de algún modo = in a manner of speaking, so to speak.* por lo que dicen todos = by all accounts.* por no decir algo peor = to put it mildly.* por no decir nada de = to say nothing of.* por no decir nunca = if ever.* por no decir otra cosa peor = to say the least.* predecible en cuanto a lo que dice = platitudinous.* probar lo que Uno dice = make + good + Posesivo + claim.* qué me dices de... = what about....* querer decir = mean.* quién iba a decir entonces que... = little did + Verbo + then that....* quién + Pronombre + iba a decir que... = little did + Pronombre + know that....* recalcar lo que Uno quiere decir = drive + home + Posesivo + point.* resaltar lo que Uno quiere decir = drive + home + Posesivo + point.* se decía que = rumour had it that.* se dice = so the story goes.* se dice pronto, pero no es tan fácil = easier said than done.* se dice que = rumour has it that, the saying + be + that.* según se dice = reportedly, so the argument goes, reputedly.* sin decir nada = dumbly.* sin decir ni mú = as quiet as a mouse.* sin decir ni pío = as quiet as a mouse.* sin decir una palabra = without saying a word.* sin saber qué decir = nonplussed [nonplused].* tener cuidado con lo que se dice = say + the right thing.* tener cuidado con lo que Uno dice = watch + Posesivo + mouth, watch what + say.* yo me atrevería a decir = dare I say.* * *III 1.¿cientos de personas? - bueno, es un decir — hundreds of people? - well, figuratively speaking
verbo transitivo1) <palabra/frase/poema> to say; <mentira/verdad> to tellya dice `mamá' — he says `mama' now
no digas esas cosas, por favor — please don't say things like that
¿cómo pudiste decir eso? — how could you say that?
¿eso lo dices por mí? — are you referring to me?
dicen or se dice que es el hombre más rico del país — he is said to be the richest man in the country
no se dice `andé', se dice `anduve' — it isn't `andé', it's `anduve'
¿cómo se dice `amor' en ruso? — how do you say `love' in Russian?
bonita, lo que se dice bonita, no es — she's not what you would call pretty
es el sábado; ni que decir tiene que estás invitado — it's on Saturday; you're invited, but that goes without saying
¿tendrá tiempo de hacerlo? - dice que sí — will he have time to do it? - he says he will
¿no lo encontró? - dice que no — didn't he find it? - no, he says he didn't
¿qué tal? ¿qué decís? — (RPl fam) hi, how are things? (colloq)
2)¿sabes qué me dijo? — do you know what he told me?; (expresando sorpresa, indignación, etc) do you know what he said to me?
fue algo espantoso, todo lo que te diga es poco — it was terrible, I can't begin to tell you how terrible
3)a) (expresando o transmitiendo órdenes, deseos, advertencias)decirle a alguien que + subj — to tell somebody to + inf
b)4) ( por escrito) to say¿qué dice aquí? — what does it say here?
5) ( llamar) to call6) (sugerir, comunicar)la forma de vestir dice mucho de una persona — the way someone dresses says a lot/tells you a lot about them
¿te dice algo ese nombre? — does that name mean anything to you?
7)8)¿qué quiere decir esta palabra? — what does this word mean?
¿qué quieres decir con eso? — what do you mean by that?
¿quieres decir que ya no te interesa? — do you mean (to say) that you're no longer interested?
9) (opinar, pensar) to think¿y los padres qué dicen? — what do her parents think of it?, how do her parents feel about it?
quién lo hubiera dicho! — who would have thought o believed it?
habría que regalarle algo, no sé, digo yo — we ought to buy her a present, well, I think so anyway
es muy fácil - si tú lo dices... — it's very easy - if you say so...
10) (en locs)a decir verdad — to tell you the truth, to be honest
2.con decirte que: no me lo perdonó nunca, con decirte que ni me saluda... he's never forgiven me, he won't even say hello to me; decir por decir: lo dijo por decir he didn't really mean it; es decir that is; mi cuñada, es decir la mujer de Rafael my sister-in-law, Rafael's wife that is; es mucho decir: es la mejor película del año - eso ya es mucho decir it's the best movie of the year - I wouldn't go that far; he dicho! that's that o final!; no me digas! no!, you're kidding o joking! (colloq); por así decirlo so to speak; que digamos: no es muy inteligente que digamos he's not exactly o he's hardly what you'd call intelligent; que no se diga! shame on you!; que no se diga que no somos capaces! I don't want people saying that we can't do it; y (ya) no digamos or (AmL) y no se diga: le cuestan mucho las matemáticas y no digamos la física he finds mathematics very difficult, and as for physics...; el qué dirán (fam): siempre le ha importado el qué dirán — she's always been worried what other people (might) think; ver tb dicho I
decir via) ( invitando a hablar)papá - dime, hijo — dad - yes, son?
quería pedirle un favor - usted dirá — I wanted to ask you a favor - certainly, go ahead
tome asiento, usted dirá — (frml) take a seat, and now, what can I do for you?
b) (Esp) ( al contestar el teléfono)3.¿diga? or ¿dígame? — hello?
decirse v prona) (refl) to say... to oneselfb) (recípr) to say.... to each otherc) (enf)* * *= declare, put, read, say, state, tell, volunteer, make + the point that, let + Nombre + know, let + it be known, observe, bid, reflect, utter, tender, hip, call + the tune.Ex: 24.17 declares Enter a body created or controlled by a government under its own name unless it belongs to one or more of the types listed in 24.18.
Ex: As one respondent from this end of the information spectrum put it, 'Context is all in the information world'.Ex: This error message is displayed in the upper right-hand corner of the screen and reads: DAWT008, 107, DFCR....Ex: In conclusion, it should not be necessary to say that instructions and guiding must be as brief as possible.Ex: Short abstracts are generally preferred, but there are instances where the most effective approach is to cite the original unamended, and to state that this is what has been done.Ex: Program function key 1 (FP1) tells DOBIS/LIBIS to stop whatever it is doing and go back to the function selection screen.Ex: 'Anything wrong?' 'Oh, I'm okay, I guess,' volunteered Datto cautiously.Ex: However, they do make the very important point that the notation is not an essential part of the scheme.Ex: Then the secretary, having rallied herself, said forlornly 'I'll let him know you're here in a minute'.Ex: It can certainly be status-conferring to let it be known in social conversation that one has read the latest Fay Weldon book, but if the group one is in never reads Fay Weldon anyway and could not care less what she has written then the victory is a somewhat hollow one.Ex: 'All this is not very likely,' she observed at last, 'not only because of the strength of the selection process -- its imperviousness to proof before an arbitrator'.Ex: 'Sit down please,' he bade her.Ex: 'Now, you know, I could merely turn this over to the two division or all the department heads and let them decide,' reflected Bough.Ex: The ideal was forever etched in his consciousness from the day Crane uttered it: a good librarian working anywhere is a credit and benefit to libraries everywhere.Ex: 'Well,' Stanton tendered, 'one candidate clearly has the superior experience -- Kass'.Ex: He was aghast after having been hipped to the fact there are hookers on the Internet.Ex: As long as we allow other people to pay the piper, they will continue calling the tune in Africa.* ¡eso se dice pronto! = easier said than done.* ¿lo dices en broma? = you must be kidding!.* a decir de todos = by all accounts.* a decir verdad = to tell the truth, if the truth be known, if the truth be told, in all truth, in truth, fact is, the fact is (that), to be fair.* a decir verdad... = the fact of the matter is that....* arriesgarse a decir = hazard.* atreverse a decir = go + (as/so) far as to say.* aunque a decir verdad = Mind you.* aventurarse a decir = venture.* baste decir que = suffice (it) to say.* como dice el dicho = as the saying goes, so the saying goes.* como dice el refrán = as the saying goes, so the saying goes.* continuar diciendo = go on.* cumplir lo que se dice = live up to + Posesivo + claim.* decían las malas lenguas que = rumour had it that.* decir adiós = bid + Nombre + goodbye, bid + adieu, kiss + Nombre + goodbye, bid + farewell, wave + a bye.* decir adiós (a) = say + goodbye (to).* decir adiós al pasado = bid + farewell + to the past.* decir adiós con la mano = wave + goodbye.* decir adiós con un gesto = signal + goodbye.* decir a favor de = say in + favour of.* decir Algo = break + the news.* decir Algo a Alguien = let + Nombre + in on.* decir Algo de un modo colérico = flame out.* decir Algo que es obvio por sí mismo = state + the obvious.* decir balbuceando = splutter, sputter.* decir bolas = fib.* decir bromeando = quip.* decir chorradas = bullshit.* decir con desdén = sneer.* decir con desprecio = sneer.* decir con la boca llena = say in + full confidence.* decir con mal humor = spit out.* decir con toda confianza = say in + full confidence.* decir con voz + Adjetivo = say in + a + Adjetivo + voice.* decir de un modo enfadado = spit out.* decir disparates = shoot off + at the mouth, talk + rubbish, talk + nonsense, talk through + Posesivo + hat.* decir en confianza = confide.* decir en defensa de = say in + defence of.* decir entrecordamente = splurt out.* decir en voz alta = say + out loud, say in + a loud voice.* decir en voz baja = say under + Posesivo + breath, say in + a low voice, say in + a quiet voice.* decir + esperar = express + hope.* decir estupideces = talk + rubbish, talk + nonsense, talk through + Posesivo + hat.* decir gilipolleces = talk + nonsense, talk + rubbish, bullshit, talk through + Posesivo + hat.* decir humorísticamente = quip.* decir inesperadamente = blurt out, pipe.* decir la última palabra = hear + the final word, outface.* decir la verdad = tell + the truth, speak + the truth, come + clean.* decir la verdad sobre = give + Nombre + the lowdown on.* decir la verdad, toda la verdad y nada más que la verdad = to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.* decirlo = come out with + it.* decir lo que Uno piensa = speak up, speak out.* decir mentirijillas = fib.* decir mentirillas = fib.* decir mucho de Algo = speak + volumes.* decir pamplinas = bullshit.* decir + poseer = claim.* decir que Uno se siente cómodo con Algo = express + comfort with.* decir que Uno se siente confortable con Algo = express + comfort with.* decir que Uno siente lo que le ha pasado a Otra Persona = express + sympathy for.* decir rápidamente sin parar = rattle off.* decir resoplando = snort.* decir sandeces = talk + rubbish, talk + nonsense, bullshit, talk through + Posesivo + hat.* decirse = grapevine + carry + the story, make out to be, word + go (a)round.* decirse que = be reputed to.* decir suspirando = sigh.* decir tonterías = talk + rubbish, talk + nonsense, talk through + Posesivo + hat.* decir una grosería = make + rude remark.* demostrar lo que Uno dice = make + good + Posesivo + claim.* dicen las malas lenguas que = rumour has it that.* digamos por ejemplo = let us say, say.* dime con quién andas y te diré quién eres = you are known by the company you keep.* dime con quién andas y te diré quién eres = you are known by the company you keep.* el tiempo dirá = time will tell.* el tiempo lo dirá = only time will tell.* enterarse de lo que Uno quiere decir = catch + Posesivo + drift, get + Posesivo + drift.* es decir = i.e. (latín - id est), in other words, that is, that is to say, which is to say.* es más fácil decirlo que hacerlo = easier said than done.* estar a punto de decir = be on the tip of + Posesivo + tongue to say.* esto no quiere decir que = this is not to say that.* expresar lo que Uno quiere decir = make + Posesivo + point.* hablar sin decir nada = waffle.* hacer lo que uno dice que es capaz de hacer = live up to + Posesivo + claim.* huelga decir = needless to say.* la gente dice que = rumour has it that.* ¿lo dices en broma? = you must be joking!.* me atrevo a decir = may I say.* ni que decir tiene que = it goes without saying that, needless to say.* no decir a Alguien lo que está ocurriendo = leave + Nombre + in the dark.* no decir nada = keep + quiet.* no decir nada a nadie = lips + seal.* no decir palabrotas = watch + Posesivo + mouth.* ¡no digas palabrotas! = watch your language!.* no hace falta decir que = it goes without saying that, needless to say.* no preguntes porque no te puedo decir la verdad = ask no questions and hear no lies.* no saber qué decir = be at a loss for words, be lost for words.* no ser tan bueno como se dice = not + it's cracked up to be.* para comenzar diremos que = to begin with.* para decir la verdad = to be honest.* por decirlo así = so to speak, in a manner of speaking.* por decirlo de alguna manera = so to speak.* por decirlo de algún modo = in a manner of speaking, so to speak.* por lo que dicen todos = by all accounts.* por no decir algo peor = to put it mildly.* por no decir nada de = to say nothing of.* por no decir nunca = if ever.* por no decir otra cosa peor = to say the least.* predecible en cuanto a lo que dice = platitudinous.* probar lo que Uno dice = make + good + Posesivo + claim.* qué me dices de... = what about....* querer decir = mean.* quién iba a decir entonces que... = little did + Verbo + then that....* quién + Pronombre + iba a decir que... = little did + Pronombre + know that....* recalcar lo que Uno quiere decir = drive + home + Posesivo + point.* resaltar lo que Uno quiere decir = drive + home + Posesivo + point.* se decía que = rumour had it that.* se dice = so the story goes.* se dice pronto, pero no es tan fácil = easier said than done.* se dice que = rumour has it that, the saying + be + that.* según se dice = reportedly, so the argument goes, reputedly.* sin decir nada = dumbly.* sin decir ni mú = as quiet as a mouse.* sin decir ni pío = as quiet as a mouse.* sin decir una palabra = without saying a word.* sin saber qué decir = nonplussed [nonplused].* tener cuidado con lo que se dice = say + the right thing.* tener cuidado con lo que Uno dice = watch + Posesivo + mouth, watch what + say.* yo me atrevería a decir = dare I say.* * *1(manera de expresarse): en el decir popular in popular speech¿cientos de personas? — bueno, es un decir hundreds of people? — well, it's just a manner of speaking o a figure of speechsupongamos, es un decir, que … let's assume, just for the sake of argument, that …al decir de la gente, el clima está cambiando people say the climate is changingno son más que decires it's just talk■ decir (verbo transitivo)A decir: palabra, mentira etcB decirle algo a alguienC1 transmitiendo órdenes, deseos etc2 decir adiósD por escritoE llamarF sugerir, comunicarG decir misaH1 querer decir2 digo (al rectificar)I opinar, pensarJ en locuciones■ decir (verbo intransitivo)A1 invitando a hablar2 al contestar el teléfonoB decir bien/mal de■ decirse (verbo pronominal)1 reflexivo2 recíproco3 para enfatizarvtA ‹palabra/frase› to say; ‹mentira/verdad› to tell; ‹poema› to say, recite; ‹oración› to say[ para ejemplos con complemento indirecto ver división 2] ya dice `mamá' he says ‘mama’ nowno digas esas cosas, por favor please don't say things like that¿cómo pudiste decir semejante disparate? how could you say such a stupid thing o make such a stupid comment?no me dejó decir ni una palabra he didn't let me get a word in edgeways¿eso lo dices por mí? are you referring to me?no sé qué decir … un millón de gracias I don't know what to say … thank you very much indeed¡qué callado estás! ¡no dices nada! you're very quiet, you've hardly said a word!¡no lo dirás en serio! you can't be serious!¡no irás a decir que no lo sabías! don't try and tell me you didn't know!dijo que sí con la cabeza he nodded—no puedo hacer nada —dijo Juan there is nothing I can do, said Juan o Juan saidcomo dice el refrán/mi abuela as the saying goes/as my grandmother sayslo dijeron por la radio they said it o it was announced on the radiono eran ricos, digamos que vivían bien I don't mean they were rich, let's just say they lived welldicen que de joven fue muy guapa they say she was very beautiful when she was youngdicen que es el hombre más rico del país he is said to be the richest man in the country¿qué se dice? — gracias/por favor what do you say? — thank you/pleaseno se dice `andé', se dice `anduve' it isn't `andé', it's `anduve'¡eso no se dice! you mustn't say that!¿cómo se dice `te quiero' en ruso? how do you say `I love you' in Russian?, what's the Russian for `I love you'?bonita, lo que se dice bonita, no es she's not what you would call prettyestoy harta, lo que se dice harta ¿me oyes? I'm fed up, absolutely fed up, do you hear?eso se dice pronto, pero no es tan fácil that's easier said than donepalatal: dícese del sonido cuya articulación … palatal: of, relating to or denoting a sound articulated …es el sábado; ni que decir tiene que estás invitado it's on Saturday; you're invited, of course, but that goes without saying o but I don't need to tell you thathaberlo dicho antes why didn't you say so before?, you might have said so before!¿tendrá tiempo de hacerlo? — dice que sí will he have time to do it? — he says he will¿no lo encontró? — dice que no didn't he find it? — no, he says he didn'tdigan lo que digan no matter what people say, whatever people sayBdecirle algo a algn to tell sb stheso no es lo que me dijo a mí that's not what he told me, that's not what he said to me¿sabes qué me dijo? do you know what he told me?; (expresando sorpresa, indignación, etc) do you know what he said to me?se lo voy a decir a papá I'm going to tell Dadhoy nos dicen el resultado they're going to give us the result todayme dijo una mentira he told me a lie, he lied to meAndrés me dijo lo de tu hermano Andrés told me about your brother¡a mí me lo vas a decir! you're telling me!, you don't have to tell me!¿sabes lo que te digo? por mí que se muera look, as far as I'm concerned he can drop dead! ( colloq)¿no te digo? éste se cree que yo soy la sirvienta see what I mean? he thinks I'm his servant¿no te digo or no te estoy diciendo que hasta le pega? I'm telling you, he even hits her!¿tú qué me aconsejas? — ¿qué quieres que te diga? tienes que tomar tú la decisión what do you think I should do? — well, to be quite frank o honest, I think you have to decide for yourselfya te decía yo que no era verdad I told you it wasn't true, didn't I?fue algo espantoso, todo lo que te diga es poco it was terrible, I just can't describe it o I can't begin to tell youhace mal tiempo en verano, y no te digo nada en invierno … in summer the weather's bad, and as for the winter …¡no me digas que no es precioso! isn't it beautiful?a lo mejor te ofrecen el puesto ¿quién te dice? (CS); you never know, they might offer you the jobme resultó ¿cómo te diría? … violento I found it … how shall I put it? o I don't know … rather embarrassing¡ya me dirás qué le cuesta escribirnos una carta! I mean, surely it's not too much trouble for him to write us a letterno te creas todo lo que te dicen don't believe everything people tell you o everything you heardime con quién andas y te diré quién eres you can judge a man by the company he keepsC1(transmitiendo órdenes, deseos, advertencias): ¡porque lo digo yo! because I say so!a mí nadie me dice lo que tengo que hacer nobody tells me what to doharás lo que yo diga you'll do as I saymanda decir mi mamá que si le puede prestar el martillo ( AmL); mom says can she borrow your hammer?Fernando pregunta si puede venir con nosotros — dile que sí Fernando wants to know if he can come with us — yes, tell him he can o say yesdecir QUE + SUBJ:dice papá que vayas Dad wants youdice que llames cuando llegues she says (you are) to phone when you get theredijo que tuviéramos cuidado she said to be careful, she said we should be carefuldecirle a algn QUE + SUBJ to tell sb to + INFdiles que empiecen tell them to startle dije que no lo hiciera I told him not to do itnos dijeron que esperáramos they told us o we were told to waitte digo que vengas aquí enseguida I said, come here at once2decir adiós to say goodbyevino a decirme adiós she came to say goodbye (to me)di adiós a tu vida de estudiante that's the end of your student days, you'd better say goodbye to your student days¿se lo prestaste? ¡ya le puedes decir adiós! you mean you lent it to him? well, you can kiss that goodbye! ( colloq)D (por escrito) to say¿qué dice aquí? what does it say here?el diario no dice nada sobre el asunto there's nothing in the paper about itE (llamar) to callle dicen `Dumbo' por las orejas they call him `Dumbo' because of his earsse llama Rosario pero le dicen Charo her name is Rosario but people call her Charono me digas de usted there's no need to call me `usted'F(sugerir, comunicar): la forma de vestir dice mucho de una persona the way someone dresses says a lot o tells you a lot about themel tiempo lo dirá time will tellpor afuera la casa no dice nada the house doesn't look much from the outsideel poema no me dice nada the poem doesn't do anything for mealgo me decía que no iba a ser fácil something told me it wasn't going to be easy¿te dice algo ese nombre? does that name mean anything to you?la tarta estaba diciendo cómeme the cake was just asking to be eatenGdecir misa to say massH1querer decir to mean¿qué quiere decir esta palabra? what does this word mean?¿qué quieres decir con eso? what do you mean by that?no entendiste lo que quise decir you didn't understand what I meant¿quieres decir que ya no te interesa? do you mean (to say) that you're no longer interested?sólo quería decirte que … I just wanted to say that …2digo (al rectificar) I meanel presupuesto asciende a diez mil, digo cien mil de euros we have a budget of ten thousand, (sorry,) I mean a hundred thousand eurosI (opinar, pensar) to think¿y los padres qué dicen? what do her parents think of it?, how do her parents feel about it?podríamos ir mañana ¿tú qué dices? we could go tomorrow, what do you think?¡quién lo hubiera dicho! who would have thought o believed it?podría haber mencionado al resto del equipo, vamos, digo yo … he could have mentioned the rest of the team … well I'd have thought so, anywayhabría que regalarle algo, no sé, digo yo we ought to buy her a present, well, I think so anywayes muy fácil — si tú lo dices … it's very easy — if you say so …J ( en locuciones):a decir verdad to tell you the truth, to be honestcomo quien dice so to speakel nuevo tren está, como quien dice, a la vuelta de la esquina the new train is, so to speak o to coin a phrase, just around the cornerla granja es, como quien dice, la razón de su vida I suppose you could say the farm is his whole reason for livingcon decirte que: no me lo perdonó nunca, con decirte que ni me saluda … he's never forgiven me, he won't even say hello to medecir por decir: lo dijo por decir he didn't really mean it¡digo! ( Esp fam): ¡qué calor hace! — ¡digo! it's so hot! — you can say that again o I'll say! ( colloq)es decir that ismi cuñada, es decir la mujer de Rafael my sister-in-law, Rafael's wife that isno sé si voy a poder ir — es decir que no vas a ir I don't know if I'll be able to go — you mean you're not goinges mucho decir: es la mejor película del año — eso ya es mucho decir it's the best movie of the year — I wouldn't go that far¡he dicho! that's that!, that's final!lo mismo digo: mucho gusto en conocerle — lo mismo digo pleased to meet you — pleased to meet you o likewise¡qué alegría verte! — lo mismo digo it's great to see you! — and you o you too¡no me digas! no!, you're kidding o joking! ( colloq)¿sabes que se casa Lola? — ¡no me digas! do you know Lola's getting married? — no! o you're joking! o really? o never!por así decirlo so to speakes, por así decirlo, el alma-máter de la empresa he is, so to speak o as it were, the driving force behind the companyque digamos: no es muy inteligente que digamos he's not exactly o he's hardly what you'd call intelligent¿qué me dices?: saqué el primer puesto ¿qué me dices? I came first, how about that then?¿y qué me dices de lo de Carlos? and what about Carlos then?¿sabes que lo van a derribar? — ¿qué me dices? do you know they're going to demolish it? — what? o you're kidding!¡que no se diga! shame on you!¿te ganó un niño de seis años? ¡que no se diga! you were beaten by a six-year-old child? shame on you!¡que no se diga que no somos capaces! I don't want people saying that we can't do itse dice pronto no lesscostó $20.000 ¡se dice pronto! it cost $20,000, which is no mean sumlleva dos meses enferma, que se dice pronto she has been ill for two months, and that's a long time¡y que lo digas! ( Esp); you can say that again!, you're telling me!, don't I know it!y (ya) no digamos or ( AmL) y no se diga: le cuestan mucho las matemáticas y no digamos la física he finds mathematics very difficult, and as for physics …el/la que te dije ( fam hum); you-know-whoel qué dirán ( fam): siempre le ha importado el qué dirán she's always been worried what other people (might) think¿por qué te preocupa tanto el qué dirán? why do you worry about what people will o might say?■ decirviA1(invitando a hablar): papá — dime, hijo dad — yes, son?tome asiento — gracias — usted dirá ( frml); take a seat — thank you — now, what can I do for you?2Bdecir bien/mal de algn/algo: sus trabajos dicen bien de él his work has created a good impressionla manera en que se comportó no dice muy bien de él the way he behaved doesn't show him in a very good light o doesn't say very much for him■ decirse1 ( reflexivo) to say to oneselfse dijo que no lo volvería a hacer he said to himself o he told himself that he wouldn't do it againme dije para mis adentros que allí había gato encerrado I said o thought to myself, there's something fishy going on here2 ( recíproco) to say to each otherse decían secretos al oído they were whispering secrets to each otherse dijeron de todo they called each other every name under the sun3 ( enf):tú hazme caso que yo sé lo que me digo you listen to me, I know what I'm talking aboutno sé para qué me preguntas, si tú te lo dices todo I don't know why you're asking me, you seem to have all the answers* * *
decir 1 sustantivo masculino:◊ ¿cientos de personas? — bueno, es un decir hundreds of people? — well, figuratively speaking
decir 2 ( conjugate decir) verbo transitivo
1
‹mentira/verdad› to tell;
para ejemplos con complemento indirecto ver división 2
¿eso lo dices por mí? are you referring to me?;
¡no lo dirás en serio! you can't be serious!;
dijo que sí con la cabeza he nodded;
no se dice `andé', se dice `anduve' it isn't `andé', it's `anduve';
¡eso no se dice! you mustn't say that!;
¿cómo se dice `amor' en ruso? how do you say `love' in Russian?;
¿lo encontró? — dice que sí/no did he find it? — he says he did/he didn'tb)
2 decirle algo a algn to tell sb sth;◊ voy a decirle a papá que … I'm going to tell Dad …;
¡ya te lo decía yo! I told you so!
3a) (expresando órdenes, deseos, advertencias):◊ ¡porque lo digo yo! because I say so!;
harás lo que yo diga you'll do as I say;
dice que llames cuando llegues she says (you are) to phone when you get there;
dijo que tuviéramos cuidado she said to be careful;
diles que empiecen tell them to start;
le dije que no lo hiciera I told him not to do itb)
4
◊ ¿y los padres qué dicen? what do her parents think of it?, how do her parents feel about it?;
¡quién lo hubiera dicho! who would have thought o believed it?;
es muy fácil — si tú lo dices … it's very easy — if you say so …b) (sugerir, comunicar):
¿te dice algo ese nombre? does that name mean anything to you?
5
¿qué quieres decir con eso? what do you mean by that?
6 ( en locs)
como quien dice so to speak;
es decir that is;
¡he dicho! that's that o final!;
ni que decir tiene que … it goes without saying that …;
¡no me digas! no!, you're kidding o joking! (colloq);
por así decirlo so to speak;
el qué dirán (fam) what other people (might) think;
ver tb dicho 1
verbo intransitivoa) ( invitando a hablar):
quería pedirle un favor — usted dirá I wanted to ask you a favor — certainly, go ahead
decirse verbo pronominal
decir
I m (dicho, sentencia) saying: es sólo un decir, it's just a manner of speaking
II verbo transitivo
1 to say: está diciendo una mentira/la verdad, she's telling a lie/the truth
no dijo nada, he said nothing
2 (con complemento indirecto) to tell: no le dije mi opinión, I didn't tell him my opinion
les dijo que esperaran un rato, she told them to wait for a while
3 (opinar, afirmar, proponer) ¿qué me dices de mi nuevo corte de pelo?, what do you think of my new haircut?, te digo que es una extravagancia, I think it's quite weird
yo digo que vayamos a Cuenca, I suggest going to Cuenca
4 (suscitar interés, una idea) to mean, appeal: ese libro no me dice nada, that book doesn't appeal to me
¿le dice algo esta cara?, does this face mean anything to you?
5 (mostrar, indicar) to say, show: lo que hizo dice mucho en su favor, what he did says a lot for him
su cara de decepción lo dice todo, his long face says it all
♦ Locuciones: Tel Esp diga o dígame, hello?
digamos, let's say
digo yo, in my opinion
el qué dirán, what people will say
es decir, that is (to say)
ni que decir tiene, needless to say
no decir esta boca es mía, not to say a word
¡no me digas!, really!
por así decirlo, as it were o so to speak
querer decir, to mean
¡y que lo digas!, you bet! ➣ Ver nota en mean
¿To tell o to say?
Observa que to tell menciona a la persona a la cual va dirigida una frase: Dime tu nombre. Tell me your name. Les dijo que se fueran. He told them to go away.
Por el contrario, to say se centra en el contenido del mensaje, sin importarnos a quién va dirigido: ¿Qué has dicho? What did you say? Dijo que sí. He said yes. ➣ Ver nota en tell.
' decir' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
A
- amén
- amohinarse
- año
- apéndice
- atinar
- bala
- barbaridad
- bastante
- burrada
- callar
- chorrada
- colmo
- comenzar
- confiar
- cosa
- declarar
- delirar
- descargo
- despedirse
- dilucidar
- disparate
- entender
- excusada
- excusado
- flexible
- fluir
- ir
- haber
- hablar
- holgar
- honestamente
- hoy
- lengua
- maravilla
- mu
- nada
- obviedad
- pelagatos
- pío
- precisamente
- puño
- querer
- rezar
- restar
- rey
- saciedad
- señor
- significar
- soltar
English:
ablaze
- abuse
- afraid
- anything
- bid
- bite back
- blurt out
- buzz off
- caller
- clear off
- dash off
- devil
- dinner
- distinctly
- drone
- enjoy
- eventual
- ever
- few
- flatter
- flounder
- fortune
- gasp out
- get
- get at
- go
- go on
- hand
- heart
- hotly
- i.e.
- keep in
- know
- lip
- loss
- mean
- mention
- mildly
- mind
- miserably
- mouth
- move
- need
- needless
- neither
- no
- nonsense
- O
- occasion
- oops!
* * *♦ vt1. [en general] to say;siempre digo lo que pienso I always say what I think;es muy callado, nunca dice nada he's very quiet, he never says anything o a word;¿qué dice la etiqueta? what does the label say?;no digas tonterías don't talk nonsense;no digas tacos delante de los niños don't swear in front of the children;lo dijo en broma she meant it as a joke;¿quién te lo ha dicho? who told you that?;me da igual lo que diga la gente I don't care what people say;al decir esto, se marchó with these words o with that, he left;no sabía qué decir I didn't know what to say, I was lost for words;decir que sí/no to say yes/no;dice que no viene she says (that) she's not coming;como dice el refrán,… as the saying goes,…;dicen que va a ser un verano muy seco they say it's going to be a very dry summer;¡díjolo Blas, punto redondo! sure, whatever!, yes, sure!;donde dije digo, digo Diego: ayer dijiste que me lo dejarías – sí, pero no puedo – ya, donde dije digo, digo Diego yesterday you told me you'd lend it to me – yes, but I can't now – you're always saying one thing one minute and another the next2. [contar] to tell;se lo voy a decir a la profesora I'm going to tell the teacher;no se lo digas a nadie don't breathe a word of it to anyone;¿qué quieres que te diga? what do you want me to say?, what can I say?;ya te lo había dicho yo, es demasiado caro I told you it's too expensive;decir la verdad to tell the truth;decir mentiras to tell lies;pregunta si le dejas salir – dile que sí/no she wants to know if she can go out – tell her she can/can't;quiere saber si hemos terminado – dile que sí/no he wants to know if we've finished – tell him we have/haven't;dile que estoy ocupado tell him I'm busy;dígame lo que pasó tell me what happened;eso no es lo que me dijo a mí that's not what she told me;tengo que hacerte una pregunta – dime I need to ask you a question – go ahead;dígame en qué puedo ayudarle what can I do for you?3. [ordenar] to tell;la ley dice que es obligatorio el uso del casco according to the law, it is compulsory to wear a crash helmet, the law says that it is compulsory to wear a crash helmet;decir a alguien que haga algo to tell sb to do sth;haz lo que te digan y no protestes do as you're told and don't complain;dile que venga tell her to come;nos dijeron que nos fuéramos they told us to go away;lo vas a hacer porque lo digo yo you'll do it because I say so4. [recitar] [de memoria] to recite;[leyendo] to read5. [revelar] to tell, to show;eso lo dice todo that says it all;decir mucho (en favor) de to say a lot for;sus ropas dicen bastante sobre su situación económica her clothes say a lot about her financial situation;su violenta reacción dice mucho sobre su personalidad his violent reaction tells us o reveals a lot about his personality6. [llamar] to call;me dicen Paco they call me Paco;le dicen la carretera de la muerte they call it the road of death7. [asegurar] to tell, to assure;te digo que ella no está mintiendo I tell you o assure you (that) she isn't lying;dice que llegará mañana sin falta she says (that) she'll definitely arrive tomorrow8. [en frases]a decir verdad, no me apetece nada ir a la boda to tell (you) the truth o to be honest, I don't really feel like going to the wedding;como quien no dice nada as if it were nothing;olvídalo, como si no hubiera dicho nada forget I ever mentioned it;con decirte que me marché a los diez minutos, te puedes imaginar como fue la fiesta if I tell you that I left after ten minutes, you can imagine what the party was like;cualquiera diría que no le dan de comer en casa anyone would o you'd think she never gets fed at home;decir para sí to say to oneself;decir por decir to talk for the sake of talking;no te lo tomes en serio, lo dijo por decir don't take it seriously, she didn't really mean it;decirle a alguien cuatro verdades to tell sb a few home truths;es decir that is, that's to say;aracnofobia, es decir miedo a las arañas arachnophobia, that is o that's to say, fear of spiders;tengo otra cita – es decir, que no vendrás a la inauguración I've got another engagement – you mean o in other words you're not coming to the opening ceremony;encantado de conocerte – lo mismo digo pleased to meet you – likewise;tu primer examen estaba muy mal, y lo mismo digo del segundo you did very poorly in your first exam, and the same goes for the second one;ni que decir tiene needless to say;¿sabías que Santiago se ha casado? – ¡no me digas! did you know that Santiago got married? – no! o never!;¡no me digas que no te gusta! don't tell me you don't like it!;el tenis/este cuadro no me dice nada tennis/this picture doesn't do anything for me;no hay más que decir that's all there is to it, that's that;(o) mejor dicho or rather;por más que digas, no le veo nada especial a esta ciudad whatever you say, I don't see what's so special about this city;por decirlo así, por así decirlo in other words, so to speak;RP Fam¿qué decís? how are you doing?, how are things?;preocuparse por el qué dirán to worry about what people will say;no está lloviendo mucho que digamos it's not exactly raining hard;él no es muy inteligente que digamos he isn't what you'd call intelligent;ha sufrido un infarto – ¡qué me dices! she's had a heart attack – no! o surely not!;¡quién lo diría! tan rico y sin embargo tan humilde who would have thought it, such a rich person and yet so humble!;tardarán en construirlo cinco años, ¡se dice pronto! they're going to take five years, no less, to build it!;yo lo hago en cinco minutos – eso se dice pronto, no sabes lo difícil que es I'll have it done in five minutes – that's easily said, you've no idea how difficult it is;si tú lo dices if you say so;¡tú lo has dicho! you said it!;Esp¡y que lo digas! you can say that again!;no le gusta el pescado y no digamos el pollo she doesn't like fish, to say nothing of chicken♦ vicomo quien dice, como si dijéramos so to speak;es, como si dijéramos, una mezcla de danza y teatro it's a sort of mixture of dance and theatre;es, como quien dice, el alma de la empresa he is, so to speak, the soul of the company;Esp¿diga?, ¿dígame? [al teléfono] hello?;Fam¡digo! [¡ya lo creo!] of course!;[¡madre mía!] I say!;tenemos muchas ganas de ir de vacaciones, y nuestros hijos, no digamos we can't wait to go on holiday, and as for our children…* * *<part dicho>I v/t1 say; ( contar) tell;decir misa say mass;decir que sí say yes;decir que no say no;se dice que … they say that …, it’s said that …;diga lo que diga whatever he says;¿qué quieres que te diga? what do you expect me to say?;para sí say to o.s.:querer decir mean;es decir in other words;dar que decir set people talking;ni que decir tiene (que) it goes without saying (that);por así decirlo so to speak;ya es decir that’s saying something;que ya es decir which is really something;es mucho decir that’s saying a lot:¡quién hubiera dicho que María se iba casar! who would have thought that Maria would get married!;dicho y hecho no sooner said than done;mejor dicho or rather;dicho sea de paso incidentally;está dicho, lo dicho as I have already said4:no es rico, que digamos let’s say he’s not rich;¡no me digas! you’re kidding!;¡dímelo a mí! tell me about it!, you’re telling me!;como quien dice so to speak;y que lo digas you bet;¿y qué me dices de …? so what do you think of …?;usted dirá how can I help you?;ya decía yo que iba a acabar mal I knew it would end badly;¡quién lo diría! who would believe it!;¡cualquiera diría que tiene setenta años! who would have thought he was seventy!, you wouldn’t think o believe he was seventy!II v/i:¡diga!, ¡dígame! EspTELEC helloIII m saying;es un decir it’s just a figure of speech* * *decir {23} vt1) : to saydice que no quiere ir: she says she doesn't want to go2) : to telldime lo que estás pensando: tell me what you're thinking3) : to speak, to talkno digas tonterías: don't talk nonsense4) : to callme dicen Rosy: they call me Rosy5)es decir : that is to say6)querer decir : to mean* * *decir1 n sayingdecir2 vb¿qué ha dicho? what did he say?¿cómo se dice "biblioteca" en inglés? how do you say "biblioteca" in English?3. (para dar órdenes) to tell4. (llamar) to callle dicen "Chapi" people call him "Chapi"es decir that is / that is to say -
74 Historical Portugal
Before Romans described western Iberia or Hispania as "Lusitania," ancient Iberians inhabited the land. Phoenician and Greek trading settlements grew up in the Tagus estuary area and nearby coasts. Beginning around 202 BCE, Romans invaded what is today southern Portugal. With Rome's defeat of Carthage, Romans proceeded to conquer and rule the western region north of the Tagus, which they named Roman "Lusitania." In the fourth century CE, as Rome's rule weakened, the area experienced yet another invasion—Germanic tribes, principally the Suevi, who eventually were Christianized. During the sixth century CE, the Suevi kingdom was superseded by yet another Germanic tribe—the Christian Visigoths.A major turning point in Portugal's history came in 711, as Muslim armies from North Africa, consisting of both Arab and Berber elements, invaded the Iberian Peninsula from across the Straits of Gibraltar. They entered what is now Portugal in 714, and proceeded to conquer most of the country except for the far north. For the next half a millennium, Islam and Muslim presence in Portugal left a significant mark upon the politics, government, language, and culture of the country.Islam, Reconquest, and Portugal Created, 714-1140The long frontier struggle between Muslim invaders and Christian communities in the north of the Iberian peninsula was called the Reconquista (Reconquest). It was during this struggle that the first dynasty of Portuguese kings (Burgundian) emerged and the independent monarchy of Portugal was established. Christian forces moved south from what is now the extreme north of Portugal and gradually defeated Muslim forces, besieging and capturing towns under Muslim sway. In the ninth century, as Christian forces slowly made their way southward, Christian elements were dominant only in the area between Minho province and the Douro River; this region became known as "territorium Portu-calense."In the 11th century, the advance of the Reconquest quickened as local Christian armies were reinforced by crusading knights from what is now France and England. Christian forces took Montemor (1034), at the Mondego River; Lamego (1058); Viseu (1058); and Coimbra (1064). In 1095, the king of Castile and Léon granted the country of "Portu-cale," what became northern Portugal, to a Burgundian count who had emigrated from France. This was the foundation of Portugal. In 1139, a descendant of this count, Afonso Henriques, proclaimed himself "King of Portugal." He was Portugal's first monarch, the "Founder," and the first of the Burgundian dynasty, which ruled until 1385.The emergence of Portugal in the 12th century as a separate monarchy in Iberia occurred before the Christian Reconquest of the peninsula. In the 1140s, the pope in Rome recognized Afonso Henriques as king of Portugal. In 1147, after a long, bloody siege, Muslim-occupied Lisbon fell to Afonso Henriques's army. Lisbon was the greatest prize of the 500-year war. Assisting this effort were English crusaders on their way to the Holy Land; the first bishop of Lisbon was an Englishman. When the Portuguese captured Faro and Silves in the Algarve province in 1248-50, the Reconquest of the extreme western portion of the Iberian peninsula was complete—significantly, more than two centuries before the Spanish crown completed the Reconquest of the eastern portion by capturing Granada in 1492.Consolidation and Independence of Burgundian Portugal, 1140-1385Two main themes of Portugal's early existence as a monarchy are the consolidation of control over the realm and the defeat of a Castil-ian threat from the east to its independence. At the end of this period came the birth of a new royal dynasty (Aviz), which prepared to carry the Christian Reconquest beyond continental Portugal across the straits of Gibraltar to North Africa. There was a variety of motives behind these developments. Portugal's independent existence was imperiled by threats from neighboring Iberian kingdoms to the north and east. Politics were dominated not only by efforts against the Muslims inPortugal (until 1250) and in nearby southern Spain (until 1492), but also by internecine warfare among the kingdoms of Castile, Léon, Aragon, and Portugal. A final comeback of Muslim forces was defeated at the battle of Salado (1340) by allied Castilian and Portuguese forces. In the emerging Kingdom of Portugal, the monarch gradually gained power over and neutralized the nobility and the Church.The historic and commonplace Portuguese saying "From Spain, neither a good wind nor a good marriage" was literally played out in diplomacy and war in the late 14th-century struggles for mastery in the peninsula. Larger, more populous Castile was pitted against smaller Portugal. Castile's Juan I intended to force a union between Castile and Portugal during this era of confusion and conflict. In late 1383, Portugal's King Fernando, the last king of the Burgundian dynasty, suddenly died prematurely at age 38, and the Master of Aviz, Portugal's most powerful nobleman, took up the cause of independence and resistance against Castile's invasion. The Master of Aviz, who became King João I of Portugal, was able to obtain foreign assistance. With the aid of English archers, Joao's armies defeated the Castilians in the crucial battle of Aljubarrota, on 14 August 1385, a victory that assured the independence of the Portuguese monarchy from its Castilian nemesis for several centuries.Aviz Dynasty and Portugal's First Overseas Empire, 1385-1580The results of the victory at Aljubarrota, much celebrated in Portugal's art and monuments, and the rise of the Aviz dynasty also helped to establish a new merchant class in Lisbon and Oporto, Portugal's second city. This group supported King João I's program of carrying the Reconquest to North Africa, since it was interested in expanding Portugal's foreign commerce and tapping into Muslim trade routes and resources in Africa. With the Reconquest against the Muslims completed in Portugal and the threat from Castile thwarted for the moment, the Aviz dynasty launched an era of overseas conquest, exploration, and trade. These efforts dominated Portugal's 15th and 16th centuries.The overseas empire and age of Discoveries began with Portugal's bold conquest in 1415 of the Moroccan city of Ceuta. One royal member of the 1415 expedition was young, 21-year-old Prince Henry, later known in history as "Prince Henry the Navigator." His part in the capture of Ceuta won Henry his knighthood and began Portugal's "Marvelous Century," during which the small kingdom was counted as a European and world power of consequence. Henry was the son of King João I and his English queen, Philippa of Lancaster, but he did not inherit the throne. Instead, he spent most of his life and his fortune, and that of the wealthy military Order of Christ, on various imperial ventures and on voyages of exploration down the African coast and into the Atlantic. While mythology has surrounded Henry's controversial role in the Discoveries, and this role has been exaggerated, there is no doubt that he played a vital part in the initiation of Portugal's first overseas empire and in encouraging exploration. He was naturally curious, had a sense of mission for Portugal, and was a strong leader. He also had wealth to expend; at least a third of the African voyages of the time were under his sponsorship. If Prince Henry himself knew little science, significant scientific advances in navigation were made in his day.What were Portugal's motives for this new imperial effort? The well-worn historical cliche of "God, Glory, and Gold" can only partly explain the motivation of a small kingdom with few natural resources and barely 1 million people, which was greatly outnumbered by the other powers it confronted. Among Portuguese objectives were the desire to exploit known North African trade routes and resources (gold, wheat, leather, weaponry, and other goods that were scarce in Iberia); the need to outflank the Muslim world in the Mediterranean by sailing around Africa, attacking Muslims en route; and the wish to ally with Christian kingdoms beyond Africa. This enterprise also involved a strategy of breaking the Venetian spice monopoly by trading directly with the East by means of discovering and exploiting a sea route around Africa to Asia. Besides the commercial motives, Portugal nurtured a strong crusading sense of Christian mission, and various classes in the kingdom saw an opportunity for fame and gain.By the time of Prince Henry's death in 1460, Portugal had gained control of the Atlantic archipelagos of the Azores and Madeiras, begun to colonize the Cape Verde Islands, failed to conquer the Canary Islands from Castile, captured various cities on Morocco's coast, and explored as far as Senegal, West Africa, down the African coast. By 1488, Bar-tolomeu Dias had rounded the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa and thereby discovered the way to the Indian Ocean.Portugal's largely coastal African empire and later its fragile Asian empire brought unexpected wealth but were purchased at a high price. Costs included wars of conquest and defense against rival powers, manning the far-flung navel and trade fleets and scattered castle-fortresses, and staffing its small but fierce armies, all of which entailed a loss of skills and population to maintain a scattered empire. Always short of capital, the monarchy became indebted to bankers. There were many defeats beginning in the 16th century at the hands of the larger imperial European monarchies (Spain, France, England, and Holland) and many attacks on Portugal and its strung-out empire. Typically, there was also the conflict that arose when a tenuously held world empire that rarely if ever paid its way demanded finance and manpower Portugal itself lacked.The first 80 years of the glorious imperial era, the golden age of Portugal's imperial power and world influence, was an African phase. During 1415-88, Portuguese navigators and explorers in small ships, some of them caravelas (caravels), explored the treacherous, disease-ridden coasts of Africa from Morocco to South Africa beyond the Cape of Good Hope. By the 1470s, the Portuguese had reached the Gulf of Guinea and, in the early 1480s, what is now Angola. Bartolomeu Dias's extraordinary voyage of 1487-88 to South Africa's coast and the edge of the Indian Ocean convinced Portugal that the best route to Asia's spices and Christians lay south, around the tip of southern Africa. Between 1488 and 1495, there was a hiatus caused in part by domestic conflict in Portugal, discussion of resources available for further conquests beyond Africa in Asia, and serious questions as to Portugal's capacity to reach beyond Africa. In 1495, King Manuel and his council decided to strike for Asia, whatever the consequences. In 1497-99, Vasco da Gama, under royal orders, made the epic two-year voyage that discovered the sea route to western India (Asia), outflanked Islam and Venice, and began Portugal's Asian empire. Within 50 years, Portugal had discovered and begun the exploitation of its largest colony, Brazil, and set up forts and trading posts from the Middle East (Aden and Ormuz), India (Calicut, Goa, etc.), Malacca, and Indonesia to Macau in China.By the 1550s, parts of its largely coastal, maritime trading post empire from Morocco to the Moluccas were under siege from various hostile forces, including Muslims, Christians, and Hindi. Although Moroccan forces expelled the Portuguese from the major coastal cities by 1550, the rival European monarchies of Castile (Spain), England, France, and later Holland began to seize portions of her undermanned, outgunned maritime empire.In 1580, Phillip II of Spain, whose mother was a Portuguese princess and who had a strong claim to the Portuguese throne, invaded Portugal, claimed the throne, and assumed control over the realm and, by extension, its African, Asian, and American empires. Phillip II filled the power vacuum that appeared in Portugal following the loss of most of Portugal's army and its young, headstrong King Sebastião in a disastrous war in Morocco. Sebastiao's death in battle (1578) and the lack of a natural heir to succeed him, as well as the weak leadership of the cardinal who briefly assumed control in Lisbon, led to a crisis that Spain's strong monarch exploited. As a result, Portugal lost its independence to Spain for a period of 60 years.Portugal under Spanish Rule, 1580-1640Despite the disastrous nature of Portugal's experience under Spanish rule, "The Babylonian Captivity" gave birth to modern Portuguese nationalism, its second overseas empire, and its modern alliance system with England. Although Spain allowed Portugal's weakened empire some autonomy, Spanish rule in Portugal became increasingly burdensome and unacceptable. Spain's ambitious imperial efforts in Europe and overseas had an impact on the Portuguese as Spain made greater and greater demands on its smaller neighbor for manpower and money. Portugal's culture underwent a controversial Castilianization, while its empire became hostage to Spain's fortunes. New rival powers England, France, and Holland attacked and took parts of Spain's empire and at the same time attacked Portugal's empire, as well as the mother country.Portugal's empire bore the consequences of being attacked by Spain's bitter enemies in what was a form of world war. Portuguese losses were heavy. By 1640, Portugal had lost most of its Moroccan cities as well as Ceylon, the Moluccas, and sections of India. With this, Portugal's Asian empire was gravely weakened. Only Goa, Damão, Diu, Bombay, Timor, and Macau remained and, in Brazil, Dutch forces occupied the northeast.On 1 December 1640, long commemorated as a national holiday, Portuguese rebels led by the duke of Braganza overthrew Spanish domination and took advantage of Spanish weakness following a more serious rebellion in Catalonia. Portugal regained independence from Spain, but at a price: dependence on foreign assistance to maintain its independence in the form of the renewal of the alliance with England.Restoration and Second Empire, 1640-1822Foreign affairs and empire dominated the restoration era and aftermath, and Portugal again briefly enjoyed greater European power and prestige. The Anglo-Portuguese Alliance was renewed and strengthened in treaties of 1642, 1654, and 1661, and Portugal's independence from Spain was underwritten by English pledges and armed assistance. In a Luso-Spanish treaty of 1668, Spain recognized Portugal's independence. Portugal's alliance with England was a marriage of convenience and necessity between two monarchies with important religious, cultural, and social differences. In return for legal, diplomatic, and trade privileges, as well as the use during war and peace of Portugal's great Lisbon harbor and colonial ports for England's navy, England pledged to protect Portugal and its scattered empire from any attack. The previously cited 17th-century alliance treaties were renewed later in the Treaty of Windsor, signed in London in 1899. On at least 10 different occasions after 1640, and during the next two centuries, England was central in helping prevent or repel foreign invasions of its ally, Portugal.Portugal's second empire (1640-1822) was largely Brazil-oriented. Portuguese colonization, exploitation of wealth, and emigration focused on Portuguese America, and imperial revenues came chiefly from Brazil. Between 1670 and 1740, Portugal's royalty and nobility grew wealthier on funds derived from Brazilian gold, diamonds, sugar, tobacco, and other crops, an enterprise supported by the Atlantic slave trade and the supply of African slave labor from West Africa and Angola. Visitors today can see where much of that wealth was invested: Portugal's rich legacy of monumental architecture. Meanwhile, the African slave trade took a toll in Angola and West Africa.In continental Portugal, absolutist monarchy dominated politics and government, and there was a struggle for position and power between the monarchy and other institutions, such as the Church and nobility. King José I's chief minister, usually known in history as the marquis of Pombal (ruled 1750-77), sharply suppressed the nobility and theChurch (including the Inquisition, now a weak institution) and expelled the Jesuits. Pombal also made an effort to reduce economic dependence on England, Portugal's oldest ally. But his successes did not last much beyond his disputed time in office.Beginning in the late 18th century, the European-wide impact of the French Revolution and the rise of Napoleon placed Portugal in a vulnerable position. With the monarchy ineffectively led by an insane queen (Maria I) and her indecisive regent son (João VI), Portugal again became the focus of foreign ambition and aggression. With England unable to provide decisive assistance in time, France—with Spain's consent—invaded Portugal in 1807. As Napoleon's army under General Junot entered Lisbon meeting no resistance, Portugal's royal family fled on a British fleet to Brazil, where it remained in exile until 1821. In the meantime, Portugal's overseas empire was again under threat. There was a power vacuum as the monarch was absent, foreign armies were present, and new political notions of liberalism and constitutional monarchy were exciting various groups of citizens.Again England came to the rescue, this time in the form of the armies of the duke of Wellington. Three successive French invasions of Portugal were defeated and expelled, and Wellington succeeded in carrying the war against Napoleon across the Portuguese frontier into Spain. The presence of the English army, the new French-born liberal ideas, and the political vacuum combined to create revolutionary conditions. The French invasions and the peninsular wars, where Portuguese armed forces played a key role, marked the beginning of a new era in politics.Liberalism and Constitutional Monarchy, 1822-1910During 1807-22, foreign invasions, war, and civil strife over conflicting political ideas gravely damaged Portugal's commerce, economy, and novice industry. The next terrible blow was the loss of Brazil in 1822, the jewel in the imperial crown. Portugal's very independence seemed to be at risk. In vain, Portugal sought to resist Brazilian independence by force, but in 1825 it formally acknowledged Brazilian independence by treaty.Portugal's slow recovery from the destructive French invasions and the "war of independence" was complicated by civil strife over the form of constitutional monarchy that best suited Portugal. After struggles over these issues between 1820 and 1834, Portugal settled somewhat uncertainly into a moderate constitutional monarchy whose constitution (Charter of 1826) lent it strong political powers to exert a moderating influence between the executive and legislative branches of the government. It also featured a new upper middle class based on land ownership and commerce; a Catholic Church that, although still important, lived with reduced privileges and property; a largely African (third) empire to which Lisbon and Oporto devoted increasing spiritual and material resources, starting with the liberal imperial plans of 1836 and 1851, and continuing with the work of institutions like the Lisbon Society of Geography (established 1875); and a mass of rural peasants whose bonds to the land weakened after 1850 and who began to immigrate in increasing numbers to Brazil and North America.Chronic military intervention in national politics began in 19th-century Portugal. Such intervention, usually commencing with coups or pronunciamentos (military revolts), was a shortcut to the spoils of political office and could reflect popular discontent as well as the power of personalities. An early example of this was the 1817 golpe (coup) attempt of General Gomes Freire against British military rule in Portugal before the return of King João VI from Brazil. Except for a more stable period from 1851 to 1880, military intervention in politics, or the threat thereof, became a feature of the constitutional monarchy's political life, and it continued into the First Republic and the subsequent Estado Novo.Beginning with the Regeneration period (1851-80), Portugal experienced greater political stability and economic progress. Military intervention in politics virtually ceased; industrialization and construction of railroads, roads, and bridges proceeded; two political parties (Regenerators and Historicals) worked out a system of rotation in power; and leading intellectuals sparked a cultural revival in several fields. In 19th-century literature, there was a new golden age led by such figures as Alexandre Herculano (historian), Eça de Queirós (novelist), Almeida Garrett (playwright and essayist), Antero de Quental (poet), and Joaquim Oliveira Martins (historian and social scientist). In its third overseas empire, Portugal attempted to replace the slave trade and slavery with legitimate economic activities; to reform the administration; and to expand Portuguese holdings beyond coastal footholds deep into the African hinterlands in West, West Central, and East Africa. After 1841, to some extent, and especially after 1870, colonial affairs, combined with intense nationalism, pressures for economic profit in Africa, sentiment for national revival, and the drift of European affairs would make or break Lisbon governments.Beginning with the political crisis that arose out of the "English Ultimatum" affair of January 1890, the monarchy became discredtted and identified with the poorly functioning government, political parties splintered, and republicanism found more supporters. Portugal participated in the "Scramble for Africa," expanding its African holdings, but failed to annex territory connecting Angola and Mozambique. A growing foreign debt and state bankruptcy as of the early 1890s damaged the constitutional monarchy's reputation, despite the efforts of King Carlos in diplomacy, the renewal of the alliance in the Windsor Treaty of 1899, and the successful if bloody colonial wars in the empire (1880-97). Republicanism proclaimed that Portugal's weak economy and poor society were due to two historic institutions: the monarchy and the Catholic Church. A republic, its stalwarts claimed, would bring greater individual liberty; efficient, if more decentralized government; and a stronger colonial program while stripping the Church of its role in both society and education.As the monarchy lost support and republicans became more aggressive, violence increased in politics. King Carlos I and his heir Luís were murdered in Lisbon by anarchist-republicans on 1 February 1908. Following a military and civil insurrection and fighting between monarchist and republican forces, on 5 October 1910, King Manuel II fled Portugal and a republic was proclaimed.First Parliamentary Republic, 1910-26Portugal's first attempt at republican government was the most unstable, turbulent parliamentary republic in the history of 20th-century Western Europe. During a little under 16 years of the republic, there were 45 governments, a number of legislatures that did not complete normal terms, military coups, and only one president who completed his four-year term in office. Portuguese society was poorly prepared for this political experiment. Among the deadly legacies of the monarchy were a huge public debt; a largely rural, apolitical, and illiterate peasant population; conflict over the causes of the country's misfortunes; and lack of experience with a pluralist, democratic system.The republic had some talented leadership but lacked popular, institutional, and economic support. The 1911 republican constitution established only a limited democracy, as only a small portion of the adult male citizenry was eligible to vote. In a country where the majority was Catholic, the republic passed harshly anticlerical laws, and its institutions and supporters persecuted both the Church and its adherents. During its brief disjointed life, the First Republic drafted important reform plans in economic, social, and educational affairs; actively promoted development in the empire; and pursued a liberal, generous foreign policy. Following British requests for Portugal's assistance in World War I, Portugal entered the war on the Allied side in March 1916 and sent armies to Flanders and Portuguese Africa. Portugal's intervention in that conflict, however, was too costly in many respects, and the ultimate failure of the republic in part may be ascribed to Portugal's World War I activities.Unfortunately for the republic, its time coincided with new threats to Portugal's African possessions: World War I, social and political demands from various classes that could not be reconciled, excessive military intervention in politics, and, in particular, the worst economic and financial crisis Portugal had experienced since the 16th and 17th centuries. After the original Portuguese Republican Party (PRP, also known as the "Democrats") splintered into three warring groups in 1912, no true multiparty system emerged. The Democrats, except for only one or two elections, held an iron monopoly of electoral power, and political corruption became a major issue. As extreme right-wing dictatorships elsewhere in Europe began to take power in Italy (1922), neighboring Spain (1923), and Greece (1925), what scant popular support remained for the republic collapsed. Backed by a right-wing coalition of landowners from Alentejo, clergy, Coimbra University faculty and students, Catholic organizations, and big business, career military officers led by General Gomes da Costa executed a coup on 28 May 1926, turned out the last republican government, and established a military government.The Estado Novo (New State), 1926-74During the military phase (1926-32) of the Estado Novo, professional military officers, largely from the army, governed and administered Portugal and held key cabinet posts, but soon discovered that the military possessed no magic formula that could readily solve the problems inherited from the First Republic. Especially during the years 1926-31, the military dictatorship, even with its political repression of republican activities and institutions (military censorship of the press, political police action, and closure of the republic's rowdy parliament), was characterized by similar weaknesses: personalism and factionalism; military coups and political instability, including civil strife and loss of life; state debt and bankruptcy; and a weak economy. "Barracks parliamentarism" was not an acceptable alternative even to the "Nightmare Republic."Led by General Óscar Carmona, who had replaced and sent into exile General Gomes da Costa, the military dictatorship turned to a civilian expert in finance and economics to break the budget impasse and bring coherence to the disorganized system. Appointed minister of finance on 27 April 1928, the Coimbra University Law School professor of economics Antônio de Oliveira Salazar (1889-1970) first reformed finance, helped balance the budget, and then turned to other concerns as he garnered extraordinary governing powers. In 1930, he was appointed interim head of another key ministry (Colonies) and within a few years had become, in effect, a civilian dictator who, with the military hierarchy's support, provided the government with coherence, a program, and a set of policies.For nearly 40 years after he was appointed the first civilian prime minister in 1932, Salazar's personality dominated the government. Unlike extreme right-wing dictators elsewhere in Europe, Salazar was directly appointed by the army but was never endorsed by a popular political party, street militia, or voter base. The scholarly, reclusive former Coimbra University professor built up what became known after 1932 as the Estado Novo ("New State"), which at the time of its overthrow by another military coup in 1974, was the longest surviving authoritarian regime in Western Europe. The system of Salazar and the largely academic and technocratic ruling group he gathered in his cabinets was based on the central bureaucracy of the state, which was supported by the president of the republic—always a senior career military officer, General Óscar Carmona (1928-51), General Craveiro Lopes (1951-58), and Admiral Américo Tómaz (1958-74)—and the complicity of various institutions. These included a rubber-stamp legislature called the National Assembly (1935-74) and a political police known under various names: PVDE (1932-45), PIDE (1945-69),and DGS (1969-74). Other defenders of the Estado Novo security were paramilitary organizations such as the National Republican Guard (GNR); the Portuguese Legion (PL); and the Portuguese Youth [Movement]. In addition to censorship of the media, theater, and books, there was political repression and a deliberate policy of depoliticization. All political parties except for the approved movement of regime loyalists, the União Nacional or (National Union), were banned.The most vigorous and more popular period of the New State was 1932-44, when the basic structures were established. Never monolithic or entirely the work of one person (Salazar), the New State was constructed with the assistance of several dozen top associates who were mainly academics from law schools, some technocrats with specialized skills, and a handful of trusted career military officers. The 1933 Constitution declared Portugal to be a "unitary, corporative Republic," and pressures to restore the monarchy were resisted. Although some of the regime's followers were fascists and pseudofascists, many more were conservative Catholics, integralists, nationalists, and monarchists of different varieties, and even some reactionary republicans. If the New State was authoritarian, it was not totalitarian and, unlike fascism in Benito Mussolini's Italy or Adolf Hitler's Germany, it usually employed the minimum of violence necessary to defeat what remained a largely fractious, incoherent opposition.With the tumultuous Second Republic and the subsequent civil war in nearby Spain, the regime felt threatened and reinforced its defenses. During what Salazar rightly perceived as a time of foreign policy crisis for Portugal (1936-45), he assumed control of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. From there, he pursued four basic foreign policy objectives: supporting the Nationalist rebels of General Francisco Franco in the Spanish Civil War (1936-39) and concluding defense treaties with a triumphant Franco; ensuring that General Franco in an exhausted Spain did not enter World War II on the Axis side; maintaining Portuguese neutrality in World War II with a post-1942 tilt toward the Allies, including granting Britain and the United States use of bases in the Azores Islands; and preserving and protecting Portugal's Atlantic Islands and its extensive, if poor, overseas empire in Africa and Asia.During the middle years of the New State (1944-58), many key Salazar associates in government either died or resigned, and there was greater social unrest in the form of unprecedented strikes and clandestine Communist activities, intensified opposition, and new threatening international pressures on Portugal's overseas empire. During the earlier phase of the Cold War (1947-60), Portugal became a steadfast, if weak, member of the US-dominated North Atlantic Treaty Organization alliance and, in 1955, with American support, Portugal joined the United Nations (UN). Colonial affairs remained a central concern of the regime. As of 1939, Portugal was the third largest colonial power in the world and possessed territories in tropical Africa (Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, and São Tomé and Príncipe Islands) and the remnants of its 16th-century empire in Asia (Goa, Damão, Diu, East Timor, and Macau). Beginning in the early 1950s, following the independence of India in 1947, Portugal resisted Indian pressures to decolonize Portuguese India and used police forces to discourage internal opposition in its Asian and African colonies.The later years of the New State (1958-68) witnessed the aging of the increasingly isolated but feared Salazar and new threats both at home and overseas. Although the regime easily overcame the brief oppositionist threat from rival presidential candidate General Humberto Delgado in the spring of 1958, new developments in the African and Asian empires imperiled the authoritarian system. In February 1961, oppositionists hijacked the Portuguese ocean liner Santa Maria and, in following weeks, African insurgents in northern Angola, although they failed to expel the Portuguese, gained worldwide media attention, discredited the New State, and began the 13-year colonial war. After thwarting a dissident military coup against his continued leadership, Salazar and his ruling group mobilized military repression in Angola and attempted to develop the African colonies at a faster pace in order to ensure Portuguese control. Meanwhile, the other European colonial powers (Britain, France, Belgium, and Spain) rapidly granted political independence to their African territories.At the time of Salazar's removal from power in September 1968, following a stroke, Portugal's efforts to maintain control over its colonies appeared to be successful. President Americo Tomás appointed Dr. Marcello Caetano as Salazar's successor as prime minister. While maintaining the New State's basic structures, and continuing the regime's essential colonial policy, Caetano attempted wider reforms in colonial administration and some devolution of power from Lisbon, as well as more freedom of expression in Lisbon. Still, a great deal of the budget was devoted to supporting the wars against the insurgencies in Africa. Meanwhile in Asia, Portuguese India had fallen when the Indian army invaded in December 1961. The loss of Goa was a psychological blow to the leadership of the New State, and of the Asian empire only East Timor and Macau remained.The Caetano years (1968-74) were but a hiatus between the waning Salazar era and a new regime. There was greater political freedom and rapid economic growth (5-6 percent annually to late 1973), but Caetano's government was unable to reform the old system thoroughly and refused to consider new methods either at home or in the empire. In the end, regime change came from junior officers of the professional military who organized the Armed Forces Movement (MFA) against the Caetano government. It was this group of several hundred officers, mainly in the army and navy, which engineered a largely bloodless coup in Lisbon on 25 April 1974. Their unexpected action brought down the 48-year-old New State and made possible the eventual establishment and consolidation of democratic governance in Portugal, as well as a reorientation of the country away from the Atlantic toward Europe.Revolution of Carnations, 1974-76Following successful military operations of the Armed Forces Movement against the Caetano government, Portugal experienced what became known as the "Revolution of Carnations." It so happened that during the rainy week of the military golpe, Lisbon flower shops were featuring carnations, and the revolutionaries and their supporters adopted the red carnation as the common symbol of the event, as well as of the new freedom from dictatorship. The MFA, whose leaders at first were mostly little-known majors and captains, proclaimed a three-fold program of change for the new Portugal: democracy; decolonization of the overseas empire, after ending the colonial wars; and developing a backward economy in the spirit of opportunity and equality. During the first 24 months after the coup, there was civil strife, some anarchy, and a power struggle. With the passing of the Estado Novo, public euphoria burst forth as the new provisional military government proclaimed the freedoms of speech, press, and assembly, and abolished censorship, the political police, the Portuguese Legion, Portuguese Youth, and other New State organizations, including the National Union. Scores of political parties were born and joined the senior political party, the Portuguese Community Party (PCP), and the Socialist Party (PS), founded shortly before the coup.Portugal's Revolution of Carnations went through several phases. There was an attempt to take control by radical leftists, including the PCP and its allies. This was thwarted by moderate officers in the army, as well as by the efforts of two political parties: the PS and the Social Democrats (PPD, later PSD). The first phase was from April to September 1974. Provisional president General Antonio Spínola, whose 1974 book Portugal and the Future had helped prepare public opinion for the coup, met irresistible leftist pressures. After Spinola's efforts to avoid rapid decolonization of the African empire failed, he resigned in September 1974. During the second phase, from September 1974 to March 1975, radical military officers gained control, but a coup attempt by General Spínola and his supporters in Lisbon in March 1975 failed and Spínola fled to Spain.In the third phase of the Revolution, March-November 1975, a strong leftist reaction followed. Farm workers occupied and "nationalized" 1.1 million hectares of farmland in the Alentejo province, and radical military officers in the provisional government ordered the nationalization of Portuguese banks (foreign banks were exempted), utilities, and major industries, or about 60 percent of the economic system. There were power struggles among various political parties — a total of 50 emerged—and in the streets there was civil strife among labor, military, and law enforcement groups. A constituent assembly, elected on 25 April 1975, in Portugal's first free elections since 1926, drafted a democratic constitution. The Council of the Revolution (CR), briefly a revolutionary military watchdog committee, was entrenched as part of the government under the constitution, until a later revision. During the chaotic year of 1975, about 30 persons were killed in political frays while unstable provisional governments came and went. On 25 November 1975, moderate military forces led by Colonel Ramalho Eanes, who later was twice elected president of the republic (1976 and 1981), defeated radical, leftist military groups' revolutionary conspiracies.In the meantime, Portugal's scattered overseas empire experienced a precipitous and unprepared decolonization. One by one, the former colonies were granted and accepted independence—Guinea-Bissau (September 1974), Cape Verde Islands (July 1975), and Mozambique (July 1975). Portugal offered to turn over Macau to the People's Republic of China, but the offer was refused then and later negotiations led to the establishment of a formal decolonization or hand-over date of 1999. But in two former colonies, the process of decolonization had tragic results.In Angola, decolonization negotiations were greatly complicated by the fact that there were three rival nationalist movements in a struggle for power. The January 1975 Alvor Agreement signed by Portugal and these three parties was not effectively implemented. A bloody civil war broke out in Angola in the spring of 1975 and, when Portuguese armed forces withdrew and declared that Angola was independent on 11 November 1975, the bloodshed only increased. Meanwhile, most of the white Portuguese settlers from Angola and Mozambique fled during the course of 1975. Together with African refugees, more than 600,000 of these retornados ("returned ones") went by ship and air to Portugal and thousands more to Namibia, South Africa, Brazil, Canada, and the United States.The second major decolonization disaster was in Portugal's colony of East Timor in the Indonesian archipelago. Portugal's capacity to supervise and control a peaceful transition to independence in this isolated, neglected colony was limited by the strength of giant Indonesia, distance from Lisbon, and Portugal's revolutionary disorder and inability to defend Timor. In early December 1975, before Portugal granted formal independence and as one party, FRETILIN, unilaterally declared East Timor's independence, Indonesia's armed forces invaded, conquered, and annexed East Timor. Indonesian occupation encountered East Timorese resistance, and a heavy loss of life followed. The East Timor question remained a contentious international issue in the UN, as well as in Lisbon and Jakarta, for more than 20 years following Indonesia's invasion and annexation of the former colony of Portugal. Major changes occurred, beginning in 1998, after Indonesia underwent a political revolution and allowed a referendum in East Timor to decide that territory's political future in August 1999. Most East Timorese chose independence, but Indonesian forces resisted that verdict untilUN intervention in September 1999. Following UN rule for several years, East Timor attained full independence on 20 May 2002.Consolidation of Democracy, 1976-2000After several free elections and record voter turnouts between 25 April 1975 and June 1976, civil war was averted and Portugal's second democratic republic began to stabilize. The MFA was dissolved, the military were returned to the barracks, and increasingly elected civilians took over the government of the country. The 1976 Constitution was revised several times beginning in 1982 and 1989, in order to reempha-size the principle of free enterprise in the economy while much of the large, nationalized sector was privatized. In June 1976, General Ram-alho Eanes was elected the first constitutional president of the republic (five-year term), and he appointed socialist leader Dr. Mário Soares as prime minister of the first constitutional government.From 1976 to 1985, Portugal's new system featured a weak economy and finances, labor unrest, and administrative and political instability. The difficult consolidation of democratic governance was eased in part by the strong currency and gold reserves inherited from the Estado Novo, but Lisbon seemed unable to cope with high unemployment, new debt, the complex impact of the refugees from Africa, world recession, and the agitation of political parties. Four major parties emerged from the maelstrom of 1974-75, except for the Communist Party, all newly founded. They were, from left to right, the Communists (PCP); the Socialists (PS), who managed to dominate governments and the legislature but not win a majority in the Assembly of the Republic; the Social Democrats (PSD); and the Christian Democrats (CDS). During this period, the annual growth rate was low (l-2 percent), and the nationalized sector of the economy stagnated.Enhanced economic growth, greater political stability, and more effective central government as of 1985, and especially 1987, were due to several developments. In 1977, Portugal applied for membership in the European Economic Community (EEC), now the European Union (EU) since 1993. In January 1986, with Spain, Portugal was granted membership, and economic and financial progress in the intervening years has been significantly influenced by the comparatively large investment, loans, technology, advice, and other assistance from the EEC. Low unemployment, high annual growth rates (5 percent), and moderate inflation have also been induced by the new political and administrative stability in Lisbon. Led by Prime Minister Cavaco Silva, an economist who was trained abroad, the PSD's strong organization, management, and electoral support since 1985 have assisted in encouraging economic recovery and development. In 1985, the PSD turned the PS out of office and won the general election, although they did not have an absolute majority of assembly seats. In 1986, Mário Soares was elected president of the republic, the first civilian to hold that office since the First Republic. In the elections of 1987 and 1991, however, the PSD was returned to power with clear majorities of over 50 percent of the vote.Although the PSD received 50.4 percent of the vote in the 1991 parliamentary elections and held a 42-seat majority in the Assembly of the Republic, the party began to lose public support following media revelations regarding corruption and complaints about Prime Minister Cavaco Silva's perceived arrogant leadership style. President Mário Soares voiced criticism of the PSD's seemingly untouchable majority and described a "tyranny of the majority." Economic growth slowed down. In the parliamentary elections of 1995 and the presidential election of 1996, the PSD's dominance ended for the time being. Prime Minister Antônio Guterres came to office when the PS won the October 1995 elections, and in the subsequent presidential contest, in January 1996, socialist Jorge Sampaio, the former mayor of Lisbon, was elected president of the republic, thus defeating Cavaco Silva's bid. Young and popular, Guterres moved the PS toward the center of the political spectrum. Under Guterres, the PS won the October 1999 parliamentary elections. The PS defeated the PSD but did not manage to win a clear, working majority of seats, and this made the PS dependent upon alliances with smaller parties, including the PCP.In the local elections in December 2001, the PSD's criticism of PS's heavy public spending allowed the PSD to take control of the key cities of Lisbon, Oporto, and Coimbra. Guterres resigned, and parliamentary elections were brought forward from 2004 to March 2002. The PSD won a narrow victory with 40 percent of the votes, and Jose Durão Barroso became prime minister. Having failed to win a majority of the seats in parliament forced the PSD to govern in coalition with the right-wing Popular Party (PP) led by Paulo Portas. Durão Barroso set about reducing government spending by cutting the budgets of local authorities, freezing civil service hiring, and reviving the economy by accelerating privatization of state-owned enterprises. These measures provoked a 24-hour strike by public-sector workers. Durão Barroso reacted with vows to press ahead with budget-cutting measures and imposed a wage freeze on all employees earning more than €1,000, which affected more than one-half of Portugal's work force.In June 2004, Durão Barroso was invited by Romano Prodi to succeed him as president of the European Commission. Durão Barroso accepted and resigned the prime ministership in July. Pedro Santana Lopes, the leader of the PSD, became prime minister. Already unpopular at the time of Durão Barroso's resignation, the PSD-led government became increasingly unpopular under Santana Lopes. A month-long delay in the start of the school year and confusion over his plan to cut taxes and raise public-sector salaries, eroded confidence even more. By November, Santana Lopes's government was so unpopular that President Jorge Sampaio was obliged to dissolve parliament and hold new elections, two years ahead of schedule.Parliamentary elections were held on 20 February 2005. The PS, which had promised the electorate disciplined and transparent governance, educational reform, the alleviation of poverty, and a boost in employment, won 45 percent of the vote and the majority of the seats in parliament. The leader of the PS, José Sôcrates became prime minister on 12 March 2005. In the regularly scheduled presidential elections held on 6 January 2006, the former leader of the PSD and prime minister, Aníbal Cavaco Silva, won a narrow victory and became president on 9 March 2006. With a mass protest, public teachers' strike, and street demonstrations in March 2008, Portugal's media, educational, and social systems experienced more severe pressures. With the spreading global recession beginning in September 2008, Portugal's economic and financial systems became more troubled.Owing to its geographic location on the southwestern most edge of continental Europe, Portugal has been historically in but not of Europe. Almost from the beginning of its existence in the 12th century as an independent monarchy, Portugal turned its back on Europe and oriented itself toward the Atlantic Ocean. After carving out a Christian kingdom on the western portion of the Iberian peninsula, Portuguese kings gradually built and maintained a vast seaborne global empire that became central to the way Portugal understood its individuality as a nation-state. While the creation of this empire allows Portugal to claim an unusual number of "firsts" or distinctions in world and Western history, it also retarded Portugal's economic, social, and political development. It can be reasonably argued that the Revolution of 25 April 1974 was the most decisive event in Portugal's long history because it finally ended Portugal's oceanic mission and view of itself as an imperial power. After the 1974 Revolution, Portugal turned away from its global mission and vigorously reoriented itself toward Europe. Contemporary Portugal is now both in and of Europe.The turn toward Europe began immediately after 25 April 1974. Portugal granted independence to its African colonies in 1975. It was admitted to the European Council and took the first steps toward accession to the European Economic Community (EEC) in 1976. On 28 March 1977, the Portuguese government officially applied for EEC membership. Because of Portugal's economic and social backwardness, which would require vast sums of EEC money to overcome, negotiations for membership were long and difficult. Finally, a treaty of accession was signed on 12 June 1985. Portugal officially joined the EEC (the European Union [EU] since 1993) on 1 January 1986. Since becoming a full-fledged member of the EU, Portugal has been steadily overcoming the economic and social underdevelopment caused by its imperial past and is becoming more like the rest of Europe.Membership in the EU has speeded up the structural transformation of Portugal's economy, which actually began during the Estado Novo. Investments made by the Estado Novo in Portugal's economy began to shift employment out of the agricultural sector, which, in 1950, accounted for 50 percent of Portugal's economically active population. Today, only 10 percent of the economically active population is employed in the agricultural sector (the highest among EU member states); 30 percent in the industrial sector (also the highest among EU member states); and 60 percent in the service sector (the lowest among EU member states). The economically active population numbers about 5,000,000 employed, 56 percent of whom are women. Women workers are the majority of the workforce in the agricultural and service sectors (the highest among the EU member states). The expansion of the service sector has been primarily in health care and education. Portugal has had the lowest unemployment rates among EU member states, with the overall rate never being more than 10 percent of the active population. Since joining the EU, the number of employers increased from 2.6 percent to 5.8 percent of the active population; self-employed from 16 to 19 percent; and employees from 65 to 70 percent. Twenty-six percent of the employers are women. Unemployment tends to hit younger workers in industry and transportation, women employed in domestic service, workers on short-term contracts, and poorly educated workers. Salaried workers earn only 63 percent of the EU average, and hourly workers only one-third to one-half of that earned by their EU counterparts. Despite having had the second highest growth of gross national product (GNP) per inhabitant (after Ireland) among EU member states, the above data suggest that while much has been accomplished in terms of modernizing the Portuguese economy, much remains to be done to bring Portugal's economy up to the level of the "average" EU member state.Membership in the EU has also speeded up changes in Portuguese society. Over the last 30 years, coastalization and urbanization have intensified. Fully 50 percent of Portuguese live in the coastal urban conurbations of Lisbon, Oporto, Braga, Aveiro, Coimbra, Viseu, Évora, and Faro. The Portuguese population is one of the oldest among EU member states (17.3 percent are 65 years of age or older) thanks to a considerable increase in life expectancy at birth (77.87 years for the total population, 74.6 years for men, 81.36 years for women) and one of the lowest birthrates (10.59 births/1,000) in Europe. Family size averages 2.8 persons per household, with the strict nuclear family (one or two generations) in which both parents work being typical. Common law marriages, cohabitating couples, and single-parent households are more and more common. The divorce rate has also increased. "Youth Culture" has developed. The young have their own meeting places, leisure-time activities, and nightlife (bars, clubs, and discos).All Portuguese citizens, whether they have contributed or not, have a right to an old-age pension, invalidity benefits, widowed persons' pension, as well as payments for disabilities, children, unemployment, and large families. There is a national minimum wage (€385 per month), which is low by EU standards. The rapid aging of Portugal's population has changed the ratio of contributors to pensioners to 1.7, the lowest in the EU. This has created deficits in Portugal's social security fund.The adult literacy rate is about 92 percent. Illiteracy is still found among the elderly. Although universal compulsory education up to grade 9 was achieved in 1980, only 21.2 percent of the population aged 25-64 had undergone secondary education, compared to an EU average of 65.7 percent. Portugal's higher education system currently consists of 14 state universities and 14 private universities, 15 state polytechnic institutions, one Catholic university, and one military academy. All in all, Portugal spends a greater percentage of its state budget on education than most EU member states. Despite this high level of expenditure, the troubled Portuguese education system does not perform well. Early leaving and repetition rates are among the highest among EU member states.After the Revolution of 25 April 1974, Portugal created a National Health Service, which today consists of 221 hospitals and 512 medical centers employing 33,751 doctors and 41,799 nurses. Like its education system, Portugal's medical system is inefficient. There are long waiting lists for appointments with specialists and for surgical procedures.Structural changes in Portugal's economy and society mean that social life in Portugal is not too different from that in other EU member states. A mass consumption society has been created. Televisions, telephones, refrigerators, cars, music equipment, mobile phones, and personal computers are commonplace. Sixty percent of Portuguese households possess at least one automobile, and 65 percent of Portuguese own their own home. Portuguese citizens are more aware of their legal rights than ever before. This has resulted in a trebling of the number of legal proceeding since 1960 and an eight-fold increase in the number of lawyers. In general, Portuguese society has become more permissive and secular; the Catholic Church and the armed forces are much less influential than in the past. Portugal's population is also much more culturally, religiously, and ethnically diverse, a consequence of the coming to Portugal of hundreds of thousands of immigrants, mainly from former African colonies.Portuguese are becoming more cosmopolitan and sophisticated through the impact of world media, the Internet, and the World Wide Web. A prime case in point came in the summer and early fall of 1999, with the extraordinary events in East Timor and the massive Portuguese popular responses. An internationally monitored referendum in East Timor, Portugal's former colony in the Indonesian archipelago and under Indonesian occupation from late 1975 to summer 1999, resulted in a vote of 78.5 percent for rejecting integration with Indonesia and for independence. When Indonesian prointegration gangs, aided by the Indonesian military, responded to the referendum with widespread brutality and threatened to reverse the verdict of the referendum, there was a spontaneous popular outpouring of protest in the cities and towns of Portugal. An avalanche of Portuguese e-mail fell on leaders and groups in the UN and in certain countries around the world as Portugal's diplomats, perhaps to compensate for the weak initial response to Indonesian armed aggression in 1975, called for the protection of East Timor as an independent state and for UN intervention to thwart Indonesian action. Using global communications networks, the Portuguese were able to mobilize UN and world public opinion against Indonesian actions and aided the eventual independence of East Timor on 20 May 2002.From the Revolution of 25 April 1974 until the 1990s, Portugal had a large number of political parties, one of the largest Communist parties in western Europe, frequent elections, and endemic cabinet instability. Since the 1990s, the number of political parties has been dramatically reduced and cabinet stability increased. Gradually, the Portuguese electorate has concentrated around two larger parties, the right-of-center Social Democrats (PSD) and the left-of-center Socialist (PS). In the 1980s, these two parties together garnered 65 percent of the vote and 70 percent of the seats in parliament. In 2005, these percentages had risen to 74 percent and 85 percent, respectively. In effect, Portugal is currently a two-party dominant system in which the two largest parties — PS and PSD—alternate in and out of power, not unlike the rotation of the two main political parties (the Regenerators and the Historicals) during the last decades (1850s to 1880s) of the liberal constitutional monarchy. As Portugal's democracy has consolidated, turnout rates for the eligible electorate have declined. In the 1970s, turnout was 85 percent. In Portugal's most recent parliamentary election (2005), turnout had fallen to 65 percent of the eligible electorate.Portugal has benefited greatly from membership in the EU, and whatever doubts remain about the price paid for membership, no Portuguese government in the near future can afford to sever this connection. The vast majority of Portuguese citizens see membership in the EU as a "good thing" and strongly believe that Portugal has benefited from membership. Only the Communist Party opposed membership because it reduces national sovereignty, serves the interests of capitalists not workers, and suffers from a democratic deficit. Despite the high level of support for the EU, Portuguese voters are increasingly not voting in elections for the European Parliament, however. Turnout for European Parliament elections fell from 40 percent of the eligible electorate in the 1999 elections to 38 percent in the 2004 elections.In sum, Portugal's turn toward Europe has done much to overcome its backwardness. However, despite the economic, social, and political progress made since 1986, Portugal has a long way to go before it can claim to be on a par with the level found even in Spain, much less the rest of western Europe. As Portugal struggles to move from underde-velopment, especially in the rural areas away from the coast, it must keep in mind the perils of too rapid modern development, which could damage two of its most precious assets: its scenery and environment. The growth and future prosperity of the economy will depend on the degree to which the government and the private sector will remain stewards of clean air, soil, water, and other finite resources on which the tourism industry depends and on which Portugal's world image as a unique place to visit rests. Currently, Portugal is investing heavily in renewable energy from solar, wind, and wave power in order to account for about 50 percent of its electricity needs by 2010. Portugal opened the world's largest solar power plant and the world's first commercial wave power farm in 2006.An American documentary film on Portugal produced in the 1970s described this little country as having "a Past in Search of a Future." In the years after the Revolution of 25 April 1974, it could be said that Portugal is now living in "a Present in Search of a Future." Increasingly, that future lies in Europe as an active and productive member of the EU. -
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teist
1. verb1) (to be aware of, or recognize, the flavour of something: I can taste ginger in this cake.) notar/sentir el sabor2) (to test or find out the flavour or quality of (food etc) by eating or drinking a little of it: Please taste this and tell me if it is too sweet.) probar, degustar3) (to have a particular flavour or other quality that is noticed through the act of tasting: This milk tastes sour; The sauce tastes of garlic.) saber (a)4) (to eat (food) especially with enjoyment: I haven't tasted such a beautiful curry for ages.) saborear5) (to experience: He tasted the delights of country life.) experimentar, probar, conocer
2. noun1) (one of the five senses, the sense by which we are aware of flavour: one's sense of taste; bitter to the taste.) gusto, paladar2) (the quality or flavour of anything that is known through this sense: This wine has an unusual taste.) sabor, gusto3) (an act of tasting or a small quantity of food etc for tasting: Do have a taste of this cake!) prueba, degustación4) (a liking or preference: a taste for music; a queer taste in books; expensive tastes.) gusto por, afición5) (the ability to judge what is suitable in behaviour, dress etc or what is fine and beautiful: She shows good taste in clothes; a man of taste; That joke was in good/bad taste.) gusto•- tasteful- tastefully
- tastefulness
- tasteless
- tastelessly
- tastelessness
- - tasting
- tasty
- tastiness
taste1 n1. gusto2. gusto / sabortaste2 vb1. probarwould you like to taste my fish? ¿quieres probar mi pescado?2. saber / tener un sabortr[teɪst]1 (faculty) gusto2 (flavour) sabor nombre masculino3 (small sample) muestra, poquito; (experience) experiencia4 (ability to make good judgements) gusto; (liking) afición nombre femenino ( for, a), gusto ( for, por)1 (try food) probar; (wine) catar, degustar2 (eat, drink) probar3 (experience) conocer4 (perceive flavour) notar1 saber (of/like, a)■ what does it taste like? ¿a qué sabe?■ it tastes bitter tiene un gusto amargo, sabe a amargo\SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALLto be in bad/poor taste ser de mal gustoto be in good taste ser de buen gustoto give somebody a taste of their own medicine pagar a alguien con la misma moneda, darle a alguien de su medicinato leave a nasty taste in the mouth dejar un mal sabor de bocato taste al gustotaste bud papila gustativa: probar (alimentos), degustar, catar (vinos)taste this soup: prueba esta sopataste vi: saberthis tastes good: esto sabe buenotaste n1) sample: prueba f, bocado m (de comida), trago m (de bebidas)2) flavor: gusto m, sabor m3) : gusto mshe has good taste: tiene buen gustoin bad taste: de mal guston.• boca s.f.• embocadura s.f.• gustación s.f.• gusto s.m.• muestra s.f.• paladar s.m.• regosto s.m.• sabor s.m.• sazón s.f.v.• probar (Comida, bebida) v.v.• ensayar v.• gustar v.• libar v.• notar un gusto de v.• paladear v.• saber (Tener sabor) v.• saborear v.teɪst
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1) ua) ( flavor) sabor m, gusto ma strong taste of garlic — un fuerte sabor or gusto a ajo
the sweet taste of freedom/success — el dulce sabor de la libertad/del éxito
to leave a bad taste in the mouth — dejarle a alguien (un) mal sabor de boca
b) ( sense) gusto m2) (no pl)a) (sample, small amount)can I have a taste of your ice cream? — ¿me dejas probar tu helado?
b) ( experience)a taste of one's own medicine: I'll give her a taste of her own medicine — la voy a tratar como ella trata a los demás, le voy a dar una sopa de su propio chocolate (Méx)
3) c u ( liking) gusto ma taste (FOR something): if you have a taste for adventure... si te gusta la aventura...; to be to one's taste ser* de su (or mi etc) gusto; it's not to everyone's taste no le gusta a todo el mundo, no es del gusto de todo el mundo; add salt to taste añadir sal a voluntad or al gusto; there's no accounting for taste — sobre gustos no hay nada escrito
4) u ( judgment) gusto mshe has excellent taste in clothes — tiene un gusto excelente para vestirse, se viste con muy buen gusto
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a) ( test flavor of) \<\<food/wine\>\> probar*b) ( test quality of) \<\<food\>\> degustar; \<\<wine\>\> catarc) ( perceive flavor)I can't taste the sherry in the soup — la sopa no me sabe a jerez, no le siento gusto a jerez a la sopa (AmL)
d) ( eat) comer, probar*he hadn't tasted food for six days — llevaba seis días sin probar bocado or sin comer nada
e) ( experience) \<\<happiness/freedom\>\> conocer*, disfrutar de
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vi saber*it tastes bitter — tiene (un) sabor or gusto amargo, sabe amargo
this tastes delicious — esto está delicioso or riquísimo
[teɪst]to taste OF something — saber* a algo
1. N1) (=sense) gusto m•
a keen sense of taste — un agudo sentido del gusto•
it's quite sweet to the taste — tiene un gusto bastante dulce al paladar2) (=flavour) sabor m, gusto mit has an odd taste — tiene un sabor or gusto raro
his jokes leave a bad or nasty taste in the mouth — sus chistes te dejan mal sabor de boca
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it has no taste — no sabe a nada, no tiene sabor3) (=small amount)"more wine?" - "just a taste" — -¿más vino? -solo un poco or un poquito
would you like a taste? — ¿quieres probarlo?
may I have a taste? — ¿puedo probarlo?
- give sb a taste of their own medicine- get a taste of one's own medicine4) (=experience) experiencia f; (=sample) muestra fit was her first taste of freedom — fue su primera experiencia de la libertad or su primer contacto con la libertad
now that she has had a taste of stardom, she won't ever be content with ordinariness again — ahora que ha probado las mieles del estrellato or saboreado el estrellato, nunca más se conformará con lo normal y corriente
he's had a taste of prison — ha conocido or probado la cárcel
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to give sb a taste of sth — dar una idea de algo a algn•
it was a taste of things to come — era una muestra de lo que estaba por venir5) (=liking) gusto m•
he was a man of catholic tastes — era un hombre de gustos variados•
a taste for sth, to acquire or develop a taste for sth — tomarle gusto a algo•
we have the same tastes in music — tenemos el mismo gusto para la músicahe has expensive tastes in cars — en cuanto a coches, tiene gustos caros
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season to taste — (Culin) sazonar al gustois it to your taste? — ¿le gusta?, ¿es de su gusto?
- there's no accounting for tasteacquired6) (=discernment) gusto m•
to be in bad taste — ser de mal gustoit would be in bad taste to meet without him — sería de mal gusto reunirnos sin él, reunirnos sin él sería hacerle un desprecio or un feo
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she has very good taste — tiene muy buen gustoto have no taste — [person] no tener gusto
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the house is furnished in impeccable taste — la casa está amueblada con muchísimo gusto or con un gusto exquisito•
to be in poor taste — ser de mal gusto2. VTwine2) (=perceive flavour of)I can't taste the rum in this — no noto el sabor del ron en esto, esto apenas me sabe a ron
3) (=eat) comer, probarI haven't tasted salmon for years — hace años que no como salmón or pruebo el salmón
4) (=experience) [+ success, power] saborear; [+ poverty, loneliness] conocer3.VI (=have flavour) saberthe brandy tasted bitter — el brandy sabía amargo, el brandy tenía un sabor or un gusto amargo
it tastes good — está rico or bueno
it tastes horrible — tiene un sabor horrible, sabe horrible or a rayos *
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to taste like sth — saber a algo•
to taste of sth — saber a algowhat does it taste of? — ¿a qué sabe?
4.CPD* * *[teɪst]
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1) ua) ( flavor) sabor m, gusto ma strong taste of garlic — un fuerte sabor or gusto a ajo
the sweet taste of freedom/success — el dulce sabor de la libertad/del éxito
to leave a bad taste in the mouth — dejarle a alguien (un) mal sabor de boca
b) ( sense) gusto m2) (no pl)a) (sample, small amount)can I have a taste of your ice cream? — ¿me dejas probar tu helado?
b) ( experience)a taste of one's own medicine: I'll give her a taste of her own medicine — la voy a tratar como ella trata a los demás, le voy a dar una sopa de su propio chocolate (Méx)
3) c u ( liking) gusto ma taste (FOR something): if you have a taste for adventure... si te gusta la aventura...; to be to one's taste ser* de su (or mi etc) gusto; it's not to everyone's taste no le gusta a todo el mundo, no es del gusto de todo el mundo; add salt to taste añadir sal a voluntad or al gusto; there's no accounting for taste — sobre gustos no hay nada escrito
4) u ( judgment) gusto mshe has excellent taste in clothes — tiene un gusto excelente para vestirse, se viste con muy buen gusto
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a) ( test flavor of) \<\<food/wine\>\> probar*b) ( test quality of) \<\<food\>\> degustar; \<\<wine\>\> catarc) ( perceive flavor)I can't taste the sherry in the soup — la sopa no me sabe a jerez, no le siento gusto a jerez a la sopa (AmL)
d) ( eat) comer, probar*he hadn't tasted food for six days — llevaba seis días sin probar bocado or sin comer nada
e) ( experience) \<\<happiness/freedom\>\> conocer*, disfrutar de
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vi saber*it tastes bitter — tiene (un) sabor or gusto amargo, sabe amargo
this tastes delicious — esto está delicioso or riquísimo
to taste OF something — saber* a algo
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76 sufrir
v.1 to suffer.no sufrió daños it wasn't damagedsufrió una agresión he was the victim of an attacksufrir del estómago to have a stomach complaintLos chicos penan en su cuarto The boys suffer in their room.2 to bear, to stand.tengo que sufrir sus manías I have to put up with his idiosyncrasiesNo pudo sufrirla I cannot stand her.3 to undergo, to experience.la Bolsa sufrió una caída the stock market fellla empresa ha sufrido pérdidas the company has reported o made losses* * *1 (padecer) to suffer2 (accidente, ataque) to have; (operación) to undergo3 (dificultades, cambios) to experience; (derrota, consecuencias) to suffer4 (aguantar) to bear, stand, put up with5 (consentir) to tolerate1 (padecer) to suffer\hacer sufrir a alguien to cause somebody pain, make somebody suffersufrir del corazón to have a heart conditionsufrir hambre to go hungrysufrir vergüenza to be ashamed* * *verb1) to suffer2) endure, bear* * *1. VT1) (=tener) [+ accidente] to have, suffer; [+ consecuencias, revés] to suffer; [+ cambio] to undergo; [+ intervención quirúrgica] to have, undergo; [+ pérdida] to suffer, sustainla ciudad sufrió un ataque — the city suffered o sustained an attack
2) (=soportar)Juan no puede sufrir a su jefe — Juan can't bear o stand his boss
no puede sufrir que la imiten — she can't bear o stand people imitating her
3) [+ examen, prueba] to undergo4) frm (=sostener) to hold up, support2.VI to suffersufre mucho de los pies — she suffers a lot o has a lot of trouble with her feet
* * *1.verbo transitivoa) <dolores/molestias> to sufferb) <derrota/persecución/consecuencias> to suffer; < cambio> to undergo; < accidente> to havec) ( soportar) (en frases negativas) to bear2.no puedo sufrir que se ría de mí — I can't bear o stand him laughing at me
sufrir vi to suffersufre del hígado — she suffers from o has a liver complaint
* * *1.verbo transitivoa) <dolores/molestias> to sufferb) <derrota/persecución/consecuencias> to suffer; < cambio> to undergo; < accidente> to havec) ( soportar) (en frases negativas) to bear2.no puedo sufrir que se ría de mí — I can't bear o stand him laughing at me
sufrir vi to suffersufre del hígado — she suffers from o has a liver complaint
* * *sufrir11 = grieve, suffer, pine, suffer.Ex: If we take Cindi, Albert will almost surely grieve.
Ex: Since the introduction of computer-based indexing systems alphabetical indexing languages have become more prevalent, and UDC has suffered a reduction in use.Ex: The 2.1 km trail is perfect for working up a thirst - just long enough to make you feel like you got a bit of exercise, but short enough that you aren't pining for very long.Ex: In this study of sapphism in the British novel, Moore often directs our attention to the periphery of sapphic romances, when an abjected body suffers on behalf of the stainless heroine.* cuando a Alguien le ocurre Algo, Otra Persona sufre las consecuencias = when + Alguien + sneeze, + Otro + catch cold.* dejar de hacer sufrir = put + Nombre + out of + Posesivo + misery.* sufrir un suplicio = agonise over [agonize, -USA].sufrir22 = experience, feel, sustain, stew, undergo.Ex: If facilities like these are not supported by the data base design, the users of the system will experience slow response times.
Ex: Public libraries, especially in New York City, are feeling severe budget crunches, because we really haven't been relevant to people and, therefore, nobody uses us = Las bibliotecas públicas, especialmente de la ciudad de Nueva York, están sufriendo graves recortes presupuestarios debido a que la gente no nos ha encontrado necesarios y, por lo tanto, nadie nos utiliza.Ex: In soccer, females injured their toe 17% more than males and sustained 19% more fractures.Ex: He was unhappy about Rosecrans grabbing the limelight and just getting too big for his breeches and decided to let him stew a little bit.Ex: Syntactic relationships arise from the syntax of the document which is undergoing analysis, and derive solely from literary warrant.* no sufrir cambios = remain + normal.* persona que sufre de insomio = insomniac.* sufrir daños = suffer + damage, suffer + harm, come to + harm.* sufrir el acoso de = run + the gauntlet of.* sufrir el efecto de Algo = suffer + effect.* sufrir las consecuencias = suffer + consequences, take it on + the chin.* sufrir las consecuencias de Algo = suffer + effect.* sufrir pérdidas = make + a loss.* sufrir una catástrofe = experience + disaster.* sufrir una depresión nerviosa = have + a breakdown.* sufrir una experiencia = undergo + experience.* sufrir una pérdida = suffer + loss.* sufrir un ataque = be under attack, be under assault.* sufrir un cambio = experience + change, undergo + change.* sufrir un contratiempo = suffer + bruises.* sufrir un inconveniente = suffer + inconvenience.* sufrir un retraso = encounter + delay.* sufrir un revés = take + an unfortunate turn, take + a pounding, take + a beating.* * *sufrir [I1 ]vt1 ‹dolores/molestias› to suffer; ‹persecución/exilio› to suffersufre lesiones de gravedad he has serious injuriessufrió una grave enfermedad she had a serious illness2 ‹derrota/castigo› to suffer; ‹cambio› to undergosufrieron un accidente en el camino de descenso they had an accident on the way downhabía sufrido otro atentado en 1992 he had been the target of a previous attack in 1992, there had been a previous attempt on his life in 1992nuestro ejército sufrió bajas importantes our army suffered serious lossesel avión sufrió un retraso de dos horas the plane was two hours lateel dólar sufrió un fuerte descenso the dollar suffered a sharp falluno de los motores sufrió una avería one of the engines broke downahora tendrás que sufrir las consecuencias now you'll have to suffer the consequencesson los que más sufren la crisis económica they are the ones hardest hit by the economic crisis3 (soportar) ( en frases negativas) to bearno puedo sufrir que se ría de mí I can't bear o stand him laughing at me, I can't bear o stand it when he laughs at mees que no puedo sufrirla I just can't bear o stand her■ sufrirvito suffermurió de repente, sin sufrir she died suddenly, she didn't sufferestá sufriendo mucho con los dolores she's suffering a great deal with the painsufrir DE algo to suffer FROM sthsufre del hígado/los riñones she suffers from o has a liver/kidney complaint* * *
sufrir ( conjugate sufrir) verbo transitivo
‹ cambio› to undergo;
‹ accidente› to have;
el coche sufrió una avería the car broke down
verbo intransitivo
to suffer;
sufrir de algo to suffer from sth
sufrir
I verbo intransitivo to suffer: sufre de reumatismo, he suffers from rheumatism
II verbo transitivo
1 (un daño, un perjuicio) to suffer: sufría una extraña enfermedad, he had a rare illness
(un accidente) to have
(una derrota) to suffer
(una operación) to undergo
2 (cambios) to undergo: en la adolescencia se sufre una gran transformación, you go through a lot of changes during adolescence
3 (soportar, aguantar) to bear: tuvimos que sufrir sus chistes machistas, we had to put up with his sexist jokes
' sufrir' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
atravesada
- atravesado
- castigar
- desengaño
- llevar
- martirizar
- padecer
- pasar
- soportar
- accidente
- caída
- contratiempo
- daño
- desmayo
- experimentar
- herida
- persecución
- quemar
- regodearse
- resentirse
English:
break down
- brunt
- collapse
- crack
- crack up
- experience
- have
- incur
- meet with
- penalty
- relapse
- squirm
- suffer
- sustain
- undergo
- concuss
- die
- grieve
- height
- hemorrhage
- hurt
- mutate
- rack
- receive
- under
- weak
* * *♦ vt1. [padecer] to suffer;[accidente] to have;sufre frecuentes ataques epilépticos she often has epileptic fits;sufrió persecución por sus ideas she suffered persecution for her ideas;no sufrió daños it wasn't damaged;sufrió una agresión/un atentado he was attacked/an attempt was made on his life;sufrí una vergüenza increíble I felt incredibly embarrassed;la empresa ha sufrido pérdidas the company has reported o made losses;el ejército invasor sufrió numerosas bajas the invading army suffered numerous casualties2. [soportar] to put up with, to bear;tengo que sufrir sus manías I have to put up with his idiosyncrasies;a tu jefe no hay quien lo sufra your boss is impossible to put up with3. [experimentar] to undergo, to experience;la Bolsa sufrió una caída the stock market fell;las temperaturas sufrirán un descenso temperatures will fall♦ vi[padecer] to suffer;sufrió mucho antes de morir she suffered a lot before she died;sufre mucho si su hijo no lo llama he gets very anxious if his son doesn't call him;sufrir de [enfermedad] to suffer from;sufrir del estómago/riñón to have stomach/kidney trouble o a stomach/kidney complaint* * *I v/t figsuffer, put up withII v/i suffer (de from);sufre del estómago he has stomach problems* * *sufrir vt1) : to suffersufrir una pérdida: to suffer a loss2) : to tolerate, to put up withella no lo puede sufrir: she can't stand himsufrir vi: to suffer* * *sufrir vb (en general) to suffer -
77 nasty
1) (unpleasant to the senses: a nasty smell.) asqueroso, desagradable, repugnante2) (unfriendly or unpleasant in manner: The man was very nasty to me.) desagradable3) (wicked; evil: He has a nasty temper.) malo4) ((of weather) very poor, cold, rainy etc.) malo5) ((of a wound, cut etc) serious: That dog gave her a nasty bite.) feo, grave6) (awkward or very difficult: a nasty situation.) peligroso, difícil•- nastily- nastiness
nasty adj desagradable / malotr['nɑːstɪ]1 (unpleasant) desagradable, repugnante, horrible■ what a nasty smell! ¡qué olor más desagradable!2 (malicious) malintencionado,-a; (unkind) antipático,-a3 (dangerous) peligroso,-a4 (tricky) peliagudo,-a5 (serious) grave\SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALLto have a nasty mind ser mal pensado,-ato turn nasty ponerse feo,-a1) filthy: sucio, mugriento2) obscene: obsceno3) mean, spiteful: malo, malicioso4) unpleasant: desagradable, feo5) repugnant: asqueroso, repugnantea nasty smell: un olor asquerosoadj.• asqueroso, -a adj.• feo, -a adj.• indecente adj.• malévolo, -a adj.• repugnante adj.• sucio, -a adj.'næsti, 'nɑːstiadjective -tier, -tiest1)a) <taste/smell/medicine> asqueroso, repugnante; < habit> feo, desagradableb) <film/book> asqueroso, inmundothey are really nasty to him — son realmente malos or crueles con él
to have a nasty temper — tener* muy mal carácter
what a nasty trick! — qué canallada!; piece 2)
3)b) (difficult, dangerous) <question/exam> peliagudo, muy difícil; <corner/intersection> muy peligrosoc) ( unpleasant) <situation/experience> desagradable['nɑːstɪ]1. ADJ(compar nastier) (superl nastiest)1) (=unpleasant) [situation, experience, surprise] desagradable; [taste, smell] desagradable, repugnante; [habit, weather] desagradable, feo, malo•
I've got a nasty feeling that... — tengo la horrible sensación de que...•
history has a nasty habit of repeating itself — la historia tiene la mala costumbre de repetirsetaste 1., 2)•
the situation turned nasty — la situación se puso fea2) (=serious) [accident] serio, grave; [cut, wound] feo; [infection] fuerte; [disease] peligroso•
a nasty case of — un caso grave de3) (=difficult) [question] difícil; [bend, junction] peligroso; [problem] complicado•
there was one nasty moment when... — se produjo un momento de tensión cuando...4) (=spiteful) [person, remark] cruel, desagradable; [joke] de mal gusto, grosero•
a nasty-looking individual — un individuo mal encarado•
to be nasty to sb — ser cruel con algn•
he turned nasty and started to shout — se puso agresivo y empezó a gritar2.N*video 3.there were a few hidden nasties in my bill — había unas cuantas sorpresas desagradables en mi cuenta
* * *['næsti, 'nɑːsti]adjective -tier, -tiest1)a) <taste/smell/medicine> asqueroso, repugnante; < habit> feo, desagradableb) <film/book> asqueroso, inmundothey are really nasty to him — son realmente malos or crueles con él
to have a nasty temper — tener* muy mal carácter
what a nasty trick! — qué canallada!; piece 2)
3)b) (difficult, dangerous) <question/exam> peliagudo, muy difícil; <corner/intersection> muy peligrosoc) ( unpleasant) <situation/experience> desagradable -
78 respaldar
m.1 backrest, seat back, seatback.El respaldar de la silla es muy duro The chair's backrest is too hard.2 bed rest.v.1 to back, to support.varios intelectuales respaldan la candidatura del escritor several intellectuals are backing o supporting the writer as a candidateel descubrimiento respalda su teoría the discovery backs up o supports his theoryEllos respaldan la calidad They back the quality.Ellos respaldan las evidencias They provide proof for the evidence.2 to buttress, to prop, to uphold, to reinforce.Ellos respaldan las paredes They buttress the walls.* * *1 to support, back (up)1 to lean back (en, on)2 (apoyarse) to lean (en, on)* * *verbto back, support* * *1. VT1) [+ documento] to endorse2) (=apoyar) to back, support3) (Inform) to support4) (=garantizar) to guarantee2.See:* * *1.verbo transitivo1)a) < persona> ( apoyar) to support, back; ( en discusión) to back... upb) <propuesta/plan> to support, back2.respaldado por la experiencia — backed by o with the backing of experience
respaldarse v pron1) ( en sillón) to sit back; (contra árbol, pared) to lean back2) ( depender)* * *= back, give + weight to, lend + weight to, support, underpin, back + Nombre + up, buttress, add + weight to, add + Posesivo + weight to, back into, stand by.Ex. Co-operative, carefully planned and financed internationally backed efforts have been the keynote of more recent activity.Ex. The resulting compromise in the overall design principles followed is, therefore, likely to give greater weight to these conventional needs.Ex. They can bring into relief differing conditions in member countries and they often lend weight to arguments for or against various policy options.Ex. In order to support these three elements, and to ensure that schemes are updated it is important to have some organisation which takes responsibility for revision and publication.Ex. This process is underpinned by a patient-based information system which is timely, accessible and credible to all participants.Ex. Often they use rather fancy words, such as 'theoretical models' or 'constructs' or 'paradigms' to describe what are, very frequently, no more than hypothetical ideas or categorisations which have little empirical evidence to back them up.Ex. Authors were often buttressed in their novel writing by other pieces of freelance writing.Ex. Measurement of library activities can provide the evidence to erase misconceptions and add weight to those aspects of service that present a more powerful image = La medición de las actividades bibliotecarias puede proporcionar las pruebas necesarias para erradicar falsas ideas y apoyar aquellos aspectos del servicio que presentan una mejor imagen de la biblioteca.Ex. But the unions were able to add their weight to the authority of the parliamentary investigators in bringing the worst excesses of unregulated apprenticeship and of working conditions under control = No obstante, los sindicatos pudieron reforzar la autoridad de los investigadores parlamentarios para controlar los peores excesos que se cometían en el aprendizaje de un oficio y las condiciones laborales sin regularizar.Ex. To the best of my knowledge, most of the big research libraries backed into the world of media = Según mi opinión, la mayoría de las bibliotecas académicas apostaron por adquirir todo tipo de soporte.Ex. It's hard to believe she stands by a man who gets his kicks out of beating her black and blue everynight.----* estar respaldado por Alguien = have + Nombre + behind + Pronombre.* respaldar Algo = lend + authority to.* respaldar el argumento de uno = back up + story.* respaldar una conclusión = support + conclusion.* respaldar una opinión = buttress + claim, support + view.* respaldar un argumento = back + Posesivo + argument, buttress + argument, buttress + Posesivo + case.* * *1.verbo transitivo1)a) < persona> ( apoyar) to support, back; ( en discusión) to back... upb) <propuesta/plan> to support, back2.respaldado por la experiencia — backed by o with the backing of experience
respaldarse v pron1) ( en sillón) to sit back; (contra árbol, pared) to lean back2) ( depender)* * *= back, give + weight to, lend + weight to, support, underpin, back + Nombre + up, buttress, add + weight to, add + Posesivo + weight to, back into, stand by.Ex: Co-operative, carefully planned and financed internationally backed efforts have been the keynote of more recent activity.
Ex: The resulting compromise in the overall design principles followed is, therefore, likely to give greater weight to these conventional needs.Ex: They can bring into relief differing conditions in member countries and they often lend weight to arguments for or against various policy options.Ex: In order to support these three elements, and to ensure that schemes are updated it is important to have some organisation which takes responsibility for revision and publication.Ex: This process is underpinned by a patient-based information system which is timely, accessible and credible to all participants.Ex: Often they use rather fancy words, such as 'theoretical models' or 'constructs' or 'paradigms' to describe what are, very frequently, no more than hypothetical ideas or categorisations which have little empirical evidence to back them up.Ex: Authors were often buttressed in their novel writing by other pieces of freelance writing.Ex: Measurement of library activities can provide the evidence to erase misconceptions and add weight to those aspects of service that present a more powerful image = La medición de las actividades bibliotecarias puede proporcionar las pruebas necesarias para erradicar falsas ideas y apoyar aquellos aspectos del servicio que presentan una mejor imagen de la biblioteca.Ex: But the unions were able to add their weight to the authority of the parliamentary investigators in bringing the worst excesses of unregulated apprenticeship and of working conditions under control = No obstante, los sindicatos pudieron reforzar la autoridad de los investigadores parlamentarios para controlar los peores excesos que se cometían en el aprendizaje de un oficio y las condiciones laborales sin regularizar.Ex: To the best of my knowledge, most of the big research libraries backed into the world of media = Según mi opinión, la mayoría de las bibliotecas académicas apostaron por adquirir todo tipo de soporte.Ex: It's hard to believe she stands by a man who gets his kicks out of beating her black and blue everynight.* estar respaldado por Alguien = have + Nombre + behind + Pronombre.* respaldar Algo = lend + authority to.* respaldar el argumento de uno = back up + story.* respaldar una conclusión = support + conclusion.* respaldar una opinión = buttress + claim, support + view.* respaldar un argumento = back + Posesivo + argument, buttress + argument, buttress + Posesivo + case.* * *backvtA1 ‹persona› (apoyar) to support, back; (en una discusión) to back … up2 ‹propuesta/plan› to support, back, endorsela moneda está respaldada por las reservas del banco central the currency is backed o supported by the reserves of the central bankun producto respaldado por 100 años de experiencia a product backed by o with the backing of 100 years' experienceB (endosar) ‹documento› to endorseA (en un sillón) to sit back; (contra un árbol, una pared) to lean backB (apoyarse) respaldarse EN algo/algn:se respalda mucho en sus padres he leans heavily on his parents (for support)siguen respaldándose en las mismas teorías they are still basing their arguments/case on the same theories* * *
respaldar ( conjugate respaldar) verbo transitivo ‹ persona› ( apoyar) to support, back;
( en discusión) to back up;
‹propuesta/plan› to support, back;
‹versión/teoría› to support, back up
respaldar verbo transitivo to support, back: nadie respaldó su proyecto, nobody backed her project
' respaldar' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
fiar
- apoyar
English:
back
- endorse
- support
* * *♦ vt1. [proyecto, empresa] to back, to support;varios intelectuales respaldan la candidatura del escritor several intellectuals are backing o supporting the writer as a candidate2. [tesis] to back up, to support;el descubrimiento respalda su teoría the discovery backs up o supports his theory* * *v/t back, support* * *respaldar vt: to back, to support, to endorse* * *respaldar vb to back / to support -
79 прекарвам
1. (пренасям, прехвърлям) carry, take, transport, drive; get/take/carry across(с каруца) cartпрекарвам говеда през мост drive cattle over a bridgeпрекарвам някого през гората lead/take s.o. through the forest(през река) ferry over2. (промушвам и пр.) pass; run; put; shove; force; drive (through)прекарайте въжето под колата pass the rope under the cartпрекарайте го още веднаж през машината run/put it through the machine once againпрекарвам през сито sieveпрекарвам пране през преса mangleпрекарвам ръка през косата си run o.'s hand/fingers through o.'s hair3. (водо-провод, инсталация и пр.) make; buildв селото бе прекарано електричество the village joined the grid4. (начертавам) drawпрекарвам линия draw a line5. (време) spend, pass(преминавам, преживявам) go through, undergo; experience(болест) have(справям се) manageмного съм прекарал I've been through a lot of trials/difficulties; I've seen hard timesпрекарвам изпитания pass through trialsпрекарвам без много пари do/manage with little moneyпрекарвам времето си в безделие idle/while away o.'s time; waste o.'s timeпрекарахте ли добре? did you have a good/nice/pleasant time? did you enjoy yourself?прекарахме чудесно we had the time of our lives, we had a lovely/wonderful timeпрекарахме лятото на село we spent the summer in the countryболният прекара нощта спокойно the patient had a quiet night6. (прекалявам с ядене и пиене) have too much to eat and drinkпрекарал е малко (препил е) he has had a drop more than he can carryпрекарвам през ума си go over/revolve in o.'s mind; meditate on/over, ponder overпрекарвам под нож put to the sword* * *прека̀рвам,гл.1. ( пренасям, прехвърлям) carry, take, transport, drive; get/take/carry across; (с каруца) cart; ( през река) ferry over;2. ( промушвам и пр.) pass; run; put; shove; force; drive (through); \прекарвам през сито sieve; \прекарвам ръка през косата си run o.’s hand/fingers through o.’s hair;3. ( водопровод, инсталация и пр.) make; build; \прекарвам водопровод ( вкъщи) join the water-supply system;4. ( начертавам) draw;5. ( време) spend, pass; ( преминавам, преживявам) go through, undergo; experience; ( болест) have; ( справям се) manage; прекарахме чудесно we had the time of our lives, we had a lovely/wonderful/roaring/spanking time; \прекарвам времето си в безделие idle/while away o.’s time; waste o.’s time; \прекарвам изпитания pass through trials; той прекара една криза ( благополучно) he pulled through (a crisis);6. ( изпързалвам) take (s.o.) for a ride, do (s.o.) down, sl. do the dirty on; • \прекарвам под нож put to the sword; \прекарвам през ума си go over/revolve in o.’s mind; meditate on/over, ponder over.* * *bring through (през): One of the natives brought us through the desert. - Един от местните ни прекара през пустинята.; convey; pass{pa;s}; pass through (през); run{rXn}; spend (време): He spent a few years abroad. - Той прекара няколко години в чужбина.; build (инсталация): прекарвам an aqueduct - прекарвам водопровод; have (болест): прекарвам a flue - прекарвам грип* * *1. (болест) have 2. (водо-провод, инсталация и np.) make;build 3. (време) spend, pass 4. (начертавам) draw 5. (през река) ferry over 6. (прекалявам с ядене и пиене) have too much to eat and drink 7. (преминавам, преживявам) go through, undergo;experience 8. (пренасям, прехвърлям) carry, take, transport, drive;get/take/carry across 9. (промушвам и np.) pass;run;put;shove;force;drive (through) 10. (с каруца) cart 11. (справям се) manage 12. -ПРЕКАРВАМ някого през гората lead/take s.o. through the forest 13. ПРЕКАРВАМ без много пари do/manage with little money 14. ПРЕКАРВАМ водопровод build an aqueduct, (в къщи) join the water-supply system 15. ПРЕКАРВАМ времето си в безделие idle/while away o.'s time;waste o.'s time 16. ПРЕКАРВАМ говеда през мост drive cattle over a bridge 17. ПРЕКАРВАМ изпитания pass through trials 18. ПРЕКАРВАМ линия draw a line 19. ПРЕКАРВАМ под нож put to the sword 20. ПРЕКАРВАМ пране през преса mangle 21. ПРЕКАРВАМ през сито sieve 22. ПРЕКАРВАМ през ума си go over/revolve in o.'s mind;meditate on/ over, ponder over 23. ПРЕКАРВАМ ръка през косата си run o.'s hand/fingers through o.'s hair 24. болният прекара нощта спокойно the patient had a quiet night 25. в селото бе прекарано електричество the village joined the grid 26. много съм прекарал I've been through a lot of trials/difficulties;I've seen hard times 27. прекарайте въжето под колата pass the rope under the cart 28. прекарайте го още веднаж през машината run/put it through the machine once again 29. прекарал е малко (препил е) he has had a drop more than he can carry 30. прекарахме лятото на село we spent the summer in the country 31. прекарахме чудесно we had the time of our lives, we had a lovely/wonderful time 32. прекарахте ли добре? did you have a good/nice/pleasant time?did you enjoy yourself? 33. той прекара една криза he went through a crisis, (благополучно) he pulled through (a crisis) -
80 sapere
1. v/t know( essere capace di) be able tosai nuotare? can you swim?lo so I know2. v/i: far sapere qualcosa a qualcuno let someone know somethingsaperla lunga know all about itnon si sa mai you never knowper quel che ne so as far as I knowsapere di ( avere sapore di) taste ofnon sa di nulla it doesn't taste of anything3. m knowledge* * *sapere v.tr.1 to know*: sa sempre la lezione molto bene, she always knows her lesson very well; sa tre lingue straniere, he knows three foreign languages; sapere a mente, a memoria, to know by heart; sapere qlco. per filo e per segno, to know sthg. thoroughly; so per esperienza come vanno queste cose, I know by experience how these things go // sa il fatto suo, he knows his job // chi sa il gioco non lo insegni, (prov.) he who knows the rules does well to keep them to himself2 ( essere a conoscenza di) to know*; ( venire a conoscenza di) to hear*, to learn*; to get* to know: sai che...?, do you know that...?; lo so, I know; non lo so, I don't know; non so niente di tutto questo, I know nothing about all this; vorrei saperne di più, I wish I knew (o I'd like to know) more; so benissimo che sei lì, I know perfectly well you're there; sai bene, meglio di me, you know perfectly well; sapevo che sarebbe venuto, I knew he would come; venire a sapere, to get (o to come) to know; come hai saputo queste notizie?, how did you get this information?; presto o tardi si sa tutto, everything comes out sooner or later; speriamo che non si sappia in giro, let's hope the whole world doesn't know about it; non ho saputo più nulla di lui, I haven't heard any more about him; questo è quanto ho saputo, that is what I heard // far sapere qlco. a qlcu., to let s.o. know sthg.; ( per iscritto) to drop s.o. a line about sthg.; ( a voce) to send s.o. word about sthg. // sapere vita, morte e miracoli di qlcu., to know everything about s.o. // che ne so io?, come faccio a saperlo?, how should I know?; come fai a saperlo?, how do you know? // si può sapere cosa vuoi?, may I know what you want? // non si sa mai, you never know (o you never can tell) // buono a sapersi, that's worth knowing // non voglio più saperne ( di lui, di ciò), I don't want to have anything more to do with him, with it // sappi, sappiate che..., you have to understand that... // devi sapere che ieri..., listen, yesterday... // se (tu) sapessi, se sapeste!, if you only knew // (a) saperlo, (ad) averlo saputo!, if only I'd known! // che io sappia, per quel che ne so io, per quanto mi è dato sapere, as far as I know // per chi non lo sapesse, for those who don't know // sa com'è, you know how it is // Dio sa quando tornerà, God knows when he'll come back; Dio solo (lo) sa dove è andato a finire, God only knows where it's finished up // egli vende vestiti, cappelli, scarpe e che so io, he sells clothes, hats, shoes and what not // è morto di non so quale malattia, he died of some disease or other // in gennaio, si sa, fa freddo, everybody knows that it is cold in January3 ( aver chiaro in mente) to know*: so io cosa devo fare, I know what I must do; non so che fare, che dire, I don't know what to do, what to say; non sai quello che dici, you don't know what you're saying; non so che farci, come fare, I don't know what to do about it; sa di avere ragione, he knows he's right; non sapevo di dover tornare, I didn't know I had to come back; sa quel che vuole, he knows what he wants // ecco, lo sapevo, there, I knew it // un certo non so che, a certain je ne sais quoi4 ( essere capace, essere in grado di) can; ( nei tempi mancanti) to be able; to know* how: sa far tutto, he can do anything; non sa fare niente, he can't do anything; sa parlare inglese e francese, he can speak English and French; non so guidare la macchina, I can't drive a car; ''Sai sciare?'' ''Sì'', ''No'', ''Can you ski?'' ''Yes, I can'', ''No, I can't''; pensi che sappia cavarsela?, do you think he'll be able to manage?; non me l'hanno saputo dire, they weren't able to tell me; saprebbe indicarmi un buon ristorante nella zona?, could you tell me where there is a good restaurant around here?; rivolgiti a lui, saprà certamente consigliarti, ask him, he'll definitely be able to advise you; non sapendo nuotare, rischiò di annegare, not being able (o being unable) to swim, he was in danger of drowning; non ho simpatia per quella gente, non saprei dire perché, I don't like those people but I couldn't say why; sai come si apre questa porta?, do you know how this door opens?; è uno che sa farsi rispettare, he knows how to command respect; non so fare questo esercizio, I don't know how to do this exercise; non saprò mai usare il computer, I'll never know (o learn) how to use a computer (o I'll never be able to use a computer) // con la gente ci sa fare, he knows how to handle people; con lui bisogna saperci fare, you have to know how to handle him◆ v. intr.1 to know*, to be educated: è un uomo che sa, he is an educated (o a cultivated) man; sa di greco e di latino, he's well-versed in Greek and Latin2 ( essere a conoscenza) to know*, to be aware; ( venire a conoscenza) to hear*, to learn*: so dei suoi meriti, I know (o I'm aware) of his merits; non sapevo di questi intrighi, I wasn't aware of these intrigues; ho saputo di un malinteso fra voi due, I've heard of a misunderstanding between you3 ( aver sapore) to taste; ( aver odore) to smell*: questa minestra sa di aglio, this soup tastes of garlic; questa carne sa di bruciato, this meat tastes burnt; la stanza sapeva di fumo, the room smelt of smoke // una ragazza che non sa di niente, an insipid girl4 ( pensare, supporre) to think*: mi sa che hai ragione tu, I think you're right; mi sa che è rimasto a letto, I bet he's stayed in bed.sapere s.m.* * *1. [sa'pere]vb irreg vt1) (conoscere: lezione, nome) to know, (venire a sapere: notizia) to hearsai se torna? — do you know if o whether he is coming back?
lo so, non è colpa tua — I know, it's not your fault
sa quattro lingue — he knows o can speak four languages
come l'ha saputo? — how did he find out o hear about it?
vuoi sapere la verità? — do you want to know o hear the truth?
far sapere qc a qn — to let sb know (about) sth, inform sb about sth
venire a sapere qc (da qn) — to find out o hear about sth (from sb)
2) (essere capace di) to know how tosai nuotare? — do you know how to swim?, can you swim?
3) (rendersi conto) to knownon sa cosa dice — he doesn't know o realize what he's saying
senza saperlo — without realizing it, unwittingly
4)è difficile, e io ne so qualcosa — it's difficult and don't I know itsi sa che... — it's well known that..., everybody knows that...
non saprei — I don't o wouldn't know
mi dispiace, non so che farci — I'm sorry, I don't see what I can do about it
averlo saputo! — had I (o we ecc) known!, if only I (o we ecc) had known!
ci sa fare con le donne/macchine — he has a way with women/cars
1)sapere di — (aver sapore) to taste of, (aver odore) to smell of, fig to smack of, resemble
2)mi sa che... — (credo) I think (that)...
3. sm* * *I 1. [sa'pere]verbo modale (essere capace, potere) can, to be* able to2.verbo transitivo1) (conoscere) to know* [verità, risposta]sapere qcs. su qcn. — to know sth. about sb.
ha ragione, sai — he's right, you know
sappi che non lo permetterò! — I won't stand for it, I tell you!
non si sa mai o non si può mai sapere you never know; a saperlo! se avessi saputo! if only I had known! ne so quanto prima — I'm none the wiser
2) (avere imparato) to know*3) (essere, venire a conoscenza) to hear*, to learn* (di of, about)3.2) (avere sapore) to taste, to savour BE, savor AE (di of); (avere odore) to smell* (di of)sapere di sale, di bruciato — to taste salty, burnt
3) fig. (sembrare)mi sa che — I've got a feeling (that), something tells me (that)
••saperci fare con i bambini — to have a way o be good with children
••saperla lunga in fatto di qcs. — to know a thing or two about sth.
Note:Attenzione a distinguere l'uso di saper fare qualcosa e sapere qualcosa: nel primo caso, sapere funziona da verbo modale, non può avere per soggetto una cosa, e si traduce con can, to be able to o to know how; nel secondo caso, funziona da verbo lessicale e si traduce con to know. Si veda sotto per gli esempi d'uso e i casi minoriII [sa'pere]sostantivo maschile knowledge; (cultura) learning* * *sapere1/sa'pere/ [82]Attenzione a distinguere l'uso di saper fare qualcosa e sapere qualcosa: nel primo caso, sapere funziona da verbo modale, non può avere per soggetto una cosa, e si traduce con can, to be able to o to know how; nel secondo caso, funziona da verbo lessicale e si traduce con to know. Si veda sotto per gli esempi d'uso e i casi minori.(essere capace, potere) can, to be* able to; saper fare to be able to do; sapere come fare to know how to do; non sa guidare she can't drive; sa battere a macchina? can he type? a quattro anni sapevo leggere I could read at the age of four; sai aggiustarlo? do you know how to fix it? non sa dire di no he can't say no; saper ascoltare to be a good listener1 (conoscere) to know* [verità, risposta]; lo so I know; non lo so I don't know; sapere tutto to know everything; sapere qcs. su qcn. to know sth. about sb.; non so perché I don't know why; lo so che è difficile I know it's difficult; sapevo che l'avresti detto I knew you would say that; non sa più quello che dice he doesn't know what he's saying; non ne so niente I don't know anything about it; buono a -rsi that's handy to know; come faccio a saperlo? how should I know? senza saperlo unknowingly; come ben sai as you well know; se proprio vuoi saperlo if you must know; caso mai non lo sapessi in case you didn't know; ha ragione, sai he's right, you know; sai una cosa? (do) you know something? sai cosa? sono proprio stufo you know what? I'm really fed up; sappi che non lo permetterò! I won't stand for it, I tell you! se sapessi! little do you know! se sapessi come sono contento! you can't imagine how happy I am! che io sappia as far as I know; non che io sappia not that I know of; che (cosa) ne so io! how should I know! per quanto ne so to my knowledge; senza che lo sapessi without my knowledge; non saprei I wouldn't know; vai a sapere! chi lo sa! who knows? non si sa mai o non si può mai sapere you never know; a saperlo! se avessi saputo! if only I had known! ne so quanto prima I'm none the wiser2 (avere imparato) to know*; sapere il cinese to know Chinese; sapere per esperienza to know from experience3 (essere, venire a conoscenza) to hear*, to learn* (di of, about); venire a sapere che to hear (it said) that; ho saputo del tuo incidente I heard about your accident; fammelo sapere please let me know; come l'hai saputo? how did you find out? ha fatto sapere che she let it be known that(aus. avere)1 (essere colto) un uomo che sa a cultivated man2 (avere sapore) to taste, to savour BE, savor AE (di of); (avere odore) to smell* (di of); sapere di sale, di bruciato to taste salty, burnt; non sa di niente it has no taste3 fig. (sembrare) sa di fregatura it sounds dodgy; mi sa che I've got a feeling (that), something tells me (that)saperci fare con i bambini to have a way o be good with children; con gli uomini ci sa fare she knows how to handle men; saperla lunga in fatto di qcs. to know a thing or two about sth.; è uno che la sa lunga he's been around; sapere il fatto proprio to know what's what; non voglio più saperne di lui I don't want to hear from him any more; non ne vuole sapere he won't hear of it.————————sapere2/sa'pere/sostantivo m.knowledge; (cultura) learning; sete di sapere thirst for knowledge; un uomo di vasto sapere a man of great learning.
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