romantic novel

novela de aprendizaje — Bildungsroman, novel concerned with a person's formative years

novela iniciática — Bildungsroman, novel concerned with a person's formative years

novela policíaca — detective story, whodunit *

Ex: One part of a novel or long text may be read in order to whet the listeners' appetites for reading the book themselves.

Ex: This is an electronic book dedicated to the writings of romantic poets and authors.

Ex: If no such standards can be observed then, it would seem, romantic fiction along with westerns and detective stories must be regarded as some sort of cul-de-sac and rather stagnant backwater quite separate from the main stream of 'literature'.

Ex: Its popularity is attested to by its enormous sales which clearly indicate that for many women a new romantic novel is worth the outlay of a certain sum of money.

Ex: This article advises readers on choosing spy and crime fiction.

Ex: The romantic novel or the thriller have mass appeal.

(fresco) como una rosa — as fresh as a daisy

verlo todo de color de rosa — to see things through rose-colored glasses o (BrE) rose-tinted spectacles

(fresco) como una rosa — as fresh as a daisy

verlo todo de color de rosa — to see things through rose-colored glasses o (BrE) rose-tinted spectacles

Ex: If we cite the concepts present in a summarization of the document about 'Fungus diseases of roses' in this order we get, 'Botany/Roses/Fungus diseases'.

Ex: A heart on a pink background thus indicates 'romance' (rather than medicine) and a magnifying glass or a gun might indicate a detective story though a gun might mean a 'western' if it is a revolver and a war story if it is a field gun.

Ex: This philosophic novelette dramatizes the conflict between love and reason in the education of the young, showing the disastrous effects of a rigidly scientific pedagogy.

Ex: Like European and Japanese prototypes, these new-wave comic books may appear in magazine or quality paperback format, often called 'graphic novels'.

Ex: Puberty, he describes as 'dreamy and sentimental' and though this may seem a far cry from the teenagers we would recognize that adolescence brings an awakening of emotions, idealism and commitment to a romantic ideal.

tengo un hambre horrorosa — I'm absolutely starving (colloq)

tengo un hambre horrorosa — I'm absolutely starving (colloq)

Ex: His article, 'The skeleton in the our closet: public libraries art collections suffer appalling losses,' examines the problem of theft and mutilation of art materials in public libraries.

te lo agradeceré infinitamente — I'd be deeply o immensely grateful to you

te lo agradezco infinitamente — I'm deeply o infinitely grateful to you

lo siento infinitamente — I'm terribly o awfully sorry

te lo agradezco infinitamente — I'm deeply o infinitely grateful to you

lo siento infinitamente — I'm terribly o awfully sorry

Ex: If we look at a totally different sort of book, romantic fiction, we find here a form of novel which, to the outsider who has never read one of them, may seem to be endlessly repetitious.

Ex: A reason for this can be found in the tangled web of social services and welfare provisions that prevail in the United States and which are infinitely more complicated than in Britain.

Ex: If we look at a totally different sort of book, romantic fiction, we find here a form of novel which, to the outsider who has never read one of them, may seem to be endlessly repetitious.

Ex: All these networks have standard record formats, although it is regrettable that they all operate to different standards.

Ex: If we look at a totally different sort of book, romantic fiction, we find here a form of novel which, to the outsider who has never read one of them, may seem to be endlessly repetitious.

Ex: In all, the specialist world of romantic fiction is by no means homogeneous and there is even specialism in contemporary romance, historical romance, hospital romance and mystery romance.

Ex: I have myself a well-known dislike for historical fiction; it is a genre that on the whole gives me little pleasure.

Ex: Mechanization may yet force the issue, especially in the scientific field; whereupon scientific jargon would become still less intelligible to the layman.

corte de carretera — [para obras, accidente] road closure; [como protesta] roadblock

corte (de helado) — wafer, ice cream sandwich (EEUU)

dale un buen corte y no te molestará más — tell him where to go and he won't bother you any more *

corte de mangas — rude gesture made with the arm and hand which is the equivalent of giving the V-sign or, in the US, the finger

le hizo un corte de mangas a los fotógrafos — he made a o the V-sign at the photographers, he gave two fingers to the photographers, he gave the photographers the finger (EEUU)

no deja de hacerme la corte a ver si le presto dinero — he keeps licking my boots o sucking up to me so that I'll lend him some money

un corte en el suministro eléctrico — (frml) a power cut

darle un corte a alguien — to break o split up with somebody

un traje de buen corte — a well-made o well-cut suit

menudo corte! — what a put-down! (colloq)

darse corte — (RPl fam) to show off

hacerle la corte a alguien — ( cortejar) (ant) to woo somebody (dated or liter)

un corte en el suministro eléctrico — (frml) a power cut

darle un corte a alguien — to break o split up with somebody

un traje de buen corte — a well-made o well-cut suit

menudo corte! — what a put-down! (colloq)

darse corte — (RPl fam) to show off

hacerle la corte a alguien — ( cortejar) (ant) to woo somebody (dated or liter)

Ex: Examples can be found where exchange of publications remains as the only form of contact after severance of diplomatic and trade relations.

Ex: The ARPAnet was an experimental network designed to support military research -- in particular, research about how to build networks that could withstand partial outages (like bomb attacks) and still function.

Ex: The protagonist experiences a jarring descent from the heights of literary distinction at court to the coarseness of common experience.