to+(bring+into)+focus

Смысл подробности заключается в том, чтобы, по словам Пушкина, мелочь, которая ускользает от глаз, мелькнула бы крупно, в глаза всем. (К. Паустовский, Золотая роза) — Details are needed, according to Pushkin, to draw attention and bring into sharp focus important trifles which otherwise escape notice.

el tema de su discurso — the subject o theme of his speech

es un tema muy manoseado — it's a hackneyed o well-worn theme

• pasar del tema *, -¿qué piensas de las elecciones? -paso del tema — "what do you think about the elections?" - "I couldn't care less about them" *

un tema delicado — a delicate matter o subject

un tema delicado — a delicate matter o subject

Ex: What is a subject?.

el poder está concentrado en pocas manos — all the power is held by a few people o is concentrated in the hands of a few

el poder está concentrado en pocas manos — all the power is held by a few people o is concentrated in the hands of a few

Ex: The major four categories of physical forms outlined so far account for most of the published indexes and catalogues.

porter quelqu'un à bout de bras — fig to take on somebody's problems

porter des fruits — lit

porter ses fruits — fig to bear fruit

se faire porter malade or pâle — (colloq) to go (colloq) ou report sick

porter bonheur or chance — to be lucky

porter sur — [débat, article] to be about; [mesure, interdiction] to apply to

porter sur — [structure] to be resting on

un canon qui porte à 500 mètres — a cannon with a range of 500 metres [BrE]

se porter bien/mal — [personne] to be well/ill; [affaire] to be going well/badly

se porter sur — [soupçon] to fall on

porter qch sur [registre] — to write sth down in, to enter sth in

porter sur [conférence] — to be about, (= peser) to rest on, [accent] to fall on, (= heurter) [choc] to strike

• formarse una idea de algo — to form an impression of sth

• hacerse una idea de algo — to get an idea of sth

• idea brillante, idea genial — brilliant idea, brainwave

mi idea era salir temprano — I had intended to leave early, my idea o intention was to leave early

• cambiar de idea — to change one's mind

• idea fija — fixed idea

• ir con la idea de hacer algo — to mean to do sth

• tiene muy mala idea — his intentions are not good, he's a nasty piece of work *

tuvo muy mala idea al hacer las preguntas — his questions were really malicious o nasty

• metérsele una idea en la cabeza a algn, cuando se le mete una idea en la cabeza no hay quien se la saque — once he gets an idea into his head no one can talk him out of it

• tener idea de hacer algo — [en el pasado] to mean to do sth; [en el futuro] to be thinking of doing sth

tenía idea de traerme varias botellas de vodka — I meant o I was meaning to bring some bottles of vodka

• tener idea de algo — to have an idea of sth

• no tener la menor idea — not to have the faintest o the foggiest idea

lo expulsaron por sus ideas políticas — they expelled him because of his political beliefs o ideas

• una persona de ideas conservadoras/liberales/radicales — a conservative/liberal/radical-minded person

la idea de libertad — the idea o concept of freedom

es de ideas conservadoras — she has conservative ideas o views

darse idea para algo — (RPl fam) to be good at something

hacerse (a) la idea de algo — to get used to the idea of something

idea de bombero — (Esp fam) crazy idea

la idea de libertad — the idea o concept of freedom

es de ideas conservadoras — she has conservative ideas o views

darse idea para algo — (RPl fam) to be good at something

hacerse (a) la idea de algo — to get used to the idea of something

idea de bombero — (Esp fam) crazy idea

Ex: Analytical cataloguing is valuable in respect of any type of media, but many of ideas have been tested most thoroughly in the context of monographs and serials.

Ex: For example, Recreation, previously dispersed over several main classes, is now brought together as a new main class, and Space Science has been added between Astronomy and the Earth Sciences.