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  • 1 rebelde

    adj.
    1 rebel (sublevado).
    ejército rebelde rebel army
    2 rebellious (desobediente).
    ese niño es muy rebelde that child is very disobedient
    4 defaulting (law).
    5 stubbornly disobedient, rebel, fractious, froward.
    6 not responding to treatment, intractable, refractory.
    f. & m.
    1 rebel (sublevado, desobediente).
    2 defaulter (law).
    * * *
    1 rebellious
    2 figurado (tos etc) persistent
    1 rebel
    * * *
    noun mf.
    * * *
    1. ADJ
    1) (=que se rebela) rebellious
    2) [niño] unruly; [resfriado] persistent; [mancha] stubborn; [pelo] wild; [problema] difficult; [sustancia] difficult to work with
    3) (Jur) defaulting
    2. SMF
    1) (Mil, Pol) rebel
    2) (Jur) defaulter
    * * *
    I
    a) <tropas/ejército> rebel (before n)
    b) <niño/carácter> unruly, rebellious
    c) < tos> persistent; < mancha> stubborn
    d) (Der) defaulting (before n)
    II
    masculino y femenino (Mil, Pol) rebel; (Der) defaulter
    * * *
    I
    a) <tropas/ejército> rebel (before n)
    b) <niño/carácter> unruly, rebellious
    c) < tos> persistent; < mancha> stubborn
    d) (Der) defaulting (before n)
    II
    masculino y femenino (Mil, Pol) rebel; (Der) defaulter
    * * *
    rebelde1
    1 = punk, enfant terrible, insurgent, rebel.

    Ex: Cyberpunk is a cultural label encompassing many different kinds of punk attitudes, including clothing and lifestyle choices.

    Ex: Vesalius, considered in his time a scientific ' enfant terrible,' revolutionized medicine and science by insisting that truth could be established only by direct observation.
    Ex: While the drug smugglers are said to be stronger than the states in which they live, Marxist insurgents have been fighting with them for several years.
    Ex: The article is entitled 'The Luddites and their war on the Industrial Revolution: rebels against the future: lessons for the computer age'.

    rebelde2
    2 = unruly, rebellious, insurgent, fractious, wayward, resistive, disorderly, riotous, insurrectionary.

    Ex: 'Sometimes the kids get a little unruly!' she announced in that easy familiar style of hers as she sat down.

    Ex: The urge to mechanize paper-making came at first as much from the papermakers' desire to free themselves from dependence upon their skilled but rebellious workmen as from the pursuit of production economies.
    Ex: This growth accompanied an insurgent professionalism.
    Ex: Thus was Christianity codified into a Bible that still today is the central element in the faith of the two billion adherents of the largest, if most fractious, of the world's religions.
    Ex: The article 'The wayward scholar: resources and research in popular culture' defends popular culture as a legitimate and important library resource.
    Ex: This game was developed in order to facilitate the therapeutic process for those children who are `inhibited, constrained or resistive'.
    Ex: As expected, students in disorderly schools tend to have higher misbehavior and lower achievement.
    Ex: I'd like to see the full force of the law brought down on these people who are involved in this riotous behaviour.
    Ex: Most obviously, the insurrectionary movements of the late-eighteenth and nineteenth centuries were informed by notions of nationality.
    * ángel rebelde = rebel angel.

    * * *
    1 ‹tropas/ejército› rebel ( before n)
    2 ‹niño/carácter› unruly, rebellious
    3 ‹tos› persistent; ‹mancha› stubborn
    4 ( Der) defaulting ( before n)
    1 ( Mil, Pol) rebel
    2 ( Der) defaulter
    * * *

     

    rebelde adjetivo
    a) ‹tropas/ejército› rebel ( before n)

    b) ‹niño/carácter› unruly, rebellious

    c) ‹ tos› persistent;

    ‹ mancha› stubborn
    ■ sustantivo masculino y femenino (Mil, Pol) rebel
    rebelde
    I adjetivo
    1 (carácter, actitud) rebellious: es un niño muy rebelde, he's a very unruly child
    2 familiar tiene un pelo muy rebelde, her hair is quite unmanageable
    3 (persistente) stubborn
    una mancha rebelde, a stubborn stain
    una tos rebelde, a persistent cough
    4 Mil rebel
    II mf rebel
    ' rebelde' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    indómita
    - indómito
    - respondón
    - respondona
    - espíritu
    English:
    rebel
    - rebellious
    - stubborn
    - unmanageable
    - unruly
    - defiant
    * * *
    ♦ adj
    1. [sublevado] rebel;
    ejército rebelde rebel army
    2. [desobediente] rebellious
    3. [difícil de dominar] [pelo] unmanageable;
    [tos] persistent; [mancha] stubborn; [pasiones] unruly
    4. Der defaulting
    ♦ nmf
    1. [sublevado, desobediente] rebel
    2. Der defaulter
    * * *
    I adj rebel atr
    II m/f rebel
    * * *
    rebelde adj
    : rebellious, unruly
    rebelde nmf
    1) : rebel
    2) : defaulter
    * * *
    rebelde1 adj
    1. (niño, etc) rebellious
    2. (tropas, etc) rebel
    rebelde2 n rebel

    Spanish-English dictionary > rebelde

  • 2 indisciplinado

    adj.
    undisciplined, devil-may-care, uncontrollable.
    past part.
    past participle of spanish verb: indisciplinarse.
    * * *
    1 undisciplined
    ► nombre masculino,nombre femenino
    1 undisciplined person
    * * *
    ADJ
    1) [niño, alumno] undisciplined
    2) [soldado] insubordinate
    * * *
    - da adjetivo < alumno> undisciplined, unruly; < soldado> insubordinate
    * * *
    = unruly, undisciplined, disorderly, ill-disciplined.
    Ex. 'Sometimes the kids get a little unruly!' she announced in that easy familiar style of hers as she sat down.
    Ex. However, it is concluded that sociology's role as an ' undisciplined joker' in the scientific realm may itself have value.
    Ex. As expected, students in disorderly schools tend to have higher misbehavior and lower achievement.
    Ex. British troops can't patrol properly, are ill-disciplined and injury-prone and have bad personal hygiene.
    * * *
    - da adjetivo < alumno> undisciplined, unruly; < soldado> insubordinate
    * * *
    = unruly, undisciplined, disorderly, ill-disciplined.

    Ex: 'Sometimes the kids get a little unruly!' she announced in that easy familiar style of hers as she sat down.

    Ex: However, it is concluded that sociology's role as an ' undisciplined joker' in the scientific realm may itself have value.
    Ex: As expected, students in disorderly schools tend to have higher misbehavior and lower achievement.
    Ex: British troops can't patrol properly, are ill-disciplined and injury-prone and have bad personal hygiene.

    * * *
    ‹alumno› undisciplined, unruly; ‹soldado› insubordinate
    * * *

    Del verbo indisciplinarse: ( conjugate indisciplinarse)

    indisciplinado es:

    el participio

    indisciplinado
    ◊ -da adjetivo ‹ alumno› undisciplined, unruly;


    ‹ soldado› insubordinate
    indisciplinado,-a adjetivo undisciplined
    ' indisciplinado' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    indisciplinada
    English:
    undisciplined
    - unruly
    * * *
    indisciplinado, -a
    ♦ adj
    1. [jugador] undisciplined;
    [alumno, hijo] badly behaved
    2. [soldado] insubordinate
    ♦ nm,f
    es un indisciplinado [jugador] he's very undisciplined;
    [alumno, hijo] he's very badly behaved
    * * *
    adj undisciplined
    * * *
    indisciplinado, -da adj
    : undisciplined, unruly

    Spanish-English dictionary > indisciplinado

  • 3 revoltoso

    adj.
    unruly, rebellious, disorderly, mischievous.
    m.
    rowdy, mischief-maker, rebel, firebrand.
    * * *
    1 (rebelde) rebellious, unruly
    2 (travieso) mischievous, naughty
    ► nombre masculino,nombre femenino
    1 (rebelde) rebel
    2 (travieso) mischievous child
    3 (sedicioso) troublemaker
    * * *
    revoltoso, -a
    1.
    ADJ (=rebelde) rebellious, unruly; [niño] naughty, unruly
    2.
    SM / F (=alborotador) troublemaker, agitator
    * * *
    - sa adjetivo < niño> naughty; <soldados/estudiantes> rebellious
    * * *
    = unruly, disorderly, riotous.
    Ex. 'Sometimes the kids get a little unruly!' she announced in that easy familiar style of hers as she sat down.
    Ex. As expected, students in disorderly schools tend to have higher misbehavior and lower achievement.
    Ex. I'd like to see the full force of the law brought down on these people who are involved in this riotous behaviour.
    * * *
    - sa adjetivo < niño> naughty; <soldados/estudiantes> rebellious
    * * *
    = unruly, disorderly, riotous.

    Ex: 'Sometimes the kids get a little unruly!' she announced in that easy familiar style of hers as she sat down.

    Ex: As expected, students in disorderly schools tend to have higher misbehavior and lower achievement.
    Ex: I'd like to see the full force of the law brought down on these people who are involved in this riotous behaviour.

    * * *
    1 ‹niño› naughty
    2 ‹soldados/estudiantes› rebellious
    * * *

    revoltoso
    ◊ -sa adjetivo ‹ niño› naughty;


    ‹soldados/estudiantes› rebellious
    revoltoso,-a adjetivo & sustantivo masculino y femenino naughty
    ' revoltoso' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    revoltosa
    English:
    disruptive
    - mischief-maker
    - mischievous
    - unruly
    - disorderly
    * * *
    revoltoso, -a
    ♦ adj
    1. [soldado, estudiante] rebellious
    2. [niño] naughty
    ♦ nm,f
    1. [soldado, estudiante] troublemaker
    2. [niño] rascal
    * * *
    I adj niño naughty
    II m, revoltosa f naughty child
    * * *
    revoltoso, -sa adj
    : unruly, rebellious
    * * *
    revoltoso adj naughty [comp. naughtier; superl. naughtiest]

    Spanish-English dictionary > revoltoso

  • 4 díscolo

    adj.
    ungovernable, fractious, disobedient, troublemaking.
    * * *
    1 ungovernable, disobedient, unruly
    * * *
    ADJ
    1) (=rebelde) unruly
    2) (=travieso) mischievous
    * * *
    - la adjetivo unruly, disobedient
    * * *
    = fractious, wayward.
    Ex. Thus was Christianity codified into a Bible that still today is the central element in the faith of the two billion adherents of the largest, if most fractious, of the world's religions.
    Ex. The article 'The wayward scholar: resources and research in popular culture' defends popular culture as a legitimate and important library resource.
    * * *
    - la adjetivo unruly, disobedient
    * * *
    = fractious, wayward.

    Ex: Thus was Christianity codified into a Bible that still today is the central element in the faith of the two billion adherents of the largest, if most fractious, of the world's religions.

    Ex: The article 'The wayward scholar: resources and research in popular culture' defends popular culture as a legitimate and important library resource.

    * * *
    unruly, disobedient
    * * *

    díscolo,-a adjetivo disobedient, unruly
    el hijo díscolo, the disobedient son
    ' díscolo' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    díscola
    * * *
    díscolo, -a adj
    disobedient, rebellious
    * * *
    adj unruly
    * * *
    díscolo, -la adj
    : unruly, disobedient

    Spanish-English dictionary > díscolo

  • 5 indomable

    adj.
    1 untameable (animal).
    2 rebellious.
    3 indomitable, wild, rebel, savage.
    * * *
    1 (animal) untamable
    2 figurado (valor, heroísmo) indomitable; (carácter) unruly
    * * *
    ADJ [espíritu] indomitable; [animal] untameable; [pelo] unmanageable; [energía] boundless
    * * *
    a) < animal salvaje> untamable*; < caballo> unbreakable
    b) <pueblo/tribu> indomitable, unconquerable
    c) (fam) <pelo/remolino> unruly, unmanageable
    * * *
    Ex. This demonstrates that even in the face of devastation and hopelessness, the indomitable spirit to survive carries on in all species.
    * * *
    a) < animal salvaje> untamable*; < caballo> unbreakable
    b) <pueblo/tribu> indomitable, unconquerable
    c) (fam) <pelo/remolino> unruly, unmanageable
    * * *

    Ex: This demonstrates that even in the face of devastation and hopelessness, the indomitable spirit to survive carries on in all species.

    * * *
    1 ‹animal salvaje› untamable*; ‹caballo› unbreakable
    2 ‹pueblo/tribu› indomitable, unconquerable
    un joven valiente e indomable a courageous, indomitable young man
    niños rebeldes e indomables rebellious, uncontrollable children
    3 ( fam); ‹pelo/remolino› unruly, unmanageable
    * * *

    indomable adjetivo
    a) ‹ animal salvaje› untamable( conjugate untamable);

    ‹ caballo› unbreakable
    b) ‹pueblo/tribu› indomitable, unconquerable;

    ‹ persona› indomitable
    c) (fam) ‹pelo/remolino› unruly, unmanageable

    indomable adjetivo
    1 (animal) untameable
    2 (pueblo) ungovernable, unruly
    (persona) uncontrollable
    (sentimiento) indomitable
    * * *
    1. [animal] untameable
    2. [carácter] rebellious;
    [pueblo] unruly
    * * *
    adj animal untameable; persona indomitable
    * * *
    1) : indomitable
    2) : unruly, unmanageable

    Spanish-English dictionary > indomable

  • 6 retobado

    adj.
    1 artful, crafty. (Metaphorical)
    2 wild (animal); wild (person), unruly; rebellious. (Latin American)
    3 grumbling (gruñón). (Andes & Central America & Mexico)
    4 cunning (taimado). (Andes)
    5 unruly, rebellious, bolshy, insubordinate.
    6 obstinate, pigheaded, stubborn, headstrong.
    past part.
    past participle of spanish verb: retobar.
    * * *
    ADJ
    1) LAm [animal] (=salvaje) wild
    2) LAm [persona] (=taimado) sly, crafty; (=rebelde) rebellious; (=terco) obstinate; (=hosco) sullen; (=caprichoso) unpredictable, capricious
    3) And, CAm, Méx * (=gruñón) grumbling; (=descarado) saucy, sassy (EEUU), cheeky *
    * * *
    - da adjetivo ( rebelde) (Méx, RPl fam) rebellious; ( terco) (Méx fam) stubborn
    * * *
    - da adjetivo ( rebelde) (Méx, RPl fam) rebellious; ( terco) (Méx fam) stubborn
    * * *
    A
    1 (Méx, RPl fam) (rebelde) unruly, rebellious, bolshy ( BrE colloq)
    2 ( Méx fam) (terco) obstinate, stubborn
    B
    ( Chi fam) (directo): cuando vuelvas te vas retobado a la cama when you get back you're going straight to bed
    * * *
    retobado, -a adj
    1. Méx [obstinado] stubborn, obstinate
    2. Méx, RP [indómito] wild, unruly
    * * *
    adj L.Am.
    unruly

    Spanish-English dictionary > retobado

  • 7 desmandado

    adj.
    unruly, rebellious, uncontrolled, uncontrollable.
    past part.
    past participle of spanish verb: desmandar.
    * * *
    1→ link=desmandar desmandar
    1 (persona) rebellious, unruly
    2 (animal) stray; (caballo) runaway
    * * *
    ADJ
    1) (=desobediente) unruly
    2) [caballo] runaway
    * * *
    desmandado, -a adj
    [desobediente] unruly
    * * *
    adj unruly, disobedient

    Spanish-English dictionary > desmandado

  • 8 difícil de tratar

    (adj.) = unruly
    Ex. We would also like to acknowledge the patience of Sue Bowles in dealing with unruly subjects.
    * * *
    (adj.) = unruly

    Ex: We would also like to acknowledge the patience of Sue Bowles in dealing with unruly subjects.

    Spanish-English dictionary > difícil de tratar

  • 9 soldadesca

    adj.&f.
    feminine of SOLDADESCO.
    f.
    1 soldiery, the profession of a soldier (profesión); military art or science, soldiership (used in a depreciative sense).
    2 sham-fight.
    A la soldadesca in a soldierly manner, for the use of soldiers
    3 military profession, soldiering.
    * * *
    1 (profesión) military profession
    2 (soldados) soldiery, troops
    * * *
    SF
    1) (=profesión) military profession, military
    2) pey (=soldados) army rabble
    * * *
    femenino (pey) ( soldados indisciplinados) violent/unruly soldiers (pl)
    * * *
    femenino (pey) ( soldados indisciplinados) violent/unruly soldiers (pl)
    * * *
    1 (profesión) military profession
    2 ( pey) (soldados indisciplinados) violent/unruly soldiers (pl)
    * * *

    soldadesca f pey brutal and licentious soldiery
    * * *
    rowdy o unruly gang of soldiers
    * * *
    f military life

    Spanish-English dictionary > soldadesca

  • 10 desmadrado

    adj.
    1 unruly (desenfrenado), rebellious; uninhibited (desinhibido).
    2 confused; disoriented, lost.
    * * *
    1→ link=desmadrar desmadrar
    1 familiar figurado wild, unruly
    * * *
    ADJ
    1) * (=desenfrenado)
    2) (=desinhibido) uninhibited
    3) (=confuso) confused
    * * *
    Ex. Morris writes rhapsodically about celebrity-studded parties, roistering interludes with major writers and artists, as well as gossip-column habitues.
    * * *

    Ex: Morris writes rhapsodically about celebrity-studded parties, roistering interludes with major writers and artists, as well as gossip-column habitues.

    * * *
    ( fam); wild ( colloq)
    estaban totalmente desmadrados they were running wild o riot
    * * *
    desmadrado, -a adj
    Esp Fam wild;
    estar desmadrado to be wild o out of control;
    una fiesta desmadrada a really wild party
    * * *
    adj fam
    unruly

    Spanish-English dictionary > desmadrado

  • 11 desordenado

    adj.
    disordered, disorderly, cluttered, disorganized.
    past part.
    past participle of spanish verb: desordenar.
    * * *
    1→ link=desordenar desordenar
    1 (habitación etc) untidy, messy
    2 (persona) slovenly
    3 (ideas) confused
    4 figurado (vida) licentious
    * * *
    ADJ
    1) (=sin orden) [habitación, persona] untidy, messy; [objetos] in a mess, jumbled
    2) (=asocial) [vida] chaotic; [conducta] disorderly; [carácter] unmethodical; [niño] wild, unruly
    3) [país] chaotic
    * * *
    - da adjetivo
    1)
    a) <persona/habitación> untidy, messy (colloq)
    b) [estar] <naipes/hojas> out of order
    2) < vida> disorganized
    3) (Chi) ( en el colegio) < niño> naughty, badly-behaved
    * * *
    = disordered, topsy-turvy, in disarray, disorderly, all over the place.
    Ex. Looking at the foot-thick carpet of serried and disordered books everywhere on the floor, he agreed that the library was outgrowing its accommodations.
    Ex. At a later stage he may make up topsy-turvy stories with reversals of the pattern; finally he will improvise and impose hiw own.
    Ex. Sometimes cataloguers access other libraries' OPACs in order to resolve difficult problems when important parts of the item being catalogued are missing or are in disarray.
    Ex. Empirical studies of decision making have found that the process is more disorderly than described in rational models.
    Ex. Mr Hammond said the Liberal Democrats are ' all over the place' on the economy.
    ----
    * agrupamiento desordenado = clutter.
    * de un modo desordenado = higgledy-piggledy.
    * estar desordenado = be out of order.
    * * *
    - da adjetivo
    1)
    a) <persona/habitación> untidy, messy (colloq)
    b) [estar] <naipes/hojas> out of order
    2) < vida> disorganized
    3) (Chi) ( en el colegio) < niño> naughty, badly-behaved
    * * *
    = disordered, topsy-turvy, in disarray, disorderly, all over the place.

    Ex: Looking at the foot-thick carpet of serried and disordered books everywhere on the floor, he agreed that the library was outgrowing its accommodations.

    Ex: At a later stage he may make up topsy-turvy stories with reversals of the pattern; finally he will improvise and impose hiw own.
    Ex: Sometimes cataloguers access other libraries' OPACs in order to resolve difficult problems when important parts of the item being catalogued are missing or are in disarray.
    Ex: Empirical studies of decision making have found that the process is more disorderly than described in rational models.
    Ex: Mr Hammond said the Liberal Democrats are ' all over the place' on the economy.
    * agrupamiento desordenado = clutter.
    * de un modo desordenado = higgledy-piggledy.
    * estar desordenado = be out of order.

    * * *
    A
    2 ‹habitación› untidy, messy ( colloq)
    tengo la casa toda desordenada my house is in a mess o is very untidy
    las hojas están todas desordenadas the sheets are all out of order
    B ‹vida› disorganized
    C ( Chi) (revoltoso) ‹niño› naughty, badly-behaved
    * * *

    Del verbo desordenar: ( conjugate desordenar)

    desordenado es:

    el participio

    Multiple Entries:
    desordenado    
    desordenar
    desordenado
    ◊ -da adjetivo

    1
    a) ‹persona/habitación› untidy, messy (colloq);

    ◊ tengo la casa toda desordenada my house is in a mess o is very untidy

    b) [estar] ‹naipes/hojas› out of order

    2 ‹ vida› disorganized
    desordenar ( conjugate desordenar) verbo transitivo ‹mesa/habitación› to make … untidy, mess up (colloq);
    ‹naipes/hojas› to get … out of order
    desordenado,-a adj (alborotado, desarreglado) messy, untidy
    (sin orden, no correlativo) out of order
    (sin norma, con excesos) chaotic
    desordenar verbo transitivo to make untidy, mess up
    (romper una secuencia, un orden) to put out of order, to mix up
    ' desordenado' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    alborotada
    - alborotado
    - desordenada
    - leonera
    - pata
    - trastornada
    - trastornado
    - entreverado
    - revuelto
    English:
    disorderly
    - haphazard
    - mess
    - messy
    - order
    - untidy
    - straggly
    - topsy-turvy
    * * *
    desordenado, -a
    ♦ adj
    1. [habitación, casa, mesa] untidy, messy;
    [persona] untidy, messy; [documentos, fichas] jumbled (up);
    lo tiene todo muy desordenado it's all in a complete mess;
    una secuencia de números desordenada a jumbled sequence of numbers
    2. [vida] disorganized;
    [comportamiento] disorderly
    ♦ nm,f
    untidy o messy person;
    es una desordenada she's very untidy o messy
    * * *
    adj untidy, messy fam ; fig
    disorganized
    * * *
    desordenado, -da adj
    1) : untidy, messy
    2) : disorderly, unruly
    * * *
    1. (persona, sitio) untidy [comp. untidier; superl. untidiest] / messy [comp. messier; superl. messiest]
    2. (papeles, fichas, etc) out of order

    Spanish-English dictionary > desordenado

  • 12 difícil

    adj.
    difficult, tough, arduous, cumbersome.
    Un trabajo difícil [duro] A stiff job.
    * * *
    1 difficult, hard
    2 (improbable) unlikely
    ■ es difícil que nos encontremos allí it's unlikely that we'll meet there, we're unlikely to meet there
    * * *
    adj.
    difficult, hard
    * * *
    ADJ
    1) (=complicado) [problema] difficult; [tiempos, vida] difficult, hard; [situación] difficult, delicate

    me resulta muy difícil decidir — I find it very hard to decide, I have great difficulty in deciding

    2) [persona] difficult
    3) * [cara] ugly
    * * *
    1)
    a) [ser] <problema/situación> difficult; < examen> hard, difficult

    me fue muy difícil decírselo — it was very hard o difficult for me to tell him

    resulta difícil evaluar las pérdidas — it is difficult o hard to put a figure on the losses

    difícil de + inf — difficult o hard to + inf

    b) [estar] (fam)
    2) [ser] ( poco probable) unlikely

    es posible pero lo veo difícil — it's possible, but I don't think it's very likely

    3) [ser] <persona/carácter> difficult
    * * *
    = arduous, demanding, difficult, intractable, laborious, painful, taxing, tough [tougher -comp., toughest -sup.], thorny [thornier -comp., thorniest -sup.], delicate, tortuous, hardscrabble, obstinate, bumpy, dicey [dicier -comp., diciest -sup.], uphill, problematic, problematical, hard [harder -comp., hardest -sup.].
    Ex. Plays and music performances put on by staff and children require less arduous preparation than a full-length public performance.
    Ex. It is clear to me that they face a professional role that will be far more complicated and far more demanding that the one we have known.
    Ex. It's already difficult to find a lot of these things as it is, but it would be absolute irresponsibility to go to a title-main entry.
    Ex. Unfortunately, these factors simultaneously make the resolution of the situation more intractable.
    Ex. The next step was a rather painful, laborious manual effort.
    Ex. The next step was a rather painful, laborious manual effort.
    Ex. It is difficult to remember the special interests of more than a few people, and hence rather taxing to provide SDI manually to more than a handful of users.
    Ex. As educators, then, we need to ask ourselves some very tough questions -- some to which we would rather not hear the answers.
    Ex. The article 'The comfortable pew is a thorny throne' reviews the technological, political, philosophical, professional and educational issues associated with filtering access to information.
    Ex. Despite the incompetence of most eighteenth-century block-makers, woodcuts never quite disappeared, and they returned to favour in the delicate form called 'wood-engraving' at the end of the hand-press period.
    Ex. The promulgation of Community law represents the culmination of an often tortuous legal process whose main features are laid down in the Treaty of Rome.
    Ex. And so, from its hardscrabble beginnings to immediate time, Wexler has lead a varied existence, changing from shipping point for fruit to resting place for travelers = Y por lo tanto, desde sus comienzos difíciles hasta el presente, Wexler ha llevado una vida variada, pasando de ser un centro de recepción y envío de fruta a un lugar de descanso para los viajeros.
    Ex. It is not wise, by the way, to approach the author by telephone for this puts him on the spot and he may refuse simply in self-defense and especially if you happen to butt in when he is struggling with an obstinate chapter in a new book.
    Ex. The article is entitled 'The big bumpy shift: digital music via the Internet'.
    Ex. Predicting the future is dicey.
    Ex. Promoters of this tax will have an uphill fight and the cultural objections will be very great.
    Ex. This attitude is based on the waste bin decision process widely used in political and educational organisations, which tend to have open-ended goals, problematic preferences, hazy technology, and poor feeback.
    Ex. The manufacture of these high-density chips is problematical.
    Ex. The amount of stuffing in the balls was varied to suit the nature of the work; large, soft balls with weak ink were used for low-grade work; small, hard balls and strong ink for work of better quality.
    ----
    * ahorrar para cuando lleguen tiempos difíciles = save for + a rainy day.
    * algo muy difícil = a tough sell.
    * aprender de la forma más difícil = learn + the hard way.
    * aunque parezca difícil = difficult though it may seem, difficult as it may seem.
    * cuestión difícil = poser.
    * de difícil solución = intractable.
    * de la forma más difícil = the hard way.
    * difícil de aceptar = hard to swallow.
    * difícil de agradar = choosy [choosey] [choosier -comp., choosiest -sup.].
    * difícil de complacer = choosy [choosey] [choosier -comp., choosiest -sup.].
    * difícil de comprender = difficult to understand.
    * difícil de conseguir = hard to come by, difficult to come by.
    * difícil de contentar = choosy [choosey] [choosier -comp., choosiest -sup.].
    * difícil de descifrar = cryptic.
    * difícil de distinguir = indistinguishable.
    * difícil de encontrar = hard-to-find.
    * difícil de entender = cryptic.
    * difícil de gestionar = unmanageable.
    * difícil de gestionar + Adjetivo = unmanageably + Adjetivo.
    * difícil de hacer = hard to do.
    * difícil de localizar = irretraceable.
    * difícil de manejar = clumsy [clumsier -comp., clumsiest -sup.], unwieldy.
    * difícil de masticar = chewy [chewier -comp., chewiest -sup.].
    * difícil de obtener = hard to come by, difficult to come by.
    * difícil de seguir = heavy going.
    * difícil de sustituir = hard to replace.
    * difícil de tratar = unruly.
    * empezar por lo más difícil = plunge in at + the deep end.
    * en circunstancias difíciles = under difficult circumstances.
    * en condiciones difíciles = under difficult conditions.
    * encontrar Algo demasiado difícil = be out of + Posesivo + league.
    * encontrar Algo difícil = have + a hard time, have + a tough time.
    * encontrar difícil de explicar = be hard put to explain.
    * encontrar difícil + Infinitivo = find it hard to + Infinitivo.
    * encontrar muy difícil = be hard-pushed to.
    * en épocas difíciles = in times of need.
    * enfrascado en lo más difícil = in at the deep end.
    * enfrascar a Alguien de lleno en lo más difícil = throw in + at the deep end.
    * enfrascarse en lo más difícil = swim in + the deep end, jump in at + the deep end, plunge in at + the deep end.
    * en tiempos difíciles = in times of need.
    * hacer difícil = make + it + difficult, make + difficult.
    * hacerlo difícil de + Infinitivo = make + it + hard to + Infinitivo.
    * mecanismo de reducción de situaciones difíciles = threat-reduction mechanism.
    * meter a Alguien de lleno en lo más difícil = throw in + at the deep end.
    * meterse de lleno en lo más difícil = plunge in at + the deep end.
    * meterse de lleno en lo más difícil = swim in + the deep end, jump in at + the deep end.
    * metido en lo más difícil = in at the deep end.
    * muy difícil de traducir = defy + translation.
    * por muy difícil que parezca = difficult though it may seem, difficult as it may seem.
    * pregunta difícil = poser.
    * pregunta difícil de responder = awkward-to-handle enquiry.
    * problema difícil = poser.
    * problema difícil de resolver = tough nut to crack, hard nut to crack, brain tickler.
    * resultar difícil de conseguir = prove + elusive.
    * ser Algo demasiado difícil para = be in over + Posesivo + head, be out of + Posesivo + depth.
    * ser difícil = be a stretch.
    * ser difícil de bregar = be a (real) handful.
    * ser difícil de conseguir = be hard to get.
    * ser difícil de creer = beggar + belief.
    * ser difícil de encontrar = be hard to find.
    * ser difícil de lograr = be hard to get.
    * ser difícil de superar = take + some beating.
    * ser muy difícil = be hard-pushed to.
    * situación difícil = hardship.
    * tarea difícil = hard task.
    * tarea muy difícil = uphill struggle.
    * tenerlo difícil = not be easy.
    * tiempos difíciles = embattled time(s).
    * * *
    1)
    a) [ser] <problema/situación> difficult; < examen> hard, difficult

    me fue muy difícil decírselo — it was very hard o difficult for me to tell him

    resulta difícil evaluar las pérdidas — it is difficult o hard to put a figure on the losses

    difícil de + inf — difficult o hard to + inf

    b) [estar] (fam)
    2) [ser] ( poco probable) unlikely

    es posible pero lo veo difícil — it's possible, but I don't think it's very likely

    3) [ser] <persona/carácter> difficult
    * * *
    = arduous, demanding, difficult, intractable, laborious, painful, taxing, tough [tougher -comp., toughest -sup.], thorny [thornier -comp., thorniest -sup.], delicate, tortuous, hardscrabble, obstinate, bumpy, dicey [dicier -comp., diciest -sup.], uphill, problematic, problematical, hard [harder -comp., hardest -sup.].

    Ex: Plays and music performances put on by staff and children require less arduous preparation than a full-length public performance.

    Ex: It is clear to me that they face a professional role that will be far more complicated and far more demanding that the one we have known.
    Ex: It's already difficult to find a lot of these things as it is, but it would be absolute irresponsibility to go to a title-main entry.
    Ex: Unfortunately, these factors simultaneously make the resolution of the situation more intractable.
    Ex: The next step was a rather painful, laborious manual effort.
    Ex: The next step was a rather painful, laborious manual effort.
    Ex: It is difficult to remember the special interests of more than a few people, and hence rather taxing to provide SDI manually to more than a handful of users.
    Ex: As educators, then, we need to ask ourselves some very tough questions -- some to which we would rather not hear the answers.
    Ex: The article 'The comfortable pew is a thorny throne' reviews the technological, political, philosophical, professional and educational issues associated with filtering access to information.
    Ex: Despite the incompetence of most eighteenth-century block-makers, woodcuts never quite disappeared, and they returned to favour in the delicate form called 'wood-engraving' at the end of the hand-press period.
    Ex: The promulgation of Community law represents the culmination of an often tortuous legal process whose main features are laid down in the Treaty of Rome.
    Ex: And so, from its hardscrabble beginnings to immediate time, Wexler has lead a varied existence, changing from shipping point for fruit to resting place for travelers = Y por lo tanto, desde sus comienzos difíciles hasta el presente, Wexler ha llevado una vida variada, pasando de ser un centro de recepción y envío de fruta a un lugar de descanso para los viajeros.
    Ex: It is not wise, by the way, to approach the author by telephone for this puts him on the spot and he may refuse simply in self-defense and especially if you happen to butt in when he is struggling with an obstinate chapter in a new book.
    Ex: The article is entitled 'The big bumpy shift: digital music via the Internet'.
    Ex: Predicting the future is dicey.
    Ex: Promoters of this tax will have an uphill fight and the cultural objections will be very great.
    Ex: This attitude is based on the waste bin decision process widely used in political and educational organisations, which tend to have open-ended goals, problematic preferences, hazy technology, and poor feeback.
    Ex: The manufacture of these high-density chips is problematical.
    Ex: The amount of stuffing in the balls was varied to suit the nature of the work; large, soft balls with weak ink were used for low-grade work; small, hard balls and strong ink for work of better quality.
    * ahorrar para cuando lleguen tiempos difíciles = save for + a rainy day.
    * algo muy difícil = a tough sell.
    * aprender de la forma más difícil = learn + the hard way.
    * aunque parezca difícil = difficult though it may seem, difficult as it may seem.
    * cuestión difícil = poser.
    * de difícil solución = intractable.
    * de la forma más difícil = the hard way.
    * difícil de aceptar = hard to swallow.
    * difícil de agradar = choosy [choosey] [choosier -comp., choosiest -sup.].
    * difícil de complacer = choosy [choosey] [choosier -comp., choosiest -sup.].
    * difícil de comprender = difficult to understand.
    * difícil de conseguir = hard to come by, difficult to come by.
    * difícil de contentar = choosy [choosey] [choosier -comp., choosiest -sup.].
    * difícil de descifrar = cryptic.
    * difícil de distinguir = indistinguishable.
    * difícil de encontrar = hard-to-find.
    * difícil de entender = cryptic.
    * difícil de gestionar = unmanageable.
    * difícil de gestionar + Adjetivo = unmanageably + Adjetivo.
    * difícil de hacer = hard to do.
    * difícil de localizar = irretraceable.
    * difícil de manejar = clumsy [clumsier -comp., clumsiest -sup.], unwieldy.
    * difícil de masticar = chewy [chewier -comp., chewiest -sup.].
    * difícil de obtener = hard to come by, difficult to come by.
    * difícil de seguir = heavy going.
    * difícil de sustituir = hard to replace.
    * difícil de tratar = unruly.
    * empezar por lo más difícil = plunge in at + the deep end.
    * en circunstancias difíciles = under difficult circumstances.
    * en condiciones difíciles = under difficult conditions.
    * encontrar Algo demasiado difícil = be out of + Posesivo + league.
    * encontrar Algo difícil = have + a hard time, have + a tough time.
    * encontrar difícil de explicar = be hard put to explain.
    * encontrar difícil + Infinitivo = find it hard to + Infinitivo.
    * encontrar muy difícil = be hard-pushed to.
    * en épocas difíciles = in times of need.
    * enfrascado en lo más difícil = in at the deep end.
    * enfrascar a Alguien de lleno en lo más difícil = throw in + at the deep end.
    * enfrascarse en lo más difícil = swim in + the deep end, jump in at + the deep end, plunge in at + the deep end.
    * en tiempos difíciles = in times of need.
    * hacer difícil = make + it + difficult, make + difficult.
    * hacerlo difícil de + Infinitivo = make + it + hard to + Infinitivo.
    * mecanismo de reducción de situaciones difíciles = threat-reduction mechanism.
    * meter a Alguien de lleno en lo más difícil = throw in + at the deep end.
    * meterse de lleno en lo más difícil = plunge in at + the deep end.
    * meterse de lleno en lo más difícil = swim in + the deep end, jump in at + the deep end.
    * metido en lo más difícil = in at the deep end.
    * muy difícil de traducir = defy + translation.
    * por muy difícil que parezca = difficult though it may seem, difficult as it may seem.
    * pregunta difícil = poser.
    * pregunta difícil de responder = awkward-to-handle enquiry.
    * problema difícil = poser.
    * problema difícil de resolver = tough nut to crack, hard nut to crack, brain tickler.
    * resultar difícil de conseguir = prove + elusive.
    * ser Algo demasiado difícil para = be in over + Posesivo + head, be out of + Posesivo + depth.
    * ser difícil = be a stretch.
    * ser difícil de bregar = be a (real) handful.
    * ser difícil de conseguir = be hard to get.
    * ser difícil de creer = beggar + belief.
    * ser difícil de encontrar = be hard to find.
    * ser difícil de lograr = be hard to get.
    * ser difícil de superar = take + some beating.
    * ser muy difícil = be hard-pushed to.
    * situación difícil = hardship.
    * tarea difícil = hard task.
    * tarea muy difícil = uphill struggle.
    * tenerlo difícil = not be easy.
    * tiempos difíciles = embattled time(s).

    * * *
    A
    1 [ SER] ‹problema/tema/situación› difficult
    el examen fue muy difícil the exam was very hard o difficult
    es un problema difícil it's a tricky o difficult problem
    corren tiempos difíciles para nuestra economía this is a difficult time for our economy
    con tu actitud me lo estás poniendo más difícil you're not making it any easier for me o you're making it harder for me by being like that
    no creo que gane, lo tiene muy difícil I don't think she'll win, she's in a difficult position
    me fue muy difícil decírselo it was very hard o difficult for me to tell him
    resulta difícil evaluar las pérdidas it is difficult o hard to put a figure on the losses
    cada vez se hace más difícil encontrar un buen empleo it is becoming more and more difficult o it's becoming harder and harder to get a good job
    difícil DE + INF difficult o hard to + INF
    mi madre es muy difícil de complacer my mother is very hard o difficult to please
    2 [ ESTAR] ( fam):
    está la cosa difícil things are pretty difficult o tricky ( colloq)
    B [ SER]
    (poco probable): es posible pero lo veo difícil it's possible, but I think it's unlikely o I don't think it's very likely
    difícil QUE + SUBJ:
    va a ser muy difícil que acepte it's very unlikely that he'll accept
    veo difícil que gane I doubt if she'll win, I think it's unlikely that she'll win
    C [ SER] ‹persona/carácter› difficult
    un niño difícil a difficult child
    * * *

     

    difícil adjetivo
    1
    a) ‹problema/situación› difficult;

    ‹ examen› hard, difficult;
    ◊ me fue muy difícil decírselo it was very hard o difficult for me to tell him;

    es difícil de hacer/entender it's difficult o hard to do/understand
    b) ‹persona/carácter› difficult

    2 ( poco probable) unlikely;

    veo difícil que gane I doubt if she'll win
    difícil adjetivo
    1 (que cuesta trabajo o esfuerzo intelectual) difficult, hard
    difícil de explicar, difficult to explain
    difícil de soportar, hard to bear
    2 (improbable) unlikely: es difícil que suceda, it is unlikely that that will happen
    3 (una persona) difficult
    ' difícil' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    amarre
    - cañón
    - compaginación
    - concienciarse
    - delicada
    - delicado
    - despreocuparse
    - disyuntiva
    - engorrosa
    - engorroso
    - escabrosa
    - escabroso
    - escala
    - espinosa
    - espinoso
    - estrechamiento
    - gustar
    - harta
    - harto
    - hueso
    - impronunciable
    - insensible
    - judicatura
    - lance
    - mas
    - onerosa
    - oneroso
    - papelón
    - respirar
    - sí
    - tocha
    - tocho
    - viabilidad
    - arrecho
    - caprichoso
    - contentar
    - costar
    - creer
    - duro
    - epopeya
    - especial
    - esperar
    - esquivo
    - fregado
    - hacer
    - ingrato
    - jodido
    - malabarismo
    - mancha
    - manchar
    English:
    arduous
    - around
    - awkward
    - beating
    - choose
    - climb
    - concentrate
    - cumbersome
    - desperately
    - difficult
    - distance
    - dodgy
    - elusive
    - embark
    - folly
    - for
    - gap
    - grammar
    - hard
    - hard-won
    - housekeeper
    - immensely
    - injustice
    - lean
    - mess
    - problematic
    - problematical
    - realize
    - replacement
    - ruggedness
    - scramble
    - shake off
    - situation
    - so
    - sticky
    - stiff
    - surely
    - think ahead
    - to
    - tough
    - tricky
    - trying
    - agonizing
    - deep
    - demanding
    - going
    - increasingly
    - keep
    - likely
    - plight
    * * *
    1. [complicado] difficult;
    va a ser difícil encontrar un sitio abierto a estas horas it's going to be difficult o hard to find anywhere that's open at this time;
    son tiempos difíciles these are difficult times;
    pasaron por una situación difícil they went through a difficult period;
    no es difícil imaginar lo que pasó it's not difficult o hard to imagine what happened;
    es una pregunta difícil de responder it's a difficult question to answer;
    hacerse difícil: se hace difícil entender por qué lo hizo it's difficult to understand why she did it;
    se me hace difícil acostumbrarme a madrugar I can't get used to getting up early;
    ponérselo difícil a alguien to make things difficult for sb;
    no me lo pongas difícil don't make things difficult o hard for me;
    serle difícil a alguien: le va a ser muy difícil encontrar trabajo it's going to be very difficult for him to find a job, he's going to find it very difficult to get a job;
    tener difícil algo: tiene muy difícil encontrar trabajo it's very difficult o hard for him to find work
    2. [improbable] unlikely;
    puede ser, aunque me parece difícil maybe, but I think it's unlikely;
    es difícil que ganen they're unlikely to win;
    no es difícil que ocurra it could easily happen
    3. [rebelde] difficult, awkward;
    es un niño muy difícil he's a very awkward o difficult child;
    tener un carácter difícil to be an awkward person, to be difficult to get on with
    * * *
    adj
    1 difficult;
    ponerlo difícil a alguien make it difficult for s.o.;
    difícil de decir hard o difficult to say
    :
    es difícil que venga he’s unlikely to come, it’s unlikely that he’ll come
    * * *
    : difficult, hard
    * * *
    1. (en general) difficult
    2. (improbable) unlikely [comp. unlikelier; superl. unlikeliest]

    Spanish-English dictionary > difícil

  • 13 insubordinado

    adj.
    insubordinate, disorderly, unruly, rebel.
    past part.
    past participle of spanish verb: insubordinar.
    * * *
    1 insubordinate
    ► nombre masculino,nombre femenino
    1 insubordinate person
    * * *
    ADJ (=desobediente) insubordinate; (=indisciplinado) unruly, rebellious
    * * *
    I
    - da adjetivo
    a) ( desobediente) insubordinate
    b) ( sublevado) rebellious
    II
    - da masculino, femenino
    a) ( desobediente) insubordinate
    b) ( sublevado) rebel
    * * *
    Ex. It is frequently lack of knowing the children that causes teachers to accuse them of being lazy, uncooperative, insubordinate, rude, or plain bananas.
    * * *
    I
    - da adjetivo
    a) ( desobediente) insubordinate
    b) ( sublevado) rebellious
    II
    - da masculino, femenino
    a) ( desobediente) insubordinate
    b) ( sublevado) rebel
    * * *

    Ex: It is frequently lack of knowing the children that causes teachers to accuse them of being lazy, uncooperative, insubordinate, rude, or plain bananas.

    * * *
    1 (desobediente) insubordinate
    2 (sublevado) rebellious
    masculine, feminine
    1 (desobediente) insubordinate
    2 (sublevado) rebel
    * * *

    Del verbo insubordinar: ( conjugate insubordinar)

    insubordinado es:

    el participio

    Multiple Entries:
    insubordinado    
    insubordinar
    insubordinado,-a adjetivo insubordinate
    ' insubordinado' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    insubordinada
    English:
    insubordinate
    * * *
    insubordinado, -a
    ♦ adj
    insubordinate
    ♦ nm,f
    insubordinate (person), rebel
    * * *
    adj
    1 con un superior insubordinate
    2 ( rebelde) rebellious
    * * *
    insubordinado, -da adj
    : insubordinate

    Spanish-English dictionary > insubordinado

  • 14 lleno de energía

    = energetic, feisty [feistier -comp., feistiest -sup.], full of beans
    Ex. She has been a vital and energetic voice in the movement to increase the sensitivity and responsibility of libraries to social issues, as well as a first-rate cataloger.
    Ex. It contains a bevy of fearsomely feisty female archetypes removed from domestic obligations and toughened in the brutal setting of prison life.
    Ex. Deciding whether an unruly child has something wrong in his genes or is just full of beans may determine whether he's scolded or offered remedial education.
    * * *
    = energetic, feisty [feistier -comp., feistiest -sup.], full of beans

    Ex: She has been a vital and energetic voice in the movement to increase the sensitivity and responsibility of libraries to social issues, as well as a first-rate cataloger.

    Ex: It contains a bevy of fearsomely feisty female archetypes removed from domestic obligations and toughened in the brutal setting of prison life.
    Ex: Deciding whether an unruly child has something wrong in his genes or is just full of beans may determine whether he's scolded or offered remedial education.

    Spanish-English dictionary > lleno de energía

  • 15 lleno de vitalidad

    Ex. Deciding whether an unruly child has something wrong in his genes or is just full of beans may determine whether he's scolded or offered remedial education.
    * * *

    Ex: Deciding whether an unruly child has something wrong in his genes or is just full of beans may determine whether he's scolded or offered remedial education.

    Spanish-English dictionary > lleno de vitalidad

  • 16 perturbador

    adj.
    perturbing, disturbing, baffling, unsettling.
    m.
    rioter, mutineer, instigator, rebel.
    * * *
    1 disturbing
    * * *
    perturbador, -a
    1. ADJ
    1) [noticia] disturbing, perturbing
    2) [conducta] unruly, disorderly; [movimiento] subversive
    2.
    SM / F disorderly element, unruly person
    * * *
    - dora adjetivo
    a) ( inquietante) <síntomas/comentarios/cifras> disturbing, perturbing; < belleza> disquieting (liter)
    b) ( revoltoso) disruptive
    * * *
    = disturbing, stirring, unsettling, perturbing.
    Ex. For years a most intractable and disturbing problem has been the low take-up of means-tested benefits.
    Ex. We must plan as best we can for known events while contriving to improvise when, as often happens, such stirring distractions occur unannounced.
    Ex. These two fondly remembered programs often presented speculative and unsettling political visions of American society.
    Ex. Luhmann understands emotions essentially as perturbing individual phenomena that have no place in sociology.
    * * *
    - dora adjetivo
    a) ( inquietante) <síntomas/comentarios/cifras> disturbing, perturbing; < belleza> disquieting (liter)
    b) ( revoltoso) disruptive
    * * *
    = disturbing, stirring, unsettling, perturbing.

    Ex: For years a most intractable and disturbing problem has been the low take-up of means-tested benefits.

    Ex: We must plan as best we can for known events while contriving to improvise when, as often happens, such stirring distractions occur unannounced.
    Ex: These two fondly remembered programs often presented speculative and unsettling political visions of American society.
    Ex: Luhmann understands emotions essentially as perturbing individual phenomena that have no place in sociology.

    * * *
    1 (inquietante) ‹síntomas/comentarios/cifras› disturbing, perturbing
    de una perturbadora belleza of disquieting beauty ( liter)
    2 (revoltoso) disruptive
    * * *
    perturbador, -ora
    ♦ adj
    unsettling
    ♦ nm,f
    troublemaker
    * * *
    adj disturbing
    * * *
    1) inquietante: disturbing, troubling
    2) : disruptive

    Spanish-English dictionary > perturbador

  • 17 pletórico de energía

    Ex. Deciding whether an unruly child has something wrong in his genes or is just full of beans may determine whether he's scolded or offered remedial education.
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    Ex: Deciding whether an unruly child has something wrong in his genes or is just full of beans may determine whether he's scolded or offered remedial education.

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  • 18 pletórico de vitalidad

    Ex. Deciding whether an unruly child has something wrong in his genes or is just full of beans may determine whether he's scolded or offered remedial education.
    * * *

    Ex: Deciding whether an unruly child has something wrong in his genes or is just full of beans may determine whether he's scolded or offered remedial education.

    Spanish-English dictionary > pletórico de vitalidad

  • 19 rebelde2

    2 = unruly, rebellious, insurgent, fractious, wayward, resistive, disorderly, riotous, insurrectionary.
    Ex. 'Sometimes the kids get a little unruly!' she announced in that easy familiar style of hers as she sat down.
    Ex. The urge to mechanize paper-making came at first as much from the papermakers' desire to free themselves from dependence upon their skilled but rebellious workmen as from the pursuit of production economies.
    Ex. This growth accompanied an insurgent professionalism.
    Ex. Thus was Christianity codified into a Bible that still today is the central element in the faith of the two billion adherents of the largest, if most fractious, of the world's religions.
    Ex. The article 'The wayward scholar: resources and research in popular culture' defends popular culture as a legitimate and important library resource.
    Ex. This game was developed in order to facilitate the therapeutic process for those children who are `inhibited, constrained or resistive'.
    Ex. As expected, students in disorderly schools tend to have higher misbehavior and lower achievement.
    Ex. I'd like to see the full force of the law brought down on these people who are involved in this riotous behaviour.
    Ex. Most obviously, the insurrectionary movements of the late-eighteenth and nineteenth centuries were informed by notions of nationality.
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    * ángel rebelde = rebel angel.

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  • 20 regañar

    v.
    to scold, to call down, to chide, to chew out.
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    1 to scold, tell off
    1 (reñir) to argue, quarrel, fall out
    2 (refunfuñar) to moan, grumble, complain
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    1.
    VT to scold, tell off *
    2. VI
    1) [persona] to grumble, grouse *
    2) [dos personas] to fall out, quarrel
    3) †† [perro] to snarl, growl
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    1.
    verbo transitivo (esp AmL) to scold, to tell... off (colloq)
    2.
    regañar vi (Esp) ( pelearse) to quarrel

    ha regañado con el novio — ( ha discutido) she's had an argument with her boyfriend; ( ha roto) she's split up o broken up with her boyfriend

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    = set about, rebuff, reprimand, chide, slap + Nombre + down, upbraid, scold, tell + Nombe + off, get at.
    Ex. I shall not quickly forget being halted in full flight by the explosive entrance of a lecturer who, without pause for reflection or apology, set about an unfortunate student for not being at a tutorial.
    Ex. 'Do not rebuff him before he has swept out his body or before he has said that for which he came'.
    Ex. At the next division and department head meeting, Kobitsky was reprimanded and told that she should learn to be an administrator and conduct herself accordingly = En la siguiente reunión de directores de división y departamento, Kobitsky fue amonestada y se le dijo que debería aprender a ser una administradora y actuar consecuentemente.
    Ex. Some authors of papers lament the lack of a philosophy and gently chide librarians for the 'simplicity of their pragmatism'.
    Ex. Not to put too fine a point on this, and slap me down if I am being rude, but from the questions you are asking I do not think you are ready for a project of this scope.
    Ex. The generalists upbraid the vocationalists for promoting mere 'training' for work that may quickly become obsolete rather than 'education' for a career with a future.
    Ex. Deciding whether an unruly child has something wrong in his genes or is just full of beans may determine whether he's scolded or offered remedial education.
    Ex. Teachers should tackle bad behaviour in class by praising their pupils instead of telling them off, according to research published today.
    Ex. If you're always getting at them for smaller things, they won't know when they're really doing something wrong.
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    * regañar constantemente = nag (at).
    * * *
    1.
    verbo transitivo (esp AmL) to scold, to tell... off (colloq)
    2.
    regañar vi (Esp) ( pelearse) to quarrel

    ha regañado con el novio — ( ha discutido) she's had an argument with her boyfriend; ( ha roto) she's split up o broken up with her boyfriend

    * * *
    = set about, rebuff, reprimand, chide, slap + Nombre + down, upbraid, scold, tell + Nombe + off, get at.

    Ex: I shall not quickly forget being halted in full flight by the explosive entrance of a lecturer who, without pause for reflection or apology, set about an unfortunate student for not being at a tutorial.

    Ex: 'Do not rebuff him before he has swept out his body or before he has said that for which he came'.
    Ex: At the next division and department head meeting, Kobitsky was reprimanded and told that she should learn to be an administrator and conduct herself accordingly = En la siguiente reunión de directores de división y departamento, Kobitsky fue amonestada y se le dijo que debería aprender a ser una administradora y actuar consecuentemente.
    Ex: Some authors of papers lament the lack of a philosophy and gently chide librarians for the 'simplicity of their pragmatism'.
    Ex: Not to put too fine a point on this, and slap me down if I am being rude, but from the questions you are asking I do not think you are ready for a project of this scope.
    Ex: The generalists upbraid the vocationalists for promoting mere 'training' for work that may quickly become obsolete rather than 'education' for a career with a future.
    Ex: Deciding whether an unruly child has something wrong in his genes or is just full of beans may determine whether he's scolded or offered remedial education.
    Ex: Teachers should tackle bad behaviour in class by praising their pupils instead of telling them off, according to research published today.
    Ex: If you're always getting at them for smaller things, they won't know when they're really doing something wrong.
    * regañar constantemente = nag (at).

    * * *
    regañar [A1 ]
    vt
    ( esp AmL) to scold, to give … a talking-to ( colloq), to tell … off ( colloq)
    ¿te regañó por llegar tarde? did she tell you off for being late?, did you get a talking-to for being late?
    ■ regañar
    vi
    ( Esp)
    1 (pelearse) to quarrel
    regañamos por una tontería we quarreled over nothing
    ha regañado con el novio (ha discutido) she's had an argument o a row o ( colloq) a tiff with her boyfriend; (ha roto) she's split up o broken up with her boyfriend
    2 (quejarse) to grumble
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    regañar ( conjugate regañar) verbo transitivo (esp AmL) to scold, to tell … off (colloq)
    verbo intransitivo (Esp) ( pelearse) to quarrel
    regañar
    I verbo transitivo to scold, tell off
    II verbo intransitivo
    1 (en una discusión) to argue, quarrel
    2 (romper una relación) to split up, break up
    ' regañar' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    caldo
    - discutir
    - reñir
    - repaso
    - retar
    - rezongar
    English:
    chastise
    - pull up
    - reprehend
    - scold
    - tell off
    - tick off
    - pull
    - tell
    * * *
    ♦ vt
    [reprender] to tell off;
    me regañaron por acabarme toda la cerveza I got a row for finishing all the beer
    ♦ vi
    Esp [pelearse] to fall out;
    ha regañado con su hermana he's fallen out with his sister;
    están regañados they've fallen out
    * * *
    I v/t tell off
    II v/i quarrel
    * * *
    : to scold, to give a talking to
    1) quejarse: to grumble, to complain
    2) reñir: to quarrel, to argue
    * * *
    regañar vb (reñir) to tell off [pt. & pp. told]

    Spanish-English dictionary > regañar

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