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way [weɪ]

chemin ⇒ 1A (a)-(c) voie ⇒ 1A (a) route ⇒ 1A (a), 1A (c) direction ⇒ 1A (d) sens ⇒ 1A (d), 1A (e) parages ⇒ 1A (f) moyen ⇒ 1B (a) méthode ⇒ 1B (a) façon ⇒ 1B (b) manière ⇒ 1B (b), 1B (c) coutume ⇒ 1B (c) habitude ⇒ 1B (c) égard ⇒ 1B (f) rapport ⇒ 1B (f)

1 noun

A.

(a) (thoroughfare, path) chemin m, voie f; (for cars) rue f, route f;

∎ we took the way through the woods nous avons pris le chemin qui traverse le bois;

∎ they're building a way across the desert ils ouvrent une route à travers le désert;

∎ they live across or over the way from the school ils habitent en face de l'école;

∎ the house/the people over or across the way la maison/les gens d'en face;

∎ pedestrian way voie f ou rue f piétonne;

∎ private/public way voie f privée/publique;

∎ Religion the Way of the Cross le chemin de Croix

(b) (route leading to a specified place) chemin m;

∎ this is the way to the library la bibliothèque est par là;

∎ could you tell me the way to the library? pouvez-vous me dire comment aller à la bibliothèque?;

∎ what's the shortest or quickest way to town? quel est le chemin le plus court pour aller en ville?;

∎ that's the way to ruin c'est le chemin de la ruine;

∎ we took the long way (round) nous avons pris le chemin le plus long;

∎ which way does this bus go? par où passe ce bus?;

∎ I had to ask the or my way il a fallu que je demande mon chemin;

∎ she knows the way to school elle connaît le chemin de l'école;

∎ to know one's way about a place connaître un endroit;

∎ you'll soon find your way about tu trouveras bientôt ton chemin tout seul;

∎ they went the wrong way ils se sont trompés de chemin, ils ont pris le mauvais chemin;

∎ to lose one's way s'égarer, perdre son chemin; figurative s'égarer, se fourvoyer;

∎ to know one's way around savoir s'orienter; figurative savoir se débrouiller;

∎ the way to a man's heart is through his stomach = pour conquérir le cœur d'un homme, il faut lui faire de bons petits plats

(c) (route leading in a specified direction) chemin m, route f;

∎ the way back le chemin ou la route du retour;

∎ I got lost on the way back home je me suis perdu sur le chemin du retour;

∎ he couldn't find the way back home il n'a pas trouvé le chemin pour rentrer (à la maison);

∎ on our way back we stopped for dinner au retour ou sur le chemin du retour, nous nous sommes arrêtés pour dîner;

∎ she showed us the easiest way down/up elle nous a montré le chemin le plus facile pour descendre/monter;

∎ the way up is difficult but the way down will be easier la montée est difficile mais la descente sera plus facile;

∎ do you know the way down/up? savez-vous par où on descend/on monte?;

∎ the way in l'entrée f;

∎ the way out la sortie;

∎ we looked for a way in/out nous cherchions un moyen d'entrer/de sortir;

∎ I took the back way out je suis sorti par derrière;

∎ can you find your way out? vous connaissez le chemin pour sortir?;

∎ I can find my own way out je trouverai mon chemin;

∎ way in (sign) entrée;

∎ way out (sign) sortie;

∎ figurative miniskirts are on the way back in la minijupe est de retour;

∎ miniskirts are on the way out la minijupe n'est plus tellement à la mode;

∎ the director is on the way out le directeur ne sera plus là très longtemps;

∎ they found a way out of the deadlock ils ont trouvé une solution pour sortir de l'impasse;

∎ is there no way out of this nightmare? n'y a-t-il pas moyen de mettre fin à ce cauchemar?;

∎ their decision left her no way out leur décision l'a mise dans une impasse;

∎ he left himself a way out il s'est ménagé une porte de sortie

(d) (direction) direction f, sens m;

∎ come this way venez par ici;

∎ he went that way il est allé par là;

∎ is this the way? c'est par ici?;

∎ this way to the chapel (sign) vers la chapelle;

∎ this way and that de-ci de-là, par-ci par-là;

∎ look this way regarde par ici;

∎ I never looked their way je n'ai jamais regardé dans leur direction;

∎ to look the other way détourner les yeux; figurative fermer les yeux;

∎ he didn't know which way to look (embarrassed) il ne savait plus où se mettre;

∎ which way is the library from here? par où faut-il passer pour aller à la bibliothèque?;

∎ which way did you come? par où êtes-vous venu?;

∎ which way did she go? par où est-elle passée?;

∎ which way is the wind blowing? d'où vient le vent?;

∎ figurative I could tell which way the wind was blowing je voyais très bien ce qui allait se passer;

∎ which way does the tap turn? dans quel sens faut-il tourner le robinet?;

∎ which way do I go from here? où est-ce que je vais maintenant?; figurative qu'est-ce que je fais maintenant?;

∎ get in, I'm going your way montez, je vais dans la même direction que vous;

∎ they set off, each going his own way ils sont partis chacun de leur côté;

∎ to go one's own way (follow own wishes) faire à sa guise; (differ from others) faire bande à part, suivre son chemin;

∎ we each went our separate ways (on road) nous sommes partis chacun de notre côté; (in life) chacun de nous a suivi son propre chemin;

∎ he went the wrong way il a pris la mauvaise direction; (down one-way street) il a pris la rue en sens interdit;

∎ to come one's way se présenter;

∎ any job that comes my way n'importe quel travail qui se présente;

∎ if ever the opportunity comes your way si jamais l'occasion se présente;

∎ familiar everything's going my way tout marche comme je veux en ce moment;

∎ the vote went our way le vote nous a été favorable;

∎ the vote couldn't have gone any other way les résultats du vote étaient donnés d'avance;

∎ to go one's own way n'en faire qu'à sa tête, vivre à sa guise;

∎ to go the way of all flesh or of all things mourir

(e) (side) sens m;

∎ stand the box the other way up posez le carton dans l'autre sens;

∎ this way up (on packaging) haut;

∎ hold the picture the right way up tenez le tableau dans le bon sens;

∎ is it the right way round? est-ce qu'il est à l'endroit?;

∎ it's the wrong way up c'est dans le mauvais sens;

∎ it's the wrong way round c'est dans le mauvais sens;

∎ the curtains are the wrong way round les rideaux sont à l'envers ou dans le mauvais sens;

∎ your sweater is the right/wrong way out votre pull est à l'endroit/à l'envers;

∎ try it the other way round essayez dans l'autre sens;

∎ cats hate having their fur brushed the wrong way les chats détestent qu'on les caresse à rebrousse-poil;

∎ SHE insulted him? you've got it the wrong way round elle, elle l'a insulté? mais c'est le contraire;

∎ he invited her tonight, last time it was the other way round ce soir c'est lui qui l'a invitée, la dernière fois c'était l'inverse

(f) (area, vicinity) parages mpl;

∎ call in when you're up our way passez nous voir quand vous êtes dans le coin ou dans les parages;

∎ I was out or over your way yesterday j'étais près de ou du côté de chez vous hier;

∎ the next time you're that way la prochaine fois que vous passerez par là;

∎ the blast came from Chicago way l'explosion venait du côté de Chicago;

∎ the village is rather out of the way le village est un peu isolé

(g) (distance)

∎ we came part of the way by foot nous avons fait une partie de la route à pied;

∎ to go part of the way with sb faire un bout de chemin avec qn;

∎ they were one-third of the way through their trip ils avaient fait un tiers de leur voyage;

∎ we've come most of the way nous avons fait la plus grande partie du chemin;

∎ he talked the entire or whole way il a parlé pendant tout le trajet;

∎ he can swim quite a way il peut nager assez longtemps;

∎ a long way off or away loin;

∎ a little or short way off pas très loin, à courte distance;

∎ Susan sat a little way off Susan était assise un peu plus loin;

∎ I saw him from a long way off je l'ai aperçu de loin;

∎ it's a long way to Berlin Berlin est loin;

∎ it's a long way from Paris to Berlin la route est longue de Paris à Berlin;

∎ we're a long way from home nous sommes loin de chez nous;

∎ we've come a long way (from far away) nous venons de loin; (made progress) nous avons fait du chemin;

∎ we've a long way to go (far to travel) il nous reste beaucoup de route à faire; (a lot to do) nous avons encore beaucoup à faire; (a lot to collect, pay) nous sommes encore loin du compte;

∎ he has a long way to go to be ready for the exam il est loin d'être prêt pour l'examen

(h) (in time)

∎ it's a long way to Christmas Noël est encore loin;

∎ you have to go back a long way il faut remonter loin;

∎ figurative I'm a long way from trusting him je suis loin de lui faire confiance;

∎ you're a long way off or out (in guessing) vous n'y êtes pas du tout;

∎ that's a long way from what we thought ce n'est pas du tout ce qu'on croyait;

∎ she'll go a long way elle ira loin;

∎ the scholarship will go a long way towards helping with expenses la bourse va beaucoup aider à faire face aux dépenses;

∎ a little goodwill goes a long way un peu de bonne volonté facilite bien les choses;

∎ you can make a little meat go a long way by doing this utilisez au mieux un petit morceau de viande en faisant ceci;

∎ she makes her money go a long way elle sait ménager son argent;

∎ a little bit goes a long way il en faut très peu;

∎ humorous a little of him goes a long way il est sympa, mais à petites doses

(i) (space in front of person, object)

∎ you're in the way tu gênes le passage; figurative tu gênes, tu me/nous/ etc déranges;

∎ a tree was in the way un arbre bloquait ou barrait le passage;

∎ a car was in his way une voiture lui barrait le passage ou l'empêchait de passer;

∎ I can't see, the cat is in the way je ne vois pas, le chat me gêne;

∎ is the lamp in your way? la lampe vous gêne-t-elle?;

∎ put the suitcases under the bed out of the way rangez les valises sous le lit pour qu'elles ne gênent pas;

∎ to get out of the way s'écarter (du chemin);

∎ we got out of his way nous l'avons laissé passer;

∎ out of my way! pousse-toi!, laisse-moi passer!;

∎ the cars got out of the ambulance's way les voitures ont laissé passer l'ambulance;

∎ to get sb out of the way se débarrasser de qn, écarter ou éloigner qn;

∎ to get sth out of the way enlever ou pousser qch;

∎ figurative let's get the subject of holidays out of the way first réglons d'abord la question des vacances;

∎ keep out of the way! ne reste pas là!;

∎ make way! écartez-vous!;

∎ make way for the parade! laissez passer le défilé!;

∎ make way for the President! faites place au Président!;

∎ to get in one another's way se gêner (les uns les autres);

∎ figurative her social life got in the way of her studies ses sorties l'empêchaient d'étudier;

∎ I don't want to get in the way of your happiness je ne veux pas entraver votre bonheur;

∎ I kept out of the boss's way j'ai évité le patron;

∎ familiar he wants his boss out of the way il veut se débarrasser de son patron^□ ;

∎ familiar once the meeting is out of the way dès que nous serons débarrassés de la réunion;

∎ he is retiring to make way for a younger man il prend sa retraite pour céder la place à un plus jeune;

∎ they tore down the slums to make way for blocks of flats ils ont démoli les taudis pour pouvoir construire des immeubles;

∎ to clear or prepare the way for sth préparer la voie à qch;

∎ to put difficulties in sb's way créer des difficultés à qn;

∎ couldn't you see your way (clear) to doing it? ne trouveriez-vous pas moyen de le faire?

(j) (indicating a progressive action)

∎ the acid ate its way through the metal l'acide est passé à travers le métal;

∎ I fought or pushed my way through the crowd je me suis frayé un chemin à travers la foule;

∎ we made our way towards the train nous nous sommes dirigés vers le train;

∎ to make one's way home rentrer;

∎ I made my way back to my seat je suis retourné à ma place;

∎ they made their way across the desert ils ont traversé le désert;

∎ they made their way down/up the hill ils ont descendu/monté la colline;

∎ she made her way up through the hierarchy elle a gravi les échelons de la hiérarchie un par un;

∎ she had to make her own way in the world elle a dû faire son chemin toute seule;

∎ she talked her way out of it elle s'en est sortie avec de belles paroles;

∎ he worked or made his way through the pile of newspapers il a lu les journaux un par un;

∎ I worked my way through college j'ai travaillé pour payer mes études;

∎ however did it find its way into print? comment en est-on venu à l'imprimer?

B.

(a) (means, method) moyen m, méthode f;

∎ in what way can I help you? comment ou en quoi puis-je vous être utile?;

∎ there are several ways to go or of going about it il y a plusieurs façons ou plusieurs moyens de s'y prendre;

∎ I do it this way voilà comment je fais;

∎ in one way or another d'une façon ou d'une autre;

∎ they thought they would win that way ils pensaient pouvoir gagner comme ça;

∎ he's going to handle it his way il va faire ça à sa façon;

∎ she has her own way of cooking fish elle a sa façon à elle de cuisiner le poisson;

∎ the right/wrong way to do it la bonne/mauvaise façon de le faire;

∎ you're doing it the right/wrong way c'est comme ça/ce n'est pas comme ça qu'il faut (le) faire;

∎ do it the usual way faites comme d'habitude;

∎ there's no way or I can't see any way we'll finish on time nous ne finirons jamais ou nous n'avons aucune chance de finir à temps;

∎ Politics ways and means financement m;

∎ there are ways and means il y a des moyens;

∎ to find a way of doing sth trouver (le) moyen de faire qch;

∎ humorous love will find a way l'amour finit toujours par triompher;

∎ that's the way to do it! c'est comme ça qu'il faut faire!, voilà comment il faut faire!;

∎ American familiar well done! that's the way (to go)! bravo! c'est bien!^□ ;

∎ what a way to go! (manner of dying) quelle belle mort!; (congratulations) bravo!

(b) (particular manner, fashion) façon f, manière f;

∎ in this way de cette façon;

∎ in a friendly way gentiment;

∎ he spoke in a general way about the economy il a parlé de l'économie d'une façon générale;

∎ she doesn't like the way he is dressed elle n'aime pas la façon dont il est habillé;

∎ he doesn't speak the way his family does il ne parle pas comme sa famille;

∎ they see things in the same way ils voient les choses de la même façon;

∎ in their own (small) way they fight racism à leur façon ou dans la limite de leurs moyens, ils luttent contre le racisme;

∎ in the same way, we note that… de même, on notera que…;

∎ that's one way to look at it or of looking at it c'est une façon ou manière de voir les choses;

∎ my way of looking at it mon point de vue sur la question;

∎ that's not my way (of doing things) ce n'est pas mon genre, ce n'est pas ma façon de faire;

∎ try to see it my way mettez-vous à ma place;

∎ way of speaking/writing façon de parler/d'écrire;

∎ to her way of thinking à son avis;

∎ the way she feels about him les sentiments qu'elle éprouve à son égard;

∎ I didn't think you would take it this way je ne pensais pas que vous le prendriez comme ça;

∎ if that's the way you feel about it! si c'est comme ça que vous le prenez!;

∎ the American way of life la manière de vivre des Américains, le mode de vie américain;

∎ being on the move is a way of life for the gypsy le voyage est un mode de vie pour les gitans;

∎ dieting has become a way of life with some people certaines personnes passent leur vie à faire des régimes;

∎ yearly strikes have become a way of life les grèves annuelles sont devenues une habitude

(c) (custom) coutume f, usage m; (habitual manner of acting) manière f, habitude f;

∎ we soon got used to her ways nous nous sommes vite habitués à ses manières;

∎ I know his little ways je connais ses petites manies;

∎ the ways of God and men les voies de Dieu et de l'homme;

∎ he knows nothing of their ways il les connaît très mal, il ne les comprend pas du tout;

∎ she has a way of tossing her head when she laughs elle a une façon ou manière de rejeter la tête en arrière quand elle rit;

∎ they're happy in their own way ils sont heureux à leur manière;

∎ he's a genius in his way c'est un génie dans son genre;

∎ it's not my way to criticize ce n'est pas mon genre ou ce n'est pas dans mes habitudes de critiquer;

∎ he's not in a bad mood, it's just his way il n'est pas de mauvaise humeur, c'est sa façon d'être habituelle;

∎ she got into/out of the way of rising early elle a pris/perdu l'habitude de se lever tôt;

∎ you'll get into the way of it vous vous y ferez

(d) (facility, knack)

∎ she has a (certain) way with her elle a le chic;

∎ he has a way with children il sait (comment) s'y prendre ou il a le chic avec les enfants;

∎ she has a way with words elle a le chic pour s'exprimer;

∎ trouble has a way of showing up when least expected les ennuis ont le chic pour se manifester quand on ne s'y attend pas

(e) (indicating a condition, state of affairs)

∎ let me tell you the way it was laisse-moi te raconter comment ça s'est passé;

∎ we can't invite him given the way things are on ne peut pas l'inviter étant donné la situation;

∎ we left the flat the way it was nous avons laissé l'appartement tel qu'il était ou comme il était;

∎ is he going to be staying here? - it looks that way est-ce qu'il va loger ici? - on dirait (bien);

∎ it's not the way it looks! ce n'est pas ce que vous pensez!;

∎ it's not the way it used to be ce n'est pas comme avant;

∎ that's the way things are c'est comme ça;

∎ that's the way of the world ainsi va le monde;

∎ business is good and we're trying to keep it that way les affaires vont bien et nous faisons en sorte que ça dure;

∎ the train is late - that's always the way le train est en retard - c'est toujours comme ça ou pareil;

∎ that's always the way with him il est toujours comme ça, c'est toujours comme ça avec lui;

∎ life goes on (in) the same old way la vie va son train ou suit son cours;

∎ I don't like the way things are going je n'aime pas la tournure que prennent les choses;

∎ we'll never finish the way things are going au train où vont les choses, on n'aura jamais fini;

∎ to be in a bad way être en mauvais état;

∎ he's in a bad way il est dans un triste état;

∎ their business is in a bad/good way leurs affaires marchent mal/bien;

∎ she's in a fair way to succeed/to becoming president elle est bien partie pour réussir/pour devenir président

(f) (respect, detail) égard m, rapport m;

∎ in what way? à quel égard?, sous quel rapport?;

∎ in this way à cet égard, sous ce rapport;

∎ it's important in many ways c'est important à bien des égards;

∎ in some ways à certains égards, par certains côtés;

∎ the job suits her in every way le poste lui convient à tous égards ou à tous points de vue;

∎ I'll help you in every possible way je ferai tout ce que je peux pour vous aider;

∎ she studied the problem in every way possible elle a examiné le problème sous tous les angles possibles;

∎ useful in more ways than one utile à plus d'un égard;

∎ these two books, each interesting in its (own) way ces deux livres, qui sont intéressants chacun dans son genre;

∎ he's clever that way sur ce plan-là, il est malin;

∎ in one way d'un certain point de vue;

∎ in a way you're right en un sens vous avez raison;

∎ I see what you mean in a way d'un certain point de vue ou d'une certaine manière, je vois ce que tu veux dire;

∎ I am in no way responsible je ne suis absolument pas ou aucunement responsable;

∎ this in no way changes your situation ceci ne change en rien votre situation;

∎ without wanting in any way to criticize sans vouloir le moins du monde critiquer

(g) (scale)

∎ to do things in a big way faire les choses en grand;

∎ she went into politics in a big way elle s'est lancée à fond dans la politique;

∎ they're in the arms business in a big way ils font de grosses affaires dans l'armement;

∎ they helped out in a big way ils ont beaucoup aidé;

∎ a grocer in a big/small way un gros/petit épicier;

∎ we live in a small way nous vivons modestement;

∎ the restaurant is doing quite well in a small way le restaurant marche bien à son échelle;

∎ it does change the situation in a small way ça change quand même un peu la situation

(h) (usu pl) (part, share) we divided the money four ways nous avons partagé l'argent en quatre;

∎ the committee was split three ways le comité était divisé en trois groupes

(i) Nautical

∎ we're gathering/losing way nous prenons/perdons de la vitesse;

∎ the ship has way on le navire a de l'erre

(j) (idioms)

∎ she always gets or has her (own) way elle arrive toujours à ses fins;

∎ he only wants it his way il n'en fait qu'à sa tête;

∎ I'm not going to let you have it all your (own) way je refuse de te céder en tout;

∎ if I had my way, he'd be in prison si cela ne tenait qu'à moi, il serait en prison;

∎ I refuse to go - have it your (own) way je refuse d'y aller - fais ce que ou comme tu veux;

∎ no, it was 1789 - have it your (own) way non, c'était en 1789 - soit;

∎ you can't have it both ways il faut choisir;

∎ I can stop too, it works both ways je peux m'arrêter aussi, ça marche dans les deux sens;

∎ there are no two ways about it il n'y a pas le choix;

∎ no two ways about it, he was rude il n'y a pas à dire, il a été grossier;

∎ humorous to have one's (wicked) way with sb coucher avec qn

2 adverb familiar

(a) (far → in space, time) très loin^□ ;

∎ they live way over yonder ils habitent très loin par là-bas;

∎ way up the mountain très haut dans la montagne^□ ;

∎ way down south là-bas dans le sud^□ ;

∎ way back in the distance au loin derrière^□ ;

∎ way back in the 1930s déjà dans les années 30^□

(b) figurative

∎ we know each other from way back, we go way back nous sommes amis depuis très longtemps^□ ;

∎ you're way below the standard tu es bien en-dessous du niveau voulu^□ ;

∎ he's way over forty il a largement dépassé la quarantaine^□ ;

∎ she's way ahead of her class elle est très en avance sur sa classe^□ ;

∎ he's way off or out in his guess il est loin d'avoir deviné^□

(c) (very) vachement;

∎ he is way crazy il est vachement atteint

3 ways plural noun

Nautical (in shipbuilding) cale f

4 all the way adverb

∎ the baby cried all the way le bébé a pleuré tout le long du chemin;

∎ don't close the curtains all the way ne fermez pas complètement les rideaux;

∎ prices go all the way from 200 to 1,000 dollars les prix vont de 200 à 1000 dollars;

∎ figurative I'm with you all the way je vous suis ou je vous soutiens jusqu'au bout;

∎ familiar to go all the way (with sb) aller jusqu'au bout (avec qn)

5 along the way adverb

en route;

∎ I stopped several times along the way je me suis arrêté plusieurs fois en (cours de) route;

∎ figurative their project had some problems along the way leur projet a connu quelques problèmes en cours de route

6 by a long way adverb

∎ I prefer chess by a long way je préfère de loin ou de beaucoup les échecs;

∎ this is bigger by a long way c'est nettement ou beaucoup plus grand;

∎ he's not as capable as you are by a long way il est loin d'être aussi compétent que toi;

∎ is your project ready? - not by a long way! ton projet est-il prêt? - loin de là!

7 by the way

1 adverb

(incidentally) à propos;

∎ by the way, where did he go? à propos, où est-il allé?;

∎ by the way, her brother sings much better soit dit en passant, son frère chante beaucoup mieux;

∎ I bring up this point by the way je signale ce point au passage ou en passant

2 adjective

(incidental) secondaire;

∎ that point is quite by the way ce détail est tout à fait secondaire

8 by way of preposition

(a) (via) par, via;

∎ to go by way of Brussels passer par Bruxelles

(b) (as a means of)

∎ by way of illustration à titre d'exemple;

∎ she outlined the situation by way of introduction elle a présenté un aperçu de la situation en guise d'introduction;

∎ by way of introducing himself, he gave us his card en guise de présentation, il nous a donné sa carte;

∎ they receive money by way of grants ils reçoivent de l'argent sous forme de bourses

9 either way adverb

(a) (in either case) dans les deux cas;

∎ either way I lose dans les deux cas, je suis perdant;

∎ shall we take the car or the bus? - it's fine by me or I don't mind either way tu préfères prendre la voiture ou le bus? - n'importe, ça m'est égal

(b) (more or less) en plus ou en moins;

∎ a few days either way could make all the difference quelques jours en plus ou en moins pourraient tout changer

(c) (indicating advantage)

∎ the match could have gone either way le match était ouvert;

∎ there's nothing in it either way c'est pareil

10 in such a way as to conjunction

de façon à ce que;

∎ she answered in such a way as to make me understand elle a répondu de façon à ce que je comprenne

11 in such a way that conjunction

de telle façon ou manière que

12 in the way of preposition

(a) (in the form of)

∎ she receives little in the way of salary son salaire n'est pas bien gros;

∎ what is there in the way of food? qu'est-ce qu'il y a à manger?;

∎ do you need anything in the way of paper? avez-vous besoin de papier?;

∎ he doesn't have much in the way of brains il n'a rien dans la tête

(b) (within the context of)

∎ we met in the way of business nous nous sommes rencontrés dans le cadre du travail;

∎ they put me in the way of making some money ils m'ont indiqué un moyen de gagner de l'argent

13 no way adverb

familiar pas question;

∎ will you do it for me? - no way! tu feras ça pour moi? - pas question!;

∎ no way am I going to tell him! (il n'est) pas question que je le lui dise!;

∎ there's no way that's Jeanne Moreau! tu rigoles?, ce n'est pas Jeanne Moreau!

14 on one's way, on the way adjective & adverb

(a) (along the route)

∎ it's on my way c'est sur mon chemin;

∎ you pass it on your way to the office vous passez devant en allant au bureau;

∎ I'll catch up with you on the way je te rattraperai en chemin ou en route;

∎ to stop on the way s'arrêter en chemin;

∎ on the way to work en allant au bureau;

∎ I'm on my way! j'y vais!;

∎ she's on her way home elle rentre chez elle;

∎ he's on his way to Paris il est en route pour Paris;

∎ on his way to town he met his father en allant en ville, il a rencontré son père;

∎ we must be on our way il faut que nous y allions;

∎ to go one's way repartir, reprendre son chemin

(b) figurative

∎ she has a baby on the way elle attend un bébé;

∎ her second book is on the way (being written) elle a presque fini d'écrire son deuxième livre; (being published) son deuxième livre est sur le point de paraître;

∎ she's on the way to success elle est sur le chemin de la réussite;

∎ the patient is on the way to recovery le malade est en voie de guérison;

∎ she's (well) on the way to becoming president elle est en bonne voie de devenir président;

∎ the new school is well on the way to being finished la nouvelle école est presque terminée

15 one way and another adverb

en fin de compte;

∎ I've done quite well for myself one way and another je me suis plutôt bien débrouillé en fin de compte

16 one way or the other, one way or another adverb

(a) (by whatever means) d'une façon ou d'une autre;

∎ one way or the other I'm going to get that job! d'une façon ou d'une autre, j'aurai ce boulot!

(b) (expressing impartiality or indifference)

∎ I've nothing to say one way or the other je n'ai rien à dire, ni pour ni contre;

∎ it doesn't matter to them one way or another ça leur est égal

(c) (more or less)

∎ a month one way or the other un mois de plus ou de moins

17 out of one's way adverb

∎ to go out of one's way s'écarter de son chemin, dévier de sa route, faire un détour;

∎ I don't want to take you out of your way je ne veux pas vous faire faire un détour;

∎ figurative don't go out of your way for me! ne vous dérangez pas pour moi!;

∎ figurative she went out of her way to find me a job elle s'est donné du mal pour me trouver du travail

18 under way

1 adjective

∎ to be under way (person, vehicle) être en route; figurative (meeting, talks) être en cours; (plans, project) être en train;

∎ the meeting was already under way la réunion avait déjà commencé;

∎ the project is well under way le projet est en bonne voie de réalisation;

∎ Nautical the ship is under way le navire est en route

2 adverb

∎ to get under way (person, train) se mettre en route, partir; (car) se mettre en route, démarrer; figurative (meeting, plans, talks) démarrer;

∎ they got the plans under way ils ont mis le projet en route;

∎ the captain got (the ship) under way le capitaine a appareillé;

∎ the ship got under way le navire a appareillé ou a levé l'ancre

►► American way station Railways petite gare f; figurative étape f;

∎ a way station on the road to success une étape sur la route du succès

✾ Play 'The Way of the World' Congreve 'Ainsi va le monde'

ⓘ We have ways of making you talk Il s'agit de la formule prononcée par les membres de la Gestapo dans les films de guerre anglais des années 50 et 60 lorsqu'ils interrogent des prisonniers de guerre britanniques. Aujourd'hui, on emploie cette expression ("nous avons les moyens de vous faire parler") pour plaisanter en prenant l'accent allemand lorsqu'on veut obtenir une information de quelqu'un.

Un panorama unique de l'anglais et du français > way
2 way

wei
1. noun
1) (an opening or passageway: This is the way in/out; There's no way through.) camino, vía; entrada, salida

2) (a route, direction etc: Which way shall we go?; Which is the way to Princes Street?; His house is on the way from here to the school; Will you be able to find your/the way to my house?; Your house is on my way home; The errand took me out of my way; a motorway.) dirección; camino

3) (used in the names of roads: His address is 21 Melville Way.) calle; avenida

4) (a distance: It's a long way to the school; The nearest shops are only a short way away.) distancia

5) (a method or manner: What is the easiest way to write a book?; I know a good way of doing it; He's got a funny way of talking; This is the quickest way to chop onions.) manera, modo, forma

6) (an aspect or side of something: In some ways this job is quite difficult; In a way I feel sorry for him.) aspecto; manera (de alguna manera/forma siento pena por él)

7) (a characteristic of behaviour; a habit: He has some rather unpleasant ways.) maneras

8) (used with many verbs to give the idea of progressing or moving: He pushed his way through the crowd; They soon ate their way through the food.) camino, paso (abrirse camino/paso)

2. adverb
((especially American) by a long distance or time; far: The winner finished the race way ahead of the other competitors; It's way past your bedtime.) muy, mucho más; de sobra

- wayfarer
- wayside
- be/get on one's way
- by the way
- fall by the wayside
- get/have one's own way
- get into / out of the way of doing something
- get into / out of the way of something
- go out of one's way
- have a way with
- have it one's own way
- in a bad way
- in
- out of the/someone's way
- lose one's way
- make one's way
- make way for
- make way
- under way
- way of life
- ways and means

way n

1. manera / modo

what's the best way to do it? ¿cuál es la mejor manera de hacerlo?

2. camino

which is the quickest way to your house? ¿cuál es el camino más rápido para ir a tu casa?

3. dirección

which way did he go? ¿en qué dirección se ha ido? / ¿por dónde se ha ido?

a long way lejos

it's a long way to China China está lejos

by the way por cierto

on the way por el camino

the right way round bien puesto

the wrong way round al revés

to be in the way estar en medio / obstruir el paso / molestar

to get out of the way apartar / apartarse / quitar de en medio

there's a car coming, get out of the way! viene un coche, ¡apártate!

to find your way encontrar el camino

to lose your way perderse

way

tr[weɪ]

noun

1 (right route, road, etc) camino

■ which is the best way to the swimming pool? ¿cómo se va a la piscina?, ¿por dónde se va a la piscina?

■ do you know the way? ¿conoces el camino?, ¿sabes cómo ir?

■ she asked me the way to the cathedral me preguntó cómo se va a la catedral

■ we've gone the wrong way nos hemos equivocado de camino

2 (direction) dirección nombre femenino

■ which way did he go? ¿por dónde se fue?

■ which way is the harbour from here? ¿por dónde cae el puerto desde aquí?

■ come this way, please venga por aquí, por favor

■ are you going my way? ¿vas en la misma dirección que yo?

■ look both ways mira en las dos direcciones

■ she's looking this way está mirando hacia aquí

■ the way things are going tal como van las cosas

3 (distance) distancia

■ it's a long way to Tipperary Tipperary está lejos, Tipperary queda lejos

■ we're a good way from home estamos lejos de casa

■ she slept the whole way durmió durante todo el viaje

■ Easter is a long way off falta mucho para Semana Santa

■ we'd come a good way habíamos hecho un buen trecho

4 (manner, method) manera, modo

■ what's the best way to cook trout? ¿cuál es la mejor manera de guisar las truchas?

■ you're going about it the wrong way lo estás haciendo mal

■ you've done your hair a different way te has peinado de otro modo

■ I had no way of knowing no había manera de saberlo

■ we don't enjoy life the way we used to no disfrutamos de la vida como antes

■ let me do it my way déjame hacerlo a mi manera

■ OK, you do it your own way vale, hazlo como quieras

■ have it your own way como tú quieras

5 (behaviour, custom) manera, forma, modo

■ you dance in a strange way bailas de una manera extraña

■ it's her way of saying she likes you es su manera de decirte que le gustas

■ it's just his way él es así

■ I don't like the way you're laughing no me gusta tu modo de reír

■ she hates the way he's always late odia que él siempre llegue tarde

■ the American way of life el estilo de vida americano

6 (area) zona, área

■ if ever you're over this way si alguna vez vienes por aquí

■ that's out Romford way, isn't it? está por la zona de Romford, ¿verdad?

adverb

1 familiar muy

■ you're way out vas muy equivocado

■ he's way ahead of the rest of the group está mucho más avanzado que el resto del grupo

■ this flat is way too small for us este apartamento es demasiado pequeño para nosotros

plural noun ways

1 (customs) costumbres nombre femenino plural; (habits, behaviour) manías nombre femenino plural

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SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALL

across the way / over the way enfrente

all the way (distance) todo el viaje 2 (completely) totalmente

along the way (on journey) por el camino

by a long way

■ this flat's not big enough by a long way este piso es demasiado pequeño, pero pequeño de verdad

by the way (incidentally) a propósito, por cierto

by way of (via) vía, por vía de, pasando por 2 (serving as, as a kind of) a modo de

either way en cualquier caso

every which way por todas partes, en todas direcciones

in a bad way familiar mal

■ he's in a very bad way está muy mal

in a big way a lo grande, a gran escala, en plan grande

in a small way a pequeña escala, en plan modesto

in a way en cierto modo, en cierta manera

in any way de alguna manera

■ can I help in any way? ¿puedo ayudar de alguna manera?

in many ways desde muchos puntos de vista, en muchos aspectos

■ in many ways, this is her best book desde muchos puntos de vista, éste es su mejor libro

in more ways than one en más de un sentido

in no way de ninguna manera, de ningún modo

in some ways en algunos aspectos

in the way of (regarding) en cuanto a, como

■ what would you like in the way of dessert? ¿qué quieres de postre?

in this way (thus) de este modo, de esta manera

no two ways about it no tiene vuelta de hoja

no way! ¡ni hablar!, ¡de ninguna manera!

■ there's no way I'm going to help her de ninguna manera voy a ayudarla yo

on one's way / on the way por el camino, de camino, de paso

■ I should be on my way home debería irme a casa

■ I'll get some wine on my way compraré vino por el camino

■ on the way to Madrid camino de Madrid

■ we're on our way! ¡ya estamos en camino!

■ is it on your way? ¿te pilla de camino?

■ something happened on the way here ha pasado algo mientras venía hacia aquí

■ close the door on your way out cierra la puerta al salir

one way and another en conjunto

■ one way and another it's been a good year en conjunto, ha sido un buen año

one way or the other (somehow) de algún modo, de una manera u otra, como sea

■ don't worry, we'll find it one way or the other no te preocupes, lo encontraremos de una manera u otra

■ I don't mind one way or the other me da exactamente igual, me da lo mismo

out of the way (remote) apartado,-a, remoto,-a 2 (exceptional) excepcional, particular, original

over the way enfrente

that way (direction) por allá 2 (like that) así

that's always the way siempre es así

that's the way the cookie crumbles así es la vida

the other way round al revés, viceversa

the right way up cabeza arriba, derecho,-a

the wrong way up cabeza abajo

to be born that way ser así, nacer así

to be in the way estorbar, estar por en medio

■ you're in the way! estás estorbando!

■ move your car, it's in the way quita tu coche de en medio, obstruye el paso

to be on the way (coming) estar en camino, estar al llegar, avecinarse

■ changes are on the way se avecinan cambios

■ help is on the way la ayuda está de camino

■ there's rain on the way va a llover

to be on the way down (fall) estar bajando, ir a la baja

to be on the way in (coming into fashion) estar poniéndose de moda

to be on the way out (going out of fashion) en camino de desaparecer, estar pasando de moda

to be on the way up (rise) estar subiendo, ir al alza

to be out of somebody's way no pillar a alguien de camino

■ I hope it's not out of your way espero que no te pille lejos

to be set in one's ways tener unas costumbres muy arraigadas, ser reacio,-a al cambio

to be under way (work) estar en marcha, estar avanzado,-a 2 (meeting, match) haber empezado

to cut both ways / cut two ways ser un arma de doble filo, tener ventajas y desventajas

to get in the way estorbar, molestar, ponerse en medio

to get into the way of doing something coger la costumbre de hacer algo

to get one's own way salirse con la suya

to get out of the way of something dejarle paso a algo, apartarse del camino de algo

to get out of the way apartarse del camino, quitarse de en medio

to get out of the way of doing something perder la costumbre de hacer algo

to get something out of the way deshacerse de algo, quitar algo de en medio

■ as soon as I've got this essay out of the way en cuanto acabe esta redacción

to get under way (meeting, match) empezar 2 (travellers, work) ponerse en marcha

to give way (collapse) ceder, hundirse 2 (yield) ceder (to, a) 3 (when driving) ceder el paso

to go a long way towards something contribuir en gran medida a algo

to go a long way (succeed) ir lejos 2 (be productive) cundir mucho, dar mucho de sí

to go one's own way ir a lo suyo, seguir su propio camino

to go out of one's way (to do something) desvivirse (por hacer algo)

to have a way with... tener un don especial para...

■ he has a way with children tiene un don especial para los niños

to keep out of somebody's way evitar el contacto con alguien

to keep out of the way (hide) mantener un perfil bajo 2 (step aside) apartarse

to learn something the hard way aprender algo a las malas

to look the other way hacer la vista gorda

to lose one's way perderse, extraviarse

to make one's own way in life/in the world abrirse paso en la vida/el mundo

to make one's way dirigirse (to, a)

to make way for something hacer lugar para algo

to my way of thinking a mi modo de ver

to put somebody in the way of (doing) something dar a alguien la oportunidad de (hacer) algo

to see one's way clear to doing something ver la manera de hacer algo

to stand in the way of something ser un obstáculo para algo, ser un estorbo para algo

to talk one's way out of something salir de algo a base de labia

to work one's way through something (crowd etc) abrirse camino por algo 2 (work, book) hacer algo con dificultad 3 (college etc) costearse los estudios trabajando

to work one's way up ascender a fuerza de trabajo, subir a base de trabajar

way back (in time) hace muchísimo

way in entrada

way out (exit) salida 2 (solution) solución nombre femenino, remedio

ways and means medios nombre masculino plural

way ['weɪ] n

1) path, road: camino m, vía f

2) route: camino m, ruta f

to go the wrong way: equivocarse de camino

I'm on my way: estoy de camino

3) : línea f de conducta, camino m

he chose the easy way: optó por el camino fácil

4) manner, means: manera f, modo m, forma f

in the same way: del mismo modo, igualmente

there are no two ways about it: no cabe la menor duda

5) (indicating a wish)

have it your way: como tú quieras

to get one's own way: salirse uno con la suya

6) state: estado m

things are in a bad way: las cosas marchan mal

7) respect: aspecto m, sentido m

8) custom: costumbre f

to mend one's ways: dejar las malas costumbres

9) passage: camino m

to get in the way: meterse en el camino

10) distance: distancia f

to come a long way: hacer grandes progresos

11) direction: dirección f

come this way: venga por aquí

which way did he go?: ¿por dónde fue?

12)

by the way : a propósito, por cierto

13)

by way of via: vía, pasando por

14)

out of the way remote: remoto, recóndito

15) under way

way

n.

• camino s.m.

• dirección s.f.

• distancia s.f.

• estilo s.m.

• guisa s.f.

• género s.m.

• manera s.f.

• medio s.m.

• modales s.m.pl.

• modo s.m.

• paso s.m.

• sentido s.m.

• trayecto s.m.

• vía s.f.

I weɪ
1) noun

Sense I

2) c

a) ( route) camino m

the way back — el camino de vuelta or de regreso

we had to go the long way (around) — tuvimos que dar toda la vuelta

let's go a different way — vayamos por otro lado or camino

the way in/out — la entrada/salida

I saw her on the way out — la vi a la salida

this style is on the way in/out — este estilo se está poniendo/pasando de moda

it's difficult to find one's way around this town — es difícil orientarse or no perderse en esta ciudad

you'll soon find your way around the office/system — en poco tiempo te familiarizarás con la oficina/el sistema

can you find your way there by yourself? — ¿sabes ir solo?

I'll find my own way out — no te molestes en acompañarme

I can drop the package off on my way — de paso puedo dejar el paquete

we're going the wrong way — nos hemos equivocado de camino, vamos mal

which way did you come? — ¿por dónde viniste?

which way did he go? — ¿por dónde fue?; ( following somebody) ¿por dónde se fue?

could you tell me the way to the city center? — ¿me podría decir por dónde se va or cómo se llega al centro (de la ciudad)?

I'll make my own way there — iré por mi cuenta

on my way to work — de camino al trabajo

I'm on my way! — ahora mismo salgo or voy, voy para allí!

the doctor is on her way — la doctora ya va para allí/viene para aquí

the goods are on their way — la mercancía está en camino or ya ha salido

I'll tell you on the way — te lo cuento por el camino

winter's on the way — ya falta poco para que empiece el invierno

did you find the way to Trier all right? — ¿llegaste bien a Trier?

I don't know the way up/down — no sé por dónde se sube/se baja

she's well on her way to recovery — ya está casi recuperada del todo

to lead the way — ir* delante

to lose one's way — perderse*

there is no way around it — no hay otra solución or salida

there are no two ways about it — no tiene or no hay vuelta de hoja

to go one's own way: she'll go her own way hará lo que le parezca; to go out of one's way ( make a detour) desviarse* del camino; ( make special effort): they went out of their way to be helpful se desvivieron or hicieron lo indecible por ayudar; to go the way of something/somebody — acabar como algo/algn, correr la misma suerte de algo/algn

b) (road, path) camino m, senda f

the Appian Way — la vía Apia

the people over the way — (BrE) los vecinos de enfrente

3) c u (passage, space)

we hacked a way through the undergrowth — nos abrimos camino entre la maleza

to be/get in the way — estorbar

she doesn't let her work get in the way of her social life — no deja que el trabajo sea un obstáculo para su vida social

to stand in the way: they stood in our way nos impidieron el paso; I couldn't see it, she was standing in my way no podía verlo, ella me tapaba (la vista); I won't stand in your way no seré yo quien te lo impida; to stand in the way of progress obstaculizar* or entorpecer* el progreso; (get) out of the way! hazte a un lado!, quítate de en medio!; to move something out of the way quitar algo de en medio; I'd like to get this work out of the way quisiera quitar este trabajo de en medio; to keep out of somebody's way rehuir* a algn, evitar encontrarse con algn; make way! — abran paso!

4) c ( direction)

it's that way — es en esa dirección, es por ahí

this way! — por aquí!

we didn't know which way to go — no sabíamos por dónde ir or qué dirección tomar

which way did they go? — ¿por dónde (se) fueron?

this way and that — de un lado a otro, aquí y allá

which way does the house face? — ¿hacia dónde mira or está orientada la casa?

we're both going the same way — vamos para el mismo lado or en la misma dirección

look the other way! — mira para otro lado!

the hurricane is heading this way — el huracán viene hacia aquí or en esta dirección

if you're ever down our way, call in — (colloq) si algún día andas por nuestra zona, ven a vernos

whichever way you look at it, it's a disaster — es un desastre, lo mires por donde lo mires

you've got your T-shirt on the wrong way around — llevas la camiseta al or del revés

the other way around — al revés

which way up should it be? — ¿cuál es la parte de arriba?

to split something three/five ways — dividir algo en tres/cinco partes

every which way — (AmE) para todos lados

to come somebody's way — ( lit) \<\<person/animal\>\> venir* hacia algn

none of the money ever came our way — no nos tocó ni un céntimo del dinero

then bad luck began to come my way — entonces empecé a tener una mala racha

to go somebody's way: are you going my way? ¿vas en mi misma dirección?; the decision went our way se decidió en nuestro favor; to put work/business somebody's way conseguirle* trabajo/clientes a algn; way to go! — (AmE colloq) así se hace!, bien hecho!

5) ( distance) (no pl)

there's only a short way to go now — ya falta or queda poco para llegar

he came all this way just to see me — (colloq) se dió el viaje hasta aquí sólo para verme

we're still some way from home — todavía nos queda un trecho para llegar a casa

it's a long way from here to Rio — Río queda muy lejos de aquí

we passed a church some way back — hace ya un rato que pasamos una iglesia

you have to go back a long way, to the Middle Ages — hay que remontarse a la Edad Media

it's a very long way down/up — hay una buena bajada/subida

the exam is still some way off — todavía falta bastante para el examen

he's come a long way — ha venido de muy lejos

we've come a long way since those days — hemos evolucionado or avanzado mucho desde entonces

my salary has to go a long way — tengo que estirar mucho el sueldo

a little goes a long way — un poco cunde or (AmL tb) rinde mucho

Springfield? that's quite a ways from here — (AmE colloq) ¿Springfield? eso está requetelejos de aquí (fam)

we had to walk all the way up — tuvimos que subir a pie hasta arriba

to go all the way: do you think he might go all the way and fire them? ¿te parece que puede llegar a echarlos?; they went all the way ( had sex) tuvieron relaciones, hicieron el amor; to go some/a long way toward something — contribuir* en cierta/gran medida a algo; see also way I III

Sense II

6) c (method, means) forma f, manera f, modo m

we must try every possible way to convince them — tenemos que tratar de convencerlos por todos los medios

there's no way of crossing the border without a passport — es imposible cruzar la frontera sin pasaporte

it doesn't matter to me one way or the other — me da igual una cosa u otra

it doesn't matter either way — de cualquier forma or manera, no importa

there are many ways in which it will be useful — será útil en muchos sentidos

all right, we'll do it your way — muy bien, lo haremos a tu manera or como tú quieras

to learn something the hard way — aprender algo a fuerza de palos or golpes

to do something the hard/easy way — hacer* algo de manera difícil/fácil

that's not the way to do it! — así no se hace!

that's the way! — así se hace!

he wants to have it both ways — lo quiere todo, lo quiere la chancha y los cinco reales or los veinte (RPl fam)

you can't have it both ways — tienes que elegir entre una cosa u otra

7) c ( manner) manera f, modo m, forma f

in a subtle way — de manera or modo or forma sutil

the way you behaved was disgraceful — te comportaste de (una) manera or forma vergonzosa

is this the way you treat all your friends? — ¿así (es como) tratas a todos tus amigos?

that's one way of looking at it — es una manera or un modo or una forma de verlo

that's no way to talk to your mother! — así no se le habla a la madre!

what a way to go! — (set phrase) mira que acabar or terminar así!

he's in a bad way — está muy mal

that's just his way — así es él

that's the way it goes — así son las cosas, así es la vida

it looks that way — así or eso parece

this way it's better for everyone — así es mejor para todos

the way I see it — tal y como yo lo veo, a mi modo or manera de ver

the way things are o stand at the moment — tal y como están las cosas en este momento

in a big way: they let us down in a big way nos fallaron de mala manera; he fell for her in a big way quedó prendado de ella; to have a way with...: to have a way with children/people saber* cómo tratar a los niños/saber* cómo tratar a la gente, tener* don de gentes; to have a way with animals tener* mucha mano con los animales; to have a way with words — tener* mucha labia or facilidad de palabra

8) c

a) (custom, characteristic)

the ways of our people — las costumbres de nuestro pueblo

you'll get used to our ways — ya te irás haciendo a nuestra manera de hacer las cosas

he has a way of making people feel at ease — sabe hacer que la gente se sienta cómoda

she has a way of popping up unexpectedly — tiene la costumbre de aparecer donde menos te la esperas

to get into/out of the way of something — (BrE) acostumbrarse a/perder* la costumbre de algo

to be set in one's ways — estar* muy acostumbrado a hacer las cosas de cierta manera

to mend one's ways — dejar las malas costumbres, enmendarse*

b) (wish, will)

to get/have one's (own) way — salirse* con la suya (or mía etc)

have it your own way then! — lo que tú quieras!, como tú digas!

to have it all one's own way — salirse* con la suya (or mía etc)

to have one's (evil o wicked) way with somebody — llevarse a algn al huerto (fam), pasar a algn por las armas (fam)

9) c (feature, respect) sentido m, aspecto m

in a way, it's like losing an old friend — de alguna manera or en cierta forma or en cierto sentido es como perder a un viejo amigo

our product is in no way inferior to theirs — nuestro producto no es de ninguna manera or en ningún sentido inferior al suyo

you were in no way to blame — tú no tuviste ninguna culpa; see also way I III

Sense III

10) (in phrases)

by the way — (indep) a propósito, por cierto

but that's all by the way: what I really wanted to say was... — pero eso no es a lo que iba: lo que quería decir es que...

11)

by way of — (as prep)

a) ( via) vía, pasando por

b) ( to serve as) a modo or manera de

by way of introduction/an apology — a modo or manera de introducción/disculpa

12)

in the way of — ( as regards) (as prep)

don't expect too much in the way of help — en cuanto a ayuda, no esperes mucho

there wasn't much in the way of opposition — no hubo gran oposición

13)

no way — (colloq)

no way will I lend it to you — ni loco te lo presto (fam)

no way is he/she going to do it — de ninguna manera lo va a hacer (fam)

no way! — ni hablar! (fam)

14) to give way

a) (break, collapse) \<\<ice/rope/cable\>\> romperse*; \<\<floor\>\> hundirse, ceder

the table gave way under the weight — la mesa no aguantó el peso

b) (succumb, give in)

to give way TO something — \<\<to threats/blackmail\>\> ceder a or ante algo

she gave way to tears — no pudo contener las lágrimas y se echó a llorar

don't give way to pessimism — no te dejes vencer por el pesimismo

c) (BrE Transp)

to give way (TO somebody/something) — ceder el paso (a algn/algo)

give way — ceda el paso

d) (be replaced, superseded by)

to give way TO something — dejar or dar* paso a algo

15)

under way: to get under way ponerse* en marcha, comenzar*; to get a meeting under way dar* comienzo a una reunión; an investigation is under way — se está llevando a cabo or se ha abierto una investigación

II

adverb (colloq)

way back in February — allá por febrero

way behind — muy por detrás

way down south — allá por el sur

they were way out in their calculations — se equivocaron en mucho en los cálculos

way past midnight — mucho después de la medianoche

profits are way up on last year — los beneficios están muy por encima de los del año pasado

way and away — (as intensifier) (AmE) con mucho, lejos (AmL fam)

[weɪ]
1. N

1) (=road, lane) camino m ; (in street names) calle f, avenida f

• Way of the Cross — Vía f Crucis, viacrucis m

• across or over the way (from) — enfrente (de), frente (a)

• permanent way — vía f

• the public way — la vía pública

2) (=route) camino m (to de)

the way to the station — el camino de la estación

which is the way to the station? — ¿cómo se va or cómo se llega a la estación?

this isn't the way to Lugo! — ¡por aquí no se va a Lugo!

• he walked all the way here — vino todo el camino andando

it rained all the way there — llovió durante todo el viaje

he ran all the way home — hizo todo el camino a casa corriendo

• to ask one's way to the station — preguntar el camino or cómo se va a la estación

• we came a back way — vinimos por los caminos vecinales

• she went by way of Birmingham — fue por or vía Birmingham

• if the chance comes my way — si se me presenta la oportunidad

• way down — bajada f, ruta f para bajar

• to take the easy way out — optar por la solución más fácil

• to feel one's way — (lit) andar a tientas

he's still feeling his way in the new job — todavía se está familiarizando con el nuevo trabajo

• to find one's way — orientarse, ubicarse (esp LAm)

to find one's way into a building — encontrar la entrada de un edificio, descubrir cómo entrar en un edificio

the cat found the way into the pantry — el gato logró introducirse en la despensa

I had to find my own way home — me las tuve que arreglar para volver a casa

• the way is hard — el camino es duro

• the way in — (=entrance) la entrada

• I don't know the way to his house — no sé el camino a su casa, no sé cómo se va or llega a su casa

do you know the way to the hotel? — ¿sabes el camino del or al hotel?, ¿sabes cómo llegar al hotel?

I know my way about town — conozco la ciudad

she knows her way around — (fig) tiene bastante experiencia, no es que sea una inocente

• to lead the way — (lit) ir primero; (fig) marcar la pauta, abrir el camino

• to go the long way round — ir por el camino más largo

• to lose one's way — extraviarse

• to make one's way to — dirigirse a

to make one's way home — volver a casa

to make one's way in the world — abrirse camino en la vida

• the middle way — el camino de en medio

• on the way here — de camino hacia aquí, mientras veníamos aquí

on the way to London — rumbo a Londres, camino de Londres

it's on the way to Murcia — está en la carretera de Murcia

we're on our way! — ¡vamos para allá!

he's on his way — está de camino

they have another child on the way — tienen otro niño en camino

you pass it on your way home — te pilla de camino a casa

your house is on my way — tu casa me viene de camino

he is well on the way to finishing it — lo tiene casi terminado

he's on the way to becoming an alcoholic — va camino de hacerse un alcohólico

• the way out — la salida

you'll find it on the way out — lo encontrarás cerca de la salida

I'll find my own way out — no hace falta que me acompañen a la puerta

to find a way out of a problem — encontrar una solución a un problema

there's no way out — (fig) no hay salida or solución, esto no tiene solución

there's no other way out — (fig) no hay más remedio

it's on its way out — está en camino de desaparecer, ya está pasando de moda

• to go out of one's way — (lit) desviarse del camino

to go out of one's way to help sb — desvivirse por ayudar a algn

I don't want to take you out of your way — no quiero apartarle del camino

the village I live in is rather out of the way — mi pueblo está un poco retirado

that's nothing out of the way these days — eso no es nada extraordinario hoy día

• to pay one's way — (in restaurant) pagar su parte

the company isn't paying its way — la compañía no rinde or no da provecho

• he put me in the way of some good contracts — me conectó or enchufó para que consiguiera buenos contratos

• to see one's way (clear) to helping sb — ver la forma de ayudar a algn

could you possibly see your way clear to lending him some money? — ¿tendrías la amabilidad de prestarle algo de dinero?

• to go the shortest way — ir por el camino más corto

• to start on one's way — ponerse en camino

• way up — subida f, ruta f para subir

• the way of virtue — el camino de la virtud

- go the way of all flesh

- I'm with you all the way

- go one's own way

she always goes her own sweet way — hace lo que le da la gana
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3) (=space sb wants to go through) camino m

• to bar the way — ponerse en medio del camino

• to clear a way for — abrir camino para

to clear the way — despejar el camino

• he crawled his way to the gate — llegó arrastrándose hasta la puerta

• to elbow one's way through the crowd — abrirse paso por la multitud a codazos

• to fight one's way out — lograr salir luchando

• to force one's way in — introducirse a la fuerza

• to hack one's way through sth — abrirse paso por algo a fuerza de tajos

• to be/get in sb's way — estorbar a algn

to get in the way — estorbar

am I in the way? — ¿estorbo?

you can watch, but don't get in the way — puedes mirar, pero no estorbes

to put difficulties in sb's way — crear dificultades a algn

to stand in sb's way — (lit) cerrar el paso a algn; (fig) ser un obstáculo para algn

now nothing stands in our way — ahora no hay obstáculo alguno

to stand in the way of progress — impedir or entorpecer el progreso

• to make way (for sth/sb) — (lit, fig) dejar paso (a algo/algn)

make way! — ¡abran paso!

• to leave the way open for further talks — dejar la puerta abierta a posteriores conversaciones

this law leaves the way open to abuse — esta ley deja vía libre a toda clase de desafueros

• to get out of the way — quitarse de en medio

out of my way! — ¡quítate de en medio!

I should keep out of his way if I were you — yo que tú evitaría el trato con él

I try to keep out of his way — procuro evitar cualquier contacto con él

I kept well out of the way — me mantuve muy lejos

to get or move sth out of the way — quitar algo de en medio or del camino

put it somewhere out of the way — ponlo donde no estorbe

it's out of the way of the wind — está al abrigo del viento

as soon as I've got this essay out of the way — en cuanto termine este ensayo

keep those matches out of his way — no dejes esas cerillas a su alcance

• to push one's way through the crowd — abrirse paso por la multitud a empujones

• to work one's way to the front — abrirse camino hacia la primera fila

he worked his way up in the company — ascendió en la compañía a fuerza de trabajo

he worked his way up from nothing — empezó sin nada y fue muy lejos a fuerza de trabajo
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4) (=direction)

• down our way — por nuestra zona, en nuestro barrio

• are you going my way? — ¿vas por dónde voy yo?

everything is going my way — (fig) todo me está saliendo a pedir de boca

• to look the other way — (lit) mirar para otro lado; (fig) mirar para otro lado, hacer la vista gorda

turn it the other way round — vuélvelo al revés

it was you who invited her, not the other way round — eres tú quien la invitaste, no al revés

• it's out Windsor way — está cerca de Windsor

• turn the map the right way up — pon el mapa mirando hacia arriba

the car landed the right way up — el coche cayó sobre las ruedas

• to split sth three ways — dividir algo en tres partes iguales

• come this way — pase por aquí

this way for the lions — a los leones

this way and that — por aquí y por allá

• which way did it go? — ¿hacia dónde fue?, ¿por dónde se fue?

which way do we go from here? — (lit, fig) ¿desde aquí adónde vamos ahora?

which way is the wind blowing? — ¿de dónde sopla el viento?

she didn't know which way to look — no sabía dónde mirar, no sabía dónde poner los ojos

5) (=distance)

• a little way off — no muy lejos, a poca distancia

a little way down the road — bajando la calle, no muy lejos

• it's a long or good way away or off — está muy lejos

spring is a long way off — la primavera queda muy lejos

it's a long or good way — es mucho camino

we have a long way to go — tenemos mucho camino por delante

he'll go a long way — (fig) llegará lejos

a little of that flavouring goes a long way — un poco de ese condimento cunde mucho

a little of her company goes a long way — iro solo se le puede aguantar en pequeñas dosis

we've come a long way since those days — hemos avanzado mucho desde entonces

it should go a long way towards convincing him — (esto) seguramente contribuirá mucho a convencerlo

that's a long way from the truth — eso queda muy lejos de la verdad

better by a long way — mucho mejor, mejor pero con mucho

not by a long way — ni con mucho

• I can swim quite a way now — ahora puedo nadar bastante distancia

• a short way off — no muy lejos, a poca distancia

6) (=means) manera f, forma f, modo m

we'll find a way of doing it — encontraremos la manera or forma or modo de hacerlo

love will find a way — el amor encontrará el camino

it's the only way of doing it — es la única manera or forma or modo de hacerlo

my way is to — + infin mi sistema consiste en + infin

that's the way! — ¡así!, ¡eso es!

that way it won't disturb anybody — así no molestará a nadie

• every which way — (esp US) (=in every manner) de muchísimas maneras; (=in every direction) por todas partes

he re-ran the experiment every which way he could — reprodujo el experimento de todas las maneras habidas y por haber

• ways and means — medios mpl

• that's not the right way — así no se hace

- there are no two ways about it

7) (=manner) manera f, forma f, modo m

the way things are going we shall have nothing left — si esto continúa así nos vamos a quedar sin nada

she looked at me in a strange way — me miró de manera or forma extraña or de modo extraño

it's a strange way to thank someone — ¡vaya manera or forma or modo de mostrar gratitud or darle las gracias a alguien!

• without in any way wishing to — + infin sin querer en lo más mínimo + infin, sin tener intención alguna de + infin

• in a big way * — en grande *

they like to celebrate their birthdays in a big way — les gusta celebrar sus cumpleaños en grande

we lost in a really big way * — perdimos de manera or forma or modo realmente espectacular

• you can't have it both ways — tienes que optar por lo uno o lo otro

• each way — (Racing) (a) ganador y colocado

• either way I can't help you — de todas formas no puedo ayudarle

• I will help you in every way possible — haré todo lo posible por ayudarte

he insulted us in every possible way — nos ha insultado en todos los sentidos

• the British way of life — el estilo de vida británico

• no way! * — ¡ni pensarlo!, ¡ni hablar!

no way was that a goal * — ¡imposible que fuera eso un gol!

there is no way I am going to agree * — de ninguna manera or forma or de ningún modo lo voy a consentir

• (in) one way or another — de una u otra manera or forma or modo

it doesn't matter to me one way or the other — me es igual, me da lo mismo

a week one way or the other won't matter — no importa que sea una semana más o una semana menos

• in the ordinary way (of things) — por lo general, en general

• he has his own way of doing it — tiene su manera or forma or modo de hacerlo

I'll do it (in) my own way — lo haré a mi manera or forma or modo

he's a good sort in his own way — tiene sus rarezas pero es buena persona

• in the same way — de la misma manera or forma, del mismo modo

to go on in the same old way — seguir como siempre

• we help in a small way — ayudamos un poco

• she's clever that way — para esas cosas es muy lista

• to my way of thinking — a mi parecer, a mi manera or forma or modo de ver

• do it this way — hazlo así

in this way — así, de esta manera or forma or modo

it was this way... — pasó lo siguiente...

• that's always the way with him — siempre le pasa igual

8) [of will]

• to get one's own way — salirse con la suya

• have it your own way! — ¡como quieras!

they've had it all their own way too long — hace tiempo que hacen lo que les da la gana

they didn't have things all their own way — (in football match) no dominaron el partido completamente

he had his wicked or evil way with her — hum se la llevó al huerto *, la sedujo

9) (=custom) costumbre f

the ways of the Spaniards — las costumbres de los españoles

that is our way with traitors — así tratamos a los traidores

he has his little ways — tiene sus manías or rarezas

• to get into the way of doing sth — adquirir la costumbre de hacer algo

• to be/get out of the way of doing sth — haber perdido/perder la costumbre de hacer algo

- mend one's ways

10) (=gift, special quality)

• he has a way with people — tiene don de gentes

he has a way with children — sabe manejar a los niños

he has a way with him — tiene su encanto

11) (=respect, aspect) sentido m

• in a way — en cierto sentido

• in many ways — en muchos sentidos

• he's like his father in more ways than one — se parece a su padre en muchos sentidos

• in no way, not in any way — de ninguna manera, de manera alguna

• in some ways — en algunos sentidos

12) (=state) estado m

• the way things are — tal como están or van las cosas

to leave things the way they are — dejar las cosas como están

• things are in a bad way — las cosas van or marchan mal

the car is in a bad way — el coche está en mal estado

he's in a bad way — (=sick) está grave; (=troubled) está muy mal

• he's in a fair way to succeed — tiene buenas posibilidades de lograrlo

• it looks that way — así parece

- be in the family way

13) (=speed)

to gather way — [ship] empezar a moverse; (fig) [enthusiasm] encenderse

14) (in set expressions with preposition)

• by the way — a propósito, por cierto

how was your holiday, by the way? — a propósito or por cierto, ¿qué tal tus vacaciones?

Jones, which, by the way, is not his real name — Jones que, a propósito or por cierto, no es su verdadero nombre

oh, and by the way — antes que se me olvide

all this is by the way — todo esto no viene al caso

• by way of a warning — a modo de advertencia

that was all I got by way of an answer — eso es todo lo que conseguí por respuesta

she's by way of being an artist — tiene sus ribetes de artista

• he had little in the way of formal education — tuvo poca educación formal

• to be under way — estar en marcha

the job is now well under way — el trabajo ya está muy avanzado

to get under way — [ship] zarpar; [person, group] partir, ponerse en camino; [work, project] ponerse en marcha, empezar a moverse

things are getting under way at last — por fin las cosas están empezando a moverse

2.

ADV
*
• that was way back — eso fue hace mucho tiempo ya

way back in 1900 — allá en 1900

• way down (below) — muy abajo

• it's way out in Nevada — está allá en Nevada

way out to sea — mar afuera

he was way out in his estimate — se equivocó (en) mucho en su presupuesto

• it's way past your bedtime — hace rato que deberías estar en la cama

• it's way too big — es demasiado grande

• way up high — muy alto

way up in the sky — muy alto en el cielo

3.

CPD

way station N — (US) apeadero m ; (fig) paso m intermedio

* * *

I [weɪ]
1) noun

Sense I

2) c

a) ( route) camino m

the way back — el camino de vuelta or de regreso

we had to go the long way (around) — tuvimos que dar toda la vuelta

let's go a different way — vayamos por otro lado or camino

the way in/out — la entrada/salida

I saw her on the way out — la vi a la salida

this style is on the way in/out — este estilo se está poniendo/pasando de moda

it's difficult to find one's way around this town — es difícil orientarse or no perderse en esta ciudad

you'll soon find your way around the office/system — en poco tiempo te familiarizarás con la oficina/el sistema

can you find your way there by yourself? — ¿sabes ir solo?

I'll find my own way out — no te molestes en acompañarme

I can drop the package off on my way — de paso puedo dejar el paquete

we're going the wrong way — nos hemos equivocado de camino, vamos mal

which way did you come? — ¿por dónde viniste?

which way did he go? — ¿por dónde fue?; ( following somebody) ¿por dónde se fue?

could you tell me the way to the city center? — ¿me podría decir por dónde se va or cómo se llega al centro (de la ciudad)?

I'll make my own way there — iré por mi cuenta

on my way to work — de camino al trabajo

I'm on my way! — ahora mismo salgo or voy, voy para allí!

the doctor is on her way — la doctora ya va para allí/viene para aquí

the goods are on their way — la mercancía está en camino or ya ha salido

I'll tell you on the way — te lo cuento por el camino

winter's on the way — ya falta poco para que empiece el invierno

did you find the way to Trier all right? — ¿llegaste bien a Trier?

I don't know the way up/down — no sé por dónde se sube/se baja

she's well on her way to recovery — ya está casi recuperada del todo

to lead the way — ir* delante

to lose one's way — perderse*

there is no way around it — no hay otra solución or salida

there are no two ways about it — no tiene or no hay vuelta de hoja

to go one's own way: she'll go her own way hará lo que le parezca; to go out of one's way ( make a detour) desviarse* del camino; ( make special effort): they went out of their way to be helpful se desvivieron or hicieron lo indecible por ayudar; to go the way of something/somebody — acabar como algo/algn, correr la misma suerte de algo/algn

b) (road, path) camino m, senda f

the Appian Way — la vía Apia

the people over the way — (BrE) los vecinos de enfrente

3) c u (passage, space)

we hacked a way through the undergrowth — nos abrimos camino entre la maleza

to be/get in the way — estorbar

she doesn't let her work get in the way of her social life — no deja que el trabajo sea un obstáculo para su vida social

to stand in the way: they stood in our way nos impidieron el paso; I couldn't see it, she was standing in my way no podía verlo, ella me tapaba (la vista); I won't stand in your way no seré yo quien te lo impida; to stand in the way of progress obstaculizar* or entorpecer* el progreso; (get) out of the way! hazte a un lado!, quítate de en medio!; to move something out of the way quitar algo de en medio; I'd like to get this work out of the way quisiera quitar este trabajo de en medio; to keep out of somebody's way rehuir* a algn, evitar encontrarse con algn; make way! — abran paso!

4) c ( direction)

it's that way — es en esa dirección, es por ahí

this way! — por aquí!

we didn't know which way to go — no sabíamos por dónde ir or qué dirección tomar

which way did they go? — ¿por dónde (se) fueron?

this way and that — de un lado a otro, aquí y allá

which way does the house face? — ¿hacia dónde mira or está orientada la casa?

we're both going the same way — vamos para el mismo lado or en la misma dirección

look the other way! — mira para otro lado!

the hurricane is heading this way — el huracán viene hacia aquí or en esta dirección

if you're ever down our way, call in — (colloq) si algún día andas por nuestra zona, ven a vernos

whichever way you look at it, it's a disaster — es un desastre, lo mires por donde lo mires

you've got your T-shirt on the wrong way around — llevas la camiseta al or del revés

the other way around — al revés

which way up should it be? — ¿cuál es la parte de arriba?

to split something three/five ways — dividir algo en tres/cinco partes

every which way — (AmE) para todos lados

to come somebody's way — ( lit) \<\<person/animal\>\> venir* hacia algn

none of the money ever came our way — no nos tocó ni un céntimo del dinero

then bad luck began to come my way — entonces empecé a tener una mala racha

to go somebody's way: are you going my way? ¿vas en mi misma dirección?; the decision went our way se decidió en nuestro favor; to put work/business somebody's way conseguirle* trabajo/clientes a algn; way to go! — (AmE colloq) así se hace!, bien hecho!

5) ( distance) (no pl)

there's only a short way to go now — ya falta or queda poco para llegar

he came all this way just to see me — (colloq) se dió el viaje hasta aquí sólo para verme

we're still some way from home — todavía nos queda un trecho para llegar a casa

it's a long way from here to Rio — Río queda muy lejos de aquí

we passed a church some way back — hace ya un rato que pasamos una iglesia

you have to go back a long way, to the Middle Ages — hay que remontarse a la Edad Media

it's a very long way down/up — hay una buena bajada/subida

the exam is still some way off — todavía falta bastante para el examen

he's come a long way — ha venido de muy lejos

we've come a long way since those days — hemos evolucionado or avanzado mucho desde entonces

my salary has to go a long way — tengo que estirar mucho el sueldo

a little goes a long way — un poco cunde or (AmL tb) rinde mucho

Springfield? that's quite a ways from here — (AmE colloq) ¿Springfield? eso está requetelejos de aquí (fam)

we had to walk all the way up — tuvimos que subir a pie hasta arriba

to go all the way: do you think he might go all the way and fire them? ¿te parece que puede llegar a echarlos?; they went all the way ( had sex) tuvieron relaciones, hicieron el amor; to go some/a long way toward something — contribuir* en cierta/gran medida a algo; see also way I III

Sense II

6) c (method, means) forma f, manera f, modo m

we must try every possible way to convince them — tenemos que tratar de convencerlos por todos los medios

there's no way of crossing the border without a passport — es imposible cruzar la frontera sin pasaporte

it doesn't matter to me one way or the other — me da igual una cosa u otra

it doesn't matter either way — de cualquier forma or manera, no importa

there are many ways in which it will be useful — será útil en muchos sentidos

all right, we'll do it your way — muy bien, lo haremos a tu manera or como tú quieras

to learn something the hard way — aprender algo a fuerza de palos or golpes

to do something the hard/easy way — hacer* algo de manera difícil/fácil

that's not the way to do it! — así no se hace!

that's the way! — así se hace!

he wants to have it both ways — lo quiere todo, lo quiere la chancha y los cinco reales or los veinte (RPl fam)

you can't have it both ways — tienes que elegir entre una cosa u otra

7) c ( manner) manera f, modo m, forma f

in a subtle way — de manera or modo or forma sutil

the way you behaved was disgraceful — te comportaste de (una) manera or forma vergonzosa

is this the way you treat all your friends? — ¿así (es como) tratas a todos tus amigos?

that's one way of looking at it — es una manera or un modo or una forma de verlo

that's no way to talk to your mother! — así no se le habla a la madre!

what a way to go! — (set phrase) mira que acabar or terminar así!

he's in a bad way — está muy mal

that's just his way — así es él

that's the way it goes — así son las cosas, así es la vida

it looks that way — así or eso parece

this way it's better for everyone — así es mejor para todos

the way I see it — tal y como yo lo veo, a mi modo or manera de ver

the way things are o stand at the moment — tal y como están las cosas en este momento

in a big way: they let us down in a big way nos fallaron de mala manera; he fell for her in a big way quedó prendado de ella; to have a way with...: to have a way with children/people saber* cómo tratar a los niños/saber* cómo tratar a la gente, tener* don de gentes; to have a way with animals tener* mucha mano con los animales; to have a way with words — tener* mucha labia or facilidad de palabra

8) c

a) (custom, characteristic)

the ways of our people — las costumbres de nuestro pueblo

you'll get used to our ways — ya te irás haciendo a nuestra manera de hacer las cosas

he has a way of making people feel at ease — sabe hacer que la gente se sienta cómoda

she has a way of popping up unexpectedly — tiene la costumbre de aparecer donde menos te la esperas

to get into/out of the way of something — (BrE) acostumbrarse a/perder* la costumbre de algo

to be set in one's ways — estar* muy acostumbrado a hacer las cosas de cierta manera

to mend one's ways — dejar las malas costumbres, enmendarse*

b) (wish, will)

to get/have one's (own) way — salirse* con la suya (or mía etc)

have it your own way then! — lo que tú quieras!, como tú digas!

to have it all one's own way — salirse* con la suya (or mía etc)

to have one's (evil o wicked) way with somebody — llevarse a algn al huerto (fam), pasar a algn por las armas (fam)

9) c (feature, respect) sentido m, aspecto m

in a way, it's like losing an old friend — de alguna manera or en cierta forma or en cierto sentido es como perder a un viejo amigo

our product is in no way inferior to theirs — nuestro producto no es de ninguna manera or en ningún sentido inferior al suyo

you were in no way to blame — tú no tuviste ninguna culpa; see also way I III

Sense III

10) (in phrases)

by the way — (indep) a propósito, por cierto

but that's all by the way: what I really wanted to say was... — pero eso no es a lo que iba: lo que quería decir es que...

11)

by way of — (as prep)

a) ( via) vía, pasando por

b) ( to serve as) a modo or manera de

by way of introduction/an apology — a modo or manera de introducción/disculpa

12)

in the way of — ( as regards) (as prep)

don't expect too much in the way of help — en cuanto a ayuda, no esperes mucho

there wasn't much in the way of opposition — no hubo gran oposición

13)

no way — (colloq)

no way will I lend it to you — ni loco te lo presto (fam)

no way is he/she going to do it — de ninguna manera lo va a hacer (fam)

no way! — ni hablar! (fam)

14) to give way

a) (break, collapse) \<\<ice/rope/cable\>\> romperse*; \<\<floor\>\> hundirse, ceder

the table gave way under the weight — la mesa no aguantó el peso

b) (succumb, give in)

to give way TO something — \<\<to threats/blackmail\>\> ceder a or ante algo

she gave way to tears — no pudo contener las lágrimas y se echó a llorar

don't give way to pessimism — no te dejes vencer por el pesimismo

c) (BrE Transp)

to give way (TO somebody/something) — ceder el paso (a algn/algo)

give way — ceda el paso

d) (be replaced, superseded by)

to give way TO something — dejar or dar* paso a algo

15)

under way: to get under way ponerse* en marcha, comenzar*; to get a meeting under way dar* comienzo a una reunión; an investigation is under way — se está llevando a cabo or se ha abierto una investigación

II

adverb (colloq)

way back in February — allá por febrero

way behind — muy por detrás

way down south — allá por el sur

they were way out in their calculations — se equivocaron en mucho en los cálculos

way past midnight — mucho después de la medianoche

profits are way up on last year — los beneficios están muy por encima de los del año pasado

way and away — (as intensifier) (AmE) con mucho, lejos (AmL fam)

English-spanish dictionary > way
3 Artificial Intelligence

   1) Programs and the Complexity of Human Mental Processes

   In my opinion, none of [these programs] does even remote justice to the complexity of human mental processes. Unlike men, "artificially intelligent" programs tend to be single minded, undistractable, and unemotional. (Neisser, 1967, p. 9)

   2) Artificial Intelligence Is an Engineering Discipline

   Future progress in [artificial intelligence] will depend on the development of both practical and theoretical knowledge.... As regards theoretical knowledge, some have sought a unified theory of artificial intelligence. My view is that artificial intelligence is (or soon will be) an engineering discipline since its primary goal is to build things. (Nilsson, 1971, pp. vii-viii)

   3) A Sceptical View of Artificial Intelligence

   Most workers in AI [artificial intelligence] research and in related fields confess to a pronounced feeling of disappointment in what has been achieved in the last 25 years. Workers entered the field around 1950, and even around 1960, with high hopes that are very far from being realized in 1972. In no part of the field have the discoveries made so far produced the major impact that was then promised.... In the meantime, claims and predictions regarding the potential results of AI research had been publicized which went even farther than the expectations of the majority of workers in the field, whose embarrassments have been added to by the lamentable failure of such inﬂated predictions....

   When able and respected scientists write in letters to the present author that AI, the major goal of computing science, represents "another step in the general process of evolution"; that possibilities in the 1980s include an all-purpose intelligence on a human-scale knowledge base; that awe-inspiring possibilities suggest themselves based on machine intelligence exceeding human intelligence by the year 2000 [one has the right to be skeptical]. (Lighthill, 1972, p. 17)

   4) Just as Astronomy Succeeded Astrology, the Discovery of Intellectual Processes in Machines Should Lead to a Science, Eventually

   Just as astronomy succeeded astrology, following Kepler's discovery of planetary regularities, the discoveries of these many principles in empirical explorations on intellectual processes in machines should lead to a science, eventually. (Minsky & Papert, 1973, p. 11)

   5) Problems in Machine Intelligence Arise Because Things Obvious to Any Person Are Not Represented in the Program

   Many problems arise in experiments on machine intelligence because things obvious to any person are not represented in any program. One can pull with a string, but one cannot push with one.... Simple facts like these caused serious problems when Charniak attempted to extend Bobrow's "Student" program to more realistic applications, and they have not been faced up to until now. (Minsky & Papert, 1973, p. 77)

   6) The Meaning of a Symbolic Description

   What do we mean by [a symbolic] "description"? We do not mean to suggest that our descriptions must be made of strings of ordinary language words (although they might be). The simplest kind of description is a structure in which some features of a situation are represented by single ("primitive") symbols, and relations between those features are represented by other symbols-or by other features of the way the description is put together. (Minsky & Papert, 1973, p. 11)

   7) The Principle of Artificial Intelligence

   [AI is] the use of computer programs and programming techniques to cast light on the principles of intelligence in general and human thought in particular. (Boden, 1977, p. 5)

   8) Artificial Intelligence Recognizes the Need for Knowledge in Its Systems

   The word you look for and hardly ever see in the early AI literature is the word knowledge. They didn't believe you have to know anything, you could always rework it all.... In fact 1967 is the turning point in my mind when there was enough feeling that the old ideas of general principles had to go.... I came up with an argument for what I called the primacy of expertise, and at the time I called the other guys the generalists. (Moses, quoted in McCorduck, 1979, pp. 228-229)

   9) Artificial Intelligence Is Psychology in a Particularly Pure and Abstract Form

   The basic idea of cognitive science is that intelligent beings are semantic engines-in other words, automatic formal systems with interpretations under which they consistently make sense. We can now see why this includes psychology and artificial intelligence on a more or less equal footing: people and intelligent computers (if and when there are any) turn out to be merely different manifestations of the same underlying phenomenon. Moreover, with universal hardware, any semantic engine can in principle be formally imitated by a computer if only the right program can be found. And that will guarantee semantic imitation as well, since (given the appropriate formal behavior) the semantics is "taking care of itself" anyway. Thus we also see why, from this perspective, artificial intelligence can be regarded as psychology in a particularly pure and abstract form. The same fundamental structures are under investigation, but in AI, all the relevant parameters are under direct experimental control (in the programming), without any messy physiology or ethics to get in the way. (Haugeland, 1981b, p. 31)

    10) There Are Many Types of Reasoning

   There are many different kinds of reasoning one might imagine:

    Formal reasoning involves the syntactic manipulation of data structures to deduce new ones following prespecified rules of inference. Mathematical logic is the archetypical formal representation. Procedural reasoning uses simulation to answer questions and solve problems. When we use a program to answer What is the sum of 3 and 4? it uses, or "runs," a procedural model of arithmetic. Reasoning by analogy seems to be a very natural mode of thought for humans but, so far, difficult to accomplish in AI programs. The idea is that when you ask the question Can robins ﬂy? the system might reason that "robins are like sparrows, and I know that sparrows can ﬂy, so robins probably can ﬂy."

    Generalization and abstraction are also natural reasoning process for humans that are difficult to pin down well enough to implement in a program. If one knows that Robins have wings, that Sparrows have wings, and that Blue jays have wings, eventually one will believe that All birds have wings. This capability may be at the core of most human learning, but it has not yet become a useful technique in AI.... Meta- level reasoning is demonstrated by the way one answers the question What is Paul Newman's telephone number? You might reason that "if I knew Paul Newman's number, I would know that I knew it, because it is a notable fact." This involves using "knowledge about what you know," in particular, about the extent of your knowledge and about the importance of certain facts. Recent research in psychology and AI indicates that meta-level reasoning may play a central role in human cognitive processing. (Barr & Feigenbaum, 1981, pp. 146-147)

    11) Programs Are Beginning to Do Things That Critics Have Asserted to Be Impossible

   Suffice it to say that programs already exist that can do things-or, at the very least, appear to be beginning to do things-which ill-informed critics have asserted a priori to be impossible. Examples include: perceiving in a holistic as opposed to an atomistic way; using language creatively; translating sensibly from one language to another by way of a language-neutral semantic representation; planning acts in a broad and sketchy fashion, the details being decided only in execution; distinguishing between different species of emotional reaction according to the psychological context of the subject. (Boden, 1981, p. 33)

    12) The Synthesis of Man and Machine

   Can the synthesis of Man and Machine ever be stable, or will the purely organic component become such a hindrance that it has to be discarded? If this eventually happens-and I have... good reasons for thinking that it must-we have nothing to regret and certainly nothing to fear. (Clarke, 1984, p. 243)

    13) The Thesis of Good Old-Fashioned Artificial Intelligence (GOFAI)

   The thesis of GOFAI... is not that the processes underlying intelligence can be described symbolically... but that they are symbolic. (Haugeland, 1985, p. 113)

    14) Artificial Intelligence Provides a Useful Approach to Psychological and Psychiatric Theory Formation

   It is all very well formulating psychological and psychiatric theories verbally but, when using natural language (even technical jargon), it is difficult to recognise when a theory is complete; oversights are all too easily made, gaps too readily left. This is a point which is generally recognised to be true and it is for precisely this reason that the behavioural sciences attempt to follow the natural sciences in using "classical" mathematics as a more rigorous descriptive language. However, it is an unfortunate fact that, with a few notable exceptions, there has been a marked lack of success in this application. It is my belief that a different approach-a different mathematics-is needed, and that AI provides just this approach. (Hand, quoted in Hand, 1985, pp. 6-7)

    15) Four Kinds of Artificial Intelligence

   We might distinguish among four kinds of AI.

   ♦ Nonpsychological AI

   Research of this kind involves building and programming computers to perform tasks which, to paraphrase Marvin Minsky, would require intelligence if they were done by us. Researchers in nonpsychological AI make no claims whatsoever about the psychological realism of their programs or the devices they build, that is, about whether or not computers perform tasks as humans do.

   ♦ Weak Psychological AI

   Research here is guided by the view that the computer is a useful tool in the study of mind. In particular, we can write computer programs or build devices that simulate alleged psychological processes in humans and then test our predictions about how the alleged processes work. We can weave these programs and devices together with other programs and devices that simulate different alleged mental processes and thereby test the degree to which the AI system as a whole simulates human mentality. According to weak psychological AI, working with computer models is a way of refining and testing hypotheses about processes that are allegedly realized in human minds.

   ♦ Strong Psychological AI

... According to this view, our minds are computers and therefore can be duplicated by other computers. Sherry Turkle writes that the "real ambition is of mythic proportions, making a general purpose intelligence, a mind." (Turkle, 1984, p. 240) The authors of a major text announce that "the ultimate goal of AI research is to build a person or, more humbly, an animal." (Charniak & McDermott, 1985, p. 7)

   ♦ Suprapsychological AI

   Research in this field, like strong psychological AI, takes seriously the functionalist view that mentality can be realized in many different types of physical devices. Suprapsychological AI, however, accuses strong psychological AI of being chauvinisticof being only interested in human intelligence! Suprapsychological AI claims to be interested in all the conceivable ways intelligence can be realized. (Flanagan, 1991, pp. 241-242)

    16) Determination of Relevance of Rules in Particular Contexts

   Even if the [rules] were stored in a context-free form the computer still couldn't use them. To do that the computer requires rules enabling it to draw on just those [ rules] which are relevant in each particular context. Determination of relevance will have to be based on further facts and rules, but the question will again arise as to which facts and rules are relevant for making each particular determination. One could always invoke further facts and rules to answer this question, but of course these must be only the relevant ones. And so it goes. It seems that AI workers will never be able to get started here unless they can settle the problem of relevance beforehand by cataloguing types of context and listing just those facts which are relevant in each. (Dreyfus & Dreyfus, 1986, p. 80)

    17) Form and Content Are Not Fundamentally Different

   Perhaps the single most important idea to artificial intelligence is that there is no fundamental difference between form and content, that meaning can be captured in a set of symbols such as a semantic net. (G. Johnson, 1986, p. 250)

    18) The Assumption That the Mind Is a Formal System

   Artificial intelligence is based on the assumption that the mind can be described as some kind of formal system manipulating symbols that stand for things in the world. Thus it doesn't matter what the brain is made of, or what it uses for tokens in the great game of thinking. Using an equivalent set of tokens and rules, we can do thinking with a digital computer, just as we can play chess using cups, salt and pepper shakers, knives, forks, and spoons. Using the right software, one system (the mind) can be mapped into the other (the computer). (G. Johnson, 1986, p. 250)

    19) A Statement of the Primary and Secondary Purposes of Artificial Intelligence

   The primary goal of Artificial Intelligence is to make machines smarter.

   The secondary goals of Artificial Intelligence are to understand what intelligence is (the Nobel laureate purpose) and to make machines more useful (the entrepreneurial purpose). (Winston, 1987, p. 1)

    20) Mathematical Logic Provides the Basis for Theory in AI

   The theoretical ideas of older branches of engineering are captured in the language of mathematics. We contend that mathematical logic provides the basis for theory in AI. Although many computer scientists already count logic as fundamental to computer science in general, we put forward an even stronger form of the logic-is-important argument....

   AI deals mainly with the problem of representing and using declarative (as opposed to procedural) knowledge. Declarative knowledge is the kind that is expressed as sentences, and AI needs a language in which to state these sentences. Because the languages in which this knowledge usually is originally captured (natural languages such as English) are not suitable for computer representations, some other language with the appropriate properties must be used. It turns out, we think, that the appropriate properties include at least those that have been uppermost in the minds of logicians in their development of logical languages such as the predicate calculus. Thus, we think that any language for expressing knowledge in AI systems must be at least as expressive as the first-order predicate calculus. (Genesereth & Nilsson, 1987, p. viii)

    21) Perceptual Structures Can Be Represented as Lists of Elementary Propositions

   In artificial intelligence studies, perceptual structures are represented as assemblages of description lists, the elementary components of which are propositions asserting that certain relations hold among elements. (Chase & Simon, 1988, p. 490)

    22) Definitions of Artificial Intelligence

   Artificial intelligence (AI) is sometimes defined as the study of how to build and/or program computers to enable them to do the sorts of things that minds can do. Some of these things are commonly regarded as requiring intelligence: offering a medical diagnosis and/or prescription, giving legal or scientific advice, proving theorems in logic or mathematics. Others are not, because they can be done by all normal adults irrespective of educational background (and sometimes by non-human animals too), and typically involve no conscious control: seeing things in sunlight and shadows, finding a path through cluttered terrain, fitting pegs into holes, speaking one's own native tongue, and using one's common sense. Because it covers AI research dealing with both these classes of mental capacity, this definition is preferable to one describing AI as making computers do "things that would require intelligence if done by people." However, it presupposes that computers could do what minds can do, that they might really diagnose, advise, infer, and understand. One could avoid this problematic assumption (and also side-step questions about whether computers do things in the same way as we do) by defining AI instead as "the development of computers whose observable performance has features which in humans we would attribute to mental processes." This bland characterization would be acceptable to some AI workers, especially amongst those focusing on the production of technological tools for commercial purposes. But many others would favour a more controversial definition, seeing AI as the science of intelligence in general-or, more accurately, as the intellectual core of cognitive science. As such, its goal is to provide a systematic theory that can explain (and perhaps enable us to replicate) both the general categories of intentionality and the diverse psychological capacities grounded in them. (Boden, 1990b, pp. 1-2)

    23) The Computer Can Not Be a Model of the Mind

   Because the ability to store data somewhat corresponds to what we call memory in human beings, and because the ability to follow logical procedures somewhat corresponds to what we call reasoning in human beings, many members of the cult have concluded that what computers do somewhat corresponds to what we call thinking. It is no great difficulty to persuade the general public of that conclusion since computers process data very fast in small spaces well below the level of visibility; they do not look like other machines when they are at work. They seem to be running along as smoothly and silently as the brain does when it remembers and reasons and thinks. On the other hand, those who design and build computers know exactly how the machines are working down in the hidden depths of their semiconductors. Computers can be taken apart, scrutinized, and put back together. Their activities can be tracked, analyzed, measured, and thus clearly understood-which is far from possible with the brain. This gives rise to the tempting assumption on the part of the builders and designers that computers can tell us something about brains, indeed, that the computer can serve as a model of the mind, which then comes to be seen as some manner of information processing machine, and possibly not as good at the job as the machine. (Roszak, 1994, pp. xiv-xv)

    24) Computers Will Not Always Be Inferior to Human Brains

   The inner workings of the human mind are far more intricate than the most complicated systems of modern technology. Researchers in the field of artificial intelligence have been attempting to develop programs that will enable computers to display intelligent behavior. Although this field has been an active one for more than thirty-five years and has had many notable successes, AI researchers still do not know how to create a program that matches human intelligence. No existing program can recall facts, solve problems, reason, learn, and process language with human facility. This lack of success has occurred not because computers are inferior to human brains but rather because we do not yet know in sufficient detail how intelligence is organized in the brain. (Anderson, 1995, p. 2)

Historical dictionary of quotations in cognitive science > Artificial Intelligence
4 метод

method, process, procedure, approach, technique, practice, tool, strategy
• Безо всяких изменений данный метод подходит для... - The method lends itself readily to...

• Более подходящим методом является... - A better technique is to...

• Более прямой метод получения величины F рассматривается в главе 9. - A more direct procedure for obtaining F is considered in Chapter 9.

• Более подходящим методом является определение... - A more satisfactory method is to establish...

• Большинство из этих более продвинутых методов требует... - Most of these more advanced methods require...

• Были предложены несколько методов. - Several techniques have been suggested.

• Было довольно нелегко разработать метод для... - It was fairly difficult to develop a method for...

• Было довольно сложно разработать метод для... - It was quite difficult to develop a method for...

• Было легко разработать метод для... - It was easy to develop a method for...

• Было относительно легко (= просто) разработать метод для... - It was relatively easy to develop a method for... (not easy on an absolute scale, but less challenging than other tasks)

• Было почти невозможно разработать метод для... - It was almost impossible to develop a method for... (so hard that we nearly failed)

• В альтернативном методе мы вычисляем... - In the alternative method we calculate...

• В данной главе мы представим метод для... - In this chapter, we shall formulate the procedure for...

• В данном приближенном методе существенно... - In this approximation procedure it is essential to...

• В качестве примера применения описанного выше метода мы показываем, что... - As an example of the method described above we show that...

• В недавние годы этот метод был улучшен посредством использования (чего-л). - In recent years the subject has been enriched by the use of...

• В основном мы следуем методу... - In essence we follow the procedure of...

• В последние годы несколько авторов отказались от этого метода. - Several authors have, in recent years, departed from this procedure.

• В своих основных чертах это был метод, использовавшийся Смитом [1]. - In essence, this was the method employed by Smith [1].

• В соответствии с методом, намеченным в Главе 1, мы... - In accordance with the method outlined in Chapter 1, we...

• В этой главе мы даем эффективный метод... - In this chapter we give an efficient method for...

• Вместо этого давайте разработаем (один) общий метод, посредством которого... - Instead, let us develop a general method whereby...

• Во многих случаях необходимо обращаться за помощью к приближенным методам. - In many cases it is necessary to resort to approximate methods.

• Возможно, безопасно применить метод... к... - It is probably safe to apply the method of... to...
•
Возможно, наилучшим методом является... - Perhaps the best approach is to...

• Все вышеупомянутые методы не применимы для малых х. - The foregoing methods all fail for small x.

• Второй метод вывода уравнения (1) формулируется следующим образом. - A second method of obtaining (1) is as follows.

• Второй метод точно согласуется с... - The latter method agrees precisely with...

• Вышеуказанным методом обнаружено (= найдено), что... - By the above method it is found that...

• Геометрически метод состоит в следующем. - Geometrically, the procedure is as follows.

• Главное преимущество данного метода заключается в том, что... - The chief advantage of the method is that...

• Главным преимуществом данного метода является его общность. - The principal advantage of the method is its generality.

• Главным преимуществом данного метода по сравнению с традиционными является то, что... - The major advantage of this procedure over the traditional method is that...

• Главным преимуществом данного метода является его простота. - The principal virtue of the method is its simplicity.

• Далее, в данном методе заранее предполагается, что... - Further, the method presupposes...

• Данное свойство является основой одного метода нахождения... - This property provides one method of determining...

• Данный метод был предложен в статье [1]. - The method was suggested by Smith, et al. [1].

• Данный метод намного точнее, чем... - The present method is much more precise than...

• Данный метод не применим для/в... - The method does not apply to...

• Данный метод невозможно применить, когда/ если... - The method is not applicable when...

• Данный метод одинаково успешно можно применять к... - The method can equally well be applied to...

• Данный метод особенно подходит в случае, когда... - The method is particularly appropriate when...

• Данный метод позволяет... - The method enables one to...

• Данный метод позволяет исследователю... - The method allows an investigator to...

• Данный метод применим к широкому классу (в широком классе)... - The method is applicable to a large class of...

• Данный метод прост и довольно интересен, однако... - This method is simple and quite interesting, but...

• Данный отчет описывает новый метод... - This report describes a new method of...

• Данным методом можно решить ряд важных практических задач. - This method enables us to solve several problems of practical importance.

• Детали этого метода можно найти в [1]. - Details of the method can be found in Smith [1].

• Для... можно применить несколько методов. - Several methods are available for...

• Для получения... был использован ряд методов. - A number of methods have been used to obtain...

• Для преодоления этой трудности был разработан один метод. - One method has been advanced for overcoming this difficulty.

• Должны быть развиты методы для измерения... - Methods should be developed for measuring...

• Достоинство этого метода состоит в том, что... - The advantage of the method is that...

• Другим недостатком этого метода является то, что... - The other disadvantage of this procedure is that...; Another disadvantage of this procedure is that...

• Его метод доказательства весьма оригинален. - The method of proof is quite ingenious.

• Единственный доступный нам в настоящее время метод - это... - The only method available to us so far is...

• Единственным известным недостатком этого метода является то, что... - The only known disadvantage of this procedure is that...

• Еще одним методом является... - Still another approach is to...

• Здесь рассматривается (один) общий метод получения этих решений. - A general method of obtaining these solutions is considered here.

• Важность наших методов состоит в том, что они будут давать... - The significance of our methods is that they will yield...

• Значительно более удобный метод состоит в том, что... - A far more convenient approach is to...

• Имеются два обычно используемых метода для... - There are two commonly used methods for...

• Имеются три метода решения такой задачи. - There are three ways of attacking such a problem.

• Интересным альтернативным методом является следующий. - An interesting alternative procedure is as follows.

• Используя данный метод, следует помнить, что... - In using this method it is well to remember that...

• Используя любой подобный метод, необходимо (помнить и т. п.)... - With any method such as this it is necessary to...

• Используя этот метод, они нашли, что... - Using the method, they found that...; Using the method, they learned that...; Using the method, they determined that...; Using the method, they discovered that...

• Используя этот новый метод, мы можем... - By this new method it will be possible to...

• Итак, мы наметим несколько методов, которые могут использоваться для того, чтобы... - We therefore outline some procedures which can be used to...

• К сожалению, этот метод оказался неприменим. - Unfortunately, the method was not applicable; The method, unfortunately, was not applicable.

• К счастью, имеется один простой и подходящий для этого метод. - Fortunately, there is a simple technique available for doing this.

• Каков недостаток этого метода? - What is the disadvantage of this procedure?

• Каковы преимущества данного метода? - What are the advantages of this procedure?

• Конечно, это могло бы быть следствием неподходящих методов. - Of course, this could reflect the use of inappropriate methods.

• Конечно, этот метод не всегда применим. - Of course, this method will not always work.

• Коротко, мы будем интересоваться методами, которые... - In short, we will inquire into the ways in which...

• Кратко опишем метод для его оценки. - A method for estimating this will be given shortly.

• Метод... должен быть применен к/в... - The method of... should apply to...

• Метод... мог бы быть надежно применен для... - The method of... could safely be applied to,..

• Метод анализа, намеченный в предыдущем абзаце, показывает... - The method of analysis outlined in the last paragraph shows...

• Метод может использоваться для оценки... - The method can be used to estimate...

• Метод обладает очевидным преимуществом... - The method possesses the obvious advantage of...

• Метод основывается на принципе, что... - This method is based on the principle that...

• Метод перестает быть достаточно точным, если... - The method ceases to be reasonably accurate if...

• Метод состоит в следующем. - The procedure is as follows.

• Метод состоит из двух шагов. - The approach is in two steps.

• Метод требует от пользователя обеспечить... - The method requires the user to provide...

• Метод, который здесь описывается, требует... - The method to be described here involves...

• Метод, который мы описали, в общем случае не подходит для... - The procedure we have described is not, in general, suitable for...

• Метод, приведенный в этом параграфе, подобным образом может быть применен к... - The method of sections may be applied in a similar way to...

• Метод, с помощью которой это было получено, известен как... - The technique by which this is achieved is known as...

• Методы, которые мы рассмотрели, позволяют нам... - The methods we have considered enable us to...

• Можно использовать множество методов. Например,... - A variety of methods may be employed, e. g.,...

• Можно ожидать, что метод обеспечит нахождение по меньшей мере одного корня. - The method can be expected to provide at least one root.

• Мы будем придерживаться этого метода. - We shall follow this method.

• Мы ввели широкий класс методов решения... - We have introduced a wide range of procedures for solving...

• Мы можем обратить метод и вывести, что... - We can reverse the process and deduce that...

• Мы наметим в общих чертах метод, основанный на... - We will outline a procedure based on...

• Мы откладываем обсуждение подобных методов до параграфа 5. - We defer the discussion of such methods to Section 5.

• Мы принимаем полностью отличный от данного метод. - We adopt an entirely different method.

• Мы проиллюстрируем данный метод для случая... - We shall illustrate the procedure for the case of...

• Мы считаем, что метод... можно применять к/в... - We believe that the method of... is applicable to...

• Мы увидим, что эти методы могут использоваться лишь тогда, когда... - It will be observed that these methods are only applicable when...

• Мы упоминаем лишь два таких метода... - We mention only two such methods of...

• На данный метод часто ссылаются как на... - This process is often referred to as...

• На самом деле оба метода используются на практике. - Both methods are in fact used in practice.

• На сегодняшний день важность этого метода заключается в том, что... - For the present, the significance of this process lies in the fact that...

• Наиболее важным преимуществом данного метода является то, что... - The primary advantage of this procedure is that...

• Наиболее просто следовать этому методу в случае... - The procedure is most simply followed for the case of...

• Наиболее часто используемые методы перечислены ниже:... - The methods that are most often used follow:...

• Наиболее широко используемые методы основываются на... - The techniques most widely used are based on...

• Наиболее широко используемый метод это тот, что был введен Смитом [1]. - The method most commonly employed is that introduced by Smith [1].

• Наш метод будет весьма существенно отличаться от данного. - Our procedure will be quite different from this.

• Нашей основной целью является описание систематических методов для... - Our first concern is to describe systematic methods for...

• Не существует систематического метода определения... - There is no systematic way of determining...

• Недостатком данного метода является то, что он требует... - The disadvantage of this procedure is that it requires...

• Недостаток этого метода можно видеть... - The flaw in this approach can be seen by...

• Несколько методов анализа были введены с помощью... - Several methods of analysis are introduced by means of...

• Ни один из этих методов не требует... - Neither of these methods requires...

• Ниже описываются два подобных метода. - Two such methods are described below.

• Обнаружилось, что данный метод (здесь) не приложим. - It turned out that the method was not applicable.

• Обнаружилось, что данный метод успешно используется в широкой области... - The method is found to be successful on a wide range of...

• Обычно считают, что Смит [1] положил начало этому методу. - Smith [1] is usually credited with originating this method.

• Обычным методом является измерение... - A common procedure is to measure...

• Один такой несколько искусственный метод занимается... - One such trick is concerned with...

• Одна элегантная версия данного метода использует... - An elegant version of this method employs...

• Однако данный метод требует предварительного знания... - However, this method presupposes a knowledge of...

• Однако лучше всего ввести этот метод, рассматривая... - However, the method is best introduced by considering...

• Однако метод может не сработать даже при отсутствии... - However, the procedure may fail even in the absence of...

• Однако мы воспользуемся здесь более общим методом, разработанным Воровичем [1]. - But we shall follow here a more general method due to Vorovich [1].

• Однако мы легко можем разработать метод для... - We can, however, easily devise a means for...

• Однако решения все еще могут быть получены при помощи чисто численных методов. - Solutions can still be obtained, however, by resorting to purely numerical methods.

• Однако существует стандартный метод работы с... - However, there is a standard method of dealing with...

• Однако этот метод не работает, будучи примененным к... - This approach, however, breaks down when applied to...

• Однако этот метод совершенно не удовлетворяет нашим целям. - This procedure, however, falls far short of our goal.

• Одним из преимуществ этого метода является то, что... - One advantage of this procedure is that...

• Одним общим недостатком данного метода является наличие... - One common drawback of this method is the presence of...

• Оказывается, данный метод первоначально появился в работах Смита [1]. - The method appears to have originated in the works of Smith [1].

• Описанная выше процедура представляет один строгий метод... - The procedure described above represents a rigorous method of...

• Описанный выше метод может быть использован для построения... - The procedure described above can be used to construct...

• Описанный здесь метод всегда приводит... - The procedure described here always yields...

• Основной слабостью метода является... - The main weakness of the method is...

• Отличительным преимуществом данного метода является то, что... - A distinct advantage of the procedure is that...

• Отличный от вышеупомянутого метод был предложен Джонсом [1]. - A different method has been given by Jones [1].

• Перед этим не имелось общепризнанного метода... - Prior to this, there was no generally accepted method of...

• Подобные методы могут использоваться в более сложных ситуациях. - Similar methods may be employed in more complicated cases.

• Подобный метод был рассмотрен Смитом [1], который... - Such a procedure has been considered by Smith [1], who...

• Подобный метод может быть принят, когда... - A similar method may be adopted when...

• Подобный метод применяется к/в... - A similar method applies to...

• Пользуясь такими методами, мы можем избежать... - By such expediencies we can avoid...

• Потенциальное преимущество данного метода состоит в том, что... - A potential advantage of this procedure lies in the fact that...

• Поэтому мы применяем слегка модифицированный метод. - We therefore adopt a slightly different method.

• Предпочтительным, однако, является метод... - The preferred method, however, is to...

• Преимущество этого метода заключается в том, что... - The advantage of this method lies in the fact that...

• Преимущество этого метода, следовательно, состоит в том, что он обеспечивает простой... - The advantage < this procedure, therefore, is that it provides a simple...

• Применение данного метода ограничено... - The application of this method is confined to...

• Применение данного метода показывает... - An application of this process shows...

• Применение данного специального метода оправдано (чем-л). - The adoption of this particular method is justified by...

• Проиллюстрируем общий метод, рассматривая... - We illustrate the general method by considering...

• Рассматриваемые до сих пор методы касаются... - The methods considered so far have been concerned with...

• Результаты всех этих методов согласуются с... - The results of all these methods are consistent with...

• Решающим недостатком этого метода является то, что... - The crucial disadvantage of this procedure is that...

• С другой стороны, этот метод даст... - On the other hand, this method will give...

• Открытие Смита сделало возможным новый метод... - Smith's discovery made possible a new method of...

• Самым простым из таких методов является (метод)... - The simplest such method is...

• Следовательно, необходимо развить общий метод для... - It is, therefore, necessary to devise a general method for...

• Следует подчеркнуть, что этот метод должен использоваться только если... - It is to be emphasized that this method should be used only; if...

• Следует уделить внимание методам... - Attention should be given to methods of...

• Следующее рассуждение иллюстрирует метод... - The following treatment illustrates the method of...

• Следующим недостатком этого метода является то, что... - A further disadvantage of this procedure is that...

• Смит [lj обнаружил метод для... - Smith [1] discovered a method for...

• Смит [1] предложил метод вычисления... - Smith [l] has proposed a method of calculating...

• Смит [1] применил этот метод к... - Smith [1] has applied this method to.,.

• Стандартным методом является следующий. - The standard procedure is as follows.

• Таким образом, мы имеем метод, который позволяет... - Thus we have a method which yields...

• Тем не менее, развитые нами методы обеспечивают основу для... - However, the methods we have developed provide a basis for...

• Теперь мы (полностью) готовы использовать методы, разработанные во втором параграфе. - We are now ready to use the methods of Section 2.

• Теперь мы обсудим систематические методы, которые f можно использовать в/ при... - We now discuss systematic methods which can be applied to...

• Теперь мы применим метод Римана, чтобы... - We now apply Riemann's method in order to...

• Только что описанный метод известен как... - The procedure we have described is known as...

• Тот же метод можно применять в/к... - The same method may be applied to...

• Удобным методом достижения необходимой цели является... - A convenient way to accomplish this is to...

• Усовершенствованные экспериментальные методы сделали возможным... - Refined experimental methods have made it possible to...

• Фундаментальным преимуществом этого метода является то, что... - A fundamental advantage of this procedure is that...

• Хотя этот метод и несколько необычен, он справедлив (= работает) как и любой из известных методов. - Although this method is somewhat unorthodox, it is as valid as any of the more familiar methods.

• Центральной идеей, на которой основывался подход Смита [1], была... - The essential idea behind Smith's approach was that...

• Чтобы воспользоваться преимуществами данного метода, необходимо... - In order to take advantage of this procedure, one must...

• Чтобы проиллюстрировать применение метода, мы... - То illustrate the process we...

• Эдисон изобрел новый метод для... - Edison invented a new method for...

• Эдисон обдумывал новый метод для... - Edison devised a new method for...

• Эти методы вводятся в следующем параграфе. - These methods are introduced in the next section.

• Эти методы весьма громоздки. - These processes are tedious.

• Эти методы настолько чувствительны, что... - These methods are so sensitive that...

• Эти методы нельзя применять в случае, когда... - These methods are not applicable in the case of...

• Эти методы очень чувствительны к малым изменениям в... - These methods are very sensitive to small changes in...

• Эти методы получают своих сторонников, так как... - These methods attract proponents because...

• Этим методом (= На этом пути) мы можем получить (вывести и т. п.)... - In this way we can arrive at...

• Это будет объяснено примерами, когда мы будем изучать метод... - This point will be clarified by examples when we study the method of...

• Это известный метод, принятый во многих работах... - This is a familiar procedure, undertaken in many studies of...

• Это иллюстрирует важный метод... - This illustrates an important method of...

• Это можно увидеть двумя методами. - This can be seen in two ways.

• Это несущественный недостаток метода, поскольку... - This is not a serious defect of the method because...

• Это приводит к полезным методам обращения с... - This leads to useful ways of dealing with...

• Это простой метод, который можно проиллюстрировать, рассматривая... - This is a simple procedure which can be illustrated by considering...

• Этот метод аналогичен использованному в... - The procedure is similar to that used in...

• Этот метод был описан Смитом [1]. - The method has been described by Smith [1].

• Этот метод был последовательно доведен до полной эффективности Смитом [3]. - This method was subsequently brought to full fruition by Smith [3].

• Этот метод вполне очевиден. - This procedure is quite straightforward.

• Этот метод доказательства довольно общий и применим к... - The method of proof is quite general and applies to...

• Этот метод известен как... - The procedure is known as...

• Этот метод имеет следующие недостатки. - The procedure has the following disadvantages.

• Этот метод интересен по следующей причине. - This method is of interest for the following reason.

• Этот метод легко адаптируется к/ для... - This procedure is readily adaptable to...

• Этот метод легко понять, замечая, что... - The process is easily understood by noting that...

• Этот метод лучше всего иллюстрируется примером. - The procedure is best illustrated by an example.

• Этот метод наиболее успешен в случае, когда он применяется в... - The method is most successful when applied to...

• Этот метод очевидным образом может быть распространен на (случай)... - This process can clearly be extended to...

• Этот метод принимается, поскольку... - This approach is adopted because...

• Этот метод являлся стандартным в течение многих лет. Несмотря на более новые разработки он будет использоваться и далее. - This approach has been standard for many years, and will continue to be of great use regardless of newer developments.

• Этот технически простой метод действительно требует... - This technically simple method does require...

Русско-английский словарь научного общения > метод
5 any

any [ˈenɪ]

1. adjective

   a.

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► The construction not... any is generally translated in French by pas... de.

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• I haven't got any money je n'ai pas d'argent

► hardly any

• I have hardly any money left il ne me reste presque plus d'argent

• hardly any people came presque personne n'est venu

• there's hardly any danger il n'y a presque pas de danger► without any sans

• without any difficulty sans la moindre difficulté

   b. (in questions and "if" clauses) have you got any butter? avez-vous du beurre ?

• did they find any survivors? ont-ils trouvé des survivants ?

• are there any others? y en a-t-il d'autres ?

• is there any risk? y a-t-il un risque ?

• if you see any children si vous voyez des enfants

• if you have any money si vous avez de l'argent

• if there's any problem s'il y a un problème

   c. ( = no matter which) n'importe quel ; ( = each and every) tout

• take any card you like prenez n'importe quelle carte

• come at any time venez à n'importe quelle heure

• you can come at any hour of the day or night vous pouvez venir à toute heure du jour ou de la nuit

• any pupil who breaks the rules will be punished tout élève qui enfreindra le règlement sera puni

• they eat any old thing (inf) ils mangent n'importe quoi

► any number of des quantités de

• there are any number of ways to do it il y a des quantités de façons de le faire

2. pronoun

   a. (with negative) she has two brothers but I haven't got any elle a deux frères mais moi je n'en ai pas

► hardly any

• I have hardly any left il ne m'en reste presque plus

• a lot of people booked but hardly any came beaucoup de gens avaient réservé, mais presque personne n'est venu

   b. (in questions and "if" clauses) have you got any? en avez-vous ?

• if any of you can sing si l'un d'entre vous sait chanter

• if any of them come out s'il y en a parmi eux qui sortent

• few, if any, will come il viendra peu de gens, si tant est qu'il en vienne

   c. ( = no matter which one) any of those books will do n'importe lequel de ces livres fera l'affaire

3. adverb

   a. ► any + comparative

• are you feeling any better? vous sentez-vous un peu mieux ?

• if it had been any colder we'd have frozen to death si la température avait encore baissé, nous serions morts de froid

• do you want any more soup? voulez-vous encore de la soupe ?

• I couldn't do that any more than I could fly je ne serais pas plus capable de faire cela que de voler

   b. ► not any + comparative

• she is not any more intelligent than her sister elle n'est pas plus intelligente que sa sœur

• I can't hear him any more je ne l'entends plus

• we can't go any further nous ne pouvons pas aller plus loin

• I won't wait any longer je n'attendrai pas plus longtemps

• I can't imagine things getting any better je ne pense pas que la situation puisse s'améliorer

   c. ( = at all) the rope didn't help them any (inf) la corde ne leur a pas servi à grand-chose

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Note: When any is used as a determiner in negative sentences it is not usually translated in French: we don't have any money = nous n'avons pas d'argent

When any is used as a determiner in questions it is translated by du, de l', de la or des according to the gender and number of the noun that follows: is there any soap? = y a-t-il du savon?; is there any flour? = y a-t-il de la farine?; are there any questions? = est-ce qu'il y a des questions?

For examples and other determiner uses see I in the entry below

When any is used as a pronoun in negative sentences and in questions it is translated by en: we don't have any = nous n'en avons pas; have you got any? = est-ce que vous en avez?

For more examples and other pronoun uses see II below

For adverbial uses such as any more, any longer, any better etc see III below
['enɪ] 1.
determiner

1) (with negative, implied negative)

he hasn't got any money — il n'a pas d'argent

they never receive any letters — ils ne reçoivent jamais de lettres

they hardly ate any cake — ils n'ont presque pas mangé de gâteau

I don't want any lunch — je ne veux pas de déjeuner

I don't need any advice — je n'ai pas besoin de conseils

they couldn't get any information — ils n'ont pas obtenu la moindre information

he hasn't got any common sense — il n'a aucun bon sens

2) (in questions, conditional sentences)

is there any tea? — est-ce qu'il y a du thé?

if you have any money — si vous avez de l'argent

3) ( no matter which) n'importe quel/quelle, tout

you can have any cup you like — vous pouvez prendre n'importe quelle tasse

any information would be very useful — tout renseignement serait très utile

any complaints should be addressed to Mr Cook — pour toute réclamation adressez-vous à M. Cook

I'm ready to help in any way I can — je suis prêt à faire tout ce que je peux pour aider

I do not wish to restrict your freedom in any way — je n'ai pas l'intention d'entraver votre liberté de quelque façon que ce soit

he might return at any time — il peut revenir d'un moment à l'autre

if you should want to discuss this at any time — si à un moment ou à un autre vous souhaitez discuter de cela

come round and see me any time — passe me voir quand tu veux

I don't buy any one brand in particular — je n'achète aucune marque en particulier
2.
pronoun

1) (with negative, implied negative)

he hasn't got any — il n'en a pas

there is hardly any left — il n'en reste presque pas

she doesn't like any of them — ( people) elle n'aime aucun d'entre eux/elles; ( things) elle n'en aime aucun/-e

2) (in questions, conditional sentences)

I'd like some tea, if you have any — je voudrais du thé, si vous en avez

have any of you got a car? — est-ce que l'un/-e d'entre vous a une voiture?

are any of them blue? — y en a-t-il des bleus?

3) ( no matter which) n'importe lequel/laquelle

‘which colour would you like?’ - ‘any’ — ‘quelle couleur veux-tu?’ - ‘n'importe laquelle’

any of those pens — n'importe lequel de ces stylos

any of them could do it — n'importe qui d'entre eux/elles pourrait le faire
3.
adverb

1) ( with comparatives)

is he feeling any better? — est-ce qu'il se sent mieux?

have you got any more of these? — est-ce que vous en avez d'autres?

do you want any more wine? — voulez-vous encore du vin?

I don't like him any more than you do — je ne l'aime guère plus que toi

I don't know any more than that — c'est tout ce que je sais

he doesn't live here any more ou longer — il n'habite plus ici

I won't put up with it any longer — ça ne peut pas continuer ainsi

if we stay here any longer — si nous restons plus longtemps

can't you walk any faster? — tu ne peux pas marcher plus vite?

I can't leave any later than 6 o'clock — il faut que je parte à 6 heures au plus tard

2) (colloq) ( at all) du tout

that doesn't help me any — ça ne m'aide pas du tout

English-French dictionary > any
6 существовать

exist, be, be available, to be in existence
• Безусловно, существует много других форм... - There are, of course, many other forms of...

• В образце не существует обнаружимого уровня углерода. - No detectable level of carbon was present in the sample.

• В окрестности каждой... существует по меньшей мере одна такая точка. - There is at least one such point in the neighborhood of every...

• В основном, существуют два типа... - There are basically two types of...

• В основном, существуют две формы... - Basically, there are two forms of...

• Далее, существует не более одного... - Further, there cannot be more than one...

• Для... не существует экспериментального обоснования. - There is no experimental foundation for...

• Для этой дилеммы не существует настоящего решения. - There is no real solution to this dilemma.

• Между... и... существует (= имеется) очевидная аналогия. - There is an obvious analogy between... and...

• Могло бы случиться, что подобные элементы не существуют, так что... - It may happen that no such elements exist, so that...

• Могут существовать исключительные значения х, при которых... - There may be exceptional values of x at which...

• Не существует общей формулы для... - There is no general formula for...

• Не существует четкого различия... - No clear-cut distinction exists...

• Необходимо заметить, что существуют два способа, которыми... - It should be noted that there are two ways in which...

• Однако существует стандартный метод обращения с... - However, there is a standard method of dealing with...

• Однако существуют важные специальные случаи, когда... - There are, however, important special cases when...

• Однако, как указывает Смит [1], безусловно существуют примеры... - But, as Smith [1] points out, there are certainly examples of...

• Отметим, что существует только одно значение... - We notice that there is only one value of...

• Отсюда следует, что существует возможность для использования... - It follows that the possibility exists for the use of...

• Подобная связь существует между... - A similar connection exists between...

• Подобная ситуация существует в случае, когда... - A similar situation exists in the case of...

• При а <0 уравнения (1) не существует решения. - Equation (1) has no solution for a < 0.

• При каких условиях он существует? - Under what circumstances does it exist?

• Решение может существовать только при выполнении следующих условий. - A solution can exist only under the following conditions.

• Решения не существует при р > 0. - A solution does not exist when p > 0.

• Сегодня не существует совершенно никакого согласия относительно... - There is absolutely no agreement today on...

• Существует громадная область (чего-л). - There is an enormous range of...

• Существует много других способов нахождения... - There are many other ways of finding...

• Существует много примеров... - There are many examples of...

• Существует много причин считать, что... - There is every reason to believe that...

• Существует много способов решения данной задачи. - There are many ways to solve this problem.

• Существует несколько основных причин для... - There are several basic reasons for...

• Существует общая тенденция для... - There is a general tendency for...

• Существует общее (= распространенное) заблуждение, что... - There is a common misconception that...

• Существует простая геометрическая интерпретация этого определения. - There is a simple geometrical interpretation of this definition.

• Существует такая положительная постоянная m, не зависящая от h, что... - There exists a constant m > 0, independent of h, such that...

• Существует такое х > 0, что... - There is x > 0 such that...

• Существует тенденция для... - The tendency has been for...

• Существует теория о том, что... - It is theorized that...

• Существуют два основных неудобства... - There are two main disadvantages of...

• Существуют два случая, когда это должно быть принято во внимание. - There are two situations where this has to be taken into account:

• Существуют и другие причины, почему полезно... - There are still other reasons why it is useful to...

• Существуют несколько способов как провести введение в теорию... - There are several ways of introducing the theory of...

• Существуют различные способы определения... - There are various ways of defining...

• Существуют разные пути решения этой задачи. - There are various ways of tackling this problem.

• Существуют три основных способа, которыми это может быть сделано. - There are three principal ways in which this can be done.

• Существуют четыре причины для того, чтобы уделить внимание... - There are four reasons for devoting attention to...

• Существуют экспериментальные подтверждения для утверждения, что... - There are experimental reasons for concluding that...

Русско-английский словарь научного общения > существовать
7 Intelligence

   1) Child Development and the Intellectual Life

   There is no mystery about it: the child who is familiar with books, ideas, conversation-the ways and means of the intellectual life-before he begins school, indeed, before he begins consciously to think, has a marked advantage. He is at home in the House of intellect just as the stableboy is at home among horses, or the child of actors on the stage. (Barzun, 1959, p. 142)

   2) Comparison of Sensory- Motor Intelligence and Conceptual Thought

   It is... no exaggeration to say that sensory-motor intelligence is limited to desiring success or practical adaptation, whereas the function of verbal or conceptual thought is to know and state truth. (Piaget, 1954, p. 359)

   3) The Epistemological and Heuristic Parts of Intelligence

   ntelligence has two parts, which we shall call the epistemological and the heuristic. The epistemological part is the representation of the world in such a form that the solution of problems follows from the facts expressed in the representation. The heuristic part is the mechanism that on the basis of the information solves the problem and decides what to do. (McCarthy & Hayes, 1969, p. 466)

   4) Comparison of Intelligence in Human and Nonhuman Primates

   Many scientists implicitly assume that, among all animals, the behavior and intelligence of nonhuman primates are most like our own. Nonhuman primates have relatively larger brains and proportionally more neocortex than other species... and it now seems likely that humans, chimpanzees, and gorillas shared a common ancestor as recently as 5 to 7 million years ago.... This assumption about the unique status of primate intelligence is, however, just that: an assumption. The relations between intelligence and measures of brain size is poorly understood, and evolutionary affinity does not always ensure behavioral similarity. Moreover, the view that nonhuman primates are the animals most like ourselves coexists uneasily in our minds with the equally pervasive view that primates differ fundamentally from us because they lack language; lacking language, they also lack many of the capacities necessary for reasoning and abstract thought. (Cheney & Seyfarth, 1990, p. 4)

   5) Four Approaches to the Study of Intelligence

   Few constructs are asked to serve as many functions in psychology as is the construct of human intelligence.... Consider four of the main functions addressed in theory and research on intelligence, and how they differ from one another.

   1. Biological. This type of account looks at biological processes. To qualify as a useful biological construct, intelligence should be a biochemical or biophysical process or at least somehow a resultant of biochemical or biophysical processes.

   2. Cognitive approaches. This type of account looks at molar cognitive representations and processes. To qualify as a useful mental construct, intelligence should be specifiable as a set of mental representations and processes that are identifiable through experimental, mathematical, or computational means.

   3. Contextual approaches. To qualify as a useful contextual construct, intelligence should be a source of individual differences in accomplishments in "real-world" performances. It is not enough just to account for performance in the laboratory. On [sic] the contextual view, what a person does in the lab may not even remotely resemble what the person would do outside it. Moreover, different cultures may have different conceptions of intelligence, which affect what would count as intelligent in one cultural context versus another.

   4. Systems approaches. Systems approaches attempt to understand intelligence through the interaction of cognition with context. They attempt to establish a link between the two levels of analysis, and to analyze what forms this link takes. (Sternberg, 1994, pp. 263-264)

   5) High Intelligence Combined with the Greatest Degrees of Persistence

   High but not the highest intelligence, combined with the greatest degrees of persistence, will achieve greater eminence than the highest degree of intelligence with somewhat less persistence. (Cox, 1926, p. 187)

   6) Intelligence Is Not Marked by Definitive Criteria

   There are no definitive criteria of intelligence, just as there are none for chairness; it is a fuzzy-edged concept to which many features are relevant. Two people may both be quite intelligent and yet have very few traits in common-they resemble the prototype along different dimensions.... [Intelligence] is a resemblance between two individuals, one real and the other prototypical. (Neisser, 1979, p. 185)

   7) Synthesis of Differential and Information- Processing Approaches to the Study of Intelligence

   Given the complementary strengths and weaknesses of the differential and information-processing approaches, it should be possible, at least in theory, to synthesise an approach that would capitalise upon the strength of each approach, and thereby share the weakness of neither. (Sternberg, 1977, p. 65)

Historical dictionary of quotations in cognitive science > Intelligence
8 बहु _bahu

बहु a. (

हु or

ही f.; compar. भूयस्; super. भूयिष्ठ)

1 Much, plentiful, abundant, great; तस्मिन् बहु एतदपि Ś.4. 'even this was much for him' (was too much to be expected of him); बहु प्रष्टव्यमत्र Mu.3; अल्पस्य हेतोर्बहु हातुमिच्छन् R.2.47.

-2 Many, numerous; as in बह्वक्षर, बहुप्रकार.

-2 Frequented, repeated.

-4 Large, great.

-5 Abounding or rich in (as first member of comp.); बहुकण्टको देशः &c. ind.

1 Much, abundantly, very much, exceedingly, greatly, in a high degree.

-2 Somewhat, nearly, almost; as in बहुतृण. (किं बहुन 'why say much', 'in short'; बहु मन् to think or esteem highly, rate high, prize, value; त्वत्संभावितमात्मानं बहु मन्यामहे वयम् Ku.6.2; ययातेरिव शर्मिष्ठा भर्तुर्बहुमता भव Ś.4.7;7. 1; R.12.89; येषां च त्वं बहुमतो भूत्वा यास्यसि लाघवम् Bg.2. 35; Bk.3.53;5.84;8.12.)

-Comp. -अक्षर a. having many syllables, polysyllabic (as a word).

-अच्, -अच्क a. having many vowels, polysyllabic.

-अनर्थ a. fraught with many evils.

-अप्, -अप a. watery.

-अपत्य a.

1 having a numerous progeny.

-2 (in astrol.) promising a numerous progeny.

(-त्यः) 1 a hog.

-2 a mouse, rat. (

-त्या) a cow that has often calved.

-अपाय a. exposed to many risks; स्वगृहो- द्यानगते$पि स्निग्धैः पापं विशङ्क्यते मोहात् । किमु दुष्टबह्वपायप्रतिभय- कान्तारमध्यस्थे ॥ Pt.2.166.

-अर्थ a.

1 having many senses.

-2 having many objects.

-3 important.

-आशिन् a. voracious, gluttonous, बह्वाशी स्वल्पसन्तुष्टः सुनिद्रो लघुचेतनः । प्रभुभक्तश्च शूरश्च ज्ञातव्याः षट् शुनो गुणाः ॥ Chāṇakya. -m. N. of a son of Dhṛitarāṣṭra.

-उदकः a kind of mendicant who lives in a strange town and maintains himself with alms got by begging from door to door; cf. कुटीचक.

-उपयुक्त a. made to serve a manifold purpose; बहूप- युक्ता च बुद्धिः Dk.2.4.

-उपाय a. effective.

-ऋच् a. having many verses. (-f.) a term applied to the Ṛigveda.

-ऋच a. having many verses. (

-चः) one conversant with the Ṛigveda. (

-ची) The wife of one who studies the Ṛigveda. Hence ˚ब्राह्मणम् means the Aitareya Brāhmaṇa which belongs to the Ṛigveda; बह्वृचब्राह्मणे श्रूयते ŚB. on MS.6.3.1.

-एनस् a. very sinful.

-कर a.

1 doing much, busy, industrious.

-2 useful in many ways.

(-रः) 1 a sweeper, cleaner.

-2 a camel.

-3 the sun; बहुकरकृतात् प्रातःसंमार्जनात् N.19.13. (

-री) a broom.

-कारम् abundance; बहुकारं च सस्यानाम् Mb.12.193.21.

-कालम् ind. for a long time.

-कालीन a. of a long standing, old, ancient.

-कूर्चः a kind of cocoa-nut tree.

-क्रमः a Krama of more than three words; cf. क्रम.

-क्षम a. patient; अतो$त्र किंचिद्भवतीं बहुक्षमां द्विजाति- भावादुपपन्नचापलः Ku.5.4.

(-मः) 1 a Buddha.

-2 a Jaina deified saint.

-क्षारम् Soap; Nigh. Ratn. (

-रः) a kind of alkali.

-क्षीरा a cow giving much milk.

-गन्ध a. strong-scented. (

-न्धम्) cinnamon.

-गन्धदा musk.

-गन्धा 1 the Yūthikā creeper.

-2 a bud of the Champaka tree.

-गुण a. having many threads or qualities.

-गुरुः One who has read much but superficially; sciolist.

-गोत्रज a. having many blood relations.

-ग्रन्थिः Tamarix Indica (Mar. वेळु ?).

-च्छल a. deceitful.

-छिन्ना a species of Cocculus (Mar. गुळवेल).

-जनः a great multitude of people. ˚हितम् the common weal.

-जल्प a. garrulous, talkative, loquacious.

-ज्ञ a. knowing much, well informed, possessed of great knowledge.

-तन्त्रीक a. many-stringed (as a musical instrument).

-तृणम् anything much like grass; (hence) what is unimportant or contemptible; निदर्शनम- साराणां लघुर्बहुतृणं नरः Śi.2.5; N.22.137.

-2 abounding in grass.

-त्वक्कः, -त्वच् m. a kind of birch tree.

-द a. liberal, generous.

-दक्षिण a.

1 attended with many gifts or donations.

-2 liberal, munificent.

-दर्शक, -दर्शिन् a. prudent, circumspect; कृत्येषु वाली मेधावी राजानो बहुदर्शिनः Rām.4.2.23.

-दायिन् a. liberal, munificent, a liberal donor; Ch. Up.

-दुग्ध a. yielding much milk. (

-ग्धः) wheat. (

-ग्धा) a cow yielding much milk.

-दृश्वन् a. greatly experienced, a great observer.

-दृष्ट a. very experienced.

-दोष a.

1 having many faults or defects, very wicked or sinful.

-2 full of crimes of dangers; बहुदोषा हि शर्वरी Mk.1.58.

-दोहना yielding much milk.

-धन a. very rich, wealthy.

-धारम् 1 the thunderbolt of Indra.

-2 a diamond.

-धेनुकम् a great number of milch-cows.

-नाडिकः the body.

-नाडीकः 1 day.

-2 pillar; L. D. B.

-नादः a conch-shell.

-पत्नीकता polygamy.

-पत्रः an onion. (

-त्रम्) talc. (

-त्री) the holy basil.

-पद्, -पाद्, -पाद m. the fig-tree.

-पुष्पः 1 the coral tree.

-2 the Nimba tree.

-पर्वन् m. (see -ग्रन्थिः).

-प्रकार a. of many kinds, various, manifold. (

-रम्) ind. in many ways, manifoldly.

-प्रकृति a. consisting of many pri- mary parts or verbal elements (as a compound).

-प्रज a. having many children, prolific.

(-जः) 1 a hog.

-2 the munja grass.

-प्रज्ञ a. very wise.

-प्रतिज्ञ a.

1 comprising many statements or assertions, compli- cated.

-2 (in law) involving many counts, as a plaint; बहुप्रतिज्ञं यत् कार्यं व्यवहारेषु निश्चितम् । कामं तदपि गृह्णीयाद् राजा तत्त्वबुभुत्सया Mitā.

-प्रत्यर्थिक a. having many opponents.

-प्रत्यवाय a. connected with many difficul- ties.

-प्रद a. exceedingly liberal, a munificent donor.

-प्रपञ्च a. very diffuse or prolix.

-प्रसूः the mother of many children.

-प्रेयसी a. having many loved ones.

-फल a. rich in fruits. (

-लः) the Kadamba tree. (

-ली) the opposite-leaved fig-tree.

-बलः a lion.

-बीजम् the fruit of Anona Reticulata (Mar. सीताफल). (

-जा) a kind of Musa (Mar. रानकेळ).

-बोलक a. a great talker; Buddh.

-भाग्य a. very lucky or fortunate.

-भाषिन् a. garrulous, talkative.

-भाष्यम् talkativeness, garrulity; उत्थानेन जयेत्तन्द्री वितर्कं निश्चयाज्जयेत् । मौनेन बहुभाष्यं च शौर्येण च भयं त्यजेत् ॥ Mb.12.274.11.

-भुजा an epithet of Durgā.

-भूमिक a. having many floors or stories.

-भोग्या a prostitute.

-भोजिन् a. voracious.

-मञ्जरी the holy basil.

-मत a.

1 highly esteemed or prized, valued, respected; येषां च त्वं बहुमतो भूत्वा यास्यसि लाघवम् Bg.2.35.

-2 having many different opinions.

-मतिः f. great value or estimation; कान्तानां बहुमतिमाययुः पयोदाः Ki.7. 15.

-मध्यग a. belonging to many; न निर्हारं स्त्रियः कुर्युः कुटुम्बाद्बहुमध्यगात् Ms.9.199.

-मलम् lead.

-मानः great respect or regard, high esteem; पुरुषबहुमानो विगलितः Bh.3.9; वर्तमानकवेः कालिदासस्य क्रियायां कथं परिषदो बहुमानः M.1; V.1.2; Ku.5.31. (

-नम्) a gift given by a superior to an inferior.

-मान्य a. respectable, esteem- able; Kull. on Ms.2.117.

-माय a. artful, deceitful. treacherous; परदेशभयाद्भीता बहुमाया नपुंसकाः । स्वदेशे निधनं यान्ति Pt.1.321.

-मार्गः a place where many roads meet.

-मार्गगा 1 N. of the river Ganges; तद्युक्तं बहुमार्गगां मम पुरो निर्लज्ज वोढुस्तव Ratn.1.3.

-2 a wanton or un- chaste woman.

-मार्गी a place where several roads meet.

-मुख a.

1 much, excessive; अस्या भर्तुर्बहुमुखमनुरागम् Ś.6.

-2 Speaking variously.

-मूत्र a. suffering from diabetes.

-मूर्ति a. multiform, variously shaped. (

-र्तिः f.) the wild cotton-shrub.

-मूर्धन् m. an epithet of Viṣṇu.

-मूला Asparagus Racemosus (शतावरी).

-मूल्य a. costly, high-priced. (

-ल्यम्) a large sum of money, heavy or costly price.

-मृग a. abounding in deer.

-रजस् a. very dusty.

-रत्न a. rich in jewels.

-रस a. juicy, succulent. (

-सः) sugar-cane.

-राशि a. (in arith.) consisting of many terms. (

-शिः) m. a series of many terms.

-रूप a.

1 many-formed, multiform, manifold.

-2 variegated, spotted, chequered; वैश्वदेवं बहुरूपं हि राजन् Mb.14.1.3.

(-पः) 1 a lizard, chameleon.

-2 hair.

-3 the sun.

-4 N. of Śiva.

-5 of Viṣṇu.

-6 of Brahmā.

-7 of the god of love.

-रूपक a. multiform, manifold.

-रेतस् m. an epithet of Brahmā.

-रोमन् a. hairy. shaggy. (-m.) a sheep.

-लवणम् a soil impregnated with salt.

-वचनम् the plural number (in gram.); द्व्यैकयोर्द्विवचनैकवचने, बहुषु बहुवचनम्.

-वर्ण a. many-coloured.

-वादिन् a. garrulous.

-वारम् ind. many times, often.

-वारः, -वारकः Cordia Myxa (Mar. भोकर).

-वार्षिक a. lasting for many years.

-विक्रम a. very powerful, heroic, a great warrior.

-विघ्न a. presenting many difficulties, attended with many dangers.

-विध a. of many kinds, manifold, diverse.

-वी(बी)जम् the custard apple.

-वीर्य a. very powerful or efficacious. (

-र्यः) N. of various plants (such as Terminalia Bel- lerica, Mar. बेहडा).

-व्ययिन् a. lavish, prodigal, spendthrift.

-व्यापिन् a. far-spreading, wide.

-व्रीहि a. possessing much rice; तत्पुरुष कर्मधारय येनाहं स्यां बहुव्रीहिः Udb. (where it is also the name of the compound). (

-हिः) one of the four principal kinds of compounds in Sanskrit. In it, two or more nouns in apposition to each other are compouded, the attributive member (whether a noun or an adjective) being placed first, and made to qualify another substantive, and neither of the two members separately, but the sense of the whole compound, qualifies that substantive; cf. अन्य- पदार्थप्रधानो बहुव्रीहिः. This compound is adjectival in character, but there are several instances of Bahuvrīhi compounds which have come to be regarded and used as nouns (their application being restricted by usage to particular individuals); i. e. चक्रपाणि, शशिशेखर, पीताम्बर, चतुर्मुख, त्रिनेत्र, कुसुमशर &c.

-शत्रुः a sparrow.

-शल्यः a species of Khadira.

-शस्त a. very good, right or happy.

-शाख a. having many branches or ramifica- tions.

-शिख a. having many points.

-शृङ्गः an epithet of Viṣṇu.

-श्रुत a.

1 well-informed, very learned तस्मिन् पुरवरे हृष्टा धर्मात्मानो बहुश्रुताः Rām. H.1.1; Pt.2. 1; R.15.36.

-2 well-versed in the Vedas; गुरुं वा बाल- वृद्धौ वा ब्राह्मणं वा बहुश्रुतम् । आततायिनमायान्तं हन्यादेवाविचारयन् ॥ Ms.8.35. (

-तिः) the occurrence of the plural in a text.

-संख्याक a. numerous.

-सत्त्व a. abounding in animals.

-संतति a. having a numerous progeny. (

-तिः) a kind of bamboo.

-सार a. possessed of great pith or essence, substantial. (

-रः) the Khadira tree.

-साहस्र a. amounting to many thousands.

-सूः 1 a mother of many children.

-2 a cow.

-सूतिः f.

1 a mother of many children.

-2 a cow that often calves.

-स्वन a. vociferous. (

-नः) an owl.

-स्वामिक a. owned by many.

Sanskrit-English dictionary > बहु _bahu
9 несколько

several, some, a few, more than one
• А теперь мы обсудим это несколько полнее. - We now give a somewhat fuller discussion.

• В нескольких следующих примерах мы будем предполагать для удобства, что... - In the next few examples we will assume for convenience that...

• Данный процесс может быть проиллюстрирован несколькими примерами. - The process may be illustrated by a few examples.

• Его вязкость на несколько порядков больше (= выше)... - Its viscosity is several orders (of magnitude) greater than...

• В его обязанности входит руководство несколькими аспирантами. - His duties include advising several phd students.

• Можно было бы сказать несколько слов относительно... - A few words may be said here about...

• Мы можем упомянуть лишь несколько из... - We can touch on only a few of the...

• Мы проделаем это в несколько шагов, первым из которых является... - We carry this out in several stages, the first of which is...

• Мы уже несколько раз сообщали о нашем намерении (изучить, развить и т. п.)... - We have indicated a few times our intention to...

• Несколько более глубокая теорема была доказана Смитом [1]. - A slightly deeper theorem is proved by Smith [1].

• Несколько более полезная диаграмма получается... - A somewhat more useful design curve is obtained by...

• Несколько более трудный пример предоставляется... - A more difficult example is provided by...

• Несколько иное рассуждение показывает, что... - A slightly different argument shows that...

• Несколько исследователей рассматривали эффект... - A few investigators have considered the effect of... (= Several investigators have considered the effect of... )

• Несколько примеров приводятся в [2]. - Several examples are given in [2].

• Несколько проще результат получается, если мы... - A somewhat simpler result is obtained if we...

• Однако имеются несколько специальных случаев, в которых/ когда... - There are, however, a few specific cases in which...

• Относительно приведенного выше соотношения (2) можно сделать несколько замечаний. - A few remarks may be made in connection with (2) above.

• Приведенные выше предположения имеют несколько ограничительный характер. - The above assumptions are somewhat restrictive.

• Стоимость может быть несколько снижена. - The cost can be lowered somewhat.

• Формула (4) может быть выражена в несколько отличной форме посредством... - The result (4) may be expressed in a slightly different form by means of...

• Эти примеры несколько сбивают с толку. - These examples are somewhat misleading.

• Это преобразование может быть приспособлено для нашей задачи несколькими способами. - This transformation can be adapted to our Problem 2 in several ways.

Русско-английский словарь научного общения > несколько
10 old

əuld
adjective

1) (advanced in age: an old man; He is too old to live alone.) viejo, mayor

2) (having a certain age: He is thirty years old.) de edad

3) (having existed for a long time: an old building; Those trees are very old.) viejo, antiguo

4) (no longer useful: She threw away the old shoes.) viejo

5) (belonging to times long ago: old civilizations like that of Greece.) antiguo

•

- old age
- old boy/girl
- old-fashioned
- old hand
- old maid
- the old

old adj

1. viejo

throw away those old trousers tira ese pantalón viejo

we're old friends somos viejos amigos

2. mayor

the Pope is very old el Papa es muy mayor

3. antiguo

an old building un edificio antiguo

how old...? ¿cuántos años...?

how old are you? ¿cuántos años tienes?

to be... years old tener... años

I'm thirteen years old tengo trece años

old

tr[əʊld]

adjective

1 (person) viejo,-a, mayor

■ an old man un anciano, un hombre mayor, un viejo

■ I'm getting old me estoy haciendo viejo

■ she's a year older than you te lleva un año, es un año mayor que tú, tiene un año más que tú

2 (thing) viejo,-a, antiguo,-a; (wine) añejo,-a; (clothes) usado,-a

■ the old part of the city el casco antiguo de la ciudad

■ the good old days los viejos tiempos

3 (long-established, familiar) viejo,-a

■ he's an old friend es un viejo amigo

4 (former) antiguo,-a

■ in my old job en mi antiguo trabajo

5 (experienced, veteran) viejo,-a, veterano,-a

noun the old

1 las personas nombre femenino plural mayores, los ancianos nombre masculino plural

\

SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALL

any old how de cualquier manera

any old thing cualquier cosa

as old as the hills más viejo,-a que Matusalén

how old are you? ¿cuántos años tienes?, ¿qué edad tienes?

of old de antaño

to be... years old tener... años

to be old hat no ser ninguna novedad

old age vejez nombre femenino

old age pensioner pensionista nombre masulino o femenino (de la tercera edad)

old boy (ex-pupil) ex alumno, antiguo alumno 2 (old man) abuelo, viejecito 3 (form of address) viejo

old folk ancianos nombre masculino plural

old girl (ex-pupil) ex alumna, antigua alumna 2 (old woman) abuela, viejecita

old hand veterano,-a

old lady (woman) vieja, señora mayor 2 (mother) vieja 3 (wife) parienta

old maid solterona

old man (father) viejo 2 (husband) marido

old people's home residencia de ancianos

Old Testament Antiguo Testamento

old wives' tale cuento de viejas

the Old World el viejo mundo

old ['o:ld] adj

1) ancient: antiguo

old civilizations: civilizaciones antiguas

2) familiar: viejo

old friends: viejos amigos

the same old story: el mismo cuento

3) (indicating a certain age)

he's ten years old: tiene diez años (de edad)

4) aged: viejo, anciano

an old woman: una anciana

5) former: antiguo

her old neighborhood: su antiguo barrio

6) worn-out: viejo, gastado

old n

1)

the old : los viejos, los ancianos

2)

in the days of old : antaño, en los tiempos antiguos

old

adj.

• anciano, -a adj.

• antiguo, -a adj.

• añejo, -a adj.

• añoso, -a adj.

• rancio, -a adj.

• viejo, -a adj.

I əʊld
adjective

1) ( of certain age)

he's 10 years old — tiene 10 años

how old are you? — ¿cuántos años tienes?, ¿qué edad tienes?

she's two years older than me — me lleva dos años, es dos años mayor que yo

a month-old puppy — un cachorro de un mes

a group of six-year-/fifteen-year-olds — un grupo de niños de seis años/de quinceañeros

she's not old enough to go to school — no tiene edad de ir a la escuela

you're old enough to know better! — a tu edad...!

2) ( not young) mayor; ( less polite) viejo

old people feel the cold more — los ancianos or las personas mayores or de edad sienten más el frío

to get o grow old/older — envejecer*

doesn't she look old! — qué vieja or avejentada está!

3)

a) ( not new) <clothes/car/remedy> viejo; <city/civilization> antiguo; < customadition> viejo, antiguo

it's a very old family — es una familia de abolengo

b) (longstanding, familiar) (before n) <friend/enemy/rivalry> viejo; <injury/problem> antiguo

it's the same old story — es la misma historia de siempre

4) (former, previous) (before n) antiguo

5) Old ( Ling) (before n) antiguo

6) (colloq) (before n)

a) (as intensifier)

just wear any old thing — ponte cualquier cosa

this book is a load of old rubbish — este libro es una porquería (fam)

b) ( in familiar references)

good old John! — el bueno de John! (Esp)

lucky old you! — qué suerte tienes!

II

noun

1) ( old people) (+ pl vb)

the old — los ancianos, las personas mayores or de edad; ( less polite) los viejos

2) ( former times) (liter)

in days of old — antaño (liter), antiguamente

[ǝʊld]
1. ADJ
(compar older) (superl oldest)
1) (=not young) [person] viejo; (more respectful) mayor, anciano; [animal] viejo; [civilization] antiguo

an old man — un viejo, un anciano

an old woman — una vieja, una anciana

he's a bit of an old woman — es un poco Doña Remilgos

an old lady — una señora mayor or anciana

a little old lady — una viejecita, una ancianita

old people, old folks * — los viejos; (more respectful) los ancianos, las personas mayores

to live to be old — llegar a una edad avanzada

if I live to be that old — si llego a esa edad

• to be old before one's time — hacerse mayor antes de tiempo

• to be old beyond one's years — ser maduro para la edad que se tiene

• he's old for his age or for his years — [child] es muy maduro para su edad

that dress is too old for you — ese vestido es para alguien mayor que tú, ese vestido no es apropiado para tu edad

• to get or grow old — envejecer

he's afraid of getting or growing old — tiene miedo a envejecer

he's getting old — se está haciendo viejo

to get older — envejecer

as we get older... — según envejecemos...

• to look old — parecer viejo, estar avejentado

she's not as old as she looks — no es tan vieja como parece

- as old as Methuselah

- he/she has an old head on young shoulders
dirty 1., 4), fogey, fool, teach 1., 2)
2) (relating to ages)

how old are you? — ¿cuántos años tienes?, ¿qué edad tienes?

Laura is six weeks/months/years old — Laura tiene seis semanas/meses/años

she's three years old today — hoy cumple tres años

he'll be six weeks old tomorrow — cumplirá seis semanas mañana

a six-week-old baby — un niño de seis semanas

a five-year-old (child) — un niño de cinco años

the building is 300 years old — el edificio tiene 300 años

the company is a century old — la compañía existe desde hace un siglo

at ten months old she was already walking — cuando tenía diez meses ya andaba

she is two years older than you — tiene dos años más que tú

you'll understand when you are older — cuando seas mayor lo entenderás

when you are older it's harder to change jobs — cuando eres mayor es más difícil cambiar de trabajo

their oldest child — su hijo mayor

she is the oldest — es la mayor

she is the oldest teacher in the school — es la profesora de más edad del colegio

• to be old enough for sth/to do sth — tener edad para algo/para hacer algo

she's old enough to go alone — ya tiene edad para ir sola

he's old enough to know better — (to have more sense) a su edad debería tener más sentido común, ya es mayorcito para saber lo que está bien y lo que está mal; (to behave better) a su edad debería portarse mejor

she's old enough to be your mother — con la edad que tiene, podría ser tu madre

• you're as old as you feel — eres tan viejo como te sientes
generation
3) (=not new)

a) (=antique) [painting, book, building] antiguo; [wine] añejo

the old part of Glasgow — la parte vieja or antigua de Glasgow

- be as old as the hills
chip 1., 1)
b) [clothes, furniture] (=tatty) viejo; (=worn) usado, gastado

it's too old to be any use — es demasiado viejo para servir de algo

4) (=long-standing) viejo

he's an old friend of mine — es un viejo amigo mío

that's an old problem — eso no es nada nuevo, eso ya viene de atrás

it's a very old tradition/custom — es una vieja tradición/costumbre, es una tradición/costumbre antigua

the old ways survived in some country areas — las viejas costumbres perduraron en algunas partes del campo

an old family — una familia de abolengo
score 1., 4)
5) (=former) antiguo

my old flat was very small — mi antiguo piso era muy pequeño

• the old country — la madre patria, la patria

• in the old days — antaño, en los viejos tiempos

the good old days — los viejos tiempos

• it's not as good as our old one — no es tan bueno como el anterior

• my old school — mi antiguo or viejo colegio

of the old school — (fig) de la vieja escuela

• for old times' sake — por los viejos tiempos

6) * (expressing affection)

here's old Peter coming — ahí viene el bueno de Peter

good old Mike! — ¡este Mike!

come on, old man! † — ¡venga hombre!

• she's a funny old thing — es rarita

• my or the old lady or woman — (=mother) mi or la vieja **; (=wife) la parienta *

• my or the old man — (=father) mi or el viejo **; (=husband) mi marido

7) * (as intensifier)

what a load of old rubbish! — ¡qué cantidad de chorradas! *

• any old, any old thing will do — cualquier cosa sirve

it's not just any old painting, it's a Rembrandt — no es un cuadro cualquiera, es un Rembrandt

just put it any old where — ponlo en cualquier parte

he leaves his things any old how — deja sus cosas de cualquier manera

I parked the car any old how — aparqué el coche de cualquier manera

• we had a high old time — hacía tiempo que no nos divertíamos tanto

• it's the same old story — es la misma historia de siempre

2. N

1)

the old — los viejos mpl, los ancianos mpl

their music appeals to old and young alike — su música gusta tanto a jóvenes como a viejos

the circus appeals to old and young alike — el circo gusta igualmente a grandes y pequeños

2) liter

• of old: to know sb of old — conocer a algn desde hace tiempo

knights/legends of old — los caballeros/las leyendas de antaño liter

in days of old — antaño liter, en los tiempos antiguos

3.

CPD

old age N — vejez f

in one's old age — en la vejez

perhaps I'm going soft in my old age — quizá me estoy ablandando al hacerme viejo or en la vejez

he is unable to travel much because of old age — no puede viajar mucho debido a su edad
ripe
old age pension N — subsidio m de la tercera edad, pensión f

old age pensioner N — pensionista mf, jubilado(-a) m / f

the Old Bailey N — (Brit) el tribunal de lo penal de más alto rango de Inglaterra

the Old Bill ** N — (Brit) la poli *, la pasma (Sp) **

old boy N — (=former pupil) ex-alumno m, antiguo alumno m; † * (=old chap) amigo m mío

the old-boy network — esp pej el amiguismo

the old brigade N — los veteranos

old campaigner N — veterano m

old chestnut * N — (=joke) broma f muy pasada; (=story) historia f muy pasada

Old Dominion N — (US) el estado de Virginia

Old English N — inglés m antiguo

See:

see cultural note ANGLO-SAXON in Anglo-Saxon

Old English sheepdog N — perro m pastor ovejero inglés

old flame N — antiguo amor m

old folks' home N — residencia f de ancianos

old girl N — (=former pupil) ex-alumna f, antigua alumna f; (=elderly woman) * † señora f, abuelita * f

Old Glory N — (US) bandera de los Estados Unidos

old gold N — oro m viejo

the old guard N — la vieja guardia

old hand N — veterano(-a) m / f

he's an old hand at photography — es un veterano de la fotografía

old lag * N — (=old prisoner) (preso(-a) m / f) veterano(-a) m / f; (=ex-prisoner) ex-presidiario(-a) m / f

old maid N — pej solterona f

she'll end up an old maid — se quedará para vestir santos

Old Man River N — (US) el río Mississippi

old master N — (=work) obra f maestra de la pintura clásica; (=painter) gran maestro m de la pintura clásica

old money N — dinero m de familia

Old Nick * N — hum Pedro Botero * hum

old people's home N — residencia f de ancianos

old salt N — (Naut) viejo lobo m de mar

old school tie N — (Brit) (lit) corbata con los colores representativos de la escuela a la que alguien ha asistido

the old school tie — (fig) el amiguismo

old soldier N — veterano m, excombatiente m

the Old South N — (US) el viejo sur

old stager N — veterano(-a) m / f

Old Testament N — Antiguo Testamento m

old wives' tale N — cuento m de viejas, patraña f

the Old World N — el Viejo Mundo, el Viejo Continente
old-world OLD
Position of "viejo" and "antiguo"
Viejo and antiguo can go either before or after the noun, depending on their meaning.
Viejo ► Put viejo {after} the noun when you are referring to age:
... boxes full of old clothes...... cajas llenas de ropa vieja...
Old cars are the ones that pollute the environment most Son los coches viejos los que más contaminan el medio ambiente ► Put viejo {before} the noun when you mean old in the sense of "long-standing" or "well-established":
They got in touch with an old friend Se pusieron en contacto con un viejo amigo
Many of the old customs have changed with the passing of time Muchas de las viejas costumbres han cambiado con el paso del tiempo
Antiguo ► Generally put antiguo {after} the noun to translate ancient or old in the sense of "ancient":
... one of Canada's most beautiful old houses...... una de las más bellas casas antiguas de Canadá...
... the old part of the town...... el barrio antiguo de la ciudad... ► Put antiguo {before} the noun to translate former or old in the sense of "former":
My old colleagues are no longer my friends Mis antiguos compañeros ya no son mis amigos
... the former British colonies...... las antiguas colonias británicas... For further uses and examples, see main entry
* * *

I [əʊld]
adjective

1) ( of certain age)

he's 10 years old — tiene 10 años

how old are you? — ¿cuántos años tienes?, ¿qué edad tienes?

she's two years older than me — me lleva dos años, es dos años mayor que yo

a month-old puppy — un cachorro de un mes

a group of six-year-/fifteen-year-olds — un grupo de niños de seis años/de quinceañeros

she's not old enough to go to school — no tiene edad de ir a la escuela

you're old enough to know better! — a tu edad...!

2) ( not young) mayor; ( less polite) viejo

old people feel the cold more — los ancianos or las personas mayores or de edad sienten más el frío

to get o grow old/older — envejecer*

doesn't she look old! — qué vieja or avejentada está!

3)

a) ( not new) <clothes/car/remedy> viejo; <city/civilization> antiguo; <custom/tradition> viejo, antiguo

it's a very old family — es una familia de abolengo

b) (longstanding, familiar) (before n) <friend/enemy/rivalry> viejo; <injury/problem> antiguo

it's the same old story — es la misma historia de siempre

4) (former, previous) (before n) antiguo

5) Old ( Ling) (before n) antiguo

6) (colloq) (before n)

a) (as intensifier)

just wear any old thing — ponte cualquier cosa

this book is a load of old rubbish — este libro es una porquería (fam)

b) ( in familiar references)

good old John! — el bueno de John! (Esp)

lucky old you! — qué suerte tienes!

II

noun

1) ( old people) (+ pl vb)

the old — los ancianos, las personas mayores or de edad; ( less polite) los viejos

2) ( former times) (liter)

in days of old — antaño (liter), antiguamente

English-spanish dictionary > old
11 задача

(-= проблема, задание) problem, task
• Аналитически эта задача весьма трудноразрешима. - Prom an analytical point of view, the problem is quite formidable.

• В связи с данной задачей стоит заметить, что... - In connection with this problem it is worth noting that...

• В такой постановке эта задача не может быть решена. - Thus stated, the problem can't be solved.

• Вместо того, чтобы пытаться сделать общее исследование задачи, мы... - Rather than attempt a general investigation of the problem, we...

• Возвращаясь к нашей первоначальной задаче, мы видим, что... - Returning to our original problem, we see that...

• Возможно, что первой серьезной попыткой решить задачу была... - Perhaps the first serious attempt to solve the problem was...

• Давайте рассмотрим эту задачу о... еще раз. - Let us reconsider the problem of...

• Давайте решим еще одну более простую задачу. - Let us work one more simple problem.

• Далее наша задача состоит в том, чтобы определить... - Our problem is then to determine...

• Данная задача решается при помощи... - The problem is solved by means of...

• Для любой сформулированной задачи всегда можно... - In any given problem, one can always...

• До сих пор мы не упоминали о задаче... - We have not yet mentioned the problem of...

• Другие подходы к той же задаче будут намечены ниже. - The different approaches to this problem will be outlined below.

• Другой способ решения задачи начинается с уравнения... - Another attack on the problem starts from the equation...

• Задача конкретизируется следующим образом. - The problem is specified as follows.

• Задача состоит в нахождении численных решений для... - The problem is to find numerical solutions for...

• Задача усложняется тем обстоятельством, что... - The problem is complicated by the fact that...

• Задача, которая будет рассматриваться в данном параграфе... - The problem to be considered in this section...

• Затем задача сводится к выводу формулы для... - The problem is then to deduce a formula for...

• Значительно более простая, однако имеющая практический интерес задача состоит в вычислении... - A much simpler problem, but one of practical interest, is to calculate...

• Известно, что эта задача является достаточно трудной, хотя... - This problem is known to be quite difficult, although...

• Имеются три способа (= метода) решения такой задачи. - There are three ways of attacking such a problem.

• Используя эту простую задачу, мы сможем проиллюстрировать... - With this simple problem we will be able to illustrate...

• Математически можно поставить задачу следующим образом. - The problem can be stated mathematically as follows.

• Мы немедленно обобщим задачу следующим образом:... - We immediately generalize the problem as follows:...

• Мы рассматриваем задачу нахождения... - We are concerned with the problem of finding the...

• Мы рассматриваем здесь задачу, которая... - We are dealing here with a problem which is...

• Мы также уже обсудили эту задачу в главе 2. - We have also discussed this problem in Chapter 2.

• Мы часто будем встречаться с задачей (нахождения, определения и т. п.)... - We shall often be faced with the problem of...

• Наша задача состоит в том, чтобы найти... - Our task now is to find...

• Нашей задачей является нахождение общей формулы для... - The problem is to find a general formula for...

• Некоторые из этих задач возникают из (того) факта, что..., - Some of the problems arise from the fact that...

• Непосредственное обобщение является нашей следующей задачей. - A direct extension is the following problem.

• Общую задачу можно поставить математически в терминах... - The general problem can be stated mathematically in terms of...

• Обычно это сложная задача. - This is usually a tricky problem.

• Один класс интересных задач посвящен... - A class of interesting problems is concerned with...

• Одна из интерпретаций этой задачи состоит в том, что... - One interpretation of this problem is that...

• Однако задача становится много проще, если... - The problem, however, becomes much simpler if...

• Однако подавляющее большинство практических задач рассматривает... - However, the vast majority of practical problems are concerned with...

• Она (задача) будет иметь решение тогда и только тогда, когда... - This will have a solution if and only if...

• Основной вопрос состоит в том, как мы должны подойти к задаче... - The main question is how we should approach the problem of...

• Позднее мы узнаем как решать более практические задачи. - We shall learn how to treat more practical problems later.

• Последний результат особенно полезен для задач, имеющих дело с... - The above result is particularly useful for problems involving...

• Прежде чем рассматривать задачу, удобно напомнить, что... - Before considering the problem it will be convenient to recall...

• При решении данной задачи важно отметить, что... - In solving this problem it is important to notice that...

• Решения этой задачи легко вытекают из... - Solutions of this problem follow readily from...

• Следующие задачи помогут показать важность... - The following problems will help show that importance of...

• Строгое рассмотрение задачи показывает, что... - A rigorous treatment of the problem shows that...

• Существенный интерес представляет задача определения... - It is a problem of considerable interest to determine...

• Существует много способов решения данной задачи. - There are many ways to solve this problem.

• Существуют разные пути решения этой задачи. - There are various ways of tackling this problem.

• Существуют три способа, которыми мы могли бы решить задачу... - There are three ways by which we may approach the problem of...

• Та же самая задача может быть решена непосредственно (применяя, путем и т. п.)... - The same problem might be solved directly by...

• Таким образом, наша задача сводится к вычислению... - Our problem becomes, therefore, one of evaluating...

• Часто возникающая задача состоит в следующем:... - A problem which arises very frequently is...

• Чтобы поставить задачу однозначно, требуется дополнительное условие. - A further condition is required to specify the problem uniquely.

• Чтобы решить задачу такого типа, мы... - То solve this type of problem, we...

• Чтобы решить нашу задачу, нам необходимо знать величину... - То solve our problem we need the value of...

• Чтобы упростить задачу, давайте предположим, что... - То simplify the problem, let us suppose that...

• Эта задача изучается, поскольку... - This problem is studied because...

• Эта задача особенно трудна в случае... - The problem is particularly severe in the case of...

• Эта задача решается применением... - The problem is solved by applying...

• Эта задача также рассматривается Смитом [1]. - This problem is also treated by Smith [1].

• Эти задачи поддаются исследованию (с помощью)... - These problems are amenable to treatment by...

• Это завело бы нас слишком далеко от задачи обсудить... - It would lead us too far a field to discuss...

Русско-английский словарь научного общения > задача
12 devaneo

m.

1 idle pursuit.

2 time-wasting action, time-wasting pastime, idle pursuit.

3 raving, frenzy.

* * *

devaneo

► nombre masculino

1 (delirio) delirium, nonsense

2 (pasatiempo vano) waste of time, frivolity

3 (amorío) fling

* * *

SM

1) (=fruslería) idle pursuit

2) (=amorío) flirtation

3) (Med) delirium

* * *

masculino

a) ( amorío) affair; ( pasajero) fling

b) ( pasatiempo frívolo) idle pursuit

déjate de devaneos — stop wasting your time

* * *

= flirtation, raving.

Nota: Generalmente usado en plural.

Ex. The article 'The flirtation that is paying off' describes the reasons for and the steps leading up to the decision to adopt a computerised information retrieval system = El artículo "El coqueteo que está dando resultados" describe las razones y los pasos que condujeron a la decisión de adoptar un sistema de recuperación de información automatizado.

Ex. I knew all the ways to control lunatics, but she was strong in her ravings and knocked me cold more than once.

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* devaneos = rantings and ravings, rantings.

* * *

masculino

a) ( amorío) affair; ( pasajero) fling

b) ( pasatiempo frívolo) idle pursuit

déjate de devaneos — stop wasting your time

* * *

= flirtation, raving.

Nota: Generalmente usado en plural.

Ex: The article 'The flirtation that is paying off' describes the reasons for and the steps leading up to the decision to adopt a computerised information retrieval system = El artículo "El coqueteo que está dando resultados" describe las razones y los pasos que condujeron a la decisión de adoptar un sistema de recuperación de información automatizado.

Ex: I knew all the ways to control lunatics, but she was strong in her ravings and knocked me cold more than once.

* devaneos = rantings and ravings, rantings.

* * *

devaneo

masculine

1 (amorío) affair; (pasajero) fling

2 (pasatiempo frívolo) idle pursuit

déjate de devaneos stop wasting your time, stop dabbling in idle pursuits

* * *

devaneo sustantivo masculino
a) ( amorío) affair;

( pasajero) fling
b) ( pasatiempo frívolo) idle pursuit

devaneo sustantivo masculino
1 fling, affair: estoy harta de sus devaneos, I'm fed up with his flings
2 idle pursuit: no te pierdas en devaneos, trabaja en algo útil, don't get caught up in idle pursuits - work on sthg useful

* * *

devaneo nm

1. [distracción] idle pursuit

2. [amorío] affair;

tener un devaneo con alguien to have an affair with sb;

tuvo un devaneo de fin de semana con alguien he had a weekend fling with sb;

en su juventud tuvo sus devaneos con la ultraderecha he flirted with the far right when he was young

* * *

devaneo

m

1 ( lío amoroso) affair

2

:

dejarse de devaneos stop wasting one’s time

* * *

devaneo nm

1) : flirtation, fling

2) : idle pursuit

Spanish-English dictionary > devaneo
13 life

[laɪf]
n

(pl lives [laɪvz])

1) жизнь, существование, деятельность

Is there any life on that planet? — На той планете есть какая-либо жизнь? /На той планете есть какие-либо живые существа?

The average life of a dog is ten years. — Собаки в среднем живут десять лет.

The streets are full of life. — Жизнь на улицах бьет ключом.

The drooping plant came to life in water. — Поникшее растение в воде ожило.

- animal life
- physical life
- low life
- busy life
- adult life
- this life
- other life
- all one's life
- one's own life
- somebody else's life
- working life
- life force
- life science
- life span
- life insurance

- life boat
- life jacket
- life scientist
- life giving rain
- life of the people
- life cycle of a frog
- life of a battery
- life for life
- life of pleasure
- matter of life and death
- happiest days of smb's life
- original of life
- fight struggle for one's life
- charities of life
- necessities of life
- people from all sections of public life
- speed and the noise of city life
- threat to smb's life
- thread of life
- average span of life
- books true to life
- appointment for life
- post for life
- pension for life
- love of life
- way of life
- end of smb's life
- meaning of one's life
- art of leading one's life
- her last hours of life
- water swarms with life
- in after life
- in the course of smb's life
- at the cost
- in the prime of life
- for the rest of one's life
- at my time of life
- for dear life
- have enough food to sustain life
- bring smb, smth to life
- come to life
- go forth into the highways and by ways of life
- have power over life and death
- preserve life
- be sould of the party
- beat smb within an inch of his life
- beg for one's life
- cling to life
- enjoy one's life
- value one's life
- fill up one's life with useful work
- get as much fun out of life as possible
- get the fright of one's life
- give one's life to science
- give new life to smb, smth
- guide smb's life
- have a double life
- hold a post for life
- lay down one's life for one's country
- lead a dog's life
- lead smb a dog's life
- live a happy life
- live an easy life
- live a simple life
- live one's own life
- make a new life for oneself
- make one's own life
- make life easy
- make an attempt on smb's life
- make smb's life miserable
- quit this life
- risk one's life
- run for dear life
- run for one's life
- save one's own life
- sell one's life dearly
- sentence smb to hard labour for life
- spare smb's life
- spend one's life in smth
- start life as an messenger
- take smb's life
- take one's life
- take one's life in one's hands
- trust one's life to doctors
- everything that has life
- smb's last hours of life
2) жизнь, образ жизни

Sport has always been a part of university life. — Спорт всегда был частью университетской жизни.

TV has become part of our everyday life. — Телевидение прочно вошло в наш быт.

- a hard life

- smb's past life
- private life
- city life
- human life
- miserable life
- everyday life
- quiet life
- American life
- fashionable life
- high life
- social life
- college life
- fascinating life
- married life
- retired lie
- life of the capital
- life of crime
- chose a political life
- enter a political life
- lead an active life
- lead an idle life

- lead high life

3) реальность, действительность

He has had a successful life. — У него была успешная карьера.

The life of the Roman Empire was long. — Римская Империя существовала долго.

There he stands, as large as life. — Вон он стоит собственной персоной.

There he is as big as life. — Вот он, во всей своей красе.

It is a larger than life version of our present society. — Это преувеличенная картина современного общества.

- real life situation
- life portrait
- life of the contract
- realities of life
- portrait from life
- in real life
- during the life of the last Labour Government
- as big as life
- face life
- learn something of life
- mould life
- paint from life
- paint smb, smth to the life
- see something of life
- see life
- take life easy
- take one's subjects from life
- characters taken from life
4) (часто в отрицательных предложениях) жизнь, энергия

There was no life in her movements. — Она вяло двигалась.

Put more life into your step! — Пошевеливайся!

Will you put more life into the matter. — Займись, пожалуйста, данным вопросом с бо́льшим воодушевлением.

- actors put no life in their performance
- there was no life in her voice
- there was no life in her eyes
5) следует за утверждением или риторическим вопросом

I have seen something of life. — я знаю настоящую жизнь.

The portrait is my uncle to the life. — Портрет - точная копия моего дядюшки.

Do you think I'm going to trust a person like him? Not on your life! — И ты думаешь, что я буду доверять такому человеку, как он? Ни в коем случае!

There is life in the old dog yet. — ◊ Есть еще порох в пороховницах.

While there is life there is hope. — ◊ Пока жив человек, жива и надежда

- such is life!
- how is life?

English-Russian combinatory dictionary > life

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