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61 нищо
nothing, (not) anything; nil; nought; sl. nixнищо не излезе nothing came of itнищо не се знае you never can tellнищо ти няма there's nothing wrong/nothing the matter with you, you're all rightнищо не можеше да се направи there was nothing to be done, there was nothing doingза нищо на света not for anything in the world, not for the world, not on any terms, (not) for love or money, under no circumstancesза нищо на света няма да сложа тази шапка I wouldn't be seen dead (in a pig market) in that hatзапочвам от нищо start from scratch; rise from nothingдрехите ти заприличаха на нищо your clothes look like nothing on earthнаправих си палтото на нищо I've ruined my coatвсе едно, че/почти нищо next to nothingтой застана до вратата, все едно че нищо не е било he stood at the door quite unruffledте си приказваха, сякаш нищо не е било they were talking to each other as if nothing had happened between themправя от нищо нещо make a little go a long way, ( преувеличавам) make a mountain out of a molehillнищо работа a trifling matterнищо човек an insignificant fellow, a mere nobodyнищо и никакъв paltry, worthless, sl. measlyхабя си усилията за нищо waste o.'s efforts; spend o.'s efforts to no purposeнищо подобно nothing of the kind/sort; no such thing; nothing like that; far from itнищо пред (в сравнение с) nothing to, sl. not a marker on/toнищо особено nothing special/extraordinary, nothing out of the way, nothing to speak of, разг. nothing very much, no great shakesnothing to write home aboutнищо ценно nothing of valueразг. it's, no goнищо друго освен nothing butкоето не е нищо друго освен which is butтой няма ни къща, ни дом, ни нищо he has no house, no home, no nothingядосвам се за нищо и никакво the merest trifle puts me outне ставам за нищо serve no purposeнищо за отбелязване nothing worth mentioningнищо ново no newsнищо не можеш да му направиш you can't touch him, you can't do anything to himнищо няма да ти стане, ако измиеш пода it won't kill you to scrub the floorнаправих го на нищо и никакво I wiped/mopped the floor with himтой е едно голямо нищо, той е едно нищо и половина he is a cipher/nonentity/nobodyновият му роман е нищо и половина his new novel is a flopот него не може да се очаква нищо хубаво you can't rely/count on him, he's not to be trusted, he's* * *нѝщо,ср., само ед. nothing, (not) anything; nil; nought; sl. nix; все едно, че/почти \нищо next to nothing; дрехите ти заприличаха на \нищо your clothes look like nothing on earth; за \нищо all for nothing; за \нищо и никакво for a trifle, for no reason at all; за \нищо на света (not) for love or money, under no circumstances, not for all the tea in China; sl. not for toffee; за \нищо на света няма да сложа тази рокля I wouldn’t be seen dead (in a pig market) in that dress; за \нищо не го бива he is good for nothing, he’s a bad egg; завиждат ти? \нищо they envy you? let them! so what? започвам от \нищо start from scratch; rise from nothing; като \нищо easily; like anything; as easy as anything; without turning a hair; as soon as look at; което не е \нищо друго освен which is but; направих го на \нищо и никакво I wiped/mopped the floor with him; направих си сакото на \нищо I’ve ruined my jacket; не можеш \нищо да направиш you can’t help it; it can’t be helped; разг. it’s no go; не правя \нищо be/stand idle; не ставам за \нищо serve no purpose; \нищо друго освен nothing but; \нищо за отбелязване nothing worth mentioning; \нищо и никакъв paltry, worthless, sl. measly; \нищо не излезе nothing came of it; \нищо не можеше да се направи there was nothing to be done; \нищо не се знае you never can tell; \нищо ново no news, nothing to write home about; \нищо няма да ти стане, ако почистиш стаята it won’t kill you to clean the room; \нищо особено nothing special/extraordinary, nothing out of the way, nothing to speak of, разг. nothing very much, no great shakes; nothing to write home about; \нищо подобно nothing of the kind/sort; nothing like that; far from it; \нищо пред (в сравнение с) nothing to, sl. not a marker on/to; \нищо работа a trifling matter; \нищо ти няма there’s nothing wrong with you, you’re all right; \нищо ценно nothing of value; \нищо, че no matter if, разг. so what if; \нищо човек an insignificant fellow, a mere nobody; \нищо чудно (че) no wonder, small wonder (that); новата му книга е \нищо и половина his new book is a flop; няма \нищо (лошо) no harm done; нямам \нищо общо с have nothing to do with; have nothing in common with; от него не може да се очаква \нищо хубаво you can’t rely/count on him, he’s not to be trusted, he’s capable of dirty work; no good will come of him; от \нищо нещо не става you can’t stop a gap with rushes, you can’t make a purse out of a sow’s ear; почти \нищо не е останало there’s precious little left; почти \нищо нямаше за ядене there was hardly a thing to eat; правя от \нищо нещо make a little go a long way, ( преувеличавам) make a mountain out of a molehill; споря за \нищо и никакво split hairs, pettifog; това е \нищо за него, той ще се справи с това като \нищо it’s child’s play to him; той е едно голямо \нищо, той е едно \нищо и половина he is a cipher/nonentity/nobody; той застана до вратата, все едно че \нищо не е било he stood at the door quite unruffled; той с \нищо не се отличава от he differs in no way from; ядосвам се за \нищо и никакво the merest trifle puts me out.* * *nil; none; nothing: I saw нищо that night. - Не видях нищо онази нощ.; zero* * *1. nothing to write homе about 2. nothing, (not) anything;nil;nought;sl. nix 3. НИЩО (от това) never mind, it doesn't matter, it makes no difference 4. НИЩО друго освен nothing but 5. НИЩО за отбелязване nothing worth mentioning 6. НИЩО и никакъв paltry, worthless, sl. measly 7. НИЩО не излезе nothing came of it 8. НИЩО не можеш да му направиш you can't touch him, you can't do anything to him 9. НИЩО не можеше да се направи there was nothing to be done, there was nothing doing 10. НИЩО не се знае you never can tell 11. НИЩО ново no news 12. НИЩО няма да ти стане, ако измиеш пода it won't kill you to scrub the floor 13. НИЩО особено nothing special/extraordinary, nothing out of the way, nothing to speak of, разг. nothing very much, no great shakes 14. НИЩО подобно nothing of the kind/sort;no such thing;nothing like that;far from it 15. НИЩО пред (в сравнение с) nothing to, sl. not a marker on/to 16. НИЩО работа a trifling matter 17. НИЩО ти няма there's nothing wrong/nothing the matter with you, you're all right 18. НИЩО ценно nothing of value 19. НИЩО човек an insignificant fellow, a mere nobody 20. НИЩО чудно (че) no wonder, small wonder (that) 21. аз НИЩО не знача за тебе I'm nothing to you 22. все едно, че/почти НИЩО next to nothing 23. дрехите ти заприличаха на НИЩО your clothes look like nothing on earth 24. за НИЩО all for nothing 25. за НИЩО и никакво for a trifle, for no reason at all 26. за НИЩО на света not for anything in the world, not for the world, not on any terms, (not) for love or money, under no circumstances 27. за НИЩО на света няма да сложа тази шапка I wouldn't be seen dead (in a pig market) in that hat 28. за НИЩО не го бива he is good for nothing 29. започвам от НИЩО start from scratch;rise from nothing 30. като НИЩО easily;like anything;as easy as anything;without turning a hair;as soon as look at 31. което не е НИЩО друго освен which is but 32. направих го на НИЩО и никакво I wiped/mopped the floor with him 33. направих си палтото на НИЩО I've ruined my coat 34. не знам НИЩО I know nothing, I don't know anything 35. не можеш НИЩО да направиш you can't do anything;you can't help it;it can't be helped 36. не правя НИЩО be/stand idle 37. не ставам за НИЩО serve no purpose 38. никой НИЩО не каза nobody said a word 39. новият му роман е НИЩО и половина his new novel is а flор 40. няма НИЩО (лошо) no harm done 41. няма НИЩО ново под слънцето there is nothing new under the sun 42. няма НИЩО, НИЩО не се е случило there's nothing the matter;it's all right 43. нямам НИЩО общо с have nothing to do with;have nothing in common with 44. от НИЩО нещо не става you can't stop a gap with rushes, you can't make a purse out of a sow's ear 45. от него не може да се очаква НИЩО хубаво уou can't rely/count on him, he's not to be trusted, he's 46. почти НИЩО нямаше за ядене there was hardly a thing to eat 47. правя от НИЩО нещо make a little go a long way, (преувеличавам) make a mountain out of a molehill 48. разг. it's, no go 49. споря за НИЩО и никакво split hairs, pettifog 50. те си приказваха, сякаш НИЩО не е било they were talking to each other as if nothing had happened between them 51. това е НИЩО за него, той ще се справи с това като НИЩО it's child's play to him 52. това няма НИЩО общо с истината nothing is further from the truth 53. това още НИЩО не значи that doesn't mean anything 54. той е едно голямо НИЩО, той е едно НИЩО и половина he is a cipher/nonentity/nobody 55. той застана до вратата, все едно че НИЩО не е било he stood at the door quite unruffled 56. той няма ни къща, ни дом, ни НИЩО he has no house, no home, no nothing 57. той с НИЩО не се отличава от he differs in no way from 58. хабя си усилията за НИЩО waste o.'s efforts;spend o.'s efforts to no purpose 59. ядосвам се за НИЩО и никакво the merest trifle puts me out -
62 poco
(pl -chi) 1. adj littlecon nomi plurali few2. adv not muchcon aggettivi not very, not greatlysenti un po'! just listen!a poco a poco little by little, graduallypoco fa a little while agofra poco in a little while, soonpoco dopo a little while later, soon afterper poco cheap( quasi) almost, nearly* * *poco agg.indef.1 ( con riferimento alla quantità) little, not much: bevo poco vino, I don't drink much wine; c'è poca luce qui, there isn't much light here; ci è rimasto poco pane, we haven't got much bread left; ha poca pazienza con i bambini, he hasn't got much (o he has little) patience with children; quello che guadagna è troppo poco per coprire le spese, he doesn't earn enough to cover his expenses2 ( con riferimento all'intensità) little, not much: ha dato poca importanza alla cosa, he gave little importance to the matter; il lavoro mi dà poca soddisfazione, my work doesn't give me much satisfaction; accettare con poco entusiasmo un invito, to accept an invitation without much enthusiasm; prestai poca attenzione alle sue parole, I didn't pay much attention to what he said // ci è voluto non poco coraggio, it took a lot of courage // avere poca stima di qlcu., to have a low opinion (o not to think much) of s.o. // c'è poco sole, it isn't very sunny; c'era poca nebbia, it wasn't very foggy // ho poca memoria, I've got a poor memory; l'iniziativa ha avuto poco successo, it wasn't a very successful initiative (o the initiative didn't meet with much success)3 ( con riferimento alla durata) little, short: mi assenterò per poco tempo, I'll be away for a short time; in poco tempo ha fatto molti progressi, he made a lot of progress in a very short time; poco tempo prima, dopo, a short time before, after; è accaduto poco tempo fa, it happened a short time ago (o not long ago) // Usato anche in espressioni ellittiche: poco fa, poc'anzi, a short time ago; di lì a poco, shortly after (o after a while o a little later); fra poco, very soon (o in a little while); a fra poco, see you soon; è poco che l'ho visto, I saw him a short time ago (o it isn't long since I last saw him); manca poco a Natale, it isn't long to Christmas; mi manca poco per finire, I haven't got much more to do (o I've nearly finished); ci fermeremo solo per poco, we'll only stay for a short time (o we shan't stay long) // da poco, ( poco fa) a short time ago, (riferito al pass.) a short time before, ( tempo continuato) for a short time: è uscito da poco, he's (only) just gone out; quando telefonai, erano da poco partiti, when I phoned, they had not long left (o they had only just left)4 ( con riferimento all'estensione nello spazio): c'è poca distanza dall'albergo alla spiaggia, it isn't far from the hotel to the beach; avevamo fatto poca strada quando cominciò a piovere, we hadn't gone far when it began to rain5 ( scarso, esiguo) scant, little: sono quadri di poco valore, they are paintings of little (o scant) value; trattare qlcu. con poco riguardo, to treat s.o. with scant (o little) respect // con poca spesa, for a small outlay (o without spending much) // a poco prezzo, at (o for) a low price, cheap // è poca cosa, it's nothing (o it's a drop in the ocean)6 pl. few, not many; ( alcuni) a few: ho fatto pochi errori nella prova di matematica, I didn't make many mistakes in the maths test; fra pochi minuti, in a few minutes; c'erano poche persone in giro, there weren't many people about (o there were few people about); inviterò i miei genitori e pochi amici, I'll invite my parents and a few friends // mi sono rimasti solo pochi spiccioli, I haven't got much money left // molto pochi, very few; troppo pochi, too few.poco pron.indef.1 (very) little, not much: ''Hai del formaggio?'' ''Sì, ma ne ho poco'', ''Have you got any cheese?'' ''Yes, but not much''; ieri avevo del tempo libero, ma oggi ne ho molto poco, I had some spare time yesterday, but I've got very little (o but I haven't got much) today; (ne) capisco poco di matematica, I understand very little about mathematics; resta ben poco da fare, there's (very) little (o there isn't much) left to be done; abbiamo speso poco in quell'albergo, we didn't spend much (o we spent very little) at that hotel; un milione mi pare ( troppo) poco, a million seems too little to me; ci vuole poco per capire che è tutta una truffa, it doesn't take much to understand it's all a swindle // c'è poco da fare, da dire, there's little (o nothing) to be done, to be said; c'è poco da ridere, da scherzare, there's little (o nothing) to laugh about, to joke about // dire che ha torto è poco, it's not enough to say he's wrong // a dir poco, to say the least: saranno state a dir poco centomila persone, there must have been a hundred thousand people there, to say the least // e ti pare poco?, do you think that's nothing? // il che non è poco, which is something // per poco che sia, è sempre qualcosa, however little it is, it's still something // non te la prendere per così poco, don't let such a little (o small) thing upset you // ci voleva così poco a farmi una telefonata, it wouldn't have hurt you to give me a ring; ci vuole così poco ad accontentarlo, it takes so little to please him (o to make him happy) // una cosa da poco, a mere trifle; una moneta da poco, a small coin; è un uomo da poco, he's not up to much // per poco, ( a buon mercato) cheap: l'ho comprato per poco, I got it cheap // per poco non, ( quasi) nearly: per poco non cadevo in acqua, I (very) nearly fell in the water; ci mancò poco che non fosse squalificato, he was (very) nearly disqualified2 pl. (very) few, not many; ( poche persone) few people; ( alcuni) a few; ( alcune persone) a few people: ''Hai molti amici?'' ''No, ne ho ( assai) pochi'', ''Have you many friends?'' ''No, very few''; pochi di noi, di loro ecc., few of us, them etc.; era conosciuto da pochi, not many people knew him (o he was little known); siamo rimasti in pochi, there were few of us left; c'eravamo noi due e pochi altri, there were the two of us and a few others3 un poco, un po', a little, some; (con s. pl.) a few, some: un poco di pane, a little (o some) bread; c'erano un bel po' di persone, there were quite a few people there; un altro poco, some (o a little) more; costa un poco di più, it costs (o is) a little more // che po' po' di mascalzone!, what a scoundrel!; che po' po' di sfacciataggine!, what cheek!; con quel po' po' di soldi che ha!, with all the money he has! // In espressioni di tempo: un po' ( di tempo), a short time; un bel po' ( di tempo), quite a while (o quite a long time); un altro po' ( di tempo), a little (o a bit) longer; un po' ( di tempo) prima, dopo, fa, a short time before, later, ago // da un po' ( di tempo), some time ago, (riferito al pass.) some time before, ( tempo continuato), for some time: è da un po' che non lo vedo, I haven't seen him for some time; lo spettacolo era già finito da un po', the show had finished some time before◆ s.m.1 little: mi contento del poco, it takes little to please me (o I'm easily satisfied); il poco che ho è tuo, the (o what) little I have is yours; farò quel poco che posso, I'll do what (o the) little I can // il poco è meglio del niente, (prov.) half a loaf is better than no bread2 (anche f.) un, una poco di buono, (fam.) a bad lot; sono dei poco di buono, they're no good (o they're a bad lot).poco avv.1 (con agg. e avv. di grado positivo e con p. pres. e talvolta pp. usato come agg.) not very: poco intelligente, not very bright; poco entusiasmante, not very exciting; poco conosciuto, not very well-known; poco costoso, unexpensive; poco letto, little read; sto poco bene, I'm not very well; una zona poco abitata, a sparsely populated area; un prodotto poco richiesto, a product in small demand2 (con agg. e avv. compar.) not much; little; ( di tempo) not long: è poco più alto di me, he's not much taller than me; è poco più che un ragazzo, he's little more than a boy; era poco più che ventenne, he was little more than twenty; si sposarono poco più tardi, they got married not long after3 ( con verbi) little: il suo aiuto fu poco apprezzato, his help was little appreciated; studia molto poco, he studies very little; ci vede poco, he can't see very well; il primato fu superato di poco, the record was only just beaten // me ne importa poco, I don't care much; poco importa se..., it doesn't matter if... // per poco che si rifletta..., you only have to think a bit... // poco o nulla, little or nothing // né punto né poco, not at all // a poco a poco, little by little (o gradually) // press'a poco → pressappoco4 un poco, un po', a bit: è un po' strano, it's a bit (o rather) strange // fa un po' ridere, (fam.) it makes you laugh // s'è parlato un po' di questo e un po' di quello, we spoke about this and that // un po' per..., un po' per..., what with... and: un po' per il rumore, un po' per il caldo si sentiva frastornato, what with the noise and the heat, he felt quite dizzy // senti un po', look!; vediamo un po', let's see; ma guarda un po'!, just look what's happened!; guarda un po' che cosa hai combinato!, now look what you've done!; dimmi un po' tu se non ho ragione, tell me if I'm not right (o if I'm wrong).* * *['pɔko] poco -a, -chi, -che1. avv1) (piccola quantità) little, negazione + muchguadagna poco — he doesn't earn much, he earns little
2) (con aggettivo, avverbio) (a) little, negazione + veryè poco più alta di lui — she's a little o slightly taller than him
3)poco fa — a short while o time ago
poco — in a little whilepoco alla fine — it's almost o nearly finished, it's more or less finished4)— a little, a bitè un po' corto — it's a little o a bit short
arriverà fra un po' — he'll arrive shortly o in a little while
prima del solito — a little earlier than usualha dormito un bel po' — he slept for quite a while
5)(a) poco a poco — bit by bit, little by littlepoco — to say the leasteravamo in 30 a dir poco — there were at least 30 of us
è una cosa da poco — it's nothing, it's of no importance
una persona da poco — a worthless individual
ha vinto di poco — he only just won
poco non cadevo — I almost o nearly fell2. agg indef2) (in espressioni ellittiche: tempo) a short time, a little while, (quantità) (a) littleci vediamo fra poco — see you soon o shortly
l'ha comprato per poco — he bought it cheap
ne abbiamo ancora per poco — we'll only be a little longer
basta poco per farlo contento — it doesn't take much to make him happy
3. pron1) (a) littlec'è chi ha molto tempo e chi ne ha poco — there are those who have a lot of time and those who have little
2)pochi, poche — few (people)4. sm1) littleil poco che guadagno... — what little I earn...
See:2)di soldi — a little moneydi pane — a little breaddi zucchero — a little sugardi silenzio! — let's have a bit of quiet!un
bel po' di denaro — quite a lot of money, a tidy sum3); che po' po' di coraggio! — what courage!* * *1.1) (un numero esiguo di) few, not many- chi visitatori — not many o few visitors
2) (una piccola quantità di) little, not much3) (scarso) little, not much4) (di tempo)2.poco tempo fa — a short time ago, not long ago
1) (piccola quantità, scarsa misura)"è rimasto del gelato?" - "poco" — "is there any ice cream left?" - "not much"
ci vuole poco a... — it doesn't take much to...
2) (esiguo numero di persone) few- chi hanno fiducia in lui — few o not many people trust him
manca poco alle due — it's nearly two o'clock, it's going on for two
ci sono rimasto poco — I didn't stay there (for) long o a long time
è arrivato da poco — he hasn't been here long, he's just arrived
poco prima, dopo — shortly before, afterwards
fra o tra poco shortly, before long, very soon; di lì a poco — before long, soon afterwards
l'ha mancato per o di poco he just missed it; mancare di poco il bersaglio — to strike short of the target, to miss the target by a little
per poco non mi catturavano — I just o narrowly missed being captured
6) per poco che7) a poco, per poco (a buon mercato) [comprare, vendere] cheap8) poco da9) da poco10) a dir poco3.era sorpreso, a dir poco — he was surprised, to say the least (of it)
sostantivo maschile1) (piccola quantità) littlevoglio un po' di tè — I want a little o some tea
3) un bel po' di colloq. quite a lot of, a fair amount ofun bel po' di persone — quite a few people, a lot of people
un bel po' di tempo fa — a good o long while ago
4) un bel po'4.1) (con un verbo) little, not muchpoco male! — (non importa) no harm done! (tanto meglio) just as well!
3) (con aggettivo o participio passato) not very4) (con forme comparative) little, not muchè poco più alto di me — he is little o not much taller than me
ci ho pensato un (bel) po' — I've thought about it quite a bit; (in una certa quantità)
prendine ancora un po' — take some more; (leggermente)
l'arrosto è un po' bruciato — the roast is a bit o slightly burned; (abbastanza)
"parli tedesco?" - "un po'" — "do you speak German?" - "a little bit"; (con valore rafforzativo)
(ma) pensa, guarda un po'! — fancy that! (seguito da altro avverbio)
parla un po' più forte — speak little o a bit louder
6) a poco a poco little by little7) non poco••sapere di poco — (essere insipido) to be tasteless; (essere poco interessante) to be dull
un poco di buono — an ugly customer, a bad lot
••una poco di buono — a slut pop.
Note:Poco può essere usato come aggettivo, pronome, sostantivo e avverbio. - Come aggettivo e pronome, poco si traduce con little davanti o al posto di nomi non numerabili e con few davanti o al posto di nomi plurali: poco zucchero = little sugar; aggiunse poco a quanto aveva già detto = she added little to what she had already said; pochi libri = few books; ne ho letti pochi = I read few of them. Attenzione a non confondere few = pochi (cioè, un numero insufficiente) con a few = alcuni (cioè, un numero ridotto, ma non necessariamente insufficiente). - Come sostantivo, poco compare in espressioni quali il poco che... = the little... / what little..., un po' / un poco di... = a little (of), a bit (of), some, any: si vedano sotto gli esempi. - Come avverbio, poco si traduce con little o not much con i verbi ( lo vedo molto poco = I see him very little) o con forme al comparativo ( sono poco più grasso di lui = I'm little / not much fatter than him), e con not very davanti ad aggettivi e avverbi ( poco pulito = not very clean; poco chiaramente = not very clearly). - Questi e altri esempi nella voce mostrano come poco si rende spesso in inglese con la negazione di molto: pochi studenti = few students / not many students; ho poco da dire = I've got little to say / I don't have much to say; ho dor mito poco = I slept little / I didn't sleep very much, ecc* * *pocoPoco può essere usato come aggettivo, pronome, sostantivo e avverbio. - Come aggettivo e pronome, poco si traduce con little davanti o al posto di nomi non numerabili e con few davanti o al posto di nomi plurali: poco zucchero = little sugar; aggiunse poco a quanto aveva già detto = she added little to what she had already said; pochi libri = few books; ne ho letti pochi = I read few of them. Attenzione a non confondere few = pochi (cioè, un numero insufficiente) con a few = alcuni (cioè, un numero ridotto, ma non necessariamente insufficiente). - Come sostantivo, poco compare in espressioni quali il poco che... = the little... / what little..., un po' / un poco di... = a little (of), a bit (of), some, any: si vedano sotto gli esempi. - Come avverbio, poco si traduce con little o not much con i verbi ( lo vedo molto poco = I see him very little) o con forme al comparativo ( sono poco più grasso di lui = I'm little / not much fatter than him), e con not very davanti ad aggettivi e avverbi ( poco pulito = not very clean; poco chiaramente = not very clearly). - Questi e altri esempi nella voce mostrano come poco si rende spesso in inglese con la negazione di molto: pochi studenti = few students / not many students; ho poco da dire = I've got little to say / I don't have much to say; ho dor mito poco = I slept little / I didn't sleep very much, ecc. ⇒ 311 (un numero esiguo di) few, not many; - chi visitatori not many o few visitors; troppo -che persone too few people; troppo -chi soldi too little money; pochissime case very few houses2 (una piccola quantità di) little, not much; beve poco vino he doesn't drink much wine; spendere poco denaro to spend little money3 (scarso) little, not much; - che possibilità little chance; c'è poco rumore there's not much noise; avere -a memoria to have a poor memory4 (di tempo) poco tempo fa a short time ago, not long ago; c'è così poco tempo there's so little time5 (in frasi esclamative) -che chiacchiere! cut the cackle!1 (piccola quantità, scarsa misura) voglio spendere poco I don't want to spend much; "è rimasto del gelato?" - "poco" "is there any ice cream left?" - "not much"; so poco di lui I don't know much about him; ne ha letti -chi he read few of them; ci vuole poco a... it doesn't take much to...; c'è mancato poco that was a close shave2 (esiguo numero di persone) few; - chi hanno fiducia in lui few o not many people trust him; siamo in -chi there are only a few of us3 (in espressioni di tempo) manca poco alle due it's nearly two o'clock, it's going on for two; ci ha impiegato poco it didn't take him long; ci sono rimasto poco I didn't stay there (for) long o a long time; è arrivato da poco he hasn't been here long, he's just arrived; lavoro qui da poco I've worked here for a short time; poco fa a short while ago; poco prima, dopo shortly before, afterwards; fra o tra poco shortly, before long, very soon; di lì a poco before long, soon afterwards4 per poco, di poco l'ha mancato per o di poco he just missed it; mancare di poco il bersaglio to strike short of the target, to miss the target by a little5 per poco (non) (quasi) per poco (non) perdeva il treno he almost missed the train; per poco non mi catturavano I just o narrowly missed being captured6 per poco che per poco che sia however little it is8 poco da ho poco da dire I've got little to say; c'è poco da ridere it's no laughing matter; c'è poco da scegliere there's not much to choose10 a dir poco era sorpreso, a dir poco he was surprised, to say the least (of it); è a dir poco testardo! he's nothing if not stubborn!III sostantivo m.1 (piccola quantità) little; quel poco che ha what little she has; quel poco che ho visto era molto bello the little I saw was very good2 un po' di (un poco) a little of, a bit of, some, any; voglio un po' di tè I want a little o some tea; c'è ancora un po' di gelato? is there any ice cream left? bevi ancora un po' di birra! have some more beer! posso averne un po' di più? can I have a little more? un po' di tutto a bit of everything; parlo un po' di inglese I speak a little English; un po' di tempo fa a little while ago3 un bel po' di colloq. quite a lot of, a fair amount of; un bel po' di persone quite a few people, a lot of people; aspettò un bel po' di ore he waited for a good few hours; un bel po' di tempo fa a good o long while ago4 un bel po' per un bel po' for a good while; camminò un bel po' he walked quite a way; è un bel po' che non ci si vede! long time no see!IV avverbio1 (con un verbo) little, not much; parla poco he doesn't talk much; ho dormito poco I didn't sleep (very) much; ci vede poco he can't see very well2 (con un avverbio) sta poco bene he's not well; poco lontano da qui not far away from here; poco male! (non importa) no harm done! (tanto meglio) just as well!3 (con aggettivo o participio passato) not very; è poco educato he's not very polite; un lavoro poco pagato a poorly paid job; i suoi libri sono poco letti his books are little read; un romanzo poco conosciuto a little-known novel4 (con forme comparative) little, not much; è poco più alto di me he is little o not much taller than me; poco più di un'ora fa little more than an hour ago5 un po' (per un certo tempo) rimani ancora un po' stay a little longer; aspetta un po'! wait a bit! ci vorrà un po' it will take some time; studio da un po' I've been studying for some time; ci ho pensato un (bel) po' I've thought about it quite a bit; (in una certa quantità) prendine ancora un po' take some more; (leggermente) un po' timido a bit shy; ti senti un po' meglio? are you feeling any better? l'arrosto è un po' bruciato the roast is a bit o slightly burned; (abbastanza) "parli tedesco?" - "un po'" "do you speak German?" - "a little bit"; (con valore rafforzativo) sta un po' zitto! just keep quiet! vediamo un po' let me see; (ma) pensa, guarda un po'! fancy that! (seguito da altro avverbio) mangia un po' di più eat a bit more; parla un po' più forte speak little o a bit louder; fa un po' meno freddo di ieri it's a little less cold than yesterday6 a poco a poco little by little7 non poco ero non poco sorpreso I was not a little surprisedsapere di poco (essere insipido) to be tasteless; (essere poco interessante) to be dull; poco o nulla little or nothing; non ti credo neanche un po' you don't fool me for a minute; non è poco! that's saying a lot! un po' per la depressione un po' per la disoccupazione what with the depression and unemployment; un poco di buono an ugly customer, a bad lot; una poco di buono a slut pop. -
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be worth( essere valido) be validnon vale nulla it's worthless, it isn't worth anythingfar valere diritti, autorità assertnon vale! that's not fair!* * *valere v. intr.1 to be worth: valere molto, poco, to be worth a lot, little; un uomo che vale, a valuable man; come attore non vale molto, as an actor he is not up to much; quel professionista non vale molto, that professional is not very competent; il dollaro vale più dell'euro, the dollar is worth more than the euro; merce che vale poco, worthless goods // vale tanto oro quanto pesa, it is worth its weight in gold; vale un tesoro, una fortuna, un occhio della testa, un Perù, it is worth a fortune (o a mint of money); non vale uno zero, un'acca, un fico secco, (fam.) it is not worth a bean (o a penny o a rap) // tanto vale, it is just (o all) the same: per me tanto vale che tu prenda anche questo, it would be just the same to me if you took this too; se lo fai così, tanto vale che tu non lo faccia, if you do it like that, you might as well not do it at all; tanto vale restare qui, we may as well stay here; tanto valeva che venisse anche lui, he might as well have come too // valere la pena, to be worth (while): fu molto difficile, ma ne valeva proprio la pena, it was very difficult, but it was well worth it; non ne vale la pena, it is not worthwhile: non vale la pena che tu stia qui tutto il giorno, it's not worthwhile your staying (o for you to stay) here all day; non vale la pena di leggere questo libro, this book is not worth reading; varrebbe la pena di andarci, it would be worth going // vendere qlco. per quel che vale, to sell sthg. for what it is worth // far valere le proprie ragioni, to get one's way; far valere i propri diritti, to assert (o to enforce) one's rights (o one's claims) // farsi valere, to assert oneself2 ( contare, aver peso) to count, to be of account; to weigh, to be of weight, to have weight: la prima partita non vale, the first game doesn't count; quello che dici non vale in questo caso, what you are saying does not count in this case; la sua dichiarazione non valse niente per i giudici, his declaration didn't carry any weight with the judges; le tue considerazioni non valgono in simili circostanze, your considerations have no weight in such circumstances; (amm.) questa dichiarazione non vale ai fini fiscali, this assessment does not count for tax purposes // val meglio tacere, it is better to keep quiet // non vale!, that's not fair!3 ( servire, giovare) to be of use, to be of avail, to count: a che cosa ti valse tutto il tuo zelo?, where did all your zeal get you?; a che vale lavorare tanto?, what is the use (o good) of working so much?; i miei consigli non valsero a fargli cambiare condotta, my advice was of no use in making him change his behaviour; questa azione gli valse la medaglia, this act won him the decoration; tutto quello che ho fatto non è valso a nulla, all I did was no use (o of no avail) // val più la pratica della grammatica, practice is better than theory4 ( essere valido) to be valid; ( essere in vigore) to be in force: questo biglietto vale per 24 ore, this ticket is valid for 24 hours; questo contratto non vale più, this contract is no longer valid; questa legge non vale più, this law is no longer in force5 ( equivalere) to be equal (to sthg.), to be worth: una sillaba lunga vale due brevi, a long syllable is equal to two short ones // vale a dire, ( cioè) that is (to say), ( significa che) that's as much as to say, ( specificatamente) namely // uno vale l'altro, there's nothing between them (o they're much of a muchness)◆ v.tr. to win*: il romanzo gli valse il primo premio, the novel won him the first prize.◘ valersi v.intr.pron. to avail oneself, to make* use, to take* advantage; to use (s.o., sthg.): si valse di ogni opportunità, di tutti i suoi diritti, he availed himself (o he took advantage) of every opportunity, of all his rights; si valse di tutte le sue conoscenze per tacitare lo scandalo, he availed himself of all his acquaintances to hush up the scandal; si valse del mio nome, he made use of my name.* * *1. [va'lere]vb irreg vi (aus essere)1) (persona: contare) to be worthfar valere le proprie ragioni — to make o.s. heard
farsi valere — to make o.s. appreciated o respected
2) (avere efficacia: documento) to be valid, (avere vigore) to hold, applyquesto vale anche per te — this applies to you, too
3) (essere regolamentare: partita) to be valid, count4) (giovare) to be of useprima o poi lo verrà a sapere, tanto vale dirglielo subito — he'll find out sooner or later, so we (o you ecc) might as well tell him now
l'uno vale l'altro — the one is as good as the other, they amount to the same thing
valere la pena — to be worth the effort o worth it
6) (cosa: avere pregio) to be worth2. vtgli ha valso il primo premio — it earned him first prizeciò gli ha valso un esaurimento — that was what brought on o caused his nervous breakdown
3. vip (valersi)valersi dei consigli di qn — to take o act upon sb's advice
* * *[va'lere] 1.1) (avere un dato valore) to be* worthvalere 10 euro — to be worth 10 euros, to have a value of 10 euros
non valere niente — (economicamente) to be worthless; (qualitativamente) [materiale, prodotto, romanzo] to be rubbish o no good; [ persona] to be worthless
come cuoco non vale niente — he's a useless cook, he's not much of a cook
tanto vale che rinunciamo — we might o may as well give up
3) (meritare)valere la pena — to be worth ( di fare doing)
4) (essere valido) [biglietto, documento] to be* valid; [regole, teorie] to apply ( per to)5) (contare) to count6) (giovare) to be* of use, to be* of avail7) vale a dire that is (to say), namely2.vale a dire che...? — does that mean that...?
verbo transitivo (procurare) to win*, to earn3.ciò mi valse un premio — that earned o won me a price
verbo pronominale valersi- rsi di — to avail oneself of, to take advantage of [offerta, opportunità]; to make use of [strumento, consigli]
••fare valere — to exercise, to assert [ diritti]
farsi valere — to put oneself across, to assert oneself
* * *valere/va'lere/ [96](aus. essere)1 (avere un dato valore) to be* worth; valere 10 euro to be worth 10 euros, to have a value of 10 euros; valere una fortuna to be worth a fortune; non valere niente (economicamente) to be worthless; (qualitativamente) [materiale, prodotto, romanzo] to be rubbish o no good; [ persona] to be worthless; quest'auto vale il suo prezzo this car is good value (for money); come cuoco non vale niente he's a useless cook, he's not much of a cook; vale tanto oro quanto pesa he is worth his weight in gold2 (equivalere a) il tuo lavoro vale tanto quanto il loro your work is just as good as theirs; uno vale l'altro one is as good as the other; tanto vale che rinunciamo we might o may as well give up; tanto valeva che glielo chiedessi it would be just as well if you asked him3 (meritare) valere la pena to be worth ( di fare doing); non (ne) vale la pena it isn't worth it; ne è valsa davvero la pena it's been well worthwhile; vale la pena chiederglielo? is it any use asking?4 (essere valido) [biglietto, documento] to be* valid; [regole, teorie] to apply ( per to); lo stesso vale per lui! the same goes for him! non vale! it's not fair!5 (contare) to count; la partita vale per il campionato the match counts for the championship; il tuo parere non vale niente your opinion counts for nothing6 (giovare) to be* of use, to be* of avail; a nulla sono valsi i miei consigli my advice was of no use7 vale a dire that is (to say), namely; vale a dire che...? does that mean that...?III valersi verbo pronominale- rsi di to avail oneself of, to take advantage of [offerta, opportunità]; to make use of [strumento, consigli]fare valere to exercise, to assert [ diritti]; farsi valere to put oneself across, to assert oneself; sa farsi valere he's very pushy. -
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intj.that's enough.m.worth, value.v.1 to cost (costar) (price).¿cuánto vale? how much does it cost?, how much is it?este cuadro vale mucho dinero this painting is worth a lot of money2 to earn.su generosidad le valió el afecto de todos her generosity earned her everyone's affectionesta victoria puede valerles el campeonato this win may be enough for them to take the championshipaquello nos valió muchos disgustos that cost us a lot of troubleSu obra le valió un gran premio Her work earned her a great reward.3 to deserve.esta noticia bien vale una celebración this news deserves a celebration4 to be good (tener valor, merecer aprecio) (persona, obra).la obra vale poco/no vale (nada) the play isn't up to much/is no good at allhacer valer algo to assert something (derechos, autoridad)hacerse valer to show one's worth5 to be valid (ser válido) (documento, norma).6 to be worth, to cost.7 to be of value, to be valuable.* * *Present Indicativevalgo, vales, vale, valemos, valéis, valen.Future IndicativeConditionalPresent SubjunctiveImperative* * *verb1) to cost2) be worth3) be valid•* * *Para la frase valer la pena, ver la otra entrada.1. VERBO TRANSITIVO1) (=costar) to costsolo el vuelo ya vale 8.000 euros — the flight alone costs 8,000 euros
¿cuánto vale?, ¿qué vale? — how much is it?, how much does it cost?
2) (=tener un valor de) to be worth- no vale un higo o un pimiento- vale lo que pesa en oro3) (=ser causa de) [+ premio] to win; [+ críticas, amenazas] to earnla final histórica que le valió a Brasil la copa del mundo — the famous final in which Brazil won the world cup
esa tontería le valió un rapapolvo — that piece of stupidity got o earned him a telling-off
su ausencia le valió la pérdida del contrato — his absence lost o cost him the contract
4) (Mat) (=equivaler a) to equal5) (=proteger)¡válgame (Dios)! — oh, my God!, God help me!
2. VERBO INTRANSITIVO1) (=costar)este coche vale muy caro — this car is very expensive o costs a lot of money
¿vale mucho? — is it very expensive?
2) (=tener valía)vale mucho como intérprete — he's an excellent o first-rate interpreter
su última película no vale gran cosa — his latest film is not up to much o is not much good
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hacer valer, hizo valer su derecho al veto — he exercised his veto•
hacerse valer — to assert o.s.cada cupón vale por un paquete de azúcar — each coupon is worth o can be exchanged for one bag of sugar
cuatro fichas azules valen por una negra — four blue counters equal o are worth one black one
3) (=servir)a) [herramienta, objeto] to be useful•
eso no vale — that's no good o useya no me vale — it's no good o use to me now
este destornillador no me vale porque es pequeño — this screwdriver is no good to me, it's too small
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valer para algo, es viejo, pero vale para la lluvia — it's old, but it'll do for when it rainsb) [ropa]este sombrero me vale aún — I can still wear o use this hat
me vale la ropa de mi hermana — my sister's clothes do for *o fit me as well
a mi hijo no le vale la ropa del año pasado — the clothes my son wore last year are too small for him now
c) [situación]no le valdrán excusas — excuses won't help him o do him any good
d) [persona]el chico no vale para el trabajo — the boy is no good o not right for the job
4) (=ser válido) [documento] to be valid; [moneda, billete] to be legal tendereste tipo de pasaporte no vale desde hace un mes — they stopped using this type of passport a month ago
está un poco chiflado, valga la expresión — he's a bit cracked, for want of a better way of putting it
¡no hay... que valga! —
pero I, 2., 2), redundancia-¡pero querido! -¡no hay querido que valga! — "but darling!" - "don't darling me!" *
5)• más vale, más vale así — it's better this way
- mañana te devuelvo el dinero -más te vale — "I'll give you the money back tomorrow" - "you'd better!"
más vale que me vaya — I'd o I had better go
más vale que te lleves el abrigo — you'd o you had better take your coat
6) ( Esp) (=ser suficiente) to be enoughvale ya, que habéis estado gritando toda la tarde — that's enough! you've been shouting all afternoon
¡vale, vale!, no me eches más azúcar — OK! that's enough! don't put any more sugar in
-¿subo más la persiana? -no, así ya vale — "shall I put the blind up a bit more?" - "no, it's OK like that"
7) * (=estar permitido) to be allowed-¿puedo darle con la mano? -no, eso no vale — "can I hit it with my hand?" - "no, that's not allowed"
no vale empujar — no pushing!, pushing's not allowed
-le han dado el trabajo al hijo del jefe -¡pues, eso no vale! — "they've given the job to the boss's son" - "that's not on!" *o"they can't do that!"
8) vale( Esp) * (=de acuerdo) all right, OK *-¿vamos a tomar algo? -¡vale! — "shall we go for a drink?" - "OK!" o"all right!"
pásate por mi casa esta tarde, ¿vale? — drop by my house this afternoon, OK?
vale que discutan, pero que se peguen es imperdonable — having an argument is one thing but hitting each other is another matter entirely o is inexcusable
9)- me vale madre o sombrilla3.See:* * *1.verbo transitivo1)a) ( tener un valor de) to be worth; ( costar) to cost¿cuánto valen? — how much are they?, what do they cost?
b) ( equivaler a)si x vale 8 ¿cuánto vale y? — if x is 8, what is the value of y?
¿cuánto vale un dólar en pesos? — how many pesos are there to the dollar?
2) (+ me/te/le etc)a) ( ganar)esta obra le valió un premio — this play earned o won her a prize
b) ( causar)2.valer vi1)a) (+ compl) ( tener cierto valor) to be worth; ( costar) to costvale más, pero es mejor — it costs more but it's better
b) ( equivaler)2) ( tener valor no material)hacer valer algo — < derecho> to assert, enforce
hizo valer su autoridad — he used o imposed his authority
3) ( servir)ésta no vale, es muy ancha — this one's no good, it's too wide
no valer para algo — to be useless o no good at something
valer de algo — (+ me/te/le etc)
sus consejos me valieron de mucho — her advice was very useful o valuable to me
4) vale (Esp fam)a) ( expresando acuerdo) OKvaler! — sure, fine, OK!
¿valer? — OK?, all right?
que llegues tarde una vez valer, pero... — being late once is one thing, but...
b) ( basta)¿valer así? — is that OK o enough?
ya valer ¿no? — don't you think that's enough?
5)más vale: más vale que no se entere she'd better not find out; más vale así it's better that way; (+ me/te/le etc) más te vale ir you'd better go; dijo que vendría - más le vale! he said he'd come - he'd better!; más vale prevenir que curar — better safe than sorry
6)a) ( ser válido) entrada/pasaporte to be valid; jugada/partido to countvalga la comparación — if you know o see what I mean
... y valga la expresión —... for want o lack of a better expression
b) ( estar permitido)eso no vale, estás haciendo trampa — that's not fair, you're cheating
7) (Méx fam)a) ( no importar) (+ me/te/le etc)b) ( no tener valor) to be useless o no good (colloq)c) ) ( estropearse)3.mi coche ya valió — my car's had it (colloq)
valerse v pron1) ( servirse)valerse de algo/alguien — to use something/somebody
se valió de sus apellidos para conseguirlo — he took advantage of o used the family name to obtain it
2) anciano/enfermovalerse solo or por sí mismo — to look after oneself
3) (estar permitido, ser correcto)* * *= be worth, cost, do.Ex. As an inveterate user of the British Museum Library he was able to confirm that 'a library is not worth anything without a catalogue'.Ex. The Mansell pre-1956 imprint catalog, in 604 volumes, is being edited at the rate of 20,000 entries a week, and is costing $1 million per year to edit.Ex. It needs a name, and, to coin one at random, 'memex' will do.----* enterarse (de) lo que vale un peine = get + the rough edge of + Posesivo + tongue.* hacer valer = vindicate.* hacer valer sus derechos = assert + Posesivo + rights.* hacer valer una idea = enforce + idea.* lo que vale para tí también vale para mí = what's good for the goose is good for the gander, what's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.* más vale malo conocido que bueno por conocer = better the devil you know (than the devil you don't).* más vale pájaro en mano que ciento volando = a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.* más vale prevenir que curar = a stitch in time saves nine, better (to be) safe than sorry.* más vale que + Subjuntivo = might + as well + Verbo.* más vale tarde que nunca = better late than never.* no haber pero que valer = not take + no for an answer.* no valer gran cosa = be no great shakes.* no valer la pena = be no good.* que vale la pena = worthwhile.* todo vale = no holds barred.* una imagen vale más que mil palabras = a picture is worth more than ten thousand words.* una imagen vale mil palabras = every picture tells a story.* vale la mitad = half the price.* vale más vale prevenir que curar = a stitch in time saves nine.* valer el oro y el moro = cost + the earth, cost + an arm and a leg, cost + a pretty penny.* valer la pena = be not for nothing, be worth it, be worthwhile, be worth + the effort, be worth + Posesivo + time.* valer la pena + Infinitivo = be worth + Gerundio, be worth + Gerundio.* valer la pena leer Algo = repay + reading.* valerle la pena a Uno = be worth + Posesivo + while.* valer una fortuna = cost + a fortune.* valer un dineral = cost + an arm and a leg, cost + a fortune.* valer un montón = cost + a bundle.* valer un ojo de la cara = cost + the earth, cost + an arm and a leg, cost + a pretty penny, cost + a fortune.* valer un riñón = cost + an arm and a leg, cost + the earth, cost + a fortune.* ¡Válgame Dios! = goodness gracious.* * *1.verbo transitivo1)a) ( tener un valor de) to be worth; ( costar) to cost¿cuánto valen? — how much are they?, what do they cost?
b) ( equivaler a)si x vale 8 ¿cuánto vale y? — if x is 8, what is the value of y?
¿cuánto vale un dólar en pesos? — how many pesos are there to the dollar?
2) (+ me/te/le etc)a) ( ganar)esta obra le valió un premio — this play earned o won her a prize
b) ( causar)2.valer vi1)a) (+ compl) ( tener cierto valor) to be worth; ( costar) to costvale más, pero es mejor — it costs more but it's better
b) ( equivaler)2) ( tener valor no material)hacer valer algo — < derecho> to assert, enforce
hizo valer su autoridad — he used o imposed his authority
3) ( servir)ésta no vale, es muy ancha — this one's no good, it's too wide
no valer para algo — to be useless o no good at something
valer de algo — (+ me/te/le etc)
sus consejos me valieron de mucho — her advice was very useful o valuable to me
4) vale (Esp fam)a) ( expresando acuerdo) OKvaler! — sure, fine, OK!
¿valer? — OK?, all right?
que llegues tarde una vez valer, pero... — being late once is one thing, but...
b) ( basta)¿valer así? — is that OK o enough?
ya valer ¿no? — don't you think that's enough?
5)más vale: más vale que no se entere she'd better not find out; más vale así it's better that way; (+ me/te/le etc) más te vale ir you'd better go; dijo que vendría - más le vale! he said he'd come - he'd better!; más vale prevenir que curar — better safe than sorry
6)a) ( ser válido) entrada/pasaporte to be valid; jugada/partido to countvalga la comparación — if you know o see what I mean
... y valga la expresión —... for want o lack of a better expression
b) ( estar permitido)eso no vale, estás haciendo trampa — that's not fair, you're cheating
7) (Méx fam)a) ( no importar) (+ me/te/le etc)b) ( no tener valor) to be useless o no good (colloq)c) ) ( estropearse)3.mi coche ya valió — my car's had it (colloq)
valerse v pron1) ( servirse)valerse de algo/alguien — to use something/somebody
se valió de sus apellidos para conseguirlo — he took advantage of o used the family name to obtain it
2) anciano/enfermovalerse solo or por sí mismo — to look after oneself
3) (estar permitido, ser correcto)* * *= be worth, cost, do.Ex: As an inveterate user of the British Museum Library he was able to confirm that 'a library is not worth anything without a catalogue'.
Ex: The Mansell pre-1956 imprint catalog, in 604 volumes, is being edited at the rate of 20,000 entries a week, and is costing $1 million per year to edit.Ex: It needs a name, and, to coin one at random, 'memex' will do.* enterarse (de) lo que vale un peine = get + the rough edge of + Posesivo + tongue.* hacer valer = vindicate.* hacer valer sus derechos = assert + Posesivo + rights.* hacer valer una idea = enforce + idea.* lo que vale para tí también vale para mí = what's good for the goose is good for the gander, what's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.* más vale malo conocido que bueno por conocer = better the devil you know (than the devil you don't).* más vale pájaro en mano que ciento volando = a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.* más vale prevenir que curar = a stitch in time saves nine, better (to be) safe than sorry.* más vale que + Subjuntivo = might + as well + Verbo.* más vale tarde que nunca = better late than never.* no haber pero que valer = not take + no for an answer.* no valer gran cosa = be no great shakes.* no valer la pena = be no good.* que vale la pena = worthwhile.* todo vale = no holds barred.* una imagen vale más que mil palabras = a picture is worth more than ten thousand words.* una imagen vale mil palabras = every picture tells a story.* vale la mitad = half the price.* vale más vale prevenir que curar = a stitch in time saves nine.* valer el oro y el moro = cost + the earth, cost + an arm and a leg, cost + a pretty penny.* valer la pena = be not for nothing, be worth it, be worthwhile, be worth + the effort, be worth + Posesivo + time.* valer la pena + Infinitivo = be worth + Gerundio, be worth + Gerundio.* valer la pena leer Algo = repay + reading.* valerle la pena a Uno = be worth + Posesivo + while.* valer una fortuna = cost + a fortune.* valer un dineral = cost + an arm and a leg, cost + a fortune.* valer un montón = cost + a bundle.* valer un ojo de la cara = cost + the earth, cost + an arm and a leg, cost + a pretty penny, cost + a fortune.* valer un riñón = cost + an arm and a leg, cost + the earth, cost + a fortune.* ¡Válgame Dios! = goodness gracious.* * *vtA1 (tener un valor de) to be worth; (costar) to costno vale mucho dinero it isn't worth much¿cuánto or ( crit) qué valen esas copas? how much are those wineglasses?, what do those wineglasses cost?pide $2.000 por el cuadro — pues no los vale she wants $2,000 for the picture — well, it's not worth thatese chico vale lo que pesa (en oro) that kid's worth his weight in gold2(equivaler a): si x vale 8 ¿cuánto vale y? if x is 8, what is the value of y?¿cuánto vale un dólar en pesos? how much is a dollar worth in pesos?, how many pesos are there to the dollar?B (+ me/te/le etc)(ganar): le valió una bofetada it earned him a slap in the faceesta obra le valió el premio nacional de literatura this play earned o won her the national literature prizeC(causar): aquellas declaraciones le valieron un gran disgusto that statement brought him a lot of trouble o caused a lot of trouble for him■ valerviAes de bisutería, vale muy poco it's costume jewelry, it's worth very littlevale más caro pero es mejor it costs more o it's more expensive but it's better2 (equivaler) valer POR algo to be worth sthcada cupón vale por un regalo each voucher is worth a gift o can be exchanged for a giftlas fichas negras valen por 50 pesos y las rojas por 100 the black chips are worth 50 pesos and the red ones 100B(tener valor no material): ha demostrado que vale he has shown his worth o how good he ises buena persona pero como profesor no vale nada he's a nice guy but as a teacher he's useless o he's a dead loss ( colloq)vales tanto como él you're as good as he isno valgo nada para el I mean nothing to himella es preciosa pero él no vale nada she's very pretty but he's not much to look at o not very good-lookingpara esos fanáticos la vida no vale nada those fanatics place no value at all on life, life has no value for those fanaticssu última novela no vale gran cosa her latest novel isn't much good o ( colloq) isn't up to muchhacerse valer to assert oneselfaprende a hacerte valer learn to be more assertive o to assert yourself o ( colloq) to stick up for yourselfhacer valer algo: las minorías tienen que hacer valer sus derechos minorities must assert o enforce their rightshizo valer su autoridad he used o imposed his authoritymás vale un `toma' que dos `te daré' a bird in the hand is worth two in the bushC1(servir): ésta no vale, es muy ancha this one's no good o no use, it's too widevaler PARA algo:no valgo para el deporte I'm useless o no use o no good at sport¡no vales para nada! you're completely useless(+ me/te/le etc): no le valió de nada protestar protesting got him nowhere, his protests were to no availsus consejos me han valido de mucho her advice has been very useful o valuable to me2( Esp fam) «ropa/zapatos» (+ me/te/le etc): este abrigo ya no le vale this coat is no use to him any morelos zapatos todavía le valen her shoes are still OK1 (expresando acuerdo) OK¿nos encontramos en la cafetería? — ¡valer! shall we meet in the cafeteria? sure o fine o OK!paso a buscarte a las ocho, ¿valer? I'll pick you up at eight, OK o all right?voy a llegar un poco más tarde — valer, no te preocupes I'll be a bit late — all right o OK, don't worryque llegues tarde una vez valer, pero tres días seguidos … being late once is one thing, but three days in a row …2(basta): ¿valer así o quieres más? is that OK o enough or do you want some more?¡valer, valer, que no me quiero emborrachar! hey, that's enough o plenty! I don't want to get drunk!ya valer, ¿no? lleváis media hora discutiendo don't you think that's enough? you've been arguing for half an hourEmás vale: más vale que no se entere she'd better not find outmás vale que hagas lo que te dice you'd better do as he saysse van a divorciar — más vale así they're getting divorced — it's better that way o it's the best thing for them(+ me/te/le etc): más te vale terminar a tiempo you'd better finish in timedijo que vendría temprano — ¡más le vale! he said he'd be here early — he'd better be!más vale prevenir que curar or ( Méx) lamentar prevention is better than cureF1 (ser válido) «billete/pasaporte/carné» to be validese pase no vale, está caducado that pass isn't valid o is no good, it's out of datelas entradas valen para toda la semana the tickets are valid for the whole week, the tickets can be used throughout the weekesta partida no vale, me ha visto las cartas this game doesn't count, he's seen my cardslo que le dije a él también vale para ti what I told him goes for you toono hay excusa que valga I don't want to hear o I won't accept any excuseshe tomado la decisión y no hay discusión que valga I've made my decision and I don't want any argumentsvalga la comparación if you know o see what I meanse comporta como un `nuevo millonario', valga la expresión he behaves like some sort of `nouveau millionaire', for want o lack of a better expression2(estar permitido): eso no vale, estás haciendo trampa that's not fair, you're cheatingno vale mirar you mustn't look, you're not allowed to lookG1( Méx fam) (no importar) (+ me/te/le etc): a mí eso me vale I don't give a damn about that ( colloq), I couldn't o ( AmE) I could care less about that ( colloq)eso me vale gorro or ( vulg) madres or ( vulg) una chingada I don't give a damn ( colloq) o ( vulg) a shitsaben mucha teoría pero a la hora de la hora valen they know plenty of theoretical stuff but when it comes to the crunch they're useless o no goodse las da de muy muy pero la neta es que vale gorro or ( vulg) madres he likes to make out he's really something but the truth is he's useless o (sl) he's crap3■ valerseA (servirse) valerse DE algo/algn to use sth/sbse valió de sus apellidos para conseguir el crédito he took advantage of o used the family name to get the loanse vale de mentiras para lograr lo que quiere she lies to get what she wantsse valía de un bastón para andar he used a stick to help him walkB«anciano/enfermo»: ya no se vale solo or no puede valerse por sí mismo he can't take care of o look after himself any more, he can't manage o cope on his own any moreC(AmC, Méx, Ven) (estar permitido, ser correcto): no se vale golpear abajo del cinturón hitting below the belt is not allowed¡no se vale! that's not fair!* * *
valer ( conjugate valer) verbo transitivo
1 ( tener un valor de) to be worth;
( costar) to cost;◊ ¿cuánto valen? how much are they?, what do they cost?
2 (+ me/te/le etc) ( ganar):◊ esta obra le valió un premio this play earned o won her a prize
verbo intransitivo
1 (+ compl) ( tener cierto valor) to be worth;
( costar) to cost;◊ vale más, pero es mejor it costs more but it's better;
cada cupón vale por un regalo each voucher is worth a gift
2 ( tener valor no material):
como profesor no vale (nada) as a teacher he's useless;
vales tanto como él you're as good as he is;
hacerse valer to assert oneself;
hacer valer algo ‹ derecho› to assert o enforce sth
3 ( servir):◊ esta no vale, es muy ancha this one's no good, it's too wide;
no le valió de nada protestar protesting got him nowhere;
no valer para algo to be useless o no good at sth
4◊ vale (Esp fam)
◊ ¿a las ocho? — ¡vale! at eight o'clock? — sure o fine o OK?;
¿vale? OK?, all right?b) ( basta):◊ ¿valer así? is that OK o enough?
5◊ más vale: más vale así it's better that way;
más te vale ir you'd better go
6
[jugada/partido] to countb) ( estar permitido):◊ eso no vale, estás haciendo trampa that's not fair, you're cheating;
no vale mirar you're not allowed to look
7 (Méx fam)a) ( no importar):◊ a mí eso me vale I don't give a damn about that (colloq)
c) ( estropearse):◊ mi coche ya valió my car's had it (colloq)
valerse verbo pronominal
1 ( servirse) valerse de algo/algn to use sth/sb
2 [anciano/enfermo]:
3 (estar permitido, ser correcto):
¡no se vale! that's not fair!
valer
I verbo transitivo
1 (tener precio, costar) to cost
2 (tener valor) to be worth ➣ Ver nota en worth
3 (ser causa o motivo de) to earn: el suspenso le valió una reprimenda, he was told off for failing
4 (merecer) to be worth: vale la pena leerlo, it is worth reading
II verbo intransitivo
1 (ser meritorio) es una mujer que vale mucho, she is a fine woman
2 (ser útil, capaz) vale para rastrillar hojas, it is used to rake up leaves
no vale para estudiar, he is no good at studying
de nada vale quejarse, it is useless to complain
3 (ropa, zapatos) to fit: ya no me vale, it doesn't fit me anymore
' valer' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
pena
- potosí
- riñón
- significar
- real
- valdré
- vale
- valga
English:
assert
- fit
- pay off
- stake
- stand
- worth
- enforce
- pay
- stick
- worthless
* * *♦ vt1. [costar] [precio] to cost;[tener un valor de] to be worth;¿cuánto vale? how much does it cost?, how much is it?;¿cuántos pesos vale un dólar?, ¿cuánto vale un dólar en pesos? how many pesos are there to the dollar?;este cuadro vale mucho dinero this painting is worth a lot of money;valer su peso en oro to be worth its/his/ etc weight in gold2. [suponer] to earn;su generosidad le valió el afecto de todos her generosity earned her everyone's affection;esta victoria puede valerles el campeonato this win may be enough for them to take the championship;aquello nos valió muchos disgustos that cost us a lot of trouble3. [merecer] to deserve;esta noticia bien vale una celebración this news calls for a celebration4. [en exclamaciones]¡válgame Dios! good God o heavens!♦ vi1. [tener valor, merecer aprecio] [persona, película, obra] to be good;él era el que más valía en el equipo he was the most valuable member of the team;ha demostrado que vale he's shown his worth;el muchacho vale mucho the lad's very good;su mujer vale más que él his wife's worth more than him;la obra vale poco/no vale nada the play isn't worth much o Br isn't up to much/is no good at all;hacer valer algo [derechos, autoridad, poder] to assert sth;el equipo local hizo valer su superioridad the home team made its superiority count;hacerse valer to show one's worthtíralo, ya no vale throw it away, it's no use any more;¿te vale este martillo/este sobre? is this hammer/this envelope any use to you?;valer de algo: sus consejos me valieron de mucho her advice proved of great value o use to me;de nada le valdrán o [m5] no le valdrán de nada sus artimañas all his tricks will be no good o of no use to him;¿de qué vale contratar un seguro si no cubre estos casos? what's the use of o the point in taking out an insurance policy if it doesn't cover cases like these?;valer para algo [objeto, instrumento, aparato] to be for sth;[persona, trabajador] to be good at sth;¿para qué vale? [cosa] what's it for?;no vale para nada he's/she's/it's useless;yo no valgo para mentir I'm useless o no good at telling lies3. [ser válido] [documento, carnet, argumentos, norma] to be valid;[respuesta] to be correct;eso no vale [en juegos] that's not allowed;no me valen esas razones I don't consider those reasons to be acceptable o valid;esta moneda ya no vale this coin is no longer legal tender;vale el gol the goal stands;vale la canasta the basket still counts;no vale el gol/la canasta the goal/basket has been disallowed;esta carrera vale para el campeonato del mundo this race counts towards the world championship;valga la expresión if you'll pardon the expression;valga la redundancia if you'll forgive me for using two words that sound so similar in the same sentence;no hay … que valga: no hay disculpa que valga there are no excuses4. [equivaler]vale por 1.000 pesos it's worth 1,000 pesos;vale por una camiseta de regalo it can be exchanged for a free T-shirtya no me vale la falda the skirt doesn't fit me any morelo que él piense me vale I couldn't care less what he thinks7.más vale: más vale que te calles/vayas it would be better if you shut up/left;más vale que no trate de engañarnos he'd better not try to cheat us;la llamaré – ¡más te vale! I'll call her – you'd better!;más vale tarde que nunca better late than never♦ nmFormal worth, value* * *I v/t1 be worth2 ( costar) costII v/i:vale mucho it’s worth a lot4 ( servir) be of use;no valer para algo be no good at sth;sus consejos me valieron de mucho his advice was very useful to me5 ( costar):¿cuánto vale? how much is it?;vale más caro it’s more expensive6 ( emplear):hacer valer autoridad assert;el presidente hizo valer su voto de calidad para … the president used his casting vote to …7:más vale … it’s better to …;8:¡vale! okay, sure;¿vale? okay?; ( amenaza) got it?;¡eso no vale! that’s not fair!;¡vale ya!, ¡ya vale! that’s enough!* * *valer {84} vt1) : to be worthvalen una fortuna: they're worth a fortuneno vale protestar: there's no point in protestingvaler la pena: to be worth the trouble2) : to cost¿cuánto vale?: how much does it cost?3) : to earn, to gainle valió una reprimenda: it earned him a reprimand4) : to protect, to aid¡válgame Dios!: God help me!5) : to be equal tovaler vi1) : to have valuesus consejos no valen para nada: his advice is worthless2) : to be valid, to count¡eso no vale!: that doesn't count!3)hacerse valer : to assert oneself4)más vale : it's bettermás vale que te vayas: you'd better go* * *valer vb¿cuánto vale este libro? how much does this book cost?2. (tener el valor) to be worth3. (ganar) to earn4. (servir) to do / to be useful5. (tener cualidades) to be goodesa película no vale nada that film is no good / that film is useless6. (ser válido) to be valid7. (ser permitido) to be allowed -
65 piltrafa
f.1 scrap.estar hecho una piltrafa to be a wreck; (persona, coche) to be worn out (chaqueta, zapatos)2 skinny flesh.3 offal.4 weakling, wimp.* * *1 scrap\* * *SF1) [de carne] poor quality meat2) (fig) (=cosa) worthless object; (=persona) wretch* * *a) ( de comida) scrapestar hecho una piltrafa humana — (fam) to be a complete wreck (colloq)
b) ( cosa inservible) useless thing* * *a) ( de comida) scrapestar hecho una piltrafa humana — (fam) to be a complete wreck (colloq)
b) ( cosa inservible) useless thing* * *1 (de comida) scrapestar hecho una piltrafa humana ( fam) (flaco) to be scrawny o all skin and bones ( colloq) (enfermo) to be a complete wreck ( colloq)2 (cosa inservible) useless thingno es un vestido, es una piltrafa that's not a dress, it looks more like a rag!* * *
piltrafa sustantivo femenino
piltrafa sustantivo femenino useless thing, worthless object: estoy hecha una piltrafa, I'm knackered
no te pongas esa piltrafa de vestido, you can't wear that old rag
' piltrafa' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
guiñapo
* * *piltrafa nf1. [de comida] scrapestar hecho una piltrafa [persona, coche] to be a wreck;[chaqueta, zapatos] to be worn out* * *f:piltrafas rags;estar hecho una piltrafa fig be a total wreck f* * *piltrafa nf1) : poor quality meat2) : wretch3) piltrafas nfpl: food scraps -
66 nebula
nĕbŭla, ae, f. [like nubes; Sanscr. nabhas; Lat. aër, caelum; Gr. nephelê], mist, vapor, fog, smoke, exhalation (syn.: nubes, nimbus).I.Lit.: fluviis ex omnibus et simul ipsa Surgere de terrā nebulas aestumque videmus, etc., Lucr. 6, 477; Verg. A. 8, 258:B.tenuem exhalat nebulam,
id. G. 2, 217. — Poet., of the clouds:nebulae pluviique rores,
Hor. C. 3, 3, 56; Verg. A. 1, 412; 439 (for which, nubes, id. ib. 587; Ov. M. 6, 21. —Of smoke, Ov. Tr. 5, 5, 31.—Of any thing soft or transparent:nebula haud est mollis, atque hujus est,
Plaut. Cas. 4, 4, 21:desine Inter ludere virgines Et stellis nebulam spargere candidis,
Hor. C. 3, 15, 6.—Prov.: nebulae cyathus, of any thing worthless, trifling,
Plaut. Poen. 1, 2, 62.——Personified = Nephele,
Hyg. Fab. 2 and 3.—Transf., a foggy mist, a vapor, cloud:2.pulveris nebula,
Lucr. 5, 253:nebulae dolia summa tegunt,
Ov. F. 5, 269:pinguem nebulam vomuere lucernae,
Pers. 5, 181; Sil. 6, 281: per nebulam audire, aut scire aliquid, to hear or know a thing indistinctly, Plaut. Ps. 1, 5, 47; id. Capt. 5, 4, 26 (for which:quasi per caliginem videre,
Cic. Phil. 12, 2, 2).—A thin, transparent substance; of a thin garment: aequum est induere nuptam ventum textilem, Palam prostare nudam in nebulā lineā, Laber. ap. Petr. 55;II.of a thin plate of metal,
Mart. 8, 33, 3.—Trop., darkness, obscurity:erroris nebula,
Juv. 10, 4:nebulae quaestionum,
obscure, puzzling questions, Gell. 8, 10 in lemm.:suspicionum nebulae,
vague suspicions, Amm. 14, 1, 4.—Of something empty, trifling, worthless:grande locuturi nebulas Helicone legunto,
Pers. 5, 7 (for which:nubes et inania captare,
Hor. A. P. 230). -
67 Г-187
НИКУДА НЕ ГОДИТСЯ coll VP subj: human, abstr, or concr fixed WOsome person (thing, phenomenon) is totally unsuitable, does not meet the required or desired standards, some action or situation is totally unacceptableX никуда не годится = X just won't doX will never do X is no good (at all) X is good for nothing X is not good for anything person X is utterly incompetent thing X is utterly worthless X is of no use (whatsoever) (in limited contexts) X is an utter waste of time.«Язык! - вскрикивал литератор (тот, который оказался сволочью), - язык, главное! Язык никуда не годится» (Булгаков 12). The language!" cried one of the writers (the one who turned out to be such a swine). The language is the trouble. Its no good" (12a)....Стихи всё равно никуда не годились, как подавляющее большинство описательных стихов... (Катаев 3)....The verses were no good at all, like most descriptive verses... (3a).Яков:) Так вот я - из третьей группы. К ней принадлежат все лентяи, бродяги, монахи, нищие и другие приживалы мира сего. (Надя:) Скучно ты говоришь, дядя! И совсем ты не такой, а просто - ты добрый, мягкий. (Яков:) То есть никуда не гожусь (Горький 1). (Ya.:) That's me-the third category. To this category belong all the lazy loafers, the tramps, monks, beggars and other parasites of this world. (N.:) Why do you say such tiresome things, uncle? And you're not like that at all. You're just kind and softhearted. (Ya.:) In other words, good-for-nothing (lc).«Да, -угрюмо сказал Передонов, - вы взяли себе в голову, что я никуда не гожусь, а я постоянно о гимназии забочусь» (Сологуб 1). That's right," said the sullen Peredonov, "you've taken it into your head that I'm not good for anything, even though I am constantly concerned about the gymnasium" (1a).Кутузову пожалован Георгий 1-й степени государь оказывал ему высочайшие почести но неудовольствие государя против фельдмаршала было известно каждому. Соблюдалось приличие, и государь показывал первый пример этого но все знали, что старик виноват и никуда не годится (Толстой 7). Kutuzov had received the Order of St. George, First Class, the Tsar had conferred on him the highest honors, but everyone was aware of his dissatisfaction with the Field Marshal. The proprieties were observed and the Tsar was the first to set the example, but everyone knew that the old man was at fault and utterly incompetent (7a).«...(Я) гаснул и тратил по мелочи жизнь и ум... Даже самолюбие - на что оно тратилось? Чтоб заказывать платье у известного портного? Чтоб попасть в известный дом?.. Или я не понял этой жизни, или она никуда не годится...» (Гончаров 1). U...(I was) fading out, wasting my mind, my life, on trifles.... Even my self-respect-what was that wasted on? On ordering clothes from a famous tailor? On being invited to a celebrated house?...Either I failed to understand that life, or it was utterly worthless..." (1b).Третьего дня, я смотрю, он (твой отец) Пушкина читает, - продолжал... Базаров. -Растолкуй ему, пожалуйста, что это никуда не годится» (Тургенев 2). The other day I found him (your father) reading Pushkin," Bazarov resumed. Tell him what an utter waste of time it is" (2a). -
68 никуда не годится
• НИКУДА НЕ ГОДИТСЯ coll[VP; subj: human, abstr, or concr; fixed WO]=====⇒ some person (thing, phenomenon) is totally unsuitable, does not meet the required or desired standards, some action or situation is totally unacceptable:- [in limited contexts] X is an utter waste of time.♦ " Язык! - вскрикивал литератор (тот, который оказался сволочью), - язык, главное! Язык никуда не годится" (Булгаков 12). "The language!" cried one of the writers (the one who turned out to be such a swine). "The language is the trouble. Its no good" (12a).♦...Стихи всё равно никуда не годились, как подавляющее большинство описательных стихов... (Катаев 3)....The verses were no good at all, like most descriptive verses... (3a).♦ [Яков:] Так вот я - из третьей группы. К ней принадлежат все лентяи, бродяги, монахи, нищие и другие приживалы мира сего. [Надя:] Скучно ты говоришь, дядя! И совсем ты не такой, а просто - ты добрый, мягкий. [Яков:] То есть никуда не гожусь (Горький 1). [Ya.:] That's me-the third category. To this category belong all the lazy loafers, the tramps, monks, beggars and other parasites of this world. [N.:] Why do you say such tiresome things, uncle? And you're not like that at all. You're just kind and softhearted. [Ya.:] In other words, good-for-nothing (lc).♦ "Да, - угрюмо сказал Передонов, - вы взяли себе в голову, что я никуда не гожусь, а я постоянно о гимназии забочусь" (Сологуб 1). "That's right," said the sullen Peredonov, "you've taken it into your head that I'm not good for anything, even though I am constantly concerned about the gymnasium" (1a).♦ Кутузову пожалован Георгий 1-й степени; государь оказывал ему высочайшие почести; но неудовольствие государя против фельдмаршала было известно каждому. Соблюдалось приличие, и государь показывал первый пример этого; но все знали, что старик виноват и никуда не годится (Толстой 7). Kutuzov had received the Order of St. George, First Class; the Tsar had conferred on him the highest honors, but everyone was aware of his dissatisfaction with the Field Marshal. The proprieties were observed and the Tsar was the first to set the example, but everyone knew that the old man was at fault and utterly incompetent (7a).♦ "...[ Я] гаснул и тратил по мелочи жизнь и ум... Даже самолюбие - на что оно тратилось? Чтоб заказывать платье у известного портного? Чтоб попасть в известный дом?.. Или я не понял этой жизни, или она никуда не годится..." (Гончаров 1). "...[I was] fading out, wasting my mind, my life, on trifles.... Even my self-respect-what was that wasted on? On ordering clothes from a famous tailor? On being invited to a celebrated house?...Either I failed to understand that life, or it was utterly worthless..." (1b).♦ "Третьего дня, я смотрю, он [твой отец] Пушкина читает, - продолжал... Базаров. - Растолкуй ему, пожалуйста, что это никуда не годится" (Тургенев 2). "The other day I found him [your father] reading Pushkin," Bazarov resumed. "Tell him what an utter waste of time it is" (2a).Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > никуда не годится
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69 bad
1. adjective,1) schlecht; (worthless) wertlos, ungedeckt [Scheck]; (rotten) schlecht, verdorben [Fleisch, Fisch, Essen]; faul [Ei, Apfel]; (unpleasant) schlecht, unangenehm [Geruch]somebody gets a bad name — jemand kommt in Verruf
she is in bad health — sie hat eine angegriffene Gesundheit
[some] bad news — schlechte od. schlimme Nachrichten
bad breath — Mundgeruch, der
he is having a bad day — er hat einen schwarzen Tag
bad hair day — (coll) schlechter Tag
I'm having a bad hair day — (coll.) heute geht bei mir alles schief
it is a bad business — (fig.) das ist eine schlimme Sache
in the bad old days — in den schlimmen Jahren
not bad — (coll.) nicht schlecht; nicht übel
not half bad — (coll.) [gar] nicht schlecht
something is too bad — (coll.) etwas ist ein Jammer
too bad! — (coll.) so ein Pech! (auch iron.)
2) (noxious) schlecht; schädlich4) (offensive)[use] bad language — Kraftausdrücke [benutzen]
5) (in ill health)she's bad today — es geht ihr heute schlecht
I have a bad pain/finger — ich habe schlimme Schmerzen/(ugs.) einen schlimmen Finger
6) (serious) schlimm, böse [Sturz, Krise]; schwer [Fehler, Krankheit, Unfall, Erschütterung]; hoch [Fieber]; schrecklich [Feuer]7) (coll.): (regretful)feel bad about something/not having done something — etwas bedauern/bedauern, dass man etwas nicht getan hat
I feel bad about him/her — ich habe seinetwegen/ihretwegen ein schlechtes Gewissen
8) (Commerc.)2. nouna bad debt — eine uneinbringliche Schuld (Wirtsch.). See also academic.ru/83116/worse">worse 1.; worst 1.
go to the bad — auf die schiefe Bahn geraten
* * *[bæd]comparative - worse; adjective1) (not good; not efficient: He is a bad driver; His eyesight is bad; They are bad at tennis (= they play tennis badly).) schlecht3) (unpleasant: bad news.) schlecht4) (rotten: This meat is bad.) schlecht5) (causing harm or injury: Smoking is bad for your health.) schlecht6) ((of a part of the body) painful, or in a weak state: She has a bad heart; I have a bad head (= headache) today.) schlecht7) (unwell: I am feeling quite bad today.) schlecht•- badly- badness
- badly off
- feel bad about something
- feel bad
- go from bad to worse
- not bad
- too bad* * *<worse, worst>[bæd]I. adj1. (inferior, of low quality) schlechtnot \bad! nicht schlecht!to have \bad taste einen schlechten Geschmack haben2. (incompetent) schlecht▪ to be \bad at sth etw nicht gut könnenhe's \bad at flirting er kann nicht gut flirtento be very \bad at football sehr schlecht Fußball spielento be \bad at German/maths schlecht in Deutsch/Mathe seinthey have a \bad marriage sie führen keine gute Ehethings are looking \bad [for him] es sieht nicht gut [für ihn] austhings look \bad in this company es sieht nicht gut für die Firma ausif it's \bad weather, we won't play bei schlechtem Wetter spielen wir nichtthings are [or it is] going from \bad to worse es wird immer schlimmerthis year their situation has gone from \bad to worse ihre Situation hat sich in diesem Jahr zunehmend verschlechtert [o verschlimmert]a \bad dream ein böser Traum\bad news schlechte Nachrichtena \bad situation eine schlimme Situationa \bad smell ein übler Geruch\bad times schwere Zeiten4. (objectionable) person, character, manners schlechtit was \bad of you to laugh at her in front of everybody es war gemein von dir, sie vor allen auszulachento fall in with a \bad crowd in eine üble Bande geratena \bad egg ( fig fam) eine ziemlich üble Persona \bad habit eine schlechte Angewohnheitto use \bad language Kraftausdrücke benutzena \bad neighbourhood eine verkommene [Wohn]gegendto have a \bad personality eine unangenehme Art habensb's \bad points jds schlechte Seitento be a \bad sport ein schlechter Verlierer/eine schlechte Verliererin seinto have a \bad temper schlecht gelaunt sein\bad blood böses Blut[to act] in \bad faith in böser Absicht [handeln]6. (pity) schadetoo \bad zu schade [o fam dumm7. (regretful)8. (unfortunate) decision schlecht, unglücklich\bad luck Pech nt9. (harmful) schlecht, schädlich▪ to be \bad for sb schlecht für jdn seinto be \bad for sb's health jds Gesundheit schadento be \bad for one's teeth schlecht für die Zähne seinto have a \bad name einen schlechten Ruf habento go \bad verderben, schlecht werden11. (serious) schlimmto have a \bad cold eine schlimme Erkältung habena \bad crime ein schweres Verbrechena \bad debt eine uneinbringliche Schulda \bad storm ein heftiger Sturm12. MED schlechtI feel \bad mir geht es nicht gutto have a \bad leg ein schlimmes Bein habento have \bad skin [or a bad complexion] schlechte Haut haben13. (not valid) cheque falsch15.he's got it \bad for Lucy er ist total verknallt in Lucy fam▶ to make the best of a \bad job das Beste aus einer schlechten Situation machento need sth [real] \bad etw dringend brauchento want sth \bad etw unbedingt haben wollen1. (ill luck)to take the \bad with the good auch das Schlechte [o die schlechten Seiten] in Kauf nehmenthere is good and \bad in everybody jeder hat seine guten und schlechten Seiten3. (immoral state)to go to the \bad auf die schiefe Bahn geraten4. (debt)to be in the \bad im Minus sein6. (disfavour)to be in \bad with sb bei jdm in Ungnade sein* * *I [bd]1. adj comp worse,superl worst1) schlecht; smell übel; habit schlecht, übel; insurance risk hoch; word unanständig, schlimm; (= immoral, wicked) böse; (= naughty, misbehaved) unartig, ungezogen; dog böseit was a bad thing to do —
it was bad of you to treat her like that — das war gemein von dir, sie so zu behandeln
I've had a really bad day —
you bad boy! — du ungezogener Junge!, du Lümmel! (also iro)
he's been a bad boy —
I didn't mean that word in a bad sense — ich habe mir bei dem Wort nichts Böses gedacht
it's not so bad/not bad at all — es ist nicht/gar nicht so schlecht
to go bad — schlecht werden, verderben
to be bad for sb/sth — schlecht or nicht gut für jdn/etw sein
he's bad at French —
he's bad at sports — im Sport ist er schlecht or nicht gut, er ist unsportlich
he speaks very bad English, his English is very bad — er spricht sehr schlecht(es) Englisch
to be bad to sb —
there's nothing bad about living together — es ist doch nichts dabei, wenn man zusammenlebt
this is a bad town for violence —
bad light stopped play — das Spiel wurde aufgrund des schlechten Lichts abgebrochen
it's too bad of you — das ist wirklich nicht nett von dir
too bad you couldn't make it —
to have a bad hair day (inf) (fig) — Probleme mit der Frisur haben total durch den Wind sein (inf)
3) (= unfavourable) time, day ungünstig, schlechtThursday's bad, can you make it Friday? — Donnerstag ist ungünstig or schlecht, gehts nicht Freitag?
4) (= in poor health, sick) stomach krank; leg, knee, hand schlimm; tooth (generally) schlecht; (now) schlimmhe/the economy is in a bad way (Brit) —
I feel bad —
to be taken bad (Brit) to take a bad turn (inf) — plötzlich krank werden
how is he? – he's not so bad — wie geht es ihm? – nicht schlecht
I didn't know she was so bad — ich wusste nicht, dass es ihr so schlecht geht or dass sie so schlimm dran ist (inf)
5)(= regretful)
I feel really bad about not having told him — es tut mir wirklich leid or ich habe ein schlechtes Gewissen, dass ich ihm das nicht gesagt habedon't feel bad about it — machen Sie sich (dat) keine Gedanken or Sorgen (darüber)
2. n no pl1)there is good and bad in everything/everybody — alles/jeder hat seine guten und schlechten Seiten
2)II pret See: of bid* * *bad1 [bæd]1. allg schlecht2. böse, schlimm, arg, schwer:a bad accident ein schwerer Unfall;a bad dream ein böser Traum;3. böse, ungezogen (Junge etc)4. verdorben, lasterhaft (Frau etc)5. unanständig, unflätig:a) unanständige Ausdrücke pl,b) (gottes)lästerliche Reden pl,c) beleidigende Äußerungen pl;a bad word ein hässliches Wort6. falsch, fehlerhaft, schlecht:his bad English sein schlechtes Englisch;bad grammar grammatisch falsch oder schlecht7. unbefriedigend, schlecht (Ernte, Jahr, Plan etc):not bad fun ganz amüsant8. ungünstig, schlecht (Nachrichten etc):he’s bad news umg er ist ein unangenehmer Zeitgenosse9. schädlich, ungesund, schlecht ( alle:for für):be bad for sb jemandem nicht guttun;be bad for sb’s health jemandes Gesundheit schaden10. unangenehm, ärgerlich:that’s too bad das ist (zu) schade, das ist (doch) zu dumm;too bad that … schade, dass …11. schlecht (Qualität, Zustand):in bad condition in schlechtem Zustand;bad debts WIRTSCH zweifelhafte Forderungen;13. schlecht, verdorben (Fleisch etc):14. schlecht, angegriffen (Gesundheit)15. a) unwohl, krank:he is in a bad way (a. weitS.) es geht ihm schlecht, er ist übel dran;he was taken bad umg er wurde krankb) niedergeschlagen:feel bad about (sehr) deprimiert sein über (akk); ein schlechtes Gewissen haben wegen16. schlimm, böse, arg, heftig:17. widerlich, schlecht (Geruch etc)18. schlecht, schwach (at in dat)B sbe to the bad von Nachteil sein;go to the bad auf die schiefe Bahn geraten oder kommen;go from bad to worse immer schlimmer werden;take the bad with the good (auch) die Nachteile oder die schlechten Seiten in Kauf nehmen2. WIRTSCH Defizit n:be $25 to the bad ein Defizit oder einen Verlust von 25 Dollar haben, 25 Dollar im Minus seinget in bad with sich unbeliebt machen bei;my bad! bes US ich wars!bad2 [bæd] obs prät von bid1* * *1. adjective,1) schlecht; (worthless) wertlos, ungedeckt [Scheck]; (rotten) schlecht, verdorben [Fleisch, Fisch, Essen]; faul [Ei, Apfel]; (unpleasant) schlecht, unangenehm [Geruch][some] bad news — schlechte od. schlimme Nachrichten
bad breath — Mundgeruch, der
bad hair day — (coll) schlechter Tag
I'm having a bad hair day — (coll.) heute geht bei mir alles schief
it is a bad business — (fig.) das ist eine schlimme Sache
not bad — (coll.) nicht schlecht; nicht übel
not half bad — (coll.) [gar] nicht schlecht
something is too bad — (coll.) etwas ist ein Jammer
too bad! — (coll.) so ein Pech! (auch iron.)
2) (noxious) schlecht; schädlich4) (offensive)[use] bad language — Kraftausdrücke [benutzen]
I have a bad pain/finger — ich habe schlimme Schmerzen/(ugs.) einen schlimmen Finger
6) (serious) schlimm, böse [Sturz, Krise]; schwer [Fehler, Krankheit, Unfall, Erschütterung]; hoch [Fieber]; schrecklich [Feuer]7) (coll.): (regretful)feel bad about something/not having done something — etwas bedauern/bedauern, dass man etwas nicht getan hat
I feel bad about him/her — ich habe seinetwegen/ihretwegen ein schlechtes Gewissen
8) (Commerc.)2. nouna bad debt — eine uneinbringliche Schuld (Wirtsch.). See also worse 1.; worst 1.
be £100 to the bad — mit 100 Pfund in der Kreide stehen (ugs.)
* * *(for) adj.schädlich (für) adj. adj.bös adj.schlecht adj.schlimm adj.übel adj. -
70 dud
1.(coll.)nounthis battery/ballpoint is a dud — diese Batterie/dieser Kugelschreiber taugt nichts
2) (bomb etc.) Blindgänger, der2. adjectivea dud banknote — eine Blüte (ugs.)
2)a dud bullet/shell/bomb — ein Blindgänger
* * *1. noun(something which is useless, does not work etc: This light-bulb is a dud.) der Blindgänger2. adjective(useless or not working: a dud battery.) wertlos* * *[dʌd]( fam)I. nto be a \dud nicht funktionierenthis pen is a \dud dieser Füller taugt nichts4. (clothes)1. (useless, worthless) schlecht, mies2. (forged) gefälscht, falsch* * *[dʌd] (inf)1. adjdud mine/shell/bomb/bullet — Blindgänger m
dud equipment/batteries — Geräte/Batterien, die nichts taugen
2) (= counterfeit) note, coin, antique gefälscht; cheque, loan ungedecktor bill (US) — eine Blüte (inf)
2. n(= bomb, shell, grenade) Blindgänger m; (= coin) Fälschung f; (= note) Blüte f (inf); (= person) Niete f (inf), Versager(in) m(f)this watch/battery is a dud — diese Uhr/Batterie taugt nichts
* * *dud [dʌd] s umg1. pl obs Klamotten pl (Kleider)2. pl obs Krempel m, Siebensachen pl3. MIL Blindgänger m (auch fig Person)b) Blüte f (gefälschter Geldschein)* * *1.(coll.)nounthis battery/ballpoint is a dud — diese Batterie/dieser Kugelschreiber taugt nichts
2) (bomb etc.) Blindgänger, der2. adjectivea dud banknote — eine Blüte (ugs.)
2)a dud bullet/shell/bomb — ein Blindgänger
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71 Schuss
m; -es, Schüsse, bei Munition: Schuss1. shot (auch FOT.); Fußball: auch strike; (Kugel) bullet; (Munition) round; einen Schuss abgeben fire (a shot); Fußball: shoot; ein Schuss ins Schwarze a bull’s-eye (auch fig.); er hatte noch drei Schuss ( Munition) he still had three shots ( oder rounds) left; er kam nicht zum Schuss Jäger, Fußballer, Fotograf etc.: he couldn’t get a shot in; umg., fig. he never got a chance; der Schuss ging ins Aus / Tor the ball went into touch ( oder out of play) / went in(to the goal); der Schuss war unhaltbar the shot was unstoppable; er hat einen guten / unglaublich harten Schuss he has a good shot on him / can shoot with incredible power; Schuss vor den Bug fig. warning shot; ein Schuss in den Ofen umg., fig. a complete flop, a dead loss; der Schuss ging nach hinten los umg., fig. it was an own goal; weit(ab) vom Schuss umg. well out of harm’s way; wohnen etc.: miles from anywhere2. umg., fig.: einen Schuss haben (spinnen, verrückt sein) have a screw loose; die hat wohl ‘nen Schuss umg. she must be off her rocker3. nur Sg.: ein Schuss Wein etc.: a dash of; fig., Ironie etc.: a touch of; Orangensaft etc. mit Schuss spiked orange juice etc.; Berliner Weiße mit Schuss light, fizzy wheat beer with a dash of raspberry juice5. umg. (Drogeninjektion) shot, fix Sl.; sich einen Schuss setzen Drogen: shoot up; den goldenen Schuss setzen OD (o.s.)6. umg.: in Schuss bringen (Wohnung, Garten etc.) knock s.th. into shape; (Auto, Uhr etc.) get s.th. working; (Geschäft etc.) get s.th. going again; (Person) get s.o. into shape ( oder trim); wieder in Schuss kommen Garten, Person: shape up again; auch Auto: get back into shape; sich gut in Schuss halten keep in good shape; gut in Schuss sein be in good shape7. fig.: einen Schuss tun (wachsen) shoot up; der Junge hat einen tüchtigen Schuss getan umg., fig. the lad (Am. kid) has really shot up8. Weberei: weft, woof* * *der Schuss(Ball) shot;(Getränk) dash;(Skisport) schuss;(Waffe) shot; gunshot* * *Schụss [ʃʊs]m -es, -e['ʃʏsə]1) shot; (= Schuss Munition) roundsechs Schuss or Schüsse — six shots/rounds
einen Schuss auf jdn/etw abgeben — to fire a shot at sb/sth
ein Schuss ins Schwarze (lit, fig) — a bull's-eye
er ist keinen Schuss Pulver wert (fig) — he is not worth tuppence (Brit inf) or two cents (US inf)
2) (MIN = Sprengung) blast, chargezum Schuss kommen — to get the ball; (zum Tor) to get a chance to shoot
5) (= Spritzer) (von Wein, Essig etc) dash; (von Whisky) shot; (von Humor, Leichtsinn etc) touch, dash6) (TEX = Querfäden) weft, woof7) (inf mit Rauschgift) shot; (einen Schuss setzen — to shoot up (inf)
den goldenen Schuss setzen — to OD (inf)
8) (inf)in Schuss sein/kommen — to be in/get into (good) shape; (Mensch, Sportler auch) to be on form/get into good form; (Schüler, Klasse) to be/get up to the mark (esp Brit) or up to snuff; (Party) to be going well/get going
etw in Schuss bringen/halten — to knock sth into shape/keep sth in good shape; Schulklasse to bring/keep sth up to the mark (esp Brit) or up to snuff; Party to get/keep sth going
9) (sl)* * *SchussRR<-es, Schüsse>SchußALT<-sses, Schüsse>[ʃʊs, pl ˈʃʏsə]m1. (Ab- o Einschuss) shotein scharfer \Schuss a shot using live ammunitioneinen \Schuss [o Schüsse] auf jdn/etw abgeben to fire a shot [or shots] at sb/sth2. (Patrone) roundzehn \Schuss [o Schüsse] ten shots [or rounds3. (Spritzer) splashCola mit einem \Schuss Rum cola with a splash of rum6.▶ ein \Schuss vor den Bug a warning signal▶ einen \Schuss vor den Bug bekommen to receive a warning signal▶ jdm einen \Schuss vor den Bug setzen [o geben] to give sb a warning signal* * *der; Schusses, Schüsse (bei Maßangaben ungebeugt)1) shot (auf + Akk. at)weit od. weitab vom Schuss — (fig. ugs.) well away from the action; at a safe distance; (abseits) far off the beaten track
der Schuss kann nach hinten losgehen — (fig. ugs.) it could backfire or turn out to be an own goal
ein Schuss in den Ofen — (fig.) a complete waste of effort
2) (Menge Munition/Schießpulver) roundkeinen Schuss Pulver wert sein — (fig. ugs.) be worthless or not worth a thing
3) (Schusswunde) gunshot wound4) (mit einem Ball, Puck usw.) shot (auf + Akk. at)5) (kleine Menge) dashCola usw. mit Schuss — Coke ® etc. with something strong; brandy/rum etc. and Coke ® etc.
6) (Drogenjargon) shot; fix (sl.)7) (Skisport)8) (ugs.) inetwas in Schuss bringen/halten — get something into/keep something in[good] shape
* * *einen Schuss abgeben fire (a shot); Fußball: shoot;ein Schuss ins Schwarze a bull’s-eye (auch fig);er hatte noch drei Schuss (Munition) he still had three shots ( oder rounds) left;er kam nicht zum Schuss Jäger, Fußballer, Fotograf etc: he couldn’t get a shot in; umg, fig he never got a chance;der Schuss ging ins Aus/Tor the ball went into touch ( oder out of play)/went in(to the goal);der Schuss war unhaltbar the shot was unstoppable;er hat einen guten/unglaublich harten Schuss he has a good shot on him/can shoot with incredible power;Schuss vor den Bug fig warning shot;ein Schuss in den Ofen umg, fig a complete flop, a dead loss;der Schuss ging nach hinten los umg, fig it was an own goal;2. umg, fig:einen Schuss haben (spinnen, verrückt sein) have a screw loose;die hat wohl ’nen Schuss umg she must be off her rocker3. nur sg:Orangensaft etcmit Schuss spiked orange juice etc;Berliner Weiße mit Schuss light, fizzy wheat beer with a dash of raspberry juice5. umg (Drogeninjektion) shot, fix sl;sich einen Schuss setzen Drogen: shoot up;den goldenen Schuss setzen OD (o.s.)6. umg:in Schuss bringen (Wohnung, Garten etc) knock sth into shape; (Auto, Uhr etc) get sth working; (Geschäft etc) get sth going again; (Person) get sb into shape ( oder trim);sich gut in Schuss halten keep in good shape;gut in Schuss sein be in good shape7. fig:einen Schuss tun (wachsen) shoot up;8. Weberei: weft, woof* * *der; Schusses, Schüsse (bei Maßangaben ungebeugt)1) shot (auf + Akk. at)weit od. weitab vom Schuss — (fig. ugs.) well away from the action; at a safe distance; (abseits) far off the beaten track
der Schuss kann nach hinten losgehen — (fig. ugs.) it could backfire or turn out to be an own goal
ein Schuss in den Ofen — (fig.) a complete waste of effort
2) (Menge Munition/Schießpulver) roundkeinen Schuss Pulver wert sein — (fig. ugs.) be worthless or not worth a thing
3) (Schusswunde) gunshot wound4) (mit einem Ball, Puck usw.) shot (auf + Akk. at)5) (kleine Menge) dashCola usw. mit Schuss — Coke [bt](P)[/bt] etc. with something strong; brandy/rum etc. and Coke [bt](P)[/bt] etc.
6) (Drogenjargon) shot; fix (sl.)7) (Skisport)8) (ugs.) inetwas in Schuss bringen/halten — get something into/keep something in[good] shape
* * *-¨e m.shoot n.shot n. -
72 worth
1. adjective1) (of value equivalent to) wertit's worth/not worth £80 — es ist 80 Pfund wert/80 Pfund ist es nicht wert
it is not worth much or a lot [to somebody] — es ist [jemandem] nicht viel wert
be worth the money — das Geld wert sein
not worth a penny — keinen Pfennig wert (ugs.)
for what it is worth — was immer auch davon zu halten ist
2) (worthy of)is it worth hearing/the effort? — ist es hörenswert/der Mühe wert?
if it's worth doing, it's worth doing well — wenn schon, denn schon
it would be [well] worth it — (coll.) es würde sich [sehr] lohnen
be well worth something — durchaus od. sehr wohl etwas wert sein
3)be worth something — (possess) etwas wert sein (ugs.)
2. nounrun/cycle for all one is worth — (coll.) rennen/fahren, was man kann
ten pounds' worth of petrol — Benzin für zehn Pfund; (more formal) Benzin im Wert von zehn Pfund
2) (value, excellence) Wert, der* * *[wə:Ɵ] 1. noun 2. adjective1) (equal in value to: Each of these stamps is worth a cent.) wert2) (good enough for: His suggestion is worth considering: The exhibition is well worth a visit.) wert•- academic.ru/83129/worthless">worthless- worthlessly
- worthlessness
- worthy 3. noun(a highly respected person.) große Persönlichkeit- worthily- worthiness
- -worthy
- worthwhile
- for all one is worth* * *[wɜ:θ, AM wɜ:rθ]I. adj inv, pred1. (of monetary value) wert▪ to be \worth sth etw wert seinjewellery \worth several thousand pounds Schmuck im Wert von mehreren tausend Pfundwhat's it \worth to you? wie viel ist dir das wert?to not be \worth a bean keinen Pfifferling wert sein famto not be \worth the paper it is written on nicht das Papier wert sein, auf dem es geschrieben istto be \worth one's weight in gold [to sb/sth] [für jdn/etw] Gold wert sein2. (deserving) wert▪ to be \worth sth etw wert seintheir latest record is \worth a listen ihre neueste Platte kann sich hören lassento [not] be \worth a mention [nicht] erwähnenswert seinto be \worth a try/visit einen Versuch/Besuch wert seinto be \worth reading book, article lesenswert sein3. (advisable) [lohnens]wertit's not really \worth arguing about! es lohnt sich nicht, sich darüber zu streiten!it's \worth mentioning that... man sollte nicht vergessen zu erwähnen, dass...it's \worth remembering that... man sollte daran denken, dass...she must be \worth at least half a million sie besitzt mindestens eine halbe Million5.▶ to do sth for all one is \worth etw mit aller Kraft tunI screamed for all I was \worth ich schrie aus Leibeskräften▶ to be/not be \worth one's salt etwas/nichts taugenI did a month's \worth of shopping ich habe für einen Monat eingekauftto get one's money's \worth etw für sein Geld bekommenthis is of little \worth to me das bedeutet mir nicht vielof comparable/dubious/little \worth von vergleichbarem/zweifelhaftem/geringem Wert* * *[wɜːɵ]1. adj1) wertit's worth £5 — es ist £ 5 wert
it's not worth £5 — es ist keine £ 5 wert
what's this worth? — was or wie viel ist das wert?
it can't be worth that! — so viel kann es unmöglich wert sein
it's worth a great deal to me — es ist mir viel wert; (sentimentally) es bedeutet mir sehr viel
what's it worth to me to do that? (in money) — was springt für mich dabei heraus? (inf); (in advantages) was bringt es mir, wenn ich das tue?
he was worth a million — er besaß eine Million
he's worth all his brothers put together — er ist so viel wert wie all seine Brüder zusammen
for all one is worth — so sehr man nur kann
to sing for all one is worth — aus voller Kehle or vollem Halse singen
you need to exploit the idea for all it's worth — du musst aus der Idee machen, was du nur kannst
for what it's worth, I personally don't think... — wenn mich einer fragt, ich persönlich glaube nicht, dass...
I'll tell you this for what it's worth — ich sage dir das, ich weiß nicht, ob was dran ist
it's more than my life/job is worth to tell you — ich sage es dir nicht, dazu ist mir mein Leben zu lieb/dazu liegt mir zu viel an meiner Stelle
2) (= deserving, meriting) wertit's a film worth seeing — es lohnt sich, diesen Film anzusehen
if a thing's worth doing, it's worth doing well — wennschon, dennschon
See:→ salt2. nWert mto show one's true worth — zeigen, was man wirklich wert ist, seinen wahren Wert zeigen
to increase in worth —
See:→ money* * *worth1 [wɜːθ; US wɜrθ]A adja skirt worth £20 ein Rock im Wert von 20 Pfund;he is worth £50,000 a year er hat ein Jahreseinkommen von 50 000 Pfund;he is worth a million er ist eine Million wert, er besitzt oder verdient eine Million2. fig würdig, wert (gen):worth doing wert, getan zu werden;worth discussing diskutabel;it is worth fighting for es lohnt sich, dafür zu kämpfen;the deal would have been worth making es hätte sich gelohnt, das Abkommen zu treffen;not worth mentioning nicht der Rede wert;worth remembering denkwürdig;be worth a try einen Versuch wert sein;be worth a visit einen Besuch lohnen;take it for what it is worth nimm es für das, was es wirklich ist!;my opinion for what it may be worth meine unmaßgebliche Meinung;for all one is worth umg mit aller Macht, so gut man kann, auf Teufel komm raus;he ran for all he was worth umg er lief, so schnell er konnte; → candle A 1, paper A 2, powder A 1, salt1 A 1, whoop A 1B s1. (Geld)Wert m, Preis m:of no worth wertlos;2. fig Wert m:a) Bedeutung fb) Verdienst n:men of worth verdiente oder verdienstvolle Leuteworth2 [wɜːθ; US wɜrθ] v/i:woe worth the day obs oder poet wehe dem Tag* * *1. adjective1) (of value equivalent to) wertit's worth/not worth £80 — es ist 80 Pfund wert/80 Pfund ist es nicht wert
it is not worth much or a lot [to somebody] — es ist [jemandem] nicht viel wert
not worth a penny — keinen Pfennig wert (ugs.)
2) (worthy of)is it worth hearing/the effort? — ist es hörenswert/der Mühe wert?
if it's worth doing, it's worth doing well — wenn schon, denn schon
it would be [well] worth it — (coll.) es würde sich [sehr] lohnen
be well worth something — durchaus od. sehr wohl etwas wert sein
3)be worth something — (possess) etwas wert sein (ugs.)
2. nounrun/cycle for all one is worth — (coll.) rennen/fahren, was man kann
1) (equivalent of money etc. in commodity)ten pounds' worth of petrol — Benzin für zehn Pfund; (more formal) Benzin im Wert von zehn Pfund
2) (value, excellence) Wert, der* * *adj.wert adj. n.Geltung -en f.Wert -e m. -
73 Science
It is a common notion, or at least it is implied in many common modes of speech, that the thoughts, feelings, and actions of sentient beings are not a subject of science.... This notion seems to involve some confusion of ideas, which it is necessary to begin by clearing up. Any facts are fitted, in themselves, to be a subject of science, which follow one another according to constant laws; although those laws may not have been discovered, nor even to be discoverable by our existing resources. (Mill, 1900, B. VI, Chap. 3, Sec. 1)One class of natural philosophers has always a tendency to combine the phenomena and to discover their analogies; another class, on the contrary, employs all its efforts in showing the disparities of things. Both tendencies are necessary for the perfection of science, the one for its progress, the other for its correctness. The philosophers of the first of these classes are guided by the sense of unity throughout nature; the philosophers of the second have their minds more directed towards the certainty of our knowledge. The one are absorbed in search of principles, and neglect often the peculiarities, and not seldom the strictness of demonstration; the other consider the science only as the investigation of facts, but in their laudable zeal they often lose sight of the harmony of the whole, which is the character of truth. Those who look for the stamp of divinity on every thing around them, consider the opposite pursuits as ignoble and even as irreligious; while those who are engaged in the search after truth, look upon the other as unphilosophical enthusiasts, and perhaps as phantastical contemners of truth.... This conflict of opinions keeps science alive, and promotes it by an oscillatory progress. (Oersted, 1920, p. 352)Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone. (Einstein & Infeld, 1938, p. 27)A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it. (Planck, 1949, pp. 33-34)[Original quotation: "Eine neue wissenschaftliche Wahrheit pflegt sich nicht in der Weise durchzusetzen, dass ihre Gegner ueberzeugt werden und sich as belehrt erklaeren, sondern vielmehr dadurch, dass die Gegner allmaehlich aussterben und dass die heranwachsende Generation von vornherein mit der Wahrheit vertraut gemacht ist." (Planck, 1990, p. 15)]I had always looked upon the search for the absolute as the noblest and most worth while task of science. (Planck, 1949, p. 46)If you cannot-in the long run-tell everyone what you have been doing, your doing has been worthless. (SchroЁdinger, 1951, pp. 7-8)Even for the physicist the description in plain language will be a criterion of the degree of understanding that has been reached. (Heisenberg, 1958, p. 168)The old scientific ideal of episteґmeґ-of absolutely certain, demonstrable knowledge-has proved to be an idol. The demand for scientific objectivity makes it inevitable that every scientific statement must remain tentative forever. It may indeed be corroborated, but every corroboration is relative to other statements which, again, are tentative. Only in our subjective experiences of conviction, in our subjective faith, can we be "absolutely certain." (Popper, 1959, p. 280)The layman, taught to revere scientists for their absolute respect for the observed facts, and for the judiciously detached and purely provisional manner in which they hold scientific theories (always ready to abandon a theory at the sight of any contradictory evidence) might well have thought that, at Miller's announcement of this overwhelming evidence of a "positive effect" [indicating that the speed of light is not independent from the motion of the observer, as Einstein's theory of relativity demands] in his presidential address to the American Physical Society on December 29th, 1925, his audience would have instantly abandoned the theory of relativity. Or, at the very least, that scientists-wont to look down from the pinnacle of their intellectual humility upon the rest of dogmatic mankind-might suspend judgment in this matter until Miller's results could be accounted for without impairing the theory of relativity. But no: by that time they had so well closed their minds to any suggestion which threatened the new rationality achieved by Einstein's world-picture, that it was almost impossible for them to think again in different terms. Little attention was paid to the experiments, the evidence being set aside in the hope that it would one day turn out to be wrong. (Polanyi, 1958, pp. 12-13)The practice of normal science depends on the ability, acquired from examplars, to group objects and situations into similarity sets which are primitive in the sense that the grouping is done without an answer to the question, "Similar with respect to what?" (Kuhn, 1970, p. 200)Science in general... does not consist in collecting what we already know and arranging it in this or that kind of pattern. It consists in fastening upon something we do not know, and trying to discover it. (Collingwood, 1972, p. 9)Scientific fields emerge as the concerns of scientists congeal around various phenomena. Sciences are not defined, they are recognized. (Newell, 1973a, p. 1)This is often the way it is in physics-our mistake is not that we take our theories too seriously, but that we do not take them seriously enough. I do not think it is possible really to understand the successes of science without understanding how hard it is-how easy it is to be led astray, how difficult it is to know at any time what is the next thing to be done. (Weinberg, 1977, p. 49)Science is wonderful at destroying metaphysical answers, but incapable of providing substitute ones. Science takes away foundations without providing a replacement. Whether we want to be there or not, science has put us in a position of having to live without foundations. It was shocking when Nietzsche said this, but today it is commonplace; our historical position-and no end to it is in sight-is that of having to philosophize without "foundations." (Putnam, 1987, p. 29)Historical dictionary of quotations in cognitive science > Science
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74 yaldızlamak
"/ı/ 1. to gild; to silver. 2. to make (a worthless person or thing) look valuable, give (a worthless person or thing) a deceptive glitter. 3. colloq. to cuckold." -
75 corno
m.1 cornel-tree. (Botany)2 english horn, a reed instrument resembling the oboe, pitched onefifth lower.3 dogwood.* * *2 MÚSICA horn\corno inglés MÚSICA cor anglais, English horn* * *SM (Mús) horncorno inglés — cor anglais, English horn (EEUU)
* * *1) (Mús) horn2) (RPl fam) ( uso expletivo)qué viaje ni qué cornos! — trip, what trip?
¿qué/quién/dónde corno...? — what/who/where the hell...? (colloq)
* * *= dogwood.Nota: Arbol o arbusto.Ex. The azaleas are popping, the redbuds are in their finest attire, and the dogwoods are lacy jewels at the edge of the wood.* * *1) (Mús) horn2) (RPl fam) ( uso expletivo)qué viaje ni qué cornos! — trip, what trip?
¿qué/quién/dónde corno...? — what/who/where the hell...? (colloq)
* * *= dogwood.Nota: Arbol o arbusto.Ex: The azaleas are popping, the redbuds are in their finest attire, and the dogwoods are lacy jewels at the edge of the wood.
* * *A ( Mús) hornCompuestos:hunting hornB( RPl fam) (uso expletivo): me salió hablando en alemán y no entendí un corno she started to talk to me in German and I didn't understand a wordsobre eso no sabe un corno he doesn't have a clue about that ( colloq)no vale un corno it's completely worthlessno veo un corno I can't see a thing¡qué viaje ni qué cornos! te quedás en casa a estudiar never mind the trip, you're staying at home to study!¿qué/quién/dónde corno …? what/who/where the hell …? ( colloq)¿cómo corno se llamaba el tipo ese? what the hell was that guy's name?* * *
corno sustantivo masculino (Mús) horn;
corno sustantivo femenino Mús horn
* * *corno nm1.corno (inglés) [instrumento] cor anglais, English horn2. [árbol] dogwood tree* * *m MÚS horn -
76 adfero
af-fĕro (better adf-), attŭli (adt-, better att-), allātum (adl-), afferre (adf-), v. a.; constr. aliquid ad aliquem or alicui.I.In gen., to bring, take, carry or convey a thing to a place (of portable things, while adducere denotes the leading or conducting of men, animals, etc.), lit. and trop.A.Lit.:B.lumen,
Enn. Ann. 1, 40:viginti minas,
Plaut. As. 1, 3, 78; 1, 3, 87 al.:adtuli hunc.—Quid, adtulisti?—Adduxi volui dicere,
id. Ps. 2, 4, 21:tandem bruma nives adfert,
Lucr. 5, 746: adlatus est acipenser, Cic. ap. Macr. S. 2, 12:adfer huc scyphos,
Hor. Epod. 9, 33:nuces,
Juv. 5, 144:cibum pede ad rostrum veluti manu,
Plin. 10, 46, 63, § 129:pauxillum aquae,
Vulg. Gen. 18, 4:caput ejus,
ib. Marc. 6, 28.—With de in part. sense:adferte nobis de fructibus terrae,
Vulg. Num. 13, 21; ib. Joan. 21, 10 (as lit. rendering of the Greek).—So of letters:adferre litteras, ad aliquem or alicui,
Cic. Att. 8, 6; id. Imp. Pomp. 2; Liv. 22, 11 al.: adferre se ad aliquem locum, to betake one's self to a place, to go or come to (opp. auferre se ab aliquo, to withdraw from, to leave, only poet.):huc me adfero,
Plaut. Am. 3, 4, 6; Ter. And. 4, 5, 12 Bentl.:Fatis huc te poscentibus adfers,
Verg. A. 8, 477:sese a moenibus,
id. ib. 3, 345.—So pass. adferri:urbem adferimur,
are driven, come, Verg. A. 7, 217;and adferre pedem: abite illuc, unde malum pedem adtulistis,
id. Cat. 14, 21.— To bring near, extend, = porrigo (eccl. Lat.):adfer manum tuam,
reach hither, Vulg. Joan. 20, 27.—Trop., to bring to, upon, in a good or bad sense.(α).In bon. part.:(β).pacem ad vos adfero,
Plaut. Am. prol. 32:hic Stoicus genus sermonum adfert non liquidum,
i.e. makes use of, Cic. de Or. 2, 38, 159:nihil ostentationis aut imitationis adferre,
id. ib. 3, 12, 45:non minus adferret ad dicendum auctoritatis quam facultatis,
id. Mur. 2, 4:consulatum in familiam,
id. Phil. 9, 2:animum vacuum ad scribendas res difficiles,
id. Att. 12, 38:tibi benedictionem,
Vulg. Gen. 33, 11:Domino gloriam,
ib. 1 Par. 16, 28; ib. Apoc. 21, 26: ignominiam, ib. Osee, 4, 18.—In mal. part.:II.bellum in patriam,
Ov. M. 12, 5:nisi etiam illuc pervenerint (canes), ut in dominum adferant dentes,
to use their teeth against their master, Varr. R. R. 2, 9, 9:adferam super eos mala,
Vulg. Jer. 23, 12:Quam accusationem adfertis adversus hominem hunc?
id. Joan. 18, 29: quod gustatum adfert mortem, ib. Job, 6, 6: vim adferre alicui for inferre, to use force against or offer violence to one, Cic. Phil. 2, 7; id. Verr. 2, 1, 26; Liv. 9, 16; 42, 29 Drak.; Ov. H. 17, 21 Heins.; id. A. A. 1, 679; Suet. Oth. 12 al.: manus adferre alicui, in a bad sense, to lay hands on, attack, assail (opp.:manus abstinere ab aliquo): pro re quisque manus adfert (sc. ad pugnam),
Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 26:domino a familiā suā manus adlatas esse,
id. Quint. 27:intellegimus eum detrudi, cui manus adferuntur,
id. Caecin. 17:qui sit improbissimus, manus ei adferantur, effodiantur oculi,
id. Rep. 3, 17 Creuz. al.: sibi manus, to lay hands on one's self, to commit suicide: Qui quidem manus, quas justius in Lepidi perniciem animāsset, sibi adferre conatus est, Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 23.—Also of things: manus templo, to rob or plunder, Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 18:bonis alienis,
id. Off. 2, 15:manus suis vulneribus,
to tear open, id. Att. 3, 15 (a little before:ne rescindam ipse dolorem meum): manus beneficio suo,
to nullify, render worthless, Sen. Ben. 2, 5 ext. —Esp.A.To bring, bear, or carry a thing, as news, to report, announce, inform, publish; constr. alicui or ad aliquem aliquid, or acc. with inf. (class.;B.in the histt., esp. in Livy, very freq.): ea adferam eaque ut nuntiem, etc.,
Plaut. Am. prol. 9:istud quod adfers, aures exspectant meae,
id. As. 2, 2, 65; Ter. Phorm. prol. 22:calamitas tanta fuit, ut eam non ex proelio nuntius, sed ex sermone rumor adferret,
Cic. Imp. Pomp. 9, 25:si ei subito sit adlatum periculum patriae,
id. Off. 1, 43, 154:nihil novi ad nos adferebatur,
id. Fam. 2, 14; id. Att. 6, 8: rumores, qui de me adferuntur, Cic. Fil. ap. Cic. Fam. 16, 21:Caelium ad illam adtulisse, se aurum quaerere,
id. Cael. 24; so id. Fam. 5, 2 al.:magnum enim, quod adferebant, videbatur,
Caes. B. C. 3, 15 Dint.:cum crebri adferrent nuntii, male rem gerere Darium,
Nep. 3, 3:haud vana adtulere,
Liv. 4, 37; 6, 31:exploratores missi adtulerunt quieta omnia apud Gallos esse,
id. 8, 17 Drak.:per idem tempus rebellāsse Etruscos adlatum est,
word was brought, id. 10, 45 al.:idem ex Hispaniā adlatum,
Tac. H. 1, 76:esse, qui magnum nescio quid adferret,
Suet. Dom. 16; Luc. 1, 475:scelus adtulit umbris,
Val. Fl. 3, 172 al. —So of instruction: doctrinam, Vulg. prol. Eccli.; ib. 2 Joan. 10.—To bring a thing on one, i.e. to cause, occasion, effect, give, impart; esp. of states of mind:C.aegritudinem alicui,
Ter. Heaut. 4, 3, 2:alicui molestiam,
id. Hec. 3, 2, 9:populo Romano pacem, tranquillitatem, otium, concordiam,
Cic. Mur. 1:alicui multas lacrimas, magnam cladem,
id. N. D. 2, 3, 7:ipsa detractio molestiae consecutionem adfert voluptatis,
id. Fin. 1, 11, 37; so,adferre auctoritatem et fidem orationi,
id. Phil. 12, 7:metum,
id. Verr. 2, 5, 25:dolorem,
id. Sull. 1:luctum et egestatem,
id. Rosc. Am. 5:consolationem,
id. Att. 10, 4:delectationem,
id. Fam. 7, 1 al.:detrimentum,
Caes. B. C. 2, 82:taedium,
Plin. 15, 2, 3, § 7:dolorem capitis,
id. 23, 1, 18:gaudium,
Plin. Ep. 10, 2, 1 al. —To bring forwards, allege, assert, adduce, as an excuse, reason, etc.:D.quam causam adferam?
Ter. Heaut. 4, 3, 23:justas causas adfers,
Cic. Att. 11, 15;also without causa: rationes quoque, cur hoc ita sit, adferendas puto,
id. Fin. 5, 10, 27; cf. id. Fam. 4, 13:idque me non ad meam defensionem adtulisse,
id. Caecin. 29, 85:ad ea, quae dixi, adfer, si quid habes,
id. Att. 7: nihil igitur adferunt, qui in re gerendā versari senectutem negant, they bring forwards nothing to the purpose, who, etc., id. Sen. 6; id. de Or. 2, 53, 215:quid enim poterit dicere?... an aetatem adferet?
i. e. as an excuse, id. ib. 2, 89, 364.—Also absol.:Quid sit enim corpus sentire, quis adferet umquam...?
will bring forwards an explanation, Lucr. 3, 354 (cf. reddo absol. in same sense, id. 1, 566):et, cur credam, adferre possum,
Cic. Tusc. 1, 29, 70; 3, 23, 55.—Adferre aliquid = conducere, conferre aliquid, to contribute any thing to a definite object, to be useful in any thing, to help, assist; constr. with ad, with dat., or absol.:E.quam ad rem magnum adtulimus adjumentum hominibus nostris,
Cic. Off. 1, 1:negat Epicurus diuturnitatem temporis ad beate vivendum aliquid adferre,
id. Fin. 2, 27, 87:quidquid ad rem publicam adtulimus, si modo aliquid adtulimus,
id. Off. 1, 44, 155:illa praesidia non adferunt oratori aliquid, ne, etc.,
id. Mil. 1: aliquid adtulimus etiam nos, id. Planc. 10, 24:quid enim oves aliud adferunt, nisi, etc.,
id. N. D. 2, 63.—Very rare in class. period, to bring forth as a product, to yield, bear, produce, = fero:agri fertiles, qui multo plus adferunt, quam acceperunt,
Cic. Off. 1, 15:herbam adferentem semen,
Vulg. Gen. 1, 29:arva non adferent cibum,
ib. Hab. 3, 17: lignum adtulit fructum, ib. Joel, 2, 22; ib. Apoc. 22, 2:ager fructum,
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77 affero
af-fĕro (better adf-), attŭli (adt-, better att-), allātum (adl-), afferre (adf-), v. a.; constr. aliquid ad aliquem or alicui.I.In gen., to bring, take, carry or convey a thing to a place (of portable things, while adducere denotes the leading or conducting of men, animals, etc.), lit. and trop.A.Lit.:B.lumen,
Enn. Ann. 1, 40:viginti minas,
Plaut. As. 1, 3, 78; 1, 3, 87 al.:adtuli hunc.—Quid, adtulisti?—Adduxi volui dicere,
id. Ps. 2, 4, 21:tandem bruma nives adfert,
Lucr. 5, 746: adlatus est acipenser, Cic. ap. Macr. S. 2, 12:adfer huc scyphos,
Hor. Epod. 9, 33:nuces,
Juv. 5, 144:cibum pede ad rostrum veluti manu,
Plin. 10, 46, 63, § 129:pauxillum aquae,
Vulg. Gen. 18, 4:caput ejus,
ib. Marc. 6, 28.—With de in part. sense:adferte nobis de fructibus terrae,
Vulg. Num. 13, 21; ib. Joan. 21, 10 (as lit. rendering of the Greek).—So of letters:adferre litteras, ad aliquem or alicui,
Cic. Att. 8, 6; id. Imp. Pomp. 2; Liv. 22, 11 al.: adferre se ad aliquem locum, to betake one's self to a place, to go or come to (opp. auferre se ab aliquo, to withdraw from, to leave, only poet.):huc me adfero,
Plaut. Am. 3, 4, 6; Ter. And. 4, 5, 12 Bentl.:Fatis huc te poscentibus adfers,
Verg. A. 8, 477:sese a moenibus,
id. ib. 3, 345.—So pass. adferri:urbem adferimur,
are driven, come, Verg. A. 7, 217;and adferre pedem: abite illuc, unde malum pedem adtulistis,
id. Cat. 14, 21.— To bring near, extend, = porrigo (eccl. Lat.):adfer manum tuam,
reach hither, Vulg. Joan. 20, 27.—Trop., to bring to, upon, in a good or bad sense.(α).In bon. part.:(β).pacem ad vos adfero,
Plaut. Am. prol. 32:hic Stoicus genus sermonum adfert non liquidum,
i.e. makes use of, Cic. de Or. 2, 38, 159:nihil ostentationis aut imitationis adferre,
id. ib. 3, 12, 45:non minus adferret ad dicendum auctoritatis quam facultatis,
id. Mur. 2, 4:consulatum in familiam,
id. Phil. 9, 2:animum vacuum ad scribendas res difficiles,
id. Att. 12, 38:tibi benedictionem,
Vulg. Gen. 33, 11:Domino gloriam,
ib. 1 Par. 16, 28; ib. Apoc. 21, 26: ignominiam, ib. Osee, 4, 18.—In mal. part.:II.bellum in patriam,
Ov. M. 12, 5:nisi etiam illuc pervenerint (canes), ut in dominum adferant dentes,
to use their teeth against their master, Varr. R. R. 2, 9, 9:adferam super eos mala,
Vulg. Jer. 23, 12:Quam accusationem adfertis adversus hominem hunc?
id. Joan. 18, 29: quod gustatum adfert mortem, ib. Job, 6, 6: vim adferre alicui for inferre, to use force against or offer violence to one, Cic. Phil. 2, 7; id. Verr. 2, 1, 26; Liv. 9, 16; 42, 29 Drak.; Ov. H. 17, 21 Heins.; id. A. A. 1, 679; Suet. Oth. 12 al.: manus adferre alicui, in a bad sense, to lay hands on, attack, assail (opp.:manus abstinere ab aliquo): pro re quisque manus adfert (sc. ad pugnam),
Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 26:domino a familiā suā manus adlatas esse,
id. Quint. 27:intellegimus eum detrudi, cui manus adferuntur,
id. Caecin. 17:qui sit improbissimus, manus ei adferantur, effodiantur oculi,
id. Rep. 3, 17 Creuz. al.: sibi manus, to lay hands on one's self, to commit suicide: Qui quidem manus, quas justius in Lepidi perniciem animāsset, sibi adferre conatus est, Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 23.—Also of things: manus templo, to rob or plunder, Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 18:bonis alienis,
id. Off. 2, 15:manus suis vulneribus,
to tear open, id. Att. 3, 15 (a little before:ne rescindam ipse dolorem meum): manus beneficio suo,
to nullify, render worthless, Sen. Ben. 2, 5 ext. —Esp.A.To bring, bear, or carry a thing, as news, to report, announce, inform, publish; constr. alicui or ad aliquem aliquid, or acc. with inf. (class.;B.in the histt., esp. in Livy, very freq.): ea adferam eaque ut nuntiem, etc.,
Plaut. Am. prol. 9:istud quod adfers, aures exspectant meae,
id. As. 2, 2, 65; Ter. Phorm. prol. 22:calamitas tanta fuit, ut eam non ex proelio nuntius, sed ex sermone rumor adferret,
Cic. Imp. Pomp. 9, 25:si ei subito sit adlatum periculum patriae,
id. Off. 1, 43, 154:nihil novi ad nos adferebatur,
id. Fam. 2, 14; id. Att. 6, 8: rumores, qui de me adferuntur, Cic. Fil. ap. Cic. Fam. 16, 21:Caelium ad illam adtulisse, se aurum quaerere,
id. Cael. 24; so id. Fam. 5, 2 al.:magnum enim, quod adferebant, videbatur,
Caes. B. C. 3, 15 Dint.:cum crebri adferrent nuntii, male rem gerere Darium,
Nep. 3, 3:haud vana adtulere,
Liv. 4, 37; 6, 31:exploratores missi adtulerunt quieta omnia apud Gallos esse,
id. 8, 17 Drak.:per idem tempus rebellāsse Etruscos adlatum est,
word was brought, id. 10, 45 al.:idem ex Hispaniā adlatum,
Tac. H. 1, 76:esse, qui magnum nescio quid adferret,
Suet. Dom. 16; Luc. 1, 475:scelus adtulit umbris,
Val. Fl. 3, 172 al. —So of instruction: doctrinam, Vulg. prol. Eccli.; ib. 2 Joan. 10.—To bring a thing on one, i.e. to cause, occasion, effect, give, impart; esp. of states of mind:C.aegritudinem alicui,
Ter. Heaut. 4, 3, 2:alicui molestiam,
id. Hec. 3, 2, 9:populo Romano pacem, tranquillitatem, otium, concordiam,
Cic. Mur. 1:alicui multas lacrimas, magnam cladem,
id. N. D. 2, 3, 7:ipsa detractio molestiae consecutionem adfert voluptatis,
id. Fin. 1, 11, 37; so,adferre auctoritatem et fidem orationi,
id. Phil. 12, 7:metum,
id. Verr. 2, 5, 25:dolorem,
id. Sull. 1:luctum et egestatem,
id. Rosc. Am. 5:consolationem,
id. Att. 10, 4:delectationem,
id. Fam. 7, 1 al.:detrimentum,
Caes. B. C. 2, 82:taedium,
Plin. 15, 2, 3, § 7:dolorem capitis,
id. 23, 1, 18:gaudium,
Plin. Ep. 10, 2, 1 al. —To bring forwards, allege, assert, adduce, as an excuse, reason, etc.:D.quam causam adferam?
Ter. Heaut. 4, 3, 23:justas causas adfers,
Cic. Att. 11, 15;also without causa: rationes quoque, cur hoc ita sit, adferendas puto,
id. Fin. 5, 10, 27; cf. id. Fam. 4, 13:idque me non ad meam defensionem adtulisse,
id. Caecin. 29, 85:ad ea, quae dixi, adfer, si quid habes,
id. Att. 7: nihil igitur adferunt, qui in re gerendā versari senectutem negant, they bring forwards nothing to the purpose, who, etc., id. Sen. 6; id. de Or. 2, 53, 215:quid enim poterit dicere?... an aetatem adferet?
i. e. as an excuse, id. ib. 2, 89, 364.—Also absol.:Quid sit enim corpus sentire, quis adferet umquam...?
will bring forwards an explanation, Lucr. 3, 354 (cf. reddo absol. in same sense, id. 1, 566):et, cur credam, adferre possum,
Cic. Tusc. 1, 29, 70; 3, 23, 55.—Adferre aliquid = conducere, conferre aliquid, to contribute any thing to a definite object, to be useful in any thing, to help, assist; constr. with ad, with dat., or absol.:E.quam ad rem magnum adtulimus adjumentum hominibus nostris,
Cic. Off. 1, 1:negat Epicurus diuturnitatem temporis ad beate vivendum aliquid adferre,
id. Fin. 2, 27, 87:quidquid ad rem publicam adtulimus, si modo aliquid adtulimus,
id. Off. 1, 44, 155:illa praesidia non adferunt oratori aliquid, ne, etc.,
id. Mil. 1: aliquid adtulimus etiam nos, id. Planc. 10, 24:quid enim oves aliud adferunt, nisi, etc.,
id. N. D. 2, 63.—Very rare in class. period, to bring forth as a product, to yield, bear, produce, = fero:agri fertiles, qui multo plus adferunt, quam acceperunt,
Cic. Off. 1, 15:herbam adferentem semen,
Vulg. Gen. 1, 29:arva non adferent cibum,
ib. Hab. 3, 17: lignum adtulit fructum, ib. Joel, 2, 22; ib. Apoc. 22, 2:ager fructum,
ib. Luc. 12, 16 al. -
78 worth
wə:Ɵ
1. noun(value: These books are of little or no worth; She sold fifty dollars' worth of tickets.) valor
2. adjective1) (equal in value to: Each of these stamps is worth a cent.) que vale, que tiene un valor de2) (good enough for: His suggestion is worth considering: The exhibition is well worth a visit.) digno de, merecedor de, que merece la pena•- worthlessly
- worthlessness
- worthy
3. noun(a highly respected person.) prócer, dignitario- worthily- worthiness
- - worthy
- worthwhile
- for all one is worth
worth1 adj1. que valethe jeweller said my ring is worth £500 el joyero dijo que mi anillo vale quinientas libras2. que vale la penaworth2 n valor£50,000 worth of jewellery was stolen se robaron joyas por valor de 50.000 librastr[wɜːɵ]1 (in money) valor nombre masculino1 (having certain value) que vale, que tiene un valor deit's worth £10, but I got it for £5 vale diez libras pero me costó sólo cincohow much is that jewel worth? ¿cuánto vale esa joya?2 (deserving of) que vale la pena, que merece la pena, digno,-a de, merecedor,-ra de\SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALLif a job's worth doing, it's worth doing well si se hace un trabajo, hay que hacerlo bienfor all one is worth con toda el almafor what it's worth por si te sirve de algoit's more than my job's worth me arriesgaría el trabajoto not be worth a damn no valer nadato be worth one's/its weight in gold valer su peso en oroto get one's money's worth sacarle jugo al dineroto not be worth the paper it's written on ser papel mojadoto be worth the trouble/it valer la pena, merecer la penato be worth one's salt merecer el pan que se cometo be worth somebody's while valer la pena, merecer la penaworth ['wərɵ] n1) : valor m (monetario)ten dollars' worth of gas: diez dólares de gasolina2) merit: valor m, mérito m, valía fan employee of great worth: un empleado de gran valíaworth prepto be worth : valerher holdings are worth a fortune: sus propiedades valen una fortunait's not worth it: no vale la penaadj.• del valor de adj.• digno de adj.• equivalente a adj.n.• entidad s.f.• mérito s.m.• precio s.m.• valer s.m.• valor (Precio) s.m.• valía s.f.
I wɜːrθ, wɜːθadjective (pred)a) ( equal in value to)to be worth — valer*
it's worth $200/a lot of money — vale $200/mucho dinero
it's a nice coat, but it isn't worth the money — el abrigo es bonito, pero no como para pagar ese precio
goods worth £5,000 were stolen — robaron mercancías por valor de 5.000 libras
how much is it worth? — ¿cuánto vale?
how much is it worth for me to keep quiet about it? — ¿cuánto me dan por no decir nada?
they ran for all they were worth — corrieron con todas sus fuerzas or a más no poder
this is my opinion, for what it's worth — ésta es mi opinión, si es que a alguien le interesa
b) ( worthy of)the museum is worth a visit — vale or merece la pena visitar el museo
it's worth a try — vale or merece la pena intentarlo
don't argue with them, it isn't worth it — no discutas con ellos, no vale or no merece la pena
you keep an eye on him, and I'll make it worth your while — tú vigílalo, que yo ya te compensaré
if a job's worth doing, it's worth doing well — (set phrase) si se hace un trabajo, hay que hacerlo bien
II
mass nouna) ( equivalent)$2,000 dollars' worth of furniture — muebles por valor de 2.000 dólares
[wɜːθ]to prove one's worth — demostrar* su (or mi etc) valía
1. ADJ1) (=equal in value to)what or how much is it worth? — ¿cuánto vale?
it's worth a great deal to me — (sentimentally) para mí tiene gran valor sentimental
he was worth a million when he died — murió millonario, murió dejando una fortuna de un millón
what's the old man worth? — ¿cuánto dinero tiene el viejo?
"don't tell anybody" - "what's it worth to you?" * — -no se lo digas a nadie -¿cuánto me das si no digo nada?
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to run for all one is worth — correr como si le llevara a uno el diablo•
it's more than my job's worth to tell you — me costaría mi empleo decirte eso•
it's not worth the paper it's written on — vale menos que el papel en que está escrito•
she's worth ten of him — ella vale diez veces más que él•
I tell you this for what it's worth — te digo esto por si te interesa2) (=deserving of)it's worth reading — vale or merece la pena leerlo
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it's (not) worth it — (no) vale or merece la pena•
the cathedral is worth a look — la catedral merece la pena, merece la pena ver la catedral•
it's worth mentioning that... — merece la pena mencionar que..., es digno de mención el hecho de que...•
it's worth thinking about — vale or merece la pena pensarlo•
the meal was worth the wait — la comida estaba tan rica que mereció la pena esperar, la comida mereció or compensó la esperajob, while•
it's well worth doing — bien vale or merece la pena hacerlo2.N [of thing] valor m ; [of person] valía fmoney 1., 1)ten pounds' worth of books — libros por valor de diez libras, diez libras de libros
* * *
I [wɜːrθ, wɜːθ]adjective (pred)a) ( equal in value to)to be worth — valer*
it's worth $200/a lot of money — vale $200/mucho dinero
it's a nice coat, but it isn't worth the money — el abrigo es bonito, pero no como para pagar ese precio
goods worth £5,000 were stolen — robaron mercancías por valor de 5.000 libras
how much is it worth? — ¿cuánto vale?
how much is it worth for me to keep quiet about it? — ¿cuánto me dan por no decir nada?
they ran for all they were worth — corrieron con todas sus fuerzas or a más no poder
this is my opinion, for what it's worth — ésta es mi opinión, si es que a alguien le interesa
b) ( worthy of)the museum is worth a visit — vale or merece la pena visitar el museo
it's worth a try — vale or merece la pena intentarlo
don't argue with them, it isn't worth it — no discutas con ellos, no vale or no merece la pena
you keep an eye on him, and I'll make it worth your while — tú vigílalo, que yo ya te compensaré
if a job's worth doing, it's worth doing well — (set phrase) si se hace un trabajo, hay que hacerlo bien
II
mass nouna) ( equivalent)$2,000 dollars' worth of furniture — muebles por valor de 2.000 dólares
to prove one's worth — demostrar* su (or mi etc) valía
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79 peu
peu [pø]━━━━━━━━━1. adverb━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━1. <━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━a. ( = pas beaucoup) not muchb. ( = pas très) not veryc. ( = pas longtemps) shortlyd. ( = rarement) ils se voient peu they don't see each other very oftene. (locutions)• pour peu qu'il soit sorti sans sa clé... if he should have come out without his key...2. <3. <( = petite quantité) little━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► un peu se traduit souvent par l'expression a bit, qui est plus familière que a little ; de même, on peut dire a bit of au lieu de a little pour traduire un peu de.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━• c'est un peu fort ! that's a bit much! (inf)• un peu de silence, s'il vous plaît ! can we have a bit of quiet please!► pour un peu• pour un peu, il m'aurait accusé he all but accused me* * *Note: Les emplois de peu avec avant, d'ici, depuis, sous sont traités respectivement sous chacun de ces motsIl sera également utile de se reporter à la note d'usage sur les quantitéspø
1.
1) ( modifiant un verbe) not muchil est aussi borné que son père et ce n'est pas peu dire! — (colloq) he's as narrow-minded as his father and that's saying a lot!
très peu pour moi! — (colloq) fig no thanks! (colloq)
2) ( modifiant un adjectif) not veryils se sentent très peu concernés par... — they feel quite unconcerned about...
2.
pronom indéfinipeu leur font confiance — few ou not many people trust them
3.
peu de déterminant indéfini1) ( avec un nom dénombrable)
4.
nom masculin1) ( petite quantité)le peu de — the little [confiance, liberté]; the few [livres, amis]
il a voulu montrer le peu d'importance qu'il attachait à l'affaire — he wanted to show how unimportant the matter was to him
2) ( manque)
5.
un peu locution adverbiale1) ( dans une mesure faible) a little, a bit‘elle aime le fromage?’ - ‘oui, pas qu'un peu (colloq)!’ — ‘does she like cheese?’ - ‘does she ever (colloq)!’
2) ( modifiant un adverbe) a little, a bitun peu moins de — slightly less [pluie]; slightly fewer [gens]
amène tes amis, un peu plus un peu moins... — bring your friends, another two or three people won't make much difference
‘il avait l'air un peu contrarié’ - ‘un peu beaucoup même (colloq)’ — ‘he looked a bit annoyed’ - ‘more than a bit’
3) ( emploi stylistique) justrépète un peu pour voir! — (colloq) you just try saying that again!
je vous demande un peu! — (colloq) I ask you!
il sait un peu (colloq) de quoi il parle — he does know what he's talking about
4) ( emploi par antiphrase) a little5) (colloq) ( pour renforcer une affirmation)il est un peu bien ton copain! — your boyfriend is a bit of all right (colloq) GB ou a good-looker! (colloq)
‘tu le ferais toi?’ - ‘un peu (que je le ferais)!’ — ‘would you do it?’ - ‘I sure would (colloq)!’
6.
peu à peu locution adverbiale gradually, little by little
7.
pour un peu locution adverbiale
8.
pour peu que locution conjonctive ifpour peu qu'il ait bu, il va nous raconter sa vie — if he's had anything at all to drink, he'll tell us his life story
* * *pø1. adv1) (modifiant un verbe) not muchIl boit peu. — He doesn't drink much.
Il voyage peu. — He doesn't travel much.
J'ai peu mangé à midi. — I didn't eat much for lunch.
2) (modifiant un adjectif) not veryIl est peu bavard. — He's not very talkative.
peu de (avec nom pluriel) — not many, few, (avec nom singulier) not a lot of, not much
peu de gens — not many people, few people
peu d'arbres — not many trees, few trees
Il y a peu de bons films au cinéma. — There aren't many good films on at the cinema.
Elle a peu d'amis. — She hasn't got many friends.
Il reste peu de lait. — There isn't much milk left., There isn't a lot of milk left.
Il a peu d'espoir. — He hasn't got much hope., He has little hope.
Il a peu d'espoir de réussir. — He doesn't have much hope of succeeding.
Il lui reste peu d'argent. — He hasn't got much money left.
c'est peu de chose — it's nothing, it's not much
à peu près — just about, more or less
J'ai à peu près fini. — I've just about finished., I've more or less finished.
à peu près 10 kg — about 10 kg, around 10 kg
à peu près deux heures — about two hours, around two hours
Le voyage prend à peu près deux heures. — The journey takes about two hours., The journey takes around two hours.
pour peu qu'il fasse — if he should do, if by any chance he does
depuis peu (au présent) — for a short while, for a little while
Je suis parisien depuis peu. — I've only been living in Paris for a short while., (au passé) a short while ago, a little while ago
Il est rentré depuis peu. — He came back a short while ago.
Chantal a manqué son train de peu. — Chantal only just missed her train.
Il est de peu mon cadet. — He's just a bit younger than me.
2. nm1)le peu de sable qui — what little sand, the little sand which
2)J'en voudrais un peu. — I'd like a little., (emploi adverbial, avec adjectif) a little, a bit
Elle est un peu timide. — She's a bit shy., She's a little shy.
un peu de — a little, a bit of
un peu de lait — a little milk, a bit of milk
un peu d'espoir — a little hope, a bit of hope
un peu plus de [vent, sucre, personnes, voitures] — slightly more
un peu moins de [vent, sucre] — slightly less, [personnes, voitures] slightly fewer
pour un peu il...; un peu plus et il... — he very nearly..., he all but...
3. pron* * *❢ Les emplois de peu avec avant, d'ici, depuis, sous sont traités respectivement sous chacun de ces mots. Il sera également utile de se reporter à la note d'usage sur les quantités ⇒ Les quantités.A adv1 ( modifiant un verbe) not much; il travaille/dort/parle peu he doesn't work/sleep/talk much; elle gagne assez peu she doesn't earn very much; elle gagne très/trop peu she earns very/too little; le radiateur chauffe peu the radiator doesn't give out much heat; je sors assez/très peu I don't go out very much/very much at all; je sais me contenter de peu I'm satisfied with very little; 40 euros/un demi-litre/1,50 m, c'est (bien) peu 40 euros/half a litreGB/1,50 m, that's not (very) much; 20 personnes, c'est peu 20 people, that's not many; dix minutes/deux mois ça fait peu ten minutes/two months, that's not long; deux semaines c'est trop peu two weeks isn't long enough; si peu que ce soit however little, no matter how little; tu ne vas pas t'en faire pour si peu you're not going to worry about such a little thing; je ne vais pas me casser la tête pour si peu I'm not going to rack my brains over such a little thing; il leur en faut peu pour pleurer/paniquer it doesn't take much to make them cry/panic; la catastrophe a été évitée de peu disaster was only just avoided; tu les as ratés de peu you've just missed them; il est mon aîné de peu he's slightly older than me; j'aime peu sa façon de dévisager les gens I don't much care for the way he stares at people; ça compte or importe peu it doesn't really matter; la cuisine n'est pas très bonne, et c'est peu dire the food isn't very good to say the least; il est aussi borné que son père et ce n'est pas peu dire○! he's as narrow-minded as his father and that's saying a lot!; un homme comme on en voit or fait○ peu the kind of man you don't often come across; très peu pour moi○! fig no thanks○!;2 ( modifiant un adjectif) not very; peu soigneux/ambitieux/fier not very tidy/ambitious/proud; il est très peu jaloux he's not at all jealous; c'est un endroit assez peu connu it's a relatively little-known spot; cet endroit trop peu connu des touristes this spot which is sadly little known to tourists; pour les personnes trop peu qualifiées for people who haven't got enough qualifications; ils se sentent très ou fort peu concernés par… they feel quite unconcerned about…; nous étions peu nombreux there weren't many of us; nous étions très/trop peu nombreux there were very/too few of us; un individu peu recommandable a disreputable character; elle n'est pas peu fière she's more than a little proud.B pron indéf peu lui font confiance few ou not many people trust him/her; il a écrit beaucoup de livres, peu lui survivront he has written many books, few will outlive him.C peu de dét indéf1 ( avec un nom dénombrable) peu de mots/d'occasions few words/opportunities;2 ( avec un nom non dénombrable) peu de temps/d'espoir little time/hope; en peu de temps in next to no time; j'ai peu de temps pour le faire I haven't got much time to do it; il y a peu de changement there's little change; il y a peu de bruit there's not much noise; il est tombé peu de neige/pluie cet hiver there hasn't been much snow/rain this winter; il a peu de patience he's not very patient; c'est peu de chose it's not much; cela représente peu de chose it stands for little; avec peu de chose elle a fait un repas délicieux with very little she made a delicious meal; on est bien peu de chose! we're so insignificant!; il y a peu de visiteurs/divergences there are few ou not many visitors/differences; très peu de personnes sont atteintes very few people are affected; en peu de mots/jours in a few words/days; je sais peu de choses sur lui I don't know much about him; il y a peu de chances qu'il accepte he's unlikely to accept; la proposition a peu de chances d'aboutir the proposal has little chance of getting through.D nm1 ( petite quantité) le peu de the little [importance, confiance, pluie, liberté]; the few [livres, souvenirs, amis]; il a oublié le peu d'anglais qu'il savait he's forgotten the ou what little English he knew; elle s'est fait voler le peu d'objets qu'il lui restait she was robbed of the few things she had left; je vais dépenser le peu d'argent qu'il me reste I'm going to spend the ou what little money I've got left; il a voulu montrer le peu d'importance qu'il attachait à l'affaire he wanted to show how unimportant the matter was to him; je leur ai dit le peu que je savais I told them the ou what little I knew; il a dépensé le peu qu'il lui restait he spent what little he had left;2 ( manque) le peu de the lack of; malgré le peu d'intérêt manifesté despite the lack of interest; j'ai remarqué ton peu d'enthousiasme I've noticed your lack of enthusiasm; ton peu d'appétit m'inquiète your lack of appetite is worrying me.E un peu loc adv1 ( dans une mesure faible) a little, a bit; mange un peu eat a little; cela m'inquiète/m'énerve/m'ennuie un peu it worries me/annoys me/bothers me a little ou a bit; ça m'agace plus qu'un peu○ it annoys me to say the least; le rôti est un peu brûlé the roast is a bit ou slightly burned; elle est un peu médium/poète○ she's a bit of a ou something of a medium/poet; tu ne serais pas un peu casse-cou? you're a bit of a daredevil, aren't you?; dors/attends/reste encore un peu sleep/wait/stay a little longer; ‘il a plu?’-‘pas qu'un peu○!’ ‘did it rain?’-‘did it ever○!’; ‘elle aime le fromage?’-‘oui, pas qu'un peu!’ ‘does she like cheese?’-‘does she ever○!’;2 ( modifiant un adverbe) a little, a bit; mange un peu plus/moins eat a bit more/less; parle un peu plus fort speak a little ou a bit louder; parle un peu moins fort keep your voice down; va un peu moins/plus vite go a bit slower/faster; il fait un peu moins froid qu'hier it's a little less cold than yesterday; il fait un peu plus froid qu'hier it's slightly ou a little colder than yesterday; un peu au-dessous/au-dessus de la moyenne slightly below/above average; elle se maquille un peu trop she wears a bit too much make-up; un peu plus de bruit/vent a bit more noise/wind; un peu plus de gens/problèmes a few more people/problems; un peu moins de slightly less [pluie, humour]; slightly fewer [gens, tableaux]; peux-tu me donner un tout petit peu plus de carottes can you give me just a few more carrots; amène tes amis, un peu plus un peu moins tu sais… bring your friends, another two or three people won't make much difference; donne-moi ton linge à laver, un peu plus un peu moins… give me your laundry, a bit more won't make any difference; ‘il avait l'air un peu contrarié’-‘un peu beaucoup même○’ ‘he looked a bit annoyed’-‘more than a bit’;3 ( emploi stylistique) just; arrête un peu de faire l'idiot! just stop behaving like an idiot!; répète un peu pour voir○! you just try saying that again!; vise un peu la perruque○! just look at the wig!; réfléchis un peu just think; je vous demande un peu○! I ask you!; il sait un peu de quoi il parle○ he does know what he's talking about;4 ( emploi par antiphrase) a little; tu ne serais pas un peu jaloux toi? aren't you just a little jealous?; ton histoire est un peu tirée par les cheveux your story is a little far-fetched to say the least; c'est un peu tard! it's a bit late!; tu exagères ou pousses○ un peu! you're pushing it a bit○!;5 ○( pour renforcer une affirmation) il est un peu bien ton copain! your boyfriend is a bit of all right○!; ‘tu le ferais toi?’-‘un peu (que je le ferais)!’ ‘would you do it?’-‘I sure would○!’; comme organisateur il se pose un peu là! as an organizer he's great!F peu à peu loc adv gradually, little by little; les nuages se dissiperont peu à peu the clouds will gradually clear.G pour un peu loc adv very nearly; pour un peu ils se seraient battus they very nearly had a fight; pour un peu il m'aurait insulté! he very nearly insulted me!H pour peu que loc conj if; pour peu qu'il ait bu, il va nous raconter sa vie if he's had anything at all to drink, he'll tell us his life story.[pø] adverbeA.[EMPLOYÉ SEUL]il mange/parle peu he doesn't eat/talk muchil vient très peu he comes very rarely, he very seldom comes2. [modifiant un adjectif, un adverbe etc] not verypeu après soon after, shortly ou not long afterB.[EMPLOI NOMINAL]1. (avec déterminant) [indiquant la faible quantité]il a raté son examen de peu (familier) he just failed his exam, he failed his exam by a hair's breadthc'est peu (que) de le dire, encore faut-il le faire! that's easier said than done!c'est peu dire that's an understatement, that's putting it mildly2. [dans le temps]ils sont partis il y a peu they left a short while ago, they haven't long leftd'ici peu very soon, before longje travaille ici depuis peu I've only been working here for a while, I haven't been working here long3. [quelques personnes] a few (people)C.[PRÉCÉDÉ DE 'UN']1. [modifiant un verbe]un peu a little, a bitje le connais un peu I know him a little ou a bitpose-lui un peu la question, et tu verras! just ask him, and you'll see!fais voir un peu... let me have a look...un peu que je vais lui dire ce que je pense! (familier) I'll give him a piece of my mind, don't you worry (about that)!2. [modifiant un adjectif, un adverbe etc]un peu a little, a bitun peu partout just about ou pretty much everywhereun peu plus a little ou bit morea. [suivi d'un nom comptable] a few moreb. [suivi d'un nom non comptable] a little (bit) moreun peu moins a little ou bit lessa. [suivi d'un nom comptable] slightly fewer, not so manyb. [suivi d'un nom non comptable] a little (bit) lessun peu trop a little ou bit too (much)un peu plus et on se serait cru au bord de la mer you could almost imagine that you were at the seasideun peu plus, et je partais I was just about to leavepeu à peu locution adverbialeon s'habitue, peu à peu you get used to things, bit by bit ou gradually————————peu de locution déterminantepeu de temps avant/après not long before/afterj'ai peu d'amis I have few friends, I don't have many friends2. [avec un déterminant]a. [suivi d'un nom comptable] the ou what fewb. [suivi d'un nom non comptable] the ou what littlele peu de connaissances que j'ai the ou what few acquaintances I havele peu de fois où je l'ai vu on the few ou rare occasions when I've seen himavec ce peu de matériel/d'idées with such limited material/ideaspeu ou prou locution adverbiale————————pour peu que locution conjonctivepour peu qu'il le veuille, il réussira if he wants to, he'll succeedpour un peu locution adverbialepour un peu, j'oubliais mes clés I nearly forgot my keys————————quelque peu locution adverbiale1. [modifiant un verbe] just a littleil était quelque peu éméché he was somewhat ou rather tipsy————————quelque peu de locution déterminante————————si peu que locution conjonctivesi peu que j'y aille, j'apprécie toujours beaucoup l'opéra although I don't go very often, I always like the opera very much————————si peu... que locution conjonctive————————sous peu locution adverbialevous recevrez sous peu les résultats de vos analyses you will receive the results of your tests in a short while————————un peu de locution déterminanteprends un peu de gâteau have a little ou some cakeavec un peu de chance... with a little luck...allons, un peu de patience! come on, let's be patient!avec un (tout) petit peu de bonne volonté... with (just) a little willingness...tu l'as quitté par dépit? — il y a un petit peu de ça so you left him in a fit of pique? — that was partly it ou that was part of the reason -
80 AT
I) prep.A. with dative.I. Of motion;1) towards, against;Otkell laut at Skamkatli, bowed down to S.;hann sneri egginni at Ásgrími, turned the edge against A.;2) close atup to;Brynjólfr gengr alit at honum, quite up to him;þeir kómust aldri at honum, they could never get near him, to close quarters with him;3) to, at;koma at landi, to come to land;ganga at dómi, to go into court;ganga at stræti, to walk along the street;dreki er niðr fór at ánni (went down the river) fyrir strauminum;refr dró hörpu at ísi, on the ice;5) denoting hostility;renna (sœkja) at e-m, to rush at, assault;gerði þá at þeim þoku mikla, they were overtaken by a thick fog;6) around;vefja motri at höfði sér, to wrap a veil round one’s head;bera grjót at e-m, to heap stones upon the body;7) denoting business, engagement;ríða at hrossum, at sauðum, to go looking after horses, watching sheep;fara at landskuldum, to go collecting rents.II. Of position, &c.;1) denoting presence at, near, by, upon;at kirkju, at church;at dómi, in court;at lögbergi, at the hill of laws;2) denoting participation in;vera at veizlu, brullaupi, to be at a banquet, wedding;vera at vígi, to be an accessory in man-slaying;3) ellipt., vera at, to be about, to be busy at;kvalararnir, er at vóru at pína hann, who were tormenting him;var þar at kona nökkur at binda (was there busy dressing) sár manna;4) with proper names of places (farms);konungr at Danmörku ok Noregi, king of;biskup at Hólum, bishop of Holar;at Helgafelli, at Bergþórshváli;5) used ellipt. with a genitive, at (a person’s) house;at hans (at his house) gisti fjölmenni mikit;at Marðar, at Mara’s home;at hins beilaga Ólafs konungs, at St. Olave’s church;at Ránar, at Ran’s (abode).III. Of time;1) at, in;at upphafi, at first, in the beginning;at skilnaði, at parting, when they parted;at páskum, at Easter;at kveldi, at eventide;at þinglausnum, at the close of the Assembly;at fjöru, at the ebb;at flœðum, at the floodtide;2) adding ‘komanda’ or ‘er kemr’;at ári komanda, next year;at vári, er kemr, next spring;generally with ‘komanda’ understood;at sumri, hausti, vetri, vári, next summer, &c.;3) used with an absolute dative and present or past part.;at sér lifanda, duing his lifetime;at öllum ásjándum, in the sight of all;at áheyranda höfðingjanum, in the hearing of the chief;at upprennandi sólu, at sunrise;at liðnum sex vikum, after six weeks are past;at honum önduðum, after his death;4) denoting uninterrupted succession, after;hverr at öðrum, annarr at öðrum, one after another;skildu menn at þessu, thereupon, after this;at því (thereafter) kómu aðrar meyjar.IV. fig. and in various uses;1) to, into, with the notion of destruction or change;brenna (borgina) at ösku, to burn to ashes;verða at ormi, to become a snake;2) for, as;gefa e-t at gjöf, as a present;eiga e-n at vin, to have one as friend;3) by;taka sverð at hjöltum, by the hilt;draga út björninn at hlustunum, by the ears;kjósa at afli, álitum, by strength, appearrance;4) as regards as to;auðigr at fé, wealthy in goods;vænn (fagr) at áliti, fair of face;5) as a law term, on the grounds of, by reason of;ryðja ( to challenge) dóm at mægðum, kvið at frændsemi;6) as a paraphrase of a genitive;faðir, móðir at barni (= barns, of a child);aðili at sök = aðili sakar;7) with adjectives denoting colour, size, age, of;hvítr, svartr, rauðr at lit, while, black, red of colour;mikill, lítill at stœrð, vexti, tall, small of stature;tvítugr at aldri, twenty years of age;kýr at fyrsta, öðrum kálfi, a cow that has calved once, twice;8) determining the source from which anything comes, of, from;Ari nam ok marga frœði at Þuríði (from her);þiggja, kaupa, geta, leigja e-t at e-m, to receive, buy, obtain, borrow a thing from one;hafa veg (virðing) styrk at e-m, to derive honour, power, from one;9) according, to, after (heygðr at fornum sið);at ráði allra vitrustu manna, by the advice of;at landslögum, by the law of the land;at vánum, as was to be expected;at leyfi e-s, by one’s leave;10) in adverbial phrases;gróa (vera grœddr) at heilu, to be quite healed;bíta af allt gras at snøggu, quite bare;at fullu, fully;at vísu, surely;at frjálsu, freely;at eilífu, for ever and ever;at röngu, at réttu, wrongly, rightly;at líku, at sömu, equally, all the same;at mun, at ráði, at marki, to a great extent.B. with acc., after, upon (= eptir);sonr á at taka arf at föður sinn, to take the inheritance after his father;eiga féránsdóm at e-n, to hold a court of execution upon a person;at þat (= eptir þat), after that, thereafter;connected with a past part. or a., at Gamla fallinn, after the fall of Gamli;at Hrungni dauðan, upon the death of Hrungnir.1) as the simple mark of the infinitive, to;at ganga, at ríða, at hlaupa, to walk, to ride, to run;2) in an objective sense;hann bauð þeim at fara, sitja, he bade (ordered) them to go, sit;gefa e-m at eta, at drekka, to give one to eat, to drink;3) denoting design or purpose, in order to (hann gekk í borg at kaupa silfr).1) demonstrative particle before a comparative, the, all the, so much the;hón grét at meir, she wept the more;þykkir oss at líkara, all the more likely;þú ert maðr at verri (so much the worse), er þú hefir þetta mælt;2) rel. pron., who, which, that (= er);þeir allir, at þau tíðindi heyrðu, all those who heard;sem þeim er títt, at ( as is the custom of those who) kaupferðir reka.conj., that;1) introducing a subjective or objective clause;þat var einhverju sinni, at Höskuldr hafði vinaboð, it happened once that H.;vilda ek, at þú réðist austr í fjörðu, I should like you to go;svá mikill lagamaðr, at, so great a lawyer, that;3) with subj., denoting end or purpose, in order that (skáru þeir fyrir þá (viz. hestana) melinn, at þeir dœi eigi af sulti);4) since, because, as (= því at);5) connected with þó, því, svá;þó at (with subj.), though, although;því at, because, for;svá at, so that;6) temp., þá at (= þá er), when;þegar at (= þegar er), as soon as;þar til at (= þar til er), until, till;áðr at (= á. en), before;7) used superfluously after an int. pron. or adv.;Ólafr spurði, hvern styrk at hann mundi fá honum, what help he was likely to give him;in a relative sense; með fullkomnum ávexti, hverr at (which) þekkr ok þægiligr mun verða.V)negative verbal suffix, = ata; var-at, was not.odda at, Yggs at, battle.* * *1.and að, prep., often used ellipt. dropping the case and even merely as an adverb, [Lat. ad; Ulf. at = πρός and παρά, A. S. ät; Engl. at; Hel. ad = apud; O. H. G. az; lost in mod. Germ., and rare in Swed. and Dan.; in more freq. use in Engl. than any other kindred language, Icel. only excepted]:—the mod. pronunciation and spelling is að (aþ); this form is very old, and is found in Icel. vellum MSS. of the 12th century, e. g. aþ, 623. 60; yet in earlier times it was sounded with a tenuis, as we may infer from rhymes, e. g. jöfurr hyggi at | hve ek yrkja fat, Egill: Sighvat also makes it rhyme with a t. The verse by Thorodd—þar vastu at er fjáðr klæðið þvat (Skálda 162)—is hardly intelligible unless we accept the spelling with an aspirate (að), and say that þvað is = þvá = þváði, lavabat; it may be that by the time of Thorodd and Ari the pure old pronunciation was lost, or is ‘þvat’ simply the A. S. þvât, secuit? The Icelanders still, however, keep the tenuis in compounds before a vowel, or before h, v, or the liquids l, r, thus—atyrða, atorka, athöfn, athugi, athvarf, athlægi; atvinna, atvik; atlaga, atlíðanði ( slope), atriði, atreið, atróðr: but aðdjúpr, aðfinsla (critic), aðferð, aðkoma, aðsókn, aðsúgr (crowding), aðgæzla. In some words the pronunciation is irregular, e. g. atkvæði not aðkv-; atburðr, but aðbúnaðr; aðhjúkran not athjúkran; atgörvi not aðgörfi. At, to, towards; into; against; along, by; in regard to; after.Mostly with dat.; rarely with acc.; and sometimes ellipt.—by dropping the words ‘home,’ ‘house,’ or the like—with gen.WITH DAT.A. LOC.I. WITH MOTION; gener. the motion to the borders, limits of an object, and thus opp. to frá:1. towards, against, with or without the notion of arrival, esp. connected with verbs denoting motion (verba movendi et eundi), e. g. fara, ganga, koma, lúta, snúa, rétta at…; Otkell laut at Skamkatli, O. louted (i. e. bowed down) towards S., Nj. 77, Fms. xi. 102; sendimaðrinn sneri ( turned) hjöltum sverðsins at konungi, towards the king, i. 15; hann sneri egginni at Ásgrími, turned the edge towards A., Nj. 220; rétta e-t at e-m, to reach, hand over, Ld. 132; ganga at, to step towards, Ísl. ii. 259.2. denoting proximity, close up to, up to; Brynjólfr gengr … allt at honum, B. goes quite up to him, Nj. 58; Gunnarr kom þangat at þeim örunum, G. reached them even there with his arrows, 115; þeir kómust aldri at honum, they could never get near him, to close quarters, id.; reið maðr at þeim (up to them), 274; þeir höfðu rakit sporin allt at ( right up to) gammanum, Fms. i. 9; komu þeir at sjó fram, came down to the sea, Bárð. 180.3. without reference to the space traversed, to or at; koma at landi, to land, Ld. 38, Fms. viii. 358; ríða at dyrum, Boll. 344; hlaupa at e-m, to run up to, run at, Fms. vii. 218, viii. 358; af sjáfarganginum er hann gekk at landinu, of the surf dashing against the shore, xi. 6; vísa ólmum hundi at manni, to set a fierce hound at a man, Grág. ii. 118; leggja e-n at velli, to lay low, Eg. 426, Nj. 117; hníga at jörðu, at grasi, at moldu, to bite the dust, to die, Njarð. 378; ganga at dómi, a law term, to go into court, of a plaintiff, defendant, or bystander, Nj. 87 (freq.)4. denoting a motion along, into, upon; ganga at stræti, to walk along the street, Korm. 228, Fms. vii. 39; at ísi, on the ice, Skálda 198, Fms. vii. 19, 246, viii. 168, Eb. 112 new Ed. (á is perh. wrong); máttu menn ganga bar yfir at skipum einum, of ships alone used as a bridge, Fas. i. 378; at höfðum, at nám, to trample on the slain on the battle-field, Lex. Poët.; at ám, along the rivers; at merkiósum, at the river’s mouth, Grág. ii. 355; at endilöngu baki, all along its back, Sks. 100.5. denoting hostility, to rush at, assault; renna at, hlaupa at, ganga, fara, ríða, sækja, at e-m, (v. those words), whence the nouns atrenna, athlaup, atgangr, atför, atreið, atsókn, etc.β. metaph., kom at þeim svefnhöfgi, deep sleep fell on them, Nj. 104. Esp. of weather, in the impers. phrase, hríð, veðr, vind, storm görir at e-m, to be overtaken by a snow storm, gale, or the like; görði þá at þeim þoku mikla, they were overtaken by a thick fog, Bárð. 171.6. denoting around, of clothing or the like; bregða skikkju at höfði sér, to wrap his cloak over his head, Ld. 62; vefja motri at höfði sér, to wrap a snood round her head, 188; sauma at, to stick, cling close, as though sewn on; sauma at höndum sér, of tight gloves, Bs. i. 453; kyrtill svá þröngr sem saumaðr væri at honum, as though it were stitched to him, Nj. 214; vafit at vándum dreglum, tight laced with sorry tags, id.; hosa strengd fast at beini, of tight hose, Eg. 602; hann sveipar at sér iðrunum ok skyrtunni, he gathers up the entrails close to him and the skirt too, Gísl. 71; laz at síðu, a lace on the side, to keep the clothes tight, Eg. 602.β. of burying; bera grjót at einum, to heap stones upon the body, Eg. 719; var gör at þeim dys or grjóti, Ld. 152; gora kistu at líki, to make a coffin for a body, Eb. 264, Landn. 56, Ld. 142.γ. of summoning troops or followers; stefna at sér mönnum, to summon men to him, Nj. 104; stefna at sér liði, Eg. 270; kippa mönnum at sér, to gather men in haste, Ld. 64.7. denoting a business, engagement; ríða at hrossum, at sauðum, to go looking after after horses, watching sheep, Glúm. 362, Nj. 75; fara at fé, to go to seek for sheep, Ld. 240; fara at heyi, to go a-haymaking, Dropl. 10; at veiðum, a-hunting; at fuglum, a-fowling; at dýrum, a-sbooting; at fiski, a-fishing; at veiðiskap, Landn. 154, Orkn. 416 (in a verse), Nj. 25; fara at landskuldum, to go a-collecling rents, Eg. 516; at Finnkaupum, a-marketing with Finns, 41; at féföngum, a-plundering, Fms. vii. 78; ganga at beina, to wait on guests, Nj. 50; starfa at matseld, to serve at table, Eb. 266; hitta e-n at nauðsynjum, on matters of business; at máli, to speak with one, etc., Fms. xi. 101; rekast at e-m, to pursue one, ix. 404; ganga at liði sér, to go suing for help, Grág. ii. 384.β. of festivals; snúa, fá at blóti, veizlu, brullaupi, to prepare for a sacrificial banquet, wedding, or the like, hence at-fangadagr, Eb. 6, Ld. 70; koma at hendi, to happen, befall; ganga at sínu, to come by one’s own, to take it, Ld. 208; Egill drakk hvert full er at honum kom, drained every horn that came to him, Eg. 210; komast at keyptu, to purchase dearly, Húv. 46.8. denoting imaginary motion, esp. of places, cp. Lat. spectare, vergere ad…, to look or lie towards; horfði botninn at höfðanum, the bight of the bay looked toward the headland, Fms. i. 340, Landn. 35; also, skeiðgata liggr at læknum, leads to the brook, Ísl. ii. 339; á þann arminn er vissi at sjánum, on that wing which looked toward the sea, Fms. viii. 115; sár þau er horft höfðu at Knúti konungi, xi. 309.β. even connected with verbs denoting motion; Gilsáreyrr gengr austan at Fljótinu, G. extends, projects to F. from the east, Hrafh. 25; hjá sundi því, er at gengr þingstöðinni, Fms. xi. 85.II. WITHOUT MOTION; denoting presence at, near, by, at the side of, in, upon; connected with verbs like sitja, standa, vera…; at kirkju, at church, Fms. vii. 251, K. f). K. 16, Ld. 328, Ísl. ii. 270, Sks. 36; vera at skála, at húsi, to be in, at home, Landn. 154; at landi, Fms. i. 82; at skipi, on shipboard, Grág. i. 209, 215; at oldri, at a banquet, inter pocula; at áti, at dinner, at a feast, inter edendum, ii. 169, 170; at samförum ok samvistum, at public meetings, id.; at dómi, in a court; standa (to take one’s stand) norðan, sunnan, austan, vestan at dómi, freq. in the proceedings at trials in lawsuits, Nj.; at þingi, present at the parliament, Grág. i. 142; at lögbergi, o n the hill of laws, 17, Nj.; at baki e-m, at the back of.2. denoting presence, partaking in; sitja at mat, to sit at meat, Fms. i. 241; vera at veizlu, brullaupi, to be at a banquet, nuptials, Nj. 51, Ld. 70: a law term, vera at vígi, to be an accessory in manslaying, Nj. 89, 100; vera at e-u simply means to be about, be busy in, Fms. iv. 237; standa at máli, to stand by one in a case, Grág. ii. 165, Nj. 214; vera at fóstri, to be fostered, Fms. i. 2; sitja at hégóma, to listen to nonsense, Ld. 322; vera at smíð, to be at one’s work, Þórð. 62: now absol., vera at, to go on with, be busy at.3. the law term vinna eið at e-u has a double meaning:α. vinna eið at bók, at baugi, to make an oath upon the book by laying the band upon it, Landn. 258, Grág., Nj.; cp. Vkv. 31, Gkv. 3. 3, Hkv. 2. 29, etc.: ‘við’ is now used in this sense.β. to confirm a fact (or the like) by an oath, to swear to, Grág. i. 9, 327.γ. the law phrase, nefna vátta at e-u, of summoning witnesses to a deed, fact, or the like; nefna vátta at benjum, to produce evidence, witnesses as to the wounds, Nj., Grág.; at görð, Eg. 738; at svörum, Grág. i. 19: this summoning of witnesses served in old lawsuits the same purpose as modern pleadings and depositions; every step in a suit to be lawful must be followed by such a summoning or declaration.4. used ellipt., vera at, to be about, to be busy at; kvalararnir er at vóru at pína hann, who were tormenting him; þar varstu at, you were there present, Skálda 162; at várum þar, Gísl. (in a verse): as a law term ‘vera at’ means to be guilty, Glúm. 388; vartattu at þar, Eg. (in a verse); hence the ambiguity of Glum’s oath, vask at þar, I was there present: var þar at kona nokkur ( was there busy) at binda sár manna, Fms. v. 91; hann var at ok smíðaði skot, Rd. 313; voru Varbelgir at ( about) at taka af, þau lög …, Fms. ix. 512; ek var at ok vafk, I was about weaving, xi. 49; þeir höfðu verit at þrjú sumur, they had been busy at it for three summers, x. 186 (now very freq.); koma at, come in, to arrive unexpectedly; Gunnarr kom at í því, G. came in at that moment; hvaðan komtú nú at, whence did you come? Nj. 68, Fms. iii. 200.5. denoting the kingdom or residence of a king or princely person; konungr at Danmörk ok Noregi, king of…, Fms. i. 119, xi. 281; konungr, jarl, at öllum Noregi, king, earl, over all N., íb. 3, 13, Landn. 25; konungr at Dyflinni, king of Dublin, 25; but í or yfir England!, Eg. 263: cp. the phrase, sitja at landi, to reside, of a king when at home, Hkr. i. 34; at Joini, Fms. xi. 74: used of a bishop; biskup at Hólum, bishop of Hólar, Íb. 18, 19; but biskup í Skálaholti, 19: at Rómi, at Rome, Fbr. 198.6. in denoting a man’s abode (vide p. 5, col. 1, l. 27), the prep. ‘at’ is used where the local name implies the notion of by the side of, and is therefore esp. applied to words denoting a river, brook, rock, mountain, grove, or the like, and in some other instances, by, at, e. g. at Hofi (a temple), Landn. 198; at Borg ( a castle), 57; at Helgafelli (a mountain), Eb. constantly so; at Mosfelli, Landn. 190; at Hálsi (a hill), Fms. xi. 22; at Bjargi, Grett. 90; Hálsum, Landn. 143; at Á ( river), 296, 268; at Bægisá, 212; Giljá, 332; Myrká, 211; Vatnsá, id.; þverá, Glúm. 323; at Fossi (a ‘force’ or waterfall), Landn. 73; at Lækjamoti (waters-meeting), 332; at Hlíðarenda ( end of the lithe or hill), at Bergþórshváli, Nj.; at Lundi (a grove), at Melum (sandhill), Landn. 70: the prep. ‘á’ is now used in most of these cases, e. g. á Á, á Hofi, Helgafelli, Felli, Hálsi, etc.β. particularly, and without any regard to etymology, used of the abode of kings or princes, to reside at; at Uppsölum, at Haugi, Alreksstöðum, at Hlöðum, Landn., Fms.γ. konungr lét kalla at stofudyrum, the king made a call at the hall door, Eg. 88; þeir kölluðu at herberginu, they called at the inn, Fms. ix. 475.7. used ellipt. with a gen., esp. if connected with such words as gista, to be a guest, lodge, dine, sup (of festivals or the like) at one’s home; at Marðar, Nj. 4; at hans, 74; þingfesti at þess bóanda, Grág. i. 152; at sín, at one’s own home, Eg. 371, K. Þ. K. 62; hafa náttstað at Freyju, at the abode of goddess Freyja, Eg. 603; at Ránar, at Ran’s, i. e. at Ran’s house, of drowned men who belong to the queen of the sea, Ran, Eb. 274; at hins heilaga Ólafs konungs, at St. Olave’s church, Fms. vi. 63: cp. ad Veneris, εις Κίμωνος.B. TEMP.I. at, denoting a point or period of time; at upphafi, at first, in the beginning, Ld. 104; at lyktum, at síðustu, at lokum, at last; at lesti, at last, Lex. Poët., more freq. á lesti; at skilnaði, at parting, at last, Band. 3; at fornu, in times of yore, formerly, Eg. 267, D. I. i. 635; at sinni, as yet, at present; at nýju, anew, of present time; at eilífu, for ever and ever; at skömmu, soon, shortly, Ísl. ii. 272, v. l.II. of the very moment when anything happens, the beginning of a term; denoting the seasons of the year, months, weeks, the hours of the day; at Jólum, at Yule, Nj. 46; at Pálmadegi, on Palm Sunday, 273; at Páskum, at Easter; at Ólafsvöku, on St. Olave’s eve, 29th of July, Fms.; at vetri, at the beginning of the winter, on the day when winter sets in, Grág. 1. 151; at sumarmálum, at vetrnáttum; at Tvímánaði, when the Double month (August) begins, Ld. 256, Grág. i. 152; at kveldi, at eventide, Eg. 3; at því meli, at that time; at eindaga, at the term, 395; at eykð, at 4 o’clock p. m., 198; at öndverðri æfi Abra hams, Ver. II; at sinni, now at once, Fms. vi. 71; at öðruhverju, every now and then.β. where the point of time is marked by some event; at þingi, at the meeting of parliament (18th to the 24th of June), Ld. 182; at féránsdómi, at the court of execution, Grág. i. 132, 133; at þinglausnum, at the close of the parliament (beginning of July), 140; at festarmálum, eðr at eiginorði, at betrothal or nuptials, 174; at skilnaði, when they parted, Nj. 106 (above); at öllum minnum, at the general drinking of the toasts, Eg. 253; at fjöru, at the ebb; at flæðum, at flood tide, Fms. viii. 306, Orkn. 428; at hrörum, at an inquest, Grág. i. 50 (cp. ii. 141, 389); at sökum, at prosecutions, 30; at sinni, now, as yet, v. that word.III. ellipt., or adding ‘komanda’ or ‘er kemr,’ of the future time:1. ellipt., komanda or the like being understood, with reference to the seasons of the year; at sumri, at vetri, at hausti, at vári, next summer, winter…, Ísl. ii. 242; at miðju sumri, at ári, at Midsummer, next year, Fas. i. 516; at miðjum vetri, Fms. iv. 237,2. adding ‘komanda’ or ‘er kemr;’ at ári komanda, Bárð. 177; at vári er kemr, Dipl. iii. 6.IV. used with an absolute dat. and with a pres. part.:1. with pres. part.; at morni komanda, on the coming morrow, Fms. i. 263; at sér lifanda, in vivo, in his life time, Grág. ii. 202; at þeim sofundum, illis dormientibus, Hkr. i. 234; at öllum ásjándum, in the sight of all, Fms. x. 329; at úvitanda konungi, illo nesciente, without his knowledge, 227; at áheyranda höfðingjanum, in the chief’s bearing, 235.2. of past time with a past part. (Lat. abl. absol.); at hræjum fundnum, on the bodies being found, Grág. ii. 87; at háðum dómum ok föstu þingi, during the session, the courts being set, i. 484; at liðnum sex vikum, after six weeks past, Band. 13; at svá búnu, so goru, svá komnu, svá mæltu (Lat. quibus rebus gestis, dictis, quo facto, dicto, etc.), v. those words; at úreyndu, without trial, without put ting one to the test, Ld. 76; at honum önduðum, illo mortuo.3. ellipt. without ‘at;’ en þessum hlutum fram komnum, when all this has been done, Eb. 132.V. in some phrases with a slight temp, notion; at görðum gildum, the fences being strong, Gþl. 387; at vörmu spori, at once, whilst the trail is warm; at úvörum, unawares, suddenly, Nj. 95, Ld. 132; at þessu, at this cost, on that condition, Eb. 38, Nj. 55; at illum leiki, to have a narrow escape, now við illan leik, Fms. ix. 473; at því, that granted, Grág. ii. 33: at því, at pessu, thereafter, thereupon, Nj. 76.2. denoting succession, without interruption, one after another; hverr at öðrum, annarr maðr at öðrum, aðrir at öðrum; eina konu at annarri, Eg. 91, Fms. ii. 236, vi. 25, Bs. i. 22, 625. 80, H. E. i. 522.C. METAPH. and in various cases:I. denoting a transformation or change into, to, with the notion of destruction; brenna at ösku, at köldum kolum, to burn to ashes, to be quite destroyed, Fms. i. 105, Edda 3, Sturl. ii. 51: with the notion of transformation or transfiguration, in such phrases as, verða at e-u, göra e-t at e-u, to turn it into:α. by a spell; verða at ormi, to become a snake, Fms. xi. 158; at flugdrekum, Gullþ. 7; urðu þau bönd at járni, Edda 40.β. by a natural process it can often be translated by an acc. or by as; göra e-n at urðarmanni, to make him an outlaw, Eg. 728; græða e-n at orkumlamanni, to heal him so as to maim him for life, of bad treatment by a leech, Eb. 244: in the law terms, sár görist at ben, a wound turning into a ben, proving to be mortal, Grág., Nj.; verða at ljúgvætti, to prove to be a false evidence, Grág. i. 44; verða at sætt, to turn into reconciliation, Fms. i. 13; göra e-t at reiði málum, to take offence at, Fs. 20; at nýjum tíðindum, to tell as news, Nj. 14; verða fátt at orðum, to be sparing of words, 18; kveðr (svá) at orði, to speak, utter, 10; verða at þrifnaði, to geton well, Fms. vii. 196: at liði, at skaða, to be a help or hurt to one; at bana, to cause one’s death, Nj. 223, Eg. 21, Grág. ii. 29: at undrum, at hlátri, to become a wonder, a laughing-stock, 623. 35, Eg. 553.II. denoting capacity, where it may be translated merely by as or for; gefa at Jólagjöf, to give for a Christmas-box, Eg. 516; at gjöf, for a present; at erfð, at láni, launum, as an inheritance, a loan; at kaupum ok sökum, for buying and selling, Ísl. ii. 223, Grág. i. 423; at solum, ii. 204; at herfangi, as spoil or plunder; at sakbótum, at niðgjöldum, as a compensation, weregeld, i. 339, ii. 171, Hkr. ii. 168; taka at gíslingu, to take as an hostage, Edda 15; eiga e-n at vin, at óvin, to have one as friend or foe, illt er at eiga þræl at eingavin, ‘tis ill to have a thrall for one’s bosom friend (a proverb), Nj. 77; fæða, eiga, at sonum (syni), to beget a son, Edda 8, Bs. i. 60 (but eiga at dóttur cannot be said); hafa möttul at yfirhöfn, Fms. vii. 201; verða nökkut at manni (mönnum), to turn out to be a worthy man; verða ekki at manni, to turn out a worthless person, xi. 79, 268.2. in such phrases as, verða at orðum, to come towards, Nj. 26; var þat at erindum, Eg. 148; hafa at veizlum, to draw veizlur ( dues) from, Fms. iv. 275, Eg. 647; gora e-t at álitum, to take it into consideration, Nj. 3.III. denoting belonging to, fitting, of parts of the whole or the like; vóru at honum (viz. the sword) hjölt gullbúin, the sword was ornamented with a hilt of gold, Ld. 330; umgörð at ( belonging to) sverði, Fs. 97 (Hs.) in a verse; en ef mór er eigi at landinu, if there be no turf moor belonging to the land, Grág. ii. 338; svá at eigi brotnaði nokkuð at Orminum, so that no harm happened to the ship Worm, Fms. x. 356; hvatki er meiðir at skipinu eðr at reiðinu eðr at viðum, damage done t o …, Grág. ii. 403; lesta ( to injure) hús at lásum, við eðr torfi, 110; ef land hefir batnað at húsum, if the land has been bettered as to its buildings, 210; cp. the phrase, göra at e-u, to repair: hamlaðr at höndum eðr fótum, maimed as to hands or feet, Eg. 14; heill at höndum en hrumr at fótum, sound in band, palsied in foot, Fms. vii. 12; lykill at skrá, a key belonging, fitting, to the latch; hurð at húsi; a key ‘gengr at’ ( fits) skrá; and many other phrases. 2. denoting the part by which a thing is held or to which it belongs, by; fá, taka at…, to grasp by …; þú tókt við sverði hans at hjöltunum, you took it by the bill, Fms. i. 15; draga út björninn at hlustum, to pull out the bear by the ears, Fas. ii. 237; at fótum, by the feet, Fms. viii. 363; mæla ( to measure) at hrygg ok at jaðri, by the edge or middle of the stuff, Grág. i. 498; kasta e-m at höfði, head foremost, Nj. 84; kjósa e-n at fótum, by the feet alone, Edda 46; hefja frændsemi at bræðrum, eða at systkynum, to reckon kinship by the brother’s or the sister’s side, Grág. i. 28; kjósa at afli, at álitum, by strength, sight, Gs. 8, belongs rather to the following.IV. in respect of, as regards, in regard to, as to; auðigr at fé, wealthy of goods, Nj. 16, 30, 51; beztir hestar at reið, the best racehorses, 186; spekingr at viti, a man of great intellect, Ld. 124; vænn (fagr) at áliti, fair of face, Nj. 30, Bs. i. 61; kvenna vænst at ásjónu ok vits munum, of surpassing beauty and intellect, Ld. 122; fullkominn at hyggju, 18; um fram aðra menn at vinsældum ok harðfengi, of surpassing popularity and hardihood, Eb. 30.2. a law term, of challenging jurors, judges, or the like, on account of, by reason of; ryðja ( to challenge) at mægðum, guðsifjum, frændsemi, hrörum …; at leiðarlengd, on account of distance, Grág. i. 30, 50, Nj. (freq.)3. in arithm. denoting proportion; at helmingi, þriðjungi, fjórðungi, tíunda hluta, cp. Lat. ex asse, quadrante, for the half, third… part; máttr skal at magni (a proverb), might and main go together, Hkr. ii. 236; þú munt vera at því mikill fræðimaðr á kvæði, in the same proportion, as great, Fms. vi. 391, iii. 41; at e-s hluta, at… leiti, for one’s part, in turn, as far as one is con cerned, Grág. i. 322, Eg. 309, Fms. iii. 26 (freq.): at öðrum kosti, in the other case, otherwise (freq.) More gener., at öllu, öngu, in all (no) respects; at sumu, einhverju, nokkru, partly; at flestu, mestu, chiefly.4. as a paraphrase of a genitive; faðir, móðir at barni (= barns); aðili at sök (= sakar a.); morðingi at barni (= barns), faðerni at barni (barns); illvirki at fé manna (cp. Lat. felo de se), niðrfall at sökum (saka), land gangr at fiskum (fiska), Fms. iv. 274, Grág. i. 277, 416, N. G. L. i. 340, K. Þ. K. 112, Nj. 21.5. the phrase ‘at sér,’ of himself or in himself, either ellipt. or by adding the participle görr, and with the adverbs vel, ilia, or the like; denoting breeding, bearing, endowments, character …; væn kona, kurteis ok vel at sér, an accomplished, well-bred, gifted lady, Nj. I; vitr maðr ok vel at sér, a wise man and thoroughly good in feeling and bearing, 5; þú ert maðr vaskr ok vel at þér, 49; gerr at sér, accomplished, 51; bezt at sér görr, the finest, best bred man, 39, Ld. 124; en þó er hann svá vel at sér, so generous, Nj. 77; þeir höfðingjar er svá vóru vel at sér, so noble-minded, 198, Fms. i. 160: the phrase ‘at sér’ is now only used of knowledge, thus maðr vel að sér means clever, a man of great knowledge; illa að sér, a blockhead.6. denoting relations to colour, size, value, age, and the like; hvitr, svartr, grár, rauðr … at lit, white, swarthy, gray, red … of colour, Bjarn. 55, 28, Ísl. ii. 213, etc.; mikill, lítill, at stærð, vexti, tall, small of size, etc.; ungr, gamall, barn, at aldri, young, old, a child of age; tvítugr, þrítugr … at aldri, twenty, thirty … years of age (freq.): of animals; kyr at fyrsta, öðrum … kálfi, a cow having calved once, twice…, Jb. 346: value, amount, currency of money, kaupa e-t at mörk, at a mark, N. G. L. 1. 352; ok er eyririnn at mörk, amounts to a mark, of the value of money, Grág. i. 392; verðr þá at hálfri murk vaðmála eyrir, amounts to a half a mark, 500.β. metaph. of value, connected with verbs denoting to esteem, hold; meta, hafa, halda at miklu, litlu, vettugi, engu, or the like, to hold in high or low esteem, to care or not to care for (freq.): geta e-s at góðu, illu, öngu, to mention one favourably, unfavourably, indifferently … (freq.), prop. in connection with. In many cases it may be translated by in; ekki er mark at draumum, there is no meaning in dreams, no heed is to be paid to dreams, Sturl. ii. 217; bragð er at þá barnið finnr, it goes too far, when even a child takes offence (a proverb): hvat er at því, what does it mean? Nj. 11; hvert þat skip er vöxtr er at, any ship of mark, i. e. however small, Fms. xi. 20.V. denoting the source of a thing:1. source of infor mation, to learn, perceive, get information from; Ari nam ok marga fræði at Þuríði, learnt as her pupil, at her hands, as St. Paul at the feet of Gamaliel, (just as the Scotch say to speer or ask at a person); Ari nam at Þorgeiri afraðskoll, Hkr. (pref.); nema kunnáttu at e-m, used of a pupil, Fms. i. 8; nema fræði at e-m, xi. 396.2. of receiving, acquiring, buying, from; þiggja e-t at e-m, to receive a thing at his hands, Nj. 51; líf, to be pardoned, Fms. x. 173; kaupa land at e-m, to buy it from, Landn. 72, Íb. II, (now af is more freq. in this sense); geta e-t at e-m, to obtain, procure at one’s hands, impetrare; þeirra manna er þeir megu þat geta at, who are willing to do that, Grág. i. I; heimta e-t at e-m (now af), to call in, demand (a debt, money), 279; fala e-t at e-m (now af), to chaffer for or cheapen anything, Nj. 73; sækja e-t at e-m, to ask, seek for; sækja heilræði ok traust at e-m, 98; leiga e-t at e-m (now af), to borrow, Grág. ii. 334; eiga e-t (fé, skuld) at e-m, to be owed money by any one, i. 399: metaph. to deserve of one, Nj. 113; eiga mikit at e-m, to have much to do with, 138; hafa veg, virðing, styrk, at, to derive honour, power from, Fms. vi. 71, Eg. 44, Bárð. 174; gagn, to be of use, Ld. 216; mein, tálma, mischief, disadvantage, 158, 216, cp. Eg. 546; ótta, awe, Nj. 68.VI. denoting conformity, according to, Lat. secundum, ex, after; at fornum sið, Fms. i. 112; at sögn Ara prests, as Ari relates, on his authority, 55; at ráði allra vitrustu manna, at the advice of, Ísl. ii. 259, Ld. 62; at lögum, at landslögum, by the law of the land, Grág., Nj.; at líkindum, in all likelihood, Ld. 272; at sköpum, in due course (poet.); at hinum sama hætti, in the very same manner, Grág. i. 90; at vánum, as was to be expected, Nj. 255; at leyfi e-s, by one’s leave, Eg. 35; úlofi, Grág. ii. 215; at ósk, vilja e-s, as one likes…; at mun, id. (poet.); at sólu, happily (following the course of the sun), Bs. i. 70, 137; at því sem …, as to infer from …, Nj. 124: ‘fara, láta, ganga at’ denotes to yield, agree to, to comply with, give in, Ld. 168, Eg. 18, Fms. x. 368.VII. in phrases nearly or quite adverbial; gróa, vera græddr, at heilu, to be quite healed, Bárð. 167, Eb. 148; bíta at snöggu, to bite it bare, Fms. xi. 6; at þurru, till it becomes dry, Eb. 276; at endilöngu, all along, Fas. ii; vinnast at litlu, to avail little, 655 x. 14; at fullu, fully, Nj. 257, Hkr. i. 171; at vísu, of a surety, surely, Ld. 40; at frjálsu, freely, 308; at líku, at sömu, equally, all the same, Hom. 80, Nj. 267; at röngu, wrongly, 686 B. 2; at hófi, temperately, Lex. Poët.; at mun, at ráði, at marki, to a great extent; at hringum, utterly, all round, (rare), Fms. x. 389; at einu, yet, Orkn. 358; svá at einu, því at einu, allt at einu, yet, however, nevertheless.VIII. connected with comparatives of adverbs and adjectives, and strengthening the sense, as in Engl. ‘the,’ so much the more, all the more; ‘at’ heldr tveimr, at ek munda gjarna veita yðr öllum, where it may be translated by so much the more to two, as I would willingly grant it to all of you; hon grét at meir, she grat (wept) the more, Eg. 483; þykir oss at líkara, all the more likely, Fms. viii. 6; þess at harðari, all the harder, Sturl. iii. 202 C; svá at hinn sé bana at nær, Grág. ii. 117; at auðnara, at hólpnara, the more happy, Al. 19, Grett. 116 B; þess at meiri, Fms. v. 64; auvirðismaðr at meiri, Sturl. ii. 139; maðr at vaskari, id.; at feigri, any the more fey, Km. 22; maðr at verri, all the worse, Nj. 168; ok er ‘at’ firr…, at ek vil miklu heldr, cp. Lat. tantum abest… ut, Eg. 60.β. following after a negation; eigi at síðr, no less, Nj. 160, Ld. 146; eigi… at meiri maðr, any better, Eg. 425, 489; erat héra at borgnara, any the better off for that, Fms. vii. 116; eigi at minni, no less for that, Edda (pref.) 146; eigi at minna, Ld. 216, Fms. ix. 50; ekki at verri drengr, not a bit worse for that, Ld. 42; er mér ekki son minn at bættari, þótt…, 216; at eigi vissi at nær, any more, Fas. iii. 74.IX. following many words:1. verbs, esp. those denoting, a. to ask, enquire, attend, seek, e. g. spyrja at, to speer (ask) for; leita at, to seek for; gæta, geyma at, to pay attention to; huga, hyggja at; hence atspurn, to enquire, aðgæzla, athugi, attention, etc.β. verbs denoting laughter, play, joy, game, cp. the Engl. to play at …, to laugh at …; hlæja, brosa at e-u, to laugh, smile at it; leika (sér) at e-u, to play at; þykja gaman at, to enjoy; hæða, göra gys at …, to make sport at …γ. verbs denoting assistance, help; standa, veita, vinna, hjálpa at; hence atstoð, atvinna, atverk:—mode, proceeding; fara at, to proceed, hence atför and atferli:—compliance; láta, fara at e-u, v. above:— fault; e-t er at e-u, there is some fault in it, Fms. x. 418; skorta at e-u, to fall short of, xi. 98:—care, attendance; hjúkra at, hlýja at, v. these words:—gathering, collecting; draga, reiða, flytja, fá at, congerere:—engagement, arrival, etc.; sækja at, to attack; ganga at, vera at, to be about; koma at, ellipt. to arrive: göra at, to repair: lesta at, to impair (v. above); finna at, to criticise (mod.); telja at, id.: bera at, to happen; kveða at e-m, to address one, 625. 15, (kveða at (ellipt.) now means to pronounce, and of a child to utter (read) whole syllables); falla at, of the flood-tide (ellipt.): metaph. of pains or straits surrounding one; þreyngja, herða at, to press hard: of frost and cold, with regard to the seasons; frjósa at, kólna at, to get really cold (SI. 44), as it were from the cold stiffening all things: also of the seasons themselves; hausta, vetra að, when the season really sets in; esp. the cold seasons, ‘sumra at’ cannot be used, yet we may say ‘vára að’ when the spring sets in, and the air gets mild.δ. in numberless other cases which may partly be seen below.2. connected ellipt. with adverbs denoting motion from a place; norðan, austan, sunnan, vestan at, those from the north, east…; utan at, innan at, from the outside or inside.3. with adjectives (but rarely), e. g. kærr, elskr, virkr (affectionate), vandr (zealous), at e-m; v. these words.WITH ACC.TEMP.: Lat. post, after, upon, esp. freq. in poetry, but rare in prose writers, who use eptir; nema reisi niðr at nið (= maðr eptir mann), in succession, of erecting a monument, Hm. 71; in prose, at þat. posthac, deinde, Fms. x. 323, cp. Rm., where it occurs several times, 2, 6, 9, 14, 18, 24, 28, 30, 35; sonr á at taka arf at föður sinn, has to take the inheritance after his father, Grág. i. 170 new Ed.; eiga féránsdóm at e-n, Grág. i. 89; at Gamla fallinn, after the death of G., Fms. x. 382; in Edda (Gl.) 113 ought to be restored, grét ok at Oð, gulli Freyja, she grat (wept) tears of gold for her lost husband Od. It is doubtful if it is ever used in a purely loc. sense; at land, Grág. (Sb.)ii. 211, is probably corrupt; at hönd = á hönd, Grág. (Sb.) i. 135; at mót = at móti, v. this word.☞ In compounds (v. below) at- or að- answers in turn to Lat. ad- or in- or con-; atdráttr e. g. denotes collecting; atkoma is adventus: it may also answer to Lat. ob-, in atburðr = accidence, but might also be compared with Lat. occurrere.2.and að, the mark of the infinitive [cp. Goth. du; A. S. and Engl. to; Germ. zu]. Except in the case of a few verbs ‘at’ is always placed immediately before the infinitive, so as to be almost an inseparable part of the verb.I. it is used either,1. as, a simple mark of the infinitive, only denoting an action and independent of the subject, e. g. at ganga, at hlaupa, at vita, to go, to run, to know; or,2. in an objective sense when following such verbs as bjóða segja…, to invite, command …; hann bauð þeim at ganga, at sitja, be bade, ordered them to go, sit, or the like; or as gefa and fá; gefa e-m at drekka, at eta, to give one to drink or to eat, etc. etc.β. with the additional notion of intention, esp. when following verba cogitandi; hann ætlaði, hafði í hyggju at fara, he had it in his mind to go (where ‘to go’ is the real object to ætlaði and hafði í hyggju).3. answering to the Gr. ινα, denoting intention, design, in order to; hann gékk í borg at kaupa silfr, in order to buy, Nj. 280; hann sendi riddara sína með þeim at varðveita þær, 623. 45: in order to make the phrase more plain, ‘svá’ and ‘til’ are frequently added, esp. in mod. writers, ‘svá at’ and contr. ‘svát’ (the last however is rare), ‘til at’ and ‘til þess at,’ etc.II. in the earlier times the infin., as in Greek and Lat., had no such mark; and some verbs remain that cannot be followed by ‘at;’ these verbs are almost the same in Icel. as in Engl.:α. the auxiliary verbs vil, mun ( μέλλω), skal; as in Engl. to is never used after the auxiliaries shall, will, must; ek vil ganga, I will go; ek mun fara, (as in North. E.) I mun go; ek skal göra þat, I shall do that, etc.β. the verbs kunna, mega, as in Engl. I can or may do, I dare say; svá hygginn at hann kunni fyrir sökum ráða, Grág. ii. 75; í öllu er prýða má góðan höfðingja, Nj. 90; vera má, it may be; vera kann þat, id.: kunnu, however, takes ‘at’ whenever it means to know, and esp. in common language in phrases such as, það kann að vera, but vera kann þat, v. above.γ. lata, biðja, as in Engl. to let, to bid; hann lét (bað) þá fara, he let (bade) them go.δ. þykkja, þykjast, to seem; hann þykir vera, he is thought to be: reflex., hann þykist vera, sibi videtur: impers., mér þykir vera, mibi videtur, in all cases without ‘at.’ So also freq. the verbs hugsa, hyggja, ætla, halda, to think, when denoting merely the act of thinking; but if there be any notion of intention or purpose, they assume the ‘at;’ thus hann ætlaði, hugði, þá vera góða menn, he thought them to be, acc. c. inf.; but ætlaði at fara, meant to go, etc.ε. the verbs denoting to see, bear; sjá, líta, horfa á … ( videre); heyra, audire, as in Engl. I saw them come, I heard him tell, ek sá þá koma, ek heyrði hann tala.ζ. sometimes after the verbs eiga and ganga; hann gékk steikja, be went to roast, Vkv. 9; eiga, esp. when a mere periphrasis instead of skal, móður sína á maðr fyrst fram færa (better at færa), Grág. i. 232; á þann kvið einskis meta, 59; but at meta, id. l. 24; ráða, nema, göra …, freq. in poetry, when they are used as simple auxiliary verbs, e. g. nam hann sér Högna hvetja at rúnum, Skv. 3. 43.η. hljóta and verða, when used in the sense of must (as in Engl. he must go), and when placed after the infin.of another verb; hér muntu vera hljóta, Nj. 129; but hljóta at vera: fara hlýtr þú, Fms. 1. 159; but þú hlýtr at fara: verða vita, ii. 146; but verða at vita: hann man verða sækja, þó verðr (= skal) maðr eptir mann lifa, Fms. viii. 19, Fas. ii. 552, are exceptional cases.θ. in poetry, verbs with the verbal neg. suffix ‘-at,’ freq. for the case of euphony, take no mark of the infinitive, where it would be indispensable with the simple verb, vide Lex. Poët. Exceptional cases; hvárt sem hann vill ‘at’ verja þá sök, eða, whatever he chooses, either, Grág. i. 64; fyrr viljum vér enga kórónu at bera, en nokkut ófrelsi á oss at taka, we would rather bear no crown than …, Fms. x. 12; the context is peculiar, and the ‘at’ purposely added. It may be left out ellipt.; e. g. þá er guð gefr oss finnast (= at finnast), Dipl. ii. 14; gef honum drekka (= at drekka), Pr. 470; but mostly in unclassical writers, in deeds, or the like, written nastily and in an abrupt style.3.and að, conj. [Goth. þatei = οτι; A. S. þät; Engl. that; Germ, dass; the Ormul. and Scot. at, see the quotations sub voce in Jamieson; in all South-Teutonic idioms with an initial dental: the Scandinavian idioms form an exception, having all dropped this consonant; Swed. åt, Dan. at]. In Icel. the Bible translation (of the 16th century) was chiefly based upon that of Luther; the hymns and the great bulk of theol. translations of that time were also derived from Germany; therefore the germanised form það frequently appears in the Bible, and was often employed by theol. authors in sermons since the time of the Reformation. Jón Vidalin, the greatest modern Icel. preacher, who died in 1720, in spite of his thoroughly classical style, abounds in the use of this form; but it never took root in the language, and has never passed into the spoken dialect. After a relative or demonstr. pronoun, it freq. in mod. writers assumes the form eð, hver eð, hverir eð, hvað eð, þar eð. Before the prep. þú (tu), þ changes into t, and is spelt in a single word attú, which is freq. in some MS.;—now, however, pronounced aððú, aððeir, aððið …, = að þú…, with the soft Engl. th sound. It gener. answers to Lat. ut, or to the relat. pron. qui.I. that, relative to svá, to denote proportion, degree, so…, that, Lat. tam, tantus, tot…, ut; svá mikill lagamaðr, at…, so great a lawyer, that…, Nj. 1; hárið svá mikit, at þat…, 2; svá kom um síðir því máli, at Sigvaldi, it came so far, that…, Fms. xi. 95, Edda 33. Rarely and unclass., ellipt. without svá; Bæringr var til seinn eptir honum, at hann … (= svá at), Bær. 15; hlífði honum, at hann sakaði ekki, Fas. iii. 441.II. it is used,1. with indic, in a narrative sense, answering partly to Gr. οτι, Lat. quod, ut, in such phrases as, it came to pass, happened that …; þat var einhverju sinni, at Höskuldr hafði vinaboð, Nj. 2; þat var á palmdrottinsdag, at Ólafr konungr gékk út um stræti, Fms. ii. 244.2. with subj. answering to Lat. acc. with infin., to mark the relation of an object to the chief verb, e. g. vilda ek at þú réðist, I wished that you would, Nj. 57.β. or in an oblique sentence, answering to ita ut…; ef svá kann verða at þeir láti…, if it may be so that they might…, Fms. xi. 94.γ. with a subj. denoting design, answering to ϊνα or Lat. ut with subj., in order that; at öll veraldar bygðin viti, ut sciat totus orbis, Stj.; þeir skáru fyrir þá melinn, at þeir dæi eigi af sulti, ut ne fame perirent, Nj. 265; fyrsti hlutr bókarinnar er Kristindómsbálkr, at menn skili, in order that men may understand, Gþl. p. viii.III. used in connection with conjunctions,1. esp. þó, því, svá; þó at freq. contr. þótt; svát is rare and obsolete.α. þóat, þótt (North. E. ‘thof’), followed by a subjunctive, though, although, Lat. etsi, quamquam (very freq.); þóat nokkurum mönnum sýnist þetta með freku sett… þá viljum vér, Fms. vi. 21: phrases as, gef þú mér þó at úverðugri, etsi indignae (dat.), Stj. MS. col. 315, are unclass., and influenced by the Latin: sometimes ellipt. without ‘þó,’ eigi mundi hón þá meir hvata göngu sinni, at (= þóat) hon hraeddist bana sinn, Edda 7, Nj. 64: ‘þó’ and ‘at’ separated, svarar hann þó rétt, at hann svari svá, Grág. i. 23; þó er rétt at nýta, at hann sé fyrr skorinn, answering to Engl. yet—though, Lat. attamen —etsi, K. Þ. K.β. því at, because, Lat. nam, quia, with indic.; því at allir vóru gerfiligir synir hans, Ld. 68; því at af íþróttum verðr maðr fróðr, Sks. 16: separated, því þegi ek, at ek undrumst, Fms. iii. 201; því er þessa getið, at þat þótti, it i s mentioned because …, Ld. 68.γ. svá at, so that, Lat. ut, ita ut; grátrinn kom upp, svá at eingi mátti öðrum segja, Edda 37: separated, so … that, svá úsvúst at …, so bad weather, that, Bs. i. 339, etc.2. it is freq. used superfluously, esp. after relatives; hver at = hverr, quis; því at = því, igitur; hverr at þekkr ok þægiligr mun verða, Fms. v. 159; hvern stvrk at hann mundi fá, 44; ek undrumst hvé mikil ógnarraust at liggr í þér, iii. 201; því at ek mátti eigi þar vera elligar, því at þar var kristni vel haldin, Fas. i. 340.IV. as a relat. conj.:1. temp, when, Lat. quum; jafnan er ( est) mér þá verra er ( quum) ek fer á braut þaðan, en þá at ( quum) ek kem, Grett. 150 A; þar til at vér vitum, till we know, Fms. v. 52; þá at ek lýsta (= þá er), when, Nj. 233.2. since, because; ek færi yðr (hann), at þér eruð í einum hrepp allir, because of your being all of the same Rape, Grág. i. 260; eigi er kynlegt at ( though) Skarphéðinn sé hraustr, at þat er mælt at…, because (since) it is a saying that…, Nj. 64.V. in mod. writers it is also freq. superfluously joined to the conjunctions, ef að = ef, si, (Lv. 45 is from a paper MS.), meðan að = meðan, dum; nema að, nisi; fyrst að = fyrst, quoniam; eptir að, síðan að, postquam; hvárt að = hvárt, Lat. an. In the law we find passages such as, þá er um er dæmt eina sök, at þá eigu þeir aptr at ganga í dóminn, Grág. i. 79; ef þing ber á hina helgu viku, at þat á eigi fyrir þeim málum at standa, 106; þat er ok, at þeir skulu reifa mál manna, 64; at þeir skulu með váttorð þá sök sækja, 65: in all these cases ‘at’ is either superfluous or, which is more likely, of an ellipt. nature, ‘the law decrees’ or ‘it is decreed’ being understood. The passages Sks. 551, 552, 568, 718 B, at lokit (= at ek hefi lokit), at hugleitt (= at ek hefi h.), at sent (= at ek hefi sent) are quite exceptional.4.and að, an indecl. relat. pronoun [Ulf. þatei = ος, ος αν, οστις, οσπερ, οιος, etc.; Engl. that, Ormul. at], with the initial letter dropped, as in the conj. at, (cp. also the Old Engl. at, which is both a conj. and a pronoun, e. g. Barbour vi. 24 in Jamieson: ‘I drede that his gret wassalage, | And his travail may bring till end, | That at men quhilc full litil wend.’ | ‘His mestyr speryt quhat tithings a t he saw.’—Wyntoun v. 3. 89.) In Icel. ‘er’ (the relat. pronoun) and ‘at’ are used indifferently, so that where one MS. reads ‘er,’ another reads ‘at,’ and vice versâ; this may easily be seen by looking at the MSS.; yet as a rule ‘er’ is much more freq. used. In mod. writers ‘at’ is freq. turned into ‘eð,’ esp. as a superfluous particle after the relative pron. hverr (hver eð, hvað eð, hverir eð, etc.), or the demonstr. sá (sá eð, þeir eð, hinir eð, etc.):—who, which, that, enn bezta grip at ( which) hafði til Íslands komið, Ld. 202; en engi mun sá at ( cui) minnisamara mun vera, 242; sem blótnaut at ( quae) stærst verða, Fms. iii. 214; þau tiðendi, at mér þætti verri, Nj. 64, etc. etc.5.n. collision (poët.); odda at, crossing of spears, crash of spears, Höfuðl. 8.6.the negative verbal suffix, v. -a.
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brummagem — /brum euh jeuhm/, adj. 1. showy but inferior and worthless. n. 2. a showy but inferior and worthless thing. [1630 40; local var. of BIRMINGHAM, England (Compare BROMWICHHAM, BROMECHAM (17th century), ME Burmingeham); orig. in allusion to… … Universalium
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picayune — pic·a·yune || ‚pɪkÉ™ juËn n. any coin of small value; penny; worthless thing adj. worthless; cheap, low in value; trivial … English contemporary dictionary
picayunes — pic·a·yune || ‚pɪkÉ™ juËn n. any coin of small value; penny; worthless thing adj. worthless; cheap, low in value; trivial … English contemporary dictionary
brummagem — brum•ma•gem [[t]ˈbrʌm ə dʒəm[/t]] adj. 1) showy but inferior and worthless 2) a showy but inferior and worthless thing • Etymology: 1630–40; local var. of Birmingham, England; orig. in allusion to counterfeit coins produced there in the 17th cent … From formal English to slang
rip — rip1 [rip] vt. ripped, ripping [LME rippen, prob. < or akin to Fl, to tear < IE * reub : see RUB] 1. a) to cut or tear apart roughly or vigorously b) to remove by or as by so cutting or tearing: with off, out, away, etc. c) to make (a hole … English World dictionary