zona de conflicto

las zonas más ricas/remotas/deprimidas del país — the richest/remotest/most depressed areas o parts of the country

• zonas costeras — coastal areas

• zona montañosa o de montaña — mountainous area, mountainous region

• zonas rurales — rural areas

• zonas turísticas — tourist areas

• zonas urbanas — urban areas

zona de conflicto — (Mil) conflict zone

zona fronteriza — [gen] border area; (Mil) border zone

zona roja — Esp Republican territory

zona azul — Esp (Aut) ≈ pay-and-display area

• zona comercial — [para negocios en general] commercial district; [solo de tiendas] shopping area

• zona de copas, ¿dónde está la zona de copas? — where do people go out to drink?

• zona edificada — built-up area

zona marginada — CAm slum area

zona roja — LAm red-light district

zona rosa — Méx partly pedestrianized zone, so called because of its pink paving stones

zona ancha — (Dep) midfield

zona de castigo — (Dep) sin bin

zona de penumbra, zona de sombra — (lit) shaded area; (fig) area of secrecy

las zonas oscuras de la política — the shady o murky areas of politics

Ex: The area in which standards for bibliographic description have had the most impact is in catalogues and catalogue record data bases.

zona limítrofe — Grenzregion f

zona industrial — Inustriegebiet n

zona de catástrofe — Katastrophengebiet n

zona ajardinada — Grünanlage f

zona de colonización — Siedlungsgebiet n

zona de esquí — Skigebiet n

zona prohibida — Sperrbezirk m, Sperrgebiet n

zona de baja presión — Tiefdruckgebiet n

zona de soberanía — Hoheitsgebiet n

zona de conflicto — Spannungsgebiet n

zona de las tres millas — Dreimeilenzone f

zona peatonal — Fußgängerzone f

zona fronteriza — Grenzbezirk m

zona climática — Klimazone f

zona comprimible de seguridad — Knautschzone f

Ex: Rapid contingent change is difficult for public sector SLIS but relatively straightforward for university SLIS.

Ex: Ulysses uses words to comfort and lull his mariners, to ease all minds about the hard decision he has made and to persuade all that his choice to leave is correct.

Ex: Gerould College, a co-educational undergraduate institution, is located on the outskirts of a peaceful, hideaway village in the Northeast, far from the rumbling tempo of industrialism.

Ex: Gerould College, a co-educational undergraduate institution, is located on the outskirts of a peaceful, hideaway village in the Northeast, far from the rumbling tempo of industrialism.

Ex: Sample articles were chosen for subjects coterminous with each other for 1950, 60 and 70.

Ex: For all their bellicose rhetoric, they still hope that diplomatic pressure will persuade Iran to compromise.

de guerra — military, war antes de s

Ministerio de Guerra — Ministry of War, War Office, War Department (EEUU)

declarar la guerra — to declare war (a on)

estar en guerra — to be at war ( con with)

hacer la guerra — to wage war (a on)

Guerra de la Independencia — LAm War of Independence; Esp Peninsular War

guerra relámpago — blitzkrieg, lightning war (EEUU)

dar guerra — [gen] to be a nuisance (a to)

pedir o querer guerra — [gen] to look for trouble; [sexualmente] * to feel randy o horny *

Ex: For example, at Woking, the stock has been split into about thirty sections, such as Health and welfare, war and warfare, retaining the Dewey sequence within each section.

los dos coches chocaron de frente — the two cars crashed head on o were in a head-on collision

• chocar con o contra — [+ vehículo] to collide with, crash into; [+ objeto] to bang into; [+ persona] to bump into

para no chocar contra el avión — to avoid crashing into o colliding with the plane

• chocar con — [+ ideas, intereses] to run counter to, be at odds with; [+ obstáculos, dificultades] to come up against, run into; [+ personas] to clash with

esa propuesta choca con los intereses de EEUU — that proposal runs counter to o is at odds with American interests

¡chócala! * —

¡choca esos cinco! — * put it there! *

chocar de frente — to collide o crash head-on

nunca he chocado — (CS) I've never had an accident

chocar con or contra algo — vehículo to crash o run into something; ( con otro en marcha) to collide with something

chocaron con or contra un árbol — they crashed o ran into a tree

chocar con alguien — persona to run into somebody, collide with somebody

esta idea choca con su conservadurismo — this idea conflicts with o is at odds with his conservatism

chocarla: estaban enojados pero ya la chocaron (Méx fam) they had fallen out but they've made it up again now (colloq); chócala! — (fam) put it there! (colloq), give me five! (colloq)

chocar de frente — to collide o crash head-on

nunca he chocado — (CS) I've never had an accident

chocar con or contra algo — vehículo to crash o run into something; ( con otro en marcha) to collide with something

chocaron con or contra un árbol — they crashed o ran into a tree

chocar con alguien — persona to run into somebody, collide with somebody

esta idea choca con su conservadurismo — this idea conflicts with o is at odds with his conservatism

chocarla: estaban enojados pero ya la chocaron (Méx fam) they had fallen out but they've made it up again now (colloq); chócala! — (fam) put it there! (colloq), give me five! (colloq)

Ex: It doesn't take a wild imagination to grasp what happens to a rider who crashes with protective gear on and one who goes down in street clothes.