Imagine you are on a desert island.
- to imagine
Imagina que estás en una isla desierta.
- imaginar ("imaginarse" OK, th/can translate to "imagine yourself")
Finally the long-feared day arrived.
- feared
Finalmente llegó el día tan temido.
- temido/a
He found his wig turned into threads.
- the loose thread
Encontró su peluca convertida en hilachas.
- la hilacha
The water overflowed the sink.
- to overflow (trans)
The store, filled to overflowing.
- to overflow (intrans)
El agua desbordó el lavamanos.
- desbordar (trans)
La tienda, llena a rebosar.
- "rebosar" (intrans)
the straw that broke the camel's back
lit: the drop that overflowed the vase
- to overflow (trans) (not "desbordar")
la gota que rebalsó el vaso
- rebalsar (trans)
We must therefore look for new solutions with the same determination.
- the determination (not "el empeño" - the determination, the insistence)
Por lo tanto, debemos buscar nuevas soluciones con la misma determinación.
- la determinación
He had taken the decision.
alt: made the determination
- the decision (the determination)
Él había tomado la determinación.
- la determinación
His shoulders were slumped.
Tenía los hombros bajos.
the false teeth
- false (not "falso/a")
la dentadura postiza
- postizo/a
He would have beaten him until he was unconscious.
lit: until leaving him unconscious
- fainted, unconscious (not "inconsciente")
Lo hubiera golpeado hasta dejarlo desmayado.
- desmayado/a (2)
I want to be anesthetized and never wake up.
lit: never return
- to anesthetize
(the anaesthetic)
Quiero quedar anestesiado y no volver jamás.
- anestesiar
(el anestésico)
the very hard life
- very hard
la durísima vida
- durísimo/a
without fearing that others will judge or ridicule him just because
- just because
sin temer que los demás lo juzguen o lo ridiculicen porque sí
- porque sí
(note subj: juzgar, ridiculizar)
Ariel asked, ingenuously.
- ingenuously: naively, innocently
(ingenuous: naive, innocent)
Preguntó Ariel, ingenuamente.
- ingenuamente
(ingenuo/a)
Allen invented a novel process.
- novel, new
Allen inventó un proceso novedoso.
- novedoso/a
it seemed somewhat risky
- somewhat
parecía un tanto arriesgado
- un tanto
invaluable (not "valiosísimo/a")
invaluable
All those who were there, to a greater or lesser extent, were people used to lying.
- to a greater or lesser extent
Todos los que estaban allí, en mayor o menor medida, eran personas acostumbradas a mentir.
- en mayor o menor medida
(acostumbrar)
the candidates par excellence
- par excellence i.e., better than all others of the same kind
los candidatos por excelencia
- por excelencia
the cells adjacent to theirs
- contiguous, adjacent
las celdas contiguas a las suyas
- contiguo/a
but none met the three necessary characteristics
- to meet (to gather, to raise - money)
pero ninguno reunía las tres características necesarias
- reunir
He would be a very good addition to the group.
- the incorporation, the addition
Él sería una muy buena incorporación al grupo.
- la incorporación
It would be a shame, because we wouldn't be able to communicate at night.
- the shame (not "la lastima") (the pity, sorrow)
Sería una pena, porque no podríamos comunicarnos por las noches.
- la pena
There are many more guests.
And much more food.
Hay muchos más invitados.
Y mucha más comida.
Anyone who tried to escape from the prison would inevitably die in the attempt.
- inevitably (not "inevitablemente"), unfailingly
Cualquiera que intentara escapar de la prisión moriría indefectiblemente en el intento.
- indefectiblemente
(note subj after "cualquiera que")
The plan made him burst out laughing.
(the loud laugh)
El plan lo hizo réir a carcajadas.
(la carcajada)
a daring plan
- daring (not "atrevido/a")
un plan osado
- osado/a
the hardware store
la ferretería
That means that they rotate, they are not always the same.
- to rotate (intrans)
I asked Jose to rotate the screen .
- to rotate (trans)
Eso significa que van rotando, no son siempre las mismas.
- rotar (intrans)
Le pedí a José que rotara la pantalla.
- rotar (trans)
A new group joins the staff that is usually there every day.
- commonly, usually
Un grupo nuevo se une al personal que está comúnmente todos los días.
- comúnmente (2)