the emergence
el surgimiento
There would not have been independence without the involvement of that negotiation.
lit: without that negotiation involved
- there would not have been
- it wouldn't have been
No hubiera habido la independencia sin esa negociación de por medio.
- no hubiera habido (alt: "no habría habido")
- no huberia sido
the buffer state
- the plug
el estado tapón
- el tapón
Nothing can fail.
better: Nothing can go wrong.
- to fail (to rule)
No puede fallar nada.
- fallar (intrans)
The bullet missed the target.
- to miss (to fail, to rule)
La bala falló el objetivo.
- fallar (trans)
The student got the answer wrong.
- to get wrong (not "equivocar") (to miss, to fail, to rule)
El estudiante falló la respuesta.
- fallar (trans)
the napkin
la servilleta
the cutlery
los cubiertos
the nickname (not "el apodo")
el sobrenombre
disaffected
the disaffection
desafecto/a
el desafecto
simplistic
simplistically
the simplicity
simplista (m/f)
simplísticamente
la simplicidad
metaphorical
metaphorically
the metaphor
metafórico/a
metafóricamente
la metáfora
lit: the cotton between panes of glass
meaning: a mediator, a buffer
- the cotton
- the crystal, the glass
el algodón entre cristales
- el algodón
- el cristal (2)
(Uruguay) a state created to cushion or damp down the rivalry
- to cushion
- to damp down, to cushion
(Uruguay) un estado creado para acolchonar o amortiguar la rivalidad
- acolchonar
- amortiguar (2)
when she gets close enough
cuando ella se acerca lo suficiente
(acercarse)
Your Majesty
- the majesty, Majesty
su majestad
- la majestad (2)
as they are getting settled/comfortable
- to get settled/comfortable
(to accommodate, to adapt)
mientras se acomodan
- acomodarse
(acomodar - trans)
geographical
geographically
geográfico/a
geográficamente
The country has lived between that conflict of hegemonies ...
- the conflict, the fight
- the hegemony
El país ha vivido entre esa pugna de hegemonías ...
- la pugna (a hard 'g')
- la hegemonía (soft 'g')
... without associating itself with either of them.
- to associate oneself
... sin asociarse con ninguno de ellos.
- asociarse
the class that she was teaching in the high school
- to impart, to teach
la clase que ella impartía en la escuela secundaria
- impartir (2)
such a well-balanced menu
- to balance
una carta tan bien balanceada
- balancear
the coal
el carbón
a long process of formation
- the formation
un proceso largo de conformación
- la conformación
the advance of the Imperial Japanese Navy
- the advance (not "el avance")
("el adelanto" th/a monetary advance)
- the navy, the armada
la avanzada de la armada imperial japonesa
- la avanzada
- la armada (2)
its expansionist zeal in Asia
- the zeal (not "el celo") (the eagerness)
- expansionist
su afán expansionista en Asia
- el afán
- expansionista
the colony of Indochina which encompassed what we know now as Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia
- to encompass
la colonia de Indochina que englobaba lo que ahora conocemos como Vietnam, Laos y Comboya
- englobar
the financial assets
- the asset (not "el bien")
los activos financieros
- el activo
the embargo
el embargo
the oil field, the deposit
el yacimiento (2)
the blockade, the block (sports)
the writer's block
el bloqueo (2)
el bloqueo del escritor
the demands of the United States
- the imposition, the demand
las imposiciones de Estado Unidos
- la imposición (2)
Go to the bakery and, on the way, go to the store.
- on the way, en passant
Ve a la panadería y, de paso, ve a la tienda.
- de paso