to hold your breath
contener la respiración
People tend to crowd around his grave like butterflies.
- to crowd, to gather (not "reunirse")
La gente tiende a agolparse alrededor de su tumba como mariposas.
- agolparse (2)
My accusation is based on the fact that
- to be based on (not "fundamentarse en")
Mi acusación se funda en el hecho de que
- fundarse en
(Israel) But how was it founded?
- to be founded (to be based upon)
(to found)
(Israel) ¿Pero, cómo se fundó?
- fundarse m/pronominal passive
(fundar)
in rooms infested with every pest imaginable
- to infest
- to become infested
- the infestation
- the plague, the pest (both not "la peste")
en habitaciones infestadas con todos las plagas imaginables
- infestar
- infestarse
- la infestación
- la plaga (2) (hard 'g')
the filtration, the leak (not "la fuga")
la filtración (2)
(1) the drip (not "el goteo": the drip, the trickle)
(2) the leak (not "la fuga" "la filtración")
la gotera (2)
Dark brown water was seeping through the cracks in the metal.
- to filter, to seep
(to filter, to leak)
Un agua de color marrón oscuro se filtraba por las grietas del metal.
- filtrarse
(filtrar - trans)
filthy
the filth
inmundo/a
la inmundicia
the pogrom
el pogromo
The army prevailed on the peninsula.
- to prevail (not "prevalecer")
- which is prevailing
El ejército se impuso en la península.
- imponerse
- que se está imponiendo
The booster of Zionism was the journalist Theodor Herzl.
- the booster, the driving force
- the Zionism
(to boost, to drive, to propel, to push)
El impulsor del sionismo fue el periodista Theodor Herzl.
- el impulsor, la impulsora (2)
- el sionismo
(impulsar)
the driving purpose
- driving
el propósito impulsor
- impulsor/a
the infrared camera
- infrared
la cámara infrarroja
- infrarrojo/a
eyeliner and eyeshadow on the eyelids
- the eyeliner
- the eyeshadow (the shadow, the shade)
el delineador y la sombra sobre los párpados
- el delineador
- la sombra
the strategic location
- strategic
(the strategy)
la ubicación estratégica
- estratégico/a
(la estrategia)
to nationalize
the nationalization
nacionalizar
la nacionalización
They considered several places to establish this new homeland.
- to consider (not "considerar")
Barajaron varios lugares para establecer esta nueva patria.
- barajar
The event in which the future of Palestine was at stake was the First World War.
(to stake)
El acontecimiento en el que se jugó el futuro de Palestina fue la Primera Guerra Mundial.
(jugarse)
during this bloody conflict
- bloody (not "sangriento" "cruento")
durante este sanguinario conflicto
- sanguinario/a
Saddam Hussein was a bloodthirsty dictator.
- bloodthirsty (bloody)
Sadam Husein fue un sanguinario dictador.
- sanguinario/a
the advantageous Suez Canal
- advantageous, beneficial, profitable
(the advantage, the benefit, the profit)
el provechoso Canal De Suez
- provechoso/a (3)
(el provecho)
while the Arabs were rising up against the Ottoman troops
- to rise [up]
(to lift, to raise)
mientras los árabes se alzaban contra las tropas otomanas
- alzarse
(alzar)
in parallel (2)
(the parallel)
paralelamente, en paralelo
(el paralelo)
the lipstick
el lápiz labial
the fragrance
la fragancia
the candidacy
la candidatura
He was forced to hand over power to the new minister.
Hint: m/they passive
- to hand over (to deliver, to turn in, to hand in)
- that was handed over
Lo obligaron a entregar el poder al nuevo ministro.
- entregar
- que se entregó (entregarse m/pronominal passive)
the Nazi concentration camps
los campos de concentración nazis
so that his companions relax a bit
- to relax (not "relajarse")
- to distend, to relax (trans)
para que sus compañeros se distiendan un poco
- distenderse (note subj) (i->ie) yo me distiendo
- distender (trans)