the assassination (not "el asesinato")
el magnicidio
the common denominator
el común denominador
Not because I'm the ex-boyfriend
but because I'm a policeman.
m/not because I might be
- not because ... but because ...
No porque sea el ex-novio
sino porque soy policía.
- "no porque"+pres subj
"sino porque"+present
I can follow her without her noticing.
Puedo seguirla sin que se dé cuenta.
(note present subjunctive)
Does it seem bad to you if I did that?
¿Te parece mal si hiciera eso?
(note hypothetical if: past subj + present indicative, not conditional)
if now she discovered that he is following her
si ahora descrubiera que la está siguiendo
(note past subjunctive)
the immensity
(immense)
immensely
la inmensidad
(inmenso/a)
inmensamente
the time zone
- the spindle
el huso horario
- el huso
the binary numbers/numbering
- binary
- the numbers, the numbering
la numeración binaria
- binario/a
- la numeración (2)
the alley (the hallway)
el pasillo
the police inaction
- the passivity, the inaction
la pasividad policial
- la pasividad (2)
in the wake of the Supreme Court ruling
- the wake
en la estela del dictamen de la Corte Suprema
- la estela
My fear of dogs comes from a bad experience as a child.
- to derive from, to come from
Mi miedo a los perros deriva de una mala experiencia de pequeño. (alt: de pequeña)
- derivar de (intrans)
the Slav
el eslavo, la eslava
the front door (L.A.), the door, the gate
el portón
All the students were pointing to her.
- to point to (to signal)
Todos los estudiantes la señalaban.
- señalar
She got up from the bed very sluggishly.
- the sluggishness (the laziness)
Se levantó de la cama con mucha pereza.
- la pereza
She answers right away, wondering who it could be.
lit: who it must be
Atiende enseguida, imaginándose quién debe ser.
(atender)
(in such a sinister place)
Nothing pleasant m/could happen there.
lit: must happen
(en un lugar tan tenebroso)
Ahí dentro no debe ocurrir nada agradable.
The DEA carried out its biggest seizure of fentanyl pills in California.
- the seizure
- to seize
La DEA realizó el mayor decomiso de pastillas de fentanilo en California.
- el decomiso
- decomisar (trans)
Greek
Greece
griego/a (hard 'g')
Grecia
the Cyrillic alphabet
el alfabeto cirílico
Our objective is to enroll more students than last year.
- enroll
Nuestro objetivo es enrolar más alumnos que el año pasado.
- enrolar (trans) (usually: "enrolar a" but not above. Not known to exist?)
the principality
el principado
Being close to him, she felt protected.
(in front of him)
Estando cerca suyo, ella se sentía protegida.
(en frente suyo)
the psychopath
el,la psicópata
the Viking
el vikingo
but the empire disintegrated
- to disintegrate
- the disintegration
pero el imperio se desintegró
- desintegrar(se)
- la desintegración
What type of meeting is it that we are going to?
¿Qué tipo de reunión es a la que vamos?