4.2- Relations with Parents Flashcards
Attitudes
Las actitudes
To question/ challenge authority
Cuestionar la autoridad
Pedestal authority
La autoridad paterna
To rebel against authority
Rebelarse contra la autoridad
Parental permissiveness
La permisividad paterna
Lenient, tolerant parents
Los padres indulgentes
Punishment, to punish
El castigo, castigar
Petty rules
Las reglillas
Antisocial behavior
El comportamiento antisocial
To swear, use bad language
Soltar palabrotas
To make a show of bad manners
Mostrarse mal educado/a
To cause a row, kick up a fuss
Montar, armar un follón
To quarrel
Reńir
To question everything
Ponerlo todo en la tela de juicio
To come home in the small hours
Llegar de madrugada
To want to get one’s own way
Querer salirse con la suya
To be unable to get on with one’s father/ mother
No poder entenderse con su padre/ madre
His/ her mother is old- fashioned
Su madre es una antigualla
His/ her father is an old fussy- duddy
Su padre es un chapado a la antigua
Narrow- minded
Estrecho/a de miras
My parents insist I…
Mis padres insisten en que yo (+subj)
To get in one’s nerves
Fastidiar a alguien
To make a lot of fuss over nothing, exaggerate
Buscar cinco pies al gato
To hear the same old thing day after day
Escuchar todos los días el mismo rollo
As if it were the only thing that mattered
Como sí fuese lo único que importarse
To be open- minded
No tener prejuicios
To share ideas
Compartir ideas
I doesn’t matter who’s right
No importa quién tiene razón
It isn’t for want of trying
No es porque no lo intente
To make it up
Hacer las paces
Each one offers his/her opinion
Cada cual ofrece su opinión
To reach an agreement
Ponerse de acuerdo
To be in agreement, agree
Estar de acuerdo
Authority
La autoridad
