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Incrementar, aumentar

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Increase

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Recuperar, rescatar

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Retrieve, get back, bring back

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Salir adelante, sobrellevar

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Cope, cope with anxiety

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Carga, responsabilidad. Agobiar con …

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Burden.
-The donkey can’t carry a heavy burden.
- Don’t burden your mother with your problems.
- Being responsible for the family is a burden to him

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Acciones

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Stocks

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Pasar por alto

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Overlook

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Afluencia

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Influx, of people or money

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Hinchado, inflado, desmesurado, excesivo. Inflar

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Bloated. - My stomach is bloated. - There are bloated corpses on the shore (orilla) of the lake. - Oliver’s privileged upbringing has given him a bloated sense of entitlement (sentido de tener derecho [a todo]).
The assets bloated after an influx of investors.

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Run into (something or someone)

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Encontrarse con, toparse con, chocarse con
Do you have run into Chinese competition?

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Principalmente para el suyo

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Mostly for yours

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I hadn’t practiced that much

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No había estudiado tanto

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Count out

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Descartar, no contar con

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Internship

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Práctica, periodo de prácticas

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Stroll

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Pasear, dar una vuelta (verb)
Vuelta, paseo (noun)

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Winding (road, path)

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Serpenteante, sinuoso

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Fringe

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Fleco (hair or carpet), periferia, borde, márgen

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Understatement

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Subestimación, sutileza, quedarse corto.

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Use to.
I used to work in another company
Did you use to work in that company?
No, I didn’t use to work there

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Solía, similar al pasado habitual

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Twist

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Girar, retorcer

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Hold on

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Aferrarse, mantenerse, no rendirse. “Maybe I held on a little too tight

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Tidal wave

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Maremoto

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Soothing (adj), soothe (verb).

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Reconfortante (adj). Calmar, bring relief, tranquilizar. She did the best to soothe the crying child. A soothing hot chocolate cup in a rainy morning.

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Frown

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Fruncir el ceño. “Your expression, you haven’t frown like that before”

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Buff (n) (adj) (verb)

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Aficionado de (Time traveling movie buff), Pulido, brillante, musculoso. Buff something (polish)

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Sower

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Sembrador

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Plot

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Argumento, trama (novel, film, etc.)

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Warp (verb) warped (adj)

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Deformarse, torcerse, deformar, torcer.

Retorcido, torcido.

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Uphold (verb)

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Sostener, defender, mantener, ratificar

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Whirlwind (n) (w3:rwind)

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Torbellino.
The world is just a nonstop whirlwind of people and relationships.

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Drift apart (ph verb)

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Separarse, distanciarse.
Sometimes friends will drift apart over time (A veces los amigos se distancian con el tiempo)

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Come together (phrasal)

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aunar esfuerzos, unirse, juntarse.
People, they come together and they drift apart.

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Unmoored/ moor

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Desancorado, sin anclaje, inestable, a la deriva./ Páramo, anclar (the boat)

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Entangle
Tangle up

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Enredar, involucrar

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Fleeting (ajd)

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Breve, fugaz, pasajero, efímero

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Preposterous

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Absurdo, ilógico, ridículo.
The idea that I was responsible for this is preposterous.

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Hoax

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Broma, engaño (deception, joke) hōks

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Dim (adj)

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Ténue, débil, poco iluminado, vago.
In the dim light, Ana could just make out the shapes of the furniture in the room.
I have a dim memory of some French guy chatting us up in a café when we were on a school trip.

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Strike up (phrasal)

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Comenzar, entablar, atacar.
During our visit to Africa, I struck up a friendship with our guide.
I don’t usually stinking up conversation with a total stranger.

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Set out to {do}

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Encarar, emprender, comprometerse, proponerse. Undertake.

He set out to mend the fences. (Encaró el arreglo de las cercas)
They set out to resolve the conflict. (Se propusieron resolver el conflicto).

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Set out for …

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Salir de viaje, partir.
They set out for London early in the morning.
Salieron de viaje a Londres muy temprano.

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Set (sth) out
Set out (sth)

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Disponer, arreglar, presentar.
Isabelle set out the cutlery for dinner. (Isabelle dispuso los cubiertos para la cena.

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Meddle

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Meterse, entrometerse, inmiscuirse. Interfere

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Measly

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Mísero, miserable

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Odd
Against all odds

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Impar, sin pareja. Raro, inusual, extraño. De vez en cuando (adj) “he still has the odd dizzy spell” aún tiene mareos de vez en cuando.
Unos. “Ten euros and few odd cents were left”. Probabilidades (“odds” npl)
Contra todo pronóstico, contra toda posibilidad, contra toda lógica.

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Starter

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Entrada, aperitivo, principiante

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Stubborn

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Terco, obstinado, testarudo

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New wrinkle

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Giro inesperado, algo inusitado.

Wrinkle = arruga, arrugar

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Flaw or flaw sth

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Imperfección, hacer imperfecto algo

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Vie for sth, vie with sb

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Competir por algo, competir entre, con.
States vie with each other to attract various industries.

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Leverage (verb) (n)

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Hacer palanca. Palanca. Ventaja

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span (n) to span (verb).

(English)… at one time spanned one-third of the surface of the globe.
This legend spans centuries.
The Golden Gate Bridge spans the Bay.

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Alcance, abarcar.

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Tip
Fingertips
On tiptoe
Neologisms -made-up words- enter the language on tiptoe so that nobody notices.

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Punta, puntas de los dedos, en puntillas

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Byway

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Sendero, camino apartado

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Byway, bylaws, by-product…
Highways and byways

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Sendero, ordenanzas, subproductos.
Avenidas y senderos( grandes y pequeños caminos)

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… by dint of …
What the brain is very good at is, gradually, by dint of getting all these things that you learn and forget, learn and forget, the brain starts to form patterns.

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a fuerza de …

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So therefore
Therefore

Therefore we must always be patient

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Por lo tanto

57
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Backfire

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Producir un resultado indeseado, resultar contraproducente.

The plan backfired and now voters are demanding that he resigne.

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Embed.
People rarely forget their native languages; it’s something that is deeply embedded.

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Incrustar, incorporar, integrar.
La gente no olvida su idioma materno, es algo incrustado profundamente.

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Interplay (n) to interplay.
- There’s a lot of interplay between the various characters.
- Our emotions seem to interplay in unpredictable ways.

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Interacción, interactuar.

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Array, array of (smth)
- His shelves held a vast array of Star Wars action figures.
- The company provides an array of services for its customers.

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Selección de…, Despliegue de…, Surtido de…, Variedad de…, diversidad de…
Los estantes tenían un gran despliegue de muñequitos de La Guerra de las Galaxias.

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clog [sth],
clog [sth] up
Something is clogging the drain.

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atascar, tapar, obstruir. To block something.
Algo está atascando el desagüe.

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spike
Electricity usage spiked just after the match, when the majority of those watching went and put the kettle on.
Starch turns into glucose and starts spiking your blood sugar.

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alcanzar el máximo, disparar el nivel de, aumentar el nivel de…
El consumo eléctrico alcanzó su máximo después del partido, cuando casi toda la gente que lo veía fue a encender el hervidor de agua.
El almidón se convierte en glucosa y comienza a aumentar el nivel de azúcar en la sangre.

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On a regular basis.
The club meets on a regular basis and has a lot of members.

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con regularidad, con frecuencia.

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run errands
I have to run (some) errands this afternoon

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faire des démarches

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Pervasive
there’s been more and more evidence that shows that not only this idea is true, but perhaps even more pervasive than was originally thought.

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Dominante, generalizado, penetrante

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Harness (sth) [verb and n]
You have to unleash the talents and passions of many people and you have to harness them into a work that is actually useful.

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Emplear, aprovechar.

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thoroughly
Patricia checked all the details thoroughly.

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cuidadosamente
Patricia revisó todos los detalles cuidadosamente.

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