Frases 9

Question 1

merece la pena profundizar un poquito en el tema.

Answer 1

it’s worthwhile to look a little deeper into the issue.

Question 2

ellos decidieron no acudir a su puesto de trabajo.

Answer 2

they decided not go show up at their jobs.

Question 3

entorno de noventa por ciento.

Answer 3

ranging from about ninety percent.

Question 4

¿qué se creen los controladores para dejar a tanta gente tirada?

Answer 4

who do these controllers think that they are to leave so many people stranded/stuck?

Question 5

tirad@

Answer 5

stranded/stuck

Question 6

la jornada laboral

Answer 6

the work day.

Question 7

sacar de quicio

Answer 7

to take something out of proportion.

Question 8

estos temas se han sacado de quicio en la prensa.

Answer 8

the press have taken these issues out of proportion.

Question 9

se da mucho bombo a que ganan mucho dinero.

Answer 9

it’s been given a lot of attention that they make a lot of money.

Question 10

se da mucho bombo a

Answer 10

to give a lot of attention to something.

Question 11

La situación ha llegado adonde no tenía que haber llegado.

Answer 11

The situation has arrived at a place where it didn’t have to go.

Question 12

a otros funcionarios se les ha bajado el diez por ciento y a ellos se les ha bajado mucho más.

Answer 12

[The salaries of] other workers has been reduced by 10% y theirs [controllers] has been reduced much more.

Question 13

es una guarrada

Answer 13

It’s a mess / screw-up

Question 14

logramos colarnos

Answer 14

we managed to gate-crash / get in uninvited.

Question 15

porque te clavas en un lado y luego quieres ver el otro.

Answer 15

because you devote yourself (fall in love with) one side and later you want to see the other side.

Question 16

estuvimos un año dándole vueltas.

Answer 16

We spent a year going in circles.

Question 17

Su abuela le dio apapachos.

Answer 17

His grandmother gave him cuddles & kisses.

Question 18

¿Cómo capoteas lo público y lo privado?

Answer 18

How do you manage the public and the private?

Question 19

Capotear: to manage two things from colliding, to keep two things from influencing the other.

Answer 19

¿Cómo capoteas lo público y lo privado?

Question 20

Que el manzano solamente da manzanas.

Answer 20

May the apple tree only grow apples.

Question 21

hay un control mediático espeluznante, que tiene sin salida a los creadores nacionales.

Answer 21

There is a horrific control over the media, that leaves national creators without any exit.

Question 22

espeluznante

Answer 22

hair-raising, frightening, blood-curdling.

Question 23

El Mexicano no te golpea: te da un putazo.

Answer 23

The Mexican doesn’t hit you. He knocks you out.

Question 24

un putazo / un puñetazo

Answer 24

a knock-out hit.

Question 25

hay que saber soltar.

Answer 25

One has to know how to loosen-up, let loose.

Question 26

Creo que quedó redonda.

Answer 26

I think that she got fat.

Question 27

La guerra civil española ha dejado su huella, y se tiene que concluir que uno pertenece a un territorio cultural particular.

Answer 27

The Spanish Civl Ware has left its mark, and it has to be concluded that one belongs to a specific cultural territory.

Question 28

siempre y cuando haya confianza

Answer 28

if and when there is confidence.

Question 29

hay mucha desconfianza pues al barrio se acerca la gente para denigrarlo, para hablar sólo del crimen, de la droga. De eso están cansados, de la prensa amarillista que nada mas busca la nota superficial.

Answer 29

There’s a lack of confidence in the neighborhood, that one approaches the people in order to denigrate them, in order to speak only of the crime, about drugs. They are tired of that, of the sensationalist press that only looks for the superficial story.

Question 30

Era, es, y seguirá siendo.

Answer 30

It was, it is, and it will continue being.

Question 31

era un restaurante en toda la extensión de la palabra.

Answer 31

it was a restaurant in the full meaning of the word.

Question 32

asentar las recetas es trabajar con la memoria y el orden.

Answer 32

to settle on the recipes is to work with memory and order.

Question 33

la pasta que tuvimos ayer no la tenemos hoy, ni lo tendremos mañana.

Answer 33

The pasta that we had yesterday we will not have today, nor will we have it tomorrow.

Question 34

“qué es ser mexicano?” “comer brócoli, porque se siembran aquí.”

Answer 34

What is it to be Mexican? Eating broccoli, because it’s grown here.

Question 35

cuando de niño agarras dos colores y sacas un nuevo.

Answer 35

when as a kid you take two colors and come up with a new one.

Question 36

ser auténtico es hacer lo que nadie mas puede hacer, no lo que nunca nadie ha hecho: hacer algo que nadie más pueda hacer, no algo nunca antes visto.

Answer 36

Being authentic is doing what nobody else can do, not what what nobody has ever done before: to make something that nobody else can do, not something never before seen.

Question 37

poder dejar ir

Answer 37

to let something go.

Question 38

No puedo dejar ir.

Answer 38

I can’t let it go.

Question 39

Esa carta no existía dentro de la baraja, la de ser cocinero.

Answer 39

That card didn’t exist in the deck – the option of being a chef.

Question 40

A mi papá no le parecía tan simpático mi decisión.

Answer 40

My dad didn’t seem very happy with my decision.

Question 41

El mexicano es ingenioso y le pone apodos a todo.

Answer 41

Mexicans are ingenious and give nicknames to everything.

Question 42

a partir de ahí

Answer 42

from there.

Question 43

como tal

Answer 43

as such

Question 44

pienso que sería una tontería no aprovechar esa oportunidad

Answer 44

I think that it would have been ridiculous to not take advantage of that opportunity.

Question 45

El trabajo que desempeña - y el que yo hago - está basando en la tradición.

Answer 45

The work that is carried out - and that which I do - is based in tradition.

Question 46

Si empiezas de la nada, acabas con nada.

Answer 46

If you start from nothing, you end with nothing.

Question 47

Cuando algo es intocable, se avejenta.

Answer 47

What something is untouchable, it deteriorates.

Question 48

He quedado bien con Sara.

Answer 48

I’ve really made Sara happy. I’ve impressed Sara.

Question 49

Quedé fatal.

Answer 49

I really screwed up.

Question 50

Quiero quedar bien con Pepito.

Answer 50

I want to make things right with Pepito.