Global 9 Flashcards
If only I had worked for a bigger company with lovely large modern offices
Many young people don’t wear watches now, they use their movile phone to check the time
In the past,if you agreed to meet someone, you arrived on time or just a few minutes late
A lot of my friends now seem to think its ok to text and say they’re running late
La mayoria de la gente, the majority of people…
Alrededor del 20 % de los pacientes
Around 20 per cent of patients…
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Un pequeño porcentaje de gente solo no se presenta en absoluto
A small percentage of people just don’t turn up at all(show up
Pretendemos contestar a la mayoria de las preguntas dentro de 24h
We aim to answer most of the enquiries within 24h
Running to keep fit is considerably more popular now
It requires far less equipment than many other sports
Experts say though that almost as important as having good shoes is having the right technique
And expert advice isn’t nearly as expensive as you think
Getting started is by far the most challenging part of the process
Desafiante,retador, exigente…challenging
Desafiar , retar, to challenge somebody to do something, o, dare somebody to do something
When planning where to run, variety /v6’rai6ti/is equally as important as distance
If you vary / v36ri your route, you’re much less likely to get bored
Señalar que, point out
Desk-bound worker…trabajador anclado a mesa de estudio
She had a shower and put her clothes on,…she got dressed
I didn’t get out of the bed until 10o’clock….I didn’t got up
He was promoted to manager….he got a promotion
I never arrive back at the house by 6….I never get home by 6
Do you ever travel abroad with your job?
Do you ever get to travel abroad with your job?
I find deadlines really stressful..
I get stressed with deadlines
She lost her job after being caught stealing
She got sacked, fired from her job. Sack es informal
It’s my husband who prepares the kids for school
It’s my husband who gets the kids ready for school
People often fall in both categories: drivers, pedestrians ( cyclists, drivers
Some people lobby for tougher/tvf6 / speed limit in built-up areas
They also complain about congestion (atasco)when they talk about the problem of getting to work and sitting in rush -hour traffic
Jam, congestion…atasco , embotellamiento
Car-pool, sistema de compartir coche para ir al trabajo
Hacer quinielas, to do the (football)pools.
Girarse: spin round, (spin, spun, spun), turn quickly to face the opposite direction
Pour out, inundar, llenar
Another wave of passengers poured out into the arrivals hall
To rush…precipitarse corriendo
To hurtle….. Precipitarse.
Menear el rabo, un perro, wag the tail
Tambien vale “wag” para mover algo de lado a lado
Cuidadosamente, ligeramente, gently
Most travellers will tolerate, put up with more security checks if they think it improves safety
People are now asked to remove, take off coats, belts and shoes at airport security
The first two letters of the flight number represent, stand for the airline
Distribute, give out, hand out
To discover, to find out
Business passengers constitute around 30%of our customer base,
Make up
Entre /show and indicate…..indicate es mas formal
Entre sufficiently and enough, …sufficiently. Es mas formal
To justify, to warrant….to warrant
An item of information, a piece of information…item
Between location, place…..location is more formal
Between in esscence, basically….in essence is more formal
There are people who waste police time with hoax calls
Spare, de sobra, de repuesto ,disponible.
To spare, disponer de
Can you spare a few minutes to fill in a questionnaire?
I wandered round the bookshop to kill time
The younger spend a lot of time playing with their phones
When you’re stuck in hospital, it’s difficult to find things to pass the time
It’s important to make time to sit down and just chat to your kids
Para algunos, las abejas son una peste, plaga que hay que acabar con ella
For some bees are pests to be destroyed
Mantienen y protegen las colmenas. They maintain and protect the hive
Su trabajo es encontrar polen y nectar…their job is to find food and protect the hive
Zangano, drone
Los zanganos copulan con la abeja reina/drones mate with the queen bee
The mostquito is responsible for transmitting disease to millions of people in the developing world
Mosquitoes usually feedonnectar
When one ant finds food, it marks a trail(pista, rastro) for other ants to follow
Canaleta, canalon, gutter/gvt6, the edge of the road, or the open pipes that are fixed on the edge of a roof to carry rain water away, gutter
Larva,
Injuriar, agraviar, denigrar, to revile
Una simple colmena puede servir para hasta 100,000abejas
A single hive can be home for up to 100,000 bees
No todas las abejas son capaces de picar
Not all bees are able to sting
Uno de los insectos mas criticados….
One of the most reviled of all insects is the mosquito
El que lleva algo puesto….wearer
El que transporta algo…(un mosquito) carrier of malaria
Los portadores de enfermedades la pasan a traves de su mordedura
The carriers of disease pass it on through their bites
Mosquitoes are dependent on blood as a source of protein for their eggs, not for nourishment, as they feed on nectar
Agua estancada, smelling badly , stagnant water/stañant
