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60 Cards in this Set
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an obstacle
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un obstáculo
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de un solo salto,
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with a single leap,
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la cerca (as a noun)
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hedge or wall which surrounds a garden or park, short fence
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bruscamente
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suddenly
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a construction site
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un área de construcción
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agility (adjective)
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agildad
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nothing else mattered to us
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no nos importaba nada más
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impressive
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impresionante
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esquivar
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to dodge, to avoid
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tropezar con
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to stumble, run into, trip on
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the effort
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el esfuerzo
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seguirle el paso
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to keep up with him
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un montículo
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a mound
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amazed (adj)
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atónito (a, os, as)
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mi persecución
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my pursuit, or my chase
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¡Largo de aquí!
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get out of here!
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to fall on deaf ears
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caer en oídos sordos
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He was focused on fleeing
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Él estaba concentrado en huir
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to catch
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atrapar
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agotado, a, os, as
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exhausted
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I was about to give up
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yo estaba a punto de rendirme
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rendirse
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to surrender, to give up, to tire out
rendir (not rendirse) means to pay or to offer |
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Qué onda Ernesto
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what's up, Ernesto?
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me rindo!
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I give up
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the wallet
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la billetera
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No hubiera corrido de esa manera
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he would not have run that way
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angry faces
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caras indignadas
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to be guilty
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ser culpable
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in his wake (like the wake of a boat), or just behind him,
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a su paso
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a strategy
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una estrategia
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not going to give up that easily
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no iba a rendir así de fácil
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la advertencia
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the warning
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botar
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to throw away
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una canasta
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a basket
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botar al piso
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knocking to the ground
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vegetable
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verdura
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the whole market
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el mercado entero
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los destrozos
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the damages. as a noun, it's like "you've got to pay for the damages."
the destruction. the havoc. |
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an open market
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un mercado abierto
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to stop, detain
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detener
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the opposite
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el opuesto
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En un último intento desesperado,
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in his last desperate attempt,
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Yo estaba seguro que quien intentaba fugarse
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I was sure that the one who tried to escape
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four lanes of traffic
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cuatro carriles de tráfico
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to hang your head in shame
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inclinar la cabeza con vergüenza
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to be dissuaded
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ser disaudido
or disuadirse |
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de golpe
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suddenly
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fallar
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to fail, to give way
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to send the police
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enviar a la policía
remember: la policía is the police, in general/ the police officers plural. el policía is the policeman. |
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a car horn
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una bocina
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voltear
(el volteó) |
to turn around, to turn over, to flip
(preterite tense) |
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to honk your car horn
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sonar su bocina
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un callejón sin salida.
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a dead end
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abrir paso
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to make way
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tren subterráneo
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subway (the other word was "el metro")
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abruptly
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abruptamente
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la salida
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an exit
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the first thing that
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lo primero que
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una risa patética.
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a pathetic laugh
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such a loaded question
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una pregunta tan cargada
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