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high school |
“la escuela superior” |
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she was shocked |
se quedó atónita |
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nobody expected you to live
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nadie esperaba que vivieses (or vivieras) (essentially, nobody expected that you would live)
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can be knowledge, but also in this book, it means “consciousness” |
conocimiento |
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the obituary |
la esquela |
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that shows how determined she was |
eso indica lo decidida que estaba |
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to prevent, block, or impede |
impedir |
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“back then,” “at the time,” or “during that time” |
por aquel entonces |
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to come from |
provenir de |
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to move into, or to set up in (the house) |
instalarse en (la casa) |
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a mistake (different word from error) |
una equivocación
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we should have sold it |
lo deberíamos haber vendido
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to rent
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alquilar
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to create, cause, or originate
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crear
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to risk |
arriesgar |
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to go deep into, to delve into, to study in depth |
adentrarse EN |
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someone could deduce |
alguien podría deducir
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everything humanly possible
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todo humanamente posible
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but don’t say we didn’t warn you |
pero luego no digas que no te lo advertimos
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in the end they had hugged each other |
habían acabado abrazándose |
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“Come on,” said when you’re trying to cheer somebody up or change their mind about something they’re not on board with. when you plead, “oh come on, it’ll be okay.” |
“Vamos, animate” |
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to deepen, to elaborate, or to go into detail |
ahondar |
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to exhume, unearth, dig up (you see the word tierra, terrain |
desenterrar |
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to bury, to lay to rest, to inter |
enterrar |
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if I don’t do the same thing with my own life? (no subjunctive) |
si no lo hago lo mismo con mi propia vida?
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to hang up |
colgar |
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the telephone receiver |
el auricular |
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dial a number |
marcar un número |
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even as a child |
ya de niña |
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battery. can also be a pile. 3rd definition is the one in the book, sort of: sink, basin, font (pila bautismal = baptismal font), pila para pájaros: birdbath |
pila |
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baptismal name (ie first name – that’s how it’s used in this book). |
nombre de pila |
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to suspect |
sospechar |
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to injure, wound, hurt, or offend |
herir |
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instantly |
al instante
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she had practically stopped (doing something) |
había dejado prácticamente de + infinitive
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safe and sound (sound in body = healthy = sana, as in sanatorium, the old word for health center – sanatarium is mental institution, but sanatorium was a health center, like for tuberculosis recovery) |
sana y salva |
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the highway
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la carretera
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until the furniture (should) arrive. hasta que + subjunctive |
hasta que llegaran los muebles |
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before she could protest
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antes de que (triggers subjunctive / past subjunctive in this case) pudiera protestar
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to interview
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entrevistar
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to be uneasy |
estar intranquila |
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“not at all.” |
no, en absoluto
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the cruise |
el crucero |
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ready |
a punto |
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I really don’t like (that this thing is happening – oh, and this will be subjunctive) |
no me gusta nada que |
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early Christmas (celebrating Christmas early) |
navidades anticipadas |
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she stopped to talk |
se detuvo a hablar |
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covered in syrup, sugary, OVERSWEET |
almibarado
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to turn up (at a place) |
aparecer por
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carefully, in detail (adverb) |
con detenimiento |
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roughly, coursely, abrasively |
ásperamente |
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as a reward for |
como premio a |
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understanding |
comprensiva |
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unpleasantly |
desagradablemente |
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inquietude, uneasiness, anxiety, a nagging feeling |
desazón |
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detailed |
detallado |
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the event. can also mean outcome |
el suceso |
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the transfer (to another department), or move (to another job) |
el traslado |
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in any of them (ellos does not mean THEY here – it’s the word “it,” plural, as the object of a preposition. |
en alguno de ellos |
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mercy |
misericordia |
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his eyes filled with tears, or tears came into his eyes (this is just one way to say this -- note the accidental verb) |
se le humedecieron los ojos |
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to have a gift FOR mathematics |
tener un don para las matemáticas |
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the palms of the hands |
LAS palmas de LAS manos |
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hastily, too fast, hurriedly |
apresuradamente |
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stone path |
camino empedrado
empedrado here means “made of stone”, and is an adjective. Empedrado can also be a noun, meaning “paving,” or “pavement” |
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to go on your way (to resume going where you were going) |
continuar su camino |
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to stop someone, to arrest, to delay |
detener a alguien |
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to stop to do something |
detenerse a hacer algo |
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the path that led to |
el camino que conducía a |
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the grille, grating. security iron bars, like on windows or doors. |
la reja |
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I've been sick for a while |
llevo mucho tiempo enfermo
llevar mucho tiempo or llevar tres meses cansado = to have been _____ for a while (you need an adjective to go with this phrase) |
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to maraud, to pillage, to prowl around, to snoop |
merodear |
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he stopped when he saw her |
se detuvo cuando la vio |
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a good while, quite a bit of time, a good length of time |
un buen rato |
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behind bars |
entre rejas |
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happy outcome |
buen suceso |
