BBC Mundo Flashcards

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The tiredness to which we are exposed is not only physical but also mental

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El cansancio al que estamos expuestos es no solo fisico sino tambien mental

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The invention surged as a result of a necessity that its own creators had

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El invento surgio a raiz de una necesidad que sus propios creadores tenian

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This is possible thanks to the tool that permits the attacker to navigate on the image

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Esto es posible gracias a que la herramienta permite al atacante navegar sobre la imagen

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It represents a danger to ever growing number number of users of smartphones

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Representa un peligro para los cada mas numerosos usuarios de telefonos inteligentes

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It would act without anybody noticing it in parallel with other programs of the device

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Actuaria sin que nadie la notara en paralelo con los otros programas del aparato

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The population of the world is limited but the virtual identities are not

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La poblacion del mundo es limitada pero las identidades virtuales no lo son

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It came to his mind the idea of promoting the habit of reading that he inherited from them

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Se le vino a la mente la idea de promover el habito de la lectura que heredo de ellos

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I saw my old books in the top part of my house

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Vi mis viejos libros en la parte de arriba de la casa

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And I decided to put them at the people’s disposal so they use them

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Y decidi ponerlos a disposicion a la gente para que los usara

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In the boxes piled up at the door of his home…

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En las cajas amontonadas en la puerta de su hogar…

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It’s been a long time since Guanlao has not taken his car out of the garage

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Hace mucho que Guanlao no saca su auto del garaje

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Despite not being announced anywhere, each day a row of diverse people come to the library

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Pese a que no esta anunciada en ningun lugar, cada dia llega a la biblioteca una hilera de gente diversa

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It’s people like Celine, who lives in the same street as Guanlao, that maintains the library

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Es gente como Celine, que vive en la misma calle que Guanlao, la que mantiene la biblioteca

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He has set his sights beyond the capital

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Ha puesto su mirada mas alla de la capital

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A man who wants to set in motion a similar initiative

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Un hombre que quiere poner en marcha una iniciativa similar

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He lives on his savings

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Vive de sus ahorros

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The concept occurred to me

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Se me occurio el concepto

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It is hoped that not much time passes before he returns to jail

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Se espera que no pase mucho tiempo antes de que vuelva a la carcel

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The crimes for which he has been sentenced include breaking of the public order and contempt of court

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Los delitos por los que ha sido sentenciado incluyen quebrantamiento del orden publico y desacato al tribunal

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The authorities have made it clear that they don’t want to keep him behind bars, but the traveller does not give up his principles

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Las autoridades han dejado en claro que no quieren mantenerlo tras las rejas, pero el caminante no renuncia a sus principios

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Scott’s lawyer differs on a fundamental point

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El abogado de Scott difiere en un punto fundamental

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He defends him as to the idea that rejecting the use of articles of clothing is not a crime

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Lo defiende en cuanto a la idea de que rechazar el uso de prendas de ropa no es un delito

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The people in charge of exercising authority let there personal opinions impose on the legal framework

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Las personas a cargo de ejercer la autoridad dejan que sus opiniones personales se impongan sobre el marco legal

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Z40 has bodyguards in the same way that Osial Cardenas wanted the Zetas to be his

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Z40 tiene guardaespaldas de la misma manera que Osial Cárdenas quería que los Zetas fueran los suyos

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Apple hit the roof and is going downhill
Apple tocó techo y va cuesta abajo
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in order to see if anyone wanted to borrow them
para ver si alguien los quería tomar prestados
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And such was the success of the initiative
Y tal fue el éxito de la iniciativa
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There are books piled up even on the stairs
Hay libros apilados hasta en las escaleras
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This project can work to bring books closer to Filipinos, for whom it is not always easy to access them
Este protecto puede servir para acercar los libros a los filipinos, a los que no siempre les es fácil acceder a ellos
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Miguel Ángel Treviño Morales - whom authorities coincide in pointing out as the new leader of the Zetas
Miguel Ángel Treviño Morales -a quien autoridades coinciden en señalar como el nuevo líder de los Zetas
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It is thought that his first brush with the law was in the United States
Se considera que su primer roce con la ley fue en Estados Unidos
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He was permitted to go out of prison in his birthday suit
Se le permitió salir de la prisión en traje de Adán
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...for whom open heart surgery is practiced...
...a quien se le practica una operación a corazón abierto...
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Da Vinci was also put to the test...
Da Vinci también se puso a prueba...
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Tetris goes a step further...
El Tetris va un paso más allá...
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Tetris takes advantage of our head's tendency to...
El Tetris se aprovecha de la tendencia de nuestra cabeza a...
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...enjoying the short-term satisfactions that arranging the blocks provides
...disfrutando de las satisfacciones de corto plazo que provee ordenar los bloques
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They were also afraid of them
También les tenían algo de miedo
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The misdeeds are similar to the ones we hear about today
Las fechorías se parecen a las que escuchamos hoy
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The poor were blamed of abusing services
se culpaba a los pobres de abusar de los servicios
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It did not occur to him that it was dealing with persons who...
No se le había ocurrido que se trataba de personas que...