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1a. … al DECLARAR públicamente su amor por su mujer.
1b. Los acusados DECLARARON ante el juez, que finalmente los DECLARÓ culpables
1c. Estamos en plena calle y va Iván y se arrodilla, saca un anillo …¡y SE me DECLARA!
4a declarar = to state
4b. declarar = to plead (before a court)
4c. declarar = to find (guilty or not guilty)
4d. declararse a algiuen = to tell s.o you love them

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1a. … when he publicly DECLARED his love for his wife
1b. The accused PLEADED before the judge who finally FOUND them guilty
1c. We’re standing in the middle of the street and Ivan goes down on his knee, gets out a ring … and TELLS me THAT HE LOVES ME!
4. the 4 uses of that vb

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1a. Muchos padres SE LAMENTAN DEl poco tiempo que se pasan con sus hijos.
1b. LAMENTO haberte mentido.
1c. lamentarse de = arrepentirse de = regret, wish had not done (lasts longer) cf
1d. lamentar = to be sorry about = pedir perdon = to say sorry
2. últimamente estoy muy ajetreado (ajetreo N = hustle and bustle = TRAJIN o BULLICIO -> BULLICIOSO = busy -> ajetrear = to wear out, get tired -> ajetrearse = to get exhausted = cansarse)
3. El arranque (de un discurso)

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1a. Many fathers REGRET the little time they spend with their children.
1b. I’M SORRY ABOUT having lied to you.
1c + 1d. explain difference
2. Lately I´ve been VERY BUSY (ie when snowed under) (origin from N x2 syn -> vb -> vb reflexivo)
3. the beginning (eg a speech)

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1a. …se veían IMPELIDOS A aprovechar sus tribunas para DEFENDER las causes que consideraban más legitimadas (impeler = propel + motivate)
1b. El acusado SE DEFENDIÓ DE las acusaciones APORTANDO pruebas CONCLUYENTES
1c. defender cf defenderse de

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1a. the seemed DRIVEN to use their platform to STAND UP FOR the causes … (use NOT usar or utilizar) (explain driven)
1b. the accused DEFENDED HIMSELF AGAINST the accusations PRODUCING CONCLUSIVE proof.
1c. explain difference

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  1. es una chorrada + es un gilipollez
  2. la presión que RECAE EN el famoso para ABANDERAR causas nobles SE DIFUMINA (difuminarse)
    3b. to devolve to + sobre, to relapse + to go to (a prize)
    3c. to be the poster boy/girl for (ie a cause), to register (eg in Panama)
  3. la ENTREGA de un galardón
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  1. It’s bullshit (CasaFuerte) x2 (exp Esp, ie not true
  2. the pressure that FALLS UPON the famous to CHAMPION noble causes IS FADING
    3b. vb1 = formal meaning + alt prep, vb1 = 2 diff meanings without prep
    3c. vb2 = less formal meaning, vb2 = nautical meaning
  3. the PRESENTATION of an award
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1a. Mándamelo CUANTO ANTES
1b. Mándamelo LO ANTES QUE PUEDAS
1c. Mándamelo EN CUANTO PUEDA
2a. punto y final
2b. punto pelota

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1a. Send it to me AS SOON AS YOU CAN (way 1)
1b. Send it to me AS SOON AS YOU CAN (way 2)
1c. Send it to me AS SOON AS YOU CAN (way 3)
2a. full stop or period (ie say at end of sentence, when don’t want to say any more)
2b. full stop or period (more collq) (CasaFuerte)

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1a. Lamento + (no) haber + participio
1b. Lamento + Me arrepiento de + Siento + Debería + Tendría que
2a. Si + hubiera + participio, condicional simple
2b. Si + hubiera + participio, condicional compuesto
3. poder adquisitivo

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1a Structure 1 to express regret re past?
1b. What 5 vbs (+ tenses) use struct 1?
2a. Struct 2 to express regret re past + consq now
2b. Struct 2 to express regret re past + consq past
3. purchasing power

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1a. Si no me hubiera casado, ahora no tendría hijos.
1b. si + pluscuamperfecto de subj, condicional simple = consq now
2a. A estas alturas ya no había nada QUE hacer
2b. cos´ short form of … ya no había nada que PUDIÉRAMOS hacer, dropped the poder but the que is still left
3. … el medio principal para leer es el móvil y LO QUE LA gente LEE es …

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  1. If I hadn´t married, I wouldn´t have kids now
    1b. Explain structure
    2a. At this stage there was nothing to do
    2b. explain prep?
  2. … the principal means of reading is the mobile and what people read is …
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1a. Si no hubiera tenido hijos, no habría conocido a Juan.
1b. si + pluscuamperfecto de subj, condicional simple = consq past
2a. DESDE mi punta de vista …. BAJO mi punta de vista
2b, ¿Para beneficio de quién se atavían las mujeres?
3. Sin duda.
4. Se le acababa de DIAGNOSTICADO cáncer de vejiga

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  1. If I hadn´t had kids, I wouldn´t have met Juan.
    1b. Explain structure
    2a. FROM my point of view … (x2)
    2b. For whose benefit do women get dressed up.
  2. Without a doubt.
  3. He had just been diagnosed WITH bladder cancer.
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  1. hace un MEROS tres años
  2. estaría en pie aquí rodeado DE …
  3. la qente CON la que he tenido LA FORTUNA DE trabajar y aprender
  4. QUÉ alguién por favor me PELLIZQUE para asegurarme que no estoy soñado. (pellizcar)
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  1. a MERE three years ago
  2. I would be standing here surrounded BY …
  3. the people WITH which I´ve had the GOOD FORTUNE to work with and learn from
  4. Someone please PINCH me to make sure that I´m not dreaming. (vb)
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  1. chupar del bote
    2a. carca (Marina, idea stick in the mud, old fashioned views) carroza + vejestorio
    2b. carca = anticuado
  2. mojarse (Marina use when s.o. says what really means)
  3. desde luego que sí
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  1. to sponge off others OR to live off others (exp)
    2a. a dinosaur, fuddy-duddy (re person perj) (2 alt from Capitán Riley)
    2b. old-fashioned, outdated (thing, idea) + alt (adj)
  2. to go out on a limb OR to take a risk (exp)
  3. Absolutely or Most certainly (when want to emphasise a positive answer)
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  1. no (ser) es trigo limpio
  2. cargar contra (cargar = to charge)
    3a. tildar de. = IO + conj tildar de + Adj valorización
    3b. para que este no lo tildara de traidor
    3c. Los directores TILDARON mi propuesta DE oportunista aunque …
  3. ironizar + la ironía
  4. pijipi (pijo + hippie)
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  1. he’s dishonest (exp)
  2. to go after someone, as in attack (exp + explain)
    3a. to label someone, as in to call someone or to brand s.o. + explain structure
    3b. so that [this] would not brand him a traitor (CapitánR)(note vb tenses)
    3c. The directors branded my proposal as opportunistic although …
  3. to be ironic (as in say s.th ironically) + irony
  4. N for like a trust fund kid, ie wealthy kid whose a bit louche
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  1. Ya empieza a SER AGUA PASADA
    2a. la política española SE ACELERA + POR MOMENTOS
    2b. acelerarse + ponerse nervioso
  2. que TUVO LUGAR la semana pasada (tener lugar)
  3. en el DESPRESTIGIO de la política (-> desprestigiar = to discredit + to disparage + to smear (person))
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  1. It´s already beginning TO BE WATER UNDER THE BRIDGE
    2a. Spanish politics GETS OVEREXCITED + AT TIMES
    2b. to get overexcited vb x2
  2. that TOOK PLACE last weekend (to take place)
  3. in the DISCREDITING of politics (explain N)
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  1. aunque ciertamente a veces DESCONFIO DE mis creencias (desconfiar de)
  2. TIENDO A consolarme enseguida pensando que (tender a + inf algo)
  3. pero, CAVILO, quienes se quedan en casa (meditar)
  4. como antes hacían los juristas en sus dictámenes
    3a. montar la bronca = montar/armar un escándalo
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  1. although I certainly at times DISTRUST my beliefs (vb)
  2. I TEND TO immediately console myself thinking that (explain vb struct)
  3. but, I PONDER , who remains at home … (as in think deeply)(syn)
  4. like the jurists did before in their JUDGMENTS-OPINIONS
    5a. kick up a fuss (+ alt exp)
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  1. hacer un calvo
  2. yo lo veo muy negro
    3a. llegar al extremo de que una persona EN PRINCIPIO templada como Rajoy
    3b. llegar al extremo de
    3c. no entiendo cómo personas EN PRINCIPIO inteligentes
    3d. En un principio, = Initially (fml)or At first,
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  1. to moon, ie to expose ones buttocks (CasaFuerte)
  2. (I think) it looks bad (exp, ie little hope of a good outcome)
    3a. GO AS FAR AS a person NORMALLY calm like Rajoy (calm, as in steady or composed)
    3b. verbal exp = to go as far as
    3c. I don´t understand how people IN PRINCIPLE intelligent (as in theoretically)
    3d. What mean if add an “un” to exp + comma
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  1. Por ende
    2a. GRAN PARTE DE la PLANTILLA no podía asistir al SEMINARIO.
    2b. POR CONSIGUIENTE, estaban muchas sillas libre en el AUDITORIO. (Por lo tanto, Por ello,)
    3a. lo llevo en las venas
    3b. por mandato genético
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  1. Por ello, -> fml written equivalent?
    2a. MOST OF the PERSONNEL(STAFF ie group of e-ees) couldn´t attend the SEMINAR (Not la mayoría de)
    2b. THEREFORE there were many empty seats in the AUDITORIUM (HALL). (alt therefore)
    3a. its in my blood (eg sport)
    3b. alt way of saying 3a.
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  1. una maldición DE POR SÍ
  2. es muy frustrante
    3a. ¿Por qué se produjo su ESTANCAMIENTO cultural? (stagnation)(producirse = tener lugar + ocurrir)
    3b. el agua está ESTANCADO(estancar = to stall, or to impede or to block, idea is no movement ie bogged down, estancarse = to be stangnant)
  3. desempolvar algo (ie literally to dust off s.th)
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  1. a curse PER SE or IN ITS OWN RIGHT
  2. it’s very frustrating
  3. Why did a cultural STANDSTILL occur? (alt N) (vb = cos’ is a formal text + alt x2))
    3b. the water is STAGNANT (explain origin of adj + meaning reg vb + reflexive vb)
  4. to pick up again (fig) (explain)

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