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Vocabulari català per a anglesoparlants Catalan vocabulary for English
speakers Caure / Falling |
caure v fall
no
caiguis! don’t fall! mind you don’t fall!
caure
de memòria fall backwards
caiguda
nf caigudes fall
caiguda lliure free fall (a fall from a height without
the aid of a parachute; a free-falling object does not encounter air
resistance, and falls to Earth with a downward acceleration of approximately 10
m/s/s (to be exact, 9.8 m/s/s).
deixar caure v
drop (“to let fall”)
des
d'una altura es deixa caure una
capsa [in this experiment] a box is dropped from a height
caure-li (a algú) les ales del cor become
discouraged
fer caure les ales del cor cause
discouragement
caure-li (a algú) a sobre to fall on
somebody, to fall on top of somebody; (adverse circumstance) come your way,
affect you adversely; be disagreeable, be unpleasant (“to fall on top of
somebody”)
va
resultar ferit quan li va caure a sobre part d'un mur d'un edifici en construcció he was injured when
part of the wall of a building under construction fell on top of him
hem
d'estar preparats per tot el que ens pugui caure a sobre we have to be prepared for everything that can affect us adversely
caure a sobre
d'alguna cosa fall on top of
something
un objecte de procedencia extraterrestre que en 1994 va caure a sobre d'un cotxe en una autopista californiana
an object from outer space which fell on top of a car on a Californian
highway in 1994
caure sobre fall on; (repression) come
down on
les bombes han començat a
caure sobre l’Iraq the bombs have begun to fall on Iraq
la repressió de la dictadura militar va caure sobre tothom, tant si eren d’esquerres com si no
the repression of the military dictatorship came down on everybody,
whether or not they were left wingers
caure mort drop down dead
va caure morta sobre la gespa she dropped down
dead on the lawn
fer caure alguna cosa (wind) blow down
something
el tornado va fer caure una alzina i la Plaça Major the tornado blew
down a holm oak in the
fer caure knock over
caure com un gerro d'aigua freda to come as a great disappointment
(“fall like a pitcher of cold water”)
La notícia va caure sobre l’equip com un gerro d´aigua freda The news came as a
great disappointment to the team
A Tarragona ha caigut com un gerro d'aigua freda la designació de Saragossa
perquè la ciutat catalana aspirava a organitzar l'Expo 2015
In Tarragona the designation of Zaragoza has come as a great
disappointment because the Catalan city was hoping to organise Expo 2015
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Catalan Vocabulary for English-speakers.
File Number: xxxx
Darrera Actualització / Latest Update 2005-11-01 2005-11-03
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