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Vocabulari català per a anglesoparlants Catalan vocabulary for English
speakers Els gats / cats |
gat nm gats cat
Els
gats tenen set vides A
cat has nine lives (“cats have seven lives”)
tenir set vides, com els gats to have nine lives, like a cat (“have seven lives”) (said of somebody who
narrowly escapes some disaster or series of disasters)
Nosaltres
tenim sort perquè tenim set vides –va dir el gat al gos (from a story) We’re lucky because we have nine
lives, said the cat to the dog
És un
polític amb set vides. He’s a politician with nine lives, He’s a politician
with the nine lives of a cat
A gat vell, no cal mostrar-li rata. Don’t teach your grandmother to suck eggs (“to
an old cat, there is no need to show it a rat”)
Els gats, encara que se'ls tiri d'un terrat, cauen
de potes. A cat always lands on its feet (“Cats, even though you throw
them off the top of a house, land on legs”).
Fa
més mal una plomada, que d'un gat l'esgarrapada = ‘what is written about you can hurt more than a
cat’s scratch’ (“it does more harm / it hurts more the stroke of a pen than of
a cat the scratch”)
Gat
miolador mai no serà bon caçador = ‘a mewing cat will never make a good hunter’
gat
i gos cat and dog - in
expressions referring to antipathy / quarreling / disagreement
gendre
i sogra, gat i gos =
‘a son-in-law and a mother-in-law [are like] [a] cat and [a] dog’
viure
com gat i gos live a cat and dog
life, lead a cat and dog life (= to be always quarreling)
Ni gat
amb cascavell ni casament de dona jove i home vell (= ‘just as you shouldn’t put a bell around
a cat’s neck [because it won’t catch any mice], so a young woman shouldn’t
marry an old man (“neither cat with bell nor marriage of young woman with old
man”)
Quan el gat es renta la cara, la pluja es prepara. When a cat washes its face, rain isn’t far off
(“the rain prepares itself”)
moixet
nm
pussy cat
el gat negre porta mala sort a black cat brings bad luck
en la tradició anglo-saxona, el gat
negre és simbol de bona sort in Anglo-Saxon tradition, a black cat is a symbol of good luck
fet un bola curled up
Un gran gat siamès estava
dormint, fet una bola, davant el foc
A big Siamese cat was sleeping,
curled up, in front of the fire
gat
cerval lynx
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Catalan Vocabulary for English-speakers.
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Darrera Actualització / Latest Update 2005-11-01 2005-11-03
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