Vocabulario de Inglés: Educación, Consumismo y Trabajo con Traducción y Ejemplos
Vocabulario de inglés: educación, consumismo y trabajo
Educación
Educación:
- Hall of residence: residencia universitaria. Are very expensive and some families can't afford it.
- Library: biblioteca. Are very useful; many students study and do work there.
- Degree: grado universitario. To get a degree, students have to study hard, but they will have a good reward.
- Grant: beca. Students with good grades can get a grant and they can pay for their studies.
- Lecture: clase universitaria. The undergraduate can't miss their lectures; if they miss three times, they will fail the subject.
- Prospectus: folleto informativo. If students don't know how the university is, they can get a prospectus.
- Timetable: horario. All degrees have a timetable that must be met: if (lecture).
- Tuition fees: tasas académicas.
- Undergraduate: universitario.
- Fail: suspender.
- Worth: merecer la pena. It is worth studying because, in the future, it will get better jobs.
- Strive: esforzarse.
- A waste of time: perder el tiempo. Many young people think it is a waste of time and then they repent.
- Preferable: preferible. It is preferable to study and pass the first year so as not to lose a year.
- Trust yourself: confiar en ti mismo.
- Diploma: diploma. Get a diploma.
- Faculty: profesorado.
Consumismo
Consumismo:
- Discount: descuento. When products are on discount, more people buy them.
- Goes out of business: cerrar negocio. Many employers have gone out of business because nobody went to the shop.
- Sweatshop: talleres ilegales. In many countries there are sweatshops.
- Free trial: muestra gratis. The employees give a free trial to the people so they will buy the product.
- Exchange: cambio. Many shops exchange their place and move to a place where people usually are.
- Receipt: ticket. The receipt is very important, but you can change the item.
- Item: artículo.
- Free of charge: gratis.
- Carry: transportar.
- Price conscious: consciente de los precios. Shops are cheating with the cost of items and we are price conscious.
- Bargain: oferta. When items are on bargain, people buy more.
- Afford: poderse permitir algo. Not everyone can afford the prices.
Outlet:
- Price tag: etiqueta. The price tag says where the articles are made, and many are made in China.
- Overprice: precio más caro del real. The items are overpriced.
- On sale: de rebajas.
- Merchandise: mercancía.
- Employee: empleado.
- Employment: empleo.
- Pick out: escoger.
- Come to: ascender.
- Shop around: ir de tiendas comparando precios, para gastar menos dinero.
- Snap up: clientes que acaban con el producto.
Trabajo
Trabajo:
- Application: solicitud.
- Bank account: cuenta bancaria.
- Boss: jefe.
- Career: carrera profesional. Having a career is very important to find a job.
- Colleague: compañero de trabajo. Sometimes the colleague can be a hindrance in the job.
- Contract: contrato. Many people want a good contract because it ensures their job stability.
- Deserve: merecer. Some employers give work to people who don't deserve it.
- Earn: ganar dinero trabajando. Some people work a lot but they don't earn much.
- Impress: impresionar. If you impress your boss, you will be very good at your job.
- Industry: industria. Many industries are without money and they can close.
- Interview: entrevista. Interviews are very important because the boss can see the person.
- Pension: pensión. A person who can't work has a pension.
- Poverty: pobreza. Many families live in poverty because they don't have employment.
- Pressure: presión.
- Profession: profesión.
- Retire: jubilarse.
- Party: partido político.
- Salary: salario.
- Staff: personal.
- Strike: huelga.
- Tax: impuestos.
- Tax payers: pagar impuestos.
- Wealthy: muy rico.
- On business: de negocios.
- On strike: de huelga.
- Employment: desempleo.
- Employers: empresarios.
- Employee: empleado.
- Unemployed: desempleado.
- Apply for: solicitar.
- Budget: presupuesto.
- Demonstration: manifestación.
- Eviction: desahucio.
- Mortgage: hipoteca.
- Politician: político.