Vocabulario en inglés: glosario de términos y expresiones con traducción y ejemplos

Glosario de vocabulario en inglés

Campaign: an organized course of action to achieve a goal (campaña).

Castaway: a person who has been shipwrecked (náufrago).

Cave in: crumble, destroy (derrumbarse).

Chuckle: to laugh quietly.

Clash: confrontation (enfrentamiento).

Clatter: makes reference to the noise of the plates in a restaurant (ruido).

Closedown: the end of a period of broadcasting (final del periodo de emisión).

Collide: crash into (chocarse).

Come up to: approach (aproximarse).

Commuter: a person who works in the city, but lives outside the city (verb: to commute). Una persona que trabaja en la ciudad, pero vive en las afueras.

Compass: an instrument containing a magnetized pointer which shows the direction of magnetic north and bearings from it (brújula).

Compensate: if someone is compensated for something unpleasant which has happened to them, they receive compensation for it (compensar).

Compulsory: mandatory; you are forced to do it (obligatorio).

Concerned: worried (preocupado).

Concrete: cement (noun) / precise (adjective).

Congested: a congested road or area is extremely crowded and blocked with traffic or people (congestionado).

Controversial: likely to cause controversy (polémico). Someone or something that is controversial causes intense public argument, disagreement, or disapproval.

Counteract: act against something in order to reduce its force (contrarrestar).

Coverage: the covering of something in the news is the reporting of it (cobertura periodística/televisiva/informativa).

Crammed: full of people; if a place is crammed with things or people, it is very full of them (abarrotado, lleno).

Creepy: unpleasant in such a way that it makes you feel frightened (escalofriante).

Current: right now, or makes reference to the current of a river (actual / corriente de un río).

Customers: clients (clientes).

Cut corners: to dismiss people because the business is not profitable (reducción de plantilla).

Cut down on something: to reduce the amount of something. I'm going to cut down on smoking.

Cut out for: hecho para esto.

Cut-off: a shortcut (atajo).