dicionário espanhol - Inglês

mayor inglês:

1. major

major problem

It seems the navy jets had a major screw-up in navigation and they bombed their own troops by mistake.

Guess what the managing director started off the meeting by saying. The first thing out of his mouth was an announcement of some major restructuring.

Large-scale surface currents are already known to exist, and major currents below the ocean surface, too, are being found.

The major religions in China are Taoism, Buddhism, Islam and Christianity.

Japan has had the experience of being hit by major earthquake disasters, since it is a country which has historically had many earthquakes.

The Lockheed scandal is a worldwide corruption scandal involving the major American plane manufacturer Lockheed. It came to light in February 1976 and revolved mainly around the acceptance of passenger plane contracts.

Capital investments planned by major Japanese businesses for this year have been revised upward in view of an improving economic outlook.

Japanese companies have set up factories on every continent, and Japanese banks help finance many of the world's major economic programs.

While one of them sped around major parts of the property on the mower, a second made a few sweeps at some tall weeds on the edge of my wife's garden, and the third got into the truck and smoked a cigarette.

Japan consists of four major islands and over 3,000 small islands, and is about equal to California in area.

In the midst of the dollar falling hard against the Yen and other major Eastern currencies the Chinese Yuan, with China effectively taking a 'dollar peg' policy, has become cheap.

It would be a great convenience if English were to become everybody's major language.

Major Cold: It's the day of the year that the cold is most severe, but you could also say that Spring is just coming around the corner.

The methods used to overcome stress are different for men and women: drinking is the major method used by men, while women deal with stress by chatting.

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2. larger

Do you have a larger size?

Towns are larger than villages.

The waitress flirted with Tom thinking that he'd leave her a larger tip.

If it were not for television, the world would feel even larger.

Make it larger.

My dreams just get larger!

The word came to be used for all small heavenly bodies revolving about larger ones.

The two classes were brought together into a larger class.

The small country was annexed to its larger neighbor.

The small retail outlet is only a front for a much larger entity.

Men are but children of a larger growth.

Larger pirates often preyed on unarmed merchant ships.

We lured him away from the company by offering him a much larger salary.

Who are the idiots who said that teachers should push for larger amounts of homework, seeing as the students don't work enough?

Pages are usually at least 4 KiB (4×1024 bytes) in size, and systems with large virtual address ranges or large amounts of real memory generally use larger page sizes.

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3. greater

Their influence becomes greater every day, but they are uncreative and can't make value judgements.

I'll give you our answer after we go into your proposal in greater detail.

A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.

I ate a greater burdock tempura.

Are you creating for us a future world where there is a greater danger of skin cancer, weakened bodies, less food and fewer plants and animals?

It is out of the question for me to built a new house till my income becomes greater.

The greater the genius, the longer it takes the world to find it out and understand it.

As a rule, the more fundamental a new truth, the greater will be its practical possibilities.

Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution.

Television has the advantage of providing sports fans with greater convenience.

The chances of success are greater if the business man knows the ropes, and also has more funds at his disposal.

Accordingly, besides noun declension patterns, there also existed a greater variety of verb conjugation patterns than in Modern English.

The seals surface more frequently then, so a bear's chance of catching one at a breathing hole is greater after nightfall.

At no period of our ancient history does there appear to have been greater attention paid to the culture of the female mind than during the age of Elizabeth and at no time has there existed a greater number of amiable and respectable women.

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4. senior

The senior citizens' spirits were high in spite of the bad weather.

American senior citizens are comparatively well-off.

Senior executives spend a lot of time training their subordinates.

I was delighted to hear of your promotion to Senior Managing Director.

The scandal could lead to the firing of some senior officials.

John is senior to Robert.

In many shops and businesses discounts are now given to senior citizens.

a senior executive

This seminar will target senior marketing leaders from Japanese firms.

Senior students have access to the library at weekends.

Two senior officials are suspected of accepting bribes from real estate companies.

Ah, y-yes ... Sorry, Coz. "Hey! You might be my relative but here I'm your senior and a doctor. Keep things straight while you're in the hospital!"

Once you reach the age of sixty, you become a senior.

Everybody in that company is either a vice-president or a senior vice-president; they're all chiefs and no Indians.

The senior students are usually more interested in school.

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5. greatest

The world's greatest singers and most of its famous musicians have been fat or at least decidedly plump.

Allah is the greatest!

In the greatest of all works of art everything had been realized, I could give nothing, and my restless mind tired of passive contemplation.

For even as we celebrate tonight, we know the challenges that tomorrow will bring are the greatest of our lifetime — two wars, a planet in peril, the worst financial crisis in a century.

The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and have it found out by accident.

The royal navy of England hath ever been its greatest defense and ornament; it is its ancient and natural strength; the floating bulwark of our island.

The greatest wisdom has no shape; the greatest vessel is the latest to be completed; the greatest music has the most tenuous notes.

Never were finer women or more accomplished men seen in any Court, and Nature seemed to have taken pleasure in lavishing her greatest graces on the greatest persons.

Reason is the greatest enemy that faith has: it never comes to the aid of spiritual things, but--more frequently than not --struggles against the divine Word, treating with contempt all that emanates from God.

Eleanor though the daughter of a king and brought up in the greatest luxury determined to share misfortune with her husband.

The greatest number came from Europe, but many also came from Latin America, Asia, Africa, Australia, and Canada.

It can be said, in fact, that research, by exploring the greatest and the smallest, contributes to the glory of God which is reflected in every part of the universe.

The mind's greatest good is the knowledge of God, and the mind's highest virtue is to know God.

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6. main

main problem

Patterns of freeze-up and breakup influence the distribution and number of seals, the polar bear's main prey.

Let us remember that, if this financial crisis taught us anything, it's that we cannot have a thriving Wall Street while Main Street suffers.

I sat down to translate the sentence shown on the main page into my native language, and half an hour and two dozen sentences later I had to convince myself to stop.

Smokers are as aware as anybody else of the disadvantages of their hobby, but manage to live with that knowledge for two main reasons.

The accountants and finance analysts all have their own departmental office two blocks away from the business's main branch.

The main streets of many small towns have been all but abandoned thanks, in large part, to behemoths like Wal-Mart.

All sweaters of this type are out of stock now. We'll order them from the main store in Tokyo.

In the main, I am in favor of political reform if meaningful changes are made.

That would lead to the production of more carbon dioxide, the main gas responsible for global warming.

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The report from the National Development and Reform Committee says that the advance in rural high-speed telecommunication infrastructure is the main reason for the increase in Internet users.

In English there are eight main parts of speech: noun, verb, adjective, adverb, pronoun, preposition, conjunction and finally interjection.

About the wedding ... It's a once-in-a-lifetime chance to be the main attraction, so instead of doing it on a shoestring, why not pull out all the stops and make a great show of it?

Nearly all siheyuans had their main buildings and gates facing south for better lighting, so a majority of hutongs run from east to west.

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7. older

She's my older sister.

A new study suggests that hospital records for patients older than 65 are often incorrect, which may lead to serious treatment errors.

This kind of music is something that older people have difficulty understanding.

It's important to take good care of your teeth so you'll be able to eat properly when you get older.

Tom has gotten older and he doesn't go out as often as he used to.

When Chokichi thought listlessly about this winter, and the similar winter before and the one before that, he vividly experienced the fact that as people grow older, they gradually lose their happiness.

In comparison to him, I am still older.

I was born into the Hebrew persuasion, but when I got older I converted to narcissism.

My older brother started to take interest in Japanese folk songs when he was around 12 years old.

Now I'm older, I see things differently.

Kie never got off on older men until she met him.

For that reason Coco was, to me, 'an older sister I can play with' and I thought of her only as one member of the family not as someone I should question my father concerning her identity.

Whoever starts working in their youth, gets to live lavishly when they're older.

My husband has two older brothers. (That's right, I'm a third-son's wife)

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8. higher

Many women pursue higher education and careers, thus delaying marriage and childbirth.

Banks charge higher interest on loans to risky customers.

Smaller classes mean a higher standard of education, and that's what we want for our kids.

Faster, higher, stronger!

It was proven that fleas living on dogs jump higher than fleas living on cats.

The members of each stratum accept as their ideal of decency the scheme of life in vogue in the next higher stratum, and bend their energies to live up to that ideal.

No matter how low the target, always aim higher.

Even the periodical pay raise could not keep abreast of higher living costs.

The higher classes constitute the mind of the single large whole of humanity; the lower classes constitute its limbs; the former are the thinking and designing part, the latter the executive part.

Citizens of higher social status were permitted to live closer to the center.

You think someone coarser than you is "crude", and someone higher class than you to be "putting on airs".

It is a two level style round burial mound, 23m diameter (lower level), 18m (higher).

9. elderly

A very elderly couple is having an elegant dinner to celebrate their 75th wedding anniversary.

the elderly

It can make some people, especially elderly people and infants, very ill.

I took care to make the letters large and be generous with character and line spacing in order for it to be easy to read for the elderly and those who have problems with their sight.

For this race, people under the age of 35 (including 35) join the young people's group; people from 36 to 50 years old join the middle-aged group and people 51 or over join the elderly group.

In America elderly people are not given the same degree of respect they receive in many other countries.

Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate.

Medicaid, a program originally created to provide medical care for poverty-level women and children, today spends almost a third of its budget on elderly people.

Today, one of every seven people in Western Europe is classified as elderly.

From children to the elderly, sensible exercise has a good effect on the body.

The police officer on duty sensed an elderly man coming up behind him.

We work in our local community by visiting elderly people in their own homes.

This week Sophia Loren returned to Pozzuoli for the first time in 15 years, visiting her elderly aunt and her sister

In addition many groups have been formed so that the elderly can socialize with one another and remain active participants in American life.

He'd sat down for a moment to rest his weary legs and suddenly looked up and saw an elderly woman before him.

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10. utmost

We should do our utmost to establish world peace.

This is a matter of the utmost importance.

I'm going to speak to you with utmost candor so I want you to take everything I'm about to say at face value.

Drive with the utmost care.

Let's take the utmost caution against errors.

He has done his utmost for me.

It is a great mortification to the vanity of man, that his utmost art and industry can never equal the meanest of nature's productions, either for beauty or value.

As a politician, he makes utmost use of his acting ability.

If we don't make the utmost effort to protect the rainforests, many of the rare species in them will become extinct.

We must make the utmost effort to reduce the use of plastic packaging, and also to recycle all waste plastic.

Guys, I'll do my utmost to back you up. We'll make this event a success no matter what!

The actions of Coen, directly commanding the cruise at the time of the accident, are of utmost significance.

Wishing to be sincere in their thoughts, they first extended to the utmost their knowledge. Such extension of knowledge lay in the investigation of things.

Jane makes the utmost effort to win.

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