mediar
verbo:intransitivo
1 (estar en medio) to be halfway through; (llegar a la mitad) to get to the middle; get halfway; [+tiempo] to elapse; pass
entre A y B median 30kms it is 30kms from A to B; media un abismo entre los dos gobiernos the two governments are poles apart; entre los dos sucesos mediaron varios años the two events were separated by several years; several years elapsed between the two events; mediaba el otoño autumn was half over; it was halfway through autumn; mediaba el mes de julio it was halfway through July
2 (ocurrir) to come up; happen; (intervenir) to intervene; (existir) to exist
pero medió la muerte de su madre but his mother's death intervened; media el hecho de que ... we must take into account the fact that ...; median relaciones cordiales entre los dos cordial relations exist between the two; sin mediar palabra se abalanzó sobre ellos he fell upon them without a word
