La palabra del Día; malear
{malear}transitive verb) to corrupt, to pervert, to injure; to spoil
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A mí, no me gusta ver cosas que malean el mundo.
I don't like to see the things that corrupt the world.
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Sin el amor del Jesús, no podemos corregir las cosas que malear la tierra.
With out the love of Jesus, we can not correct the things that corrupt the earth.
Demasiados cocineros malean el caldo.
Too many cooks spoil the broth.
Antes pensaba que no me gustaban los niños porque no me gustaba el comportamiento de algunos; pero luego me di cuenta de algo: No hay niños maleados, sino padres que los malean.
Before, I thought I didn't like children because I didn't like the behavior of some, but then I noticed something: spoiled children don't exist, cause it's parents that make them spoiled.

La leche está maleada.
The milk is spoiled.

El poder no corrompe la gente. El miedo corrompe la gente....tal vez el miedo de una pérdida del poder.
Power does not corrupt people. Fear corrupts people... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
Greed can corrupt people.
From the film Wall Street.
La avaricia puede malear a la gente.
De la película " Wall Street ".

Money corrupts. El dinero malea.
(I don't think so necessarily, but this was the phrase that automatically popped in my head and I could even translate it without a dictionary:D)
"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men." John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, 1st Baron
"El poder tiende a malear, y el poder absoluto malea absolutamente. Los poderosos son siempre malos hombres."

El poder puede malear la mejor de las intenciones.
Power can corrupt the best of intentions.
Los que malean el mundo son los politicos corruptos.
Corrupt policitans spoil things in the world.

"I don't want to spoil the party"
"No quiero malear la fiesta"
Vladimir llyich Lenin
El individuo puede malear a la comunidad.
The individual can corrupt the community.
The language translator has almost ruined the word of the day exercise.
El traductor automático por poco malea el ejercicio de la palabra del día.

