La Palabra del Día: El muerto
El muerto
dead person, corpse, fatality; dummy; dirty job; empty bottle
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Recientemente, cerca de donde vivo, hubo una tormenta durante un concierto de Sugarland, y el escenario se derrumbó, y resultaron muertas siete personas. Muy triste.
Recently, close to where I live, there was a storm during a Sugarland concert, and the stage collapsed, and seven people were killed. Very sad.

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No puedo pensar en se me occcure una buena frase, porque acabo de regresar de mi trabajo y estoy muerta de cansancio.
I can't think of a good sentence, because I just got home from work and I'm dead tired.


Te haz ( Hazte ?) el muerto, Alfredo, a lo mejor no les llamaremos la atención .
"Night of the Living Dead" and "Dawn of the Dead" are classic cult movies about zombies. They filmed "Dawn of the Dead" near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
"La noche de los muertos vivientes" y "El amanecer de los muertos" son películas clasícas de culto acerca de los zombis. Se filmó "El amanecer de los muertos" cerca de Pittsburgh, Pensilvania.

I don't understand zombie movies. The dead walk, but how can you kill someone who is already dead?
No entiendo las películas de zombis. Los muertos caminan, pero ¿cómo puedes matar a alguien que ya está muerto?

Bread of the dead is placed on family altars for the Day of the Dead celebration, which is November 1 and 2.
El pan de muerto se pone en los altares de lafamilias para del el Día de los Muertos, de cuál que es el uno y el dos de noviembre.

Gunther Von Hagen es un doctor alemán que inventó la técnica de "Plastination" para conservar los muertos. Muchas personas consideran esta técnica como poco ética.
Gunther Von Hagen is a German doctor who invented the "Plastination" technique for preserving corpses. Many people consider this technique to be unethical.

Por La Noche de Brujas, la gente le gusta poner los muertos en sus jardínes como decoración.
For Hallowe'en people like to put dead bodies (corpses) in their yards as decorations.

A long, long time ago, when I was young, the boys liked to play cowboy. They didnt have any horses because we lived in a small street in a big city, but they could all throw a lasso. There was always a lot of shooting and many corpses on the lawn.
Hace mucho, mucho tiempo, cuando era joven, a los niños les gustaba jugar a los vaqueros. No tenían caballos porque vivíamos en una calle pequeña en una ciudad grande, pero todos sabían echar el lazo. Siempre había mucho tiroteo y muchos muertos en el césped.

What our dead friend is really thinking: "Now, how am I going to satisfy my addiction to SD?"
Lo que nuestro amigo muerto está realmente el pensamiento pensando: "Ahora, ¿cómo voy a satisfacer mi adicción a SD?"


Achmed, the dead terrorist, is a dummy that makes threats when the audience laughs.
Achmed, el terrorista muerto, es un muñeco que hace amenazas cuando la audencia se ríe.
En este contexto el muerto quiere decir en inglés el mismo como "a dead soldier."
In this context "el muerto" in English is the same as a dead soldier.

¿Y piensas que su trabajo es un muerto?
And you think your job is bad?

Nunca he estado en México durante el Día de los Muertos, porque se celebra durante la temporada de huracanes y usualmente vamos a la Riviera Maya, pero creo que podría ser divertido ir a alguna otra parte que es sea más tradicional y menos para los turistas durante este día festivo después de que haya mejorado (después de haber mejorado, después de mejorar) mi español suficientemente cuando mejore mi español lo suficiente.
I have never been in Mexico during the Day of the Dead, because it is celebrated during hurricane season and we usually go to the Riviera Maya, but I think it could be fun to go to another part that is more traditional and less touristy during this holiday after I have improved (after having improved, after improving) when I improve my Spanish sufficiently.
Disclaimer: I had difficulty choosing how to end this sentence, the English version I chose sounded the most natural to my speech patterns, but I was not convinced that would be the same for the matching Spanish version, so I provided alternatives.

Usually people are scared of dead people, but in my country we say that there is no reason for that, because live people are more dangerous.
Usualmente la gente tiene miedo de los muertos, pero en mi país decimos que no hay razón para eso, porque las personas vivas son más peligrosas.

