La Palabra del Día: Cuadrado
Cuadrado
square
Note: This word will be the official Word of the Day and will be posted December 2, 2011.
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Algunas personas nunca aprenden, y siguen tratando de poner algo cuadrado en un agujero redondo.
Some people never learn, and keep trying to put a square peg in a round hole.
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It is good that a square is not the only one shape known by people.
Es bueno que un cuadrado no es sea la única figura conocida por la gente.
The latest fashion: Square eggs!
La última moda: ¡huevos de gallina cuadrados!
¿Dónde compras los pantalones cuadrados?
Where do you buy square pants?
Mi hija hizo un mosaico muy interesante en la pared con cuadrados pintados en los tonos variados de turquesa.
Corrections: Mi hija hizo un mural muy interesante con cuadrados pintados en tonos variados de turqueza.
My daughter made a very interesting wall arrangement with painted squares in varied colors of turquoise.
These squares are all the same size, but they seem distorted due to an optical illusion.
Estos cuadros son del mismo tamaño, pero parecen distorsionados debido a una ilusión óptica.
The place where friends arrange a rendezvous is the plaza,it is in the shape of a square. El lugar donde amigos se citan es la plaza en forma de cuadrado.
Square watermelons help save space in refrigerator.
Sandías cuadradas ayudan a ahorrar espacio en la nevera.
The square is one of the first shapes that a young child learns to recognize. In my opinion, the circle is the most familiar shape for most babies and young children because it is similar to the face in their limited experience.
= El cuadrado es una de las primeras formas que un niño aprende a reconocer. En mi opinión el círculo es la forma más familiar (o bien conocido) para la mayoría de los bebes y niños porque es similar a la cara en su limitada.experiencía
Corrijan mi Español, por favor
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El cuadrado es uno de las primeras formas que un niño aprenda a reconocer. En mi opinión el círculo es la forma más familiar (o bien conocido) a (o con?) la mayoría de los bebes y niños porque es similar con la cara en su experiencía limitada.
El proyecto por para la semana es para enyesar una fundación de los cuatrocientos pies cuadrado (o treinta y siete metros cuadrados).
The project for the week is to plaster a 400 square foot (or 37 square meter) foundation.
"There is a saying among some teenagers that "all parents are square."
"Hay un dicho entre algunos adolescentes que "todos los padres son cuadrados."
Me gustaría a pensar fuera del cuadrado y estar un pensador lateral.
Corrected sentence,-Me gustaría pensar fuera del cuadrado y ser un pensador lateral.
I would like to think outside the square and be a lateral thinker .
Dentro de poco Grecia va a celebrar un referéndum para solucionar el futuro del Euro. Estoy seguro de que los comisarios de la CE esperan que la población de Grecia esté cuadrada con su presidente.
Shortly Greece is going to have a referendum to basically resolve the future of the Euro. I am sure that the European commissioners are hoping that the population of Greece are siding with the president.
I believe cuadrado/a is used in this manner in Chile and Venezuela.
I have square eyes of from
watching too much television.
Tengo los ojos cuadrados de tanto ver televisión.
Un cuadrado tiene cuatro ángulos de 90 grados. 
A square has four 90 degree angles.
Si cortaras un cuadrado al diagonal, tendrías dos triángulos.
If you cut a square in half diagonally, you would have two triangles.
