La Palabra del Día: Escapar
Escapar
to get away, to escape; to leak (gas, water)
Note: This word will be the official Word of the Day and will be posted January 6, 2012.
If you have ideas for good words, please send me a PM – I will make it a future word of the day.
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My Example:
Una vez no podía encontrar mi perro. Creía que había escapado de mi solar, así que busqué alrededor mi vecindario. Finalemente él estaba en mi dormitorio con la puerta cerrada. Hmm.
Once, I couldn’t find my dog. I thought that he must have escaped from my yard, so I looked all around my neighborhood. In the end, he was in my bedroom with the door closed.
26 Answers
All public places should have an emergency door to escape from fire.
Todos los lugares públicos deben tener una puerta de emergencia para escapar del fuego.
Mi gata siempre está tratando de escapar hacia al exterior de nuestra casa.
My cat is always trying to escape to the outside of our house.
Hay varios lagos que han formarse se han formado en cráteres de volcanes en África de los que pueden escaparse nubes de dióxido de carbono. Esta es una foto del Lago Nyos, el cual es famoso por una tal nube que asfixia asfixió a muchas personas en 1986.
There are several lakes that have formed in craters of volcanoes in Africa from which clouds of carbon dioxide can escape. This is a photo of Lake Nyos, which is famous for one such cloud that suffocated a lot of people in 1986.
It must be nice to be able to escape to the country for a while. Debe ser agradable para ser capaz de escapar al paisaje por un rato.
Cuando un animal escapa from el zoológico, puede ser muy peligro para la criatura y el publico, también.
Edit:
Cuando un animal escapa del jardín zoológico, puede ser muy peligroso para la criatura y el público, también.
When an animal escapes from the zoo, it can be very dangerous for the creature and for the public, too.
He sido capturado muchas veces tratando de escapar por la puerta trasera para estar con mis amigos una noche de viernes.
I've been caught many times trying to escape through the back door to be with my friends on a Friday night.
Los ladrones escaparon de cárcel con trepar por el muro.
With drvicente's corrections:
Los ladrones escaparon de cárcel por trepar el muro.
The thieves escaped from jail by climbing over the wall.
Si estuviera en esta cárcel, no querría escapar. If I were in this prison, I wouldn´t want to escape.
Un buen libro le da a su mente un escape temporal de la realidad.
A good book gives your mind a temporary escape from reality.
Hay una película donde el bebé secuestrado escapa de raptores y todavía hace los caer en manos de la justicia.
There is a movie , where the kidnapped baby escapes the kidnappers and let them reached by the justice.
No es necesario escapar si nos sentimos libre por dentro.
It's unnecessary to escape if we feel free inside.
Mathematics was the school subject from which we were escaping the most.
With Kiwi's corrections:
Mathematics was the school subject from which we wanted to escape the most.
Las matemáticas fue una materia en la escuela de la cual queríamos escapar muy a menudo.
When you are addicted to the internet, it is difficult to escape although you try it again and again.
Cuando eres adicto a la red, es difícil escapar aunque lo intentes una y otra vez.
Un día mientras que hablaba con Heidita y Chris, el calentador del agua en mi casa empieza a escaparse. Desafortunadamente, tuve que descontectarlo y llamarle al fontanero.
My original; Un día mientras hablando con Heidita y Chris el calentador del agua en mi casa empieza escapar. Desaforadamente tuve que desconectar y llamar el fontanero.
One day while talking with Heidita and Chris my water heater began to leak. Unfortunately I had to disconnect and call a plumber.
Hacía mucho calor adentro, por eso tuve que escapar.
It was very hot inside, that's why I had to escape . 
