La Palabra del Día: "calificar"
calificar (kah-lee-fee-karr)
verb ( grade, rate, qualify )
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Examples:
1. Los documentos gubernamentales frecuentemente son calificados como alto secreto.
Government documents are often classified as top secret.
2. La maestra se tomó dos horas para calificar los exámenes.
The teacher took two hours to grade the exams.
17 Answers
Cuando era niño mis calificaciones malas se las mostraba a mi madre y las calificaciones buenas a mi padre. Conclusión mi padre era más estricto que mi madre por mucho.
When I was a child I showed the bad grades to my mom and the good ones to my father. Conclusion, my father was more severe than my mother by a lot.
¿Cómo se califica para ser un cantante con éxito? En mi opinión, hay que tener una voz hermosa y humildad.
How do you qualify to be a successful singer? In my opinion, you have to have a beautiful voice and humility.
Many young people spend their whole life training to qualify for the Olympics and never even make it to the games.
Muchas personas jovenes pasan toda su vida entrenado para calificar para las Olimpiadas y ni siquiera llegan a los juegos.
De calificar a ser una buena maestra , necesita una fuerte estómago para
beber café barato en la sala de profesores .
To qualify to be a good teacher one needs a strong stomach to drink
cheap coffee in the staff room .
Thank you for the lead in rac1.
¿Cómo se puede calificar para ser un maestro?
How does one qualify to be a teacher?
Los políticos usan sus registros para calificar sí mismos en las elecciones.
Politicians use their records to qualify themselves in the elections.
¿Cómo puede un juez dar una calificación numérica cuando para evaluar el desempeño de los surfistas un surfista, siendo el surf tal es una forma de arte tan subjetivo?
How can a judge give a numerical score when evaluating a surfer’s performance is such a subjective art form?
Cuando como la carne lo quiero estar cierto que lo ha estado calificado bueno para consumo.
When I eat meat I want to be sure that it has been qualified as good for consumption.
Muchos atletas tuvieron que trabajar muy duro a fin de calificar para los Juegos Olímpicos de Londres 2012.
Many athletes had to work very hard to qualify for the 2012 London Olympics.
Friendship either exists or not. There is nothing in between to be rated as friendship. Friends are those who walk in when others walk out. I hope every person has at least some good friends.
La amisdad existe o no. No hay nada intermedio que se pueda calificar como amisdad. Amigos son aquellos que se acercan a ti cuando los demás se alejan. Espero que cada persona tenga al menos algunos buenos amigos.
No califiques al libro por su cubierta solamente ...... podría haber una fortuna en su interior.
Don’t judge the book only for its cover .... there might be a fortune inside.
Es chistoso que cuando yo comenzaba a tener las clases de español en la universidad, mis calificaciones eran las peores, aunque estaba en el nivel básica de español. Sin embargo, en mi último semestre, cuando las clases avanzadas de español llegaban a su fin, para completar el programa escolar y lograr el título, mis calificaciones todas fueron increíblemente perfectas. Es un poco irónico.
It's funny that when I started taking Spanish classes in college, my grades were the worst, even though I was in the basic levels of Spanish. However, by the time my last semester of advanced Spanish classes came to an end, in order to complete the school program and get the degree, all of my grades were incredibly perfect. It's a little ironic.
Serví en el Cuerpo de Paz desde 1981 hasta 1984. Me colocaron dos meses después de que apliqué pero actualmente es mucho más difícil calificar.
I served in the Peace Corps from 1981-84. They placed me two months after I applied but these days it is much harder to qualify.
I am an unqualified failure.
Yo soy un fracaso sin reservas
Era bastante difícil calificar para un empréstito de vivienda, pero luego se hizo demasiado fácil, y sabemos lo que occurió después.
It used to be quite difficult to qualify for a housing loan, but then it became too easy and we know what happened then.
