La Palabra del Día: "reconstruir"
reconstruir ( rre-kohn-stroo-eer' )
verb ( to reconstruct, to rebuild )
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Examples:
1. Después de que el huracán destrozara toda la casa, hubo que reconstruirla por completo.
After the hurricane destroyed the whole house, they had to reconstruct the entire thing.
2. Junto con Eduardo, Claudia viaja a Buenos Aires a buscar a su madre distanciada para tratar de reconstruir su relación.
Along with Eduardo, Claudia travels to Buenos Aires to look for her estranged mother and try to rebuild their relationship.
Notes:
The 2nd example sentence is part of our special new Word of the Day "novela" series. Check it out from the beginning on December 1 and stay tuned tomorrow for the next chapter!
17 Answers
Para que la economía empiece marchar de nuevo, creo que hace falta reconstruir los sistemas bancarios.
In order that the economy might once again start moving, I think it is necessary to rebuild the banking systems
La policía se llevó un tiempo enorme en reconstruir los hechos del crimen. Y al final, no llegó a nada contundente.
The Police took a great deal of time reconstructing the crime scene. Unfortunately, their findings were all inconclusive.
The birds reconstructed their nest in the same place year after year.
Los pájaros reconstruían sus nidos en el mismo lugar, año tras año.
Espero que mi castillo de arena pueda soportar la violencia del mar ya que no quiero ni pensar en reconstruirlo.
I sure hope my sandcastle can withstand the violence of the sea as I do not even want to think about reconstructing it.
Ojalá que sea posible reconstruir esa amistad.
Hopefully it will be possible to rebuild that friendship.
Afortunadamente, no tendremos que reconstruir este pastel porque ese bebé tiene muy buena suerte.
Fortunately, we won't have to rebuild this cake because that baby has very good luck.
Después del volcán, no pudieron reconstruir la ciudad
After the volcano, they couldn't rebuild the city.
I have flu and I need my teddy. I want to reconstruct my Benito!
Tengro gripe y necesito a mi osito. ¡Quiero reconstruir a mi Benito!
Espero que el año 2013 sea el año en que me haga una nueva vida, quiero evitar a la reconstrución de mi vida como fue antes. ( mi vida anterior?)
Improved version: with Franco's help, Espero que el año 2013 sea el año en que me diseñe una nueva vida, quiero evitar una mera renconstrucción como hice en el pasado.
I hope that 2013 will be the year in which I will make myself a new life. I want to avoid a mere reconstruction of my life, as it was earlier.
Para nuestra boda, hice unas máscaras que se parecían como nosotros, pero las perdí. Este año, las reconstruí para un como regalo de Navidad.
For our wedding, I made some masks that looked like us, but I lost them. This year, I reconstructed them as a Christmas present.
During the civil war of Lebanon which lasted for 15 years, the down town city of Beirut was totally destroyed, but it was rebuilt almost a decade ago becoming one of the most beautiful places visited by tourist from all around the word.
Durante la guerra civil del Líbano, que duró 15 años, el centro de la ciudad de Beirut fue destruida totalmente, pero fue reconstruido hace casi una década convertirse en uno de los lugares más hermosos visitados por turistas de todo alrededor de la palabra.
Reconstruir estos esqueletos fue como reconstruir un rompecabezas, pero hoy todo el mundo puede visitar a los iguanodones de Bernissart en el Museo de las Ciencias en Bruselas.
The reconstruction of these skeletons was like reconstructing a puzzle, but today everyone can visit the iguanodons of Bernissart in the Museum of Natural Sciences in Brussels.
Rebuilding your life is the hardest thing of all.
Reconstruir tu vida es lo más duro de todo.
Creo que el verbo, reconstruir, sería realmente significativo para Rac1 (Annie) como vive a Nueva Orleans.
I think the verb, to reconstruct, would really be meaningful for Rac1 (Annie) as she lives in New Orleans.
There are 50 to 70 trillion cells in the human body, and each one contains in its DNA blueprint enough information to reconstruct an entire human body.
Hay 50 a 70 trillones de células en el cuerpo humano, y cada uno contiene en su proyecto de DNA suficiente información para reconstruir un cuerpo humano entero.
