La Palabra del Día: "absoluto"
absoluto ( ab-so-loo'-to )
adjective ( absolute )
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1. No tengo remordimientos en lo absoluto de este último año.
I don't have any regrets at all from this past year.
2. Tener acceso a asistencia médica es de absoluta necesidad para todos.
Having access to health care is absolutely necessary to all.
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No me gusta la leche en absoluto, pero si agregas un poco de chocolate, tal vez cambio de opinión.
I don't like milk at all, but if you add a little chocolate to it, I might change my mind.
Lo absoluto puede ser extremo en la vida. Prefiero las cosas relativas.
Absolute things in life can be a bit extreme. I prefer relative things.
Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
El poder absoluto corrompe absolutamente.
Lord Acton, a British historian of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, in a letter to Bishop Mandell Creighton in 1887: "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men."
Es una necesidad absoluto para vivir la vida cotidiana. It is an absolute necessity to live life everyday.
El cero absoluto es la temperatura en que todo el movimiento atómico se para.
Absolute zero is the temperature in which all the atomic movement is stopped.
No hay absolutamente nada que me guste más que el chocolate.
There is absolutely nothing I like more than chocolate.
The child was absolutely flabbergasted that he received so many compliments.
El niño dejó pasmado de absoluto que recibió demasiados cumplimientos.
Corrections per Franco: El niño se quedó absolutamente pasmado al haber recibido tantos elogios.
Mi tiempo favorito absoluto del dia es justo antes de la salida del sol.
My absolute favorite time of day is just before sunrise.
Es liquido tiene absolutamente nada de color, y cuando se sirve a -273 grados, nada de calor.
This liquid has absolutely no color, and when sirved at -273 degrees, no heat.
He has done nothing at all today, except rest, and it feels awesome!
No ha hecho nada en absoluto hoy, excepto dormir, ¡y se siente padrísimo!
From the SD dictionary: absoluto -- "nada en absoluto" - nothing at all
From wordreference.com: awesome -- "¡Padrísimo!"
Creo que no exista la verdad absoluta.
I don't think there is such a thing as the absolute truth.
Cuando le pregunté: "¿Qué pasa? ¿Por qué pareces tan triste?, él dijo: "No es nada, nada en absoluto" ... Pero de todas formas no le creí ...
When I asked him: "What's the matter? why do you look so sad?", he said: "Nothing, nothing at all" ... but somehow I did not believe him ...
Tengo absoluto demasiado trabajo por hoy.
I have absolutely too much work for today.
En la vida no hay la una verdad absoluta; solo hay sólo existe la probabilidad.
In life there is no absolute truth; there is only probability.
Louis XIV era monarca absoluta de la Francia. Actualmente algunos paises todavía tienen reyes y reines pero sus poder es muy limitado.
Loius XIV was absolute monarch of France. These days some countries still have kings and queens but their power is very limited.
