La Palabra Del Dia: "tumbar"
tumbar ( toom-bahr' )
verb ( to knock down, to knock over, to demolish )
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Examples:
1. Van a tumbar el hospital viejo para construir uno nuevo en su lugar.
They are going to demolish the old hospital to build a new one in its place.
2. Cuando éramos niños, mi hermano mayor siempre me tumbaba en nuestras peleas.
When we were children, my older brother always knocked me down during our fights.
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Quiero tumbar nuestro gobierno, porque es incompetente
Pero en la elección.
I want to overthrow our government because it is incompetent.
But at the election.
Hay circunstancias cuando mi autoestima se ha tumbado. ¡Así es la vida!
There are times when my self-esteem has fallen down. Such is life!
El olor repugnante en la parte posterior del restaurante me tumbó.
The disgusting smell at the back of the restaurant knocked me out.
Cuando tumbaron los Torres Gemelos el mundo se cambió.
When the twin towers fell the world changed.
Se tumbó unos minutos.
He lay down for a few minutes.
Me tumbó de un guantazo.
He knocked me down.
Me tumbaron en inglés.
I failed (in) English.
La campesina inglesa le pasó la jaula con las gallinas a Juan. Juan señalo con el dedo al bulto de conductor tumbado y preguntó: -¿ Debemos llamar a los servicios de urgencia? La monja empezó a reírse de carcajadas. - No, es que la tarjeta de crédito de Monica es cargada de una droga muy fuerte para caballos. Se despertará en 15 minutos.Ya tenemos que correr,¡ apúrate!
The English countrywoman handed the cage with the hens to Juan. Juan pointed at the slumped body of the driver and asked '' Should we ring for the emergency services? '' The nun guffawed. '' No, what 's happened is that Monica's credit-card is loaded with a very strong horse-drug. He'll wake up in 15 minutes. We must run! Hurry up! ''
The logging industry is felling too many trees in the Amazonian rain forest.
La industria maderera está tumbado demasiados árboles en la selva tropical Amazónica.
Despues de un tornado muchas casas son tumbadas.
After tornado many houses are knocked down.
It is easy to demolish, but it is hard to build.
Es fácil tumbar, pero es difícil construir
¡Tengo que admitir que le tumbó perfectamente y también sorprendentemente!
I have to admit he perfectly knocked him down and also surprisingly!
Estuvimos muy tristes cuando el antiguo Teatro Nacional en Budapest era tumbado para ensanchar el camino.
We were very sad when the ancient National Theater in Budapest was knocked down to expand the way.
The idea of a bopping bag is to knock it down then let it bounce back up.
La idea de un saco de golpear es para tumbarlo y luego después la permita a rebotar de nuevo otra vez.
¿Es verdad que un diccionario puede tumbar un burro?
Is it true that a dictionary can knock a burro over?
It's time to revisit one of my early posts / Es tiempo de visitar de nuevo uno de mis puestos tempranos: tumbaburros
El viento estaba soplando tan fuerte que tumbó un árbol
The wind was blowing so hard it knocked down a tree.
Cuándo ir a jugar a las bochas, debes tratar a tumbar todos de 10 bolos de alfileres.
When going bowling, you must try to knock down all 10 bowling pins.
