La Palabra Del Dia: "sombra"
sombra ( sohm'-brah )
noun ( shadow; shade )
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Write sentences at least 5 words long, but don't write a paragraph either. Write your Spanish sentence, but include the English translation as well. Make the corrections suggested by other users and moderators in the comments section (try not to use personal pronouns unless absolutely necessary). Use your own words! (Don't use a translator, copy from a book, use song lyrics, etc.) Please keep political, religious or personal statements to a minimum. This is a practice game.
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Examples:
1. Ese tipo es tan cobarde que su propia sombra lo espanta.
That guy is such a coward that his own shadow frightens him.
2. Siempre intento estacionarme en la sombra para que no se caliente el carro.
I always try to park in the shade so that the car doesn't heat up.
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Soy la sombra de un perro.
I am the shadow of a Dog. 
Y estoy orgulloso de esto.
And I am proud of it.
A veces los niños se distraen lo mejor por los juegos más simples, por ejemplo, por los juegos de sombras.
Sometimes children are distracted the best by the simplest plays, for example by the shadow games.
En la plaza de toros los asientos de público en la sombra cuestan más que los asientos en pleno sol.
At the bullring the seating for spectators in the shaded area are more expensive than seats in the blazing sun.
Una canción más querida en ambos México y España, interpretada primeramente por Javier Solis en los años 60 y años después por Rocio Dúrcal se llama "Sombras".
A song well loved in both Mexico and Spain, sung first by Javier Solis in the 60s and years later by Roco Dúrcal is called "Shadows".
No quieres estar en la sombra de La Sombra.
You don't want to be in the shadow of The Shadow.
Es un tío con muy mala sombra. / He’s a really nasty piece of work.
A las mujeres no les gustan las sombras oscuras debajo de los ojos. (A las mujeres no les gustan las sombras oscuras bajo los ojos) Gracias Jimmy y Paco.
Women do not like dark shadows under their eyes.
Al entrar a las sombras del bosque nuboso tiene tuvo un poco de miedo, debido a los tigres, leones y osos (jaguares, pumas y osos de anteojos) que podría encontrar, pero el antropólogo siguió adelante, porque sabía que su trabajo era muy importante, y que debía documentar la cultura de los indígenas antes de que fuera contaminada por contacto extranjero.
Upon entering the shadows of the cloud forest he had a bit of fear, due to the tigers, lions and bears (jaguars, pumas and spectacled bears) that he might find, but the anthropologist pressed on, because he knew that his work was very important, and that he must document the culture of the indigenous people before it was contaminated by outside contact.
Disclaimer: In Spanish, in some areas pumas may be referred to as leons and jaguars as tigres, and the ranges of both overlap the spectacled bear in the cloud forests of the Northern Andes (and that is as close as you can come to having lions and tigers and bears in the modern world), but I have no idea if there were still people with limited contact with Western culture in that range by the time anthropologists were running around studying people.
Las verdaderos amigos son como la sombra de un árbol,que no distingue razas,religiones o ideologías.
True friends are like the shadow of a tree,that does not distiguish between races,religion or ideologies.
Tina me dijo que nunca se casará porque no se fía ni de su sombra.
Tina told me that she will never marry because she does not trust a soul.
Ayer el perro tuvo miedo de la sombra larga del arbol.
Yesterday the dog was afraid of the tree's long shadow.
Ando en sombra tuya. I walk in your shadow.
There is not much shade in the desert.
No es hay mucho sombra en el desierto.
Algunos psicólogos dicen de La Sombra, que se la parte de la psique en que almacenamos todos las cosas en que no queremos pensar o admitir a nosotros mismos.
Some psychologists speak about The Shadow, which is a part of the psyche in which we keep all the things which we don't want to think about or admit to ourselves.
