La Palabra Del Dia: "muerte"
muerte ( mwehr'-teh )
noun ( death )
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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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1. Después de la muerte de Alejandro Magno, su imperio fue dividido entre sus generales y consejeros.
After the death of Alexander the Great, his empire was divided among his generals and advisors.
2. No tiene sentido temer la muerte. Tarde o temprano nos visitará a todos.
There is no sense fearing death. Sooner or later it will visit us all.
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Sé que la muerte es tan natural como la vida, pero no por eso tientes al destino ni votes por ella para que nos represente.
I know that death is just as natural as life is, but that doesn't entail pushing your luck voting for death to represent us.
Cada muerte de obispo como un bistek.
Once in a blue moon I eat a steak.
Two things in life are certain: death and taxes.
Dos cosas en vida son seguras: la muerte y los impuestos.
At Easter,Christians all over the world celebrate the death and resurrection of our Savior ,Jesus Christ.
En la pascua ,los Cristianos de todas los partes del mundo celebrar la muerte y resurrección de nuestro Salvador, Jesucristo.
Mientras escribo esto, un viejo amigo pronto será visitado por la muerte.
Yo no quiero estar allí cuando venga.
As I write this, an old friend will soon be visited by death.
I don't want to be there when he comes.
La muerte y los mexicanos
Los mexicanos tenemos una relación muy especial con la muerte. Se han escrito muchos libros acerca de eso. Nos gusta decir que "los mexicanos no le tememos a la muerte". Pero yo creo que eso son solo puras habladurías. De todos modos puede ser que la muerte esté más presente en nuestra cultura que en otras. Quizá eso sea parte de nuestro pasado indígena y español.
En la antigua cosmovisión indígena mesoamericana, la muerte no era más que el fin de un ciclo y el comienzo de otro. Y no tenía la carga moral que tenía en la cultura española.
Mexicans and the Death
Mexicans have a special relationship with death. There are several books about this. We like to say that "we aren’t afraid of death". But I think that's just bull. Anyway, maybe death is more visible in our culture than in others. Maybe it is due to our indigenous and Spanish legacy.
In the indigenous Cosmo vision of Mesoamerica death was nothing else but the end of a cycle and the beginning of a new one. And death didn't have the moral sense that had in the Spanish culture.
La muerte de Johnny Cash me conmovió; no me esperaba que esta me conmovería conmoviera, pero la hizo.
The death of Johnny Cash touched me; I did not expect it to touch me, but it did.
Leonard Nimoy, Spock de 'Star Trek', muerte a los 83
¿Está realmente muerte?
¡Que tengas un renacimiento rápido y feliz!
Leonard Nimoy, Spock of ‘Star Trek,’ Dies at 83
Are you really dead?
May you have a quick and happy rebirth!
Todos moriremos algún día, pero esperamos que nuestros hijos sigan viviendo a lo largo de nuestras vidas, y tratar con la muerte de un hijo, de cualquier edad, es muy difícil para la mayoría. No puedo imaginar cómo reaccionaría mi esposa ante la muerte de uno de nuestros hijos y ojalá que yo nunca lo sepa.
All of us will die some day, but we expect that our children will continue living throughout our lives, and dealing with the death of a child, of any age, is very difficult for most people. I cannot imagine how my wife would react to the death of one of our children and I hope to never know that.
Se dice que el cuadro de Goya „Hasta la Muerte” que demuestra una anciana quien se maquilla delante de un espejo , habría querido burlarse de la reina de España.
It is said that the picture by Goya „ Until the death” that shows an elderly woman who is doing her makeup in front of a mirror , would have liked to mock the queen of Spain.
Me llevé un susto de muerte. / I got a terrible fright.
Este postre está de muerte. / This sweet is wonderful. (of death)
Es bueno que la muerte nos separe sólo por un rato, pero ese rato parece una eternidad.
It is good that death separates us only for a while, but that "while" seems like an eternity.
La muerte fue conquistado por Jesucristo
Death was conquered through Christ Jesus
Quiero que la muerte me abrace lo antes posible ..
I wan't death to embrace me as soon as possible..
Despues de la muerte, se encontrará con Dios. After death, you will meet God.
