La Palabra Del Dia: "cerrar"
cerrar ( seh-rrahr' )
verb ( to close )
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1. Recuerda que los bancos cierran temprano los sábados.
Remember that banks close early on Saturdays.
2. Hot Doug's, el mejor restaurante de perros calientes del mundo, cerró sus puertas por última vez el año pasado.
Hot Doug's, the best hot dog restaurant in the world, closed its doors for the last time last year. .
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A veces una boca cerrada habla más elocuentemente que una abierta.
Sometimes a closed mouth speaks more eloquently than an open one.
Cierra la puerta, por favor. Hace frío y viento.
Shut the door please. It's windy and cold.
Cold Wind by Larry Lamb
Hay cosas que podemos ver con nuestros ojos cerrados.
There are things we can see with our eyes closed.
Puede ser difícil pero de vez en cuando a hay cerrar puertas y concluir capitulios para llevar adelante en su vida.
It can be difficult but once in a while you have to close doors and finish chapters to move forward in life.
Espero que nunca cierres tu corazón contra el sufrimiento de los pobres.
I hope that you will never close your heart against the suffering of the poor.
Hay veces cuando es necesario cerrar ciclos de tu vida, pero eso no se trata de cerrar puertas sino abrir nuevas oportunidades.
There are times when it is necessary to close cycles of your life, but that is not a question of closing doors but opening new opportunities.
Asistente de vuelo: Estoy a punto de cerrar la puerta del avión. Si no está seguro de que quiere ir a Aruba, por favor desembarque ahora.
Flight attendant: I am about to shut the aircraft door. If you are not sure you want to go to Aruba, please disembark now.
Al salir de México, la última cosa que hice fue cerrar mi cuenta bancaria aunque todavía tengo la chequera guardada y curiosamente, extraño más la fuente Diana que los pesos.
Upon leaving Mexico, the last thing I did was to close my bank account although I still have the checkbook put away and curiously, I miss more the Diana fountain than the pesos.
Todos trabajadores que no están miembros de un sindicato , esta fábrica está cerrada.
All workers who are not members of a union, this factory is closed.
Mi esposa siempre me acusa de no cerrar recipientes de comida adecuadamente así que cuando ella agarra uno por la tapa, el resto del frasco se cae y los contenidos se derraman por todas partes.
My wife always accuses me of not closing food containers adequately so that when she grabs one by the lid, the rest of the jar falls and the contents spill all over.
Cuándo llegué a la tienda, ya había cerrado
When I arrived at the store, it had already closed
Un baile cierra la función.
The function ends with a dance.
Esta charla cierra el ciclo de conferencias.
This is the closing talk of this conference.
Una banda cerraba la procesión.
A band brought up the rear.
La noche se va cerrando como se avecina la alba para algunos participantes de SD como Ray y Jenny.
The night is closing in as the dawn approaches for some SD participants like Ray and Jenny.
Los paraguas que funcionan con mecanismos de pellizco pueden ser muy difíciles de cerrar. De todos modos odio los paraguas.
Umbrellas that operate with pinch mechanisms can be very hard to close. Anyway I hate umbrellas.
(When I check my first Spanish sentence in a translator, I get gibberish, but I don't know how to fix it--or even if it's really wrong. It seems right to me. Please correct me if I need it.)
Las escuelas son cerrado esta semana.
Schools are closed this week.
