La Palabra Del Dia: "quemar"
quemar ( keh-mahr' )
verb ( to burn )
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1. Cada vez que intento hacer arroz con gandules, quemo el arroz.
Every time I try to make rice with pigeon peas, I burn the rice.
2. ¿Quemar la basura es malo para el medio ambiente?
Is burning trash bad for the environment? .
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Vas a quemar la tortilla. / You’re going to burn the omelette.
El sol me ha quemado la piel. / The sun has burnt my skin.
Se han quemado ya tres edificios. / Three buildings have burnt down already.
Me quema mucho que no me tomen en serio. / I hate it when people don’t take me seriously.
Los vikingos serían a veces quemar quemaban los restos de sus jefes en un barco vikingo.
Vikings would at times burn the remains of their chieftains in a viking boat.
De vez en cuando la gente toma las cosas palabra por palabra, a pesar de que todo el mundo sabe que hay ejercicios para quemar las grasas
Sometimes people take things word for word, while everyone knows that there are exercises to burn fat.
Hay estudios que han demostrado que hacer ejercicio temprano por la mañana ayuda a quemar grasa más rápido.
There are studies that have demonstrated that to do exercise early in the morning helps to burn fat more rapidly.
España está llena de historia y algo de su historia es muy feo. Comenzando el siglo 14, bajo la inquisición española, muchos judios y otros fueron quemados hasta la muerte por el presunto crimen de no ser cristiano.
Spain is full of history and some of the history is very ugly. Starting in the 14th Century, under the Spanish Inquisition, many Jews and others were burned to death for the suspected crime of not being Christian.
¡Que causalidad! He trabajado toda la mañana haciendo un fuego para quemar las malas hierbas y las ramas cortadas que he echado del terreno de al lado del carríl que llega a mi casa . Es un trabajo duro . Para encender fuego hay que pedir permiso al ayuntamiento porque hay gran riesgo de incendio, pero ahora es un buen momento , está lloviando y el aire está en calma.
What a coincidence! I have spent the morning working on building a fire in order to burn all the weeds and cut-off branches from the land on the side of the track that goes to my house . It's hard work. In order to light a fire you must ask for permission from the Town Hall because there is a big risk that the fire gets out of control but just now is a good time for it because it's raining and the air is still.
Alice, entiendo que has estado utilizando una lupa gigante como una rayo mortal en la oficina.
No es una rayo mortal. Lo utilizo sólo para quemar tupés.
Vale, está bien.
¿Está tu cabeza demasiado caliente?
La mía está muy caliente.
Literal: Mi cabeza está demasiado caliente. (I prefer the prior style-wise in Spanish)
Suelo empezar desayuno , y luego responder a mi correo electrónico,
y siempre quemo la leche.
I usually start breakfast, and then answer my Email , and always burn the milk.
A pesar de que soy medio filipino y tengo la piel bien oscura, me puedo quemar en la playa.
Even though I am half Filipino, and have fairly dark skin, I can get sunburned at the beach.
En el pasado, antes de que descubrieramos los antibióticos las quemaduras eran un método de sanar las heridas graves, como las amputizaciónes que eran necesarias para curar a los soldados que se quedaban con piernas podridas por la gangrena . Había que quemar el sitio de la hérida a hierro candente para cautizarlo .
In the past, before we discovered antibiotics, burning was a method used to heal serious injuries, such as the amputations that were necessary in order to heal soldiers whose legs were rotting from gangrene infections. It was necessary to burn the injured part with red-hot iron in order to cauterize it.
Un sol constante e intenso, puede quemar mucha de la vegetación. Eso lo voy todos los días por el área sur de Puerto Rico. La vida es interesante :D
A constant and/or intense sun can burn a lot of the vegetation. That, I see everyday in the South side Puerto Rico. Life is interesting :D
Uso un horno de cocina lento. No he quemado nada hasta ahora.
I use a slow-cooking oven. I have not burned anything so far.
Él estaba muy quemado por el sol.
He was very burnt from the sun.
Icaro voló muy cerca del sol y sequemó sus alas.
Thanks Tiempo! 
Icarus flew too close to the sun and burned his wings.
"El que juega con fuego se quema" es un modismo sobre la toma de riesgos inútiles.
"Play with fire and you will get burned" is an idiom about taking unnecessary risks.
