La Palabra Del Dia: "envolver"
envolver ( ehn-vohl-vehr' )
verb ( to wrap; to involve )
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Examples:
1. ¿Has envuelto los regalos para la fiesta de cumpleaños mañana?
Have you wrapped the presents for the birthday party tomorrow?
2. No me envuelvas en las peleas entre tú y tu esposo.
Don't involve me in the fights between you and your husband.
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Algunas especies de pez loro se envuelven con una sustancia mucosa que secretan de sus bocas para protegerse mientras duermen.
Some species of parrot fish wrap themselves with a mucous substance that they secrete from their mouths to protect themselves while they sleep.
No envuelvo más regalos de Navidad. Los pido a través de Amazon.
I don´t wrap Christmas presents any more. I order them on Amazon.
En esta tira cómica, Dilbert no usa las palabras ni la palabra "envolver" ni "involucrar", sino la frase de dos palabras "consistir en" que puede significar casi la misma cosa.
In this comic strip Diblert does not use the words "envover" or "involucrar" but the two-word phrase "consistir en" which can mean nearly the same thing.
From Wikipedia:
Salting the earth, or sowing with salt, is the ritual of spreading salt on conquered cities to symbolize a curse on their re-inhabitation. It originated as a symbolic practice in the ancient Near East and became a well-established folkloric motif in the Middle Ages. There is no evidence that sufficient amounts of salt were used to render large tracts of land unusable.
Es siempre muy conmovedor cuando ves que dos personas se envuelven en un abrazo.
It is always very touching when you see that two persons are wrapped in a hug.
No siempre tengo papel de envolver así que a veces utilizo las historietas en color en el periódico de los domingos.
I don't always have wrapping paper so sometimes I use the color comics in the Sunday newspaper.
Como los aguacates todavía estaban un poco verdes, los envolví en papel periódico para que maduraran más pronto.
As the avocados were still a little bit green, I wrapped them in newspaper to ripen them faster.
¿Se lo envolvemos? / Would you like it wrapped?
El humo envolvía el pueblo. / Smoke enveloped the village.
Muchos hinchas del equipo profesional hockey sobre hielo de Chicago, se llama los Chicago Blackhawks, se envolvieron en la celebración después del equipo ganó su tercera Copa Stanley en seis años.
Many fans of Chicago's professional ice hockey team, called the Chicago Blackhawks, got involved with (or got wrapped up in) the celebration after the team won their third Stanley Cup in six years.
Envuelva esto, me le lo llevo.
Wrap it up, I'll take it.
Las montañas envuelven Machu Picchu, el bosque de neblina se campea.
Mountains surround Machu Picchu, the cloud forest stands out.
My blog of poetry. 
La niebla envuelve a la ciudad.
The fog envelops / shrouds the city.
La atmósfera es la capa de aire que envuelve a nuestro planeta y protege la vida sobre la tierra.
The atmosphere is the layer of air that surrounds our planet and protects life on earth.
Los murciélagos de frutas, que se llaman zorros voladores, se envuelven en sus alas y cuelgan boca abajo en un árbol durante el día.
Fruit Bats, which are called Flying Foxes, wrap themselves in their wings and hang upside down in a tree during the day.
Como mi cachorro nuevo siempre se marea en el coche tengo que ir al pueblo para comprar un periodico inglés, el telegraph del domingo , porque tiene más páginas que los otros periódicos que conozco, y por eso pongo por ejample la sección de ´motores´ en el maletero para que pueda envolver el vómito de manera más conviniente.
As my new puppy always gets car'sick I have to go into town in order to buy an Englsih newspaper, the Sunday Telegraph, because it has the most pages of any paper I know, and therefore I put the'' car section'', for example, in the back of the car, so that I can wrap up the sick more easily.
Me gusta estar envuelto en una historia de amor es muy estimulante
I like being wrapped up in a love affair it is very stimulating
