La Palabra Del Dia: "nube"
nube ( noo'-beh )
noun ( cloud )
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10 Creo que esa es una nube de lluvia. Mejor nos llevamos el paraguas.
I think that that is a raincloud. We'd better take the umbrella.
2. El planeta de Júpiter tiene nubes de amoníaco.
The planet Jupiter has ammonia clouds.
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Hay gente , quien no vive la realidad , porque no quiere bajarse de la nube.
There are people, who do not live in reality, because they do not want to get off the cloud.
¿Alguna vez has visto una pequeña nube blanca arriba de una pequeña isla en un día calmo? Esto se forma porque la isla es más caliente que el mar circundante y el vapor de agua sube y entonces se enfria y se hace una nube.
Have you ever seen a small white cloud on top of a small island on a calm day? This forms because the island is warmer than the surrounding sea and water vapour rises and then cools and becomes a cloud.
De jovencito mi hijo fue selecionado para un viaje en un bérgantin de tres mástiles y cuando recibó la carta con esta noticia estaba tan feliz que andaba como en las nubes. Cuando volvió a casa nos contó que lo de subir el mástil para plegar velas no es ningún placer porque uno se marea.
As a youngster mi son was selected to go on a trip on a three-masted schooner, and when he had the letter bringing him this news he walked on clouds (was in seventh heaven). When he came back he told us that climbing up the masts to reef the sails is no pleasure at all because one gets sea-sick.
Pedro es muy testarudo. Me parece que él nunca permite que los hechos nublan nublen su juicio.
Pedro is very stubborn, it seems to me that he never lets the facts cloud his judgement.
Los precios están por las nubes. / Prices are sky-high.
A mi esposa, no le gusta cuando le hago una pregunta acerca de la astronomía, porque normalmente sólo le pregunta pregunto “¿hay nubes de gas alrededor de Urano?”, lo que cree que es tonto y pueril.
My wife doesn’t like it when I ask here a question about astronomy, because normally I only ask her “are there gas clouds around Uranus?,” which she thinks is silly and childish.
Normally Arequipa has a clear sky, but between the months of December and March it is filled with clouds.
Arequipa tiene un cielo despejado; pero entre los meses de diciembre a marzo suele llenarse de nubes.
Desafortunadamente mi marido y yo no podemos ir al concerto esta noche porque las entradas están por las nubes y estamos sin blanca.
Unfortunately my husband and I can't go to the concert tonight because the tickets are "through the roof" (too expensive) and we are broke / have no money.
Me encanta cuando una nube parece un animal.
I love it when a cloud looks like an animal.
Desafortunadamente un cielo lleno de nubes no significa lluvia.
Unfortunately a sky full of clouds does not mean rain.
Aprendí hoy que los hungarós no dicen, "Ella está en la nube nueve"; en su lugar dicen, "Ella está tan feliz como un mono sobre la cola." ¿Es verdad, porcupine7?
Today I learned that Hungarians do not say, "She is on cloud nine"; instead they say, "She's as happy as a monkey about its tail." Is that true, purcupine7?
Siempre me encanta mirar hacia el cielo porque veo el espectáculo de nubes que Dios siempre prepara para nosotros.
I always love to look up to the sky because I see the show of clouds that God always prepares for us.
