La Palabra Del Dia: "sucesivo"
sucesivo ( soo-seh-see'-voh )
adjective ( successive, consecutive )
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1: Tras ver los cuatro bostezos sucesivos de su hermano, todos los cachorros chihuahua empezaron a bostezar.
After seeing the four consecutive yawns of their brother, all the chihuahua puppies started yawning.
2: En las semanas sucesivas a su graduación, los estudiantes no hicieron más que dormir y comer.
During the weeks following their graduation, the students did nothing but sleep and eat.
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No salgo para comer a menudo pero este fin de semana tuvimos dos invitaciones para almorzar con amigos en días sucesivos y , pues, ya me siento tan llena que hoy no quiero cocinar , ni quiero dar una vuelta con los perros. Solo quiero tumbarme en una hámaca. Así nace la flojera.
I don't often go out to eat but this weekend we had two invitations to lunch with friends, on consecutive days, and well, now I feel so full that I don't want to cook nor do I want to take the dogs for a walk. I just want to fling myself into hammock. Thus is a couch potato made.
En los años últimos los sucesivos gobiernos de nuestro país , sean derechistas o izquierdistas gobernaron muy mal con resultados desastrosos.
In recent years, successive governments in our country, being rightist or leftist, ruled poorly with disastrous results.
El cielo ha estado nublado por cinco días sucesivos y ahora me siento un poco triste.
It's been cloudy for five days in a row and now I'm feeling a little sad.
Nota: No sé porque pero el foro corrige errores de la ortografía en español y inglés. ¿Es me computador o qué?
Hemos tenido cuatro semanas sucesivas de nieve y temperaturas muy frías.
Debe ser invierno.
We have had four consecutive weeks of snow and freezing temperatures.
It must be winter.
El libro en el que he estado trabajando durante tanto tiempo está ahora con un agente, y estoy soñando con el numero de semanas sucesivas que esté en la lista de bestsellers de The New York Times.
The book that I've been working on for so long is now with an agent, and I am dreaming of the number of consecutive weeks it will be on the New York Times bestseller list.
(Should I have used "estará" instead of "esté"? There are still a lot of situations in which I don't know whether subjunctive is required and, if so, which tense. This refers to an unknown (not to say highly unlikely :-D) future, so I chose subjunctive.)
El año pasado, gané en tres torneos sucesivos.
Last year, I won in three consecutive tournaments.
(Nota: No es cierto. Sí que gané en uno, pero aquí tuve que usar la palabra "sucesivo.")
(Note: Not true. I did win in one, but here I had to use the word "sucesivo.")
P.S. This is not me; but she looks a lot like me doing my thing.
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Una vez Roger Federer se quedó 237 semanas sucesivas como el tenista numero uno del mundo.
At one time Roger Federer remained for 237 consecutive weeks as the number one tennis player in the world.
Porque nuestro feriado cayó un martes este año, muchas personas se han tomado el lunes también y así que tuvieron cuatro días sucesivos sin trabajo.
Because our public holiday is on Tuesday this year, many people have taken Monday off as well and so have four consecutive days without work.
¿Si lanzas una moneda y cae cara arriba noventa y nueve veces sucesivas, cuál es la probabilidad que caiga cruz arriba la próxima vez?
If you flip a coin and it ends up heads ninety-nine times in a row, what is the probability that it will end up tails the next time?
Cuándo me despierte sentirse bien durante dos o más días sucesivos ,
digo gracias a Dios.
When I wake up feeling well for two or more successive days, I say thank God.
U.S. presidents are only allowed to serve 2 consecutive terms.
Los presidentes estadounidenses solo se permiten servir 2 mandatos sucesivos.
