La Palabra Del Día: "desviar"
desviar ( dehs-vyahr' )
verb ( to divert; to alter the course of; to deflect )
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1: El gobierno quiere desviar el río para sembrar palmeras.
The government wants to alter the course of the river in order to plant palm trees.
2: El portero desvió el balón con el codo.
The goalie deflected the ball with his elbow.
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La carretera se desvía hacia la izquierda. / The road branches off to the left.
Nos desviamos de la carretera general. / We turned off the main road.
En el pasado, he tomado decisiones que creo que han desviado considerablemente el camino de mi vida, y otras que probablemente no hayan cambiado nada. A veces deseo poder ver lo que habría sucedido si hubiera tomado decisiones diferentes.
In the past, I have made decisions that I think have considerably altered the course of my life, and others that probably have not changed anything. Sometimes I wish I were able to see what would have happened if I had made different decisions.
¡No se desvió de la lección en el lenguaje!
He did not deviate from the lesson in the language!
Todos tenemos que estudiar y ser personas útiles para desviar este transcurso malo de nuestro país.
We all have to study and be useful persons to divert this bad course of our country.
Cuando mi esposa quiere comprar algo , no puedo desviarla ella de comprarlo.
When my wife wants to buy something, I can not divert her from buying it.
El gobierno hace un esfuerzo para desviar la atención de las masas sobre los problemas sociales fundamentales Solo podemos esperar que la prensa de la oposición no lo permita.
The government makes an effort to divert the attention of the masses on the fundamental social problems. We can only hope that the opposition press will not let them.
El trabajo del portero en fútbol es parar o por lo menos desviar los remates.
The job of a soccer goalie is to stop or at least deflect the shots.
Desviar un foro de aprendizaje no debe ser fácil pero a veces se pasa, y necesitamos luchar contra los vándalos.
Altering the couse of a learning forum should not be easy but at times it happens, and we must fight off the vandals.
Me sorprende pensar como un evento fortuito puede desviar la vida de alguien. Por ejemplo, una mujer tenía que visitar al dentista y llevó a su perro a pasear en un parque más temprano que lo usual. Allí por casualidad conoció a un hombre. Un año después están casados y viviendo en otro país. ¿Fue casualidad o el destino?
It surprises me how a random event can alter the course of someone's life. For example, a woman had to go to the dentist and took her dog for a walk in a park a little earlier than usual. There by chance she met a man. A year later they are married and living in another country. Was it chance or fate?
Una vez cuando viajé de Bath en Inglaterra a Tiverton, donde vivía, el tren fue desviado por un suicido en el via del tren. Aunque nos dió pena, después de pasar unas horas inesperadas en el tren la verdad es que todos los pasajeros solo querían que el cádaver fuera llevado al otro sitio.
Once, when I was travelling by train from Bath in England, to Tiverton, where I was living, the train was diverted because somebody had committed suicide on the track. Although we were sorry for this person, after passing some unexpected extra hours on the train , the truth is that all the passengers only wished for the body to be removed elsewhere.
Ayer David desvió la mirada para que no lo vieran.
Yesterday David averted his gaze so that they did not see him.
No quiero desviar de mi meta de realizar el rango de coronel en el Cuerpo de Marina.
I don't want to stray from my goal of attaining the Rank of Colonel in the Marine Corps.
This a fictional character, Col. Sarah McKensie, JAG USMC. But she inspires me.
