La Palabra Del Día: "estrellado"
estrellado ( eh-streh-yah'-doh )
adjective ( starry; star-shaped; fried )
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1: El cielo estrellado iluminaba la bahía.
The starry sky lit up the bay.
2: ¿Quieres desayunar huevos estrellados o chilaquiles?
Do you want fried eggs or chilaquiles for breakfast?
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La noche estrellada por Van Gogh es una de los cuadros más conocidos en la cultura moderna además de ser uno de los grabados más reproducidos .
Starry Night by Van Gogh is one of the most famous paintings in modern culture as well as being one of the most recorded and reproduced
The time lapse of the starry sky was a mere memory as the two humans stared at the new stars in the sky.
El lapso de tiempo del cielo estrellado era un recuerdo como dos de los seres humanos se quedó mirando las nuevas estrellas en el cielo.
James Joyce vio la noche estrellada y pensó en un arbol-cielo.
James Joyce saw the starry night and thought of a heaventree.
Es casi hora de sacar todas las cosas estrelladas y quizás rayadas, bueno, por lo menos si son de rojos, blancos y azules- hay que adornar la casa para mostrar que somos patriotas, bueno, según mi esposa, quien tomó un examen para ser estadounidense cuando tenía diecisiete años.
It is almost time to take out all things starred and perhaps striped, okay, at least if they are red, white and blue- it is necessary to decorate the house to show that we are patriots, okay, according to my wife, who took an exam to be an American when she was seventeen.
Me encantan los huevos estrellados con tocino dorado.
I love eggs over easy with crispy bacon.
It's difficult to capture the experience of a starry night on canvas.
Es difícil de capturar la experiencia de la noche estrellada en la lona.
Extraño los cielos estrellados de mi infancia. Ahora, todo las luces parpadeas son sólo los aviones.
I miss the starry skies of my childhood. Now, all the blinking lights are just airplanes.
Pablo se había equivocado. La enfermera no quería besarle, ni entre las plantas de madreselva ni en ningún sitio. Empezó a gritar, y aún peor, le golpió en la cabeza con una piedra .La vida de Pablo pasó en frente de sus ojos hasta que todo se estrelló y no había nada en su mente , solo quedaba un cielo estrellado.
Pablo had made a mistake. The nurse didn't want to kiss him under the honeysuckle, nor anywhere else whatsoever. She started shouting., and even worse, she hit him with a stone on the head . Pablo's life passed in front of his eyes until everything crashed out and there was nothing left in his mind, just a starry sky.
Es muy inusual que un animal es de forma estrellada. El único caso de ésta que conozco es la estrella de mar, un equinodermo.
It is very unusual for an animal to be star-shaped. The only case of this that I know is the starfish, an echinoderm.
