La Palabra Del Día: "erigir"
erigir ( eh-reh-heer' )
verb ( to build, to erect )
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Examples:
1: Los trabajadores están trabajando las veinticuatro horas para terminar de erigir el velódromo olímpico.
Workers are working 24-7 to finish building the Olympic velodrome.
2: Un monumento a la paz fue erigido en Normandía.
A monument to peace was erected in Normandy.
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En Lisboa erigieron un Monumento de los descubrimientos, por la memoria de los exploradores evocando la edad de oro de los navegantes y los grandes conquistadores que fueron a la mar en busca de nuevas tierras.
In Lisbon a Monument of discoveries was erected, in memory of explorers, evoking the golden age of the great navigators and conquerors who went to sea in search of new lands.
Little Mo se erigió como el líder de la banda.
He set himself up as the leader of the gang.
Las estatuas se erigen a lo para que las derriben.
Statues are erected to be torn down.
No es bueno de erigir un edificio en la arena ,
que necesita para profundizar hacia abajo encontrar roca.
Tenemos que erigir una casa mejor, de una manera más inteligente.
It is not good to erect a building on the sand,
you need to drill down to find rock.
We have to erect a better house , in a wiser way.
Desde 1921 hasta 1954, en el barrio Watts de la ciudad de Los Angeles, Simon Rodia eregió su obra magistral, "Nuestro Pueblo," lo que actualmente es conocida como the Watts Towers (Las Torres Watts).
From 1921 to 1954, in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles, Simon Rodia erected his masterpiece, "Nuestro Pueblo," which is currently known as the Watts Towers.
Inicialmente se erigido erigían los rascacielos para ser eficaz con el espacio en áreas en las que los costos de los solares eran muy altos, pero ha pasado a ser una competencia basada en el orgullo en algunos casos hoy en día.
Initially skyscrapers were erected to be efficient with space in areas in which the costs of the plots were very high, but it has become a competition based on pride in some cases nowadays.
