La Palabra Del Día: "desapercibido"
desapercibido ( dehs-ah-pehr-see-bee'-doh )
adjective ( unnoticed; undetected )
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1: Casi pasó desapercibido, pero al parecer uno de los vallistas empujó a uno de sus contrincantes.
It almost went unnoticed, but apparently one of the hurdlers pushed one of his competitors.
2: El submarino pasó desapercibido por debajo del buque de guerra.
The submarine passed undetected underneath the warship.
12 Answers
There are things that should never go unnoticed or let fester.
Hay cosas que nunca deberían pasar desapercibidos o dejar que se agraven.
Parece que la cosas importantes pasan desapercibidos , porque la gente esta ocupada con con sus propios asuntos.
It seems that the important things go unnoticed because people are busy with their own business.
Griselda sentía desapercibido, casi invisible, hasta que conoció a Alejandro—las cosas serían diferentes ahora.
Griselda felt unnoticed, nearly invisible, until she met Alejandro—things would be different now.
Algunas buenas preguntas pueden pasar desapercibidos
cuando el parlamento está demasiado ocupado.
Some good questions can go unnoticed when parliament is too busy.
Una enfermedad puede seguir pasar desapercibida hasta que es demasiado tarde para curar.
A disease can go undetected until it is too late to cure.
The judge was hostile. The witnesses lied. Jury members were bribed and threatened. An injustice occured, but went unnoticed by the public. It was reported as a fair trial.
El juez era hostil. Los testigos mintieron. Los miembros del jurado fueron sobornados y amenazados. Una injusticia ocurrió, pero pasó desapercibida por el público. Se informó como un juicio justo.
Usain Bolt’s toothy grin during the 100-metres dash semi-final didn’t go unnoticed on the lens of Getty Images' photographer Cameron Spencer.
La sonrisa de Usain Bolt durante la semifinal de los 100 metros planos no pasó desapercibida para la lente del fotógrafo Cameron Spencer, de Getty Images.
Es bueno que el agujero de la capa de ozono debido a los CFCs no fuera desapercibido, y que el mundo decidiera hacer algo para impedirlo en 1987- pero supongo que si hubiera sido descubierto en la época moderna de Internet, algún científico chiflado habría afirmado que había estado allí por siempre y que no era debido a los acciones de los seres humanos, y nadie se habría puesto de acuerdo para hacer nada.
It is good that the hole in the ozone layer due to CFCs did not go unnoticed, and that the world decided to do something to impede it in 1987- but I suppose that if it were to have been discovered in the modern Internet age, some crackpot scientist would have declared that it had been there forever and was not due to the actions of human beings, and no one would have agreed to do anything.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/05/100505-science-environment-ozone-hole-25-years/
Parece imposible que un grande primate sería capaz de vivir in los bosques de América y pasar desapercibada durante todo este tiempo, pero los informes de su existencia persisten hasta nuestros días.
It seems impossible that a large primate would be able to live in the woods of America and remain undetected for all this time, but the reports of its existence persist to this day.
Es fácil pasar desapercibido cuando se está en multitud.
It is easy to go unnoticed when you are in a crowd.
When I cry in the rain, my eyes filled with tears are unnoticed.
Cuando me lloro en la lluvia, mis ojos se llenaron de lagrimas pasar desepercibido.
Supongo que los atléticos que usan las drogas esperan que la cantidad en sus cuerpos se queda tan poco que es desapercibida en las pruebas.
I suppose that the athletes who use drugs hope that the quantity in their bodies remains so small that it is undetected in tests.
