La Palabra Del Día "arrecirse"
arrecirse ( ah-rreh-seer'-seh )
verb ( to be frozen stiff; to become numb with cold )
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Examples:
1: Mamá, creo que ya me arrecí. Ya escogemos un árbol, ¿no?
Mom, I think I'm frozen stiff. Can we go decide on a tree already?
2: El carbonero se estaba arreciando, así que lo metí a la casa para que se calentara.
The chickadee was becoming numb with cold, so I brought it inside to get warm.
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En invierno mantengo un secador de pelo en mi garaje para usar en las noches cuando llego a casa para encontrar que mi cerradura de la puerta frontal ha arrecido.
In winter I keep a hairdryer in my garage to use on nights when I arrive home to find that my front door lock has frozen solid.
En Texas, las tormentas de hielo pueden llegar muy rápidamente; varias veces la puerta de mi coche se ha arrecido.
In Texas the ice storms can come on very quickly; several times my car door has frozen over.
Todo el mundo puede ver que el clima es demasiado frío, porque incluso el agua de la fuente se arreció.
Everyone can see that the weather is too cold, because even the water of the fountain has frozen stiff.
Muchas veces cuando era estudiante en Filadelfia, me arrecí esperando el autobús.
Many times when I was a student in Philadelphia, I would freeze my butt off waiting for the bus.
Ello se arreciera cuando se perdió en el laberinto del jardín durante la tormente de nieve.
He was frozen stiff when he got lost in the garden maze during the snow storm.
Hace muchos años, cuando nuestros hijos eran niños, compramos nuestro último árbol de Navidad real. Pasamos horas durante una ventisca en la cima de una montaña vagando por todas partes mientras uno se negaba a aceptar la elección del otro y viceversa. Por fin todos nosotros se arrecimos suficientemente que se formó un acuerdo. En las ventas después de la Navidad, compramos un árbol artificial.
Many years ago, when our children were still young, we bought our last real Christmas tree. We spent hours during a blizzard on a mountain top wandering around while one would refuse to accept the choice of the other and vice versa. Finally all of us were frozen solid enough that an agreement was formed. In the sales after Christmas, we bought an artificial tree.
It will be getting worse if we carry on like this.!
¡Estará arreciéndose será peor si continuamos así.!
hoy he aprendido una palabra nueva en español, la palabra es arrecir, y me he quedado helado.
Today I have learnt a new word in Spanish, the word is "arrecir" and I have got frozen.
please correct my English.
Me parece muy difícil vivir en un lugar en donde se puede arrecirse. En mi región hay ni hielo ni nieva. Las personas aquí dicen "¡Me arrezco!" cuando la temperatura baja a diez grados C.
To me it seems very difficult to live where one can be frozen stiff. In my area there is neither ice or snow. People here say "I am freezing" when the temperature falls to ten degrees C.
El invierno en Melbourne.
