La Palabra Del Día "soslayar"
soslayar
to avoid
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Examples
1: Intenté soslayar las preguntas indiscretas de Marta diciéndole que era una cotilla.
I tried to avoid Marta's indiscreet questions by telling her she was a gossip.
2: El juez le ordenó al testigo que dejara de soslayar las preguntas del fiscal.
The judge ordered the witness to stop avoiding the prosecutor's questions.
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Cuando era adolescente, me especializaba en soslayar las reglas de mis padres.
When I was a teenager I specialized in getting around my parents' rules.
The jury avoided questions from the press regarding the trial. El jurado soslayó las preguntas de la prensa con respecto al juicio.
A pesar de su voluntad de creer en él , el grillo no pudo soslayar su dudas que Pinocho le quiso engañar con mentiras.
In spite of his will to believe in him, the cricket could not avoid his doubts that Pinocchio wanted to deceive him with lies.
La mecánica cuántica soslaya explicar el concepto del tiempo por medio de suponerlo como un dado, y no da ninguna preferencia a la dirección en la que fluye, mientras la relatividad general dice que el tiempo es un aspecto del espacio y cambia dependiendo del observador (lo que ha sido probado). El físico clásico usa el concepto de la entropía para poner una dirección al tiempo, pero lo ve como algo absoluto. Un método de resolver las discrepancias es creer que el tiempo no existe. Personalmente siempre he estado en el presente.
Quantum mechanics sidesteps explaining the concept of time by means of assuming it as a given, and does not give any preference to the direction in which it flows while general relativity says that time is an aspect of space and changes depending on the observer (which has been proven). Classic physics uses the concept of entropy to give a direction to time, but it sees it as absolute. One method to resolve the discrepancies is to believe that time does not exist. Personally I have always been in the present.
Yo había estado soslayando este poste de teléfono durante meses, pero finalmente, fuimos destinados a conocernos.
I had been avoiding this telephone pole for months, but eventually we were destined to meet.
Carol condujo a un pueblo cercano para hacer compras para soslayar a su ex.
Carol drove to a nearby town to shop in order to avoid her ex.
— No. No soslayo tu pregunta. Solo es que no quiero respondértela.
“No. I’m not avoiding your question. It’s just that I don’t want to answer it.”
No puedes soslayar las consecuencias de tus acciones, esto es karma.
You cannot avoid the consequences of your actions, that is karma.
Un paracaídas se puede utilizar para soslayar el desastre ... pero debe ser utilizado se debe utilizar correctamente.
A parachute can be used to avoid disaster ... but it must be used correctly.
