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miércoles, 18 de mayo de 2011

Vocabulary : Discovery & Adventure

To climb mountains, to paddle down rivers, to trek in the jungle, or...to stay at home!

Rucksack, knapsack, backpack = mochila
road map = mapa de carreteras
hitch-hiker = autostopista
to trek = caminar con dificultad
a trek = una excursión
to climb = escalar
compass = brújula
snake = serpiente
to snake = serpentear
diving = submarinismo
diving board = trampolín
cruise = crucero
globe-trotter = trotamundos
flippers = aletas
crossing = travesía
customs = aduana
hike = excursión a pie
to roam = vagar
to stop over = hacer escala
to take a trip = irse de viaje
tripper = excursionista
to wander = ir a la aventura, deambular
thirst for adventure = sed de aventuras

miércoles, 11 de mayo de 2011

Topic: Mind, body and spirit

Below there are some questions concerning mind, body and spirit. Among these questions there are body idioms and sayings that has to do with this topic.

Which things most stress you out? What stresses me out the most is being bothered whenever I am in the middle of something important, i.e, working on a report, studying or listening carefully to a foreign-language song on the radio. Generally speaking, I could say that I need a lot of concentration because I tend to get distracted very easily. Some other things that stress me out are having to deal with a lot of noise in the streets when I am at work (road works) and having to work on weekends.

Do you take any notice of superstition? Sometimes. Not necessarily superstition but déjà vus. I am prone to have dèjá vus, it is some kind of sensation lived repeatedly. It seems that everything I am living at a moment's notice is something I have already lived. I often feel this sensation and I cannot find any answer to it, maybe it is because I want to relate everything.

Have you ever had your palm read? No, never. And I've never thought about it. Actually, I don't think I believe in those things. I know there are fortune tellers and faith healers with their clientele but, personally, I wouldn't visit one. From my point of view, they only want to make money by making people hear what they want to hear and sometimes they guess right by asking too many questions to their customers. As for faith healers, that's something we should take seriously since it's not only money what is brought into game but people's health also.

Healthy body, healthy mind = mens sane in corpore sane

The eyes are the window to the soul = la cara es el espejo del alma

You are what you eat = eres lo que comes

Man does not live by bread alone = no sólo de pan vive el hombre

No pain no gain = todo se consigue a base de esfuerzos