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"to alight on" in Spanish
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"to alight on" in Spanish
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to alight on(also: to come across, to stumble on, to crack, to hit on)
to alight on(also: to chase up, to come across, to discover, to find)
to alight on(also: to twig, to appreciate, to apprehend, to cotton to)
to alight on
darse cuenta de
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Southern Europe has been set alight more and more frequently over recent years.
En los últimos años Europa del sur arde cada vez con más frecuencia.
As President Uribe has said, President Chávez wants to set the continent alight.
Como ha dicho Uribe, Chávez quiere incendiar el continente.
Civil rebellions against Arab despots have set the other side of the Mediterranean alight.
Las rebeliones civiles contra los déspotas árabes han incendiado el otro lado del Mediterráneo.
Disunity, delay and weakness can set the Balkans alight.
La desunión, la demora y la debilidad pueden encender la mecha de los Balcanes.
The EU must, then, vigorously support those who keep the flame of democracy and freedom alight.
La UE tiene que apoyar con firmeza a los que mantienen viva la llama de la democracia y la libertad.
he set the children's imaginations alight with his stories
sus cuentos encendían la imaginación de los niños
Madam President, what a relief that they have stopped burning heretics or I would be well and truly alight by now.
Señora Presidenta, es un alivio que ya no se queme a los herejes, o ahora mismo yo estaría en llamas.
In some places forests are set alight, in others they are obliterated or they are quite simply stolen.
En algunos lugares se prende fuego a la masa forestal, en otros se destruye y en otros más simplemente se sustrae.
her face came alight at the mention of food
se le iluminó la cara cuando oyó hablar de comida
I need only mention the case of the homosexual Sebastian Nouchet, who was doused in petrol and set alight in France.
Solo tengo que mencionar el caso del homosexual Sebastian Nouchet, al que rociaron con gasolina y prendieron fuego en Francia.
Mr President, I asked if I could speak twenty minutes ago; I pressed the button, and it is still alight, so I can prove it.
Señor Presidente, he pedido la palabra hace veinte minutos, he presionado el botón y todavía está encendido y lo puedo demostrar.
to alight from sth
apearse de algo
It is useless to try to put out the fire of racism with a glass of water while resigning ourselves to the fact that others are using flamethrowers to keep it alight.
Es inútil pretender apagar la hoguera del racismo con un vaso de agua resignándonos a que otros lo aviven con lanzallamas.
to alight on
darse cuenta de
The riots triggered in the Arab world by young Mohamed Bouazizi setting himself alight do not feature at all any manifest religious or ideological element.
Los disturbios que ha desencadenado en el mundo árabe el joven Mohamed Bouazizi prendiéndose fuego no muestran en absoluto ningún elemento religioso o ideológico manifiesto.
As long as ideas of this kind lurk at the back of the mind of a good many negotiators, Milosevic will succeed in stalling us and keeping the source of the blaze, Kosovo, alight.
Mientras tales ideas circulen aún por las cabezas de algunos negociadores, Milosevic logrará detenernos con pretextos y mantener vivo el foco de conflicto de Kosovo.
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