Bent in spanish
pronunciation: doʊblɑdoʊ part of speech: adjective, noun
bend2 = doblar. [Verbo irregular: pasado y participio bent]
Example: Flexibility of course does not mean that the structure is flexible and will bend or move under stress.more:
» bend + a ball = darle efecto a una pelota.
Example: One of the skills that soccer players seek to master from an early age is how to bend the ball.» bend + an elbow = echarse un trago, tomarse un trago, echarse un pitillo, echarse un cigarrillo.
Example: I would give anything if I had had a chance to bend an elbow with Ralph and swap a few stories.» bend down = agacharse, inclinarse, doblarse.
Example: The one other symptom that developed is that I have a slight to moderate pain in my forehead to top of my head when I bend down.» bend down low = agacharse del todo.
Example: Visitors must bend down low to examine the small placards that label the native shrubbery.» bend forward = doblarse hacia adelante, inclinarse hacia adelante.
Example: She bent forward and sighed as the head of his cock pushed past her anal ring and imbedded itself in her shitter.» bend over = inclinarse, doblarse.
Example: When I bend down, or bend over, my head starts to pulse and sometimes it feels like it is going to explode.» bend + Posesivo + ear = molestar, incordiar, importunar, asediar, acosar, rayar, dar la tabarra, dar la vara, dar la lata.
Example: She was the person that others would search out to bend her ear and many times they would not be able to walk away without a hug and an encouraging word.» bend + Posesivo + knee = doblar la rodilla.
Example: To ease the pain of a pinched sciatic nerve, lie on your back and bend your knees to take the pressure off of the nerve.bend3 = adaptar. [Verbo irregular: pasado y participio bent]
Example: Each cluster or niche of interests in the end user field will have specific individual needs and innovations will bend information technology to meet them.more:
» bend itself to + Posesivo + will = acomodarse a la voluntad de Alguien, amoldarse al deseo de Alguien.
Example: We should be ready to alter our planning as shifting reality reveals that the task will not always bend itself to our will.» bend over + backwards = hacer lo imposible, desvivirse, hacer encaje de bolillos, hacer el pino con las orejas.
Example: While bending over backwards to avoid bias biographies present their subjects' lives in a bland and uninteresting way = Al hacer lo imposible por evitar la parcialidad, las biografías presentan las vidas de las personas de una forma sosa y poco atractiva.» bend + the rules = interpretar la ley según le convenga mejor a Uno.
Example: In addition there are the ethical problems of how to get information without bending the rules.» bend + the rules to suit + Posesivo + own purposes = interpretar la ley según le convenga mejor a Uno.
Example: Worse still, some EC countries, particularly in a period of world economic recession, become adept at bending the Community's rules to suit their own purposes.» bend + the truth = transgiversar la verdad, falsear la verdad, deformar la verdad.
Example: Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true.» bend to + the needs of = amoldarse a las necesidades de.
Example: There is evidence to suggest that systems are bending to the needs of individual libraries.bent1 = inclinación, sesgo.
Example: This factor was a constant theme especially in those programmes with a highly technical bent.more:
» bent of mind = inclinación, orientación, predisposición, propensión, forma de ver las cosas, punto de vista.
Example: Only when students have a scientific bent of mind, will a community and a country grow.bent2 = Tiempo pasado del verbo bend (doblar, curvar). [Véase éste y sus derivados para los distintos significados]
Example: The solution to the problem proved to be a curved stereo plate, cast from a flong mould bent to the shape of a curved casting-box.more:
» bent on = empeñado en, empecinado en, obcecado con, resuelto a, decidido a.
Example: 'Shit Happens' in the story of two flatmates: Halifax, a ex-journalist with a dark past and long lost ex-wife, and Shakra, a college-drop out bent on Halifax's destruction = "A veces las cosas salen mal" es la historia de dos compañeros de piso: Halifax, un ex-periodista con un pasado oscuro y con una ex esposa que no ve desde hace mucho, y Shakra, un compañero de universidad obcecado en la destrucción de Halifax .» go + hell (bent) for leather = pisar a fondo, ir echando hostias, ir pitando, ir como un condenado, ir como un bólido, ir como un relámpago, ir echando mecha, ir a toda máquina, ir tirado, ir lanzado.
Example: Take it nice and easy -- don't go hell for leather as soon as you cross the start line.» hell-bent = decidido, determinado, resuelto.
Example: Fuller's novel make for a form of intellectual clarity, even if that clarity, paradoxically, is expressed in a ferocious hell-bent manner.» hell (bent) for leather = como un condenado, como un endemoniado, como alma que lleva el diablo.
Example: Unlike the previous rider, this competitor was hell bent for leather as he attacked the mud ponds at full throttle.» hell-bent on = empeñado en.
Example: It comes across mostly as an incomprehensible if entertaining story about a few spoiled people hell-bent on complaining incessantly.