Atrevido in english
pronunciation: derd part of speech: verb
atreverse = dare ; go out on + a limb.
Example: As far as Hernandez could determine, no one dared to approach him with suggestions for needed changes in library policy or procedure or, heaven forbid, in his personal management style.Example: The article 'CONSER goes out on a limb' is part of an issue devoted to serials experimentation and collaboration.more:
» atreverse a = have + the nerve(s) to ; have + the cheek to .
Example: And then, to rub salt in the wound, Adobe had the nerves to sent me an automated email announcing that the issue was fixed. Example: When they do this I always drive even more slowly and then they have the cheek to shout at me like I'm the one in the wrong.» atreverse a decir = go + (as/so) far as to say ; go out on + a limb and/to say ; hazard .
Example: In fact, I would go so far as to say that people do not change. Example: So, as much as I liked this book, I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that I liked the movie better. Example: 'I suppose we could go to the board of county commissions,' she hazarded, after a longish pause.» atreverse a tratar = dare to + tread .
Example: This book on the Vedic religious imagination covers an area of Indian studies that few dare to tread.» me atrevo a decir = may I say .
Example: These kinds of changes, incidentally, are relatively easy to effect through the sort of authority control system that, may I say, was so brilliantly described yesterday afternoon by Mr. Malinconico.» no atreverse a = have + no stomach for ; flinch at/from .
Example: In an interview earlier this week, he had the gall to declare that the resolution would show the United States had no stomach for finishing the war. Example: It is increasingly obvious that we are as a nation one and indivisible, that divisive tendencies are a thing of the past, but there are still too many inheritors of the old indifference, and who flinch at co-operation as at an evil.» no atreverse a tratar = fear to + tread .
Example: The director goes where even the previous two movies feared to tread -- to an exquisitely off-beam imaginary world of arrested adolescence.» yo me atrevería a decir = dare I say .
Example: Professional skills are enhanced by the opportunity which IFLA provides to taste the cultures of other countries in a very accessible (dare I say privileged?) way.atrevido1 = brave ; adventurous ; fearless ; bold ; audacious ; buccaneering ; forward ; Cheeky monkey! ; daredevil.
Example: It would be a brave man who would predict that such a process will always remain clumsy, slow and faulty in detail = It would be a brave man who would predict that such a process will always remain clumsy, slow and faulty in detail.Example: Many say the role of consumer advice centres as being simply mediators between the consumer and the retailer/manufacturer; only a few adventurous authorities encouraged the aggressive championing of consumer complaints.Example: He describes the decoration of the tombs, explaining that this artwork is a fearless thumbing of the nose at death itself.Example: 'Would it be bold of me to ask,' she said hesitantly, 'why is the Medical Center library virtually an autonomous unit?'.Example: One of Belgium's most dangerous criminals, who staged an audacious jailbreak on a hijacked helicopter, has been tracked down to Morocco.Example: But whatever we make of their buccaneering spirit, the apostolic passion firing their hearts is surely beyond contention.Example: Luckily the girl didn't seem affronted by Christina forward attitude, but rather was very friendly about the whole thing.Example: 'Cheeky moneky!' he sniggered, smacking her around the head with a magazine.Example: She was one of the first women to become a pilot, and she helped test different airplanes on her daredevil flights.more:
» ignorancia es muy atrevida, la = ignorance is very daring .
Example: That's easy to say when the war and the bombs explode overseas -- ignorance is very daring.» persona atrevida = risk taker .
Example: Librarians have accumulated a lot more capital than we think, and provosts want librarians to be risk takers.» ser atrevido = make + a bold statement .
Example: In addition, both were controversial libraries when they were constructed, and each was designed to make a bold statement about the important role of libraries within their respective city = Además, ambas fueron polémicas cuando se construyeron y se diseñaron para reafirmar el importante papel de las bibliotecas dentro de sus respectivas ciudades.» ser muy atrevido = have + some nerve .
Example: I was thinking out loud to myself, this man has some nerve trying to cheat on someone, with his gay looking ass, especially my sister.atrevido2 = presumptuous ; cheeky ; risqué ; bawdy ; impudent ; pert ; steamy .
Example: Many feel that it is presumptuous to think that a 150- to 250-word abstract can carry enough information from a well-written 3,000-word paper to be of much use except as a guide.Example: The young man in the picture is myself snapped twenty-five years or so ago by a cheeky thirteen-year-old during the first few months of my first teaching job.Example: However, some of the central premises of the film are flawed, and the risqué touches, whether racial or erotic innuendo, are primarily there to titillate and make the film seem hot and controversial.Example: Their secondary aim was to print piratical, scurrilous and bawdy material for the people of Dublin.Example: The Library Association is impudent in suggesting that it will impose sanctions on those who fail to keep abreast of developments in librarianship.Example: He lingered round the bookstall looking at the books and papers till a pert girl behind the counter asked him if he wouldn't like a chair.Example: It's an engrossing, culturally authentic story, although some parents and teachers might find it rather steamy stuff for a children's picture book.