Encerrado in english
Locked
pronunciation: lɑkt part of speech: adjective
pronunciation: lɑkt part of speech: adjective
In gestures
encerrado = under lock and key.
Example: Rather than the luminous deity that appears elsewhere in medieval literature, he presents a character who resembles the jealous husband of the fabliaux who keeps a young wife under lock and key and who responds violently when he is cuckolded.more:
» aquí hay gato encerrado = there is/was more to it than meets/met the eye ; there is/was more to the picture than meets/met the eye .
Example: So don't be too hasty to write it off -- there's more to it than meets the eye. Example: Despite this common sense observation, most economists have failed to see that 'there's more to the picture than meets the eye', as Neil Young once sang.» encerrado en sí mismo = inward-looking ; closeted .
Example: The profession has become very inward-looking, and only a few articles, written about libraries and librarians by librarians have had an impact on non-librarians. Example: The play 'A Song at twilight' tells the story of an embittered, closeted, world-famous writer who is faced with his murky past in the shape of his early mistress.» encerrado en su torre de marfil = ivory-towered .
Example: Ethics was embodied by ivory-towered theoreticians with an undisguised contempt for profit makers.» estar encerrado en celda de aislamiento = be in solitary confinement .
Example: Alone in a cell for years or even decades, more than 80000 Americans are estimated to be in solitary confinement.» haber gato encerrado = smell + a rat ; smell + fishy ; sound + fishy .
Example: 'Something doesn't seem right, and I don't know exactly what it is, but I kind of smell a rat,' Cooper said = "Algo parece que no está bien, y no sé exactamente qué es, pero yo como que tengo la mosca detrás de la oreja", dijo Cooper. Example: Something smells fishy alright but I'm starting to think it's the smell of plans gone seriously awry. Example: It sounds fishy to me -- I would steer clear of this and use your $850 to invest in a mutual fund.» oler a gato encerrado = smell + a rat ; smell + fishy ; sound + fishy .
Example: 'Something doesn't seem right, and I don't know exactly what it is, but I kind of smell a rat,' Cooper said = "Algo parece que no está bien, y no sé exactamente qué es, pero yo como que tengo la mosca detrás de la oreja", dijo Cooper. Example: Something smells fishy alright but I'm starting to think it's the smell of plans gone seriously awry. Example: It sounds fishy to me -- I would steer clear of this and use your $850 to invest in a mutual fund.encerrar = enclose ; lock ; intern ; shut up ; closet ; hold + Alguien + prisoner ; coop up ; hem + Nombre + in ; pen ; lock up.
Example: The building encloses an art gallery, tourist office, conference room, concert hall and cinema.Example: If the analogy with the fairy story is taken a little further it can be noted that no author really believes in dragons, wicked queens, fair maidens locked in high towers and the like.Example: The Red Cross then established and ran a library for the about 500 asylum seekers who were interned on the ship awaiting police interviewing.Example: Certainly the last thing we want is that books be shut up in tastefully decorated warehouses, watched over by highly trained storekeepers whose main purpose is to see that everything is kept tidily in its place and, as far as possible, untouched by human hands -- especially the sticky-fingered hands of marauding children.Example: Too often guests are snatched up on arrival and closeted away from the children before being produced like a rabbit out of a hat for the 'official' appearance.Example: Tom Sutherland, a professor at the American University of Beirut, was kidnapped in 1985 and held prisoner for six and a half years, for much of the time shackled to his prisoner Terry Anderson.Example: We've all heard of road rage: being cooped up in a car on a crowded freeway with no means of escape.Example: The world of work is no longer constrained by the four physical dimensions of space and time that have hemmed us in for most of recorded history.Example: There's also goats, but I don't think they're penned anywhere -- they seem to have the run of the place as much as the chickens.Example: Rapists should be locked up and kept out of society where they can no longer harm innocent victims.more:
» encerrar a Alguien y tirar la llave = lock + Nombre + up and throw away the key .
Example: In my country we lock rapists up and throw away the key so they don't hurt anyone else.» encerrar bajo llave = lock up .
Example: Rapists should be locked up and kept out of society where they can no longer harm innocent victims.» encerrar con candado = padlock .
Example: The five captives told last night how they had been blindfolded by armed guards and padlocked in a room for most of a week.» encerrar en celda de aislamiento = place in + solitary confinement .
Example: As incarceration rates explode in the US, thousands are placed in solitary confinement, often without cause.» encerrar en una jaula = cage .
Example: Librarians can be caged too tightly in restrictive management structures, whereas rapid development is going ahead in less restricted contexts.» hora de encerrarse = curfew .
Example: Juvenile arrests for curfew and loitering violations increased 113 percent between 1990-99.