boast
 intransitive verb
 gabarse
EN So boasting of her capacity to surround and protect, there was scarcely a shell of herself left for her to know herself by.
GL Deste xeito, gabándose da súa capacidade para abranguer e protexer, a ela case non lle quedaba nada no que recoñecerse.
 Fonte: CAR (469)
vangloriarse
EN "Does he boast of his successes?" asked Edna, indifferently, squinting at her picture.
GL --Vanglóriase dos seus éxitos? --preguntou Edna con indiferencia, mirando de esguello ó seu cadro.
Fonte: ESP (2684)
enorgullecer
EN They went across divides in summer blizzards, shivered under the midnight sun on naked mountains between the timber line and the eternal snows, dropped into summer valleys amid swarming gnats and flies, and in the shadows of glaciers picked strawberries and flowers as ripe and fair as any the Southland could boast.
GL Cruzaron profundas engrobas baixo tempestades estivais, tremeron de frío ó sol de medianoite no alto das ermas montañas que debuxan as lindes entre as fragas boscosas e as neves eternas, penetraron en vales cálidos entre enxames de moscas e mosquitos e recolleron na sombra dos glaciares fresas tan maduras e flores tan fermosas coma as que enorgullecen as terras do Sur.
Fonte: CHA (1438)
fanfurriñar
EN "Look what a French reporter gave me," he boasts in front of his chums, showing an e-mail address scrawled on a little notepad.
GL "Mira, deuma unha reporteira francesa", fanfurriña logo ante os seus amigos, mostrando unha dirección electrónica riscada nun libretiña.
Fonte: C02 (1258)
presumir
EN By 1999, the country could boast that it was the first to hook up every willing school and library to the Internet.
GL En 1999, Canadá podía presumir de se-lo primeiro país do mundo coa totalidade das súas escolas e bibliotecas conectadas.
Fonte: C07 (840)
alardear
EN They can boast of some small victories over the transnationals.
GL Fronte ás multinacionais, alardean de pequenas victorias.
Fonte: C14 (873)
..... without boasting
modestia á parte
EN Then, without boasting, I have to say that the concerted action of the United Nations has helped a lot.
GL Por outra banda, e modestia á parte, a acción concertada do sistema das Nacións Unidas tamén contribuíu moito.
Fonte: C31 (88)
transitive verb
posuír
EN People who have never been to the Viñales Valley, in the Cuban province of Piñar del Río, should know that it boasts a unique variety of plant and animal life, some of it in danger of extinction, such as the cork palm, the agabe, the macusey hembra, the alligator oak and the dragon tree.
GL Os que nunca visitaron o val de Viñales, na provincia cubana de Pinar del Río, deben saber que é un lugar que posúe especies animais e vexetais únicas ou case en extinción, como a palma de cortiza, o agave, o macusei femia, o carballo caimán ou o drago.
Fonte: C26 (1124)
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