impress
transitive verb
imprimir
EN They did it as a standing horse paws with his foot, or as a man enjoys killing animals in sport: because ancient and departed necessities had impressed it on the organism.
GL Facíano como un cabalo piafa coas patas, ou do mesmo xeito que un home goza matando animais coma deporte: porque as necesidades antigas e pasadas o imprimiran no seu organismo.
Fonte: TEM (1261)
impresionar
EN Sitting opposite him could she not see, as in an X-ray photograph, the ribs and thigh bones of the young man's desire to impress himself lying dark in the mist of his flesh --that thin mist which convention had laid over his burning desire to break into the conversation?
GL Sentada enfronte del, ¿seica non podía ver, coma nunha radiografía, as costelas e os fémures do desexo que aquel mozo tiña de impresionar, xacendo escuros na néboa da súa carne, esa néboa leviá que a convención deitaba sobre o seu desexo ardente de meter baza na conversa?
Fonte: CAR (1388)
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