account
 transitive verb
..... to account for
 explicar
EN That would account for the abandoned ruins.
GL Eso explicaría as ruínas abandonadas.
 Fonte: TEM (725)
xustificar
EN This has its advantages as well as its drawbacks, and accounts for the considerable amount of work done on a small scale: pottery, lace, spinning, weaving (on primitive hand-looms), sabot-making, boat-building --wherever the soil is barren the Galician devises some industry to keep his hands from idleness and his body from starvation.
GL Isto ten as súas vantaxes e os seus inconvenientes e xustifica a grande cantidade de traballo que se fai a pequena escala: cerámica, encaixes, fiado, tecidos (en primitivos teares de man), elaboración de zocos, construcción de barcos, etc. Onde queira que o solo sexa improductivo, o galego argalla algún tipo de actividade para afasta-las súas mans da desocupación e o seu corpo da fame.
Fonte: GAL (284)
representar
EN This sector, which accounts for 6 per cent of all jobs in Europe, includes firms and organizations whose aim is not just to maximize their profits.
GL Este sector, que representa o 6% do emprego en Europa, comprende empresas e organizacións que teñen como obxectivo non só obte-lo máximo de beneficios.
Fonte: C04 (915)
constituír
EN Young women account for 40 per cent of university students and, two years ago, for the first time more girls than boys were admitted to the competitive national entrance examinations.
GL Na universidade constitúen un 40% do alumnado e hai dous anos o número de admitidas ó concurso nacional de ingreso superou por primeira vez o dos varóns.
Fonte: C24 (156)
noun
relato
EN It was when he was listening to a confused account of the missionary aims of the Swedish lady that one of the Wagon Lit conductors came into the car and stood at his elbow.
GL E cando Poirot estaba escoitando o confuso relato das tarefas misioneiras da señora sueca, entrou no vagón un dos revisores de Wagon Lit e achegóuselle.
Fonte: ASA (944)
noticia
EN Algernon. Oh, well! The accounts I have received of Australia and the next world, are not particularly encouraging.
GL Algernon: ¡Oh! Ben, as noticias que recibín de Australia e do outro mundo non son particularmente alentadoras.
Fonte: ERN (887)
versión
EN There was but one account of her that would have been true all the while and that she could give straight to nobody, least of all to John Marcher.
GL Non había máis que unha versión que sería certa durante todo aquel tempo, e esta ela non lla podía dar abertamente a ninguén, e aínda menos a John Marcher.
Fonte: BES (276)
conta
EN I said I might not be in his neighborhood again for a good while; but he said it was of no consequence, he could wait, and, moreover, I could have anything I wanted, any time I chose, and let the account run as long as I pleased.
GL Eu contesteille que quizais non volvese por alí en moito tempo, pero el respondeu que non tiña importancia, que podía esperar e, aínda máis, que podería tomar todo o que quixese, cando me petase, e deixar corre-la conta ata que a min me apetecese.
Fonte: BIL (55)
informe
EN The Editor wanted that explained to him, and the Psychologist volunteered a wooden account of the 'ingenious paradox and trick' we had witnessed that day week.
GL O editor quería que lle explicasémo-la miña teoría, e o psicólogo ofreceulle un detallado informe do "enxeñoso paradoxo e truco" que testemuñaramos ese mesmo día había unha semana.
Fonte: TEM (263)
explicación
EN But upon the whole, I think that no account of the matter was proposed at that time which satisfied myself,.or was likely to satisfy any reflecting person.
GL Mais, en conxunto, penso que non se propuxo ningunha explicación do asunto nese tempo que me satisfixese, ou que puidese satisfacer a calquera persoa reflexiva.
Fonte: LET (11)
análise
EN There are thus clear limits to the testable laws of physics that underlie the cosmological account of creation.
GL Así pois, non todo é demostrable nas leis que rexen a análise cosmolóxica da creación.
Fonte: C16 (94)
motivo
EN On that account, of course, she would always try to make him stop.
GL Abofé que era por ese motivo polo que ela sempre tentaba que se detivese.
Fonte: CAR (3127)
xustificación
EN Of her own tastes, habits, and intentions Miss Miller was prepared to give the most definite, and indeed the most favourable, account.
GL Con respecto ós seus propios gustos, costumes e intencións, Miss Miller estaba preparada para dar unha xustificación do máis precisa e, abofé, do máis favorable.
Fonte: DAI (647)
..... on account of
por mor de
EN It only made you feel a little sickish on account of the smell of the wine.
GL Soamente facía que un se sentise un pouco mareado por mor do cheiro do viño.
Fonte: RET (1050)
por causa de
EN My auntie wouldn't let me blow on account of my asthma.
GL Miña tía non me deixaba soprar por causa da asma.
Fonte: SEN (297)
debido a
EN Anyway, they fall in love right away, on account of they're both so nuts about Charles Dickens and all, and he helps her run her publishing business.
GL O caso é que se namorou de seguida, debido ó seu interese por Charles Dickens, e el axúdaa a leva-lo seu negocio de librería.
Fonte: VIX (4460)
..... to take account of
ter en conta
EN And Nature takes no account of moral consequences, of arbitrary conditions which we create, and which we feel obliged to maintain at any cost".
GL E a natureza non ten en conta as consecuencias morais nin as arbitrarias condicións que creamos e que nos sentimos obrigados a manter custe o que custe.
Fonte: ESP (3178)
..... to take into account
ter en conta
EN It was all well enough in the Southland, under the law of love and fellowship, to respect private property and personal feelings; but in the Northland, under the law of club and fang, who so took such things into account was a fool, and in so far as he observed them he would fail to prosper.
GL Todo iso estaba moi ben no Sur, onde rexían o amor, a camaradería, o respeto á propiedade privada e ós sentimentos persoais... Pero no Norte, onde rexe a lei do garrote e o colmillo, quen tivese en conta esas cousas non podería prosperar.
Fonte: CHA (338)
ter presente
EN Discussions in Buenos Aires must also take into account the rapid rate at which developing countries are growing.
GL Os debates de Bos Aires deberán ter presente ademais o veloz ritmo de crecemento dos países en desenvolvemento.
Fonte: C01 (783)
..... to call someone to account (for)
pedirlle contas a alguén (de)
EN It so happened, however, that this most reasonable and pacific old monarch had young rivals to deal with; princes full of his early passion for fame and fighting, and who were disposed to call him to account for the scores he had run up with their fathers.
GL Pois aconteceu, non obstante, que este moi asisado e pacífico monarca vello tiña rivais novos con quen tratar, príncipes cheos desa paixón temperá pola gloria e o combate, e que estaban dispostos a lle pedir contas dos excesos que correra contra os seus pais.
Fonte: ALH (85)
..... to be of no account
non valer nada
EN --My signature is of no account, he said politely.
GL --A miña sinatura non vale nada --dixo diplomaticamente--.
Fonte: RET (3878)
..... bank account
conta bancaria
EN Potential customers have to provide proof of a regular income, sign a contract and have a bank account and a permanent address.
GL Para acceder a esta forma de crédito, o cliente debe demostrar ingresos regulares, asinar un contrato, dispoñer dunha conta bancaria e dun enderezo.
Fonte: C15 (1979)
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