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University of Vigo

English-Galician CLUVI Dictionary, 2nd edition (revised version 2.2)

(Based on the CLUVI Corpus of the University of Vigo)



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- backhand, backing, backlash, backless, backpacker, backseat, backside, backstreet, backtrack, backward, backwardness, backwards, bacon, bacterial, bacterium, bad, baddie, badge, badger


backward


- adverb
- cara atrás

EN But the man, shifting the club from right to left, coolly caught him by the underjaw, at the same time wrenching downward and backward.
GL Pero o home pasou o baloco á man esquerda, colleu a Buck por debaixo da queixada e sacudiuno varias veces, lanzándoo cara atrás.
- Fonte: CHA (128)
- atrás

EN Right and left we can go, backward and forward freely enough, and men always have done so.
GL Á esquerda e á dereita, adiante e atrás, podemos ir coa suficiente liberdade; e o home sempre o fixo así.
- Fonte: TEM (65)
- ao revés, · ó revés

EN He read the verses backwards but then they were not poetry.
GL Leu os dous verso ao revés, pero entón xa non era poesía.
- Fonte: RET (233)
- á marxe

EN For women have taken full advantage of the literacy for all campaign launched after the revolution, especially in the countryside, which had remained backward under the Shah.
GL Porque as rapazas lograron sacar partido da política de alfabetización para todos instaurada despois da revolución, especialmente nas zonas rurais que quedaran á marxe durante o réxime anterior.
- Fonte: C24 (154)


- adjective
- atrasado

EN Rather than look at the programme's shortcomings, the blame was put on pastoralists' "backward" way of life.
GL Lonxe de examina-los defectos do primeiro programa, culpouse ó estilo de vida "atrasado" dos pastores
- Fonte: C03 (1074)