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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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- bather, bathing, bathrobe, bathroom, bathtub, battalion, battered, battering, battery, battle, battlefield, battleground, battlement, batty, bauble, Bavarian, bawl, bay, bazaar


battle


- noun
- batalla

EN They thought he would say the day he won some great battle or the day he was made an emperor.
GL Pensaban que ía dicir aquel en que vencera nalgunha batalla importante ou cando fora feito emperador.
- Fonte: RET (1057)
- guerra

EN He was immune and terrible, and his song had become a battle cry.
GL El volvérase inmune e terrible e a súa canción convertérase nun grito de guerra.
- Fonte: PER (1607)
- loita

EN Physical courage and the love of battle, for instance, are no great help-may even be hindrances-to a civilized man.
GL O valor físico e o amor pola loita, por exemplo, non son de moita axuda (mesmo poden ser obstáculos) para o home civilizado.
- Fonte: TEM (711)
- pelexa

EN Then followed a battle greater than the world had ever known before that night, or has ever seen since.
GL De modo que tivo lugar a pelexa máis grande que se coñeceu no mundo ata aquela noite ou que se viu desde entón.
- Fonte: BIR (164)
- enfrontamento

EN In agriculture, for example, there will be a major battle between organic producers and distributors and the biotech companies for consumers.
GL O mundo agrícola será o escenario dun enfrontamento decisivo entre productores e distribuidores biolóxicos e as empresas de biotecnoloxía.
- Fonte: C17 (1401)
- conflito

- A forma ortográfica correcta deste termo é conflito. Na normativa anterior a 2003, a forma ortográfica correcta era conflicto, que é a que se recolle no exemplo.

EN Some of the earliest battles between city states in Mesopotamia 5,000 years ago involved the breaking of dykes to flood farmland.
GL Hai 5.000 anos, durante os primeiros conflictos entre cidades da Mesopotamia, demolíanse os diques para asolaga-las terras inimigas.
- Fonte: C21 (846)
- combate

EN Nor here in the drawing do I see the details of blood, battle and plunder.
GL Nin os detalles do sangue, o combate e o saqueo.
- Fonte: C28 (820)


- intransitive verb
- batallar

EN Listening (had there been ny one to listen) from the upper rooms of the empty house only gigantic chaos streaked with lightning could have been heard tumbling and tossing, as the winds and waves disported themselves like the amorphous bulks of leviathans whose brows are pierced by no light of reason, and mounted one on top of another, and lunged and plunged in the darkness or the daylight (for night and day, month and year ran shapelessly together) in idiot games, until it seemed as if the universe were battling and tumbling, in brute confusion and wanton lust aimlessly by itself.
GL Se se escoitase (de haber alguén que o fixese) desde as habitacións superiores da casa baleira só se había oír un caos xigantesco que se axitaba e se sacudía estriado polos raios mentres o vento e as ondas troupeleaban coma vultos amorfos de leviatáns nos que a luz da razón non chega a penetrar e que montaban uns por riba dos outros, turrando e somerxéndose na escuridade ou na luz do día (pois días e noites, meses e anos, decorrían desordenadamente xuntos) con xogos estúpidos, ata que semellaba coma se, de seu, o universo todo batallase e se esmoroase sen obxecto ningún, nunha confusión brutal e con caprichosa concupiscencia.
- Fonte: CAR (2041)
- pelexar

EN He recalled his own equivocal position in Belvedere, a free boy, a leader afraid of his own authority, proud and sensitive and suspicious, battling against the squalor of his life and against the riot of his mind.
GL Lembraba a súa posición, propia e equívoca, en Belvedere; alumno externo, líder temeroso da súa autoridade, orgulloso, sensible e suspicaz, pelexando contra a miseria da súa vida e os barullos que tiña na mente.
- Fonte: RET (1897)
- loitar

EN A moment later, he was battling with the complex undergrowth that was already engulfing the scar.
GL Un chisco despois estaba loitando co mato mesto que xa comezaba a entupi-la fenda.
- Fonte: SEN (1812)
- combater

EN New York City officials admitted that they couldn't battle all the fires, let alone investigate their origins.
GL As autoridades de Nova York declaráronse incapaces de combater tódolos incendios, e menos aínda de investiga-las súas orixes.
- Fonte: C15 (26)