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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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- catlike, cattle, cattymount, catwalk, Caucasian, cauldron, cauliflower, causal, causality, cause, causeway, caustic, caution, cautious, cautiously, cavalier, cavalierly, cavalry, cave


cause


- noun
- causa

EN Know that this love is the cause of half the ills of wretched mortality.
GL Sabe que o amor este é a causa da metade dos males da coitada humanidade mortal.
- Fonte: ALH (433)
- motivo

EN They were literally afloat together; for our gentleman this was marked, quite as marked as that the fortunate cause of it was just the buried treasure of her knowledge.
GL Navegaban xuntos, literalmente; para o noso cabaleiro isto estaba claro, case tan claro como que o afortunado motivo era xustamente o tesouro soterrado do que ela sabía.
- Fonte: BES (220)
- razón

EN The cause of their pleasure was not obvious.
GL A razón da súa alegría non era obvia.
- Fonte: SEN (616)
- motivación

EN The phenomenon's causes, however, have remained largely the same: economic and personal insecurity, intolerance, economic and political exclusion, oppression, various forms of chaos and catastrophe, conflict and war.
GL A grandes trazos, as motivacións dos emigrantes seguen sendo as mesmas: inseguridade material e física, intolerancia, exclusión económica e política, represión, catástrofes e transtornos diversos, conflictos e guerras.
- Fonte: C13 (15)


- transitive verb
- ocasionar

EN Drinks too much and may cause a little trouble.
GL Bebe demasiado e pode ocasionar problemas.
- Fonte: TER (45)
- causar

EN To mortify his hearing he exerted no control over his voice which was then breaking, neither sang nor whistled, and made no attempt to flee from noises which caused him painful nervous irritation such as the sharpening of knives on the knife board, the gathering of cinders on the fire-shovel and the twigging of the carpet.
GL Para mortificar o oído non exercía control sobre a súa voz que por entón estaba na muda, nin cantaba ou asubiaba, nin tentaba fuxir dos ruídos que lle causaban unha penosa irritación dos nervios, como o afiar de coitelos na prancha da cociña, o recoller de cinsas no badil ou o bater das alfombras.
- Fonte: RET (3062)
- provocar

EN Edna often wondered at one propensity which sometimes had inwardly disturbed her without causing any outward show or manifestation on her part.
GL Edna adoitaba sorprenderse ó observar unha tendencia súa que, ás veces, a perturbaba interiormente sen provocar ningunha evidencia nin manifestación exterior pola súa parte.
- Fonte: ESP (402)
- producir

EN All these, however, were mere terrors of the night, phantoms of the mind that walk in darkness; and though he had seen many spectres in his time, and been more than once beset by Satan in divers shapes, in his lonely perambulations, yet daylight put an end to all these evils; and he would have passed a pleasant life of it, in despite of the devil and all his works, if his path had not been crossed by a being that causes more perplexity to mortal man than ghosts, goblins, and the whole race of witches put together, and that was --a woman.
GL Sen embargo, todo isto non eran máis que temores da noite; fantasmas da mente que camiñan na escuridade, e aínda que xa tiña visto moitos espectros, e máis dunha vez se cruzara con Satanás nas súas diversas formas durante algunha das súas solitarias camiñadas, tódalas maldades remataban coa chegada do amencer. E pasaría unha vida agradable, a pesar do demo e das súas malas obras, se no seu camiño non se tivese cruzado cun ser que produce máis asombro en calquera mortal cás fantasmas, os trasnos e tódalas meigas xuntas, e que non é outro que unha muller.
- Fonte: LEN (75)
- facer

EN At about midnight some mysterious impulse caused me to rise and peer through a window into the furnace-room, where I knew my father now slept.
GL Contra a media noite algún misterioso impulso fixo que me erguese e que espreitase por unha fiestra do cuarto do forno, onde sabía que durmía meu pai.
- Fonte: OIL (101)
- orixinar

EN In the summer of 2000, a landslide in Tibet caused a dam to collapse, unleashing a 26-metre wall of water that destroyed every bridge on the Siang, as the Brahmaputra is known in the Indian border state of Arunachal Pradesh.
GL No verán de 2000 un muro de auga de 26 metros, orixinado nun corremento de terras que seguiu ó derrubamento dunha presa natural no Tíbet, produciu un cataclismo que destruía tódalas pontes do Siang, que é como se chama o Brahmaputra no estado indio fronteirizo de Aruchanal Pradesh.
- Fonte: C28 (554)