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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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In Galician
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About
- longing, longitude, long-legged, long-run, long-sighted, longstanding, long-standing, long-term, longtime, look, looking-glass, lookout, loom, loon, loony, loop, loophole, loose, loosely


look


- noun
- mirada

EN Lynch, recovering from his laughter, answered his look from his humbled eyes.
GL Lynch, reposto do ataque de risa, correspondeu a aquela mirada con ollos humildes.
- Fonte: RET (4071)
- ollada

EN For she felt that he was still looking at her, but that his look had changed.
GL Pois decatouse de que el aínda estaba a mirar para ela, pero que a súa ollada mudara.
- Fonte: CAR (1917)
- aspecto

EN But it is meet I should, in the true spirit of romantic story, give some account of the looks and equipments of my hero and his steed.
GL Mais paréceme que, seguindo o verdadeiro espírito dunha historia romántica, debería describi-lo aspecto e a indumentaria do meu heroe e do seu corcel.
- Fonte: LEN (149)
- aire

EN Across the eleven-arch bridge is San Juan de Cobas, with sea-bathing for the veraneantes, and the little chapel of Nuestra Señora de Valdeflores, and further up the mountain Chainiño, with its mines of Silvarosa, at full tide gives the ría a look of Ullswater.
GL Cruzando o undécimo arco da ponte está San Xoán de Covas, que ofrece baños de mar para os veraneantes, e a pequena capela de Nosa Señora de Val de Flores. Un pouquiño máis arriba vese a montaña chamada Chavín, coas minas de Silvarrosa; na marea alta a ría acada un aire de Ullswater.
- Fonte: GAL (520)


- intransitive verb
- mirar

EN She could see it all so clearly, so commandingly, when she looked: it was when she took her brush in hand that the whole thing changed.
GL Cando miraba, podía velo con toda claridade, con todo convencemento: ó colle-lo pincel todo cambiaba.
- Fonte: CAR (180)
- parecer

EN How old she looks, how worn she looks, Lily thought, and how remote.
GL Que vella parece, e que cansa, pensaba Lily, e que remota.
- Fonte: CAR (1239)
- semellar

EN Father Arnall's face looked very black, but he was not in a wax: he was laughing.
GL A faciana do Padre Arnall semellaba furiosa, pero non estaba alporizado: andaba a rir.
- Fonte: RET (130)
.....--- to look away
- mirar para outro lado

EN Ralph looked away first, pretending interest in a group of littluns on the sand.
GL Ralph foi o primeiro en mirar para outro lado, finxindo ter interese no grupo de cativos que estaban na area.
- Fonte: SEN (1505)
.....--- to look back
- mirar atrás

EN Looking back presently, I could see, through the crowded stems, that from my heap of sticks the blaze had spread to some bushes adjacent, and a curved line of fire was creeping up the grass of the hill.
GL Ó mirar atrás podía ver, a través da multitude de ramas, que dende a morea de paos se espallara o lume ata uns matos veciños, e que unha liña curva de lapas estaba a subir pola herba, outeiro arriba.
- Fonte: TEM (1557)
.....--- to look up
- erguer a vista

EN Juana looked up, and her eyes were wide at Kino's courage and at his imagination.
GL Juana ergueu a vista e os seus ollos agrandáronse ante o valor e a imaxinación do seu home.
- Fonte: PER (404)
- levantar a vista

EN He came forward, searching out safe lodgements for his feet, and then looked up through thick spectacles.
GL Avantou procurando un acomodo seguro para os pés e logo levantou a vista para mirar a través dunhas grosas lentes.
- Fonte: SEN (17)
- mirar para arriba

EN The yelling ceased, and Samneric lay looking up in quiet terror.
GL Os berros calaron e Sam e Eric quedaron mirando para arriba, cun terror silencioso.
- Fonte: SEN (5638)
.....--- to look down
- baixar a vista

EN Kino looked down to cover his eyes from the glare.
GL Kino baixou a vista para protexe-los ollos do resplendor.
- Fonte: PER (42)
- mirar para abaixo

EN He was kneeling on one knee, looking down from a higher rock which he held with both hands; his other leg stretched down to Ralph's level.
GL Estaba axeonllado sobre unha perna e miraba para abaixo dende unha rocha máis alta, que tamén apreixaba coas dúas mans; estendía a outra perna ata o nivel onde estaba Ralph.
- Fonte: SEN (3257)


- transitive verb
- mirar

EN If she looked another way when he spoke to her, and seemed not particularly to hear him, this was simply her habit, her manner.
GL Que mirara cara outro lado cando el lle falaba e aparentara non lle estar prestando especial atención, este era simplemente un hábito, un xeito dela.
- Fonte: DAI (118)
.....--- to look after
- coidar

EN If it was not a mother's place to look after children, whose on earth was it?
GL Se non era a tarefa dunha nai coida-los rapaces, ¿de quen demo era?
- Fonte: ESP (126)
- ocuparse de

EN My dear guardian, with the assistance of Miss Prism, has the arduous task of looking after me.
GL O meu querido titor, coa axuda de miss Prism, ten a ardua tarefa de ocuparse de min.
- Fonte: ERN (1335)
- mirar por

EN Sucks to the littluns! Someone's got to look after them.
GL ¡Que os veñan aleitar! Alguén ten que mirar por eles.
- Fonte: SEN (2948)
.....--- to look at
- mirar para

EN He looked at the window and saw that the daylight had grown weaker.
GL Mirou para a fiestra e viu que a luz do día enfraquecera.
- Fonte: RET (540)
- ollar para

EN They trudged past the burned square where their house had been without even looking at it.
GL Pasaron ó pé do cadrado queimado onde estivera a súa casa sen sequera ollar para ela.
- Fonte: PER (1608)
- observar

EN Then he laughed so strangely that they were hushed, looking at the flash of his spectacles in astonishment.
GL Logo, riu dun xeito tan estraño que todos calaron e observaron pampos o lampexar das súas lentes.
- Fonte: SEN (1159)
.....--- to look for
- buscar

EN Some guys spend days looking for something they lost.
GL Algúns tipos pasan días a busca-lo que perderon.
- Fonte: VIX (2920)
- procurar

EN Fearing to lose all, he raised himself suddenly on his elbow to look for paper and pencil.
GL Temendo perder todo ergueuse axiña sobre un cóbado procurando lapis e papel.
- Fonte: RET (4367)
.....--- to look forward
- buscar (acadar)

EN When Alexei Perchuk joined Moscow's prestigious Institute of Geology, Mineralogy, Petrochemistry and Geochemistry in 1987, he was looking forward to a glittering career in the best tradition of Soviet science.
GL Cando en 1987 Alexei L. Peerchuk entrou no prestixioso Instituto de Xeoloxía, Mineraloxía, Petroquímica e Xeoquímica de Moscova buscaba acadar un porvir brillante na gran tradición dos científicos soviéticos.
- Fonte: C20 (437)
.....--- to look up
- buscar

EN Unfortunately she had mislaid or lost Mademoiselle Reisz's card, and looking up her address in the city directory, she found that the woman lived on Bienville Street, some distance away.
GL Por desgracia, extraviara ou perdera a tarxeta de Mademoiselle Reisz e, buscando o enderezo na guía da cidade, comprobou que vivía en Bienville Street, a certa distancia súa.
- Fonte: ESP (1597)
- visitar

EN I told them I'd look them up in Seattle sometime, if I ever got there, but I doubt if I ever will.
GL Comenteilles que xa as visitaría en Seattle algún día, se é que ía por alí, pero dubido que vaia.
- Fonte: VIX (2507)