cuento
story ; story book [storybook] ; tale ; yarn ; nursery story ; storie.
There were lessons in this story which appear to have been ignored but remain valid for the future.
These he bound up in three volumes, and on the fly leaf of the first volume wrote 'I have always retained a kind of affection for little story books, as they recall muy early days'.
'I only wanted to write an interesting tale,' he will say, ignoring that the interest of a story almost always comes from seeing the human will in action - against chaos or against order.
Every teacher, I suppose, has his own collection of favorite yarns based on personal experiences.
The child who has the advantage of being brought up enriched by hearing stories and reading books will have the opportunity to air his knowledge about the characters in nursery stories.
One of these collectors was a Captain Cox, stone mason of Coventry, a person with 'great oversight ... in matters of storie'.
aparecer sin venir a cuento
come out of + the (clear) blue (sky)
appear out of + the (clear) blue (sky)
This proposal appeared to come out of the clear blue sky, and has raised eyebrows in Taiwan and overseas.
It could be legit, but money does not typically appear out of the clear blue sky.
aplicársele el cuento a Alguien
cap + fit
We would laugh and mutter that in his case the cap fitted.
contar un cuento
tell + story
I have already said that on the whole it is not difficult to stimulate children into telling stories.
cuentacuentos
storyteller [story-teller]
The storyteller has in fact to be something of a showman, a performer, before he gets anywhere.
cuenta-cuentos
storytelling [story-telling]
She accepts that at all sorts of intellectual and aesthetic levels there are people who read 'for the enjoyment of good storytelling and a good story'.
cuento chino
tall tale
tall story
The author chronicles the exuberant stories, hyperbole, homespun speech and demigod characteristics of American 'tall tales'.
The article 'Tall Stories: The Metaphorical Nature of Everyday Talk' claims that everyday discourse is in fact richly metaphorical and that, through the operation of metaphor, people fictionalize as they talk.
cuento de hadas
fairy story
fairy tale [fairytale]
If the analogy with the fairy story is taken a little further it can be noted that no author really believes in dragons, wicked queens, fair maidens locked in high towers and the like.
The best material to use in this approach is that great corpus of traditional folk and fairy tale myth, legend and stories from biblical and historical sources.
cuento de nunca acabar
endless story
never-ending story
As endless stories around corruption continue to spill over into the main news and business pages, businesses should pause for thought before jumping on the sport sponsoring gravy train.
And the Democratic Party is a never-ending story of corruption, greed, petty bickering, and blithe disregard of the voters' interests.
cuento de viejas
old wives' tale
Read on to see what the experts have to say about which old wives' tales are true wisdom and which are a bunch of baloney.
cuento escrito
written story
And they succeed with oral narrative more easily and satisfyingly than with written stories.
cuento inacabable
never-ending story
endless story
And the Democratic Party is a never-ending story of corruption, greed, petty bickering, and blithe disregard of the voters' interests.
As endless stories around corruption continue to spill over into the main news and business pages, businesses should pause for thought before jumping on the sport sponsoring gravy train.
cuento infantil
picture book
Songs, poems, fingergames and picture books are shared with parents and their young children, from infancy to age 3.
cuento para dormir
bedtime story
In this bedtime story the little rabbit says goodnight to everything in the great green room as well as the stars, the air, and the moon.
cuento popular
folk tale [folktale]
The original folktale of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs becomes transformed when told through the different media of film, sound, movement, colour, art and technology.
hora del cuento
story hour [storyhour]
storytelling [story-telling]
storytime [story time]
The mediatheque serves the local, deprived population with story hours, film shows, exchange of stamps and postcards.
She accepts that at all sorts of intellectual and aesthetic levels there are people who read 'for the enjoyment of good storytelling and a good story'.
Traditionally these books have been shunned because of their fragile nature, but librarians are finding that a small collection can enliven story times.
lectura de cuentos
story reading
This article describes story-reading events organised outside the libraries.
narración de cuentos
storytelling [story-telling]
She accepts that at all sorts of intellectual and aesthetic levels there are people who read 'for the enjoyment of good storytelling and a good story'.
narrador de cuentos
storyteller [story-teller]
story teller
The storyteller has in fact to be something of a showman, a performer, before he gets anywhere.
Children learned stories either from classical Jewish sources, family members, or travelling story tellers.
no venir a cuento
be beside the point
be beside the mark
be beside the question
The fact that she chose to dissolve the dance troupe she founded in 1965 is now beside the point.
In this case many of my objections would appear to be beside the mark.
It is quite beside the question to ask which is the better.
que no viene a cuento
off-topic
But on the other hand, these electronic message boards can have a hit-and-run quality where vitriolic or off-topic comments are posted by contributors hidden in the safety of anonymity.
rincón del cuento, el [En las aulas de enseñanza primaria, generalmente, espacio con estanterías de libros y decorada con carteles, dibujos, etc, que hacen referencia al contenido o los autores de los libros]
storycorner, the
In order to make my twice-weekly half-hour visits to the class more relaxing and, I hoped, more enjoyable, the teacher designed a special area the children called 'the storycorner'.
ser el cuento de nunca acabar
never + hear + the end/last of it
This is a rivalry that has gone on for years and I will never hear the end of it for the next ten years if I lose.
¡se te acabó el cuento!
the jig's up!
Okay, the jig's up! Your dean or department chair corners you and says: 'I think it's high time you taught your Introduction to Library History course on the Internet'.
sin venir a cuento
out of the (clear) blue (sky)
like a bolt out of the blue
like a bolt from the blue
for no reason
for no specific reason
for no particular reason
for no good reason
come out of/from + left field
The article is entitled 'Software out of the blue'.
The election results came like a bolt out of the blue, threatening his loss of power.
A white bird in the distance was seen to dart down like a bolt from the blue and seize a flying fish in the air.
When women frequently go to family restaurants, this leads to them going out of their homes excessively for no reason, which goes against the command of Allah.
On February 20, 2000, she was arrested at home by police for no specific reason and illegally detained for fifteen days.
Nearly a third of internet users go online on a typical day for no particular reason, just for fun or to pass the time.
He was refering to the unbelievable action taken by the riot police who for no good reason decided to go to town on innocent fans.
I think the reason most people here are thinking that Rose and Nat might get back together is because their break up seemed to come out of left field.
urdir un cuento
weave + a tale
The old expressions 'spin a yarn', 'weave a tale' suggest the anecdotal, conversational quality that must be striven for by the storyteller.
vivir del cuento
live off + the fat of the land
Unless more of us refuse to be content to coast along, living off the fat of the land and leaving others to pay the tab, there is no guarantee that America will be a better place for our children than it was for us.
