llegar
arrive ; drop ; turn up ; come in ; come ; come to + Posesivo + attention ; come with ; roll in ; come up.
The time has arrived when it is more appropriate to ask why cataloguing is still conducted on a manual basis, rather than to seek to justify the use of computers in cataloguing.
The search profile will only be modified periodically as the quality of the set of notifications output from the search drops to unacceptable levels.
Results showed that many users turn up at the library with only a sketcky idea of what they would like and spend much time browsing.
Their duty is to come in before school each morning and check that the book checking system is in order and that the library is tidy and presentable.
This article urges children's librarians to attack 'aliteracy' (lack of a desire to read) as well as illiteracy by taking programmes, e.g. story hours, to children who do not come to libraries.
Information vital to certain people might not come to their attention if such people must rely only upon regular scanning of large numbers of periodicals.
The problem comes with ideographic languages.
With the summer rolling in, many of you might be looking for instructions on how to make fresh iced tea.
The only negative thing I have is that the neck of the shirt comes up too high.
ahorrar para cuando lleguen las vacas flacas
put aside for + a rainy day
A fifth of Britons admit to having no savings whatsoever while only just over a third of adults had less than £500 put aside for a rainy day = Una quinta parte de los británicos dice que no tienen ningún tipo de ahorro mientras que un poco más de un tercio tiene menos de 500 libras ahorradas para cuando lleguen tiempos difíciles.
ahorrar para cuando lleguen tiempos difíciles
put aside for + a rainy day
A fifth of Britons admit to having no savings whatsoever while only just over a third of adults had less than £500 put aside for a rainy day = Una quinta parte de los británicos dice que no tienen ningún tipo de ahorro mientras que un poco más de un tercio tiene menos de 500 libras ahorradas para cuando lleguen tiempos difíciles.
al llegar
on arrival
In fact only very avid readers will ever settle to silent reading immediately on arrival from some different activity.
con la edad, llega la sabiduría
with age comes wisdom
We've all heard the adage that with age comes wisdom, but now science is backing up the claim.
conseguir llegar a + Lugar
make it to + Lugar
This time he made it unscathed to the car.
cortar llegando al hueso
cut to + the bone
He was cut to the bone after a skate fell off a hook above his locker and landed on his right wrist.
cuando llegue la hora
when the time comes
It will pay, incidentally, to study the user's manual as much as possible: while all the technical details may not be of immediate interest, it will be easier to discuss faults, modifications and extensions with the supplier when the time comes.
día + estar por llegar
day + be + yet to come
The day of the stand-alone library is numbered, and the day of the stand-alone end-user is yet to come.
estar aún por llegar
be yet to come
But I would imagine that the greatest cost of the code is yet to come.
haber llegado
be upon us
The knowledge society, then, is upon us.
hacer + Nombre + llegar hasta aquí
get + Nombre + this far
And getting children this far is the first aim of all the work we do with children and books.
hasta donde llegue
to the limits of
With ISI's CD Editions you can expand your searching power to the limits of your curiosity.
la sabiduría llega con la edad
wisdom comes with age
I think it's time we dispel the untruth that 'wisdom comes with age'.
llegar allí
get over there
I feel very excited and can't wait to get over there and catch up with the boys.
llegar a
come to
reach
reach out to
find + Posesivo + way to
get through to
come up to
pull into
strike + a chord with
We now come to the sixth and last condition of authorship.
This is in part due to the different stages of development reached by different libraries.
The main reason for providing such a service is to reach out to those users who would not visit the library if it offered traditional services only.
He found his way quickly and easily to the materials he needed.
This article discusses how to interpret these elements in a patent document and how to get through to the technical information sought.
A man came up to me and said he had been referred to me by the reference department.
So, having stated these thoughts about librarians and digital libraries, I am happy to announce that the airplane has now pulled into its boarding gate.
Digital libraries have struck a chord with users.
llegar a acuerdo
make + arrangements
An earlier leakage had prompted library staff to make arrangements with a nearby firm of book conservation specialists in the event of a further disaster.
llegar a buen fin
bear + fruit
come to + fruition
have + a successful ending
It was apparent that the responders to the investigation were basically satisfied that the efforts they were making were bearing fruit = Era claro que los entrevistados en la investigación se sentían básicamente satisfechos de que los esfuerzos que estaban haciendo estaban dando fruto.
Menu-based information retrieval could be the area in which the extensive experiencia with enumerative classification may come to fruition.
Every painful story have a successful ending, so bear the pain and get ready for success.
llegar a buen puerto
bear + fruit
come to + fruition
have + a successful ending
It was apparent that the responders to the investigation were basically satisfied that the efforts they were making were bearing fruit = Era claro que los entrevistados en la investigación se sentían básicamente satisfechos de que los esfuerzos que estaban haciendo estaban dando fruto.
Menu-based information retrieval could be the area in which the extensive experiencia with enumerative classification may come to fruition.
Every painful story have a successful ending, so bear the pain and get ready for success.
llegar a casa
get + home
As it happened, the snowfall was moderate and all the rest of us worked all day and got home without difficulty.
llegar a conocer
become + acquainted with
get to + know
get + acquainted with
This information is displayed to allow the borrower to become acquainted with the subject terminology used by the library.
I'm generally shy by nature, and I have to really get to know people before I begin to feel comfortable with them.
Here are some ideas for helping your children get acquainted with the public library.
llegar a entender
reason out
Trying to reason out or make sense from an obsessive thought usually only strengthens the thought.
llegar a esperar
come to + expect
Users come to expect the regular appearance of the abstracts bulletin.
llegar a final de mes
make + (both) ends meet
As free Web sites find it increasingly difficult to make ends meet simply with the revenue generated from advertising, they are likely, either to close down or to start charging for access to the site.
llegar a formar parte de
find + Posesivo + way into/onto
Children's classics from the European countries, published in the languages of those countries, seldom find their way onto UK bookshelves.
llegar a + Infinitivo
come to + Infinitivo
By the beginning of the nineteenth century many British printers had come to rely for most of their work on relays of apprentices, who were simply discharged at the end of their terms and replaced by new apprentices.
llegar a + Infinitivo + se
come to be + Participio Pasado
Eventually, it came to be recognized that the Classification Research Group's endeavours might be pertinent to the problem of alphabetical indexing.
llegar a la conclusión
conclude
form + an impression
Many librarians have concluded that the only solution is to rely on Document Delivery Service (DDS).
I have formed a deep impression about the relationship between libraries and economic development from my own life experience.
llegar a la conclusión de que
come to + the conclusion that
come up with + the conclusion that
get + the idea that
Many librarians have come to the conclusion that the advantages of the dictionary catalogue are outweighed by the associated filing problems.
Content analysts, doing their kind of mechanistic time-and-motion studies on 'Till death do us part', might well come up with the conclusion that the greater part of it is straight and explicit racialism.
Users who experience these situations might get the idea that librarians stay awake nights dreaming up ways to frustrate their efforts to find material in the library.
llegar a la verdad
get to + the truth
Many times the key to success is thoroughly digging into the facts, deposing as many people as possible, and finally getting to the truth.
llegar al corazón de
go to + the heart of
Rulemaking of this kind goes to the heart of the notion of the nation state as a sovereign entity.
llegar al extremo de
get to + the point of
go to + the extreme of
She thought the director had got to the point of catching at straws.
Dewey, who was keenly interested in reforming the spelling of the English language, lost no opportunity of pursuing this particular hobby: christened Melville, he soon dropped the final 'le', and even went to the extreme of spelling his final name 'Dui' for a time.
llegar al extremo de + Infinitivo
go + (as/so) far as + Infinitivo
The editorial board of DC went so far as to advertise their dissociation from 'unauthorized' amendments, without actually saying where these were to be found.
llegar al final de
come to + the end of
get through
We have come to the end of one methodology and must search for another.
I think that the so-called average person often exhibits a great deal of heroism in getting through an ordinary day.
llegar al final de su vida útil
come to + the end of + Posesivo + useful life
reach + the end of + Posesivo + useful life
They then found that their CD-ROM network had come to the end of its useful life.
However, it is likely that by the year 2000 the majority of non-Year 2000 compliant PC applications will have reached the end of their useful life.
llegar al fin de una era
reach + the end of an era
Even though he obtained his journalism degree with honors, he chose to continue working as a Linotype operator until his retirement when Linotype reached the end of an era.
llegar al fondo de la cuestión
see to the + bottom of things
The dream of inquiry is to pierce the veil, to see to the bottom of things, to achieve an understanding that is if not quite absolute then at least adequate.
llegar al fondo de las cosas
get to + the bottom of things
They wanted to get to the bottom of things and figure out what was happening.
llegar al fondo de una Cuestión
get to + the bottom of
get to + the root of
He does not always get to the bottom of the questions raised in this ambitious study.
One of them snipped Ben Kline's life short, and Marla's determined to get to the root of a case that's anything but cut and dried.
llegar al límite
reach + the breaking point
Aboriginals in Canada have reached the breaking point after decades of peaceful talks that have not achieved anything.
llegar al límite de + Posesivo + capacidad
stretch + Nombre + beyond the breaking point
stretch + Nombre + to breaking point
stretch + Nombre + to the limit
With every air-conditioner running at full blast, the city's creaky infrastructure is often stretched beyond the breaking point.
The diversity of cookbooks available in the USA today is stretching the market to breaking point and specialist retailers are feeling the pinch.
All agencies, it was found, were stretched to the limit, but by pooling resources these might be made to go further.
llegar al meollo de la cuestión
arrive at + the heart of the matter
There is little doubt in such cases that the enquirer has generalised his more specific need and a tactful librarian can soon arrive at the heart of the matter.
llegar al poder
come to + power
rise to + power
The Tory modernisers were absolutely mesmerised by Blair; and yet they absolutely misunderstood the reasons why he came to power.
Nazi ideas and brutality were evident to all even at the time, as was the fact that they were rising to power.
llegar al punto álgido
reach + a head
Growing concern reached a head in the mid 1980s when a number of practitioners expressed the view that children's librarianship had lost its way.
llegar al punto crítico
come to + a head
The debate appears to have come to a head with the launch of two new titles on DVD.
llegar al punto de
be at the point of
As we will probably hear from Mr. Welsh tomorrow, we are at the point where the Library of Congress has all but committed itself to close its catalogs.
llegar al punto de + Infinitivo
go + (as/so) far as + Infinitivo
The editorial board of DC went so far as to advertise their dissociation from 'unauthorized' amendments, without actually saying where these were to be found.
llegar al quid de la cuestión
arrive at + the heart of the matter
There is little doubt in such cases that the enquirer has generalised his more specific need and a tactful librarian can soon arrive at the heart of the matter.
llegar a + Lugar
make it to + Lugar
This time he made it unscathed to the car.
llegar al valor máximo
crest
Rivers in southern Minnesota are expected to crest lower than previously forecast within the next week.
llegar a montones
pour in
A famous astrologist has recently predicted a tsunami will hit the Thai coast in December and cancellations are pouring in.
llegar andando pausadamente
stroll into + view
But as we have come to know Warren better we have realised that there is no better sight than Warren strolling into view.
llegar antes de lo previsto
arrive + ahead of time
Arrive ahead of time, dress formally and smartly and portray confidence and composure with your posture and body language.
llegar aquí
get over here
I've been told to get over here again and show my face!.
llegar a raudales
pour in
A famous astrologist has recently predicted a tsunami will hit the Thai coast in December and cancellations are pouring in.
llegar a ser [Verbo irregular: pasado became, participio become]
become
develop into
Some degree of ignorance of this kind is not unusual since the usual objective in consulting an information source is to become better informed.
A method has been devised to induce embryonic stem cells to develop into bone marrow and blood cells.
llegar a ser conocido como
become + known as
In 1961 an International Conference on Cataloguing Principles was held in Paris, and a statement of principles emerged, which became known as the Paris Principles.
llegar a su fin
wind down
draw to + a close
draw to + an end
As President Bush's second term winds down, this is no time for him to be making trouble for his successor.
In 1971 the experimental phase of PRECIS was drawing to a close as the system became operational in the British national bibliography.
As the war drew to an end, the horrendous scenes of misery and destitution came to light.
llegar a tiempo
arrive in + time
arrive on + time
Overdue issues are recognized from the prediction pattern by the programm because an expected issue has not arrived in time.
Inez Benefield and Zoe Tabary had arrived on time and were working.
llegar a tierra firme
come + ashore
Due to the effects of global warming, tens of thousands of walruses have come ashore in Alaska.
llegar a todas partes
reach + far and wide
extend + far and wide
stretch + far and wide
These amazing promotional videos have reached far and wide and have received numerous favourable reports.
The ripple effect of 9/11 has extended far and wide.
Death rates were much higher because the forces were stretched far and wide over seasonally inhospitable terrain.
llegar a todos lados
extend + far and wide
reach + far and wide
stretch + far and wide
The ripple effect of 9/11 has extended far and wide.
These amazing promotional videos have reached far and wide and have received numerous favourable reports.
Death rates were much higher because the forces were stretched far and wide over seasonally inhospitable terrain.
llegar a una conclusión
draw + conclusion
make + deduction
reach + conclusion
arrive at + a conclusion
These and various correlation coefficients are discussed and the type of conclusions to be drawn are pointed out.
The author discusses the various deductions which have been made from the results of the analysis.
The reference librarian must always resist an impulse to be glib; he must scourge and throttle his vanity; he must reach a conclusion rather than begin with it.
She arrived at the conclusion that emphasis on prettiness is 1 of the criteria that accounts for exclusion of pictures of fat children.
llegar a una conclusión errónea
put two and two together to make five
This article suffers from a classic case of putting two and two together to make five.
llegar a un acuerdo
conclude + agreement
reach + agreement
make + an undertaking
make + bargain
come to + consensus
reach + understanding
have + meeting of the minds
reach + consensus
hammer out + agreement
develop + compromise
work out + an agreement
strike + deal
conclude + deal
strike + agreement
At the same time publishers and booksellers combined once more to fix retail prices, concluding in 1900 a 'net book agreement' by which booksellers were forbidden to retail new books at less than list prices.
Agreements have been reached with the National Library of Canada and the Biblothèque Nationale not only to use their records this way but also to redistribute them in an unaltered form.
An undertaking has been made that a piece of notation will not be revised and given another meaning.
The bargain which I made with Mr Johnson was seventy-five pounds (or guineas) a volume.
We found it difficult to come to a consensus of the professional staff on several key points.
Once the silent reading session is accepted then an understanding should also be reached that at these times classmates should not be interrupted, either for idle chatter or for sharing responses.
If we begin to think about the new technology as different from the three-by-five card perhaps then we can have some meeting of the minds.
Perhaps it is an understatement to say that it is easy to reach consensus on the basic elements to be included in the evaluation form.
Trustees will have to consider the conditions of membership in online networks and, in some instances, may need to hammer out ground breaking agreements to govern operations.
Ultimately, a compromise was developed that provided for the fully spelled-out form as a parenthetical addition in the heading if it is needed to differentiate names = En última instancia se llegó a un acuerdo que permitía que la forma totalmente deletreada se le añadiese entre paréntesis al encabezamiento si se necesitaba diferenciar los nombres.
We have to seek and work out partnership agreements with other stakeholders.
The article is entitled 'The Times newspaper strikes deal with Gale to digitise back issues from 1785'.
Both the newspapers and the unions want to cut their losses by concluding a deal in advance of a court hearing that is scheduled to decide on the original causes of the strike.
Ministers have failed to strike an agreement yesterday on how to deal with the billions of plastic bags Australians throw away each year.
llegar a una decisión
arrive at + decision
The surest way to arrive at such a decision is to be guided by principles of helpful citation order.
llegar a una definición
hammer out + definition
One of the first and hardest tasks of the Working Party was to hammer out an agreed definition which would avoid confusion.
llegar a una etapa
reach + point
But more mature readers can be expected to go on reading for full sessions without flagging, a point that most children should reach by ten years old.
llegar a una solución
arrive at + a solution
Counselling requires much more time and in-depth probing, although it can at one extreme cover simply the act of lending a sympathetic ear to clients who, in externalizing their problems, may thus be better able to face them and arrive at a solution.
llegar a una solución intermedia
meet + Nombre + halfway
Librarians, instead of avoiding change, should be prepared to embrace change or at least find a middle path to meet it half-way.
llegar a un compromiso
reach + agreement
meet + Nombre + halfway
Agreements have been reached with the National Library of Canada and the Biblothèque Nationale not only to use their records this way but also to redistribute them in an unaltered form.
Librarians, instead of avoiding change, should be prepared to embrace change or at least find a middle path to meet it half-way.
llegar a un consenso
come to + consensus
reach + consensus
We found it difficult to come to a consensus of the professional staff on several key points.
Perhaps it is an understatement to say that it is easy to reach consensus on the basic elements to be included in the evaluation form.
llegar a un consenso sobre
get + a consensus on
Professionals should be surveyed to get a consensus on which aspects of metadata generation are most amenable to automation and semi-automation.
llegar a un entendimiento
reason + things out
Now with the wisdom of years I try to reason things out and the only people I fear are those who never have doubts.
llegar a un extremo
reach + epic proportions
The environmental waste problem is now reaching epic proportions.
llegar a un momento importante en su historia
reach + a milestone
In late Feb 1999 the library reached the milestone of 200,000 titles processed.
llegar a un punto crítico
reach + turning point
To understand books and their function in the social mechanism is to have a very delicate ear to the ground and to discern when turning points are reached.
llegar a un veredicto
reach + verdict
While it is too soon to reach a verdict on the success of this model, our experience suggests that it has a number of advantages.
llegar demasiado lejos
go + too far
He argues that some of the laws being proposed go too far in restricting rights.
llegar de nuevo
come (a)round
With the summer definitely behind us, maybe this article seems inappropriate but hey, it will soon come around again.
llegar de todas partes
come from + far and wide
It's no surprise visitors come from far and wide just to fish here.
llegar el máximo
crest
Rivers in southern Minnesota are expected to crest lower than previously forecast within the next week.
llegar el momento en el que
reach + the point where
We have not yet reached the point where everybody has their own terminal, especially outside the developed countries.
llegar (el) penúltimo
finish + second from bottom
finish + second to last
come in + second to last
come in + second from bottom
The following two years the club struggled and finished second from bottom in both seasons.
Season 2006 was very disappointing for the club, as they finished second to last and had to play promotion/relegation play-offs.
They came in second to last in their division, which should make it easier to improve.
There was one other rider who was slower than me, and I came in second to last.
llegar (el) primero
come in + first
finish + first
Of course, like any marathon you'll have the ones that come in first; only to be followed by the stragglers, an hour later.
She finished first at last, for a split second.
llegar (el) segundo
finish + second
finish + runner-up
come in + second
come in + runner-up
As the 2000 season closed they finished second in the nation, winning 85 consecutive matches.
In 2001-02 they finished runners-up and the following season they were crowned champions.
They came in second with 71 medals (22 gold).
They played hard but were unlucky and came in runners-up of which they can be very proud.
llegar (el) tercero
finish + third
come in + third
The following season they finished third, a place below the promotion places.
They came in third overall in national competitions, their best score in five years.
llegar (el) tercero, acabar (el) tercero, finalizar (el) tercero
come in + third
They came in third overall in national competitions, their best score in five years.
llegar el último
come in + last
finish + last
Somebody has to come in last in any race.
There is nothing wrong with finishing last.
llegar en primer lugar
come in + first place
finish in + first place
The girls team came in first place overall in points.
After three weeks of online voting by the general public, they finished in first place with almost 30% more votes than their closest competitor.
llegar en segundo lugar
finish in + second place
come in + second place
Their women's team finished in second place only behind the University of Mary who posted 21 team points.
They came in second place in the 2003 season.
llegar en tercer lugar
finish in + third place
come in + third place
In 1995-96 they finished in third place, missing out on the runners-up spot on goal difference.
They came in third place but they got a standing ovation from the crowd.
llegar en último lugar
come in + last place
finish in + last place
If you win the arms race you come in last place in the human race.
The team's transformation process actually began after the 2000 season when they finished in last place.
llegar la hora de
time + come
The time will come, these writers predict, when the composition, publishing and retrieval of information will be done electronically through online systems.
llegar lejos
get + far
If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get far in our understanding of the physical world.
llegar más allá de
stretch beyond
She was sensational throughout the competition and outshone her opponents with singing skills that seemed to stretch beyond the talent of a 17 year old.
llegar más lejos
stretch + further
We can make the resources we have stretch further = Podemos hacer que los recursos que tenemos lleguen más lejos.
llegar muy lejos
go + a long way
come + a long way
A little bit of bibliographic instruction can go a long way.
Computers have come a long way, but not far enough.
llegar noticias
come to + Posesivo + notice
There is another important difference between electronic documents and all the types of library material that preceded them and it centers on how electronic resources come to our notice.
llegar poco a poco
dribble in
The point is that even our most adamant, conservative faculty members are slowly dribbling in and saying, 'Could you add our name to your selective dissemination of information service?'.
llegar por atrás
come up (from) behind
On March 14, while he was driving his car, two cars came up behind him and shot at him repeatedly - he died instantly at the scene.
llegar + Posesivo + hora
Posesivo + number + come up
No matter what he did in his life, on the day his number came up the only thing folks did was revisit any of his past indiscretions and share it with everyone.
llegar primero
take + first place
The 400m relay team took first place in another photo finish.
llegar pronto
arrive + ahead of time
Arrive ahead of time, dress formally and smartly and portray confidence and composure with your posture and body language.
llegar pronto (a)
be early (for)
Sometimes menstrual periods can come as a surprise, being early, late or not happening at all.
llegar segundo
take + second place
Niamh practised her words with her mother and went on to take second place in the spelling final.
llegar tarde
arrive + late
run + late
Printing had arrived late and was deficient in technique and provincial in content.
Unfortunately, no one has ever done a study on just how much we Indonesians lose by consistently running late and performing inefficiently.
llegar tarde (a)
be late (for)
Dexter Rundle went on: 'As I said I'm late for an appointment and have to go, but tell Ms. Lachaise that I'll be in touch with her'.
llegar tarde a casa
stay out + late
Staying out late, lots of glasses of wine and having way too much fun has resulted in us both feeling under the weather all weekend long.
llegar tarde al trabajo
be late for work
She was frequently late for work, and she spent so much time talking with other library pages and other people in the library that she was not getting her work done.
llegar temprano (a)
be early (for)
Sometimes menstrual periods can come as a surprise, being early, late or not happening at all.
lo mejor está aún por llegar
the best is yet to come
As always appears to be the case, the best is yet to come.
lo peor está por llegar
the worst is yet/still to come
What we're finding out from a fiscal standpoint is that the worst is yet to come.
momento + llegar
time + approach
The library, a detached two-story structure, is fast approaching the time when its useful life will expire.
no haber llegado todavía
be yet to come
But I would imagine that the greatest cost of the code is yet to come.
no llegar a
stop + short of
fall + short of
Many attempts to evaluate reference services stop short of developing methods for improving these services = Muchos intentos de evaluar los servicios de referencia no llegan a desarrollar los métodos necesarios para mejorarlos.
This, however, falls short of exploiting the full potential of the microcomputer to revolutionize the way in which business documents, memoranda, reports etc. are produced and disseminated.
no llegar a entender
miss + the mark
miss + the point
Such considerations suggest that exhortations directed at SLIS to transform their curricula in unspecified radical fashion miss the mark.
Even those states who are pushing for legalized sports betting are missing the point when it comes to making a profit through sports betting.
no llegar a + Infinitivo (con mucho)
fall (far) short of + Gerundio
This, however, falls short of exploiting the full potential of the microcomputer to revolutionize the way in which business documents, memoranda, reports, etc. are produced and disseminated.
no llegar a un ideal
fall + short of ideal
Such efforts still fall short of the ideal envisaged by librarians.
poder llegar a perder
stand to + lose
Turlock stands to lose four police officer positions and two firefighters under budget proposals discussed Tuesday night.
por fin llegó la hora (de)
it's about time (that)
It's about time that we go back to these principles and make sure that the quality of cataloging is upheld.
recesión + llegar
recession + set in
Some would say that Britain managed to get into the Community in the nick of time, before the recession set in.
ser un medio para llegar a un fin
be the means to an end
Shera and Egan's definition of bibliographic organization provides a reminder that the compilation of bibliographies is not an end in itself but merely the means to an end.
si se llega a un acuerdo
subject to + agreement
The data bases produced by the projects will become available to the public, subject to agreements which are being negotiated between the offices involved.
todo le llega a aquel que espera
everything comes to those who wait
She will undoubtedly prove that everything comes to those who wait and her time is definitely here.
un medio para llegar a fin
a means to an end
In a business setting, technical documentation is not an end in itself but rather a means to an end.