miedo
fear ; horror ; trepidation ; scare ; fright ; funk ; dread.
Many respondents confessed to well-justified fears that if they lose their existing specialists, the 'cut and squeeze' method of reducing establishments would not allow them to replace such staff.
In recent years, then, there has been much less scaremongering about the imagined horrors of drowning in a sea of paper.
This trepidation is somewhat quieted when students discover the abundance of bibliographical guides that list and describe reference works.
These stories are sometimes treated inaccurately, creating health scares and misinformation.
The article is entitled 'Children's fright reactions to television news'.
Generally speaking, however, what can paralyze some people is fear, creating the potential to fail out of sheer funk.
Forecasting techniques should be viewed not with skepticism and dread but with hope and a positive attitude.
cagarse de miedo
shit + bricks
shit
Such kids need to be locked in bathrooms with rabid dogs, those who don't bite but are loud enough to make them shit bricks.
The film is scary enough to keep you on your toes but not scary enough to make you shit your pants.
coger miedo
scare + Reflexivo
A child with a vivid imagination can really scare herself with frightening images.
con miedo
fearfully
afraid
frightened
But we are not then acting quite so much out of blindness or inarticulateness; we are selfishly or fearfully or wilfully trying to short-circuit what we know underneath to be more nearly the true state of things.
The mother, a little afraid and expecting the worst, was unsettled, despite all her efforts to be open-minded, by her preconceptions not only about the drug but about the rights and wrongs of the position she had put herself into.
Astounded and frightened by those shimmering tears, Leforte repeated her questions: 'Bernice... Please... Is anything wrong? Can I help?'.
cosas que dan miedo
things that go bump in the night
The article has the title 'Things that go bump in the night: net newbies are maturing - and making things scary for the traditionals'.
disipar el miedo
assuage + fear
But the real challenge to get it started is first to find the measures that can assuage the fear of the first-world nations.
dominar el miedo
conquer + fear
The article is entitled 'Conquering the fear of searching for statistical information'.
encogerse de miedo [Intentar pasar desapercibido por temor o por falta de personalidad]
cower
cringe
cringe with + fear
The stereotype of a librarian i a 'fussy old woman of either sex, myopic and repressed, brandishing or perhaps cowering behind a date-stamp and surrounded by an array of notices which forbid virtually every human activity'.
That Dennis! When I think of him, I... well ... to put it frankly, cringe.
With his eerie green eyes and ferocious and deadly fangs and claws you just cringe with fear every time the big cat comes on the screen.
entrar miedo
become + jittery
As the 1992 unification of the European Community looms, East European countries are becoming jittery and apprehensive about the implications for them.
esconderse de miedo [Intentar pasar desapercibido por temor o por falta de personalidad]
cower
The stereotype of a librarian i a 'fussy old woman of either sex, myopic and repressed, brandishing or perhaps cowering behind a date-stamp and surrounded by an array of notices which forbid virtually every human activity'.
estar muerto de miedo
be scared stiff
be frightened to death
be petrified of
be terrified
Students hate numbers; they are scared stiff of numbers.
However there are a number of reports out there of people being frightened to death by ghosts.
Instead, it has involved coming to terms with being gay and with not being petrified of someone finding out that he is gay.
Americas are suckers for being terrified, it is very sad.
estar temblando de miedo
be frightened to death
However there are a number of reports out there of people being frightened to death by ghosts.
expresar miedo
express + fear
This fear was expressed by publishers and booksellers when the first lending libraries were established and by and large it has proved to be unfounded.
infundir miedo
instil + fear
Christiane Northrup, an obstetrician with 20 years of clinical and medical teaching experience, discusses how the medical profession has instilled fear of our bodies and of illness.
meter miedo
frighten
scare
What frightens me about OCLC is the fact that I am disturbed by the integrity of their kind of cataloging.
'Punch' satirised the opponents more cruelly: 'Here is an institution doomed to scare the furious devotees of laissez faire'.
miedo a las tablas
stage fright
The author discusses the art of storytelling for librarians, focusing on controlling stage fright and selecting stories.
miedo a la tecnología
techno-fear [technofear]
Issues and barriers to be dealt with include profit motives, teleliteracy and technofear.
miedo al escenario
stage fright
The author discusses the art of storytelling for librarians, focusing on controlling stage fright and selecting stories.
miedo a lo desconocido
fear of the unknown
Another snag was the existence of entrenched divergent cataloguing habits among the multinational staff, not to mention their fear of the unknown = Otro problema era la existencia de hábitos de catalogación divergentes y ya arraigados entre el personal multinacional, por no mencionar su miedo hacia lo desconocido.
miedo al ordenador
computer anxiety
A staff development programme on computer technology at the University of Missouri provided the opportunity to study computer anxiety and other factors related to resistance to computers.
miedo continuo
nagging fear
Less measurable but no less profound is a sapping of confidence - a nagging fear that America's decline is inevitable, and that the next generation must lower its sights = Less measurable but no less profound is a sapping of confidence - a nagging fear that America's decline is inevitable, and that the next generation must lower its sights.
miedo escénico
stage fright
The author discusses the art of storytelling for librarians, focusing on controlling stage fright and selecting stories.
miedo hacia lo desconocido
fear of the unknown
Another snag was the existence of entrenched divergent cataloguing habits among the multinational staff, not to mention their fear of the unknown = Otro problema era la existencia de hábitos de catalogación divergentes y ya arraigados entre el personal multinacional, por no mencionar su miedo hacia lo desconocido.
miedo mortal
mortal fear
As I have a mortal fear of dentists this would have put me in a cold sweat.
miedo nuclear
nuclear fear
In a world divided by ideology, by trade barriers, by military threats and nuclear fears, we librarians are not powerless.
morirse de miedo
scare + Nombre + to death
Things get a little harder when Dean himself gets infected by the heebie-jeebies and starts to scare himself to death - literally.
mostrar miedo
show + fear
Critics of the digital world show fear of depersonalization, inauthenticty, subjugation to the mechanical and the substitution of quantity over quality.
no hacer Algo por miedo
wimp out (on)
wimp
chicken out (on/of)
funk
lose + Posesivo + bottle
The main reason he wimped out was that he had a cheap bike that didn't gear properly, and made it extremely hard to bike efficiently.
He regards David Jull's unwillingness to take up such a proposal as an early indication that John Howard and his colleagues are wimping.
So basically they are chickening out of the debate.
Although he did not admit it, I could see that he funked going out there alone.
She is alleged to have said she intended to leave home but at the last minute 'lost her bottle' .
por miedo
out of fear
She had a coterie of friends in Hollywood and New York who were always bowing and scraping to her for decades out of fear.
por miedo a
for fear of/that
It is therefore often hard to escape the grip of the official phraseology for fear that, in doing so, the meaning of the material will be altered or lost.
por miedo de
for fear of/that
It is therefore often hard to escape the grip of the official phraseology for fear that, in doing so, the meaning of the material will be altered or lost.
que da miedo
scary [scarier -comp., scariest -sup.]
The very term 'outsourcing' is seen by many cataloguing departments as a scary word.
retirarse por miedo
wimp out (on)
wimp
chicken out (on/of)
funk
lose + Posesivo + bottle
The main reason he wimped out was that he had a cheap bike that didn't gear properly, and made it extremely hard to bike efficiently.
He regards David Jull's unwillingness to take up such a proposal as an early indication that John Howard and his colleagues are wimping.
So basically they are chickening out of the debate.
Although he did not admit it, I could see that he funked going out there alone.
She is alleged to have said she intended to leave home but at the last minute 'lost her bottle' .
sembrar el miedo
spread + fear
The global outbreak of swine flu has spread fear through the travel sector, blighting any green shoots of recovery from the financial crisis.
sentir miedo
be in fear
feel + frightened
Balzac not only presented the appearance, but reinforced it with the appropriate manner, of the severe 'pater familias' of whom most of the staff was in awe and in fear.
We even react as though it were all happening to us by feeling sad or happy, frightened or angry, amused or scandalized, and so on.
sentirse con miedo
feel + frightened
We even react as though it were all happening to us by feeling sad or happy, frightened or angry, amused or scandalized, and so on.
sin miedo
with confidence
fearlessly
unafraid
The advice is to chill out most artefacts with confidence, although coating on wood may crackle a little bit by -50 degrees centigrade.
Knowing that he was up against a large enemy force, he fearlessly rode to the head of his troops to calm them before sending them into battle.
Freedom is to stand alone, unattached and unafraid, free in the understanding of desire which breeds illusion.
superar el miedo
overcome + Posesivo + fear
conquer + fear
These women have many things in common but the one that stood out the most was them overcoming their fear of failure.
The article is entitled 'Conquering the fear of searching for statistical information'.
temblar de miedo
shake in + Posesivo + boots
Small potatoes now, but back then, the shy girl in me was shaking in her boots, so much so that you could actually see the microphone shaking.
tener miedo
be afraid
be in fear
frighten
I am afraid I shall disappoint again, for this book is not a polemical document, nor is it even a personal view of community information.
Balzac not only presented the appearance, but reinforced it with the appropriate manner, of the severe 'pater familias' of whom most of the staff was in awe and in fear.
What frightens me about OCLC is the fact that I am disturbed by the integrity of their kind of cataloging.
tener miedo a
be scared of
I'm not scared of the computer, nor do I believe AACR has done any injustice to traditional cataloging practice.
tener miedo a Alguien
regard + Nombre + with fear
The Persian and the Siamese regarded him with fear.
vencer el miedo
face + Posesivo + fears
conquer + fear
overcome + Posesivo + fear
By gathering up courage to face their fears, international contractors operating in China may begin to detect new possibilities of doing business there.
The article is entitled 'Conquering the fear of searching for statistical information'.
These women have many things in common but the one that stood out the most was them overcoming their fear of failure.
vivir con miedo
live in + fear
Our area has been like a war-zone for the last six weeks and our pensioners live in fear of the children they fought to defend.
