carretilla
wheelbarrow ; pushcart ; cart.
The library which grew from a couple of wheelbarrow loads of books in 1835 to a collection of 130,000 volumes in 1985.
David keeps at his pushcart, scratching out a living even in the dead of winter - meanwhile, Rose secretly visits Sammy to watch out for him.
The replacement of the horse and cart by the motor truck has improved the transport system.
aprender Algo de carretilla
learn + Nombre + off pat
learn + Nombre + by heart
learn + Nombre + by rote
Kids are always going to learn the language off-pat if they are provided with the opportunity to listen and repeat.
The first thing I did was to learn it by heart and it's is still one of my favourite poems.
It may be that I'm going about it the wrong way, trying to learn it by rote rather than really understanding it.
carretilla de mano
pushcart
David keeps at his pushcart, scratching out a living even in the dead of winter - meanwhile, Rose secretly visits Sammy to watch out for him.
carretilla elevadora
forklift [fork lift]
forklift truck
30,000 books were moved using a donated forklift and plastic milk crates.
The containers were loaded onto transport vehicles by means of forklift trucks.
conocer Algo de carretilla
know + Nombre + off pat
know + Nombre + by heart
They are reviewed and changed every year, so don't assume you know them off pat.
This tune is noted for its tin-pan alley style, frankly atrocious lyrics, and the fact that everyone in the country knew it by heart.
de carretilla
by rote
by heart
off pat
from memory
parrot-fashion
parrot-like
I was vexed by the dullness of his proceedings at work and though he understands it he does many things by rote, and very dully.
People sometimes become such creatures of habit doing things by heart that they fail to question and analyze and maybe even modify the way they do things.
This strategy has been designed for you to practice till you get it totally off pat so you can walk into a casino and operate it without thinking.
The inmates satisfied their need for reading by smuggling in Polish books, or else narrating stories from memory.
There is no easy way to learn your times tables - you will have to try hard to memorise them 'parrot-fashion'.
Repetition is a good component of learning Spanish, but this method became rather tedious and parrot-like for the student.
