ciego-1
blind ; blind man.
It is the order of words that helps us to distinguish between 'office post' and 'post office' or, to quote the hackneyed example, 'blind Venetian' and 'Venetian blind'.
Volunteering to answer a query that has not yet been asked is like helping a blind man to the other side of the street without first making sure he wants to cross.
a ciegas
blindfold
blindfolded
in the dark
No president can go blindfold: some assistance is necessary.
The study presented the narrative task to the children as a game in which they had to help a blindfolded interlocutor find out what happened in the stories.
Perhaps instead of arguing, and rushing around in the dark, the time has come to follow our Danish and American friends and begin to find out what we are doing.
amor ciego
blind love
The story amounts to blind love equals bloodbath and media exploitation in rural America.
andar a tientas y a ciegas
grope (for/toward)
scrabble in + the dark
scramble in + the dark
The ebb in religious life is explained in terms of the stress experienced by the nation during the period of confederation when it was groping for cohesiveness & some symbol of national unity.
I am scrabbling in the dark trying to understand the problems and any light shed on this matter would be appreciated.
A heavy storm sent a wall of water rushing down the river while most campers were sleeping, leaving them scrambling in the dark for safety .
a tientas y a ciegas
blindly
in the dark
If experience is carefully analyzed and not blindly followed, it can be extremely useful.
Perhaps instead of arguing, and rushing around in the dark, the time has come to follow our Danish and American friends and begin to find out what we are doing.
a tontas y a ciegas
headlong
runaway
Neither was there doubt that SLIS should adapt their programmes accordingly but, equally, too headlong a rush into the unknown posed dangers.
The article is entitled 'How to control a runaway state documents collection'.
biblioteca para ciegos [Biblioteca especializada en material que los ciegos u otros con problemas de vista puedan leer y usar]
library for the blind
The first library for the blind was established in 1892, but only dealt in books in Braille.
ciegos, los [Expresión usualmente acompañada del artículo]
blind, the
Newspapers have not been available to the blind except in shortened recorded versions, mostly received long after sighted persons get their newspapers.
cita a ciegas
blind date
The article is entitled 'A marriage made in heaven or a blind date: successful library-faculty partnering in distance education.
comprar a ciegas
buy + a pig in a poke
You might say we buy 'a pig in a poke' every four years, except that no pig has ever done the kind of damage our recent presidents have done.
curva ciega
hairpin bend
hairpin curve
hairpin turn
After three miles you will enter two 180 degree hairpin bends, first to the right, immediately followed by the next, to the left.
An initial climb through some interesting hairpin curves gives way to a fairly straight road with an occasional gentle sweeping curve.
Highways with repeating hairpin turns allow easier, safer ascents and descents of mountainous terrain than a direct, steep climb and descent.
dar palos de ciego
grope (for/toward)
The ebb in religious life is explained in terms of the stress experienced by the nation during the period of confederation when it was groping for cohesiveness & some symbol of national unity.
en el país de los ciegos el tuerto es el rey [Situación en la que una persona que no sabe lleva a otra que tampoco]
be a case of the blind leading the blind
in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king
in the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king
in the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king
I'm trying to help a friend with this software, but I'm afraid it's a case of the blind leading the blind.
Another less talked about reason for the strength in the dollar right now is as the old saying goes 'In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king'.
As the saying goes, in the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
As the old saying goes, in the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
ensayo doble ciego
double-blind research study
A double-blind research study is one in which neither the subject nor the investigator knows what treatment (if any) the subject is receiving.
fe ciega
blind faith
blind trust
His faith was pretty blind and his arrogance, luckily, borne with uncomplaining good humor by his colleagues.
The trust in science and technology is based on the universal benefits acquired through publicly funded research rather than blind trust in any research efforts.
hacerse el ciego
pretend + not to have seen
She deliberately refused to rise to her feet when he entered a room as was customary, often pretending not to have seen him.
ir a tientas y a ciegas
bump around in + the dark
fumble
Without language we would go bumping around in the dark and eventually take leave of our senses under the welter of the incomprehensible, withdrawing, as some people do, into a closed world in order to protect ourselves against the unbearable onslaught.
In response to the decision, a Harvard Law professor critical of the decision commented: 'Your are dealing with the law of cyberspace - it doesn't exist; we are fumbling here'.
licencia a ciegas
shrink-wrapped licence [shrinkwrapped licence]
The enforceability of a shrink wrapped licence has been challenged successfully in North America.
más ciego que un topo
as blind as a bat
John Lennon was as blind as a bat and couldn't see very far without his glasses on.
más hambre que el perro de un ciego
as hungry as a wolf
as hungry as a bear
as hungry as a hunter
In the meantime Nana, who averred that she was as hungry as a wolf, threw herself on the radishes and gobbled them up without bread.
All danger of freezing was past, but he was as hungry as a bear and tired to death.
Not long after Joshua returned, bright and cheery, and as hungry as a hunter after his long drive.
palos de ciego
a stab in the dark
a shot in the dark
wild guess
He has come to the conclusion that even the most careful choice is still 'a stab in the dark' to some extent.
My suggestion to your probem is just a, probably ignorant, shot in the dark since I don't run Win2000.
A group of NASA scientists employed a dartboard to reach a wild guess on the possible composition of Mars.
pozo ciego
cesspool
cesspit
Waste water in these towns is poured into cesspools and ravines near the houses.
Fertilizers, wastewater and cesspits represent the major sources of nitrate pollution.
punto ciego [Zona que está fuera del campo de visión de una persona como, por ejemplo, al mirar por los espejos retrovisores de un coche]
blind spot
Contemporary library and information science discourse is plagued with tunnel vision and blind spots that seriously affect the profession's efforts to plan the library's future = La biblioteca contemporánea y el discurso de las ciencias de la información están plagados de visiones subjetivas y de puntos débiles que seriamente afectan a los esfuerzos de la profesión para planificar el futuro de la biblioteca.
referencia ciega
blind reference
In this way we could always insure that there would be no blind references, and that any change of a heading would be automatically reflected in all reciprocal records.
volverse ciego
become + blind
The author describes how a school librarian in Canada who became blind overcame her handicap to continue her library work.
