desgracia
mishap ; affliction ; mischance ; obliteration ; stroke of misfortune ; ill fate ; misfortune ; misadventure ; whammy ; ill-luck.
The operations staff makes special backup copies of the catalogs in the network, reconstructs the files in case of a serious mishap, enters new system logon names, assigns authorization levels, and so forth.
In the Netherlands there are currently some 20,000 sufferers from this affliction.
Lawyers find it problematic to consult psychologists, partly because psychological research may turn up unfavorable data through sheer mischance, eg, an invalid sample.
The article is entitled 'The wayward bookman: the decline, fall and historical obliteration of an ALA president'.
The most strenuous efforts will not always ensure success, nor the boldest arm of human power ward off the stroke of misfortune.
The sad fact is that the majority of web pages suffer this same ill fate.
The economic misfortunes of the decade had removed much of the opposition to the working classes using public libraries.
This is a wholly truthful account of her various discoveries and misadventures recounted, to the best of her recollection, in four parts.
Just remember that alcohol and low blood sugars together are a real whammy for diabetics.
Some people are so fond of ill-luck that they run half-way to meet it.
ángel caído en desgracia
fallen angel
I am the most recent fallen angel to stumble into a game of chutes and ladders, and you best believe I will hold on for dear life.
caer en desgracia
fall from + grace
fall into + disfavour
tumble into + disgrace
come into + disrepute
fall into + disrepute
be in the doghouse
fall + foul of
lose + favour
fall into + disgrace
fall out of + favour
She probably hasn't told you, Blanche, because after all you're her boss, and she can't afford to fall from grace.
The printed catalogue has fallen into disfavour, and been replaced by card catalogues, and, more recently, on-line catalogues.
In conversing with her you hadn't got to tread lightly and warily, lest at any moment you might rupture the relationship, and tumble into eternal disgrace.
As a result public libraries came into disrepute and even today authorities speak against them.
By the fifteenth century the practice of uroscopy was falling into disrepute.
This video shows what happens when a guy bought his girlfriend the wrong gift and ended up in the doghouse.
The author attempts to unravel the mystery of how Microsoft came to fall foul of the Department of Justice.
However, and despite its popular currency, this perspective has largely lost favour in academic circles.
Once a popular heavyweight champion, he rapidly achieved success but this was only equaled with the speed which he fell into disgrace.
At first he was a close political advisor to Charles II, although he later fell out of favour and was forced into exile.
caída en desgracia
fall from grace
His fall from grace may have been due to his presumption in using Hatshepsut's temple for his own devotional purposes.
demasiado + Adjetivo + para su desgracia
too + Adjetivo + for + Posesivo + own good
The article 'Is IT getting too clever for its own good?' considers future proofing in information technology.
desgracia doble
double whammy
Researchers have found that two proteins which work in tandem in the brain's blood vessels present a double whammy in Alzheimer's disease.
las degracias nunca vienen solas [Usado más frecuentemente en inglés británico]
it never rains but it pours
I don't think I'll ever stop using the phrase 'it never rains but it pours', but right now, life is looking up.
las desgracias nuncan vienen solas [Usado más frecuentemente en inglés americano]
when it rains, it pours
It's one of those 'When it rains, it pours' kind of weeks - Our doggy had knee surgery last week and she needs a lot of attention and, as a result, we haven't been sleeping well.
para + Posesivo + desgracia
much to + Posesivo + dismay
Much to her dismay, she rarely encounters supernatural beings other than on paper.
por desgracia [Con sentido positivo o negativo dependiendo del contexto] [Con sentido positivo o negativo dependiendo del contexto]
unfortunately
sadly
unhappily
disappointingly
as luck would have it
as fate would have it
as ill-luck would have it
as bad luck would have it
by bad fortune
Unfortunately, these factors simultaneously make the resolution of the situation more intractable.
Sadly, the information network has not so far been able to respond adequately to the special needs of business.
Unhappily, an online subject retrieval catalog also has the potential for heavy burden on the computer.
Cabot, disappointingly, does not flesh out this gimmick to its full potential.
Today seemed like any other day under the blue skies of the tradewinds until, as luck would have it, his paddle broke.
As fate would have it, I wasn't pregnant, but I would have accepted and loved this child with all my heart.
But as ill-luck would have it he was mistaken for a kidnapper of children and was beaten by the mob to a pulp.
As bad luck would have it two of his most famous works were severely damaged by two differing natural disasters in two different cities.
Usually, there were mules to ride, but by bad fortune, another party had arrived a day or so sooner and taken them all.
por suerte o por desgracia
for better or (for) worse
by luck or misfortune
Finally, we cannot help being excited by the fact that we, as a profession, find ourselves, for better or worse, embedded in the eye of the storm of significant change.
The magician, by luck or misfortune, called me onto the stage, but I slightly disrupted his act with a little banter and then played with the contents of his 'box of tricks', bringing a few laughs.
una desgracia
a crying shame
It would be a crying shame if women are to continue to die of cervical cancer only because they failed to undergo the necessary tests.
