ingeniar
engineer.
So, in telephone transmission the bandwidth of each speech circuit is engineered to be 4kHz.
cómo nos las ingeniamos para
how in the world...
How in the world do we teach our students the answers to questions that have not yet been asked?.
ingeniarse
contrive
devise
Examples would include deliberately contriving an authoritarian atmosphere, either institutional, by means of rules and regulations, or personal, by means of academic status, for instance.
Special classification schemes are generally devised for an application in which no major general scheme is suitable.
ingeniarse el modo de
dream up + ways to
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.
ingeniárselas
manage to
finesse
get by
craft + a plan
scrape by
Tom Hernandez tried not to show how sad he felt about his friends' leaving, and managed to keep up a cheerful facade until the party broke up.
The story of the postwar diner suggests some ways that purveyors of consumer commodities finessed and exploited emergent social dislocations in the drive to expand and diversify markets.
A small book fair lasting only a day, such as might be held in a kindergarten or small elementary school, can get by with a couple of members of staff and a parent as the organizing committee.
But now, it seems the 15 months spent crafting a plan to lessen pilots' flying hours, thus reducing the dangers of pilot fatigue, are about to become a reality.
I am drowning in debt and barely scrape by every month.
ingeniárselas para ingeniárselas para escapar ingeniárselas solo
figure out how
contrive + an escape
manage on + Posesivo + own
fend for + Reflexivo
get by on + Posesivo + own
As she tried to figure out how to change her and the library's image, she made some interesting observations.
As he recovers, he overhears a well-intentioned social worker murmuring soothingly about a juvenile facility, and contrives an escape.
Unfortunately, the arthritis was worsening to the point that she had trouble managing on her own at home.
We who run libraries are equally for this kind of emancipation, so that we feel that leaving readers to fend for themselves is to sterilise the idea of libraries.
Sickened by this parasitic femininity, she resolved to get by on her own and to see life for herself.
