malo-2
bad ; poor ; wrong ; trashy ; naughty ; evil ; crummy ; lame.
I'm not saying that it is bad, but it is a real difference of interest between the needs and purposes of research libraries and the public libraries, and I would also throw in the school and almost certainly junior college libraries.
Examples are generally poor or obscure (often in Latin or German).
In a conventional system, the omission of a punctuation mark or an abbreviation will not necessarily cause an entry to be filed in the wrong place, because humans can compensate for variations in spelling and punctuation.
Wilensky has argued that 'the good, the mediocre and the trashy are becoming fused in one massive middle mush' and that 'intellectuals are increasingly tempted to play to mass audiences'.
He felt like a naughty school-boy.
One teacher I knew used to poke his head round the door just at the end of the day and say something like, 'Tomorrow when we meet I am going to tell you about the evil magician,' and then he would disappear leaving us all agog.
One librarian bluntly wondered about the ethics of sending 'crummy looking books with information that is incorrect or obsolete to the needy (because) everyone should have access to good material'.
Democrats are lame, feckless, timid, with no ideas, no vision, no message, and no future.
acabar mal
come to + a bad end
The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to bad end.
aceptar tanto lo bueno como lo malo
take + the bad with the good
Ya gotta take the bad with the good - without pain joy wouldn't feel so good.
algo anda mal
something is amiss
'You've noticed something is amiss!' she grinned, tapping her forehead.
algo va mal
something is amiss
'You've noticed something is amiss!' she grinned, tapping her forehead.
andar tramando algo malo
be up to no good
get up to + no good
His mom could always tell when he was up to no good - it must have been that sixth sense mothers have.
It's a cartoon about a mischievous youngster who delights in playing pranks, being rotten to his relatives and generally getting up to no good.
aplicar mal
misapply
Even proximity searching, if misapplied, can result in too broad a set.
atravesar un mal momento
go through + a bad patch
Everyone goes through good and bad patches but Kenwyne is riding on the crest of a wave at the moment.
atravesar un momento malo
go through + a bad patch
Everyone goes through good and bad patches but Kenwyne is riding on the crest of a wave at the moment.
a veces las cosas salen mal
shit happens
'Shit Happens' in the story of two flatmates: Halifax, a ex-journalist with a dark past and long lost ex-wife, and Shakra, a college-drop out bent on Halifax's destruction = "A veces las cosas salen mal" es la historia de dos compañeros de piso: Halifax, un ex-periodista con un pasado oscuro y con una exesposa que no ve desde hace mucho, y Shakra, un compañero de universidad obcecado en la destrucción de Halifax .
bastante malo
third rate [third-rate]
The quality of the material published has often been regarded as second or third rate, a criticism less justified today.
bicho malo
nasty piece of work
Mary, on the other hand, is a nasty piece of work who is at her best is frosty and aloof and at her worst is hostile and cruel.
bicho malo nunca muere
a bad penny always turns up
turn up like + a bad penny
look what the cat (has) dragged in!
However, like my professor likes to say, 'A bad penny always turns up'.
To make matters worse, Rebecca seems to be after Mark, turning up like a bad penny at every social event that he and Bridget are attending.
When I said hello he turned to his gaggle of friends and said 'look what the cat dragged in!' or something lame like that.
caer mal
rub + Nombre + up the wrong way
Relations between the two countries would now be difficult as our Prime Minister had rubbed theirs up the wrong way over ridiculous matters.
calcular mal
misjudge
miscalculate
Should they have misjudged the availability of such a source, they can anticipate alternate approaches.
Alternatively the printer might not have ordered enough paper for the whole book, either because he miscalculated or because he could not afford to buy the whole lot at once = Por otro lado, el impresor podría no haber encargado suficiente papel para imprimir el libro entero, bien porque lo calculó mal o porque no podía permitirse el lujo de comprarlo todo de una vez.
chiste de mal gusto
off-colour joke
The rules also crack down on sexual innuendo, 'off-colour' jokes and offensive language.
chiste malo
shaggy dog story
Young kids like listening to these shaggy dog stories, but don't usually 'get it', while parents generally groan over the punch lines.
citar mal
misquote
The titles can be easily misquoted.
comentario de mal gusto
off-colour remark
There's nothing wrong with a joke or the occasional off-colour remark, but these comments from Mr Newman are beyond the pale.
comenzar con mal pie
get off on + the wrong foot
make + a bad start
As you know, several weeks ago in our first encounter we may have gotten off on the wrong foot, when I called you an idiot.
We made a bad start to the season but now we're doing well.
comenzar mal
get off on + the wrong foot
make + a bad start
As you know, several weeks ago in our first encounter we may have gotten off on the wrong foot, when I called you an idiot.
We made a bad start to the season but now we're doing well.
comportarse mal
misbehave
act up
Websites are just like children, they only seem to misbehave when you have visitors.
Children growing up in households where aggression, physical abuse and other antisocial acts are the norm often act up in school.
comportarse muy mal con
be rotten to
be shitty to
It's a cartoon about a mischievous youngster who delights in playing pranks, being rotten to his relatives and generally getting up to no good.
Well, if you'd asked five years ago, I'd have said yes, that women are naturally inclined to be shitty to each other.
comprender mal [Verbo irregular: pasado y participio misunderstood]
misunderstand
If we don't understand these customs and traditions we shall misunderstand books of that particular period.
concebir mal
misconceive
Many librarians have misconceived their goals in the cause of archival preservation = Muchos bibliotecarios han entendido mal sus objetivos en cuanto a la preservación de archivos.
con mala fama
disreputable
Items from disreputable publishers may be ignored, whereas items from the respected publishers would always be abstracted = Los documentos de editores de dudosa reputación se podían ignorar, mientras que los de editores respetados siempre se resumían.
con mala reputación
disreputable
Items from disreputable publishers may be ignored, whereas items from the respected publishers would always be abstracted = Los documentos de editores de dudosa reputación se podían ignorar, mientras que los de editores respetados siempre se resumían.
con malas intenciones
in a bad way
But, be aware that everyone will be talking about you (not necessarily in a bad way) because you're the only thing interesting going on.
control de las malas hierbas
weed control
Large paved areas can be difficult to keep weed free, and until recently chemicals were the main option for weed control.
con una mala iluminación
poorly-lit
Never walk unaccompanied at night in poorly-lit streets or along deserted streets.
con un soporte técnico malo
poorly-supported
Certain types of devices are poorly supported by Ubuntu for various reasons.
creer que estar mal
feel + wrong
Usually, when I have trouble sleeping it's not because I feel wrong or anything like that, it just happens.
dar de mala gana
begrudge
grudge
She did not begrudge the money spent on her children's education.
He did not grudge them the money, but he grudged terribly the risk which the spending of that money might bring on them.
dar mala espina
give + Nombre + bad vibes
give off + bad vibes
As a child, Ahatake was closer to his mother than he was to his father, his reason is that his father gave him bad vibes.
I've encountered two individuals who not just gave off bad vibes, they were sending out waves of pure malice.
dar mala impresión
look + bad
To pull back now would make both her and him look bad.
dar malas vibraciones
give + Nombre + bad vibes
give off + bad vibes
As a child, Ahatake was closer to his mother than he was to his father, his reason is that his father gave him bad vibes.
I've encountered two individuals who not just gave off bad vibes, they were sending out waves of pure malice.
dar mal rollo
give + Nombre + bad vibes
give off + bad vibes
As a child, Ahatake was closer to his mother than he was to his father, his reason is that his father gave him bad vibes.
I've encountered two individuals who not just gave off bad vibes, they were sending out waves of pure malice.
dárse Algo muy mal a Uno
be rubbish at
Why are some people so good at everything while some are rubbish at everything?.
decían las malas lenguas que
rumour had it that
Rumour had it that he was being wooed by Technicomm, Inc.
decir con mal humor
spit out
He stared coldly at her for a moment, then spat out: 'Bah! You're in charge'.
dejar (muy) mal
leave + Nombre + in a sorry state (of affairs)
leave + Nombre + in a bad way
Overfishing and poor management have left the world's seas in a sorry state.
My partner suffered a pulmonary embolism which shocked the whole family and left her in a bad way.
dejar un mal sabor
leave + a bad taste
And if it leaves a bad taste you need to wash it down.
dejar un mal sabor de boca
leave + a bad taste in + Posesivo + mouth
The second contract was more acceptable to me, and the publisher was very responsive to my concerns, but still the whole process did leave a bad taste in my mouth.
de mala calidad
shabby [shabbier -comp., shabbiest -sup.]
trashy [trashier -comp., trashiest -sup.]
Seventeenth-century English printing was abysmally poor, and there are few books that were not set in ill-cast, battered type, clumsily arranged and carelessly printed in brown ink on shabby paper.
Wilensky has argued that 'the good, the mediocre and the trashy are becoming fused in one massive middle mush' and that 'intellectuals are increasingly tempted to play to mass audiences'.
de mala fama
of bad repute
notorious
A license shall not be granted to a person of bad repute.
Iraqi secret police believed that the notorious Palestinian assassin Abu Nidal was working for the Americans as well as Egypt and Kuwait.
de mala gana
reluctantly
grudgingly
grudging
begrudgingly
unwillingly
sullenly
One is tempted to say that the enthusiasts for postcoordinate systems, being forced to admit reluctantly that control was necessary, couldn't bear to use the old-fashioned term 'list of subject headings'.
Another point which we hope these introductory remarks make clear is that AACR2, even more than the 1967 version, is the result of give and take, of compromise, of negotiation, of concessions made graciously or grudgingly.
There is little to be said for this grudging acceptance or utter rejection of pseudonyms.
Even if librarians can admit begrudgingly that comic books may deserve a rightful place in many libraries, innumerable fears come to mind = Aunque los bibliotecarios pueden admitir de mala gana que los comics pueden merecerse el lugar que les corresponde en muchas bibliotecas, las dudas que les asaltan son innumerables.
Intellectuals have been unwillingly transformed into cultural commentators and cultural studies has replaced philosophy.
He sat down heavily and watched his wife sullenly as she made the coffee.
de mala leche
like a bear with a sore head
That number of pages to sift through is enough to make anybody feel like a bear with a sore head.
de mala muerte
shitty [shittier -comp., shittiest -sup.]
shitty-ass
This was a shitty, horrible wedding gift, but I could be more or less excused for it due to my youthful impetuousnes.
After a shitty-ass day, this is the one out of two things that can make me smile.
de mala reputación
of bad repute
notorious
A license shall not be granted to a person of bad repute.
Iraqi secret police believed that the notorious Palestinian assassin Abu Nidal was working for the Americans as well as Egypt and Kuwait.
de mal aspecto
seedy [seedier -comp., seediest -sup.]
nasty looking
shanky [shankier -comp., shankiest -sup.]
The city was considered to be seedy (decayed, littered, grimy, and dreary), crowded, busy, and strongly idiosyncratic (quaint, historic, colorful, and full of 'atmosphere').
It's more advisable to have a cheap and skanky bike for pootling around town, the idea being that no-one would want to nick a nasty looking bike.
It's more advisable to have a cheap and skanky bike for pootling around town, the idea being that no-one would want to nick a nasty looking bike.
de malas pulgas
in a grouch
in a grouch mood
Life is too short to be in a grouch all the time.
If we start the day in a grouchy mood, chances are those sentiments will transition into the workplace as well.
de mala uva
stroppy [stroppier -comp., stroppiest -sup.]
in a strop
shirty [shirtier -comp., shirtiest -sup.,]
My 11-year-old daughter has become really stroppy and prone to emotional outbursts, swearing at us and acting in a way that's completely unlike her.
Do you ever get in a strop or behave like a toddler having a tantrum in public?.
I'm at a shirty tiredness level where some chicken & then a good nap is preferable over sex.
de mal carácter
ill-natured
Always snivelling, coughing, spitting; a stupid, tedious, ill-natured fellow, who was for ever fatiguing people.
de mal en peor
out of the fire and into the frying pan
out of the frying pan and into the fire
The article is titled 'Out of the fire and into the frying pan'.
Further, your question about using hydrocortisone cream makes me think of the saying, 'out of the frying pan and into the fire'.
de mal genio
bad-tempered
grumpy [grumpier -comp., grumpiest -sup.]
curmudgeonly
crusty [crustier -comp., crustiest -sup.]
irascible
shrewish
short-tempered
ill-natured
stroppy [stroppier -comp., stroppiest -sup.]
in a strop
quick-tempered
shirty [shirtier -comp., shirtiest -sup.,]
ill-tempered
liverish
He was a brave novelist but also bad-tempered, churlish and subject to fits of rage.
That's despite grumpy comments like those of William Hartston who said it was 'surely one of the ugliest words ever to slither its way into our dictionaries'.
Offended by the idea of an addict selling sneakers to kids, he launched into a curmudgeonly rant.
For this crusty author as well as for that young one having fun being famous is what matters = Tanto para este autor hosco como para aquel autor joven, ser famoso es lo que importa.
He was a rag-and-bone man living with his irascible father in a junkyard with only their horse for company.
He was a shiftless, good-for-nothing man and his shrewish wife was constantly importuning him.
A medical doctor had told him that the reason why women have faster pulse beats is because they are short-tempered.
Always snivelling, coughing, spitting; a stupid, tedious, ill-natured fellow, who was for ever fatiguing people.
My 11-year-old daughter has become really stroppy and prone to emotional outbursts, swearing at us and acting in a way that's completely unlike her.
Do you ever get in a strop or behave like a toddler having a tantrum in public?.
Lawson was a quick-tempered young woman but she also had a good heart and liked to dance when the mood struck her.
I'm at a shirty tiredness level where some chicken & then a good nap is preferable over sex.
Ill-tempered girls were also twice as likely as even-tempered girls to be divorced women at midlife (26% vs. 12%).
Some people, being excessively liverish, cannot refrain from fuming with rage and shouting abuse when they come across stories of injustice, ignorance and foul play in the newspapers.
de mal gusto
in bad taste
distasteful
tawdry [tawdrier -comp., tawdriest -sup.]
unbecoming
tasteless
tacky [tackier -comp., tackiest -sup.]
naff
trashy [trashier -comp., trashiest -sup.]
off-colour
The author defends popular culture as a legitimate and important library resource, conceding that much of it is in bad taste.
The physical effort of keeping tabs on people as well as the distasteful practice of checking up on staff output achieves nothing and may do considerable damage.
This article looks at 'fairness' in the book trade today, and some of the tawdry tricks indulged in by publishers, agents and authors at each other's expense.
An analysis of their usage by readers of both sexes revealed some unbecoming sexist attitudes and some ungentlemanlike behaviour.
Of the hundreds of figurines currently on the market, here are the most bizarrely tasteless.
There was nothing tacky about the invitation, other that the request that gifts be in the form of cash, of course.
Elton then started to metamorphose from 'sensitive guy' singer into someone famous for wearing naff sunglasses and dressing up as a duck.
Wilensky has argued that 'the good, the mediocre and the trashy are becoming fused in one massive middle mush' and that 'intellectuals are increasingly tempted to play to mass audiences'.
Quite a lot of the humour and satire presented was considered off-colour or downright offensive by some.
de mal humor
crotchety
'She is a bit gruff, perhaps, but not bad... inconsistent, I'd say... one moment she was fine, and the next ... well ... crotchety'.
de mal sabor
unbecoming
An analysis of their usage by readers of both sexes revealed some unbecoming sexist attitudes and some ungentlemanlike behaviour.
de mal vivir
disreputable
Items from disreputable publishers may be ignored, whereas items from the respected publishers would always be abstracted = Los documentos de editores de dudosa reputación se podían ignorar, mientras que los de editores respetados siempre se resumían.
dentro de lo malo lo menos malo
the best of a bad lot
By eschewing politics, the film, like the book, lets Clinton off the hook, as the best of a bad lot in a context hopelessly debased by a dim and gullible electorate.
diagnosticar mal
misdiagnose
Scabies is frequently misdiagnosed and mistreated, partly because its symptoms mimic so many other skin diseases.
día malo
bad hair day
The article 'Bad hair days in the Palaeolithic' argues that the familiar depiction of cavemen with longish, unkempt hair is not congruent with available archaeological data.
dicen las malas lenguas que
rumour has it that
(the) word on the street is that
Rumor has it that she 'tolerates' Mathilda Panopoulos, having tried many times to engage her in meaningful dialogue only to find her 'hopelessly set in her opinions'.
Word on the street is that the hottest thing when it comes to fashion for men right now is pantyhose.
dinero mal habido
ill-gotten gains
A related myth is that such profits are synonymous with ill-gotten gains.
el cielo rojo al atardecer augura buen tiempo, el cielo rojo al amanecer augura mal tiempo [En inglés británico se utiliza shepherd y en americano sailor]
red sky at night, (shepherd/sailor)'s delight, red sky in the morning, (shepherd/sailor)'s warning
The old adage of 'red sky at night, shepherd's delight, red sky in the morning, shepherd's warning', has bearing only in the Northern Hemisphere.
el colmo de la mala suerte
the last straw of bad luck
Be nice because we've been through a lot and are having a bad time and think this is the last straw of bad luck.
empezar con mal pie
get off on + the wrong foot
make + a bad start
As you know, several weeks ago in our first encounter we may have gotten off on the wrong foot, when I called you an idiot.
We made a bad start to the season but now we're doing well.
empezar mal
get off on + the wrong foot
make + a bad start
As you know, several weeks ago in our first encounter we may have gotten off on the wrong foot, when I called you an idiot.
We made a bad start to the season but now we're doing well.
encontrarse mal
feel + rotten
feel + bad
feel under + the weather
be under the weather
feel + wrong
feel + shitty
He feels rotten because he has to face his parents and tell them he was kicked out of yet another school.
Herzberg developed a questionnaire that required lengthy descriptive reports of events that made the worker feel good or bad.
Staying out late, lots of glasses of wine and having way too much fun has resulted in us both feeling under the weather all weekend long.
Michael Jackson is 'a little bit under the weather,' but hasn't sought hospital treatment, his spokeswoman said.
Usually, when I have trouble sleeping it's not because I feel wrong or anything like that, it just happens.
Add to that the fact that I've been feeling shitty for days and you have the makings of major drama.
en mala forma
in bad nick
in bad shape
in bad form
The original floorboards are in bad nick with gaps between them and a few that are cracked.
But then a stretch of warm weather, even some rain, melted one of the rinks and left the other two in bad shape.
Athletes are sometimes in good form and sometimes in bad form, and sometimes they don't know why.
en malas condiciones
in poor condition
in bad condition
in bad shape
in poor shape
in bad nick
in bad form
They use gritters to sprinkle rock salt on roads and snowploughs to ensure motorists are able to drive safely in poor conditions.
A major programme of map restoration is in progress as a considerable part of the map collection is in bad condition.
But then a stretch of warm weather, even some rain, melted one of the rinks and left the other two in bad shape.
But he said that many of the properties appeared to be in poor shape, and many were vacant.
The original floorboards are in bad nick with gaps between them and a few that are cracked.
Athletes are sometimes in good form and sometimes in bad form, and sometimes they don't know why.
en mal estado
in bad condition
in poor condition
in bad shape
in poor shape
in bad nick
in bad form
A major programme of map restoration is in progress as a considerable part of the map collection is in bad condition.
They use gritters to sprinkle rock salt on roads and snowploughs to ensure motorists are able to drive safely in poor conditions.
But then a stretch of warm weather, even some rain, melted one of the rinks and left the other two in bad shape.
But he said that many of the properties appeared to be in poor shape, and many were vacant.
The original floorboards are in bad nick with gaps between them and a few that are cracked.
Athletes are sometimes in good form and sometimes in bad form, and sometimes they don't know why.
entender mal [Verbo irregular: pasado y participio misunderstood]
misunderstand
misconceive
mishearing
get (hold of) + the wrong end of the stick
If we don't understand these customs and traditions we shall misunderstand books of that particular period.
Many librarians have misconceived their goals in the cause of archival preservation = Muchos bibliotecarios han entendido mal sus objetivos en cuanto a la preservación de archivos.
Libraries are not the silent sepulchral halls of popular myth, but busy and often noisy workplaces, and mishearing is not uncommon.
The Americans got totally the wrong end of the stick over this, they thought we'd kept it secret for six months when actually it was three weeks.
escribir mal a máquina
mistype
German man finds himself in Montana after mistyping his destination on a flight-booking website.
escuchar mal
mishearing
Libraries are not the silent sepulchral halls of popular myth, but busy and often noisy workplaces, and mishearing is not uncommon.
estar de mala hostia
be in an awful mood
be in a foul mood
be in a bad mood
be in a shitty mood
be in a filthy mood
When I finally got to Boston (having missed the wedding and most of the reception) I was in an awful mood.
Lucy was in a foul mood for much of the show's filming, partially because she had elected to stop smoking for health reasons when the show began.
If you are in a bad mood, then there's obviously a reason for it.
I hate when I'm in a shitty mood for no reason.
Our cat has been in a filthy mood after we left her at my in-laws for a week.
estar de mala leche
be in a foul mood
be in an awful mood
be in a bad mood
be in a shitty mood
be in a filthy mood
Lucy was in a foul mood for much of the show's filming, partially because she had elected to stop smoking for health reasons when the show began.
When I finally got to Boston (having missed the wedding and most of the reception) I was in an awful mood.
If you are in a bad mood, then there's obviously a reason for it.
I hate when I'm in a shitty mood for no reason.
Our cat has been in a filthy mood after we left her at my in-laws for a week.
estar de malas
be in a bad mood
be on bad terms
If you are in a bad mood, then there's obviously a reason for it.
He thinks her mother used witchcraft against him and they are on bad terms.
estar de mala uv
be in a shitty mood
I hate when I'm in a shitty mood for no reason.
estar de mala uva
be in a foul mood
be in a bad mood
be in an awful mood
be in a filthy mood
Lucy was in a foul mood for much of the show's filming, partially because she had elected to stop smoking for health reasons when the show began.
If you are in a bad mood, then there's obviously a reason for it.
When I finally got to Boston (having missed the wedding and most of the reception) I was in an awful mood.
Our cat has been in a filthy mood after we left her at my in-laws for a week.
estar en malas condiciones
be in (a) bad condition
The car appears to be in a bad condition, which is not helped by Penny, who pays no heed to the warning lights of the car.
estar en mal estado
be in (a) bad condition
The car appears to be in a bad condition, which is not helped by Penny, who pays no heed to the warning lights of the car.
estar mal
be wrong
feel under + the weather
be under the weather
He began swearing and saying 'I don't know what you're on about, whatever we do, it's wrong!' and of course I answered his nastiness back.
Staying out late, lots of glasses of wine and having way too much fun has resulted in us both feeling under the weather all weekend long.
Michael Jackson is 'a little bit under the weather,' but hasn't sought hospital treatment, his spokeswoman said.
estar mal comunicado con
have + poor connections with
However, many airports still have poor connections with their metropolitan areas because of congestion.
estar mal de la sesera
be soft in the head
One of the curses of being a well-known science-fiction writer is that unsophisticated people assume you to be soft in the head.
estar mal de salud
be in ill health
be in bad health
His grieving wife, Carol, had an inkling that Paul was in ill health, as he was off-colour for quite some time.
The evidence suggests that people who live in poor housing are more likely to be in bad health than persons living in good housing.
estar mal encaminado
be on the wrong track
be headed down the wrong track
Education is on the wrong track largely because of 'solutions' that have isolated teachers and students from one another .
More than half of 103 news directors polled in a nationwide survey expressed concern that their profession was headed down the wrong track.
estar mal preparado
ill-prepared
At the same time, as we noted, the profession itself is undergoing such rapid change, that the student trained for today's needs may be ill-prepared for tomorrow's.
estar mal visto
frown on/upon
This kind of transfer is usually frowned upon by budgeting authorities, however.
estar (muy) mal
be in a sorry state (of affairs)
be in a bad way
be in a bad state (of affairs)
Often quoted as the most polluted sea of the world, the Baltic Sea is indeed in a sorry state.
Several of those who are wounded, have had their limbs cut off, ?nd arc thought to be in a bad way.
In recent years the agricultural sector has been in a bad state of affairs, and a bold planning policy in this direction is necessary.
estar (muy) mal de salud
be in a bad state of health
But the young Queen was in a bad state of health, and died within forty days after her marriage.
estar tramando algo malo
be up to no good
get up to + no good
His mom could always tell when he was up to no good - it must have been that sixth sense mothers have.
It's a cartoon about a mischievous youngster who delights in playing pranks, being rotten to his relatives and generally getting up to no good.
funcionar mal
malfunction
Traditional optical bar codes can malfunction if the bar code is damaged or obscured.
gestionar mal
mismanage
Previous attemps to implement IT have been doomed from the beginning because one crucial component has been mismanaged: people.
golpe de malasuerte
stroke of misfortune
The most strenuous efforts will not always ensure success, nor the boldest arm of human power ward off the stroke of misfortune.
golpe de mala suerte 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.
hablar mal de [Derivado del verbo disrespect]
speak out against
speak + ill of
say + nasty things about
slag + Nombre + off
slate
diss
talk + shit about
bitch
Such restraint creates a ridiculous and pathetic situation in which librarians refuse to speak out against, or work to defeat legislation destructive to libraries such as California's Propositions.
All misanthropists hate or at least speak ill of the human race.
He is applying for a court order to ban his ex-wife from saying nasty things about him to the media.
People constanstly slagging her off for the way she looks is part of her weight problems at the moment.
Horror fiction has been slated by book reviewers and a similar prejudice among librarians could explain its under-representation in library stocks.
And she has the gall to diss a Nobel Prize winner who isn't even in the academic world.
If you're talking shit behind her back, how would I know you're not talking shit about me either?.
Don't bitch about her ever even when you feel absolutely sure it's never going to find its way to her.
hablar mal de Alguien
talk + shit behind + Posesivo + back
If you're talking shit behind her back, how would I know you're not talking shit about me either?.
hacer Algo mal
go about + Nombre + the wrong way
It may be that I'm going about it the wrong way, trying to learn it by rote rather than really understanding it.
hacerle a Alguien pasarlo mal
give + Nombre + a hard time
give + Nombre + a hard ride
When she rejected him everyone around the table gave him a hard time and called him a loser.
It took me years to work out a relationship with him and trust me I gave him a hard ride along the way - I was suspiscious, untrusting.
hacerle a Alguien pasar un mal rato
give + Nombre + a hard time
give + Nombre + a hard ride
When she rejected him everyone around the table gave him a hard time and called him a loser.
It took me years to work out a relationship with him and trust me I gave him a hard ride along the way - I was suspiscious, untrusting.
hacer más mal que bien
do + more harm than good
Antidepressant drugs do more harm than good, and even cause the deaths of elderly patients, say researchers.
informar mal
misinform
The paper tended to misinform and confuse its readers by discounting, ignoring, and even withholding disturbing facts and ominous signs that most other major publications included in their analyses.
ir de mal en peor
go from + bad to worse
This reawakening brought a determination to help make atomic energy a positive factor for humanity but things have gone from bad to worse re genuine disarmament.
ir mal
go + wrong
Areas of particular concern are: equipment set-up and use; helping develop search strategies, logon/logoff procedures; and emergency assistance when things go wrong.
ir mal encaminado
be on the wrong track
be headed down the wrong track
Education is on the wrong track largely because of 'solutions' that have isolated teachers and students from one another .
More than half of 103 news directors polled in a nationwide survey expressed concern that their profession was headed down the wrong track.
ir por mal camino
be on the wrong track
be headed down the wrong track
Education is on the wrong track largely because of 'solutions' that have isolated teachers and students from one another .
More than half of 103 news directors polled in a nationwide survey expressed concern that their profession was headed down the wrong track.
juzgar mal
misjudge
misconceive
Should they have misjudged the availability of such a source, they can anticipate alternate approaches.
Many librarians have misconceived their goals in the cause of archival preservation = Muchos bibliotecarios han entendido mal sus objetivos en cuanto a la preservación de archivos.
la mala suerte + acompañar
the odds + be + against
If the odds are against you and you believe you have lost a piece of baggage, have your luggage claim chits handy; they are usually stapled into your ticket.
la mala suerte + perseguir
the odds + be + against
If the odds are against you and you believe you have lost a piece of baggage, have your luggage claim chits handy; they are usually stapled into your ticket.
las malas noticias vuelan
no news is good news
No news is good news, in this case meaning there is no new clot in her lungs.
limpieza de malas hierbas
weeding
The author offers advice on planting and weeding gardening collections for the various climatic zones of the USA.
llevar por el mal camino
lead + astray
Ticknor's belief in the library's potential as one means of inhibiting the chances of unscrupulous politicians who would lead the ignorant astray explains his insistence that the public library be as popular in appeal as possible.
llevar por mal camino [Verbo irregular: pasado y participio mislead]
mislead
Furthermore, children can be misled by group influences into reading truly pernicious material (hard core ponography, for example) and when this happens adults have a clear responsibility to step in and do something about it.
llevarse mal
be on bad terms
He thinks her mother used witchcraft against him and they are on bad terms.
lo bueno y lo malo
the rights and wrongs
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.
lo malo
the bad
Does it seem that no matter what you do, the bad outweighs the good in your marriage?.
lo malo es que
on the downside
on the minus side
On the plus side, a few authors become rich, but on the downside, undue concentration on a few titles means that many worthwhile books go unnoticed.
On the minus side, Honolulu is a big city and has all the big city problems that come along with it, such as traffic, high cost of living, and some crime.
lo que está bien y lo que está mal
rights and wrongs
There are those who try to pressure librarians into only buying books that depict the traditional roles of men and women and that show absolute values of right and wrong.
lo uno es tan malo como lo otro
one is as bad as the other
It's either successful or the world will have to choose between Microsoft or piracy and one is as bad as the other.
lugar de mala muerte
shithole
Is it true that Harbin is a shithole full of angry people who love nothing more than to start fights with foreigners?.
mala administración
mismanagement
The Arab-Israeli conflict is, to a larger degree, a result of British mismanagement of the nationalistic ideals of both the Jews and the Arabs.
mala aplicación
misapplication
The problems that you refer to are not inherent computer system problems; they are problems in the misapplication of the technology.
mala calidad
badness
Measurement in and of itself is neutral and cannot indicate 'goodness' or 'badness' = La medición en sí misma es neutral y no puede indicar lo bueno o malo que algo es.
mala cizaña
rotten apple
The party's leader in Brussels said that any 'rotten apples' could contaminate the European Union.
mala colocación
misplacement
misfiling
Wastage is sometimes defined as material which temporarily or permanently has evaded the usual lending procedures due to misplacement, damage, non-registration, theft or non-returns.
The larger the catalogue, the greater the chances of misfiling, and the more likely it is that wear and tear will cause problems.
mala colocación en los estantes
misshelving
The most frequent reason for the misshelving of items in closed stacks was found to be confusion about the proper order of Library of Congress call numbers = Se encontró que la razón más frecuente de la mala colocación en los estantes de los documentos en los fondos de acceso restringido era la confusión sobre el orden correcto de las signatura topográficas de la Biblioteca del Congreso.
mala compañía [Expresión usada originariamente para referirse a una chica que había perdido su virginidad]
bad apple
rotten apple
damaged goods
The article is entitled 'Recruitment: Advice on how to avoid recruiting 'bad apple''.
The party's leader in Brussels said that any 'rotten apples' could contaminate the European Union.
They are seen as basket cases, 'damaged goods', the vulnerable children of the world who need the help and protection of the UN, NGOs and armies of therapists from the West.
mala conducta
misconduct
misbehaviour [misbehavior, -USA]
bad behaviour
Misconduct in research and publication have led to a loss in public confidence in science and publications = La falta de ética profesional en la investigación y publicación ha llevado a una pérdida de confianza por parte del público en la ciencia y en las publicaciones.
As expected, students in disorderly schools tend to have higher misbehavior and lower achievement.
In my experience it is always best to reward good behaviour and ignore bad behaviour as much as possible.
mala conducta científica
scientific misconduct
The author of 'Glory days or the lure of scientific misconduct' looks at fabrication, falsification and plagiarism in scientific research.
mala decisión
bad judgement
However, what is considered good judgement in one culture is often considered bad judgement within another culture.
mal + Adjetivo
poorly + Adjetivo
Many of the counter staff are female, poorly paid and have misgivings about the impact of technology on their work.
mala educación
impoliteness
bad manners
Using television documentary recordings of disputes between traffic wardens and car owners the author examines causes of conflict, disharmony and impoliteness.
The thing with football hooliganism is that, especially in countries like ours, it is a bigger issue than bad manners.
mala espina
bad vibes
Sure, we all have moments, but if a person is inclined to have these 'bad vibes' more often than 'good vibes,' then they need to step back.
mala experiencia
horror story
All I wanted to underscore with these four horror stories is that the judicious, discretionary assignment of added entries can either powerfully inhibit or promote access to the documents.
mala fama
ill-repute
bad repute
bad reputation
ill reputation
In olden days, women of ill-repute would put a red light bulb in their front porch light socket.
If you want to see a public institution in bad repute, look at the data on how the public views the press.
While it is much better to get off to a good start to begin with, there are things that can be done to clean up a bad reputation.
Untruth brings about ill reputation and indignity.
mala fortuna
misfortune
The economic misfortunes of the decade had removed much of the opposition to the working classes using public libraries.
mala gestión
mismanagement
The Arab-Israeli conflict is, to a larger degree, a result of British mismanagement of the nationalistic ideals of both the Jews and the Arabs.
mala hierba
weed
bad apple
rotten apple
Activities such as gardening or cookery are dealt with in many books in ways which go far beyond the simple keeping down of weeds or just filling empty stomachs.
The article is entitled 'Recruitment: Advice on how to avoid recruiting 'bad apple''.
The party's leader in Brussels said that any 'rotten apples' could contaminate the European Union.
mala hierba nunca muere
a bad penny always turns up
turn up like + a bad penny
look what the cat (has) dragged in!
However, like my professor likes to say, 'A bad penny always turns up'.
To make matters worse, Rebecca seems to be after Mark, turning up like a bad penny at every social event that he and Bridget are attending.
When I said hello he turned to his gaggle of friends and said 'look what the cat dragged in!' or something lame like that.
mala influencia
bad seed
bad influence
The 1956 movie 'The Bad Seed' provided a lasting cultural reference point for children who have attracted national attention for their asocial and violently structured lives.
This paper suggests that forced consensus in collaborative writing is a bad influence on imaginative scholars.
mala intención
sinisterness
ill will
But there was no trace of sinisterness in Balzac's manner.
On this theory, people are praiseworthy for acts of good will and blameworthy for acts of ill will or lack of good will.
mala interpretación
misinterpretation
In this case all the works of a given author will be assembled on the shelf under his/her name as well, so it is not really in conflict and I think there is a misinterpretation.
mala jugada
dirty trick
The end of one-party rule has brought chaos to Mexico as three political parties jockey for power in an atmosphere rife with recriminations and dirty tricks.
mala leche
nastiness
bad blood
He began swearing and saying 'I don't know what you're on about, whatever we do, it's wrong!' and of course I answered his nastiness back.
The conventional explanation of bad blood between Koreans and Japanese isthe 35 years of harsh Japanese occupation of Korea from 1910 to 1945.
mal aliento
bad breath
Oral products including mouthwash may actually be leading to bad breath because of the presence of alcohol.
mala ordenación
misfiling
The larger the catalogue, the greater the chances of misfiling, and the more likely it is that wear and tear will cause problems.
mala palabra
dirty word
The article is entitled 'Profit is not a dirty word: an argument for and development of fee-for-service programs in medical libraries'.
mala pasada
dirty trick
The end of one-party rule has brought chaos to Mexico as three political parties jockey for power in an atmosphere rife with recriminations and dirty tricks.
mala persona [Usado tanto para referirse a una persona como a varias]
rotten apple
a bad lot
The party's leader in Brussels said that any 'rotten apples' could contaminate the European Union.
The article is entitled 'Illegals not such a bad lot'.
mala racha económica
economic doldrums
People on both sides noted sardonically that economic doldrums were forcing Croats to turn to Serbs to help save them.
mala reputación
ill-repute
bad repute
bad reputation
ill reputation
In olden days, women of ill-repute would put a red light bulb in their front porch light socket.
If you want to see a public institution in bad repute, look at the data on how the public views the press.
While it is much better to get off to a good start to begin with, there are things that can be done to clean up a bad reputation.
Untruth brings about ill reputation and indignity.
mal argumentado
poorly-supported
Your points are weak and poorly supported, but that doesn't stop you from being right.
mal armado
ill-armed
They got licked by a bunch of little, ill-armed peasant guerillas.
mala semilla
bad seed
The 1956 movie 'The Bad Seed' provided a lasting cultural reference point for children who have attracted national attention for their asocial and violently structured lives.
malas experiencias
awful experience
These awful experiences caused some women to take up arms and joined various faction groups.
malas pulgas
ornery
grouchiness
grouch
My mama says that alligators are ornery because they got all them teeth and no toothbrush.
What I love about him is that, for all his grouchiness, he shows an amazing amount of tenderness to all his good buddies.
We all have a grouch in our lives and if we wake up on the wrong side of the bed or take our daily mean pill, at the very nicest, we have been described as a 'grouch'.
mala suerte
misfortune
mischance
bad luck
tough luck
hard luck
losing streak
whammy
ill-luck
The economic misfortunes of the decade had removed much of the opposition to the working classes using public libraries.
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 'Thirteen steps to avoiding bad luck in a serials cancellation project'.
The article is entitled 'Tough luck: To be a professional sport climber in America probably means you're broke, fed up and still no match for the foreign competition'.
Four scenarios are developed to explore the future of citizen participation: plenitude, transformation, continuity, & hard luck.
It seems like we're headed for another losing streak.
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.
¡mala suerte!
tough!
If you're such an ass-licker that you can't form your own opinions, tough!.
malas vibraciones
bad vibes
Sure, we all have moments, but if a person is inclined to have these 'bad vibes' more often than 'good vibes,' then they need to step back.
mal atendido
ill-served
The user is ill-served by a system which conceals a significant number of items which force the user to make a choice from a selection containing a great deal of background noise in the form of irrelevant citations.
mala tierra
poor soil
Some purists feel that a rock garden should contain only those plants which grow naturally on rocky slopes in poor soil.
mala voluntad
ill will
On this theory, people are praiseworthy for acts of good will and blameworthy for acts of ill will or lack of good will.
mal batido
badly-beaten
Often, too, there were knots of badly-beaten fibre visible in the substance of the sheet.
mal comportamiento
misconduct
disruptive behaviour
misbehaviour [misbehavior, -USA]
bad behaviour
Misconduct in research and publication have led to a loss in public confidence in science and publications = La falta de ética profesional en la investigación y publicación ha llevado a una pérdida de confianza por parte del público en la ciencia y en las publicaciones.
The article is entitled 'Disorderly conduct: crime and disruptive behaviour in the library'.
As expected, students in disorderly schools tend to have higher misbehavior and lower achievement.
In my experience it is always best to reward good behaviour and ignore bad behaviour as much as possible.
mal comportamiento científico
scientific misconduct
The author of 'Glory days or the lure of scientific misconduct' looks at fabrication, falsification and plagiarism in scientific research.
mal concebido
ill-conceived
half-baked
This is a classic example of hastily drafted and ill-conceived legislation.
Sony made a 'half-hearted, half-baked' response to cyberattacks that compromised personal information for as many as 100 million people.
mal configurado
misconfigured
This program can also discover misconfigured or faulty applications that generate suspicious data traffic.
mal considerado
poorly-regarded
Librarians trained in developed countries face severe psychological problems on their return to their resource-starved home countries where librarianship is a low-status, poorly-regarded, unappreciated profession.
mal criado
ill-bred
The king has just sent me word that he means to help only those that have been ill-born and ill-bred to make up for their misfortunes.
mal cuidado
mishandling
This article discusses decay of books with mould, an atmosphere that is too dry, insects, light, and mishandling of materials by people.
mal de ojo, el
evil eye, the
In folklore and the occult the evil eye is generally thought to be a sign of trouble.
mal día
bad hair day
The article 'Bad hair days in the Palaeolithic' argues that the familiar depiction of cavemen with longish, unkempt hair is not congruent with available archaeological data.
mal digerido
ill-digested
I was in for yet another of those numerously produced fantasies in which a pubescent child gets involved with underworld beings that are substandard versions of Le Guin's 'The Wizard of Earthsea' or peritonitic spinoffs from the detritus of ill-digested Tolkien.
mal educado
impolite
All subjects completed a four-page questionnaire in which they rated Americans on six bipolar adjective dimensions: friendly/unfriendly, polite/impolite, industrious/lazy, religious/anti-religious, generous/stingy, and patriotic/not patriotic.
mal emparejado
mismated
Library statistics invite the unwary to draw illicit conclusions from mismated numbers.
mal enfocado
ill-adapted
She was emotionally and socially ill-adapted, manipulated by a mother crippled by the conventions of appropriate female behavior.
mal escrito
mistyped
ill-written
badly written
If a computer-stored controlled vocabulary is used, the assigned terms might be checked automatically and new or mistyped terms would be flagged (marked).
The librarian's responsibility is firstly to review all new publications, eliminating the badly produced and ill-written.
LIS articles are inter alia often repetitious, badly written, poorly presented, boring, unduly reverent and parochial.
mal estado
disrepair
state of disrepair
The collection are mostly uncatalogued and in disrepair.
As a result the library is not only cramped for space, but in a general state of disrepair.
mal estructurado
ill-structured
This ability is becoming increasingly critical in systems that monitor and control complex processes in semiautonomous, ill-structured, real-world environments.
mal expresado
inarticulate
The overt arguments presented by the daughter, the son-in-law and the wife, are ineffective and incredulously inarticulate.
mal formado
ill-trained
Public libraries are often understaffed with underpaid and ill-trained employees.
mal formulado
badly formulated
It is also usually a mistake to attempt an on-line search with a vague or badly formulated question.
mal funcionamiento
malfunction
malfunctioning
All users are charged direct search costs plus an overhead for each request to allow for indirect costs (labour, hardware, software, training, system malfunction).
There are also genuine concerns about problems caused by incorrect design or malfunctioning of the system.
mal fundamentado
poorly-supported
Your points are weak and poorly supported, but that doesn't stop you from being right.
mal fundido
ill-cast
Seventeenth-century English printing was abysmally poor, and there are few books that were not set in ill-cast, battered type, clumsily arranged and carelessly printed in brown ink on shabby paper.
mal genio
bile
short temper
petulance
It would merely give him the opportunity to pour out his bile.
As mentioned above, angry outbursts, irritability and developing a short temper can also be symptoms that mask depression.
There are also those who all day long are mild, and courteous, and genial, and good-natured in public life, damming back their irritability, and their petulance, and their discontent.
mal gusto
bad taste
tawdriness
However, there is a gleeful bad-taste energy throughout; the film's dumb good nature is infectious, though hardly commendable.
The author makes the most of the sordidness of the first sexual encounters of the protagonist, Stella, and the tawdriness of the theater company where she finds her first job.
mal hecho para
ill suited to/for
Libraries in developing countries may represent part of an alien cultural package, an importation ill suited to the country's needs, even working at cross purposes to the people's interests.
mal iluminado
badly-lit
poorly-lit
They worked in cold, draughty, badly-lit rooms and suffered from tyrannical supervisors.
Never walk unaccompanied at night in poorly-lit streets or along deserted streets.
mal informado
ill-informed
Ill-informed advice has been responsible for the assignment of very low subject weightings to library and information studies.
mal juicio
bad judgement
However, what is considered good judgement in one culture is often considered bad judgement within another culture.
mal llamado
ill-named
Unfortunately, he supports President Bush's extravagances in his ill-named war on terror and ill-justified invasion of Iraq.
mal logrado
botched
Police beat the hell out of innocent students during a botched raid.
mal nacido
ill-born
The king has just sent me word that he means to help only those that have been ill-born and ill-bred to make up for their misfortunes.
mal olor
stench
stink
The stench was unbearable.
Hydrogen sulfide and other sulfur compounds are responsible for the 'stink' of most stink bombs.
mal ordenado en los estantes
misshelved
The problem of misshelved books is also considered.
mal organizado
ill-structured
This ability is becoming increasingly critical in systems that monitor and control complex processes in semiautonomous, ill-structured, real-world environments.
malos modales
bad manners
The thing with football hooliganism is that, especially in countries like ours, it is a bigger issue than bad manners.
malos tiempos
bad times
It is used less in good times than in bad, less in summer than in winter.
malos tratos
mistreatment
battery
maltreatment
physical abuse
battering
Centuries of mistreatment and bad handling, together with the environmental conditions have contributed greatly to the poor condition of the manuscripts.
The increasing frequency of notorious cases of conflicts between police officers & members of the general public (which in New York City has led to incidents of death, battery, & sexual assault) is cause for alarm.
Negligence and maltreatment of children is a phenomenon that hinders child development and causes damage to society.
Children growing up in households where aggression, physical abuse and other antisocial acts are the norm often act up in school.
This research analyzes the effects of ritual healing on women who have been victims of abuse, including incest, rape, and battering.
malos tratos a la mujer
wife beating
wife battering
wife abuse
Try finding prison reform, wife beating, intellectual freedom, or vasectomy in the 18th edition index.
The book 'How to get out' deals with wife battering.
Although the results provide support for the 'drunken bum' theory of wife beating, they also demythologize the stereotype because alcohol is shown to be far from a necessary or sufficient cause of wife abuse.
mal pagado
low-paid
underpaid
low-paying
In rural areas, too, great variations in wealth exist side by side, from affluent farmers and landowners on the one hand, to extremely low-paid farm workers on the other.
Studies conclude that librarians' jobs are undervalued and underpaid.
Ethiopians came in droves after a bloody military coup in 1974, and they worked in low-paying jobs as cabbies and cooks and parking attendants.
mal perdedor
sore loser
bad loser
poor loser
Now, he's a sore loser and talks to all of us in a threatening, condescending manner = Él es un mal perdedor y nos habla a todos nosotros en un tono amenazador y condescendiente.
They were just plain bad losers who in the end said, 'Since you didn't do exactly what we wanted to do, we're not going to use the code'.
In petty things he tended to be a poor loser; a defeat in a tennis game tended to put his nose out of joint.
mal planeado
ill-planned
Often the abstract is an ill-planned afterthought.
mal preparado
ill-prepared
ill-equipped
ill-trained
badly prepared
At the same time, as we noted, the profession itself is undergoing such rapid change, that the student trained for today's needs may be ill-prepared for tomorrow's.
University organisational structures are ill-equipped to cope successfully with modern pressures and rapid change.
Public libraries are often understaffed with underpaid and ill-trained employees.
This week's snowfalls in Britain have been a rude shock, causing huge disruptions, but why is this country so badly prepared for snow?.
mal presentado
poorly presented
LIS articles are inter alia often repetitious, badly written, poorly presented, boring, unduly reverent and parochial.
mal provisto
poorly stocked
In the south central United States more than 22 million acres of timberland are now poorly stocked.
mal redactado
ill-written
The librarian's responsibility is firstly to review all new publications, eliminating the badly produced and ill-written.
mal remunerado
poorly paid
poorly remunerated
low-paid
low-paying
Many of the counter staff are female, poorly paid and have misgivings about the impact of technology on their work.
This opportunity remains under-exploited for a sector of the profession which is undervalued and poorly remunerated.
In rural areas, too, great variations in wealth exist side by side, from affluent farmers and landowners on the one hand, to extremely low-paid farm workers on the other.
Ethiopians came in droves after a bloody military coup in 1974, and they worked in low-paying jobs as cabbies and cooks and parking attendants.
mal retribuido
underpaid
Studies conclude that librarians' jobs are undervalued and underpaid.
mal rollo
bad vibes
Sure, we all have moments, but if a person is inclined to have these 'bad vibes' more often than 'good vibes,' then they need to step back.
mal sabor de boca
bad taste in + Posesivo + mouth
After a month she reported no change in regard to the pain in her back, the dryness and sensitivity in her eyes and the bad taste in her mouth.
mal surtido
poorly stocked
In the south central United States more than 22 million acres of timberland are now poorly stocked.
mal sustentado
poorly-supported
Your points are weak and poorly supported, but that doesn't stop you from being right.
mal trago
awful experience
These awful experiences caused some women to take up arms and joined various faction groups.
mal uso
misuse
mishandling
In DOBIS/LIBIS, the characters in the password are manipulated by the computer as a way to protect the borrower record from misuse.
This article discusses decay of books with mould, an atmosphere that is too dry, insects, light, and mishandling of materials by people.
mal ventilado
stuffy [stuffier -comp., stuffies -sup.]
She wrote, 'the atmosphere of a bookshop I always imagine to be stuffy and fusty'.
manejar mal
mishandle
The new chemical was expensive, and in the early days it was often mishandled; much of the foxing of early nineteenth-century paper was due to inefficient bleaching.
más vale malo conocido que bueno por conocer
better the devil you know (than the devil you don't)
a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
In a way it's probably just as well the deputy has become the new chief; it's a case of better the devil you know.
Going by the idiom 'A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush' is not likely to be a successful strategy in an increasingly competitive environment.
más vale solo que mal acompañado
better alone than in bad company
You'll find someone better, and even if you don't it's better alone than in bad company.
mecanografiar
mistype
German man finds himself in Montana after mistyping his destination on a flight-booking website.
mejor solo que mal acompañado
better alone than in bad company
You'll find someone better, and even if you don't it's better alone than in bad company.
mirar con malos ojos
glower
scowl (at)
look + askance at
The whole place pulsates with drama: an aristocratic extravagance with giant statues glowering haughtily from its domed roof.
And their doctors continue to scowl at them like they're irresponsible children or greedy criminals.
They hate Asians, look askance at Africans and despise all Americans.
muy mal tiempo
severe weather
A weather warning is issued when severe weather is expected within the next few hours.
no + haber + nada malo en
there + be + nothing wrong in/with
There is nothing wrong in teaching the values of sharing and playing fair among sibblings.
oír mal
mishearing
Libraries are not the silent sepulchral halls of popular myth, but busy and often noisy workplaces, and mishearing is not uncommon.
pájaro de mal agüero
bird of ill omen
bird of bad omen
From classical times to the present day, the raven and crow have been thought birds of ill omen.
The curlew has always been a bird of bad omen to sailors.
para mal
for the worse
for (all) the wrong reasons
in a bad way
Books have the power to alter people for the worse as well as for the better.
Falling in love for all the wrong reasons can result in a broken heart which may even affect future relationships.
But, be aware that everyone will be talking about you (not necessarily in a bad way) because you're the only thing interesting going on.
pasarlo mal
have + a thin time
have + a difficult time
experience + difficult times
pass through + difficult times
face + difficult times
have + a bad time
But the week by week publication of details of companies' accounts in the Bookseller cannot but show that many publishing houses have been having a very thin time indeed.
Videotext services have had a notoriously difficult time becoming accepted in the US marketplace.
Consumer publishing is experiencing difficult times and there are specific developments which are influencing the market for children's books.
The author discusses the history of and services offered by the Folger Shakespeare Library which has passed through difficult times and emerged with a new building and a new personality.
This may be a reason why the publishing industry is facing such difficult times.
Be nice because we've been through a lot and are having a bad time and think this is the last straw of bad luck.
pasarlo muy mal
have + a tough time
have + a hard time
He had a tough time lugging his lumpy, oversized travelbag onto the plane and stuffing it in the overhead bin.
Scholars are going to have a hard time finding that reference.
pasar por un mal momento
go through + a bad patch
Everyone goes through good and bad patches but Kenwyne is riding on the crest of a wave at the moment.
pasar un mal rato
have + a hard time
Scholars are going to have a hard time finding that reference.
pasar un momento malo
go through + a bad patch
Everyone goes through good and bad patches but Kenwyne is riding on the crest of a wave at the moment.
persona que duerme mal
poor sleeper
Only the parent of the poor sleeper can understand what it feels like to have less than eight hours of sleep for three solid years.
persona vaga y mal vestida
slob
It's laughable when Archie Bunker says that, because we know he's an uneducated slob.
poner al mal tiempo buena cara
keep + Posesivo + chin up
put on/up + a brave face
put + a brave face on
She's kept her chin up as she nurses a new life into toddlerhood, and is now doing a lot better.
It's no secret that all Commonwealth Games sites are lagging behind schedule but the organisers are putting on a brave face.
You have to make sure you lead from the front and put a brave face on it during the tough times to bring people with you and get out of it.
poner mala cara
pull + a face
She winced and pulled a face, which only made her friend laugh harder.
poner malo
make + Nombre + sick
sicken
I have a roommate who masturbates every night and it makes me sick.
Their hypocrisy sickens me.
ponerse a malas con
run + afoul of
fall + afoul of
Unfortunately for them, this approach runs afoul of Iraqi tribal customs since they are, reportedly, endogamous with respect to tribe.
As some of her prophecies came true, she fell afoul of the authorities and was arrested by the Holy Order.
por la mala fortuna
by ill fate
The story revolves around a group of people who were not connected to each other in anyway other than by ill fate.
por la mala suerte
by ill-luck
by ill fate
by bad luck
As Baudelaire said, 'For if, by ill-luck, people understood each other, they would never agree'.
The story revolves around a group of people who were not connected to each other in anyway other than by ill fate.
It is an old legend that taking lava rocks from Hawaii results in being followed by bad luck.
por las buenas o por las malas
by hook or by crook
She wrote a paper with the title 'by hook or by crook: planning a year's syllabus for professionally-qualified students'.
por mala fortuna
unfortunately
unhappily
sadly
by bad fortune
Unfortunately, these factors simultaneously make the resolution of the situation more intractable.
Unhappily, an online subject retrieval catalog also has the potential for heavy burden on the computer.
Sadly, the information network has not so far been able to respond adequately to the special needs of business.
Usually, there were mules to ride, but by bad fortune, another party had arrived a day or so sooner and taken them all.
por mala suerte
by ill-luck
by bad fortune
by a stroke of bad luck
by ill fate
As Baudelaire said, 'For if, by ill-luck, people understood each other, they would never agree'.
Usually, there were mules to ride, but by bad fortune, another party had arrived a day or so sooner and taken them all.
However, by a stroke of bad luck, he came face to face with another assassin on his journey to the railway station and was shot dead.
The story revolves around a group of people who were not connected to each other in anyway other than by ill fate.
por mal camino
astray
This is why I think that they can face the fact that America is astray.
portarse muy mal con
be rotten to
be shitty to
It's a cartoon about a mischievous youngster who delights in playing pranks, being rotten to his relatives and generally getting up to no good.
Well, if you'd asked five years ago, I'd have said yes, that women are naturally inclined to be shitty to each other.
quedar mal
lose + face
have + egg on + Posesivo + face
have + egg on + Posesivo + chin
Fear of 'losing face' often prevents people from seeking counseling for psychological problems until the problems are advanced.
The Prime Minister did not like having egg on her face because she could not answer the questions herself.
The Attorney General was left with egg on his chin when no-one, not even his Prime Minister, bothered to inform him of this about-turn.
que queda mal
ill-fitting
Sometimes I wonder if someday I will meet someone whose presence won't feel like an ill-fitting overcoat, like something heavy in my pocket that I should've left at home.
quitar las malas hierbas
pull + weeds
This year we plan to use almost no herbicide - but that means a lot of work pulling weeds.
quitarse una mala reputación
clean up + bad reputation
While it is much better to get off to a good start to begin with, there are things that can be done to clean up a bad reputation.
racha de mala suerte
losing streak
run of bad luck
run of bad fortune
streak of bad luck
unlucky streak
It seems like we're headed for another losing streak.
Everyone has a run of bad luck at one time or another.
Nokia's run of bad fortune shows no sign of letting up anytime soon.
After a streak of bad luck, he was given a second chance to make a comeback, and he took full advantage of it.
As some of you may have read, we have kind of hit a bit of an unlucky streak, although luckily, we are still ahead a couple thousand dollars.
recibir mala prensa
acquire + a bad name
The Web has acquired a bad name largely as a result of naive and over expectant users.
recordar mal
misremember
Of course we misremember details, and sometimes we do subconsciously change stories to suit our own ends.
reformar malos hábitos
reform + bad habits
And those of us who manage the public's dollars will be held to account - to spend wisely, reform bad habits, and do our business in the light of day - because only then can we restore the vital trust between a people and their government = Y los que manejemos el dinero público tendremos que responder de ello (gastar con prudencia, cambiar malos hábitos y hacer nuestro trabajo a la luz del día) porque sólo entonces podremos restablecer la confianza entre el pueblo y su gobierno.
representar mal
misrepresent
When it is clear that material is biased or misrepresents a group, librarians should correct the situation, either by refusing the material or by giving equal representation to opposing points of view.
romper la mala suerte
get + a break
get + a lucky break
She finally got a break playing an actress who must choose between a career and marriage.
His dad finally got a lucky break, and working in a law firm is a pretty big break.
salir horriblemente mal
go + horribly wrong
Krissi said that it would be ready this week unless 'everything goes horribly wrong'.
salir mal
go + wrong
go + awry
misfire
backfire
Areas of particular concern are: equipment set-up and use; helping develop search strategies, logon/logoff procedures; and emergency assistance when things go wrong.
I have heard too many horror stories of such systems going awry.
While project ALBIS was seen as an exercise in networking that misfired it did produce some positive results = Aunque se consideraba que el proyecto ALBIS fue un intento de cooperación en red que fracasó, no obstante produjo algunos resultados positivos.
While this direct contact can backfire if the person is not knowledgeable about the product, it is also a golden opportunity to respond directly to customer questions and unique needs.
se avecinan malos tiempos
hard times lie ahead
Hard times lie ahead, the halcyon days are gone - perhaps forever.
sentirse mal
feel + bad
feel under + the weather
be under the weather
feel + wrong
feel + rotten
feel + shitty
Herzberg developed a questionnaire that required lengthy descriptive reports of events that made the worker feel good or bad.
Staying out late, lots of glasses of wine and having way too much fun has resulted in us both feeling under the weather all weekend long.
Michael Jackson is 'a little bit under the weather,' but hasn't sought hospital treatment, his spokeswoman said.
Usually, when I have trouble sleeping it's not because I feel wrong or anything like that, it just happens.
He feels rotten because he has to face his parents and tell them he was kicked out of yet another school.
Add to that the fact that I've been feeling shitty for days and you have the makings of major drama.
sentirse mal con Uno mismo
feel + wrong
Usually, when I have trouble sleeping it's not because I feel wrong or anything like that, it just happens.
ser culo de mal asiento
be a rolling stone
I was a rolling stone until you changed my ways.
ser malo
be a joke
spell + bad news
make + poor + Nombre
The Nobel prizewinning chemistry professor argues that TV's science programming is a joke.
An economic downturn wil spell bad news for publishers that have invested heavily in this strategy.
Some authors make good and others poor authors.
ser malo para
be rubbish at
Why are some people so good at everything while some are rubbish at everything?.
si mal no + Pronombre + acordarse
to the best of + Posesivo + recollection
This is a wholly truthful account of her various discoveries and misadventures recounted, to the best of her recollection, in four parts.
tener la mala fama de
have + a bad name for
This dude has a bad name for picking up chicks.
tener la mala reputación de
have + a bad name for
This dude has a bad name for picking up chicks.
tener mala cara
look + off-colour
They'll take any shot they can of a celeb looking off colour or worse for wear, anything to sell their papers.
tener mala conciencia
have + a guilty conscience
Most people have a guilty conscience from time to time.
tener mala fama
be held in disrepute
have + a bad name for + Reflexivo
'Vanity' presses are not the same as small presses and are held in disrepute.
She does have a bad name for herself and that is her fault.
tener mala fama por
be infamous for
Sanborn was infamous for his grating personality, editorial liberties and inaccurate accounts of people and events.
tener mala opinión de
hold + Nombre + in disrepute
The hypocritical inconsistency of politicians is one of the reasons why voters hold them in disrepute.
tener mala reputación
have + a bad name for + Reflexivo
She does have a bad name for herself and that is her fault.
tener mala reputación por
be infamous for
Sanborn was infamous for his grating personality, editorial liberties and inaccurate accounts of people and events.
tener mala salud
be in ill health
be in bad health
His grieving wife, Carol, had an inkling that Paul was in ill health, as he was off-colour for quite some time.
The evidence suggests that people who live in poor housing are more likely to be in bad health than persons living in good housing.
tener malas conexiones con
have + poor connections with
However, many airports still have poor connections with their metropolitan areas because of congestion.
tener malas intenciones
be up to no good
get up to + no good
His mom could always tell when he was up to no good - it must have been that sixth sense mothers have.
It's a cartoon about a mischievous youngster who delights in playing pranks, being rotten to his relatives and generally getting up to no good.
tener mal aspecto
be the worse for wear
look + off-colour
Charlie was clearly the worse for wear in this very rare interview from around 1984.
They'll take any shot they can of a celeb looking off colour or worse for wear, anything to sell their papers.
tener mal ojo para juzgar a la gente
be a bad judge of character
At the time, I thought maybe Obama was just a bad judge of character, now I believe he is in step with the beliefs of those that surrounded him then and now.
tener muy mala memoria
have + a memory like a sieve
have + a head like a sieve
Posesivo + memory + be + like a sieve
Posesivo + head + be + like a sieve
I usually have a memory like an elephant, yet when it comes to supermarket shopping, it seems I have a memory like a sieve.
I'm pleased the tablets are all marked with the days of the week as I have a head like a sieve when it comes to taking pills.
Sometimes she surprises us with the things she remembers, but sometimes her memory is like a sieve.
Your mother has always been absent-minded but these days her head is like a sieve.
tener (muy) malas pulgas
have + a (very) short fuse
He's the type of person who gets frustrated and makes a big deal about taking the wrong exit on the freeway or has a short fuse when something doesn't get done exactly the way he wants it.
tener (muy) mal genio
have + a (very) short fuse
He's the type of person who gets frustrated and makes a big deal about taking the wrong exit on the freeway or has a short fuse when something doesn't get done exactly the way he wants it.
tener una mala reputación
have + a bad reputation
Despite having a bad reputation and a negative connotation, hypnosis is in fact a positive process that has been used for thousands of years.
tener un mal concepto de Alguien
show + low regard for
give + low regard to
The low regard that many publishers have shown for indexers as enhancers of book sales and profitability may well have been justified in the past.
The author presents his opinions of the high quality of American libraries and the low regard given to them by state finance.
tener un mal día
have + a bad day
But the old printers were men, not abstractions, who had good days and bad ones and who improvised and botched without hesitation whenever their tools or materials did not precisely meet the needs of the moment.
terminar mal
come to + a bad end
The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to bad end.
tiempo muy malo
severe weather
A weather warning is issued when severe weather is expected within the next few hours.
tierra mala
poor soil
Some purists feel that a rock garden should contain only those plants which grow naturally on rocky slopes in poor soil.
traer mala suerte
jinx
She's afraid of becoming too involved with anyone for fear that she'll 'jinx' them like she 'jinxed' her husband.
traerse algo malo entre manos
be up to no good
get up to + no good
His mom could always tell when he was up to no good - it must have been that sixth sense mothers have.
It's a cartoon about a mischievous youngster who delights in playing pranks, being rotten to his relatives and generally getting up to no good.
tratar mal
maltreat
manhandle
push + Nombre + (a)round
Despite these findings, the label 'social isolation' may not accurately describe mothers who maltreat their children.
The 300 people, students or other, who took over the premises also manhandled ancient works of great historical value.
Over the last year he has pushed her around, fed her false truths, built up her hopes then crashed them to the ground.
usar mal
abuse
misuse
This system was often abused for a grasping clicker would see to it that the fastest compositor got the easiest work.
Another way our library has of learning about how our patrons use (or misuse) the catalog is through a suggestion box for patrons who have problems finding their subject heading.
vivienda mal acondicionada
poor housing
Poor housing conditions include many things, such as leaking pipes, damp, dangerous electrical wiring, disconnected power or water supplies and other.
