telón
curtain.
Zilg claims that his book 'Du Pont: Behind the Nylon curtain', which is highly critical of Du Pont, was allowed to go out of print prematurely as a direct result of pressure being brought to bear on the publisher by Du Pont = Zilg claims that his book 'Du Pont: Behind the Nylon curtain', which is highly critical of Du Pont, was allowed to go out of print prematurely as a direct result of pressure being brought to bear on the publisher by Du Pont.
bajar el telón
bring + the curtain down on
He has brought the curtain down on his long career in cricket by announcing his retirement.
servir de telón de fondo
set + the backdrop
This article presents the results of a survey of ALA-accredited schools to set the backdrop and to provide information on the ways that schools are integrating the new technologies.
telón + caer
curtain + fall
The third act is of course the denouement, when everything is made clear, all the loose ends are tied up, and the curtain falls.
telón de acero, el
iron curtain, the
The article 'Online behind the iron curtain' summarises the state of data base access in the socialist countries.
telón de fondo
background
backdrop
In the background has often been the need, at a time of declining financial resources, to demonstrate the relevance of the library to all sectors of society and there can sometimes be detected an element of patronization.
This article considers the relunctance of governments to provide the capital input for these developments as a backdrop for discussion of the issue of privatisation of public domain data bases.
telón final, el
final curtain, the
final curtain call, the
It regretably suffered a decline when Bill Owen died and now that Kathy Staff has gone I think that was the final curtain for the show.
This is the final curtain call for a program that took the entire nation by storm and succeeded beyond expectations.
telón + subir
curtain + rise
One of the main contributions in this issue is 'Future directions: the curtain rises on interactive video,' by David Hon.
teniendo como telón de fondo
against + background of
Problems, potential and standards for WORMs and WORM drives are discussed against a background of recent market surveys.
teniendo esto como telón de fondo
against this background
Against this background, the impact of introducing on-line facilities in 1976 is studied.
