Translation of "pillar" to English language:
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| Pillar como pillar puede. | Catch as catch can. |
| Al ser extranjero, no pude pillar el chiste. | Being a foreigner, I couldn't catch on to the joke. |
| Llévate un jersey para no pillar un resfriado. | Take a sweater with you so you don't catch a cold. |
| Tom no puede creerse que Mary se dejara pillar. | Tom can't believe Mary let herself get caught. |
| Estoy haciendo todo lo posible para evitar pillar un resfriado. | I'm doing everything I can to avoid catching a cold. |
| Estoy haciendo todo lo que puedo para evitar pillar un resfriado. | I'm doing everything I can to avoid catching a cold. |
| A los tres les acaba de pillar la liberalización de los alquileres. | All the three's rent has just risen due to deregulation. |
| Ella no sale de la habitación, porque no quiere pillar otro resfriado. | She won't leave the room, because she doesn't want to catch another cold. |
| Pondré un sinsonte en un tren nocturno para pillar a un viejo roncando. | I'll put a mockingbird on a late night train just to get an old man snoring. |
| The two pillar approach is designed to ensure that attention is paid to different perspectives and the an overall judgement of the risks to price stability . | The two pillar approach is designed to ensure that attention is paid to different perspectives and the an overall judgement of the risks to price stability . |
| La Fed ha hecho lo posible por ser muy clara acerca de las intenciones, estrategias y oportunidad de sus políticas, a fin de no pillar a los inversionistas por sorpresa. | The Fed has tried hard to be very clear about its policy intentions, strategies, and timing to ensure that investors are not surprised. |
| Sin una conciencia razonable de su entorno sociocultural, pueden terminar viendo a las universidades meramente como un lugar donde buscar el logro de sus objetivos personales, establecer contactos útiles, disfrutar de la vida estudiantil y tal vez pillar una sensación de diversidad superficial. | Without a reasonable awareness of their socio cultural environment, students may view universities merely as a place to pursue private goals, make useful connections, enjoy student life, and perhaps pick up a superficial sense of diversity. |
| together with many other pieces of information and forms of analysis organised within the two pillar and t h e fo re c a s t s o f o t h e r i n s t i t u t i o n s . | together with many other pieces of information and forms of analysis organised within the two pillar and t h e fo re c a s t s o f o t h e r i n s t i t u t i o n s . |
| Nada puede pillar por sorpresa a un estadounidense. A menudo se ha dicho que la palabra imposible no era francesa. Obviamente, la gente miró en el diccionario equivocado. En Estados Unidos, todo es fácil, todo es simple y las dificultades mecánicas se solucionan antes de surgir. | Nothing can take an American by surprise. It has often been said that the word impossible was not a French one. People have obviously looked in the wrong dictionary. In America, all is easy, all is simple and mechanical difficulties are overcome before they arise. |
