high-flown v slovarju Oxford Spanish Dictionary

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high-flown [am. angl. ˈhaɪ ˈˌfloʊn, brit. angl. ˌhʌɪˈfləʊn] PRID.

high-flown language/rhetoric:

high-flown

altisonante

high-flown

rimbombante

language [am. angl. ˈlæŋɡwɪdʒ, brit. angl. ˈlaŋɡwɪdʒ] SAM.

1. language C or U (speech, means of communication):

language

lenguaje m. spol

the language of gesture

el lenguaje gestual or de los gestos

atribut. language acquisition

adquisición ž. spol del lenguaje

2. language U (style, terminology):

language

lenguaje m. spol

scientific/poetic/high-flown language

lenguaje científico/poético/elevado

natural language RAČ.

lenguaje natural

I've never heard him use such language before

nunca le había oído decir tales palabrotas

watch or mind your language!

¡no digas palabrotas!

language!

¡esa boca … !

3.1. language C (particular tongue):

language

idioma m. spol

language

lengua ž. spol

she's fluent in five languages

habla cinco idiomas con fluidez

the English language

la lengua inglesa

the English language

el idioma inglés

first language (native tongue)

lengua materna

language course

curso m. spol de idiomas

language degree

licenciatura ž. spol en filología or idiomas

language school

escuela ž. spol de idiomas

language skills

aptitudes ž. spol mn. lingüísticas

language student

estudiante m. in ž. spol de idiomas

language studies

estudios m. spol mn. de idiomas

language teacher

profesor m. spol de idiomas / profesora ž. spol de idiomas

language teaching

enseñanza ž. spol de idiomas

3.2. language C RAČ.:

language

lenguaje m. spol

glej tudi second language

second language SAM.

second language

segunda lengua ž. spol

second language

segundo idioma m. spol

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rimbombante PRID.

rimbombante estilo

grandiose

rimbombante estilo

overblown

rimbombante estilo

pompous

rimbombante palabras

high-flown

rimbombante palabras

pompous

rimbombante boda/fiesta

ostentatious

rimbombante boda/fiesta

grandiose

rimbombante boda/fiesta

showy

redicho (redicha) PRID. pog.

es muy redicho adulto:

he uses all these high-flown words

es muy redicho niño:

he uses all these big words

libro SAM. m. spol

1. libro TIPOGRAF.:

libro

book

un libro de arquitectura/sobre el imperio romano

a book on architecture/on the Roman Empire

un libro de cocina

a cookbook

un libro de cocina

a cookery book brit. angl.

hablar como un libro (abierto) (con afectación)

to use high-flown o highfalutin language

hablar como un libro (abierto) (con sensatez)

to talk sense

hablar como un libro (abierto) (con sensatez)

to know what one is talking about

perder los libros

to lose one's touch

perder los libros

to lose the knack pog.

sabérselas por libro Čile

to know every trick in the book

sabérselas por libro Čile

to know what one is talking about/doing

ser (como) un libro abierto

to be an open book

no intentes negarlo, eres un libro abierto

don't try to deny it, I can read you like a book o you're an open book

2.1. libro <libros mpl > FINAN.:

llevaba los libro de la empresa

I was keeping the books o doing the bookkeeping for the company

2.2. libro <libros mpl > (lectura):

no le gustan los libros

he doesn't like reading

colgar los libro

to quit studying am. angl.

colgar los libro

to give up studying brit. angl.

3. libro LIT. (parte):

libro

book

Individual translation pairs

altisonante

highflown

high-flown v slovarju PONS

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high-flown PRID.

high-flown

exagerado, -a

high-flown ideas

ideas ž. spol mn. altisonantes

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altisonante PRID.

altisonante

high-flown

pomposo (-a) PRID.

pomposo (-a)

magnificent

pomposo (-a) (grandilocuente)

high-flown

pomposo (-a) (estilo)

pompous

Enojezični primeri (nepregledani od uredništva PONS)

angleščina

Aimed high without being high-flown, her speech just poured from her.

www.telegraph.co.uk

And to our ears that sounds very, very esoteric and very high-flown.

www.npr.org

He answered me with an indecipherable, high-flown metaphor.

time.com

He caught its mood in pieces which turn their back on technical sheen, grand dimensions and high-flown sentiments.

www.telegraph.co.uk

This high-flown phrase has a down-to-earth meaning, denoting the short-sightedness that afflicts elected governments.

www.thestar.com

Kay bravely winds high-flown phrasing around the bones of a melodramatic plot.

www.ft.com

It's a high-flown exercise in theatrical silliness for its own splendid sake.

www.independent.co.uk

Their rhythms were untutored, careening out of control in exhilarating ways; their lyrics came unadorned with poetry or high-flown sentiment.

www.theglobeandmail.com

Instead, he wants to expose the rickety foundations that high-flown rhetoric can obscure.

newrepublic.com

Interludes came to be replaced as expressions of public drama by a high-flown and imagistic preaching style and dialogues on moral issues such as temperance.

en.wikipedia.org