well-nigh en el Oxford Spanish Dictionary

Traducciones de well-nigh en el diccionario inglés»español

well-nigh [ingl. am. ˈwɛl ˈˌnaɪ, ingl. brit.] ADV.

well-nigh impossible/destitute

prácticamente

well-nigh impeccable

casi

Traducciones de well-nigh en el diccionario español»inglés

poco³ (poca) PRON.

1. poco (poca cantidad, poca cosa):

le serví sopa pero comió poca

I gave her some soup but she only ate a little o she didn't eat much

sírvele poco, desayunó muy tarde

don't give him (too) much, he had a late breakfast

por poco que gane, siempre es otro sueldo

no matter how little o however little she earns o even if she doesn't earn much, it's still another salary coming in

se conforma con poco

he's easily satisfied

poco faltó para que me pegara

he nearly hit me

poco y nada saqué en limpio de lo que dijo

what he said made little or no sense to me

lo poco que gana se lo gasta en vino

he spends the little o what little he earns on wine

compra más lentejas, nos quedan muy pocas

buy some more lentils, we've hardly any left o we have very few left

es un profesor como pocos

there aren't many teachers like him

pocos pueden permitirse ese lujo

not many people can afford to do that

2. poco:

poco (refiriéndose a tiempo) lo vi hace poco

I saw him recently o not long ago

hace muy poco que lo conoce

she hasn't known him for very long

hace muy poco que lo conoce

she's only known him a little while

tardó poco en pintar la cocina

it didn't take him long to paint the kitchen

falta poco para las navidades

it's not long till Christmas

falta poco para las navidades

Christmas isn't far off

a poco de terminar el bombardeo

soon o shortly after the bombing stopped

dentro de poco sale otro tren

there'll be another train soon o shortly

poco antes de que ella se fuera

a short while o shortly before she left

3.1. poco:

poco (poca) (refiriéndose a cantidades)

a little

poco (poca) (refiriéndose a tiempo)

a while

¿te sirvo un poco?

would you like a little o some?

descansemos un poco

let's rest for a while

descansemos un poco

let's have a little rest

espera un poquito

wait a little while

todavía le duele un poquitín o poquitito

it still hurts him a little

3.2. poco:

(un poco de) ponle un poco de pimienta/vino

add a little (bit of) pepper/wine

tiene un poco de fiebre

he has a slight fever

tiene un poco de fiebre

he has a bit of a temperature o a slight temperature ingl. brit.

come un poco de jamón

have a bit of o some o a little ham

3.3. poco:

un poco (hasta cierto punto), es un poco lo que está pasando en Japón

it's rather like what's happening in Japan

un poco porque me dio lástima

partly because I felt sorry for him

3.4. poco (un poco + adj/adv):

un poco caro/tarde

a bit o a little expensive/late

me queda un poco corto

it's a bit short o a little short o slightly too short (for me)

habla un poco más fuerte

speak up a bit o a little

4. poco en locs:

a poco Méx., ¿a poco no lees los periódicos?

don't you read the newspapers?

¡a poco no está fabuloso Acapulco!

isn't Acapulco just fantastic!

¡a poco ganaron!

don't tell me they won!

nos sacamos el gordo de la lotería — ¡a poco !

we won the big lottery prize — you didn't!

de a poco amer.

gradually

agrégale la leche de a poquito

add the milk gradually o a little at a time

de a poquito se lo fue comiendo

little by little o slowly she ate it all up

(en poco) en poco estuvo que nos ganaran

they came very close to beating us

(en poco) en poco estuvo que nos ganaran

they very nearly beat us

en poco estuvo que no viniéramos

we almost didn't come

tienen en poco la vida ajena

they set little value on other people's lives

me tienes bien en poco si me crees capaz de eso

you can't think very highly o much of me if you think I could do such a thing

poco a poco o Méx. a poquito

gradually

poco a poco la fueron arreglando

they gradually fixed it up

poco a poco la fueron arreglando

they fixed it up little by little

poco más o menos

approximately

poco más o menos

roughly

habrán gastado unos dos millones, poco más o menos

they must have spent in the neighborhood of two million

habrán gastado unos dos millones, poco más o menos

they must have spent in the region of two million ingl. brit.

poco menos que

nearly

es poco menos que imposible

it's well-nigh o almost o very nearly impossible

le pegó una paliza que poco menos que la mata coloq.

he gave her such a beating he almost o nearly killed her

poco menos que los echan a patadas coloq.

they practically kicked them out

por poco

nearly

por poco nos descubren

we were nearly found out

well-nigh en el diccionario PONS

Traducciones de well-nigh en el diccionario inglés»español

well-nigh [ˈwelnaɪ] ADV.

well-nigh

casi

to be well-nigh impossible

ser casi imposible

Ejemplos monolingües (no verificados por la redacción de PONS)

inglés

Defined in this way, snobbery is well-nigh universal.

www.radiotimes.com

On practical terms alone that kind of dynamic is well-nigh impossible to achieve en masse.

www.chicagotribune.com

This is well-nigh impossible to sell to public opinion.

www.independent.co.uk

But now after four decades of well-nigh unbroken denunciation, there are signs the pendulum might be swinging back the other way.

www.telegraph.co.uk

That is because there are so many factors at play, and it is well-nigh impossible to disentangle them all.

www.independent.ie

Everyone knows there is an informer in their midst but it is well-nigh impossible to identify where the leaks are coming from.

www.independent.co.uk

No, discord was the nectar whereof it supped, and here it proved to have a well-nigh bottomless stomach.

www.telegraph.co.uk

In particular, they'd resisted biopics on the grounds that it would have been well-nigh impossible to cast the central role.

www.independent.co.uk

But we keep improving it until we've well-nigh ruined it and have no idea how to stop.

news.nationalpost.com

As a teenager he worked at breaking wild horses to saddle-- which led to a teen-age career as a stunt man, stand-in, and extra in well-nigh 100 films.

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