Vocabulario en inglés: delitos, robos y expresiones clave con traducción al catalán

Vocabulario de inglés: delitos, robos y expresiones con traducción al catalán

A continuación encontrarás una lista de vocabulario en inglés con su traducción al catalán, organizada por temas: expresiones, verbos frasales, delitos y personas relacionadas, y otros términos generales.

Expresiones

• Crime doesn't pay (expresión): committing a crime is not worth the risk of being caught and punished. / No val la pena cometre delictes
• Be on the ball (expresión): be attentive. / Estar atent, parar atenció; estar a l'aguait (estar al lloro)
• Be in your corner (expresión): give support to somebody. / Recolzar, estar al costat d'algú
• Don't jump the gun (expresión): don't start doing something too soon. / Precipitar-se
• Can't help: not to be able to control or stop something. / No poder evitar
• Keep track of (expresión): continue to be informed about something or somebody. / Seguir a primera línia, controlar
• Lose track (expresión): no longer know where someone or something is. / Perdre el rastre d'algú o d'alguna cosa

Verbos frasales (phrasal verbs)

• Turn up: a) arrive somewhere / aparèixer, presentar-se a un lloc; b) increase the volume / pujar el volum
• Bring up: a) raise children / criar; b) mention / mencionar
• Turn in: a) tell the police about something, hand over to the police / denunciar a la policia; b) go to bed / anar a dormir
• Give away: a) reveal a secret or identity / delatar; b) give as a gift, for free / regalar, donar
• Put down: a) write / apuntar; b) criticise and tease / criticar i burlar-se
• Back up: a) move in reverse / tirar enrere; b) support / recolzar
• Take out: a) remove / treure; b) go on a date / sortir de cita amb algú
• Watch out: be careful / anar amb compte
• Let off: let someone leave / deixar marxar
• Get away with: escape punishment / lliurar-se d'un càstig
• Break into: enter a private property illegally using force in order to steal something / entrar a robar
• Hold somebody back: stop somebody from doing something / impedir a algú fer alguna cosa, retenir algú
• Catch up with: succeed in reaching a person who is ahead of you / atrapar, agafar, posar-se al dia
• Sit out: not to be involved in something / no participar
• Try out for: to compete for a position in a sports team or a part in a play / intentar passar unes proves
• Go in for: enter a competition, take part in a competition / participar en una competició

Delitos y personas relacionadas

• Mugger: a person who confronts his/her victim with violence / atracador
• Con artist: a person who tricks people into giving them money / trilero
• Pickpocket: a person who steals people's things in large and crowded places / carterista
• Shoplifter: a person who takes things that are for sale / lladre de botigues
• Burglar: a person who illegally enters buildings and steals things / lladre (d'edificis)
• Robber: someone who steals money or property from a bank, shop or a vehicle, often by using force / lladre
• Get caught: you are found committing a crime / ser enxampat, "pillat"
• Fine: a sum of money that must be paid as a punishment for breaking the law / multa
• Guilty: convicted of a crime, responsible for a wrong action / culpable
• Trial: a formal meeting in a court where the judge and jury listen to evidence and decide if a person is guilty of a crime / judici
• Valuables: things that you own that are worth a lot of money / objectes de valor
• Fake: not genuine, imitation / còpia, no real o de marca
• Grab: take hold of something suddenly and roughly / agafar ràpidament
• Hesitation: act of pausing before doing something because you are nervous or not certain / dubte, vacil·lació
• Wig: a covering for the head made of real or artificial hair / perruca
• Thwart: stop something from happening / frustrar
• Likelihood: the chance that something will happen / probabilitat

Otros términos generales

• Barely: almost not / quasi no, amb prou feines, apenas
• Chilly: unpleasantly cold / fred
• Lean: in a sloping position, inclined / recolzat en un lloc
• Reassure: say or do something to remove the doubts and fears of someone / tranquil·litzar
• Strike (a match): produce a flame from a match by rubbing it hard across a rough surface / encendre un llumí
• Jaw: the lower part of your face that moves when you open your mouth / mandíbula
• Drizzle: rain in a very light way / plovisquejar
• Gaze: look at someone or something for a long time / contemplar
• Release: stop holding something / deixar anar
• Unfold: open something that was folded / desplegar
• Steady: not shaking or moving / ferm, estable
• Hand (verbo): give / donar
• Stunning: fantastic / increïble, impressionant
• Track: path specially designed for athletes and sports events / pista
• Glide: move without effort / lliscar
• Accomplishment: achieve your goals / exit, assoliment
• Background: family history / origen, procedència
• Flee: run away from a dangerous situation / fugida, fugir
• War-torn: severely damaged by a long war / desgarrat per la guerra
• Extended family: a family nucleus and various relatives / parents llunyans
• Chase: run after / perseguir
• Gift: a natural ability or talent / do
• Guidance: act or process of guiding or providing advice / orientació, consell
• Excel at something: be exceptionally good at something / destacar
• Excel: be superior to others in some area, do extremely well / sobresortir
• Draw: at the end of a match the 2 teams have the same score / empat
• Self-esteem: pride and respect for oneself / autoestima, amor propi
• Defeat: win against someone in a fight, war, competition / derrotar
• Willpower: energetic determination to do something and restrain impulses / força de voluntat
• Enhance: improve the quality, amount or strength of something / millorar
• Achievement: something done successfully with effort, skill or courage / assoliment
• Seek: go in search of something / buscar
• Referee: the official who controls a sports event such as football, basketball... / àrbitre