she's+very+quiet

estar en paz — [gen] to be at peace; (fig) to be even, be quits ( con with)

la paz de los Pirineos — the Peace of the Pyrenees ( 1659)

hacer las paces — [gen] to make peace; (fig) to make (it) up

firmar la paz — to sign a peace agreement o treaty

estar or quedar en paz — (fam) to be quits o even (colloq)

hacer las paces — to make (it) up

y en paz — (fam)

si no lo quieres me lo dices y en paz — if you don't want it, just tell me and that'll be an end to it

descanse en paz — (frml) rest in peace (frml)

firmar la paz — to sign a peace agreement o treaty

estar or quedar en paz — (fam) to be quits o even (colloq)

hacer las paces — to make (it) up

y en paz — (fam)

si no lo quieres me lo dices y en paz — if you don't want it, just tell me and that'll be an end to it

descanse en paz — (frml) rest in peace (frml)

Ex: US libraries and librarians played a notable role, behind the scenes, in the preparations for peace toward the end of World War I.

Ex: The student might be reassured to recognize that this type of fundamental analysis of a subject need be conducted only once for each subject entering the indexing system.

• movimiento hacia abajo/arriba — downward/upward movement

movimiento de traslación — orbital movement o motion

• movimiento de cabeza — [para negar] shake; [para asentir] nod

una célula en movimiento — a moving cell o a cell in motion

está siempre en movimiento — (fig) she's always on the move o go *

mantener algo en movimiento — to keep sth moving o in motion

• poner en movimiento — [+ máquina, motor] to set in motion; [+ vehículo] to get going; [+ actividad, negocio] to start, start up

movimiento máximo — (Aut) peak traffic

el Movimiento (Nacional) — Esp ( Hist) the Falangist Movement

Ex: The vocabulary used in conjunction with PRECIS is split in two sections, one part for Entities (or things) and the other for Attributes (properties of things, for example colour, weight; activities of things, for example flow, and properties of activities, for example, slow, turbulent).

Ex: Hierarchical bibliometry would act as a positive drive to support the authorship requirements now stipulated by some international editorial committees.

Ex: During the parliamentary debates he pointed out the advantages to the public that would accrue from such havens of quiet and reasonableness as the library.

han dejado bastante comida — they've left quite a lot of o a fair amount of food

había bastantes invitados en la recepción — there were quite a lot of o quite a few guests at the reception

los niños han cambiado bastante — the children have changed a fair amount o quite a lot

lo he visto bastante últimamente — I've seen a fair amount of him o quite a lot of him recently

estoy bastante cansado — I'm rather o quite tired

es bastante fácil de curar — it's quite o fairly easy to cure

es bastante fácil de curar — it's quite o fairly easy to cure

Ex: There is a good deal of scope for users and novice cataloguers to find difficulty in identifying the appropriate heading for many of the works which are the responsibility of corporate bodies.

•a la vez, hablaban todos a la vez — they were all talking at once o at the same time

•¿has estado alguna vez en...? — have you ever been to...?

• las más de las veces — mostly, in most cases

• por primera vez — for the first time

• toda vez que... — since..., given that...

• por última vez — for the last time

lo he hecho cien veces — I've done it hundreds o lots of times *

•a veces, [algunas] veces — sometimes, at times

• contadas veces — seldom

• de vez en cuando — now and again, from time to time, occasionally

•¿ cuántas veces? — how often?, how many times?

• dos veces — twice

•en... veces, se fríen las patatas en dos veces — fry the potatoes in two batches

• por enésima vez — for the umpteenth time *

• muchas veces — often

• otra vez — again

• pocas veces — seldom, rarely

• rara vez, [raras] veces — seldom, rarely

• repetidas veces — again and again, over and over again

• una vez — once

érase o había una vez una princesa... — once upon a time there was a princess...

• varias veces — several times

• de una vez — (=en una sola ocasión) in one go; (=definitivamente) once and for all *

¡acabemos de una vez! — let's get it over with (once and for all)! *

¡cállate de una vez! — for the last time, shut up! *

•en vez de — instead of

• hacer las veces de — to serve as

• una vez que — once

• de una vez para siempre, de una vez por [todas] — once and for all *, for good

• ceder la vez — (gen) to give up one's turn; (en cola) to give up one's place

• pedir la vez — to ask who's last in the queue

• quitar la vez a algn — to push in in front of sb

mil veces or miles de veces — a thousand times o thousands of times

la de veces or las veces que se lo dije! — the (number of) times I told him!

érase or había una vez — (liter) once upon a time (liter)

¿por qué no lo dejamos para otra vez? — why don't we leave it for another time o day?

una vez más — once again o more

cada vez — every o each time

se utiliza cada vez más — it's being used increasingly o more and more

de una vez — ( expresando impaciencia) once and for all; ( simultáneamente) in one go

una vez que hayan terminado — once o when you have finished

hacer las veces de algo — caja/libro to serve as something; persona to act as something

¿quién tiene or me da la vez? — who's last?

mil veces or miles de veces — a thousand times o thousands of times

la de veces or las veces que se lo dije! — the (number of) times I told him!

érase or había una vez — (liter) once upon a time (liter)

¿por qué no lo dejamos para otra vez? — why don't we leave it for another time o day?

una vez más — once again o more

cada vez — every o each time

se utiliza cada vez más — it's being used increasingly o more and more

de una vez — ( expresando impaciencia) once and for all; ( simultáneamente) in one go

una vez que hayan terminado — once o when you have finished

hacer las veces de algo — caja/libro to serve as something; persona to act as something

¿quién tiene or me da la vez? — who's last?

Ex: In particular note, for example by ticking them, those terms that merit a turn in the lead position, and those that do not.