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Tema 2 Contexto 4 La ciencia y la tecnología p. 120-122
Lectura 4.2 Los cazadores de tornados
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| perseguir (i; g) | to pursue, to chase |
| equipado/a | equipped |
| potente | powerful |
| el comportamiento | behavior |
| empeñarse en | to insist on |
| activar | to activate |
| a la vez | at the same time |
| sorprendente | surprising |
| poner en marcha | to set in motion |
| el acontecimiento | event |
| el alud / el deslizamiento | avalanche, rockslide, mudslide |
| la inundación | deluge, flood |
| las nevascas | snow storms, snowfalls |
| las sequías | droughts |
| los terremotos | earthquakes |
| las tormentas eléctricas | electrical storms |
| los tornados | tornados |
| los cazadores | hunters, chasers |
| un centenar de | a hundred of |
| una docena | a dozen |
| echarse a | to throw oneself onto |
| la carretera | highway |
| cazar | to hunt, to chase |
| los fenómenos | phenomena |
| las siglas | initials, abbreviation, acronym |
| recorrer | to go over, to go through, to traverse |
| las planicies | the plains |
| entremedio/a | in between |
| el callejón | alley |
| el valle | valley |
| las cordilleras | mountain ranges |
| chocar (qu) | to collide, to crash |
| las corrientes de aire | air currents |
| la mezcla | mixture |
| apenas | scarcely, hardly |
| suscitar | to provoke, to generate |
| la forma de espiral ascendente | shape of an ascending spiral |
| contar (ue) con | to rely on, to count on |
| la flotilla | fleet |
| los todo-terrenos | all-terrain vehicles |
| los camiones | trucks |
| una treintena de | a set of thirty, a group of thirty |
| acercarse (qu) | to approach, to go towards |
| llevar a bordo | to carry on board |
| medir (i) | to measure |
| la velocidad | speed |
| hasta (30 metros) | up to (30 meters) |
| actualizado/a | updated |
| el sonido | sound |
| agudo/a | sharp |
| las ondas | (sound)waves |
| los detalles | details |
| sin el concurso de | without the help of |
| no se vive para contar... | one does not live to tell about (them)... |
| imprevisible | unforseeable, unforeseen |
| colgar (ue) | to hang |
| la nube cumuliforme | cumulus cloud |
| el vórtice | vortex |
| tocar (qu) | to touch |
| el suelo | ground |
| la catalogación | cataloging |
| la escala | scale |
| clasificar (qu) | to classify |
| bautizado/a | baptized, named, called |
| la sabiduría | wisdom |
| a su paso | with their passage |
| volar (ue) | to fly |
| convertirse (ie) en | to become |
| el ejército | army |
| desentrañar | to figure out, to get to the bottom of, to unravel |
| a medio plazo | in the long run |
| ¿Qué falta por saber de...? | What knowledge is lacking about...? |
| el trazo | sketch, outline |
| grueso/a | rough |
| la supercélula | supercell |
| rotar | to rotate, to twirl, to spin |
| desencadenar | to unchain, to unleash, to trigger, to let loose, to set off |
| prever | to foresee |
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