La Palabra Del Día: "abocarse"
abocarse ( ah-boh-kahr'-se )
verb ( to apply oneself; to meet )
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Examples:
1: Adam decidió abocarse a escribir su tesis para acabarla definitivamente.
Adam decided to apply himself to writing his thesis to get it done once and for all.
2: Los directores ejecutivos se abocaron para discutir la empresa mixta.
The CEOs met to discuss the joint venture.
8 Answers
A veces me pregunto y a la misma vez peleo conmigo mismo, ¿si de verdad uno debe abocarse a las normas de una carrera? Si las mismas normas son las que tienen el mundo en un desbalance. (todavía pensando en mi acción)
Sometimes I ask myself and fight with myself that, If one really has to meet with the norms of a career? If those same norms are the ones that have this world unbalanced. (still thinking on my course of action)
I've decided to apply myself to reading all about the pathophysiology of epilepsy the whole day, since it's key to figure out its treatment.
He decidido centrarme a estudiar sobre la fisiopatología de la epilepsia durante todo el día, debido a que es fundamental para entender su tratamiento.
Marie Curie, esta mujer famosa se abocaba a la investigación de la radiactividad, y juntos con su marido anunciaron el descubrimiento de dos nuevos elementos de la tabla periódica; el polonio (al que Marie nombró en honor de su Polonia natal) y el radio.
Marie Curie, this famous woman used to focus on the research of radioactivity, and together with her husband announced the discovery of two new elements of the periodic table; polonium (which Marie named in honor of his native Poland) and radium.
Vamos a abocarse abocamos con al almuerzo. Lo compraré.
Let's meet for lunch. I'll buy.
Quiero abocarme cada día para completar un número de tareas en el jardín .
I want to devote myself every day to complete a number of tasks in the garden.
Los agentes de ventas se abocó con el jefe y crearon una nueva estrategia de mercado.
The sales representatives met with the boss and created a new marketing strategy.
Hoy nos abocaron para repasar varios asuntos, la mayoría de los que fue muy fácil, pero en un caso otro comité había recomiendo una solución con la que no estábamos de acuerdo, pero no parecía dispuesto a proveernos suficiente información para entender su decisión, así que todo lo que pudimos hacer es crear una contrapropuesta.
Today we met to review a variety of issues, the majority of which were very easy, but in one case another committee had recommended a solution with which we were not in agreement, but did not appear willing to provide us with sufficient information to understand their decision, so that all we were able to do is create a counterproposal.
Para ser médico hay que abocarse a los estudios por muchos años. Recientamente leí que un médico dijo que aprender la medicina no es dificil pero hay mucho.
To be a doctor one has to apply oneself to one's studies for many years. Recently I read that a doctor said that learning medicine is not difficult, there is just a lot of it.
