Houghton Mifflin Electronic Licensing - The American Heritage Spanish Dictionary by the Editors of The American Heritage Dictionaries

The American Heritage^® Spanish Dictionary:
Spanish/English, Inglés/Español
Second Edition
by Editors of The American Heritage Dictionaries (Editor)

English and Spanish speakers are coming into increasing contact throughout the Americas, as businesspeople and tourists, students and neighbors, readers and Web surfers. The American Heritage^® Spanish Dictionary, Second Edition, is the perfect resource for everyone who uses, studies, or simply enjoys learning more about these two important languages. Featuring American English and Latin American Spanish, this popular bilingual dictionary is now fully revised and updated. More than 2,500 contemporary words and phrases have been added from the fields of medicine, sports, ecology, and the culture of the Americas, with a special emphasis on computer technology and the language of the Internet.

Key Features:

• More than 2,500 new words and phrases
• The latest vocabulary, from browser and webpage to ecotourism and telecommuting
• Thousands of idioms, phrases, and sample sentences
• Designed for quick and easy location of the exact translation
• Extensive sections on grammar and usage
• Tables of weights, measures, numerals, and irregular verbs

• Más de 2.500 palabras y frases adicionales
• El vocabulario más contemoránew, desde navegador y página web a ecoturismo y teletrabajo
• Miles de modismos, frases y ejemplos
• Diseñado para la ubicación rápida y fácil de la traducción exacta
• Gran número de observaciones d uso y anotaciones gramaticales
• Tablas de referencia para pesos, medidas, números y verbos irregulares

Technical Specs:

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Sample Entry:

ol·vi·do
m.
1. (desmemoria) forgetfulness
2. (estado) oblivion
los planes cayeron en el olvido the plans fell into oblivion

Idioms:
dar al or en olvido
to forget
echar al or en olvido
to forget
enterrar en el olvido
to cast into oblivion
poner en el olvido
to forget
sacar del olvido
to rescue from oblivion

news (n

z, ny

z)
s. pl. (uso con v. sing.)
1. (information) noticia
that's good news es una buena noticia
2. (newsworthy material) actualidad f.
3. (recent events) noticias
4. (broadcast) noticias, noticiario

Expresiones idiomáticas:
that's news to me!
¡eso es para mí una novedad!
to break the news to
dar una noticia a