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"Ok, ok... I do, I do! With reluctance?" Sometimes, long words in English are similar to their counterparts in Spanish. Comfortable is Confortable and Instrumental is Instrumental, for instance. It's not always like that, though, and such is the case of the word RELUCTANCE. RELUCTANCE or RELUCTANCY is an attitude. It is you when you are unwilling to do something. If you do not want to vote for a certain candidate then you are reluctant to vote for him or her. To put it into Spanish is a bit more complicate. RELUCTANCE is definitely not Reluctancia, and the noun Reluctante does not exist either. The term is RENUENCIA from which we get the noun RENUENTE (unwilling to do something).

"Fine, I don't get to be the president, but at least I got this to make me feel HEADY..." Though not necessarily a positive thing something is labeled HEADY when it is stimulating. It can be applied to alcoholic drinks (for obvious reasons), and also to situations that excite your senses in a powerful way such as a good book, a terrific film or a great accomplishment. It can also have a negative side, and then something that is HEADY is impetous or violent. In Spanish HEADY could be, depending on the situation, EMBRIAGADOR, VERTIGINOSO or PRECIPITADO. 

Can we make that thing of ANDAR CON PIES DE PLOMO stronger? Whar if we say ANDAR CON PIES DE HIERRO?  The literal translation would be something like WALK WITH LEAD FEET which certainly sounds odd in English if not funny. Of course that is not how you say it in English. We could say WALK ON EGGSHELLS meaning we have to be extremely careful in whatever we are attempting to do. One that is perhaps more common is TREAD CAREFULLY or WARILY.

"I' m about to eclipse the Sun in 3, 2, ..." This is one of those expressions that do not make any sense in Spanish if they are translated literally.  It is definitely not SENTARSE EN EL SOL which would be quite inconvenient if it could be done for real. The right expression in Spanish is ASOLEARSE or TOMAR EL SOL . There are of course other ways to say the same such as LIE IN THE SUN, SUNBATHE or SUN TAN.

If the second were true, credit cards would not be so successful. This is one Spanish wins. There is not one word to define what FIAR is in English.  FIAR is when you sell a product but admit the purchaser to pay at a later date. The most likely translations would be SELL ON CREDIT or BUY ON CREDIT depending on who's speaking, the seller or the buyer. GIVE CREDIT is also possible, however, this expression also has another meaning which is to acknowledge someone's merits.

This GAZEBO is so cozy people get sleepy after a while and return home to go to bed. Nice word, right? Lots of terms in English look like other words in Spanish, e.g. Hamburger is Hamburguesa, Comfortable is Confortable and Delicious is Delicioso. But GAZEBO...there is no even etymology for such term, though there are several hypotheses about its origin.  You can find GAZEBOS in gardens or in places in the open. They have several purposes: they are ornamental, they serve as shelters, and also as observatories (which is why they are located in cozy and quiet places). There are a few words in Spanish for GAZEBO (even QUIOSCO qualifies), but the one that is closest in meaning is GLORIETA.

Museum Guide: "And here you can see authentic FORGED documents from the early XX century." Well forget about To Falsificate, which actually is the Italian word for this crime.  To Falsify does exist but it means to alter a document to make it look false or incorrect. When you falsify something you take something and change it in a way it looks real but it's still intrinsically something else.  For instance, if you take a one-dollar bill and change it so as to look like a five-dollar bill that is to falsify. (the product is known as Counterfeit Money) If I make a document that never existed before or I create counterfeit money and next I claim it is real then that is FORGERY.  The verb TO FORGE exists and indeed it means to create a document for the purposes of deception but it also means to shape metal by hitting it in a furnace and then hammering it.