Technical Spanish Adjective Exercise 2
EXERCISE 2
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- We are open (dispuestos) to charter a small steamer or a sailing vessel for St. Thomas in the West Indies.
- We can offer you a small one for a voyage out and home (de ida y vuelta).
- The heating surface (superficie de caldeo) is (es de) 20' X 15'.
- These warehouses are 30' long, 20' wide (de ancho) and 15 feet high (de alto).
- Some are built with stone and mortar (son de mampostería), others with firebricks, and they are the best in the docks.
- Last week nothing was doing (no se hacía) on 'Change, but' to-day leading operators are distinctly bullish (trabajan distintamente por la alza) and have acquired a further large holding (y se han afianzado mucho más), being more convinced than ever that prices will climb[2] (subirán) to a much higher level.
- Meanwhile the market is getting dangerously overbought (el exceso de compras en el mercado se hace peligroso).
- He gave me too short a notice (aviso) and the consequence was 20 bales were short shipped (no se expidieron).
- He now complains of being short of (que le faltan) printed linings, jacconets and crimps, also of short measure (de falta de medida) in some of the cloth invoiced.
- Their orders fall short (son mucho menos) of what we expected.
- We have run short of (se nos ha acabado) the raw material.
- Our correspondents are short-staffed (no tienen bastante personal), hence their delaying often to send out (y por tanto a menudo retardan el envío de) our invoices, which is a great inconvenience.
Footnote 2: To climb--Trepar.]
Category: General Spanish