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wake up one day
Language:
Meanings:
1.
British English
American English
neutral
informal
To suddenly find oneself in a different situation or state, usually at some unspecified future time and often unexpectedly.
To realize at some point in the future that circumstances have changed without having noticed the gradual process.
2.
British English
American English
literal
neutral
To awaken on a particular day; to get out of sleep on one specific morning.
Examples:
EN:
He's racing it so loud the public's liable to wake up one day.
ES:
Lo está acelerando tanto que va a despertar al público.
EN:
They'll wake up one day and let themselves be bewitched.
ES:
Deja que despierten... y los encantaré.
EN:
If we don't, we might wake up one day in a debtors' prison.
ES:
Si no lo hacemos, quizá despertemos un día en la cárcel por deudas.
EN:
You might wake up one day as Lord Kilmarnock and as my heir.
ES:
Ud. podría un día despertarse como Lord Kilmarnock y heredero de mis propiedades.
EN:
Sit down for lunch somewhere without getting clubbed for it and you'll wake up one day, look across the ocean and you'll say,
ES:
Siéntate en un sitio a comer sin fijarte en el precio. Y un día te despertarás mirarás el mar y dirás:
EN:
He is going to wake up one day locked in a dungeon.
ES:
Un buen día terminará en un calabozo.
EN:
He expects to wake up one day and find himself right back where we were when this grisly dream started.
ES:
Espera despertarse y encontrarse donde estábamos cuando este macabro sueño comenzó.
EN:
I don't want to wake up one day, and we're strangers.
ES:
No quiero despertar un día y encontrarme ante un extraño.
EN:
You wake up one day thinking you're a winner, but you're not. You're a loser.
ES:
Despiertas un día pensando que eres un ganador pero eres un perdedor.
EN:
If you wake up one day with your throat cut...
ES:
Si te despiertas un día con tu garganta cortada...
EN:
How can a person wake up one day, and suddenly not be funny?
ES:
¿Cómo puede una persona se levanta un día, y de repente no ser divertido?
EN:
It's funny. You wake up one day, and suddenly you're out of love.
ES:
Es extraño que un día te despiertas yya no estás enamorada.
EN:
You're going to wake up one day, and that temporary job will be your full-time life.
ES:
Un día, ese trabajo temporal acabará siendo vuestra vida.
EN:
And if it's not, you will wake up one day and realize that you haven't even thought of her once.
ES:
Y si no, despertarás un día y te darás cuenta de que no has pensado en ella ni una vez.
EN:
You don't want to marry a saber saw and wake up one day and find yourself lying next to a... jackhammer.
ES:
No querrás casarte con una sierra y despertarte un día al lado de un martillo neumático.
EN:
He's racing it so loud the public's liable to wake up one day.
ES:
Lo está acelerando tanto que va a despertar al público.
EN:
They'll wake up one day and let themselves be bewitched.
ES:
Deja que despierten... y los encantaré.
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