a la larga: meaning & examples
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Meanings:
- In the long term; over an extended period of time; eventually.
- Ultimately, when future consequences are taken into account.
Examples
BetaA la larga, todos los esfuerzos que hiciste valdrán la pena.
In the long run, all the efforts you made will be worth it.
No te preocupes por las dificultades ahora; a la larga, las cosas mejorarán.
Don’t worry about the difficulties now; eventually, things will get better.
Si seguimos invirtiendo en educación, a la larga tendremos una sociedad más preparada.
If we keep investing in education, in the long term we will have a better prepared society.
Examples:
- ES: Pese a la larga duración del espectáculo, la recaudación fue baja.EN: Even after a long closing, only this small turnout,
- ES: Nunca hizo nuestros ejercicios, y esa clase de publicidad no nos hará bien a la larga.EN: Why, he's never taken any of our exercises, and publicity like that isn't going to do us any good in the long run.
- ES: Mire, esto del sr. Torresani, a la larga no le conviene.EN: Look, this thing with Herr Torresani, it can't be good in the long run.
- ES: Se cansaría a la larga.EN: You would feel a bit cramped, eventually.
- ES: Quizá quise decir que, a la larga, te echaría a perder para ti misma.EN: Maybe I meant it would eventually spoil you for yourself.
- ES: Ninguna mujer, sin protección, debe ofrendar los mejores años de su vida a un hombre que cuando la abandone la dejará sin nada él la dejará a la larga.EN: No woman, unprotected as you are, can afford to give the best years of her life to a man who, when he leaves her, will leave her with nothing and who is certain to leave her in the end.
- ES: Tienen lo mejor, a la larga sale a cuenta.EN: They handle only the best and I think in the long run it pays, don't you?
- ES: Y no olvidemos que a la larga, se olvida.EN: - You make friends.
- ES: Y a la larga vendrá a rogarme que la contrate... y se dará cuenta del valor que tiene cuidar a su hijo.EN: I'll say it is. And eventually you'll come and you'll beg for your job back. And then you'll realise what it is to have security and a chance to bring up your child yourself.
- ES: El uso de nuestros cerebros, mentes, y aquello con lo que funcionamos provoca su expulsión y a la larga nos mata.EN: For using our brains, our minds, which drive us, wear us out and eventually kill us.
- ES: El que la encuentre morirá por su pueblo. Se unirá a la larga lista de los mártires de la Historia y liberará su país del tirano.EN: He who gets it must give up his life to free his people, but... he will join the long line of history`s noble martyrs and will rid his country of a tyrant.
- ES: - Bien, la última investigación centrífuga... realizada por los científicos de Bronxville ha demostrado... que el silogismo es enigmático a la larga resistencia, en especial en caballería.EN: - Now, the latest centrifugal research as performed by Bronxville scientists has proven that syllogism is enigmatic to prolonged resistance, especially in the cavalry.
- ES: Pues no, los pobres hombres siempre han contado porque a la larga, el carácter de un país es la suma total del carácter de sus pobres hombres.EN: You're dead wrong. Little punks have always counted because in the long run the character of a country is the sum total of the character of it's little punks.
- ES: No le convendría a la larga.EN: It wouldn't pay... in the long run.
- ES: Pero, a la larga, es cansino.EN: Yet, in the long run, it's tiring.
- ES: Sí, pero Cherry es a la larga la mejor elección.EN: Yeah, but Cherry'II weight out the better of the two in the Iong run.
- ES: Nunca conocí un artista que a la larga no prefiera ser una mejor persona que actor.EN: I've never met a performer who in the long run wouldn't rather be a great guy than a great actor.
- ES: No hace falta que le diga que en Alemania los criminales lograron a la larga encarcelar a los ciudadanos honrados.EN: Well, I needn't tell you, sir, that in Germany the gangsters finally succeeded in putting the honest citizens in jail.
- ES: Me marcho de Gran Libertad... a la larga, eso no es vida.EN: I'm leaving the Great Freedom, in the long run that's no life.
- ES: Si no lo quieren así, no tendrá demasiada importancia a la larga.EN: If they don't want it that way, it won't make much difference in the long run.
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