pasarse la vida: meaning & examples
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Meanings:
- Literal: to pass one's life; to live through a period of time.
Examples
BetaNos pasamos la vida trabajando sin descansar lo suficiente.
We spend our lives working without resting enough.
Mi abuelo se pasó la vida viajando y conociendo diferentes culturas.
My grandfather spent his life traveling and getting to know different cultures.
¿No sientes que te pasas la vida atrapado en la rutina diaria?
Don’t you feel like you spend your life trapped in the daily routine?
- Figurative: to spend one's life doing something (often implying a habitual, continuous, or excessive activity, or that the life is squandered in a particular pursuit or condition).
Examples
BetaCarlos se pasa la vida viendo series en lugar de salir y hacer algo productivo.
Carlos spends his life watching series instead of going out and doing something productive.
Si te pasas la vida quejándote, no lograrás cambiar nada en tu situación.
If you spend your life complaining, you won’t manage to change anything in your situation.
Mi hermana se pasa la vida estudiando para ser médico y está muy dedicada a su carrera.
My sister spends her life studying to become a doctor and is very dedicated to her career.
Examples:
- ES: Un hombre no puede pasarse la vida en un hotel.EN: A man can't always live in a hotel.
- ES: Es mejor ser modelo que pasarse la vida delante de esta cafetera.EN: I'm telling you girls, it is much better being a model than standing by this dumb espresso.
- ES: Qué ocupación tan desagradable, Chadwick pasarse la vida descuartizando cadáveres.EN: Though unpleasant, Chadwick... empty corpses to live!
- ES: Un hombre no puede pasarse la vida sin hacer nada.EN: Fella can't go around doin' nothin' all the time.
- ES: Supongo que pasarse la vida patinando en la nieve debe influir en el caracter.EN: I suppose when you spend all your time rolling about in the snow that doesn't sound purifying for your character.
- ES: No puede pasarse la vida siendo un hermano mayor para todas.EN: He can't go through life being a big brother to everyone.
- ES: Hansson, por ejemplo, está hecho para pasarse la vida en una fundición.EN: Take handsome here. He was meant to spend his life in an ironworks.
- ES: Uno no puede pasarse la vida tratando de vengarse.EN: You can't spend your life trying to get revenge.
- ES: Se me ocurrió que uno no puede pasarse la vida corriendo.EN: I got to thinking, a man can't run all the time.
- ES: ¿Piensan pasarse la vida alardeando, parrandeando, comerciando y fingiendo?EN: Time you stopped feasting and bragging, trading and cheating.
- ES: No es muy agradable pasarse la vida en la cárcel, Michael.EN: It's not very nice spending your life in jail, Michael.
- ES: -¿Quién quiere pasarse la vida pensando?EN: Who wants to spend a lifetime thinkin'?
- ES: Así puede uno pasarse la vida soñando.EN: You can dream away your whole life like that.
- ES: Ud. parece que quiera pasarse la vida en el manicomio.EN: You seem to want to spend your life in the asylum.
- ES: Un hombre casado no puede pasarse la vida caminando por el mundo.EN: With a wife, I can't keep wandering like a Gypsy.
- ES: Todos los académicos deberían pasarse la vida... pintando una silla tan real que casi pudieras sentarte en ella.EN: All the academicians that have spent a lifetime painting a...a chair so exact that you could almost sit on it.
- ES: - No puede pasarse la vida...EN: - You can't spend your life...
- ES: Uno podría pasarse la vida persiguiendo a ese muchacho.EN: A body could spend a lifetime chasing' that boy.
- ES: Y no quiere pasarse la vida mudándose de una casa a otra.EN: And he doesn't want to spend his life moving from one house to another.
- ES: Pero pasarse la vida escuchando a gente mayor es un poco duro.EN: Still, you don't spend your life listening to people my age, it would be too tedious.
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