butterfly

mariposa

Insecto de cuerpo delgado y alas grandes, a menudo de colores vivos.

En inglés sencillo: An insect with a thin body and large, often brightly coloured wings.

• A butterfly landed on the flower.
• We saw yellow butterflies in the garden.
• This caterpillar will become a butterfly.

Expresiones frecuentes: colourful butterfly, butterfly wings, butterfly garden

tira de sutura, vendaje mariposa

Pequeña tira médica adhesiva que mantiene juntos los bordes de un corte.

En inglés sencillo: A small strip of sticky medical tape used to hold the edges of a cut together.

• The nurse applied a butterfly bandage.
• Butterfly strips held the small cut closed.
• Keep the butterfly tape dry until tomorrow.

Sinónimos: wound closure strip

Expresiones frecuentes: butterfly bandage, butterfly strips, butterfly tape

cambio indirecto

Cambio inesperado en una historia imaginada, provocado indirectamente por la modificación de un suceso anterior.

En inglés sencillo: An unexpected change in an imagined history caused indirectly by an earlier event changing.

• That different birth date is a butterfly.
• The writer added several butterflies to the alternate timeline.
• This butterfly has little connection to the original change.

Sinónimos: ripple effect

Expresiones frecuentes: unexpected butterfly, possible butterfly, historical butterfly

abrir en mariposa

Cortar un alimento casi por la mitad y abrirlo hasta dejarlo plano, manteniendo unidas las dos partes.

En inglés sencillo: To cut food almost in half and open it out flat, leaving the two sides joined.

• Butterfly the chicken before cooking it.
• She butterflied the prawns with a sharp knife.
• Can you butterfly this piece of meat?

Sinónimos: split open

Expresiones frecuentes: butterfly a chicken, butterfly the shrimp, butterfly the meat

alterar la historia

Cambiar un suceso anterior para alterar indirectamente acontecimientos posteriores o impedir que ciertas personas lleguen a existir.

En inglés sencillo: To indirectly change later events or prevent particular people from existing by changing an earlier event.

• That change would butterfly her birth away.
• The author butterflied the election by changing an earlier war.
• An altered timeline can butterfly people who were born later.

Cómo se usa: butterfly someone/something away (The earlier peace treaty butterflied several future leaders away.)

Expresiones frecuentes: butterfly someone away, butterfly later events