mil

/ˈmil/, [ˈmil]

one thousand, thousand

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Cerca de mil personas participaron en la manifestación.

Nearly a thousand people participated in the demonstration.

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En total son unos diez mil dólares.

The total is approximately ten thousand dollars.

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¡Pido mil disculpas por llegar tan tarde!

Many apologies for being so late!

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Este árbol tiene más de mil quinientos años.

This tree is over 1,500 years old.

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Mil edificios están en ruinas.

One thousand buildings lay in ruins.

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Temer es morir mil veces, es peor que la muerte.

Fearing is dying a thousand times, it's worse than death.

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Ellos mataron a más de tres mil marineros.

They killed more than three thousand sailors.

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Me costó mil pares de cojones sacarme el carné de conducir.

I had to go through hell and high water to get my driver's licence.

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Declarar la guerra después de un ataque sorpresa es lo esperado, pero matar a más de diez mil no combatientes con una bomba es algo nunca visto.

Declaring war after a surprise attack is to be expected, but killing over ten thousand non-combatants with a bomb is something unheard of.

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Hay diez mil estudiantes en esta universidad.

There are ten thousand students in this university.

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Hay tres mil barriles de vino en el barco.

There are three thousand barrels of wine on the ship.

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Me aburriría si tuviera que contar hasta quinientos veinticuatro mil trescientos setenta y dos.

I would be bored if I had to count to five hundred twenty-four thousand three hundred seventy-two.

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Veo un reloj, pero no puedo imaginar el relojero. La mente humana es incapaz de captar las cuatro dimensiones, así que ¿cómo puede hacer la idea de un Dios, delante de quien mil años y mil dimensiones son como uno?

I see a clock, but I cannot envision the clockmaker. The human mind is unable to conceive of the four dimensions, so how can it conceive of a God, before whom a thousand years and a thousand dimensions are as one?

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Compramos una casa nueva por ochenta mil dólares.

We purchased a new house for eighty thousand dollars.

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El año pasado la inversión directa extranjera en China totalizó $3 mil millones.

Foreign direct investments in China amounted to $3 billion last year.

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No hay ayer ni mañana, pero solo ahora, como lo fue hace mil años y como lo será de aquí a mil años.

There is no yesterday nor any tomorrow, but only Now, as it was a thousand years ago and as it will be a thousand years hence.

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¡Tatoeba ha llegado a ochocientas mil oraciones!

Tatoeba has reached eight hundred thousand sentences!

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Su casa fue vendida por diez mil dólares.

His house was sold for ten thousand dollars.

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Los ojos dicen más que mil palabras.

The eyes say more than thousand words.

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El plan anunciado el martes exige 54 mil millones de dólares en recortes de impuestos.

The plan announced Tuesday calls for $54 billion in tax cuts.

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