rat

rata

Animal pequeño de cola larga, parecido a un ratón grande.

En inglés sencillo: A small animal with a long tail that looks like a large mouse.

• A rat ran across the floor.
• We keep two rats as pets.
• Did you see the rat behind the bins?

Expresiones frecuentes: pet rat, rat trap, a rat

traidor

Persona que traiciona tu confianza o ayuda a tus enemigos.

En inglés sencillo: A person who breaks your trust or helps your enemies.

• You told everyone my secret, you rat!
• She called him a rat for betraying his friends.
• Nobody trusted the rat who had sold them out.

Sinónimos: traitor, snake

Expresiones frecuentes: a dirty rat, that rat

habitual, asiduo

Persona que pasa gran parte de su tiempo en un lugar determinado.

En inglés sencillo: Someone who spends much of their time in a particular place.

• My brother is a gym rat.
• The mall rats gathered outside the food court.
• She became a library rat during her college years.

Sinónimos: regular

Expresiones frecuentes: mall rat, gym rat

delatar, chivarse

Contar a la policía u otra autoridad algo malo que ha hecho alguien.

En inglés sencillo: To tell the police or another authority about something wrong that someone has done.

• Please do not rat on me.
• He ratted out the gang to the police.
• Who ratted on us to the teacher?

Cómo se usa: rat on someone (He refused to rat on his brother.); rat someone out (Someone ratted her out to the police.)

Sinónimos: inform on, tell on, betray

Expresiones frecuentes: rat on someone, rat someone out

rayar, marcar

Hacer una marca en una superficie cortándola o arañándola.

En inglés sencillo: To cut or scratch a mark into a surface.

• He used a blade to rat the wood.
• She ratted a line into the soft surface.
• The knife had ratted a deep mark across the board.

Sinónimos: scratch, score

Expresiones frecuentes: rat a line, rat the surface