Traduction de "a pedir limosna" à anglaise

A pedir limosna

• to ask for alms
• to beg

Exemples de traduction

to ask for alms

Vio a Richardson en el umbral de la puerta del despacho. No se movía, tan tímido como un mendigo que hubiera ido a pedir limosna, y no apartaba la vista del rifle. —¿Qué miras? —le preguntó.
He saw Richardson standing at the door of his office, as still and timid as a beggar come to ask for alms, his eyes fixed on Van Thiegel’s rifle. ‘What are you staring at?’Van Thiegel asked. Richardson’s presence displeased him.

Junto a las puertas de las iglesias había a menudo un grupo de mujeres. Él suponía que se apostaban allí para pedir limosna, hasta que un día vio acercarse a ellas a un borracho y observó, atónito que las mujeres se volvían hacia él y, con absoluto desprecio y rudeza, lo ahuyentaban a empellones.
A little knot of women was often to be seen by the church doors and he had supposed they might be asking for alms until one day he saw a drunken man approach, and watched, astonished, as the women suddenly turned upon the fellow with scorn and shoved him brutally away.

to beg

En virtud de la legislación de Irlanda, es un delito pedir limosna o hacer que lo haga otra persona.
Under Irish legislation, it was an offence either to beg or to cause a person to beg.

—¿Y has venido a pedir limosna? —Así es.
So you have come to beg?

Se avergonzaba de pedir limosna, porque su padre siempre le había dicho que sólo tienen derecho a pedir limosna los viejos y los enfermos.
He was ashamed to beg, because his father had always preached to him that begging should be done only by the sick or the old.