Translation for "broken brick" to spanish
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She stooped to pick up a bit of broken brick and threw it out of the furrow.
Se bajo a coger un pedazo de ladrillo roto y lo echó fuera del surco.
He tripped and pitched forward, gashing his left knee on a broken brick.
Tropezó con él y cayó de bruces, abriéndose un corte profundo en la rodilla izquierda con un ladrillo roto.
shadows grew hard. Light fell on the stepped line of a broken brick wall.
las sombras se hicieron más nítidas. La luz hacía destacar la angulosa silueta de un muro de ladrillo roto.
And then up onto the roofs, King Rat ascending by a stairway of iron piping and broken brick.
Y, después, a subir a los tejados. El Rey Rata ascendía por una escalera de tuberías de acero y ladrillo roto.
Nothing remained of the lobby’s right-hand wall except for stubs of broken brick, low down at floor level.
Nada quedaba de la pared de mano derecha del recibidor salvo por unos pedazos de ladrillo roto, abajo al nivel del piso.
She would have to wait until she had been taken to America, until she had killed that homeless man, until she had bashed his head in with a broken brick and watched his blood drip on to her shoe, watched the gentle way it splashed— No. That wasn’t her.
Tuvo que esperar hasta que la llevaron a Estados Unidos, hasta que asesinó a aquel vagabundo, hasta que le golpeó la cabeza con un ladrillo roto y vio la sangre que manchaba su zapato, la suavidad con la que manaba… No.
He went in through the back door, and crossed a gaunt kitchen, of which he had afterwards only the haziest recollection—dingy wartime “utility” furniture, a stained sink, hospital-green cupboards, an ancient gas-cooker, one leg propped unsteadily on a broken brick.
Entró en la casa y atravesó una cocina lúgubre, de la que luego conservó un recuerdo vago: muebles de la época de la guerra, deslucidos y sobrios, armarios color verde hospital, una vieja cocina de gas con una pata precariamente apuntalada sobre un ladrillo roto.
Most of them made me want to laugh: there were people with cubic shoulders and knees and heads and breasts of disproportionate sizes, and landscapes portrayed in stark colours, made of something like crepe paper. Crystal vases as shapeless as the shards of broken bricks, flowers as lifeless as if they had been pressed inside books for many years, and finally these dreadful portraits that looked like the sketches of criminals … Yet the visitors were enjoying themselves. Perhaps I should have dismissed these artists for presuming they could achieve great height from such little effort.
La mayor parte de las pinturas me daban ganas de reír. Rodillas y hombros angulosos, cabezas y pechos desproporcionados, paisajes naturales con unos colores tan intensos que parecían hechos con papel charol, jarrones de cristal tan amorfos como un pedazo de ladrillo roto, flores tan muertas como si llevaran años dentro de un libro y, por fin, retratos tan horribles que parecían sacados de un álbum de criminales... Al menos era divertido. Quizá fuera inevitable molestarse con aquella gente que pretendía hacer obras insignes invirtiendo tan poco esfuerzo.
A recently released detainee testified that he was made to kneel barelegged on broken bricks and also made to stand on tiptoe for long periods.
Un preso puesto en libertad hacía poco había testificado que le habían obligado a ponerse de rodillas en ladrillos rotos y a mantenerse de puntillas por largos ratos.
A lorry was going in at the gate with a load of broken bricks.
Cruzaba la entrada un camión cargado de ladrillos rotos.
Broken bricks and concrete pillars holding up the sky.
Ladrillos rotos y pilares de cemento que sostienen el cielo.
Features like a stack of broken bricks, his face usually accented by stubble.
Sus rasgos eran como un montón de ladrillos rotos, normalmente con una barba incipiente.
I walked faster and faster, looking carefully at the broken bricks and weeds growing among them.
Apreté el paso y me fijé en los ladrillos rotos y la maleza que crecía entre ellos.
Broken bricks and hunks of wood shot in all directions like catapulted missiles.
Salieron disparados en todas direcciones ladrillos rotos y pedazos de madera como si se tratara de proyectiles.
Broken bricks and black plastic garbage bags and piles of newspapers with a narrow passageway between them.
Ladrillos rotos, bolsas negras de basura y pilas de periódicos entre los que apenas se puede pasar.
Thur bowed and retreated to the nearest spot, his broken brick pile, crouched, and pretended to be sorting them by size.
Thur se inclinó y se retiró hasta el montón de ladrillos rotos, se agachó y fingió colocarlos por tamaño.
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