Translation examples
The garden had been covered over and heated.
Había mandado cubrir el jardín con una carpa y ponerle calefacción.
Once the pit was covered over and the horses led on top, they were made to prance.
Después de cubrir de tierra el foso, colocaron a los caballos encima y les hicieron dar saltos.
It took a lot of digging before the bodies were covered over, and the pits were never deep enough.
Hubo que abrir muchas tumbas hasta cubrir todos los cuerpos, y los fosos nunca eran lo suficientemente hondos.
No one had thought to blow out the candles or extinguish the lamp, or cover over the Water of Vision.
Nadie había pensado siquiera en soplar las velas, apagar la lámpara o cubrir el Agua de la Visión.
He hadn’t even wanted to do that, but something told him it needed to be done, covering over what lay below. “Tell me,” said Kate.
Ni siquiera había querido hacerlo, pero algo le dijo que era necesario, que había que cubrir lo que yacía abajo. —Dime —dijo Kate.
Are we altogether licensed to penetrate, to bring back to interpretative light, those stages of creative monologue within the painter, of compositional rejection which he chose to cover over (literally), to obliterate from himself and the viewer?
¿Estamos realmente autorizados a penetrar, a sacar a la luz interpretativa las etapas del monólogo creativo del pintor, del rechazo compositivo que él eligió cubrir (literalmente), borrar para su vista y para la del espectador?
I saw suddenly how inferior were these paintings, how rigid and pallid the goddesses and nymphs who peopled this world of my study, and quickly I woke my day slaves and told them that they must have everything covered over with fresh paint the following day.
De pronto advertí lo mediocres que eran esas pinturas, lo rígidas y pálidas que eran las diosas y las ninfas que poblaban el universo de mi estudio. Me apresuré a despertar a mis esclavos y les dije que al día siguiente debían cubrir esos muros con una nueva capa de pintura.
Fermina Sánchez, however, settled on her desire with the blind determination of love when it is opposed, and she married him despite her family, with so much speed and so much secrecy that it seemed as if she had done so not for love but to cover over with a sacramental cloak some premature mistake.
Sin embargo, Fermina Sánchez se sentó en su capricho con la determinación ciega de los amores contrariados, y se casó con él a despecho de la familia, con tanta prisa y tantos misterios, que pareció como si no lo hiciera por amor sino por cubrir con un manto sacramental algún descuido prematuro.
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