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The owner preceded them like a diesel-powered slug.
El dueño los precedía como una babosa impulsada por un motor diésel.
We had come from the north, where we were fishing for narwhals from small, diesel-powered cutters.
Habíamos llegado del norte, donde habíamos cazado narvales desde pequeñas balandras impulsadas por motores diésel.
The buses are rolling, brakes sighing like violas as they swing through corners, then the gruff diesels powering up.
Los autobuses circulan, los frenos chirrían como violas cuando giran en las esquinas, luego la voz bronca del diésel suena al propulsar el motor.
Behind them two ranks of diesel-powered walking machines stood ready to fire, cannon aimed over the heads of the cavalry.
Tras ellos, dos hileras de máquinas andantes, caminantes impulsados con motores diésel, listas para disparar, con los cañones apuntando por encima de las cabezas de la caballería.
The Task Force commander seemed especially concerned with the possibility of a Chinese diesel-powered SSK punching a hole in one of his ships, but that was not an immediate concern for the airmen, unless they could find one tied alongside the pier.
El comandante parecía especialmente preocupado, ante la posibilidad de que uno de los submarinos chinos diésel perforara uno de sus buques; pero esto no atañía demasiado a los aviadores, a menos que se encontraran con un submarino chino amarrado en los muelles.
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