Translation for "dip-stick" to spanish
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noun
He took a careful look at the dip stick.
Miró detenidamente la varilla del aceite.
But when he lifted the hood to check the oil, he couldn’t find the dip-stick.
Pero cuando quiso levantar el capot para medir el aceite, no pudo encontrar la varilla medidora.
She’d turned into a quarrelsome bitch. “Dry as a bone,” the cowboy said, waving the dip stick. “Shit!
Se había convertido en una bruja pendenciera. —Esto está seco como un hueso —dijo el cowboy, sacudiendo la varilla del aceite. —¡Mierda!
Presently, when he had inspected the fan-belt and the dip-stick, which more or less exhausted his automotive know-how, he gave up the unequal task. “I’m so sorry,” he said, “but I can’t see anything obviously wrong.” “Perhaps I’m just out of petrol,”
No tardó mucho (el tiempo que le llevó inspeccionar la correa del ventilador y la varilla del aceite, con lo que prácticamente agotó sus conocimientos del motor de un coche) en renunciar a una tarea tan fuera de su alcance. —Lo siento —dijo—.
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