Translation for "dust-bin" to spanish
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noun
The same constituency could help resist the usually counter-productive demand to put more and more people into the human equivalent of dust bins, their custodians being reduced to the status of guardians of human rubbish dumps.
El mismo grupo podría ayudar a ofrecer resistencia a la petición, generalmente contraproducente, de enviar un número cada vez mayor de personas al equivalente humano de los vertederos de basura, reduciendo a sus vigilantes a guardianes de vertederos de basura humana.
Do you have a pail or a dust bin of some kind?
¿Tienes un cubo de basura?
'You'd make a good dust-bin, Timmy,' said Anne.
—Eres un cubo de basura estupendo —lo alabó Ana—.
The dust-bin was crammed full; old shoes, handbags and belts were sticking out beneath the lid.
El bidón de la basura estaba rebosante y por la tapadera sobresalían zapatos viejos, bolsos y cinturones.
Immediately we would rush out and hang on to the tents with all our might while all the dust-bin lids blew away.
inmediatamente corríamos a refugiarnos en las tiendas, mientras volaban todas las tapas de los cubos de basura.
Every tin can, every dust bin, every window, every car, every wine glass, every sheet of rusty metal became activated as an acoustically perfect sounding board.
Todas las latas, todos los cubos de basura, todas las ventanas, todos los coches, todas las copas de vino, todas las láminas de metal oxidado quedaron activados como una perfecta caja de resonancia.
And humming and hawing, let us ask of the starling (who is a more sociable bird than the lark) what he may think on the brink of the dust bin, whence he picks among the sticks combings of scullion’s hair.
Y tarareando, preguntamos al estornino (pájaro más sociable que la alondra) qué piensa al borde del cajón de basura, mientras recoge entre los dientes del peine pelos de marmitón.
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