Translation for "frost-bound" to spanish

Frost-bound

• helada
• helada-bound

Translation examples

helada

Under its huge hairy brow its eyes were squinting with the effort both of seeing him and of getting all three of its brain cells lined up so that it could decide whether to trample on him or gouge him out of the frost-bound landscape.
Bajo su inmensa frente peluda sus ojos se entrecerraban con el esfuerzo tanto de verlo como de poner todas sus tres neuronas alineadas de manera de poder determinar si lo pisoteaba o lo liberaba del terreno helado.

Old Billy had dug the little grave with pick and shovel breaking the frost-bound soil, and he it was who stood in the background as the Senator and Marie-Louise, Aunt Mary-Ben, and Major Cornish heard Father Devlin read the burial service.
Tras haber cavado una fosa con pico y pala, resquebrajando la tierra helada, Old Billy se retiró a un segundo plano, mientras el senador, Marie-Louise, la tía Mary-Ben y el mayor Cornish escuchaban el responso del padre Devlin.

But then it struck him that with his scratched cheeks and his trouser-legs caked in mud, he might well pass for a fugitive criminal in this dry, frost-bound Paris. He closed his eyes; that this woman of the streets should take him for a criminal gave him an exquisite thrill. As before she read assent into his silence, and pressed his face passionately against her bosom. Her voice changed yet again;
Repentinamente, comprendió que él, en este Paris helado y seco, con su pantalón lleno de barro hasta las rodillas y la cara herida por las ramas, podía tener todo el aspecto de un malhechor. Cerró los ojos: sentía una deliciosa embriaguez por el hecho de que esta muchacha le tomara por un bandido. Ella había vuelto a interpretar su silencio como una confesión, y le oprimía la cabeza apasionadamente.