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Tell him to keep the gate locked and defend the fortress until I get there.
Dile que mantenga la puerta cerrada y que defienda la fortaleza hasta que llegue.
- I want the kids in bed by nine, the dog fed, the yard watered, the gate locked.
-Quiero a los chicos en la cama a las nueve, que el perro coma, el jardín limpio y la puerta cerrada.
Gates locked. The anxiety aroused by the dream mingled with a dull sickening fear.
Las puertas cerradas. La ansiedad sublevada por el sueño, mezclada con un monótono pavor vertiginoso.
whereas, finding the gate locked, they were obliged to retrace their steps." "Gate! gate!"
Mientras que, habiendo encontrado la puerta cerrada, se han visto obligados a volver atrás. Han caído en manos de los que les perseguían. – ¡La puerta!
Marcus Petreius and King Juba had gone to Juba's capital of Cirta, only to find its gates locked and the populace too afraid of Caesar's vengeance to let them inside.
Marco Petreyo y el rey Juba se habían ido a Cirta, la capital, y allí encontraron las puertas cerradas y a la población demasiado temerosa de la venganza de César para dejarlos entrar.
When Grandpa arrived at our house that evening, he found the front gate locked and the whole family out in the courtyard having their dinner of steamed buns, rice soup and a stew of glass noodles, turnip and cabbage.
Con la puerta cerrada, la familia estaba en el patio cenando panecillos al vapor, sopa de arroz y guiso de col con fideos y rábanos cuando llegó el abuelo.
A hard thing, he thought, to be bred and raised for one single purpose, and then, when that moment came where all that training was supposed to coalesce, to be restrained by the frustration of a gate locked by a child’s bicycle chain.
«Tiene que ser duro que te críen y adiestren con un único objetivo y, cuando llega el momento de aplicar todo lo que has aprendido, te veas frenado por una puerta cerrada con una cadena para bicicletas», pensó Ricky.
He went back through the courts, although it was for idle curiosity and not because he had decided anything, but still he went on and at the back he found a gate locked into a court and beside it an old woman drowsing, and he looked and he saw that this was the pock-marked wife of the man who had been gateman.
Atravesó los patios y habitaciones dirigiéndose hacia la parte de atrás, aunque por pura curiosidad y no porque hubiera decidido nada todavía; al fin llegó a una puerta cerrada junto a la cual dormitaba una mujer y la miró y vio que era la esposa picada de viruelas del antiguo guardián.
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