Translation examples
verb
Giving out information.
Repartir información.
And the State is giving out yeast now.
Y el Estado ha empezado a repartir levadura.
He was more used to giving out sarcasm than to taking it.
Estaba más acostumbrado a repartir sarcasmo que a recibirlo.
She was, perhaps, not quite so sensitive in the matter of giving out the results.
Sin embargo, quizá no fuera tan sensible a la hora de repartir los resultados.
verb
“Well, without giving out any private information, we did receive an elderly female’s body whose clothes were damp and who lived on Orion Street.”
—Bueno, puedo decirle, sin divulgar ninguna información privada, que sí hemos recibido los restos de una mujer de edad avanzada que tenía la ropa mojada y vivía en Orion Street.
“I'll call you back, dear, as soon as I finish giving out assignments.
—Yo te llamaré, querida, tan pronto como termine de distribuir el trabajo.
verb
my old legs are giving out.
mis viejas piernas empiezan a fallar.
Surely his heart was not giving out. He was not so old.
No podía ser que le fallara el corazón. No era tan viejo aún.
verb
Because she could stand longer on her feet and work harder before giving out than any other girl.
Porque ella era capaz de estarse de pie y trabajar más duramente antes de agotarse que cualquiera de las otras.
The article claimed that William's 'large stock of patience is giving out . You English are mad, mad as March hares . my heart is set upon peace.' He claimed that he had sent his grandmother tips about how to win the Boer War and ended
El artículo afirmaba que la «enorme paciencia de Guillermo empezaba a agotarse… Los ingleses están locos, locos como liebres de marzo…, mi corazón está volcado hacia la paz». Aseguraba que había aconsejado a su abuela acerca de cómo vencer la guerra de los bóers y concluía:
verb
She liked men of action, and disliked young men who were careful of themselves and who, as she put it, were always trimming their wick as if they were afraid of their oil's giving out.
Le gustaban los hombres de acción, y le disgustaban los hombres moderados que, como ella decía, se pasaban la vida despabilando la mecha como si temieran que fuese a acabarse el aceite.
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