Translation examples
She reached for a piece of wholemeal bread that was about to go bad.
Cogió un pedazo de pan de salvado que estaba a punto de estropearse.
I just came back from the Arctic with some caribou meat that’s about to go bad, and Janice is going to make it into a stew.”
Acabo de volver del Ártico con un poco de carne de caribú que está a punto de estropearse y Janice va a preparar un estofado».
Was the implication that I’d eaten enough caribou meat to know if I liked it a subtle joke? What exactly did “about to go bad” mean?
¿Bromeaba al insinuar que yo debía de haber comido la suficiente carne de caribú como para saber si me gustaba? ¿Qué significaba exactamente eso de «a punto de estropearse»?
We’ll eat all the food that might go bad-there Vthat open jar of potted meat, Tom, that we began last night-and the rest of the butter-and those buns that Mrs. Andrews gave us.
Comeremos todo lo que pueda estropearse… esa lata de carne que está abierta, Tom, y que comenzamos anoche… el resto de la mantequilla… y esos bollos que nos dio la señora Andrews.
verb
I believe there’s a place in the stomach or the bowels that suddenly starts to go bad.”
Creo que hay un lugar del vientre o del intestino que, de pronto, comienza a pudrirse.
But the smell of blood was real, a mingling of damp iron and meat starting to go bad.
Pero el olor a sangre era genuino, una mezcla de hierro mojado y carne que empieza a pudrirse.
His mom made crazy hamburgers, called them kitchen-sinkers, fattened up cheap ground meat with onions and macaroni and whatever else crap was about to go bad.
Su madre hacía unas hamburguesas rarísimas, las llamaban «restos de basura», hechas de carne barata, con cebollas y macarrones y cosas a punto de pudrirse.
An earlier lust came back and his arm went over her so that his hand held her breast—full there but too soft, like something overripe that would soon go bad.
La abrazó sintiendo que despertaba su deseo, y posó una mano en su pecho: redondo aunque demasiado blando, como un fruto que ha madurado en exceso y no tardará en pudrirse.
The meat and other perishables had defrosted and were beginning to go bad.
La carne y otros productos perecederos se habían descongelado y empezaban a descomponerse.
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