Translation for "incumbrance" to spanish

Incumbrance

• titular
• estorbo

Translation examples

estorbo

The form of government is the shape of a tool—an instrument. But twenty thousand bladders inflated by the noblest sentiments and jostling against each other in the air are a miserable incumbrance of space, holding no power, possessing no will, having nothing to give.
La forma de gobierno es una herramienta, un instrumento, mientras que veinte mil vejigas infladas por los más nobles sentimientos, que pelean en el aire las unas con las otras, son un miserable estorbo en el espacio que no ostenta ningún poder, que no posee ninguna voluntad, que no tiene nada que ofrecer.

Still, it was unsatisfactory to see how completely her thoughts were turned upon herself and her own position, and this selfishness extended even to her relations with her children, whom she considered as incumbrances, even in the very midst of her somewhat animal affection for them.
Pero no resultaba agradable verla concentrarse tanto en sí misma y en su situación, un egoísmo que abarcaba incluso las relaciones con sus hijos, a quienes consideraba estorbos pese al cariño un tanto animal que sentía por ellos.

At the age when most young men go through their courting and matrimony, he had not the means of keeping a wife, and was far too practical to think of having one. And now that he was in easy circumstances, a rising man, he considered women almost as incumbrances to the world, with whom a man had better have as little to do as possible.
A la edad en la que casi todos los hombres hacen la corte y se casa, él no disponía de medios para mantener a una mujer, y su sentido práctico no le permitía ni pensar en buscársela, y ahora, que vivía con desahogo y podía aspirar a más, las mujeres le parecían un estorbo en el mundo con el que era mejor no tener nada que ver.