Translation examples
When I was stressed and exhausted, she'd always sing me a song while having me on her lap.
Hay una canción que me canta... siempre que estoy cansado o triste.
I can still feel the weight of his bony little body just curled up on my lap, staring up at me with those sad little cancer eyes.
Todavía puedo sentir el peso de su huesudo cuerpecito acurrucado en mi regazo, mirándome con esos tristes ojitos de cáncer.
It is a very sad story,” begins Adele, drawing Grim into her lap.
—Es una historia muy triste —comienza Adele colocando a Grim sobre su regazo.
“Feeling maudlin, Lucius?” his grandfather asked, lowering his book to his lap.
- ¿Estás triste, Lucius?-le preguntó su abuelo, bajando el libro a su regazo.
Sounds died away: the mournful cackle of the sea gull… the lapping of the water… Silence.
Los ruidos se alejaron; el triste chillido de la gaviota..., el chapoteo del agua... Silencio.
He was looking at the other man with his sad eyes, his hands crossed on his lap.
Miraba a su interlocutor con sus ojos tristes, las manos cruzadas sobre la rodilla.
Otherwise, I suppose this sad situation would have landed in your lap instead of mine.
De otra manera, supongo que la triste situación habría ido a parar a usted en vez de a mí.
They wandered down the grey edge of the lake, and the sad waves came lapping in on the yielding mud;
Descendieron por la gris orilla del lago, mientras tristes olas ascendían hasta acariciar el reticente fango.
The book Agatha placed on Ian’s lap dated from his childhood. The Sad Little Bunny, it was called.
El libro que Agatha puso sobre las rodillas de Ian era de cuando éste era pequeño y se titulaba El conejito triste.
“It’s sad, and the papers lap it up for a day or two, but it happens somewhere in the world every day.
—Es triste, y la prensa se frotará las manos con esto durante un par de días, pero ocurre en algún lugar del mundo a diario.
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