Translation examples
Hey, I really appreciate you letting me contribute a little piece of venison to your potlatch.
Les agradezco que me hayan dejado traer un poco de venado a su potlatch.
Yes. Johnny, would you like to toss some spear at some tatonka, or cast some venison into the potlatch?
Johnny, ¿te gustaría cazar un tatonka, o traer carne de venado al potlatch?
Lots of things happen at potlatch. Good things. Noisy things.
En el potlatch pasan muchas cosas. Cosas buenas. Cosas ruidosas.
A potlatch for what?' and watching the celebration as if from afar, she explained this ancient custom:
¿Un potlatch para qué? La muchacha, contemplando los festejos como desde lejos, explicó la antigua costumbre:
They thought they must have better use for such vast wealth.” “Potlatch?” Renner said.
Creyeron que ellos tendrían un mejor uso para esa vasta riqueza. —¿Potlatch? —preguntó Renner—.
These pirates coveted what we were destroying in what must have appeared to be a form of potlatch.
Esos piratas codiciaban lo que nosotros estábamos destruyendo en lo que debió parecer una forma de potlatch.
They spent with munificence, with largesse, faithful to an economics of the potlatch that had easily survived successive political regimes.
Gastaban rumbosamente, con esplendidez, fieles a una economía de potlatch que había sobrevivido sin esfuerzo a los sucesivos regímenes políticos.
Look! They dance. They sing. And Sam Bigears grows bigger in their eyes, for he has made real potlatch.
¡Mira! Cantan, bailan. Y Sam Bigears crece ante sus ojos, pues ha hecho un verdadero potlatch.
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