Translation examples
“And just what have you done wi’ the puir lass that didna show up for work?”
—¿Y qué has hecho con la pobre joven que no se presentó a trabajar?
“Aye, puir lady, there’s a deal he keeps to himself, always has—even as a wee bairn.
—Ay, pobre señora, son tantas las cosas que guarda para sí, siempre lo ha hecho… aún cuando era pequeñito.
He was accustomed, he said, to having at the verra least a young laddie working under him but realized that in coming to keep his sister company in her berrreavement, puir lassie, he would be obliged to dra’ in his horns a wee.
Estaba acostumbrado, dijo, a tener por lo menos a un empleado trabajando a sus órdenes, pero se daba cuenta de que al llegar a hacer compañía a su hermana, en su aflicción, pobre muchacha, se vería obligado a reducir un poco sus pretensiones.
How many English words do you know?
Test your English vocabulary size, and measure how many words you know.
Online Test