Translation for "sailormen" to spanish
Sailormen
Translation examples
Not only was he a travesty upon all sailormen, but he was a travesty upon all sailormen in their cups.
No sólo era una caricatura de todos los marineros, sino también una caricatura de todos los marineros ebrios.
As he had expected, he lost many of his English-​born sailormen to the press, all prime hands;
Como él esperaba, perdió a muchos marineros de nacionalidad inglesa, todos
There'll be blinds down, and sermons, and long faces, and prayers offered for poor sailormen who come by misadventure by the devil's hand;
Las cortinas estarán echadas y habrá sermones y caras largas y oraciones ofrecidas por los pobres marineros que han perecido por obra de la mano del diablo;
and we, being sailormen, cannot tell the little weeds from the little plants, so we are banged and thumped like a couple of drums, every day. “Tut-tut,”
y nosotros, marineros, no podíamos distinguir los hierbajos de las plantitas, de modo que a diario nos golpeaban más que a un tambor. »—Ajá —dijo—.
Like the flames and golden bells, or the S't of clothes I used to deck sailormen in, cloth of In s gold with diamonds like apricots, and off they'd swagger like the King of All the Isles …. But it was tricks, fooleries. You can fool men.
Como las llamas y las campanas de oro, o las vestiduras con que engalanaba a los marineros, brocados de oro con diamantes grandes como albaricoques, y allá iban ellos, pavoneándose como el Rey de Todas las Islas… Pero eran supercherías, tramoyas. Es fácil engañar a los hombres.
All his life he had heard legends told among pilots and sailormen about the incredible riches of Portugal’s secret empire in the East, how they had by now converted the heathens to Catholicism and so held them in bondage, where gold was as cheap as pig iron, and emeralds, rubies, diamonds, and sapphires as plentiful as pebbles on a beach.
Toda su vida había oído contar leyendas a los pilotos y a los marineros sobre las increíbles riquezas del imperio secreto de Portugal en Oriente, donde el oro era tan barato como el hierro, y las esmeraldas, los rubíes, los diamantes y los zafiros tan abundantes como la arena de una playa.
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