Translation for "shin-deep" to spanish
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It was too dark to see inside, so I took a step through—and, to my surprise, down—into what looked like a dirt floor but, I quickly realized, was in fact a shin-deep ocean of excrement.
Estaba demasiado oscuro para ver nada, así que di un paso adelante y, ante mi sorpresa, hacia abajo, hacia el interior de lo que parecía un suelo de tierra pero que en realidad era un océano de excrementos que me llegaban hasta la espinilla.
In the yawl they were baling hard, and while Tobias watched them at their work the barge shipped a sea that half filled it: water swirled about shin-deep, and from that time on Tobias scooped it out as fast as he could.
En el chinchorro achicaban el agua sin parar, y mientras Tobías los observaba en plena faena, la falúa engulló un trozo de mar suficiente para hundirse hasta la espinilla; a partir de entonces, Tobías se dedicó a achicarla tan rápido como pudo.
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