Translation for "straggled" to spanish
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verb
then, as they straggled and loitered, she had no trouble at all;
luego, cuando empezaron a reducir su ritmo y a rezagarse, no tuvo ningún problema;
The burden of extra watch-keeping duties compounded the exhaustion of the day's march and by the third day a small number of men had begun to straggle, and did not catch up with the main body until late in the evening.
La carga de los servicios de guardia adicionales agravaban el agotamiento de la jornada de marcha y, al tercer día, un pequeño número de soldados había empezado a rezagarse y no alcanzaron al grueso principal hasta bien entrada la noche.
The unit was scattered, They had started off in good order, but men had kept falling behind, some to bargain with one another or with the natives who ran alongside, grinning, pointing to things that had caught their eye and shouting offers, others because they had gone sick or lame, or been poleaxed by the sun. Many of them were still straggling in, and on all sides the company sergeants were at work, shouting roll calls of their men.
La unidad se había dispersado. Habían arrancado en formación, pero muy pronto algunos empezaron a rezagarse, para negociar unos con otros o con los nativos que correteaban al lado de la ruta, sonriendo, señalando las cosas que les llamaban la atención y haciendo ofertas a gritos, o bien porque se sentían enfermos, o débiles, o porque el sol les había dado un mazazo en la cabeza.
verb
He let his eyes roam deliberately around the tent, taking in the chipped pottery utensil under the lopsided cot, the tail of dirty linen straggling out of a portmanteau in the corner;
Dejó vagar adrede la mirada por la tienda, fijándose en el desportillado orinal de porcelana que estaba bajo el inclinado catre y en las sucias puntas de ropa de cama que asomaban de un baúl de viaje, en un rincón.
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