Translation examples
verb
I’m just taking off.”
Estoy a punto de despegar.
The plane was taking off.
El avión se disponía a despegar.
There was nothing dramatic about taking off.
No había nada dramático en despegar.
verb
Before taking off their glasses or after?
¿Antes o después de quitarse las gafas?
    He started taking off his belt.
— Empezó a quitarse el cinturón—.
verb
He can't just take off.
- Acaba de largarse con Rocket Girl. ¿Largarse?
“Like Laurel’s taking off?”
—¿Cómo el hecho de que Laurel lo abandonara?
When I stopped at the kennel to get Mack, I had some wild notion of ditching Consuela, picking up Amy at the rest home, and just taking off with her and Mack and disappearing.
Cuando me detuve en el kennel para recoger a Mack, tuve por un instante la vaga intención de abandonar a Consuelo, sacar a Amy de la casa de reposo, y partir con ella y Mack y desaparecer.
verb
She used her hand to imitate an airplane taking off.
Utilizó la mano para imitar un avión que despegaba.
verb
If anything, he thought, taking off his soaked slicker, the rain was heavier than the previous day.
Al parecer, pensó mientras se quitaba el impermeable empapado, llovía más que el día anterior.
Below these in another row Ramzin began to draw three women, unmistakably in the act of taking off their clothes.
Debajo, en la segunda hilera, Ramsin empezó a dibujar tres mujeres que al parecer estaban quitándose la ropa.
Having lost all shyness by having spent my career taking off my clothes in public, I enjoyed how demure the steam made me seem.
Libre de toda vergüenza gracias a que me ganaba la vida desnudándome en público, me gustó lo muy recatada que el vaho me hacía parecer.
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