Translation examples
verb
Repeat I will not throw up, I will not throw up, I won’t.
Repito: «No voy a vomitar, no voy a vomitar, no voy a hacerlo».
He's not throwing up,' I said, pissed-off but sad. 'He's gonna throw up.
No va a vomitar —dije fastidiado. —Va a vomitar.
“That stink would make me throw up, if throwing up wasn’t so undignified …”
—Ese hedor me haría vomitar, si vomitar no fuera tan indigno…
He tended to throw up.
Tenía tendencia a vomitar.
I'm supposed to throw up."
se supone que tengo que vomitar.
I wanted to throw up.
Tenía ganas de vomitar.
He was going to throw up.
Estaba a punto de vomitar.
There seemed to be no solution except to throw up his job and get out of Paradise City.
Parecía que no había otra salida que abandonar este trabajo y abandonar Paradise City.
“And am I to throw up all the work I’ve done on glands?”
—¿Y debo abandonar mis trabajos sobre las glándulas?
He might even have to throw up banking and start hunting for some other job. And what would Ann think?
Tal vez hasta debería pensar en abandonar su carrera de bancario y comenzar a buscar otro trabajo. ¿Qué pensaría Ann?
I've even thought of throwing up the novel, and knocking off a short story, something light and graceful, and without a trace of pessimism. Quite without a trace....
Estoy pensando incluso en abandonar la novela e inventarme a toda prisa algún relato, algo gracioso y ligero, nada de cosas sombrías… ¡Nada de eso!
Having persuaded her to throw up what should have been her life's work in favour of a futile social gesture, the blackguard absconded, leaving my misfortunate girl in the lurch.
El canalla, tras haberla convencido de que abandonara lo que debería haber sido el trabajo de su vida a favor de un fútil gesto social, se fugó, dejando plantada a mi desdichada niña.
Do advise me. I promised yesterday to be at Katya's just at this time to-day. I can't avoid going. I love Natasha beyond expression; I would go through the fire for her, but you'll admit that I can't throw up everything over there ..."
Aconséjeme: ayer di mi palabra de que hoy iría, precisamente a esta hora, a casa de Katia. ¡No puedo faltar! Amo a Natasha con locura, estoy dispuesto a dar la vida por ella, pero comprenderá usted que abandonar todo aquello definitivamente es imposible…
(But who was going to throw up an apartment in Leningrad to come and stay with him in this hole in the ground?) At that point his tumour had appeared, and his life was shattered by continual, overmastering pain. Women ceased to attract him more than other nice people.             Oleg knew, as everyone has known, if not from experience, from books ever since Ovid, that exile was not simply oppressive (you are neither in the place you love best, nor with the people you most want to see), but he also perceived, as few have, that exile can also bring release - from doubts and responsibilities.
(Pero ¿quién iba a abandonar un departamento en Leningrado para venir a juntarse con él en su agujero?) Por último, se había presentado ese tumor, desbaratándolo todo con su dolor continuo, ineluctable, y las mujeres habían dejado de ser para él algo más atractivo que el común de las personas buenas. Según lo comprendió Oleg, no había en el exilio solamente ese principio de opresión que todos conocen desde Ovidio, 1El célebre poeta latino (43 a.
verb
How many times did you go throw up?
¿Cuántas veces fuiste a echar las papas?
At the sight of an earthworm or shit, I throw up.
A la vista de la mierda o de las lombrices me dan ganas de echar la pota.
Connor was forced to pause at a trash receptacle by the exit to throw up.
Connor se vio obligado a detenerse ante un contenedor de basura para echar la papilla.
everything but drinking, and with drinking you could always throw up and start over.
Todo menos la bebida; y con la bebida, siempre podías echar la pota y volver a empezar.
“Later,” I gasped, and fought the urge to throw up all the apple juice Amos had given me.
—Luego —repuse jadeante mientras pugnaba por no echar en la escalera todo el zumo de manzana que me había dado Amos.
I would wake up dripping with sweat and as sick as a dog, run outside and throw up. I felt hatred for Zane.
Me despertaba sudado y con el estómago revuelto, y salía disparado a la calle para echar la papilla. Odiaba a Zane.
He had never had any intention of throwing up work and marriage and taking to the country to practice carpentry or keep bees.
Nunca había tenido la menor intención de echar por la borda empleo y matrimonio para irse al campo a hacer de carpintero o criador de abejas.
Barker did not know that Voss was shooting until he saw Georges throw up an arm and snap his head backwards.
Baker no supo que Voss estaba disparando hasta que vio a Georges alzar rápidamente un brazo y echar bruscamente la cabeza hacia atrás.
Throw up the enterprise?
¿Renunciar a la empresa?
“Or throw up life altogether!”
¡O renunciar por completo a la vida!
she said, "you won't find the same reasons as he did for throwing up the job.
—dijo ella—. No encontrará los mismos motivos que él para renunciar al trabajo.
I think that Anderson felt like quitting his job then – just throwing up his hands and walking away, never to return.
Me pareció que en ese momento Anderson quería renunciar a su empleo, bajar los brazos, marcharse y no volver.
He was worn out, felt quite ready to throw up the enterprise, asked himself if it was really worth while for him to expose himself to such danger:       "I say!" he thought.
Estaba extenuado y, ya dispuesto a renunciar a la empresa, se preguntaba si realmente valía la pena exponerse a tales peligros. «¡Demonio! – pensó-.
Richard further explained that he was going to throw up his job once he’d reported to the journalist; and since his father’s condition had stabilized, he’d suddenly decided to return by sea instead of flying.
Richard le explicó además que pensaba renunciar a su trabajo no bien entregara sus informes al periodista, y como el estado de su padre parecía haberse estabilizado, decidió súbitamente volver en barco en vez de en avión.
But the truth is, these country clergymen live such isolated lives--isolated, I mean, from all intercourse with men of equal cultivation with themselves, by whose minds they might regulate their own, and discover when they were going either too fast or too slow--that they are very apt to disturb themselves with imaginary doubts as to the articles of faith, and throw up certain opportunities of doing good for very uncertain fancies of their own.
Pero la verdad es que estos clérigos rurales llevan una vida tan solitaria, quiero decir aislados de toda relación con hombres de su mismo nivel, con cuyas opiniones podrían regular las propias y descubrir si van demasiado deprisa o demasiado despacio, que son muy propensos a preocuparse con dudas imaginarias en cuanto a los artículos de fe y renunciar a las oportunidades de hacer el bien por fantasías propias poco claras.
verb
He tried to ignore the steward throwing up over the starboard rail.
Intentó hacer caso omiso del auxiliar que vomitaba por encima de la barandilla de estribor.
Says I to myself, NOW he'll throw up the sponge—there ain't no more use.
Yo me dije: «Ahora va a tener que tirar la esponja; ya no tiene nada que hacer».
By the end of the first day, Strappi could make him throw up just by shouting.
Para el final de la primera jornada, Strappi podía hacer que devolviera con solo gritarle.
The juggling explains the three glasses, which Todhunter was teaching himself to throw up and catch in rotation.
Lo de malabarista explica los tres vasos, con los que Todhunter intentaba hacer malabarismos en el aire.
verb
If the pressure is right the ice can fissure instead of throwing up a ridge.
Si la presión es la adecuada, el hielo puede provocar una fisura en lugar de levantar un risco. —Estupendo.
verb
I pause, of course, to give the reader a chance to throw up his hands, or, more likely, to wash them of the whole lot of us.
Hago una pausa, por supuesto, para que el lector tenga oportunidad de alzar las manos o, lo que es más probable, de lavárselas para quedar limpio de todos nosotros.
He kept throwing up, though it seemed there was nothing else left, and in each spasm he got to know another dark corner of hell, trying to hold his entrails in but afraid he would be turned inside out like a glove.
Seguía vomitando aunque ya lo había arrojado todo y en cada espasmo conocía un rincón del infierno, cuando sus entrañas pugnaban por salirse y sentía que iba a quedar dado vuelta, como un guante.
verb
He could listen to recordings that would cause experts at the State Department's Africa Desk to throw up their hands or ask for a three-month study period, and provide an instantaneous rendition of the rapid-fire palaver.
Podía escuchar grabaciones que hacían que los expertos en la sección africana del Departamento de Estado tiraran la toalla o solicitaran un período de tres meses para estudiar el tema, y ofrecer una traducción instantánea de palabras pronunciadas a gran velocidad.
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