Translation for "toll-gate" to spanish
Toll-gate
noun
Translation examples
Cousin Charles found it, when he was looking for a way round the Irthlingborough toll-gate: and it cuts out the Westwood turnpike, too. He won’t pay turnpike tolls, you know, on principle.
La descubrió el primo Charles cuando buscaba un modo de evitar la barrera de peaje, y además también permite evitar el portazgo de Westwood. Ya sabes: mi primo Charles es de los que no pagan peajes. Una cuestión de principios.
But although Timothy-coachman might never have set foot beyond the boundaries of Yorkshire before, he was harder-headed than any of these soft southern folk whom he despised so profoundly, and he knew very well that the ticket bought at the last toll-gate opened all the pikes to him until the next, south of Grantham, was reached.
Pese a no haber salido nunca de los límites de Yorkshire, Timothy era más testarudo que cualquiera de esos apocados sureños a los que tan profundamente despreciaba, y sabía muy bien que el billete que había comprado en la anterior barrera de peaje le autorizaba a pasar por todos los peajes hasta que llegaran al siguiente, al sur de Grantham.
Because he simply declined to sell any part of his property, under any conditions, to anyone: which, since his was in front of Snopes's, except for the thirteen-foot strip, would cut the oil company off from its proposed corner station as effectively as a toll gate, as a result of which the oil company declined to buy any part of Snopes's.
Porque Meadowfill simplemente se negó a vender parte alguna de su propiedad, sin atender a razones, lo que, dado que se hallaba delante de la de Snopes, si se exceptúa la franja de cuatro metros, impediría tan eficazmente como una barrera de peaje, que la compañía petrolífera construyera su gasolinera, y el resultado fue que la compañía se negó a adquirir la propiedad de Snopes.
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