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This was long before the invention of water wings.
Ocurrió mucho antes de que se inventaran los flotadores.
By holding the waist underwater, Anne had turned the Chairman’s trousers into a crude pair of water wings.
Ana había convertido los pantalones de Moses Moses en una especie de flotadores.
He could not speak very clearly, paddling and splashing with his absurd water wings.
No lograba hablar con mucha claridad mientras chapoteaba y salpicaba con sus absurdos flotadores.
She had the water wings she’d use, and the clothes she’d wear that night, made of midnight fabric that she’d use to disappear.
Tenía los flotadores que iba a utilizar y la ropa que se pondría esa noche, de tela negra, para confundirse con el entorno.
There were boarding houses and cheap hotels, bars, restaurants, curio stalls, people selling plastic water-wings and back-scratchers and sunhats.
Había pensiones y hoteles baratos, bares, restaurantes, tenderetes de recuerdos, personas vendiendo flotadores, rascadores y pamelas.
The lungs reminded Rexler of the water wings used by children learning to swim. “Who was the man?” “A drunkard,” said Aunt Rozzy.
Los pulmones le recordaban a Rexler los flotadores que usaban los niños para aprender a nadar. —¿Y quién era? —Algún borracho —dijo la tía Rozzy.
Peppy fastened red plastic water wings onto the obese man, over his fatty shoulders and across his immense drooping bosom.
Peppy le ató unos flotadores de plástico rojo por encima de los carnosos hombros y de un lado a otro de su inmenso pecho caído.
By the time they reached Second Avenue and stepped out onto the pavement, Clary's hands and arms felt as light as if she were wearing water wings in a swimming pool.
Para cuando llegaron a la Segunda Avenida y pisaron la calzada, las manos y brazos de Clary le parecían tan ligeros como si llevara flotadores en una piscina.
She had been in swimming only a few times in her life--and then she always wore water-wings or stayed out of parts that were over her head.
Había ido a bañarse sólo unas pocas veces en su vida…, y en tales casos llevaba flotadores o se quedaba en los lugares donde el agua no le cubría la cabeza.
He had a look down there: adventurous children sailed past on water wings patched together out of absolutely any buoyant thing—kindling, coconuts, palm fronds—calling out to him.
Echó un vistazo al mismo: por él se aventuraban niños navegando con flotadores hechos de absolutamente cualquier cosa que flotara —leña, cocos, frondas de palmera—, y lo llamaban a gritos al pasar.
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