Translation for "wryneck" to spanish
Wryneck
noun
Translation examples
Yet even this would not move Martin, who said, 'A wryneck?
Sin embargo, ni siquiera con eso logró que Martin se moviera. –¿Un torcecuello?
Wrynecks sang in the blossom, there were sandpipers by the stream and a wagtail made its nest under Cwm Isaf’s thatch.
Los torcecuellos cantaban entre las ramas floridas, cerca del río había lavanderas y un aguzanieves anidó bajo el techo de paja.
‘Well, you instantly see that he is a nuthatch, though an absurdly small one: but then you realize that he has almost no black on his crown, that his whole mantle is more nearly blue than is quite proper, that his tail is even shorter than that of other species, and that his voice is more like that of a wryneck than...’
—Se reconoce al instante que se trata de un trepatroncos, aunque posea una pequeñez que tacharía de absurda. Sin embargo, no tiene una sola mancha negra en la coro nilla, y todo su manto es más cercano al azul de lo que parece apropiado; su cola es incluso más corta que en otras especies, y su voz se parece más al canto del torcecuello que a…
After some more considerations of this kind, Martin undertook to make Stephen love cricket by showing him the finer shades; but when, having endured ten overs more, Stephen found that there were still five men to go in and be got out, he observed that he had seen a wryneck over on the far side of the demesne, and he made no doubt it was still there.
Martin hizo algunos comentarios más de ese tipo y luego se dedicó a la tarea de mostrar a Stephen los detalles más sutiles del críquet, pero cuando Stephen, después de haber soportado diez fases más con otros tantos bateadores, se dio cuenta de que aún faltaban otras cinco por jugar, y probablemente por ser eliminados, dijo que había visto a un torcecuello en el extremo del prado y que estaba seguro de que aún seguía allí.
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