Translation examples
verb
Luego una chaqueta que se pueda abotonar por delante.
Then a jacket that is capable of being buttoned in the front.
Se vuelve a abotonar la chaqueta y me desata los zapatos.
She buttons up the top of her jacket and begins to unlace my shoes.
Luego empecé a abotonarle el vestido —lo que podía abotonar— y era la voz de Ida, pero no su huesudo cuerpo en ese vestido azul.
Then I started buttoning up the buttons—those I could button—it was Ida’s voice, but not Ida’s skinny body in that blue dress.
—A propósito, Scully, te agradecería que te abotonaras del todo la capa y te recogieras la capucha.
“Incidentally, Scully, I’d appreciate it if you’d button up that cloak of yours and resume your hood.
verb
Edeard se volvió a abotonar el manto antes de rodear con un brazo a Kristabel, que se apoyó en él.
Edeard buttoned up his cloak again before putting his arm around Kristabel.
Hendrik tiritaba embutido en su ligero abrigo de cuero que, además, había olvidado abotonar.
Hendrik was freezing in his light leather coat, which he had neglected to button up, and his hands and feet already felt frostbitten.
Martha, acostumbrada a abotonar a sus hermanitas, jamás se había encontrado con una niña que se mantenía inmóvil para que la vistieran, como si no tuviera pies ni manos.
Martha had “buttoned up” her little sisters and brothers but she had never seen a child who stood still and waited for another person to do things for her as if she had neither hands nor feet of her own.
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