Translation for "acechar" to english
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verb
Lo mira acechar cuidadosamente a su presa y luego la espanta.
It'll watch him stalking painstakingly up to his quarry and then tell it to go away.
A nadie se le ha escapado que este tercer excluido irrumpe en la escena sólo para acechar al acechador.
It will indeed have escaped no one that, extraneous to the scene, this third figure invades it purely to watch the watcher.
Ya que tenga ese jugo acecharé el momento en que Titania duerma y verteré ese líquido sobre sus ojos.
Having once this juice, I'll watch Titania when she is asleep and drop the liquor of it in her eyes.
Con el nuevo Ojo-Fono, puedes ver, escuchar e ignorar a tus amigos, acechar a tu ex bajar pornografía en un autobús lleno hasta ver tu correo electrónico mientras te arrolla un tren.
With the new eyePhone, you can watch, listen, ignore your friends, stalk your ex, download porno on a crowded bus, even check your e-mail while getting hit by a train.
Acechar a lo lejos, sin perderlos de vista, era una actitud que le inquietaba.
Lurking in the distance and just watching made him uneasy.
Asustar a los niños... acechar... y luego empecé a mirarlos.
…frightening children…lurking…and then I started to watch them.
Algunos quieren perseguir a las cosas que se mueven; acechar y atacar;
Some want to follow things that move, to watch and slink and wait and spring;
Podrían vigilarla pero no acechar a cada miembro de su Iglesia.
They might be able to watch her, but they can't keep tabs on everyone who's a member of her church.
Tomó la precaución de esconderse detrás de un matorral y acechar desde allí.
She took the precaution then to hide behind some bushes, and watched from there.
Miraba a un lado y a otro, pero no a sus pies por miedo de que algo acechara en la oscuridad.
She peered from side to side, unable to watch her feet for fear of something lurking in the darkness.
A la vez agotados y revigorizados, subimos a lo alto de una duna para acechar el atardecer.
Exhausted and recharged at the same time, we climb a dune to watch the sunset.
¿Qué hacen los maleantes de este pueblo, Dakin, acechar las noticias de mi llegada en los «ecos de sociedad»?
“What do your criminals do, Dakin, watch the Arrivals column in the Record?”
Mi padre era capaz de seguir una raya o de acechar una murena en su escondrijo hasta que le diera un síncope.
My father was quite capable of following a ray or watching for a moray eel in its hole until he fainted.
verb
Fuera lo que fuese, prefería acechar esperando a que sus víctimas pasaran por el camino.
Whatever it was, it preferred to lie in wait for its victims along the lower trail.
Y en efecto, se trataba de un laberinto, donde un ejército habría podido acechar sin ser visto hasta tenerlos rodeados.
That was a maze in truth, where an army could lie in wait unseen until you were in their midst.
Entonces, cuando fuimos a acechar al león, su silencio y la capacidad de que hizo gala para la inmovilidad y la paciencia despertaron mi admiración.
Then, when we went down to lie in wait for the lion, his silence and his steadfast motionless endurance moved my admiration.
O aún peor, quizá se limitaran a acechar hasta que al cabo de unos días saliera tambaleándose, casi enloquecida de hambre y sed.
Worse still, they could just lie in wait for her until she staggered out in a few days, nearly mad from hunger and thirst.
También habló con admiración de sir Sidney Smith y de la Armada real, y me invitó a acechar en su compañía a un león a la tarde siguiente, empleando para ello un par de preciosos rifles que había adquirido recientemente.
He also spoke of his admiration for Sir Sidney Smith and the Royal Navy; and he invited me to lie in wait with him for a lion the next evening, using one of a very beautiful pair of rifles that he had recently acquired.
Empezó a acechar a Pompeyo, a intimidarlo con bravatas a la menor oportunidad hablándole de la falsedad de Afranio, y éste, casi desprovisto de aliento ante la ignominia que aquello suponía, machacaba a Pompeyo en la otra oreja exigiéndole que despidiera a Favonio de su servicio.
He began to lie in wait for Pompey, to hector him at every opportunity with Afranius's falseness, and Afranius, almost deprived of breath at the impudence of it, hammered away in Pompey's other ear with demands that he dismiss Favonius from his service.
Aureliano ocupaba la mañana en descifrar pergaminos, y a la hora de la siesta iba al dormitorio soporífero donde Nigromanta lo esperaba para enseñarlo a hacer primero como las lombrices, luego como los caracoles y por último como los cangrejos, hasta que tenía que abandonarlo para acechar amores extraviados.
Aureliano would spend his mornings deciphering parchments and at siesta time he would go to the bedroom where Nigromanta was waiting for him, to teach him first how to do it like earthworms, then like snails, and finally like crabs, until she had to leave him and lie in wait for vagabond loves.
Y Tiger Jack subiría a aquella colina aunque en ella estuviera celebrándose la convención internacional de todas las brujas, bandidos y ogros del planeta, porque era un indio navajo intrépido, silencioso e invisible como un puma, y sabía trepar y acechar al enemigo para caer luego sobre el con el puñal.
And Tiger Jack would go up that hill even if an international conference of all the witches, bandits and ogres on the planet was taking place there, because he was a Navajo Indian, and he was fearless and invisible and silent as a puma and could climb and knew how to lie in wait for his enemies and then stab them with his knife.
verb
Necesito organizar a tipos confiables ubicar un lugar correcto para acechar ese metal.
I need to organise some reliable fellows... locate a right place to waylay that metal.
verb
No, mi plan es que voy a acechar a este tipo esta noche.
My plan is I'm gonna go ambush this guy tomorrow night.
Sabes, ha sido muy amable por tu amigo ayudarnos a acechar a Sherri en su coche.
You know, it... it was nice of your friend to help us ambush Sherri at her car.
verb
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