Translation for "afear" to english
Translation examples
¿Pensáis que me afeará una corona tan vieja?
Do you think that such an old crown will disfigure me?
¡Le temblaban tanto las manos que ya no podía afear porcelanas, pobre mujer!
Her hands were so uncertain that she could no longer disfigure china, poor woman!
verb
Además de que, Maestro Furber, afear es una palabra fea y bárbara.
Besides that, Master Furber, uglify is a barbaric and ugly word.
Se lo pasó en grande, como nunca, buscando nuevas formas de afear la casa.
He got a real kick out of it too, always looking for new ways to uglify the home.
y por no rodar suficientes planos amplios —«se devanó los sesos para conseguir esos primeros planos con el propósito de distorsionar la imagen de la gente y afear su presencia espiritual».
and by not taking enough full shots—“He racked his brain to get such close-ups in an attempt to distort the people’s image and uglify their spiritual outlook.”
Un beso. Noreen. xx Wurzburgo no era feo, aunque los francos habían hecho todo lo posible por convertir su capital en un auténtico templo del nazismo y habían conseguido afear una ciudad medieval de tejados rojos, asentada en un agradable y espacioso valle fluvial.
I kiss you. Noreen. xx WÜRZBURG WASN’T AN UGLY PLACE, although the Franconians had done their best to make their state capital a virtual shrine to Nazism and had effectively uglified what was a pleasantly situated medieval red-roofed town in an open part of a river valley.
Cuando su cabeza se echó hacia atrás, la chaqueta de su traje se ensanchó como un ala, y cayó como un pájaro al que hubieran derribado del cielo, derrumbándose en una postura sin elegancia y con las piernas abiertas en la silla barata de aluminio y nailon que nunca hubiera permitido que afeara el patio de su casa en Beverly Hills, donde ahora lo esperaba su viuda.
As his head snapped back, his suit coat flared winglike, and he dropped as a bird shotgunned from the sky will drop, collapsing in a graceless splay-legged posture in the cheap aluminum-and-nylon-webbing chair that he would never have allowed to uglify the patio of the house in Beverly Hills, where now his widow waited.
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