Translation for "apenas sabe leer" to english
Apenas sabe leer
Translation examples
Es un pobre pescador… apenas sabe leer. —Interesante.
He's a poor fisherman - he can barely read.' 'Interesting.
Jamás me casaría con ella —dijo el joven delante de media corte—. Apenas sabe leer.
“I would never marry her,” the boy said, in front of half the court. “She can barely read.
—Pues sencillamente que ya no tengo que perder el tiempo tratando de explicarle Historia Moderna de Europa a un inútil que apenas sabe leer y cuya única ambición es matar gente.
Quite simply that I no longer have to waste my time trying to explain modern European history to someone who can barely read and whose only ambition seems to be to kill people.
James llama la atención sobre la paradoja, o el absurdo, de que el gobierno británico pretenda enviar al cincuenta por ciento de los jóvenes que terminan la enseñanza media a la universidad, cuando el cuarenta por ciento de los mismos apenas sabe leer.
James draws attention to the paradox, or absurdity, that the British government wants to send fifty per cent of the school-leaving population to university while forty per cent of the same population can barely read.
Los camiones tienen letras y números pintados en los flancos y, a pesar de que apenas sabe leer y escribir, Nico conoce el significado de esos símbolos tan bien como los callejones y recovecos del poblado de chabolas donde vive, al lado del vertedero.
Each truck has numbers and letters painted on the side and Nico, although he can barely read or write, knows the meanings of these numbers and letters as well as he knows the alleys and warrens of the shantytown he lives in just outside the dump.
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