Translation examples
noun
Los hombres en las aspilleras del hospital no tienen qué disparar.
The men on the hospital loopholes, they've nothing to fire at.
Puede que no tenga el poder para detenerte de arrastrarte por esta aspillera legal,
I may be powerless to stop you crawling through this legal loophole,
Se detuvieron. La puerta, bajo la aspillera, estaba cerrada;
They came to a halt. The door beneath the loophole was closed;
Abrazando a Billy, atisbé por la aspillera.
I held Billy against me and looked out through the loophole.
Si un movimiento descubría la aspillera, sus minutos estaban contados.
If a movement betrayed his loophole, his minutes were numbered.
Busqué con la mirada alguna aspillera que me permitiese escapar, pero no había ninguna.
I sought to discover some loophole for escape. Apparently there was none.
Si disparaba una vez y no acertaba, perdería la ventaja de la aspillera.
If he fired once—and missed—the advantage of his unsuspected loophole would be gone.
Para destruirlos había que lanzar llamas líquidas por las aspilleras y quemar todo el interior.
To destroy them, you had to blast liquid flame through the loopholes and burn everything inside.
Las aspilleras eran cinco, y Dan Miller había montado un servicio de relevos que las atendiesen.
There were five loopholes, and Dan Miller had arranged a rotation of sentries for each one.
—No sin dificultad, señor, porque el barón ha hecho abrir aspilleras y alzar barricadas.
Not without difficulty, sir, because the baron has had loopholes opened and raise barricades.
Algo se había fijado en la cara externa del cristal, a la altura de una de las aspilleras. –¡Ay, Jesús de mi vida!
Something had landed on the glass outside one of the loopholes. "Oh my Jesus!"
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