Translation for "botar" to english
Translation examples
verb
—¿Qué piensa hacer? —Intentaré botar una almadía.
"What do you think you're doing?" “Trying to throw a raft into the water.
-susurró Popeye-. ¿Se la vas a dar a alguien o la vas a botar?
Popeye whispered. “Are you going to give it to someone or are you going to throw it away?”
Deberías botar ese trasto y pedirle a tu padre que te compre una moto…
You should throw that thing away and ask your father to buy you a scooter.
Zaman se encuentra en la línea de tiros libres con las rodillas flexionadas, haciendo botar una pelota de baloncesto.
ZAMAN IS STANDING at the free throw line, his knees bent, bouncing a basketball.
Ella decía: “Habría que inventar qué se hace con las cosas que no sirven para nada pero que tampoco se pueden botar”.
She would say: “Someone should invent something to do with things you cannot use anymore but that you still cannot throw out.”
Prefiero no averiguar cuáles son sus evidencias y aprovecho de botar mi comida al tarro de basura. No tengo hambre.
I’d rather not find out what her other dirt is, so I throw my food in the trash, too. I’m not hungry.
Al día siguiente hubo que limpiar, contar la cuchillería, botar los ramilletes marchitos y devolver cada cosa a su sitio.
We spent the next day cleaning up, counting the silver, throwing away wilted flowers, and putting everything back in place.
Sólo aceptó prestarse a la farsa del secuestro cuando la amenazó —una vez más— con hacerle saber al viejito sus amoríos: «Te botará como a una perra, cholita.
She agreed to take part in the farce of the kidnapping only when he threatened her—again—with telling the old man about their affair. “He’ll throw you out like a dog, sweetie.
– Hiciste que tu papá la botara de esta casa como un perro -susurró, apagada, tristona, sin volver la cabeza hacia él, los ojos fijos en el entarimado lustroso-.
“You fixed things so that your papa would throw her out of this house like a dog,” she murmured in a dull, sad voice, with her head turned the other way, her eyes staring at the gleaming parquet floor.
verb
La tozudez del viejo les parecía natural, no porque la vejez lo hubiera vuelto menos visionario de lo que fue siempre, como solía decirse con demasiada facilidad, sino porque la renuncia al monopolio debía parecerle como botar en la basura los trofeos de una batalla histórica que él y sus hermanos habían librado solos en los tiempos heroicos, contra adversarios poderosos del mundo entero.
The old man’s obstinacy seemed natural to them, not because, as it was too easy to say, old age had made him less visionary than he had always been, but because renouncing the monopoly must have seemed to him like throwing away the victories of a historic battle that he and his brothers had waged unaided, back in heroic times, against powerful adversaries from all over the world.
verb
Botar las embarcaciones llevó menos de un minuto.
The entire launch took slightly longer than a minute.
Así que, ¿cuándo piensas botar a esa monstruita?
So, when are you going to launch your little monster?
Se han visto obligados a botar sus barcas, sin terminar, por las ventanas.
They have been forced to launch their boats, unfinished, through the windows.
verb
Allí pudo botar el nuevo barco de diez metros de eslora que sus amigos le habían regalado para su cumpleaños, el Tümmler (o «Delfín»), construido según sus especificaciones.
There he sailed the new twenty-three-foot boat his friends had given him for his birthday, the Tümmler, or Dolphin, which was built fat and solid to his specifications.
verb
—chirrió Krissi haciéndolas botar—. Son seminuevas.
Krissi chirped, giving them a bounce. “They’re semi-new.
Monica se quedó mirándolo, a punto de botar debido a la impaciencia.
Monica stared at him, practically bouncing with impatience.
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