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Se encontraron drogas en el calcetín del estudiante, que fue inculpado conforme a la Ley de menores delincuentes.
Drugs were found in the student's sock, and the student was charged under the Young Offenders Act.
Refiriéndose al hecho de que tenía encima 20 o 40 dólares, primero declaró que se había guardado el dinero en los calcetines.
Regarding the fact that he had kept 20 or 40 dollars on his person, he first said that he had kept the money in his socks.
* Calzas, leotardos, medias, calcetines, chales, pañuelos de cuello (6115, 6214);
panty hose, tights, stockings, socks, shawls, scarves (6115, 6214);
Calcetines pequeños, ¿le mencionaste los calcetines pequeños?
Tiny socks, did you mention the tiny socks?
Y, por supuesto, hay calcetines, montones de calcetines desparejados.
And there are socks—lots of odd socks.
«Y me envió calcetines», añadió, evocador. —¿Calcetines?
‘And he sent me socks,’ he added reminiscently. ‘Socks?’
John Wayne es de los que se ponen calcetín y zapato, calcetín y zapato.
John Wayne is of the sock-and-a-shoe, sock-and-a-shoe school.
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Aunque todavía se rellenaba el sostén con un par de calcetines de las niñas para que los pechos le formaran un escote más incitante, Mildred no era una de esas mujeres a las que se habría podido calificar de promiscuas.
Even though she still stuffed her bra with a pair of the girls' anklets to give her breasts more cleavage, Mildred wasn't what you'd call promiscuous.
El niño que te recuerda tu propia mortalidad necesita tantas atenciones —tantos mechones de pelo que apartarle de la frente, tantos billetes de dólar que darle, tantos elásticos del calcetín que bajarle, tantas melodías que tatarear para acompañar el solo del soprano— que resulta casi imposible decidirse entre exhibir la locuacidad de un preso fugado o adoptar la paciencia de un penitente.
The child that reminds you of your own mortality needs so much tending to—so many wisps of hair brushed off the forehead, so many dollar bills handed out, so many anklet cuffs turned down, so much humming to accompany the soprano-sung solo—that it is almost impossible to decide whether to be as quick-talking as an escaped convict, or as patient as a penitent.
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