Translation for "civilizarlos" to english
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Los chinos no han conseguido aún civilizarlos, ni siquiera después de tantos siglos de contacto.
The Chinese have not yet succeeded in civilizing them, not even after so many centuries of contact.
Los robos de ovinos que practicaban los onas amenazaban los dividendos de las compañías (en Buenos Aires, el explorador Julius Popper habló de sus «alarmantes tendencias comunistas»), y la solución aceptada consistió en reunirlos y civilizarlos en la misión… donde morían por el uso de ropa infectadas y víctimas de la desesperación del cautiverio.
The Onas’ sheep rustling threatened the companies’ dividends (in Buenos Aires the explorer Julius Popper spoke of their ‘alarming Communist tendencies’) and the accepted solution was to round them up and civilize them in the Mission—where they died of infected clothing and the despair of captivity.
Mi trabajo y el de mis colegas consiste en tratar de civilizarlos un poquito... para que cuando salgan piensen dos veces... antes de cometer actos antisociales.
Our job, mine and the boys, is to see that you get some civilization in you so that when you leave here, you're gonna think twice about performing antisocial acts.
hemos intentado civilizarla, pero pobre, es de verdad un caso desesperado.
We tried to civilize her, but she's totally hopeless!
Hay una antigua película de John Ford, llamada: "El hombre que mató a Liberty Valance", y va sobre un joven, abogado idealista que va a una ciudad del oeste para civilizarla.
Okay, there's this old John Ford movie called The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, and it's about this young, idealistic lawyer who goes to this wild west town to civilize it.
El dinero había que orientarlo, amaestrarlo, civilizarlo.
Money had to be directed, tamed, civilized.
Se trataba de una cueva natural, pero podría seleccionar los esfuerzos realizados para civilizarla.
This was a natural cave, but I could pick out the efforts made to civilize it.
Había hecho todo lo posible para domesticarlo y civilizarlo, pero seguía conservando una vena bárbara, especialmente en lo relativo a su sentido del humor.
I had done my best to tame and civilize him, but he still had a wide streak of the barbarian in him, particularly when it came to his sense of humour.
En sus últimas semanas de vida habló mucho de su padre, que lo había llevado a esa ciudad cuando tenía quince años con la intención de civilizarlo, de sacarlo del mundo de sus antepasados y darle a conocer un lugar donde las sombras eran más complejas y ricas;
His father had taken him to this city at the age of fifteen in an effort to civilize him, to remove him from the world of his ancestors to a place where the shadows were more complex and rich, from a place, run by his mother, where battles were glorified, to a place, run by his father, where poetry would matter and becoming a writer could be a real vocation.
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