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He tratado de clavarlas en una armazón, pero se derrumba bajo el peso.
I’ve tried nailing them on a framework, but it just collapses under the weight.”
–Simplemente clavarlos ahí dentro de modo que no puedan salir.
“Just nail them down so they can’t get out.
Un tipo a quien conocía le llevó en coche al campo donde pudo clavarlos en los árboles y estacas de las vallas.
A fellow he knew rode him out in the country where he could nail them to trees and fenceposts.
Y Cash, sierra que sierra, en tablones como quien dice, los días largos, cálidos, tristes y amarillentos, para clavarlos en algo.
And Cash like sawing the long hot sad yellow days up into planks and nailing them to something.
Los Vilanova, entonces, vieron a los peregrinos animarse, correr hacia los árboles, cortarlos, clavarlos, fabricar un cajón y una cruz con una destreza que mostraba larga práctica.
The Vilanovas then saw the pilgrims come to life, run to the trees, cut them down, nail them together, fashion a coffin and a cross with a skill that was proof of long practice.
Con las muñecas cubiertas de sangre negra y reseca, algunos tenían las manos atadas, y caí en la cuenta de que Brida, porque no podía ser otra, había tratado de clavarles las manos a los brazos de las cruces, manos de las que, aun incapaces de soportar semejante peso, colgaban aquellos cuerpos desplomados.
Some had torn hands, the dried blood black on their wrists, and I realised that Brida, it had to be Brida, had tried to nail them by the hands to the crossbars, but the hands could not take the weight and the bodies must have fallen.
Clavarle las manos a una tabla y obligarla a andar de ese modo durante un día entero.
18. Nailing the victim's two hands to a board with a hammer and forcing the victim to walk around like that for a whole day.
El nilfgaardiano se inclinó para clavarlo a la tierra.
The Nilfgaardian stooped to nail him to the ground.
—Clavarlo en la pared con la vaina de tu cuchillo.
You nailed it to the wall with your sheath knife.
Quiere despellejarla y clavarla en su pared.
He wants the Parker woman’s hide nailed up on his wall.”
—Deberías clavarlo al tronco de un árbol —dijo Caroline—.
“You should nail it to a tree,” Caroline said.
¿Iban a perpetrar la horrible atrocidad de clavarla a la cruz?
Were they going to perpetrate the horrible atrocity of nailing her to the cross?
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