Translation examples
noun
un cortaplumas de hojalata y birmanos con los que utilizarla;
one tin penknife, Burmas for the use of;
Maureen se la ofreció en la punta del cortaplumas.
Maureen held it out on the point of the penknife.
noun
¿Por qué se acordó de su primer cortaplumas?
What made him think suddenly of his first pocket knife?
Y se puso a recortarse las uñas con el cortaplumas.
And he actually pared his nails with his pocket-knife.
Ni él ni Chávez llevaban siquiera un cortaplumas.
Neither he nor Ding had so much as a folding pocket knife.
Luego opté por trabajar de otra manera con la hoja del cortaplumas.
Then I went to work with the blade of the pocket knife in a different way.
Pero las mujeres, pensó Peter cerrando su cortaplumas, no saben qué es la pasión.
But women, he thought, shutting his pocket- knife, don't know what passion is.
Cortó el hilo con su cortaplumas, y se guardó el ave para enviarla después a las cocinas.
With his pocket-knife he cut the thread, and kept the carcass to take to the kitchens.
Me dije que probablemente cortarían el envoltorio con un cortaplumas para probar la calidad de la mercancía.
I imagined them cutting through the wrapping with a pocket knife to check the quality of the drugs.
cogí un cortaplumas, escupí en una piedra, lo afilé, y corté el cuello a los tres patos.
I took a pocket knife, spit on a stone, sharpened it, and cut the throats of the three ducks.
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