Translation examples
Tiene que coger aguja e hilo y coserse ella sola.
She has to take a needle and thread and sew herself up
Casi ninguno sabía coserse los botones o remendarse los calcetines.
They could not sew on their buttons or mend their socks.
Las piedras deberían coserse a los bordes de las capas o en los extremos de las botas, para lograr un cuerpo más pesadumbroso.
These stones they were to sew to the edges of their capes or to the tip of their boots to increase their fearsomeness.
– ¿Me permite insinuar que probablemente no querrá coserse las insignias de estos uniformes usted mismo?
"May I suggest that you probably won't want to sew insignia on these uniforms yourself?
Helen se levantó arrastrándose hasta el baño donde se sentó con ojos enrojecidos, para coserse el cuello del abrigo.
Helen dragged herself out of bed and sat with reddened eyes in the bathroom, sewing on her coat collar.
—Por mí, el niño ese puede meterse otra vez en el koo reseco de su madre y coserse el cordón de la vida de vuelta en la panza.
The boy can climb into his mother shrivel-up koo and sew the life string to his belly for all I care.
He visto a los presos coserse las bocas con hilo o con alambre, coserse botones al cuerpo, clavarse los testículos a una cama, tragarse un clavo retorcido como un anzuelo y atar un hilo al pomo de la puerta, de modo que ésta no se pueda abrir sin rajar al “pez” de arriba abajo.
I have seen convicts sew up their mouths and eyes with thread or wire, sew buttons to their bodies or nail their testicles to a bed, swallow a nail bent like a hook and then attach this hook by way of a thread so that the door cannot be opened without pulling the ‘fish’ inside out.
Durante las tardes, cuando sabía que se esperaban visitas, se sentaba en la galería y fingía coserse los botones de las camisas, para dar la impresión de que Mammachi no se ocupaba de él.
In the evenings, when he knew visitors were expected, he would sit on the verandah and sew buttons that weren’t missing onto his shirts, to create the impression that Mammachi neglected him.
Papá dice que es porque la voz de mamá lo hace querer arrancarse los oídos y coserse los ojos para no tener que verla de nuevo.
My dad says it's because the sound of my mom's voice makes him want to tear his ears off and sew them over his eyes so he never has to look at her again.
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