Translation for "dar golpes en" to english
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La niña fue al centro de la habitación y empezó a dar golpes en el suelo manejando el martillo con las dos manos.
The child went to the middle of the room and began to beat the floor, holding the hammer in both hands.
Lo que yo quería era que al muy tonto se le ocurriera empezar a dar golpes seguidos en una sartén, pero no se le ocurrió, o a lo mejor sí, y lo que me preocupaba eran los silencios entre los gritos.
I did wish the fool would think to beat a tin pan, and beat it all the time, but he never did, and it was the still places between the whoops that was making the trouble for me.
Habíamos dejado la puerta acristalada abierta y el industrial, harto de dar golpes en el tabique, nos insultaba desde fuera.
We’d left the French window open, and the industrialist, weary of beating on the communicating door, started reviling us from outside.
Se desprendieron de ella algunas bandas que empezaron a moverse despacio por los muelles y cuando se encontraban con las corrientes de aire en las esquinas de las calles formaban silenciosos remolinos. Pero el ligero aumento de claridad no fue suficiente para despertar al doctor Maturin y las dos enfermeras con quienes se había comprometido a ir a misa temprano tuvieron que dar golpes en la puerta para conseguir que se levantara.
The fog that had formed in the night only became a little lighter and more visible as it moved in quiet swathes along the quays, sometimes making silent whirlpools at the street corners, where it met a current of air The slight increase in light was not enough to wake Dr Maturin, however, and the two nurses with whom he had contracted to go to early Mass were obliged to beat on his door to rouse him
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