Translation for "dar volteretas" to english
- do somersaults
- somersaulting
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Y menos dar volteretas, algo que Joachim era capaz de hacer en el suelo llano.
Far less do somersaults, something Joachim could do on a flat floor.
Tocaba la guitarra “mientras se revolcaba sobre la espalda y, en cierto momento, incluso se puso a dar volteretas”.
He played guitar “while rolling around on his back and, at one point, doing somersaults.”
Sus instrumentos eran gaitas, tambores y laúdes de cuello largo, y yo habría calificado su música de terrible griterío si no me hubiera admirado, supongo, que pudieran tocar y al mismo tiempo dar volteretas o caminar sobre las manos y saltar sobre los hombros de sus compañeros.
Their instruments were bagpipes and drums and long-necked lutes, and I would have called their music a dreadful caterwauling, except that I suppose it was admirable that they could play at all while they were doing somersaults and walking on their hands and bounding on and off each other’s shoulders.
Por entonces, se negaba a dar volteretas fuera del gimnasio, llevaba el pañuelo perfumado con agua de lavanda, se negaba a usar el pintalabios de la tía de Rose Stanley, iba adquiriendo un sospechoso y saludable interés por el deporte internacional y, cuando la señorita Brodie reunió al grupo para llevarlo al teatro Empire, donde sus niñas tendrían la primera y única ocasión de poder ver bailar a la Pavlova, Eunice no fue. Se excusó diciendo que tenía «un social».
She now refused to do somersaults outside of the gymnasium, she wore lavender water on her handkerchief, declined a try of Rose Stanley’s aunt’s lipstick, was taking a suspiciously healthy interest in international sport and, when Miss Brodie herded her set to the Empire Theatre for their first and last opportunity to witness the dancing of Pavlova, Eunice was absent, she had pleaded off because of something else she had to attend which she described as “a social.”
Incluso podía dar volteretas, volteretas invisibles e inaudibles.
I could even turn somersaults—invisible, inaudible somersaults.
Nada de ponerse a dar volteretas ahí dentro. —Demasiado tarde para eso.
No somersaults in there.” “Too late.”
—Sería como esperar que la luna empezase a dar volteretas —dijo.
‘I might as well hope to see the moon turn somersaults,’ she said.
La cabeza de la criatura provocó un tsunami entre nosotros y me hizo dar volteretas por el agua.
The creature’s head caused a tsunami between us, somersaulting me through the water.
—Y en ese momento, como si lo hubiese oído, la forma evanescente y blanquecina se pone a dar volteretas cada vez más agitadas y se precipita a tierra.
And at that moment, as though it had heard him, the somersaults of the evanescent, whitish shape grow increasingly unstable and it rushes to the earth.
Sobre la colchoneta, que era como una serpiente aplastada, con su olor nada intenso pero nauseabundo, un Skyler frenético empezó a dar volteretas cada vez más deprisa.
On the flattened-snake mat with its faint sickening smell frantic Skyler began somersaulting fast, fast, FAST.
Era un oct, por supuesto, con el cuerpo azul y los miembros rojos, con sus vaporosas superficies todas resplandecientes. Entonces algo lo golpeó en los riñones y se puso a girar, a dar volteretas, a caer por el espacio rodando, rodando...
an Oct, of course, with a blue body and red limbs, its filmy surfaces all glittering – then something whacked into the small of his back and he was spinning, somersaulting, falling away into space, falling over and over .
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