Translation for "empedrar" to english
Empedrar
verb
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verb
Ocho días, y hemos sacado bastante piedra para empedrar una carretera.
Eight days. All we dig up are enough stones to pave a road.
Y lo que yo doy es para empedrar la ciudad de Dios.
Now what I give is for paving the City of God.
«Muy pronto ha de sobrarnos oro para empedrar la casa», replicó su marido.
“Very soon well have gold enough and more to pave the floors of the house,” her husband replied.
Y, una vez terminada nuestra labor, teníamos que recoger piedras del tamaño de un huevo de gallina y usarlas para empedrar los senderos.
And when our chores were done we were to gather stones the size of hen's eggs and use them for paving the paths.
La calle central tiene algunos edificios con fachadas señoriales que ocultan interiores humildes y ahora hay muchos negocios y las tardes del sábado vienen tantos granjeros que se ha empezado a empedrar la calle para que los caballos no se empantanen en el barro.
Center Street has only a few buildings left with false façades, and there are lots of stores now, so many farmers in town on Saturday afternoons that they are beginning to pave it with cobblestones so the horses won’t bog in the mud.
En el último año, le había mandado recados apremiantes a Aureliano Segundo, y éste le había contestado que ignoraba cuándo volvería a su casa, pero que en todo caso llevaría un cajón de monedas de oro para empedrar el dormitorio.
During the second year she had sent pressing messages to Aureliano Segundo and he had answered that he did not know when he would go back to her house, but that in any case he would bring along a box of gold coins to pave the bedroom floor with.
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