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El encargado que nos enseñó el lugar nos dijo que la gente había comprado esos animales con la esperanza de engordarlos y luego revenderlos para sacar beneficios.
The steward who was showing us around said that people bought these animals to try and fatten them up and then resell them at a profit.
Nizam explica pacientemente que para prevenir cualquier veleidad de rebeldía hay que alimentar a las tropas, incluso engordarlas, que para dominar cualquier sublevación se verían obligados a gastar diez veces más.
Nizam patiently explained that in order to avoid any hint of insubordination he had to feed the troops and fatten them up a little, and that if the troops reached the point of rebellion the state would have to spend that amount ten times over.
El programa no daba ninguna fecha, y a medida que la velada fue avanzando y Joe reflexionaba, se fue convenciendo cada vez más de que tanta jovialidad de cartón y tanta formación profesional enmascaraban alguna realidad temible, la casa de una bruja hecha de caramelo y pan de jengibre destinada a atraer a los niños y engordarlos para luego servirlos a la mesa.
There had been no date given for the program, and as the evening went on and he mulled it over, Joe became more and more convinced that the pasteboard cheeriness and vocational training masked some dreadful reality, a witch's house made of candy and gingerbread to lure children and fatten them for the table.
Quiero engordarlo para que pueda interpretar Falstaff.
I want to fatten him so that he can play Falstaff.
Conque hindúes, ¿eh? Darles de comer y engordarlas para matarlas.
Hindus, eh? Feeding and fattening just in order to kill.
La cara comenzaba a engordarle, resultado de muchos años de buena vida.
His face was fattening, the result of many years of good living.
¿Acaso porque estaba delgada y se mantenía así, pese a todos tus intentos de engordarla?
Was it perhaps because she was thin and remained so, despite all your attempts at fattening her up?
Cicero había conseguido incluso engordarla un poco (también a sí mismo), para pasmo de las jamaicanas.
He’d even managed to fatten her up a bit (and himself, too), much to the astonishment of the Jamaican ladies.
Está en el cobertizo, y quiero engordarlo. Y cuando ya esté lo bastante gordito, me lo voy a comer.
He’s in the shed, and I want him fattened up. When he’s fat enough, I’m going to eat him.’
—Muy bien. Voy a darle, a la señorita «Delachata» 24 horas para engordarlo. Y, Judd…
“OK. I’m giving Miss Bedpan twenty-four hours to fatten you up. And Judd…”
Su propia madre la mimaba y la llamaba «Luna», aunque no disminuía su angustia por su fragilidad y delgadez, cosa que la impulsaba a instar a Umm Hanafi a preparar recetas para engordarla.
Her mother spoiled her and said she was as beautiful as the moon, although she did not conceal her anxiety that Aisha was too thin and delicate. For this reason she had encouraged Umm Hanafi to concoct a remedy to fatten her up.
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