Translation examples
verb
Pensaba que podríais estar, engrasando el viejo mástil.
THOUGHT YOU MIGHT BE, UH, GREASING THE OLD POLE.
Tony ha estado engrasando el patín para deslizarse a tu silla.
Your boy Prince Tony has been greasing the skids to slide into your chair.
No, estaba probando la noria y engrasando los cables.
No, just giving the wheel a trial spin. Greasing up the cables.
—No —dijo, engrasando la palabra—. No lo creo.
'No,' he said, greasing the word. 'I don't think so.'
engrasando las botas, arreglándose los tirantes y trenzando látigos.
greasing their boots, mending their suspenders, plaiting whiplashes.
No mucho más, decidí, engrasando un poco más un pivote giratorio. No mucho más.
Not too much longer, I decided, adding a drop of grease to a swivel bearing. Not much longer at all.
—¿Engrasando los costados? —propuse—. ¿Y ofreciéndole un plato de quelpo?
“Grease its sides?” I suggested. “And show it a plate of kelp?”
La llama era del color de la mantequilla, con los ondulados jirones de humo engrasando el aire.
The light was butter-colored, the ripple of smoke greasing the air.
El hombre estaba sentado a la mesa de la cocina engrasando algunas de sus herramientas de tala.
He was sitting at the kitchen table, greasing some of his carving tools.
El sudor había manchado la guerrera de David, engrasando su cara enrojecida.
Sweat had stained David's tunic and greased his flushed face.
verb
Probablemente estén engrasando al hombre de hojalata mientras hablamos.
Tin Man's probably getting his joints oiled as we speak.
Rezumando encanto por los poros iba engrasando el salón a su paso
Oozing charm from every pore He oiled his way around the floor
Solo estoy contenta de ver al chico engrasando algo que no sea él.
I'm just happy to see the boy oiling something other than himself.
Wavell le respondió que todos los tanques estaban en reparación o engrasando las maquinas y que no disponían de ninguno en el delta y por lo tanto, no podía reservar una docena
Wavell answered that it did not have tanks, they were repairing the lizards or putting oil in the engines, in the Delta and it could not excuse nor a dozen. We lose Crete.
Hillier estaba engrasando con cuidado la maquinaria.
Hillier was carefully oiling the skids in preparation.
Se rió y dejó la pistola que había estado engrasando.
He chuckled, and put down the pistol he had been oiling.
Ambrosch, en la torre del molino de viento, engrasando la rueda.
Ambrosch was up on the windmill tower, oiling the wheel.
Y no tendrías que estar engrasando los engranajes cada pocos minutos.
“And you wouldn’t have to oil its gears every few minutes.”
Hawk había desmontado las dos 357 y las estaba engrasando.
Hawk had broken down the two .357’s and was wiping them down with baby oil.
Pasé varias horas de felicidad limpiando y engrasando mis cámaras.
I spent several happy hours, however, cleaning and oiling my cameras.
Los artilleros escoltaban sus queridas máquinas, engrasando los agujeros de los ejes, preocupándose por ellas, acariciándolas.
The artillerymen escorted their beloved machines, oiling the axle sockets, fussing, caressing.
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