Translation for "estar abatido" to english
Estar abatido
verb
Estar abatido
phrase
  • be in the doldrums
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Translation examples
verb
Lleva semanas y semanas abatido y meditabundo.
He’s been moping around for weeks.
has estado abatida desde que vimos ese dirigible.
you've been moping ever since we saw that dirigible.
Si lloras y te muestras abatida le aburrirás.
If you weep and mope, you will bore him.
Mírame a mí: te he dicho que he estado abatido todo el invierno.
I told you I’ve been moping all winter.
Crepsley con tono abatido, acariciándose tristemente la cicatriz.
Mr Crepsley moped, stroking his scar miserably.
Siempre que se sentía abatido, iba a ver a mamá con su cara mustia.
Whenever he was unhappy, he came moping to mother.
Claude fue hasta la iglesia para ver si, abatido, estaba en el cementerio.
Claude went over to the church to see whether he might be moping in the graveyard.
No se mostraba abatida por la pérdida de Lanzarote, ni lloraba por las noches sobre la almohada.
She was not moping for Lancelot, nor did she weep for him on her pillow.
después se quedaban en silencio, abatidos, obsesionados con esta idea, y nada podía curarlos de ella.
whereupon they moped and pined, obsessed with the notion, and nothing could cure them of it.
(¿Está abatido o se dispone a denunciarte?) Vuelve, sorbiendo un vaso de agua.
(Is he moping or getting ready to denounce you?) He returns, sipping a glass of water.
be in the doldrums
phrase
Pero yo me sentía muy abatido, ya que sobre todo me había degradado a mí mismo, naturalmente.
But I was deep in the doldrums now, for of course I had mostly debased myself.
El expediente Richter estaba estancado y en manos del abatido Benny Griessel y de Vaughn Cupido, el hombre con un objetivo.
The Richter docket was in the doldrums and in the hands of the miserable Benny Griessel and man-with-a-mission Vaughn Cupido.
El señor Period se iluminó momentáneamente ante esta cita de Gilbert y hasta desmayadamente tarareó la melodía; pero un segundo después se hallaba otra vez abatido.
Period brightened momentarily at this Gilbertian reference and even dismally hummed the tune, but the next second he was in the doldrums again.
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