Translation for "estar para desplomarse" to english
Estar para desplomarse
verb
Translation examples
verb
Caminaba haciendo eses, a punto de desplomarse.
She was staggering, just tottering along.
Rick se tambaleó y cayó de rodillas antes de desplomarse en el suelo.
He swayed, tottering, and dropped to his knees, then sank and fell over.
Intentó ponerse en pie tambaleándose, pero volvió a desplomarse sobre la silla.
He started to totter to his feet, but slid back again into the chair.
Saltaba dividida en diversas piezas de rompecabezas, y después empezó a desplomarse en solitarias simas de oscuridad.
It tottered in its various jigsaw pieces and then began to tumble into loony chasms of darkness.
En cuanto lo viera con claridad, la visión la mantendría paralizada hasta que la cosa pudiera erguirse y desplomarse para apresarla.
Once she saw it clearly, that would hold her paralysed until it could totter high enough to embrace her.
Y ahora aquel montón sustentante de vínculos y creencias se tambaleaba, amenazando con desplomarse igual que la torre de elefantes del circo de Dumbo.
Now that foundational pileup of bonds and beliefs was tottering, toppling like the tower of circus elephants in Dumbo.
De pronto, un tiro alcanza al soberano en pleno corazón. Pero antes de desplomarse, puede murmurar: «¡Sostenedme!» La pistola estaba oculta por la hoja de papel.
Suddenly there was a shot. A pistol had been hidden by the sheet of paper. The sovereign was hit right in the heart, but he still managed to murmur: ‘Hold me up,’ before he tottered and fell.
Había quejas y memorandos e invitaciones, y cartas que solicitaban «unos pocos minutos de su tiempo» e impresos para rellenar, y frases que contenían palabras como «inicuo» y «acción inmediata», todo ello oscilando en su mente como una ola enorme, lista para desplomarse sobre él.
There were complaints, and memos, and invitations, and letters requesting “a few minutes of your time” and forms to fill in, and reports to read, and sentences containing words like “iniquitous” and “immediate action” and they tottered in his mind like a great big wave, poised to fall on him.
En un lugar en que las calles eran laberínticas y estaban abarrotadas de gente, serpenteando bajo arcos de piedra que parecían a punto de desplomarse y paredes altas que luchaban desesperadamente con los invasores rayos de sol, era razonable esperar oler los hedores naturales de la vida, pero éstos estaban ausentes.
In a place where the streets were crowded and mazy, winding under tottering stone arches and high walls that fought a desperate fight against the invading beams of sunlight, he might reasonably have expected to smell the natural stenches of life, but they were quite absent.
Con los brazos extendidos y a punto de desplomarse, seguido por nosotros a lo largo del ancho paseo de conchas que atravesaba el patio, continuó más allá de los bloques de mármol, más allá del arco de la entrada circular y de los gruesos cortinajes que colgaban en su interior.
With outstretched arms and tottering gait he pursued his way, followed by us all along the broad shell-strewn walk that ran through the courtyard, past the spot where the blocks of marble lay, through the round arched doorway and the thick curtains that hung within it, down the short passage and into the great hall, which was now filling with hastily-armed men, who poured through the side entrance.
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