Translation examples
noun
La expulsión de flatos será la que marque el ritmo, señor Rineberry.
The expulsion of flatus marches to its own drummer, Mr. Rineberry.
«Flato», me reza, como si me estuviera dando una bendición médica.
Flatus, he intones, as if he’s offering me a medical benediction.
Por lo tanto, se veía obligado a balbucear interminables inanidades, tales como: “Honorable puerta, este flato desea pasar”, u “honorable taza, este flato desea sentarse en usted.”
Thus he was obliged to utter endless inanities: Honourable door, this flatus wishes to pass through, or honourable toilet, this flatus wishes to sit upon you.
—Este flato es un peso medio, señor. Roelf entornó ligeramente los ojos.
This flatus is light heavyweight, sir, and Roelf's eyes narrowed slightly.
Los chalikos tenían su propio olor distintivo, extraño y sulfuroso, como un flato de nabos.
The chalikos had their own distinctive smell, odd and sulfurous, like a flatus of turnips.
—Vosotros sois la nube de flatos más asquerosa que haya deshonrado jamás esta universidad —les dijo al terminar la inspección—.
You are the most disgusting cloud of flatus ever to disgrace this university, he told them at the end of the inspection.
Todos los flatos deben presentarse en el gimnasio de la universidad, el sábado a las 16 horas, para la prueba de ingreso en el equipo de boxeo.
all flatus will report to the university gymnasium at 4 pm on Saturday to try out for the boxing squad.
noun
De la casa de los Olaya comenzaron a salir grandes voces, regidas por las ordenanzas baritonales del padre de los Olaya, mientras los pies de cabra de Alberto trotaban sin ocultar los flatos lamentosos, los suspiros que el terror impulsaba con lentitud.
From the Olayas’, great shouts began to well, led by the father’s baritone orders, and Alberto’s goat feet trotted along without concealing the mournful flatulence, the sighs that terror slowly brought on.
noun
Parecía que le hubiera entrado flato de repente, como el que recibe un puñetazo en el estómago—.
He looked winded, as if somebody had landed a punch in his gut.
A Matías lo abrazaron y le dieron golpes en la espalda como a un niño con flato.
Matthias was taken to various bosoms and thumped on his back like a baby with wind.
There was a violent thunderclap, and a rush of wind that knocked Princess Nell flat on her back.
There was a violent thunderclap, and a rush of wind that knocked Princess Nell flat on her back.
But the air was deadly cold and the wind was like a flat blade of ice on his cheeks.
But the air was deadly cold and the wind was like a flat blade of ice on his cheeks.
She knew she needed to try to find somewhere flat and treeless and steer into the wind.
She knew she needed to try to find somewhere flat and treeless and steer into the wind.
He wasn’t prepared for the wind, which rushed up against him like a great flat sheet of something.
He wasn’t prepared for the wind, which rushed up against him like a great flat sheet of something.
The lagoon's ten kilometers wide and the water inside is flat calm, but afternoon winds can be tricky."
The lagoon's ten kilometers wide and the water inside is flat calm, but afternoon winds can be tricky."
the woman announced over the wind as a broad, flat, disk-shaped transport landed in the blowing drifts of snow.
the woman announced over the wind as a broad, flat, disk-shaped transport landed in the blowing drifts of snow.
De manera que comía y bebía con voracidad pero sin dar ningún descanso a su mente —pues ahora traía pluma y tintero a la mesa— y por ello tenía muchas molestias debidas al flato y al estreñimiento.
So it was that, eating and drinking voraciously but without any relaxation of mind—for he would now bring pen and ink to table—he was much troubled with the wind, and with binding of the bowels.
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