Translation for "gandulear" to english

Gandulear

verb

• lounge
• idle
• loaf
• slack
• skive
• lounge around
• lounge about
• hack around
• loiter

Translation examples

lounge verb

Querida, deberías estar celebrando y saboreando la tan esperada venganza en lugar de gandulear.
My dear, you should be celebrating—savoring—not just lounging about. Today your long-awaited vengeance is complete!

Era un lujo tan grande gandulear un rato en un agua aromatizada e impregnada de aceites en lugar de tener que buscar un minuto rápido para darse una ducha de esporas.
It was such a luxury just lounging in oiled, scented water rather than snatching a quick minute in a spoor shower.

A modo de recompensa, nos obsequiaron con un fin de semana de descompresión en el lago Biwa, en donde tuvimos la oportunidad de gandulear en quimono y dejar tiritando el bar del hotel.
I won’t tell you what I did.) For a reward we were all treated to a decompressing weekend on Lake Biwa, where we lounged about in our kimonos and depleted the hotel’s bar.

Puede que ella estuviera chapada a la antigua… El arte auténtico, desde luego, era otra cosa, pero muchos jóvenes se escudaban en el arte para gandulear y no hacer nada…, y las chicas bebían demasiado.
Perhaps she was very old-fashioned–real art, of course, was different, but a lot of young people just made that sort of thing an excuse for lounging about and doing nothing–and the girls drank a lot too much.

entre ellas, completan su retrato. Podía gandulear y zascandilear y frotarse contra la pared y estar más en medio que otras dos personas cualesquiera que hubiera conocido jamás. Nada de lo que hacía le beneficiaba, y sin embargo uno era consciente de que pertenecía a nuestra misma especie, de que su mente estaba trabajando de forma incómoda, resolviendo el problema de la existencia como una mascada de resina, y en su propia forma confusa disfrutando de la vida y juzgando a sus semejantes. Más allá de todas estas cosas, estaba encantado consigo mismo. No se habría podido pensarlo por sus modales molestos y turbulentos y su expresión conflictiva, pero se quería hasta los tuétanos y estaba feliz y orgulloso como un pavo real. En realidad, la única fisura en su arnés era su autoestima. Podía conseguir un trabajo, e incluso mantener un trabajo, con halagos.
between them, they complete his portrait. He could lounge, and wriggle, and rub himself against the wall, and grin, and be more in everybody's way than any other two people that I ever set my eyes on. Nothing that he did became him; and yet you were conscious that he was one of your own race, that his mind was cumbrously at work, revolving the problem of existence like a quid of gum, and in his own cloudy manner enjoying life, and passing judgment on his fellows. Above all things, he was delighted with himself. You would not have thought it, from his uneasy manners and troubled, struggling utterance; but he loved himself to the marrow, and was happy and proud like a peacock on a rail. His self-esteem was, indeed, the one joint in his harness. He could be got to work, and even kept at work, by flattery. As long as my wife stood over him, crying out how strong he was, so long exactly he would stick to the matter in hand;

loaf verb

Dos pueden gandulear igual que uno solo.
Two can loaf as easy as one.

- ¡A mi hermano le gusta gandulear!
- My brother likes to loaf around!

Dice: "Tengo un buen motivo para gandulear."
He says, "I've a good reason for loafing".

Se dedicó a gandulear durante dos meses.
For more than two months he loafed.

Parecía contentarse con dedicar sus horas libres a vagar por las tiendas o a gandulear en su apartamento junto a Cold Spring Park.
In his off hours, he seemed content to loaf in shops or hang out in his apartment near Cold Spring Park.

Pero tú eres también un Giavetti, y los Giavetti trabajaron siempre con ahínco y estudiaron con más ahínco si cabe, pues es lo único justo, lo adecuado. Dios no nos ha creado para gandulear y desperdiciar nuestras vidas como algunos que yo me sé.
But you're also a Giavetti, and Giavettis always work harder and study harder, which is only right, only fitting, because God didn't intend for us to loaf and drink our lives away, like some I could mention .

Era el día libre de Handsome, aunque nunca había tenido un día libre —a pesar de que había trabajado para nosotros desde que tenía nueve años—, porque siempre pasaba algo que le impedía irse por ahí y gandulear el día entero.
It was Handsome’s day off, although he had never had a day off, even though he had worked for us ever since he was eleven years old, because something always seemed to happen that kept him from going away somewhere and loafing for a whole day.

Y luego de haber pasado uno o dos días al aire libre, y holgarse y gandulear una miaja, una fuerza irresistible tiraba de él hacia el convento, le remordía la conciencia, se imaginaba el taller esperando por él, se sentía responsable del altar ya comenzado, de la madera ya preparada, del ayudante Erico.
And after he had been away for a day or two, loafed a bit and caroused, something drew him irresistibly back. He had a bad conscience. He felt this workshop waiting for him, felt responsible for the altar he had begun, for the prepared wood, for his assistant Erich.

slack verb

¡Deja de gandulear y saca las patatas antes de que llueva!
Don't slack off and dig up potatoes before it rains!

Los rollos que ya había allí le parecían bien a Wintrow, pero Torg le encargó refunfuñando que los ordenara mejor, y que no ganduleara.
The coils that were already there looked just fine to Wintrow, but Torg gruffly told him to coil them up tidy, and not be slack about it.

loiter verb

Robar, cobrar el paro bajo otro nombre... no dar golpe, gandulear y hablar como el culo.
Stealing, collect unemployment under any other name... not to strike, loiter and talk like ass.

La vida en Inglaterra es tan poco callejera que era delicioso gandulear por allí.
Life in England is so little of the streets that it was delicious to loiter.

Fue a gandulear tímidamente por las márgenes del bullicio, con el estómago atenazado por la proximidad del castigo, mientras la ronda pasaba, centelleante.
He loitered on the fringes of the merriment, his stomach heavy with expectation of the coming punishment, while the bright dance whirled by.

De pronto, los trajes enemigos (Khouri advirtió que había tres), que de momento no habían hecho nada más que gandulear cerca del agujero, empezaron a desplazarse lentamente hacia el suelo.
But the other suits — there were three of them, Khouri saw — had done nothing so far except loiter near the hole, and were now slowly moving towards the floor, correcting their descent with bursts of needle-thin thrust from their heels.