Translation examples
verb
Lavamos coches, limpiamos pescado, incluso trituramos piedras para hacer grava.
We wash cars, clean fish, even crush stones to make gravel.
De hecho, la historia nos juzgará con gran dureza si sólo nos lavamos las manos y decimos que no tenemos nada que ver con ese problema.
Indeed, history will judge us harshly if we simply wash our hands and say we have nothing to do with it.
verb
En una granja abandonada lavamos un poco nuestras cosas y aparecieron mis útiles de dibujo, el carboncillo y el lapicero. Casi los había olvidado.
we rinsed off our things at a deserted farmhouse. I found my drawing materials, which I had almost forgotten—charcoal and a pencil.
Lavamos jeringas e instrumental mientras seguíamos charlando de lo que sucedía en aquel rincón del mundo que, al principio, había atraído al joven médico porque era un lugar seguro.
We rinsed syringes and instruments as we chatted some more about what was happening in an area of the world that initially had attracted the young doctor because it was safe.
En un arroyo lavamos nuestros calcetines ensangrentados y estuvimos un buen rato sentados con los pies metidos en el agua fresca. Compartimos vendas y polvos de talco y finalmente, al límite de nuestras fuerzas, nos derrumbamos a orillas del Yser.
By the side of a brook, we rinsed out our dirty, bloodied socks and lingered for several minutes, dangling our feet in the cool water as long as we could, sharing talcum powder and puttees. At the end of the long march, we collapsed in exhaustion on the banks of the Yser.
verb
Hace diez años que lavamos dinero para el Sr. Navarro.
We've been laundering money for Mr. Navarro for ten years?
Contribuimos con $150.000 a su última campaña, y los lavamos por medio de nuestros bancos mexicanos.
That's his voting record. We contributed $150,000 to his last campaign, and laundered it through our Mexican banks-- these are the cancelled checks.
Nosotros lavamos todo el dinero sucio de la ciudad desde aquí para ellos.
We launder all the di_y money of the city from here for them.
Depositan sus ganancias, y nosotros las lavamos por una comisión razonable.
They deposit their proceeds with us, we launder it at a reasonable commission.
verb
Una vez hecho esto, devoramos los restos de biltong, nos lavamos en las aguas del lago y luego encendimos las pipas a la espera de lo que pudiera suceder.
This done, we devoured the remnants of our biltong, washed down with the sweet lake water, and then lit our pipes and awaited whatever might turn up.
verb
—Sí, pero... —Y nos lavamos con esa cosa que encontró Nicky.
“Yeah, but—” “And we’re washing up with that contraption Nicky found.”
Pa y yo nos lavamos en la pileta del cobertizo y nos sentamos a comer.
Pa and I washed up in the basin on the shelf and went in and sat down.
Abandonamos la sala de descomposición y nos lavamos en nuestros respectivos vestuarios.
We left the decomposed room and washed up in our respective locker rooms.
Nos lavamos un poco y nos ponemos en camino. —¿Para qué? —preguntó Buck con acritud. —¿Que para qué?
Come and wash up some so we can get started.” “What for?” Buck asked sourly. “What for?
Acabaron de comer. —¿Lavamos los platos antes del café? —preguntó Dulcie—.
The meal finished. ‘Shall we wash up before we have coffee?’ Dulcie asked.
Lavamos con un detergente especial —dijo, como si quisiera explicar por qué las flores no estaban marchitas en medio de una época de prohibiciones de riego con manguera y un verano extremadamente seco.
We do the washing up with special detergent,” as if to explain why the flowers weren’t dead in the middle of hose pipebans and a very dry summer.
verb
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