Translation for "levantar barricadas" to english
Levantar barricadas
verb
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Translation examples
—Mañana levantaré barricadas a ambos lados de la casa.
Tomorrow I will barricade the sides of the house.
En aquellas calles levantar barricadas era fácil; era mantenerlas despejadas lo que siempre había sido un problema.
Barricades were easy in these streets, it was keeping them clear that had always been the problem.
—Pero ¡por Dios! ¿Qué hay en tu vida, en tu familia, que te haga sufrir tanto como para que tengas que levantar barricadas para defenderte?
“But, for God’s sake, what in your life—in your family-brings you such pain that you have to build barricades against it?”
Los ciudadanos, indignados, se estaban reuniendo con la intención de levantar barricadas, y era muy probable que hubiera peleas en las calles.
Outraged citizens were gathering, and barricades were going to be erected in the coming hours, and there was likely to be fighting in the streets.
El motor eléctrico no funcionaba y teníamos que levantar barricadas de cajas y libros para mantener las velas encendidas.
The electric dynamo was not working, and we had to build barricades of boxes and books to keep the candles burning.
—Brillante —dijo otro hombre—, podemos intentarlo, pero hay docenas de escaleras y no tenemos mucho material para levantar barricadas.
“Brightness,” another man said. “We can try—but there are dozens of stairwells, and not a lot of materials for barricades.”
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