Translation for "lustrar zapatos" to english
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Mi talón dio en mi caja de lustrar zapatos y tuve una idea.
I tapped my shoeshine box with my heel and had an idea.
Los dos hombres que llevaban un puesto de lustrar zapatos en la estación local de buses habían trasladado su negocio a la acera.
The two men who ran a shoeshine stand at the local bus station had moved their bench out onto the sidewalk.
Miró sin esperanzas al vendedor automático de pasajes, al de nylon, al de goma de mascar, al de café, al de libros, al de diarios, al de cepillos de dientes y al de Coca-Colas, así como a la máquina automática de lustrar zapatos y al estudio automático de fotos, y salió, caminando, a las calles desiertas de Homestead, en la ribera del río.
He looked helplessly at the automatic ticket vendor, the automatic nylon vendor, the automatic coffee vendor, the automatic gum vendor, the automatic book vendor, the automatic newspaper vendor, the automatic toothbrush vendor, the automatic Coke vendor, the automatic shoeshine machine, the automatic photo studio, and walked out into the deserted streets on the Homestead side of the river.
Embutidos entre las cajas y metidos en extraños rincones del interior del coche estaban el casco de ciclista de mi padre, la funda de su clarinete, su busto de Paul Morphy, su barómetro metálico de pared, su kit para lustrar zapatos, su vaporizador, el sombrero panamá que le gustaba llevar en la playa, la cuña de hospital de plástico beige que se había traído con él del hospital después de su operación de tabique desviado y que ahora servía para guardar todas sus cuchillas, peines y la panoplia de instrumentos brillantes que usaba para cortarse el pelo que le crecía de los diversos rasgos de la cara, una bolsa de supermercado con todas sus hormas, el trofeo del Campeonato Juvenil de Ajedrez de Montreal que ganó en 1953, su corbatero, sus orejeras y una sandalia Earth.
Stuffed into the spaces among the boxes and into odd nooks of the car’s interior were my father’s bicycle helmet, his clarinet case, his bust of Paul Morphy, his brass wall barometer, his shoeshine kit, his vaporizer, the panama hat he liked to wear at the beach, the beige plastic bedpan that had come home from the hospital with him after his deviated-septum operation and now held all his razors and combs and the panoply of gleaming instruments he employed to trim the hair that grew from the various features of his face, a grocery bag full of his shoe trees, the Montreal Junior Chess Championship trophy he had won in 1953, his tie rack, his earmuffs, and one Earth shoe.
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