Translation examples
A esos niños se les aplican torturas tales como meterles la cabeza en la bañera.
Tortures such as putting head in tub are applied to those children in the house.
Habrá que meterlo aquí.
He'd have to be put there.
—¿Para meterle en una celda?
Put him in a cell?
Meterlas en la lavadora.
Put them in the washing machine.
—Era eso o meterlo en Bridewell.
It was either that or put him in Bridewell.
—Tiene que meterlo en la lata.
“You put it back in the can.”
¡Habrá que meterle en prisión por esto!
“We’ll have you put in prison for this!”
—Puedo meterlo en otro sobre.
I can put it in another envelope.
He tenido que meterla en la cama.
I had to put her to bed.
—Meterla en el incinerador del hospital.
Put it in the hospital incinerator.
¿Llegarán a meterlas en agua?
Will they be put in water at all?
Ayudadme a meterla en la cama.
“Help me get her on the bed.”
No quiero meterla en un lío.
I don’t want to get her in trouble.”
-Tenemos que meterla en el purgatorio, tío.
We got to get her in purgatory, man.
—¿Puedes ayudarnos a meterla dentro?
“Can you help get her inside?”
Denunciar su ausencia sería meterla en un lío.
Reporting her absence would get her in trouble.
Había conseguido meterla en su casa. —Yo no me fui.
He had managed to get her back into her own house. “I did not go away.”
—No ha hablado. Quería meterla en la cama antes que nada.
“She hasn’t been talking. I wanted to get her into bed first.”