Translation examples
En mi cabeza, como un fantasma, oí: « Miip-miip-miip».
In my head, ghostly, I heard: Meep-meep-meep.
«Puedo hacerlo», afirmo, porque es la frase que Kamen me ha proporcionado, es la vía de escape, es el miip-miip-miip que dice «cuidado, Pammy, Edgar está dando marcha atrás».
I can do this, I say, because it’s the phrase Kamen gave me, it’s the out, it’s the meep-meep-meep that says watch it, Pammy, Edgar’s backing up.
No el miip-miip-miip que supuestamente debía emitir (la alarma de marcha atrás se había averiado), sino el retumbante tartamudeo del motor diesel y el sonido de las gomas de los neumáticos devorando la tierra.
Not the meep-meep-meep it was supposed to make (its backup warning had been broken), but the juddering stutter of its diesel engine and the sound of its treads eating up the earth.
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