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—Juana tuvo que mojarse los labios para pronunciar el nombre del monstruo.
Joan had to moisten her lips to speak the monster’s name.
Kells tuvo que mojarse los labios para hablar. —¿Quién? —Nunca te lo diré.
Kells had to moisten his lips to speak. “Who?” “I’ll never tell you.”
cocos del Brasil, reducidos como un grano de arroz, que al mojarse en un vino de orquídeas volvían a presumir su cabezote.
coconuts from Brazil reduced to grains of rice, which, when moistened with an orchid wine, regained their huge heads.
El sol sale más temprano y lame las gotas de rocío antes de que la tierra, febril, alcance a mojarse los labios;
The sun comes up earlier than before and licks up the drops of dew before the fevered earth can moisten its lips.
Se agachó un momento para mojarse, tiñendo de rojo oscuro el rojo-bandera del calzón de gimnasta, y con la derecha agarró fuertemente la red con las dos latas… pero, ¿y la golosina?
He crouched down a moment to moisten himself, darkening the flag-red gym pants, and with his right hand improved his grip on the net with the tin cans – but what about the all-day sucker?
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