Translation examples
—¿Qué es? —Llámale La Parca, George. El Viejo de la Muerte.
“What is he?” “Call him the Grim Reaper, George. Old Man Death.
Ojalá fuese la temible parca, que viniese a liberarme de este sufrimiento atroz.
Were it only the grim reaper to put me out of this excruciating misery.
Ahora él las segaba como la Parca con su guadaña, presa de un ataque de frenesí.
Now he was mowing through them like the Grim Reaper during a manic phase.
Ella, sin embargo, no imaginaba, al dar muerte, que la Parca le venía pisando a ella misma los talones.
She, however, could not imagine that by killing, the Grim Reaper himself was on her heels.
Miró al doctor Gedad como si fuese la Parca y se puso blanca.
She looked at Dr Gedad as though he was the grim reaper. Her face went white.
—Pero mi Alicia tiene más vidas que un gato y supo burlar a la parca una vez más…
“But my Alicia has more lives than a cat and was able to dodge the Grim Reaper once more . . .”
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