Translation for "retenerlos" to english

Retenerlos

• hold them
• retain them

Translation examples

hold them

Pero puedo retenerlos. Retenerlos en este lugar.
But I can hold them.

Ella no podía retenerlos.
She was powerless to hold them.

—No hemos podido retenerlos.
“We couldn’t hold them.”

No pueden retenerlos eternamente.
Can’t hold them forever.

—No hay nada que pueda retenerlos, señora.
“Nothing to hold them, Ma’am.

¡Se suponía que tenía que retenerlos y demorarlos!».
He was supposed to hold them!

—¡No podremos retenerlos mucho más!
“We can’t hold them much longer!”

Mientras pudiera retenerlas.
As long as he could hold them.

Más esclavos y el hierro para retenerlos.
More slaves and the iron to hold them.

El laberinto no parecía interesado en retenerles.
The maze seemed uninterested in holding them.

aquel oscuro lugar no podría retenerlos.
this dark place couldn’t hold them.

retain them

Sin contar con recursos propios, poco podía hacer yo por retenerlos.
With no income of my own, I could do little to retain them.

Yo asimilaba toda aquella información y esas extrañas palabras, decidido a retenerlas para siempre.
I absorbed all this information and strange words with a decision to always retain them.

Los paquetes amenazaron con caerse, y Matthew luchó por retenerlos mientras su boca consumía la de Daisy.
The jumble of packages threatened to fall, and Matthew fought to retain them while his mouth consumed Daisy's.

—En el tercer nivel de nuestra mazmorra teníamos clientes así, porque nos obligaban a retenerlos por cuestiones legales;
We had clients like that in the third level of our oubliette, because we were forced to retain them by the legalities;

—Y mientras tanto, retenerlos a bordo de la nave sin desvelar los planes de nuestro despliegue —dijo Isvarian asintiendo. —Precisamente.
"And retain them all aboard ship without giving away our deployment plans in the meantime," Isvarian said with a nod. "Precisely.

Se propuso ganar adeptos mediante la persuasión, en vez del lazo, y retenerlos con buenas obras, en vez de azotes.
He proposed to win followers among the Indians through persuasion, rather than lassos, and to retain them with good works rather than lashings.

Finalmente, disimuló su inutilidad atiborrándola de alimentos que no se podrían haber apilado a tanta altura sin los flancos de la canoa para retenerlos.
He disguised its uselessness thinly by packing it with food supplies which could not have been heaped so high without the sides of the canoe to retain them.