Translation examples
Pero si era sordomudo.
But he was a deaf mute.
Chrissy era sordomuda.
Chrissy was a deaf-mute.
El sordomudo toca la flauta.
The deaf-mute plays the lute.
En ese estado lo encontraron los sordomudos.
Such was the state the deaf-mutes found him in.
Él era sordomudo y tenía abrigo.
He’s a deaf mute and has an overcoat.
Pero ella no siempre fue sordomuda.
But she hadn’t always been a deaf mute.
Lacrau es sordomudo pero listo;
Scorpion is a deaf-mute but smart enough;
¿No te parece suficiente con que fuese sordomudo?
Isn’t being a deaf mute enough?’
A mis pies estaba sentado el sordomudo;
At my feet sat the deaf-mute;
El sordomudo está sentado a mis pies.
The deaf mute sits at my feet.
Ese español no es sordomudo;
This Spaniard is not deaf and dumb;
Gracie es sordomuda y está más crecida que yo, pero no es muy lista porque es sordomuda.
Gracie is deaf and dumb and biger than me but not very smart on account of being deaf and dumb.
Es uno de esos sordomudos.
He one of these here deaf-and-dumb folks.
más allá, el hospicio de sordomudos;
beyond it, the deaf-and-dumb asylum;
—¿Antes de volverse sordomuda?
‘Before she was struck deaf and dumb?’
Pero Mark es sordomudo.
Honora says gaily, but Mark is deaf and dumb.
—No, no era sordomuda —repuso—.
“No, I wasn’t deaf and dumb,” she retorted.
Chapman sugiere que era sordomudo;
Chapman suggests that he was deaf and dumb;