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verb
b) Las municiones deben mantenerse a baja temperatura y a la debida distancia, y no deben tocarse.
(b) Keep it cool (temperature!), keep it apart (distance!), and do not touch it!
Los programas que afecten a los países en desarrollo deben ser ajustados, efectivos y sostenibles, que no es lo mismo que decir que no deben tocarse.
Programmes affecting developing countries need to be lean, effective and sustainable, which is not the same as saying they should not be touched.
Se afirma que los sospechosos son regularmente tabied, que quiere decir que se les atan los brazos tan firmemente a la espalda que sus codos terminan por tocarse.
Suspects are said to be regularly tabied, which means that their arms are tied together so tightly behind their backs that their elbows eventually touch.
Nunca debió tocarse a esos estudiantes ni tampoco a los 1.500 jóvenes eritreos que siguen detenidos en Blattein y otros campos de detención aislados en distintos lugares de Etiopía.
These students should have never been touched; neither should the 1,500 young Eritreans who remain in detention in Blattein and other isolated prison camps around Ethiopia.
Por ejemplo, en 2011 dos prominentes jugadores de fútbol iraníes fueron suspendidos indefinidamente y multados por cometer un "acto inmoral" en la cancha cuando parecieron tocarse de forma íntima al celebrar la anotación de un gol.
For example, in 2011, two prominent Iranian soccer players were indefinitely suspended and fined for committing an "immoral act" on the field by appearing to intimately touch each other during goal-scoring celebrations.
Para él —entendí— era cómico besarse, pero también no besarse; tocarse, pero también no tocarse.
I understood that for him kissing was funny but also not kissing, touching but also not touching.
verb
Volvió a bostezar y a tocarse la cara con el pañuelo.
He yawned again and dabbed at his face with his handkerchief.
verb
El problema de prometer a la gente su recompensa en el cielo es que pueden tocarse los huevos en la Tierra, mientras comen mierda y esperan que les broten alas muy pronto.
The problem with promising people their reward in heaven is they're liable to sit on their asses here on Earth, eating shit and hoping they'll sprout wings real soon.
—La mina está más cerca de lo que tú crees —dijo de pronto el indian-agent, fijándose en las primeras estribaciones de la sierra. Los cuatro caballos galopaban desenfrenadamente y con un vigor capaz de maravillar a cualquiera. La sierra casi podría tocarse ya con las manos. No era una gran cadena imponente, como la Nevada o la del Laramie, pero, sin embargo, tenía cimas y picos que se alzaban a considerable altura.
The four horses, feeling the bridle loosen; they had done a very fast behind the front and had resumed the race towards the Sierra Escalada, while the first columns of smoke fell on the vans that the red-skins were standing already looting hastily, after finishing the last defenders. The hunt began, a very moving hunt, through the last one strip of the prairie, which the fugitives were crossing. The Indian band had immediately tried to arrange themselves in an arch, with the hope of very early to collect the two wings and to close in a circle, however it was immediately realized that he was dealing with knights too strong and daring for easily let herself be taken, and she was in line.
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