Translation for "valían" to english
Valían
verb
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Translation examples
verb
¿Qué valían la fuerza o el coraje contra un enemigo dotado de tan misteriosas facultades?
What strength or courage could avail against an enemy armed with such mysterious powers?
Carson había oído decir que sus propiedades valían unos quinientos millones de dólares, pero era difícil de comprobar.
Carson had heard it said that his properties were worth half a billion dollars, but no firm figure was available.
¿Y por qué no se valían de los medios que el propio Dios había dado a los humanos para cubrir su desnudez: «Hízoles Yavé Dios a Adán y a su mujer túnicas de pieles, y los vistió»?
And why did they not avail themselves of the means that God himself had given humans to cover their nakedness: “ Unto Adam also and to his wife did the Lord God make coats of skins, and clothed them”?
verb
Por otra parte, se consideraba algo natural que el capitán Aubrey rescatara a un hombre que se estaba ahogando, puesto que todos en la Armada sabían que había rescatado ya a una veintena más o menos, aunque la mayoría de ellos, como él mismo confesaba, no valían nada.
Otherwise it was taken as a matter of course that Captain Aubrey should rescue a drowning man; it was perfectly well known in the service that he had already saved a score or so, most of them, as he freely admitted, quite worthless.
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