Translation for "yolas" to english
Yolas
noun
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Translation examples
noun
Ah, ¡cómo envidiaba a los ricos fanquis que nos adelantaban a toda velocidad en sus elegantes balandros y en sus ligeras yolas!
How I envied the rich fanqui shipowners who went breezing past us in their fine sloops and sleek yawls!
Tenía una pequeña oficina cuyas ventanas estaban cubiertas de anuncios de venta y fotos de yolas, balandros, queches, cúteres y goletas, la mayoría rebajados. Quinn entró;
He had a tiny office whose win­dows were plastered with For Sale signs and pictures of yawls and sloops and ketches and cutters and schooners, most of them under sail.
Y, en los antepechos de las ventanas, había barquitos torpemente construidos: maquetas de balandras, yolas, lanchas, una gabarra, algunos de ellos con diminutas drizas de hojalata, timones de madera, jarcias hechas de hilo.
And on the sills were tiny, clumsily made boats: models of sloops and yawls, longboats, a scow—some with tiny brass halyards, balsa tillers, tigging made from thread.
Escuché a medias al capitán mientras explicaba que «sólo los barcos de vela» pueden pescar ostras, salvo dos veces por semana, cuando permiten navegar a las yolas con motor.
I half listened as the captain explained that “only boats under sail” can dredge for oysters—except twice a week, when engine-powered yawls were allowed on the bay.
A bordo de yolas de colores chillones y bergantines, discutían, compraban y vendían y robaban, aprendían sal, algunos de ellos mientras lloraban sobre mapas de la ciudad y calculaban la distancia que los separaba de Nueva Crobuzón o Nova Esperium.
On gaudy yawls and barquentines, they were arguing, buying and selling and stealing, learning Salt, some weeping, poring over maps of the city, calculating the distance from New Crobuzon or Nova Esperium.
se giró para enfrentarse al intruso y, aferrado a la barandilla, miró hacia la escala de bronce por donde se llegaba a las yolas. Se encontró de pronto mirando a los ojos de su bella protegida, que en ese momento asía la escala desde el agua.
wheeled to face the intruder. He grasped the railing and gazed down onto the brass ladder that connected the boat with the yawls. Dumont found himself looking into the eyes of his beautiful young ward. She had only just reached out to climb the ladder and was still in the water.
noun
Entre las orillas arboladas del río dos yolas avanzaban contracorriente, y los remos brillaban.
Between the wooded banks of the river two shells raced upstream, oars flashing.
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