Picture of the Day: The Basket House
Post your comments/titles/captions to this picture (both in Spanish and English) and vote for the ones you like. The best answer will be chosen tomorrow on the basis of the greatest number of votes as well as the language correctness.
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And don't forget to correct your posts as suggested. Do N O T ever use subject pronouns!
Posts which are not corrected as suggested can NOT be "accepted".
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My example:
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Creo que esta será suficientemente grande para todas mis cosas.
I think this will be big enough for all my things.
18 Answers
¡No creo que Caperucita Roja pueda levantar una cesta tan grande!
I don't believe Little Red Riding Hood could lift a basket so large!
Todavía no creo que es tan grande que todo podemos ir al infierno.
I still doubt that this is large enough for all of us to go to Hell.
(Hopefully this version makes more sense in Spanish.)
Think of the size of the ants you'd have at that picnic!
¡Imagínate el tamaño de las hormigas en aquel picnic!
Do you any larger models,please?, it is for going to the beach.
¿Tiene usted algún modelo más grande? ,lo quiero para ir a la playa
The architect must have been a 'basket case'.
El arquitecto debe haber sido "un loco".
¡Esta cesta no es bastante grande para contener el regalo que Fulano neceseita
necesita por haberse olvidado del aniversario de la boda!
This basket is not big enough to hold the gift that Fulano needs for having forgotten his wedding anniversary!
No puedo esperar a ver la botella de vino.
I can't wait to see the bottle of wine.
This gives a whole new prospective on the word "company picnic."
Esto da un nuevo punto de vista para la palabra "picnic de compañia.
La arquitectura de moda en provincia ....... ¡Un estacionamiento!
Architecture in fashion in the country ....... A parking lot!
¿Dónde está situada? Brobdingnag o Liliput?
Where is this situated? Brobdingnag or Lilliput?
Este pollo pequeño está fuera de aquí antes que vuelva propietario
This little chicken is out of here before the owner returns.
No se siente en una canasta a elevarse;
En este proverbio camboyano "sentado en una canasta" es una metáfora de jactarse de sí mismo. Suena muy similar al proverbio bíblico "el orgullo precede a la caída". Todos sabemos las canastas son propensos a caer en cuando uno se sienta sobre ellos. Van Gogh no debe haber sabido el proverbio!
Do not sit on a basket to raise yourself;
In this Cambodian proverb "sitting on a basket" is a metaphor for boasting about oneself. It sounds very similar to the Bible proverb 'pride comes before a fall'. We all know how baskets are prone to fall in when you sit upon them. Van Gogh must not have known the proverb!
A gift for the man who has everything. A basket to carry it all in.
Un regalo para el hombre tienen todo. Una cesta llevar en todas.
Corrections please!
Un regalo para el hombre que tiene todo. Una cesta para llevar todo.
With thanks to Julian.
Esta es una obra de arte de representación de la persona que posee la famoso edificio conocido como
" La Construcción de la Canasta ".
This is an artwork rendering of the person who owns the famous building known as The Basket Building.