desmoronar
Desanimados. Asustados. Se desmoronaban uno tras otro sin parar, cada día. | Afraid. They are crumbling one after the other, non stop, each day. |
Las escuelas se desmoronaban, los maestros no se presentaban a trabajar, la tasa de deserción escolar era del 49 %. | The schools were crumbling, teachers didn't show up for work, the public schools drop-out rate was 49 percent. |
Si después de esto veis que muchos de ellos se desmoronaban – significa, el abeto han cortado hace mucho y mucho tiempo a usted no estará parado. | If after that you see that many of them were showered–means, a fir-tree cut down long ago and long it at you will not stay. |
Cuando entré en Gernika después de medianoche, las casas se desmoronaban y era completamente imposible entrar en el centro del pueblo, incluso para los bomberos. | When I entered Guernica after midnight houses were crashing on either side, and it was utterly impossible even for firemen to enter the centre of the town. |
En última instancia se estimó, y con razón, que, si bien todas estas opciones funcionaban de forma abstracta, se desmoronaban al ponerlas en contexto con las demás cartas y el espacio de juego. | Ultimately it was felt (rightly) that while all of these options worked in a vacuum; they fell apart when put into context with the other cards and the play space. |
Las negociaciones de paz se desarrollaron en una situación en que la Economía nacional se derrumbaba, en que todo el país estaba cansado de la guerra, las unidades militares abandonaban las trincheras y los frentes se desmoronaban. | The negotiations took place at a time when the country was in a state of economic disruption, when war-weariness was universal, when our troops were abandoning the trenches and the front was collapsing. |
MIAMI, Florida – Para Chad Olin parecía la oportunidad perfecta: las décadas de animadversión entre Estados Unidos y Cuba se desmoronaban, abriendo por fin una frontera en el Caribe para los estadounidenses con dólares. | MIAMI—To Chad Olin, it seemed like the perfect opportunity: Decades of animosity between the United States and Cuba were peeling away, opening a final frontier in the Caribbean to dollar-wielding Americans. |
Estos dos actos, sugeridos por los obreros y los marinos, y que garantizaron su contacto con los soldados, fueron acontecimientos políticos de primera importancia. Se desmoronaban los últimos restos del fetichismo del poder. | These two acts of resistance, suggested by workers and sailors, and carried out, thanks to the sympathy of the garrison, with complete impunity, became political events of capital importance. |
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