comprar
En el noticiero (de televisión) del día 19 se dijo que estábamos comprando, ilegalmente, materia prima que el Estado nos garantizaba. | On the (television) news on the 19th they said that we were illegally buying raw materials that the State guaranteed us. |
Te dije que estábamos comprando el periódico. | I tell you we were both buying newspapers. |
Depresiva, escogí la pizzería más próxima a la tienda de comestibles donde estábamos comprando. | Depressed, I chose the closest pizzeria to the grocery store we were shopping at. |
La urbanización ya estaba bien establecida en el campo de golf por lo que pudimos ver exactamente qué es lo que estábamos comprando. | The development was already well established on the golf course sowe could see exactly what we were buying into. |
Lo más grave era que, con este mecanismo, estábamos comprando cuatro, cinco, hasta diez veces más caras las medicinas que el resto de Centroamérica. | The most serious side of this was that this method of capital flight was jacking the price of medicines up four to ten times higher than in the rest of Central America. |
Sin embargo, el truco real era ir y realmente comprar un soldadito (creo que eran Cavalry norteamericanos) para disipar las sospechas del dueño, porque seguramente ¿no podríamos estar robando si estábamos comprando? | The real trick was, however, to go and actually buy one toy soldier (I think they were U.S. Cavalry), in order to remove the owner's suspicion; because surely we couldn't be stealing if we were buying? |
Antes, cuando era estudiante, todavía estábamos comprando nuestra música en CD y la única forma de ver los últimos programas de televisión y películas era estar frente al televisor, o en el cine, en el momento adecuado. | Back when I was a schoolkid, we were still buying our music on CDs and the only way to watch the latest TV shows and movies were to either be in front of the TV, or in the cinema, at the right time. |
Nosotros creímos que estábamos comprando un cuadro original, pero resultó que era un plagio. | We thought we were buying an original, but the painting turned out to be a rip-off. |
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