As I came in, the sun was peering through the clouds. | Cuando llegué, el sol asomaba a través de las nubes. |
I was peering through the window of my car like I was watching something intense on TV; old buildings of brick and sandstone with winking neon lights that announced Benny's Taqueria or Tito's Hacienda. | Yo miraba a través del cristal de mi coche como si estuviera viendo algo intenso en la tele; edificios viejos de ladrillo y arenisca con luces intermitentes de neón que anunciaban Benny's Taquería o Tito's Hacienda. |
I had not been to a synagogue before, so I was peering with curiosity inside the building, when a woman vigorously pushed me out and said the building was closed for the moment. | Personalmente nunca había estado en una sinagoga, por lo que miraba a mi alrededor con curiosidad cuando, de repente, una mujer me echó a empujones y me dijo que la entrada al edificio estaba prohibida. |
My brother was peering through the window at me with a manic grin on his face. | Mi hermano me miraba por la ventana con una sonrisa maníaca en la cara. |
Usage: He was peering about me in the gloom. | Usage: Él quería lograr el oro en las olimpíadas. |
Starkie was peering through his telescope at the nearest line of breakers. | Starkie, anteojo en mano, estudiaba la línea de rom pientes más cercana. |
Alia was peering at a huge poster standing tall in the middle of the mall. | Alia estaba viendo un cartel enorme en medio del centro comercial. |
One midnight, when he was peering through the telescope, he fancied that the star looked a little larger and brighter than usual. | Cierta medianoche, cuando estaba mirando a través del telescopio, le pareció que la estrella era un poco más grande y brillante de lo habitual. |
It must have bugged her more than I expected though, because in a short while Dad was peering down at my food-stuffed face.=========== My question remained unchanged. | Debe haber desinsectado sus más que esperé sin embargo, porque en un cortocircuito mientras que el papá miraba con fijeza abajo en mi cara alimento-rellena.=========== Seguía habiendo mi pregunta sin cambiar. |
Unable to account for this, in a mounting excitement he stared more intently than ever, and was suddenly seized by the unnatural idea that he was peering downward into a vast, vertiginous abyss, rather than toward the zenithal heavens. | Incapaz de explicar esto, la miró más fijamente que nunca, sintiendo una emoción creciente, y fue repentinamente capturado por la antinatural idea de que estaba mirando hacia abajo a un abismo extenso y vertiginoso, más que hacia arriba, a los cielos primaverales. |
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