protect
We were protecting you. | Te estábamos protegiendo. ¿De veras? |
We stayed there, because we were protecting you and the others. | No quedamos allí, porqué os estábamos protegiendo a ti y a los otros. |
I don't know what we were protecting them from. | No sé de qué las protegíamos. |
He was the one who had always protected us, and now we were protecting and caring for him. | Íbamos sintiendo más y más ternura hacia él, que fue una persona que siempre nos protegió. |
We can debate the details all you want, but let's remember, we were protecting you as much as anyone. | Podemos hablar de los detalles todo lo que quieras, pero recordemos que te estábamos protegiendo más que a ninguno. |
But it wasn't a lockdown because they had left first; we were protecting the interests of those of us who worked there. | Ocupamos las instalaciones, pero no era una toma porque ellos se habían ido primero. Estábamos protegiendo los intereses de quienes laborábamos ahí. |
We did not surrender, because by implicating Cuba–the nation we were protecting–in false accusations in order to swell a U.S. government file against the island would have been an unpardonable act of betrayal of the people we love. | No transigimos, porque el implicar a Cuba ─la nación a la que estábamos protegiendo─ en acusaciones falsas para engrosar un expediente del gobierno norteamericano contra la isla hubiera sido un imperdonable acto de traición al pueblo que amamos. |
We were protecting each other to the very end. | Nos protegíamos unos a otros hasta el final. |
We were protecting the child. | Estábamos protegiendo a la niña. |
We were protecting her. | De hecho, la protegíamos. |
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