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"digs" in Spanish
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"digs" in Spanish
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When in a hole, one should stop digging, and I therefore ask him to give us full disclosure.
Cuando uno está en un agujero debe dejar de cavar, así que le pido que nos revele todos los detalles.
We would be digging our own grave.
Vamos a cavar nuestra propia tumba.
the ground was too hard to dig
la tierra estaba demasiado dura para cavar
to dig(also: to excavate, to burrow, to scoop out, to sink)
A few weeks ago that field was dug up by bulldozers to create a municipal rubbish dump.
Hace pocas semanas se empezó a excavar dicho campo para construir un vertedero municipal.
Thailand is about to decide on digging a canal right across the country, just like the Suez or Panama Canal.
Tailandia está a punto de decidir excavar un canal que atravesará el país, al igual que el canal de Suez o el de Panamá.
The building of the museum of archaeology is placed on the very edge of the former medieval city walls and is dug in as much as the conditions permit it.
La construcción del Museo de Arqueología está situada en el mismo borde de la muralla medieval de la ciudad y se excavará si las condiciones lo permiten.
to dig(also: to delve into, to pick, to poke, to scratch)
All you need to do is dig a little before eventually seeing the light.
Basta con escarbar un poco para terminar viendo la luz.
to dig a hole
escarbar la tierra
Anyone who digs for money or gold should also be responsible for the damage in cases of doubt.
Cualquiera que escarba en busca de dinero o de petróleo debería ser responsable de los daños en caso de duda.
How will we be able to insist that no ditches several metres deep are dug, and that safety lanes are created on motorways and national roads alike?
¿Cómo podemos insistir en que no se abran zanjas de varios metros de profundidad y en que se construyan arcenes de seguridad tanto en las autopistas como en las carreteras nacionales?
to dig(also: to extract, to fish out, to tease out, to pull off)
to dig up
sacar a la luz
While desperate people were digging their relatives out of the rubble with their bare hands, the state apparatus showed that it was first and foremost concerned with itself.
Mientras personas desesperadas sacaban con las manos desnudas a sus familiares de entre los escombros, el Estado se ocupaba preferentemente de si mismo.
I remember the event very clearly because, every day, I could see from the television that the Iranians were receiving no help in digging the survivors out of the ruins.
Recuerdo con mucha claridad aquella catástrofe porque cada día pude ver en la televisión que los iraníes no recibían ayuda para sacar a los supervivientes de las ruinas.
to dig(also: to break off, to wrench, to wrest, to gouge out)
to dig up
arrancar (un arbol o una mata)
to dig(also: to reason out, to catch on, to get, to work out)
to dig(also: to reason out, to catch on, to get, to work out)
to dig(also: to hunt out, to look out for, to look up, to quest)
Anyone who digs for money or gold should also be responsible for the damage in cases of doubt.
Cualquiera que escarba en busca de dinero o de petróleo debería ser responsable de los daños en caso de duda.
Where, though, I asked myself, and so I had a look in my archives and dug out the legislative and working programme for 2006.
Pero dónde, me pregunté a mí mismo, así que busqué en mis archivos y encontré el programa legislativo y de trabajo para 2004.
to give sb a dig in the ribs
darle un codazo en las costillas a algn
she gave him a dig in the ribs
le dio un codazo en el costado
Experts, the digging of water wells, clean drinking water and also medical care are particularly important.
Los expertos, la excavación de pozos de agua, el agua potable y la atención médica son especialmente importantes.
Digging the foundations for a house would hurt worms.
La excavación de los cimientos de una casa ocasionaría daños a los gusanos.
to go on a dig
ir de excavación
dig(also: excavations)
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We should provide an opportunity, we should talk, however much the other side digs its heels in.
Deberíamos dar una oportunidad, deberíamos hablar, por mucho que el otro se cierre en banda.
There is no other way to explain the fact that it digs up a dead text and adopts its anti-democratic provisions.
No hay otra manera de explicar el hecho de que desentierre un texto muerto y adopte sus disposiciones antidemocráticas.
to live in digs
vivir en una habitación alquilada, una pensión etc
he took me to his digs
me llevó a donde vivía
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