Aquellos jóvenes que entonces se manifestaron de forma totalmente pacífica ahora han envejecido antes de timpo, machacados a raíz de las terribles condiciones que imperan en las cárceles chinas.

Those young people who demonstrated entirely peacefully at the time are now prematurely aged, ground down as a result of the terrible conditions prevailing in Chinese prisons.

machacar

to mush up {v.t.}

machacar(also: machetear)

to slash {vb}

machacar

to beat … to a pulp {vb}

machacar(also: estudiar, ponerse al día en)

to bone up on {vb} [coll.]

machacar(also: chancar, machetearse, empollar)

to swot up on {vb} [Brit.] [coll.]

machacar [machacando · machacado] {intransitive verb}

machacar(also: estudiar como loco, cranearse, machetear, chapar)

to swot {vb} [Brit.] [coll.]

SYNONYMS

Synonyms (Spanish) for "machaca":

machaca

insistente- tenaz

CONTEXT EXAMPLES

Context examples for "machaca" in English(!) These sentences come from external sources & may not be accurate. Therefore, we are not responsible for their content.

Lo que sabemos, en cualquier caso, es que se ha reído usted del principio de precaución con el que nos machaca los oídos.

All we know, at any event, is that you have paid little heed to the precautionary principle that people keep harping on about here.

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