Translation for "gallo de pelea" to english
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noun
A la madurez de gallo de pelea de mi primo Jasper, yo podía oponer un ave más fuerte.
I could match my cousin Jasper’s game-cock maturity with a sturdier fowl.
Todos rugían de entusiasmo y alegría, incitando a los dos chavales como si fueran gallos de pelea.
They were roaring with delight and excitement, egging on the two boys as though they were game cocks.
A veces le llevaba varios días ir a donde iba a haber una pelea de gallos, ya que tenían que cambiar los lugares de una parte del condado de Merryweather a otra, para que el sheriff no cogiera a Pa y a los otros hombres que poseían gallos de pelea y apostaban.
It sometimes took him several days to walk where there was going to be a cock fight, because they had to keep changing the places from one part of Merryweather County to another so the sheriff couldn’t catch up with Pa and the other men who owned game cocks and pitted them.
Había visto por primera vez a Manfred De La Rey veinte años antes; sin motivo aparente, ambos se habían arrojado el uno contra el otro, como jóvenes gallos de pelea, para enzarzarse en sanguinarios golpes. Shasa hizo una mueca al recordar el resultado;
He had first met Manfred De La Rey twenty years ago, and for no apparent reason the two of them had flown at each other on the spot like young game cocks ,and fought a bloody bout of fisticuffs. Shasa grimaced at the way it had ended, the drubbing he had received still rankled even after all that time.
Soportó las pruebas eliminatorias previas, tratando de demostrar interés en la conversación que le daban Blaine y Shasa, pero los combatientes de las categorías menores eran tan pequeños y esmirriados que parecían gallos de pelea desnutridos; la acción, en virtud de rápida, engañaba la vista.
She sat through the preliminary bouts, trying to appear interested in the lecture she was receiving from both Blaine and Shasa on the finer points of the contests, but the fighters in the lower weight divisions were so small and scrawny that they reminded her of underfed game cocks, and the flurry of action was fast enough to trick the eye.
Durante casi una hora, Abel Khori hostigó al hombre impasible de la barra, lo obligó a confesar en su propio perjuicio y cuando por fin se sentó, pavoneándose como un gallo de pelea, Craig pensó que la jugada de poner al acusado en la barra le había costado muy cara al doctor Joseph Petal.
For almost another hour Abel Khori flew at the impassive figure in the dock, extracting from him a series of damning admissions, so that when at last Abel Khori sat down, preening like a victorious game cock, Craig judged that Mr Joseph Petal had paid in heavy coin for any small advantage he might have gained by placing his client on the witness stand.
noun
Parecían una pareja de gallos de pelea, luchando por la victoria.
They were like a couple of fighting cocks circling for position.
Se han puesto de pie y se hacen frente como dos gallos de pelea.
They are standing up and confronting one another like fighting cocks.
Sobre un caleidoscopio de Popova había un gallo de pelea, agitando las plumas, de Kandinsky.
Above a kaleidoscope by Popova was a fighting cock, all whirling feathers, by Kandinsky.
Sus cabellos tenían una iridiscencia rojiza, como el plumaje de un gallo de pelea.
Her hair was an almost iridescent shade of red, like the choice plumage of a fighting cock.
—No había llorado pero estaba tensa. Como un gallo de pelea a punto de saltar.
She hadn’t cried, but she appeared extremely tense, like a fighting cock ready to attack.
Micaela se puso el disfraz de gallo de pelea a punto de atacar con los espolones.
Micaela took on the posture of a fighting cock about to raise its claws.
El chico judío compensaba su debilidad física con una energía de gallo de pelea.
The Jewish boy made up for his physical weakness with the energy of a fighting cock.
El gallo de pelea de Pa, College Boy, era el campeón del condado de Merryweather, Georgia.
Pa’s fighting cock, College Boy, was the champion of Merryweather County, Georgia.
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