Je was op zoek naar: me contaba (Spaans - Engels)

"me contaba de su camis", dice massif.
"she was telling me about her camis," massif says.

casi siempre me contaba esta historia que ahora voy a compartir.
and most of the time, he told me this story i'm going to share with you now.

me contaba que él de chavalo había conocido casos de otros chavalos.
he said that when he was a boy, he knew of cases of other boys who were abused.

la historia que me contaba a mí misma era que los aventureros se veían así.
the story that i told myself was that adventurers looked like this.

cuando yo era chico mi padre me contaba esta historia del zorro y la perdiz.
when i was a little boy, my father used to tell me this story about the fox and the partridge.

cuando me contaba esto, él siempre tenía lágrimas en sus ojos, y se emocionaba bastante.
they all died in their thirties, and she was... and when he told me this, he always had tears in his eyes, and he was quite emotional about it when he told me. i: and how old was he when he emigrated?

estábamos almorzando, y me contaba sobre su estancia en una cárcel en bali por inyección de drogas.
we were having lunch and he was telling me about when he was in jail in bali for a drug injection.

en más de una ocasión se me humedecieron los ojos con las cosas que leía o con lo que me contaba la gente.
in more than one occasion my eyes became watery with the things i was reading or with the stories people were telling

el otro día me contaba que no se atreve a enviar a su hija y a su hijo al colegio en el mismo autobús.
the other day he told me that he would not dare send his daughter and his son to school in the same bus.

en 2003, me contaba el joven wilson arce que las pandillas de tres barrios eran más fuertes debido al flujo de droga.
one young man told me in 2003 me that the gangs from at least three neighborhoods were stronger as a result of the drug flow.

hace tres años, mientras me cortaba el pelo, me contaba que tenía graves problemas con el hígado y que estaba muy enferma.
it was three years ago as she was cutting my hair that she told me that she had severe liver problems and was fatally ill.

empezaba a nevar y, a medida que se internaba en el bosque de lengas, el guía me contaba la historia de estos perros.
it was starting to snow and, as we were getting deep into the lenga forest, the guide told me about the history of these dogs.

casi toda la gente con la que hablaba me contaba alguna anécdota que había vivido con él. anécdotas interesantes, sorprendentes, sugerentes.
almost everyone i spoke with had an interesting, surprising or suggestive personal anecdote to tell me about the man.

a veces sensini me contaba de sus diligencias en organismos humanitarios o vinculados a los departamentos de derechos humanos de la union europea para averiguar el paradero de gregorio.
sometimes sensini would tell me about the enquiries he was making through human rights organisations and the european union in an attempt to determine gregorio's whereabouts.

el viento azul me contaba la llegada del tiempo para tomar acciones para crear un mundo verdaderamente pacífico junta con almas de gente por todo el mundo unificadas con ser grande.
the blue wind was telling us of the arrival of time to take actions for creating a truly peaceful world together with souls of people all over the world unified with great being. home

-exedor me contaba lo extraño que le resultaba, decía que las pastas de proteínas y pastillas de vitaminas no eran comparables a nuestra comida-
“exedor told me how weird it was, he said that the vitamin pills and the protein paste weren’t comparable with our food”

señor presidente, cuando era más joven me contaba entre los que creían en una comunidad europea que no era un club exclusivo de estados de europa occidental, sino que abarcaba toda europa.
mr president, in my younger days i was one of those who had a vision of a european community which was not an exclusive club of western european states but one which embraced the whole of europe.

a continuación, me contaba que el verdadero motivo de continuar con aquella tarea era su entusiasmo por compartir un conocimiento que, si no fuese por los traductores, jamás llegaría al pueblo.
then he would explain that the true reason for continuing in that task was his enthusiasm about sharing knowledge which, if it were not for translators, would never have reached his people.

kamenef, que formaba parte de la redacción del órgano bolchevista, me contaba algún tiempo después cómo, en sus viajes por tren, le gustaba observar en las estaciones la venta de periódicos.
kamenev, one of the editors of the novaya zhizn, told me afterward how he watched the sale of newspapers at the stations when he was passing through by train.

cuando era pequeño y me rehusaba a obedecer, no quería comer, ella me contaba historias de ese tiempo, cuando no había alimento y se le llamaba 'holodomor'.
when i was little and refused to behave, refused to eat, she would tell me stories from that time, when there was no food and it was called 'holodomor.'