Exercise 2
EXERCISE 2
Translate into Spanish:
- The long and short of the matter is that (en pocas palabras) we had agreed he was to do it.
- This is nothing short of dishonesty (esto se llama falta de honradez, nada menos).
- No matter what he will say (diga lo que dijere) I am sure he will have to pay.
- The estimate and the sketches attached reached us just in (á) time.
- The cloth was run (plegada) in pieces of 20 yds. exactly, the consequence being that some pieces were found by the customer to be with cuts (cortes).
- It is of no use (es inútil) our struggling any longer (por más tiempo) against adversity.
- Your writing in that strain (en aquel tono) shows plainly that their action has cut you to the quick (profundamente).
- By selling in time he managed (logró) to minimise the loss.
- The shocking abuses that existed under the monarchy are being (se van) corrected by the Republican Government.
- We shall show them that our firm is not to be trifled with.
- These stuffs are too heavily sized and the finish is not sufficiently mellow.
- Their feel is not clothy (no tienen bastante cuerpo al tacto).
- This defect will be made right in future deliveries.