hasta la usura o la muerte
English translation: until the point of breaking or death
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| Hasta haberles sacado todo el beneficio o matarlos. |
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peer agreement (net): +1until the point of breaking or death Explanation: I think what you have is quite good. With a slightly alternate translation of the whole text, I think "until the point of breaking or death" would also work nicely. As in: One case displays the miserable state of the bones, malformed, fractured, or riddled by arthritis — a reflection of the suffering endured by draught animals, yoked to a carriage, lashed with whips, until the point of breaking or death. |
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3 hrs confidence: peer agreement (net): +1
peer agreement (net): +1Until they have taken everything out of them or killed them Explanation: Recreación |
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exploited to death Explanation: Basically, a more compressed version of villarino's suggestion (haberles sacado todo el beneficio = exploited). -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 9 hrs (2021-12-24 10:03:38 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- "A display case shows the misery of deformed bones, fractured or beset by osteoarthritis, reflecting the treatment suffered by draft animals, yoked to a carriage, whipped and exploited to death..." -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 9 hrs (2021-12-24 10:04:47 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- beset verb 1. (of a problem or difficulty) trouble (someone or something) persistently. Similar: plague bedevil attack assail beleaguer afflict torment ... https://context.reverso.net/translation/spanish-english/sean+explotados |
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9 hrs confidence: peer agreement (net): +1
peer agreement (net): +1until burnout (worked to exhaustion) or death Explanation: animales de tracción, uncidos a un carruaje, azotados con una fusta, hasta la usura o la muerte : beasts of burden, yoked to a cart, *flogged* with a whip, to burnout or death. It isn't only humans who suffer from burnout, Example sentence(s):
Reference: http://www.msdvetmanual.com/metabolic-disorders/fatigue-and-... |
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| Reference: Hasta haberles sacado todo el beneficio o matarlos. Reference information: Usura sugiere uso abusivo, exagerado... No sé si se entiende como ganancia excesiva o sólo como desgaste En otras palabras viene a decir Hasta haberles sacado/exprimido todo el beneficio o matarlos. usura Del lat. usūra. 1. f. Interés excesivo en un préstamo. 2. f. Ganancia, fruto, utilidad o aumento que se saca de algo, especialmente cuando es excesivo. 3. f. Interés ilícito que se llevaba por el dinero o el género en el contrato de mutuo o préstamo. 4. f. Deterioro o desgaste. Mostraba las huellas de la usura del tiempo. pagar alguien con usura algo 1. loc. verb. Corresponder a un beneficio o buena obra con otra mayor o con sumo agradecimiento. Diccionario Definiciones de Oxford Languages Busca una palabra usura nombre femenino 1. Práctica que consiste en cobrar un interés excesivamente alto por un préstamo. "había acumulado un considerable capital mediante la usura" 2. FORMAL Uso con desgaste de una cosa. |
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