English Word: sting (n) (v)
Spanish Word: picadura
Now you know how to say sting in Spanish. :-)
Translated sentences containing 'sting'
A bee's sting is painful. Use this cream to relieve the pain.
La picadura de abeja es dolorosa. Usa esta crema para aliviar el dolor.
You're equipped, they won't sting you, rest assured.
Estás equipada, no te picarán, tranquila.
Unlike bees, wasps do not die when they sting.
A diferencia de la abeja, la avispa no muere al picar.
Now that is the issue at stake, but there is a sting in the tail.
Aunque ése es el tema que se pone sobre la mesa, oculta una sorpresa desagradable al final.
But when bees are provoked they sting, and the same applies to us.
Pero si se las provoca entonces pican y en nuestro caso es exactamente igual.
Mrs Lulling wishes to provide the sting in the tail.
La Sra. Lulling desea acertar con el aguijón.
Madam President, 'in cauda venenum' as the Romans used to say: 'the sting is in the tail'.
Señora Presidenta, "in cauda venenum", decían los latinos, es decir, "al final el veneno".
Mr President, I object to that oral amendment because it takes away the sting in our resolution.
(EN) Señor Presidente, me opongo a esa enmienda oral porque quita fuerza a nuestra resolución.
She is as sweet as honey most of the time, and she can sting like a bee when people stand on her corns.
Es tan dulce como la miel la mayoría de las veces y puede picar como una abeja cuando alguien hiere su sensibilidad.
As far as we are concerned this took the sting out of the report and at the final vote we were able to vote in favour.
Con ello, consideramos que los inconvenientes del informe han desparecido y hemos podido apoyarlo en la votación final.
With this attempt, however, they are also trying to take the sting out of it, because pay is of course the most important condition of employment.
Sin embargo, con esta tentativa, también están procurando compensar la situación, porque la retribución es, por supuesto, la condición más importante del trabajo.
Promoting low carbon energy sources is a well-known argument used by the nuclear lobby to take the sting out of nuclear power.
La promoción de las fuentes de energía con bajas emisiones de carbono es un argumento bien conocido que emplea el grupo de presión del sector nuclear para hacer que el uso de la energía nuclear parezca menos doloroso.
But the second thing I must take up is the point made by Mr Wijsenbeek in the introduction to his report, for the sting was in the tail.
Pero en segundo lugar quiero decir, a propósito de las palabras del Sr. Wijsenbeek en la introducción a su informe, que se descubrió el pastel.
Thankfully the European Commission has acted upon most recommendations, and that means that as far as we are concerned, the sting has been taken out of the debate.
La Comisión Europea ha seguido afortunadamente la mayoría de las recomendaciones y eso significa que en lo que a nosotros respecta se ha recogido el anzuelo del debate.
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