Sentence examples of "happen upon" in English
While on a mountain trip, I was chewing on some hard, stale bread when I happened upon a huge snake.
Durante un viaje a las montañas, masticaba un trozo de pan duro y rancio, cuando me encontré con una enorme serpiente.
What would happen if two powerful nations with different languages - such as United States and China - would agree upon the experimental teaching of Esperanto in elementary schools?
¿Qué pasaría si dos países poderosos con diferentes idiomas - tal como los Estados Unidos y China - aceptaran la enseñanza experimental del esperanto en las escuelas primarias?
Upon arriving at the airport, he made a phonecall to his wife.
Al llegar al aeropuerto, llamó a su mujer por teléfono.
Sentence Number 888,888 will bring its owner years upon years of luck.
La oración número 888.888 traerá a su dueño años de buena suerte.
Tom wanted to stick around to see what would happen. Unfortunately, he had to leave.
Tom se quería quedar a ver que sucedería. Desafortunadamente, se tuvo que ir.
The father of a father is a grandfather, a grandfather's father is a great-grandfather, a great-grandfather's father is a great-great-grandfather, but no word has been decided upon for the generations before great-great-grandfather.
El padre del padre es el abuelo, el padre del abuelo es el bisabuelo, el padre del bisabuelo es el tatarabuelo, pero no se ha definido una palabra para las generaciones anteriores al tatarabuelo.
Fairy tales usually start with “once upon a time...” and end with “...and they lived happily ever after”.
Los cuentos infantiles suelen comenzar con la frase "érase una vez..." y terminan con un "...y vivieron felices y comieron perdices".
"If you stop loving the robot, it will take its revenge upon you" "That robot will--" "Yes" " What type of revenge?" "It will kill you"
"Si paras de amar al robot, se vengará de ti." "Ese robot va a..." "Sí." "¿Qué clase de venganza?" "Te matará."
Once upon a time there was a dwarf who lived in the woods.
Había una vez un enano que vivía en el bosque.
Upon explaining plosives to his class, the linguistics teacher instantly became covered in spit.
Al explicar las oclusivas a la clase, el profesor de lingüística acabó cubierto de saliva en un instante.
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