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188 months ago

JENN64  See profile asked this question:

Language pair:

Spanish > English

Subject:

Other

Level of diffculty:

Easy / medium

Word or term in question:

culpa del colchón de penachos

Context:

La calle esta resbalosa, culpa del colchón de penachos, que ahora están mojados....

 

 

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187 months ago

trilinguallady  See my profile wrote:

The road is slippery because of the pieces of mattress tufts strewn about, which are now wet ....

My comment:

If I was to take it literally it made no sense with "pieces strewn about" added it makes more sense to me

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188 months ago

trilinguallady  See my profile wrote:

because of the feather-stuffed mattress

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188 months ago

rhodie  See my profile wrote:

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188 months ago

rhodie  See my profile wrote:

due to mattress tufts

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culpa here can mean "because of" or "due to" and colchon de penachos refers to parts of a mattress - "mattress tufts"

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188 months ago

rhodie  See my profile wrote:

because of the mist (steam) cushion

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