vaca lechera: meaning & examples
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Meanings:
- A cow kept for the production of milk; a dairy cow.
Examples
BetaLa vaca lechera de la granja produce alrededor de veinte litros de leche al día.
The farm's dairy cow produces around twenty liters of milk a day.
Durante la visita al campo, vimos varias vacas lecheras pastando tranquilamente.
During the visit to the countryside, we saw several dairy cows grazing peacefully.
El granjero cuida a la vaca lechera con mucho esmero para garantizar la calidad de la leche.
The farmer takes great care of the dairy cow to guarantee the quality of the milk.
Las vacas lecheras necesitan una alimentación especial para mantener su producción constante.
Dairy cows need a special diet to maintain their constant production.
- A dependable source of continuous income or resources; a 'cash cow'.
Examples
BetaEsa fábrica es la vaca lechera de la ciudad; genera empleos y dinero para todos.
That factory is the city's cash cow; it generates jobs and money for everyone.
No podemos permitir que esta vaca lechera deje de producir, es nuestra principal fuente de ingresos.
We can't allow this cash cow to stop producing, it's our main source of income.
El nuevo producto se convirtió rápidamente en la vaca lechera de la empresa.
The new product quickly became the company's cash cow.
Examples:
- ES: No pueden manejar a una vaca lechera.EN: They couldn't make a cow halfway comfortable.
- ES: Esta ya se tendió en la calle, como una vaca lechera. ¡Vete!EN: Why are lying here, you cow? Go!
- ES: Amada mía, mi último recuerdo es para ti, vaca lechera.EN: My beloved, my last memory is for you, you milk cow.
- ES: Los otros invitados eran Lady Redpole y su hija Maud... cuyo más razonable parecido era el de una vaca lechera... y tenía una capacidad de conversar poco mayor.EN: Our fellow guests were Lady Redpole and her daughter Maud who most suitably resembled nothing so much as a red poll cow and had little more conversational ability.
- ES: - Una vez tuve una vaca lechera.EN: Had a milk cow once.
- ES: Suelen asegurar los costeños, con su gracejo exagerativo... Que una palma de coco rinde tanto como una vaca lechera.EN: The people of the coast maintain, with their exaggerated charm, that a coconut tree yields as much as a milk cow.
- ES: Tendremos que deshacernos de la vaca lechera.EN: No ... you're not gonna sell the cow?
- ES: ¡De vaca lechera!EN: Cow milk!
- ES: Si está pensando en comprar mi nueva vaca lechera... que se olvide.EN: If he is thinking about buying my new milk cow, he can forget it.
- ES: Hablamos de mi nueva vaca lechera... la que quiere comprarme.EN: Of course I know. We are talking about my new milk cow, the one you want to buy from me.
- ES: ¿Una vaca lechera?EN: A milk cow?
- ES: ¿Una vaca lechera para no sentirme solo?EN: A milk cow so I won't be lonely?
- ES: - Elegiré una buena vaca lechera.EN: - I'll pick a good milk cow.
- ES: Su notable trabajo con las hormonas activadas ha hecho posible el prototipo de la vaca lechera Dorothy, con un resultado fabuloso.EN: Your remarkable work on over-activated hormones made it possible to put into circulation the prototype of the Dorothy dairy cow, which performed exceptionally.
- ES: Una vaca lechera.EN: One milk cow.
- ES: El Senado mataba la vaca lechera.EN: The Senate slaughtered the milk cow.
- ES: Y la suerte de una vaca lechera es mas agradable que la de un cerdo cebado.EN: Just as a milk cow's lot is pleasanter than a fattened swine's.
- ES: ¡Una vaca lechera le ganaría una carrera!EN: He couldn't catch a milk cow if it had a bell on it!
- ES: una rueca, una mantequera, gavillas de trigo, pico, balanza, silla de mimbre, una vaca lechera roja y blanca, un montón de estiércol, un pañuelo de seda, dos ratoneras, una bandeja de secado, una mesa y un baúl, una cama vieja,EN: A spinning wheel, butter churn, sheaves of wheat, pick, scales, a wicker chair a red and white milking cow, a heap of manure, a silk handkerchief, two mouse traps, a dnying pan, table and chest, an old bed,
- ES: La vaca lechera de Berlín.EN: The milk cow of Berl ي n.
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