broken
 adjective
 roto
EN A large rickety wooden building stood in its place, with great gaping windows, some of them broken and mended with old hats and petticoats, and over the door was painted, "The Union Hotel, by Jonathan Doolittle".
GL No seu lugar construíran unha raquítica casiña de madeira, con enormes ventás abertas, algunhas delas rotas e amañadas con vellos sombreiros e enaguas, tendo sobre a porta un letreiro que dicía: "Hotel da Unión, de Jonathan Doolittle".
 Fonte: RIP (147)
interrompido
EN He listened without sympathy to his father's evocation of Cork and of scenes of his youth, a tale broken by sighs or draughts from his pocket flask whenever the image of some dead friend appeared in it or whenever the evoker remembered suddenly the purpose of his actual visit.
GL Escoitaba con simpatía a evocación que o seu pai facía de Cork e de sucesos da súa mocidade, historias interrompidas por suspiros ou tragos da petaca cada vez que a imaxe dun amigo morto aparecía nelas ou cando o evocador lembraba subitamente a razón da súa visita actual.
Fonte: RET (1830)
defectuoso
EN He speaks in broken English which his listeners do not fully understand.
GL Exprésase nun inglés defectuoso que os seus oíntes entenden só a medias.
Fonte: C31 (1170)
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