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Los nombres de los sorns son altisonantes, como Augray y Arkal y Belmo y Falman. Los jrossa tienen nombres chillantes, como Jnoj y Jniji y Hyoi y Hlithnahi.
The sorns have big-sounding names like Augray and Arkal and Belma and Falmay. The hrossa have furry names like Hnoh and Hnihi and Hyoi and Hlithnahi.
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No es que la haya acostumbrado a ese tipo de celebraciones altisonantes.
It isn’t that she’d become accustomed to this type of high-flown celebration.
Únicamente las frases altisonantes del joven Geoffrey recomendando y alabando a su amigo.
Nothing but Geoffrey's high-flown phrases of assurance and commendation.
Ese tío no era un griego altisonante que hablaba y escribía cinco idiomas.
this was no high-flown Greek who could speak and write five languages.
Estaba escrito con frases altisonantes que leía conmovido. —Sí, muchísimo —contesté.
It was written in high-flown sentences that he read with great feeling. “Yes, very much,” I said.
Sonrió como pidiendo indulgencia por haberse visto obligado a emplear una frase tan altisonante.
He smiled apologetically at having been compelled to use such a high-flown phrase.
En la lengua inglesa existe la útilísima palabra cant, que significa «patraña, falacia altisonante, retórica».
The English language has a very useful word, “cant,” meaning humbug, high-flown lying, rhetoric.
Durante el día componía altisonantes circunloquios, pero por la noche, llegado el momento de escribirlos, me paralizaba su estupidez.
During the day I composed high-flown circumlocutions, but at night, when it came to writing them down, I balked at their silliness.
Describió esas fantasías con el estilo irritantemente retórico y altisonante que los arquetipos, como los llamaría después, parecen favorecer.
He wrote down the fantasies in the grating high-flown rhetorical style that the archetypes, as he was to call them, seem to favor.
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