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Detestaba a Mapes, y detestaba todo lo que el regordete mercader de la muerte representaba.
He detested Mapes, detested everything the fat little death merchant stood for.
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54. La Sra. Warzazi dijo que le gustaría volver al tema de las definiciones y, en particular, a la palabra "glorificar", que personalmente detestaba.
54. Ms. Warzazi said that she would like to go back to definitions and in particular with regard to the word "glorification", which she personally hated.
Morris detestaba las palomillas, detestaba el calor y detestaba la India.
Morris hated moths, hated the heat, hated India.
Detestaba luchar a oscuras. ¡Luz, cómo lo detestaba!
He hated fighting in darkness, he bloody hated it.
El general detestaba a la gente desaliñada y Parker detestaba saber tan bien todo lo que el general detestaba.
The General hated it when anyone was unkempt and Parker hated his familiarity with everything the General hated.
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Detestaba hacer eso, detestaba jugar al gato y al ratón con el indefenso ser humano.
I loathed to do it, loathed cat and mouse with the helpless human.
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Felix lo detestaba, pues le resultaba profundamente desalentadora.
Felix abhorred it. Profoundly dispiriting.
Consideraba que tenían una nacionalidad distinta que ella detestaba.
For her, they were like a separate nationality she abhorred.
A pesar de ello, detestaba los derramamientos inútiles de sangre.
Nevertheless, he abhorred unnecessary bloodshed.
Detestaba el frío apretón de manos por el que abogaba su padre.
He abhorred the cold handshakes his father advocated.
El señor Fletcher detestaba la esclavitud, era una afrenta a Dios.
Mr. Fletcher abhorred slavery as an affront before God.
Nora nunca se emborrachaba, pues detestaba la idea de perder el control.
Nora never got drunk, abhorring the idea of ever surrendering control.
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Pero había cosas que detestaba, cosas que Arthur detestaba.
But there were things he abominated. Things Arthur abominated.
Como es natural, Daryaei los consideraba herejes, porque detestaba las drogas.
In fact, they'd been heretics to Daryaei's way of thinking—and the use of drugs was an abomination.
Alguien escribió respecto a Ezekiel que «detestaba las pelucas y que siempre tenía en mente la prosperidad de la Mancomunidad Británica».
Someone wrote of Ezekiel that he "abominated periwigs and had the welfare of the Commonwealth always upon his conscience."
Victoria se vio ante un cursioso dilema: detestaba la abolición de la compra de graduaciones, pero se le pedía que la aboliera ejerciendo su poder soberano, lo que la atraía mucho. No lo dudó demasiado, y cuando el Consejo de Ministros en un acta formal le aconsejó que firmara la orden, lo hizo de buena gana.
Victoria was faced by a curious dilemma: she abominated the abolition of purchase; but she was asked to abolish it by an exercise of sovereign power which was very much to her taste. She did not hesitate for long; and when the Cabinet, in a formal minute, advised her to sign the Warrant, she did so with a good grace. Unacceptable as Mr.
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