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With no income of my own, I could do little to retain them.
Sin contar con recursos propios, poco podía hacer yo por retenerlos.
I absorbed all this information and strange words with a decision to always retain them.
Yo asimilaba toda aquella información y esas extrañas palabras, decidido a retenerlas para siempre.
who can retain them all and keep them separate, and only rarely confuse or mix them up.
para retenerlas y distinguirlas, y muy rara vez confundirlas o mezclarlas.
The jumble of packages threatened to fall, and Matthew fought to retain them while his mouth consumed Daisy's.
Los paquetes amenazaron con caerse, y Matthew luchó por retenerlos mientras su boca consumía la de Daisy.
We had clients like that in the third level of our oubliette, because we were forced to retain them by the legalities;
—En el tercer nivel de nuestra mazmorra teníamos clientes así, porque nos obligaban a retenerlos por cuestiones legales;
"And retain them all aboard ship without giving away our deployment plans in the meantime," Isvarian said with a nod. "Precisely.
—Y mientras tanto, retenerlos a bordo de la nave sin desvelar los planes de nuestro despliegue —dijo Isvarian asintiendo. —Precisamente.
He proposed to win followers among the Indians through persuasion, rather than lassos, and to retain them with good works rather than lashings.
Se propuso ganar adeptos mediante la persuasión, en vez del lazo, y retenerlos con buenas obras, en vez de azotes.
He disguised its uselessness thinly by packing it with food supplies which could not have been heaped so high without the sides of the canoe to retain them.
Finalmente, disimuló su inutilidad atiborrándola de alimentos que no se podrían haber apilado a tanta altura sin los flancos de la canoa para retenerlos.
He could not retain them, confused them with one another, and even as an adult used them unwillingly and often incorrectly: justice, conscience, God, joy, responsibility, humility, gratitude, etc.
No podía retenerlas, las confundía entre sí, las usaba, incluso de adulto, a la fuerza y muchas veces impropiamente: justicia, conciencia, Dios, alegría, responsabilidad;
We board them and can barely distinguish between them, we know nothing of their age or their past history, we don’t even notice their names, which, in Spain at least, are chosen in such a bureaucratic, pious spirit, so lacking in poetry, adventure and imagination, that it’s hard to retain them and, therefore, recognize them if ever we entrust ourselves to them again.
Nos montamos en ellos sin apenas diferenciarlos, sin conocer sus edades ni sus pasados, sin fijarnos en sus nombres, que por otra parte están elegidos, en España al menos, con espíritu tan burocrático o tan pío, tan poco poético, aventurero e imaginativo, que resulta difícil retenerlos, y por tanto reconocerlos si volvemos a confiarnos a ellos.
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