Traduzione per "manirroto" a inglese
Manirroto
aggettivo
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aggettivo
Ahora creerá que soy una manirrota.
Oh, dear. Now he'll think I'm extravagant.
Le tiene por imprudente y manirroto.
He believed him to be imprudent and extravagant.
Myrtle era una manirrota, o quería serlo.
Myrtle was extravagant, or wanted to be.
—No quiero parecer un manirroto —replicó Wormold.
       'I don't want to seem extravagant,' Wormold said.
Le entraba el dinero a espuertas. Tenía una mujer hermosa y manirrota y una casa en Westchester.
Money rolled in. He had a beautiful, extravagant wife and a house in Westchester.
—Es mejor que sea así y no desaseado y manirroto, particularmente si una desea casarse.
That's better than being slovenly and extravagant, if you're going to marry someone.
Era manirrota, claro está, pero él confiaba en que no lo despilfarraría todo, quedándose sin nada en la vejez.
She was extravagant, of course, but he hoped she would n ’ t squander everything, and have nothing left when she was old.
¿Es que te crees que yo soy una esposa manirrota y derrochadora? —No… Tú eres una mujercita adorable, ya lo sé; pero no me hagas ahora pensar en eso.
I suppose you think I’ll make a wildly extravagant wife?” “Lord, I hope not. You’ll sure make an adorable one.
—Quiero que entre ahí conmigo —dijo— y que me señale cuatro objetos que le gustaría poseer… supuesto que fuera lo bastante manirroto para comprarlos.
She said, ‘I want you to come in here and point out four objects which you would like to possess - if you were extravagant enough to buy them.’
Siempre se vio que los ingresos administrados por personas tan manirrotas como ellos dos y tan descuidados por el porvenir, habían de ser insuficientes para mantenerse.
It had always been evident to her that such an income as theirs, under the direction of two persons so extravagant in their wants, and heedless of the future, must be very insufficient to their support;
aggettivo
los dioses desprecian a los manirrotos, eso solía decir mi padre.
The gods despise a wasteful man, my father always used to say.
O bien Hoid era un manirroto, o bien tenía tanto éxito como había dado a entender Dockson.
Hoid was either very wasteful, or he was just as successful as Dockson implied.
Cidipa rebuscó en su bolso y exclamó con voz compungida: —¡Qué desgracia! Sólo llevo diez monedas, y sin embargo, mi abuelo siempre me está tratando de manirrota.
Kydippe fingered her pouch and said unhappily, “Alas, I have perhaps only ten coins and grandfather already accuses me of wastefulness.
Pensé que tendría que tirar mucha tela, y que me considerarían una manirrota, pero por una vez Judith acudió en mi ayuda y le dijo a Dorcas que me dejara a mí elegir lo que me pareciera mejor.
I thought I would have to throw away a great deal of cloth, and be considered wasteful, but for once Judith came to my rescue and told Dorcas to let me decide what is best.
En la actualidad, las mayores amenazas para el futuro de nuestros nietos son consecuencia de lo que hacemos o, lo que es lo mismo, del modo en que nuestras sociedades industrializadas y el uso manirroto de nuestros recursos producen residuos y efectos secundarios que causan graves daños al planeta.
Now the greatest threats to our grandchildren’s future come from the fallout from the things that we do, which is to say from the ways in which our heavily industrialized societies and profligate use of our resources are producing wastes and side-effects that are seriously damaging the world.
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