Translation examples
adjective
I just want you to rest assured that there's no amatory intention on my part.
Quiero asegurarte... ... quenotengoningunaintención amatoria.
For example, "amatory" is from the Latin word for love, while "wedlock"-- the condition of being married-- is Norse, Norwegian.
Por ejemplo, "amatorio" viene de la palabra latina para amor, mientras "wedlock", la condición de estar casado, es nórdica, noruego.
That I don’t need witnesses to my amatory failures?
¿Que no necesito testigos para mis fracasos amatorios?
The girl was amatory in a matter-of-fact way.
La muchacha se entregaba al ejercicio amatorio con sentido práctico.
That opposites attract is not among the rules of amatory physics.
La atracción de los polos opuestos no está entre las leyes de la física amatoria.
to those slim, amatory women who honor my craft
a esas esbeltas, amatorias mujeres que honran mi oficio
looks capable of charm, and of the amatory success for which he was notorious.
parece capaz de fascinar y del éxito amatorio por el cual Filipo alcanzó la fama.
With the very special nurses John adopts a markedly different amatory style.
Con las enfermeras muy especiales, John adopta un estilo amatorio marcadamente distinto.
asked Pilar to the other man, to strengthen herself against Basilio Baltazar’s amatory grief.
-dijo Pilar para fortalecerse ante el dolor amatorio de Basilio Baltazar.
A prodigious yearning rose up through my knees, surged across my amatory triangle.
Un anhelo prodigioso subía por mis rodillas, rozaba mi triángulo amatorio.
Buñuel preached chastity as the means to augment pleasure, desire, the thirst for the amatory body.
Buñuel pregonaba la castidad para aumentar el placer, el deseo, la sed del cuerpo amatorio.
His ear kept him martial, albeit in his own generous, complex, amatory way.
Su oído permaneció marcial, aunque a su modo: generoso, complejo y amatorio.
adjective
“Perhaps just amatory persistence. Perhaps something else.”
—Quizá con propósitos amorosos. Quizá por algún otro motivo.
The masked woman behind me laughed again as she recounted a tale of amatory adventures.
La dama enmascarada que tenía a mis espaldas reía contando un lance amoroso;
She said to give her all the latest, the scandals, the summonses and the amatory pursuits.
Te pidió que le contases todas las novedades, los escándalos, las citaciones judiciales y los idilios amorosos.
His experience, however, is that amatory relations devour his time, exhaust him, and cripple his work.
Sin embargo, su experiencia dice que las relaciones amorosas le comen el tiempo, le cansan y paralizan su trabajo.
One look assured him that Julian could not have had any amatory interest in this fat lady.
Una mirada le bastó para darse cuenta de que Juliano no podía tener ningún interés amoroso en esa mujer gorda.
But Jean had put her ear to the wall and understood: something rude about a dead Chinese leader, then some amatory prattle.
Pero Jean acercó el oído a la muralla y pudo comprender: era algo duro sobre un viejo líder chino y cierta cháchara amorosa. Solo eso.
He asked himself whether it could be that he was in love with her, and then hoped he was not; hoped it not so much for his own sake as for that of the amatory passion itself.
Se preguntaba si todo ello quería decir que estaba enamorado, y después deseaba que no fuera así; lo deseaba no tanto por interés propio como por su misma pasión amorosa.
Unlike Angela, she herself never verbally tendered evidence of the versatile range of amatory experiences her roommate and best friend had bawdily claimed for them both.
A diferencia de Angela, Melissa nunca ofrecía pruebas verbales de las polifacéticas experiencias amorosas que su mejor amiga y compañera de piso tanto solía reivindicar para ambas.
'Cats were totally disinterested in human sexuality, and she was relieved to find that even with her unusual link to Nimitz, the 'cat's amatory adventures had no effect on her hormones.
A los felinos no les interesaba en absoluto la sexualidad humana y para Honor fue un alivio ver que, incluso con el vínculo que la unía a Nimitz, las aventuras amorosas del felino no tenían ningún efecto sobre sus hormonas.
When one day he showed me some amatorious verses he had written, and confessed that I was the Berenice whose hair was celebrated in them, I clouted his nose for him, so that it bled (so vexed I was) and tore his poem to shreds.
Un día me enseñó unos versos amorosos que había escrito, y confesó que yo era la Berenice cuyos cabellos celebraba en ellos.
adjective
Bronze figurines of amatory couples were his bookends.
Sus soportes de libros eran figuritas de bronce de parejas eróticas.
They steal from none but thieves, their amatory exploits are never sordid, they drink and carouse without ever getting drunk or foolish, their swordplay never causes more than a flesh wound.
Sólo roban a los ladrones, sus hazañas eróticas no son nunca sórdidas, beben y comen sin emborracharse nunca ni hacer el tonto, cuando manejan la espada sólo propinan leves cortes.
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