Translation examples
His breath had the anise smell of a popular Estonian schnapps.
Su aliento tenía el aroma anisado del aguardiente estonio—.
The large seaman leaned over, too, his breath spiced with anise from the raki.
El corpulento marine hizo lo propio y su aliento soltó una anisada vaharada a raki.
When she’d fed the children their supper, she had eaten nothing, just sipped a little lemon and anise tea.
Cuando le dio la cena a los niños, ella no comió nada; bebió sólo un poco de limonada y un té anisado.
I ought to have been pounding on the dashboard, I thought, and eulogizing sweet chaos, the opposite and the inhibitor of death, and stating, for the record, that Vernon Hardapple’s breath had carried an anise whiff of Italian sausage and a rusty tang of beer.
Pensé que yo debería tamborilear en el salpicadero, cantar alabanzas al dulce caos, contrario a la muerte y que por ello le impedía actuar, y manifestar, para que quedase constancia de ello, que el aliento de Vernon Hardapple tenía un olorcillo anisado de salchicha italiana, con un punto amargo de cerveza.
Madeleine lay on her stomach, her side, her back, nibbling all the treats, the nice-smelling fruit candies, the meaty drumsticks, as well as more sophisticated offerings, the biscotti flavored with anise, the wrinkly truffles, the salty spoonfuls of olive tapenade.
Madeleine yació boca abajo, de lado, boca arriba, mordisqueando todas aquellas cosas buenas, los dulces de fruta de olor exquisito, los carnosos muslos de pollo, al tiempo que disfrutaba de otras delicias más refinadas, el bizcocho anisado, las trufas arrugadas, las cucharadas saladas de tapenade.
They had never exchanged another word since their disagreeable breakfast of anise in the previous century, and Florentino Ariza was certain that even after he had obtained for his daughter the successful marriage that had become his only reason for living, Lorenzo Daza remembered him with as much rancor as he felt toward Lorenzo Daza.
No habían vuelto a dirigirse la palabra desde el ingrato desayuno de anisado del siglo anterior, y Florentino Ariza estaba seguro de que Lorenzo Daza seguía recordándolo con tanto rencor como él, aun después de conseguir para la hija el matrimonio de fortuna que se le había convertido en la única razón de estar vivo.
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