Translation for "ballbearing" to spanish
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“It’s virtually impossible to imagine anyone nowadays leading the kind of life that girl led… As for her gentlemen callers, with their regular visiting hours, it’s almost beyond belief!” He was thoroughly fed up with the lot of them, starting with Joséphine Papet, who ought to have known better than to let herself be murdered. And Florentin was no help, scattering incriminating evidence right, left, and center. Then there were Paré, with his neurotic wife, and the fat little ballbearings tycoon, and, worst of all, the insolent cripple from Bordeaux. But the most maddening of them all was the concierge.
—A nadie se le ocurre en nuestra época llevar una vida como la que llevaba esa chica… En cuanto a los tipos que iban a verla a día fijo, también es algo tan extraño que parece imposible hoy día… Estaba furioso contra todo el mundo, contra Joséphine Papet, la primera, por haberse dejado matar tan tontamente, contra Florentin por haber acumulado todos los indicios desfavorables, contra aquel digno funcionario llamado Paré cuya mujer estaba neurasténica, contra el bajito y gordo de los rodamientos de bolas y sobre todo contra el imponente caballero cojo de Burdeos. Pero siempre era en la portera en quien acababa pensando.
Ann stared at her. Through the tinted faceplate her eyes looked like ballbearings.
Ann le clavó la mirada. A través del visor entintado sus ojos parecían cojinetes de bolas.
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