Translation examples
So here you have... you have this strong, handsome, uniformed, bemedaled symbol of giant authority, and this insignificant librarian, and suddenly, in the eyes of god, there is precious little to distinguish us.
Asi que aqui lo tienen. Tienen a este fuerte, apuesto, uniformado, condecorado símbolo de gigantesca autoridad Y a este insignificante bibliotecario.
The second blast struck the chest of the bemedaled officer seated next to Gunn, pitching him backward into a bookcase.
La segunda ráfaga dio en el pecho del condecorado oficial sentado junto a Gunn, haciéndole caer hacia atrás contra una librería.
Nothing is more poisonous to steady recognition than death: how often is a writer—lauded, feted, bemedaled—plummeted into eclipse no more than a year or two after the final departure?
Nada es más venenoso para el reconocimiento continuo que la muerte: ¿con cuánta frecuencia un escritor –alabado, festejado, condecorado– no se hunde en un total eclipse apenas un año o dos después de su partida definitiva?
When he came out, sixteen years later, he discovered that he was an old man, his lungs were ruined and his wife, six months pregnant when he was arrested, had managed to get an annulment and was now married to a bemedaled lieutenant-colonel who had furnished her with three children and a modest house on the outskirts of town.
Cuando salió de la cárcel, dieciséis años después, descubrió que era un viejo, que ya no le quedaban pulmones y que su mujer, embarazada de seis meses cuando le detuvieron, había conseguido la nulidad y ahora estaba casada con un teniente coronel condecorado que le había hecho tres hijos y un modesto chalé en las afueras.
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