Translation examples
“Let’s go to your place.” She smiled cheerlessly.
–Vamos a tu casa -dijo ella, sonriendo sin alegría-.
Hearing me stir he lifted his eyes unhurriedly from the page and turned his head and looked at me, quite composed, and even smiled, though cheerlessly, and enquired as to how I was feeling.
Al oír que me movía levantó sin prisa los ojos de la página, volvió la cabeza hacia mí y me miró, bastante tranquilo, e incluso sonrió, aunque sin alegría, y me preguntó cómo me sentía.
The naked man in formation, he conceded cheerlessly, had been a real black eye for him. So had the tampering with the bomb line before the mission to Bologna and the seven-day delay in destroying the bridge at Ferrara, even though destroying the bridge at Ferrara finally, he remembered with glee, had been a real feather in his cap, although losing a plane there the second time around, he recalled in dejection, had been another black eye, even though he had won another real feather in his cap by getting a medal approved for the bombardier who had gotten him the real black eye in the first place by going around over the target twice.
El hombre desnudo en posición de firmes, reconoció con pesimismo, había supuesto una auténtica metedura de pata, al igual que el cambio de la línea de bombardeo antes de la misión de Bolonia y los siete días de retraso en la destrucción del puente de Ferrara, si bien se había apuntado un tanto al destruirlo finalmente, recordó con alegría, aunque haber perdido un avión al pasar dos veces sobre el objetivo, rememoró alicaído, había supuesto otra metedura de pata. Claro que se había apuntado otro tanto al conseguir que le concedieran una medalla al bombardero responsable de la metedura de pata por haber pasado sobre el objetivo dos veces.
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