Translation examples
The Congo had such a wonderful name, Conradian and all that.
El Congo tenía un nombre tan maravilloso, Conradiano y todo eso.
His daughter had offered an explanation of Conradian grandeur for this behavior: life must be lived until it can be lived no more.
Su hija había dado una explicación de grandeza conradiana para esa conducta: la vida debe vivirse hasta que no pueda vivirse más.
I feel no need now to sprinkle Conrad’s sentences with skeptical salt. But there are writers for whom the Conradian novel—all novels of that sort—has become invalid.
No veo necesidad de aderezar las frases de Conrad con la sal del escepticismo, pero hay escritores para quienes la novela conradiana —todas las novelas de esa clase— ha dejado de ser válida.
And there, ambling into the lobby with his unique dinosaur-like gait, was Joseph Ruocco, surviving the heat in his too-colonial-for-comfort khaki ensemble (“Conradian,” Fran had called it).
Y en el portal, con sus inconfundibles andares de dinosaurio, apareció Joseph Ruocco, afrontando el calor con un atuendo dema-siado-colonial-para-ser-cómodo (conradiano, habría dicho Fran).
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