Translation for "contemptibility" to spanish
Translation examples
And the same applies if we seek a clear conscience on issues of hatred, murder, and contempt: there is just as much material to support vilifying one’s neighbor as there is to extol undying love for him.
Lo mismo ocurre si se desea descargar la conciencia justificando el odio, las masacres y el desprecio, pues hay tanto material para legitimar la bajeza como para ejercer un indudable amor al prójimo.
Thus, little can be done with what was said about them by Sir John Barrow, an old traveler and sharp observer, who could make thorough comparisons: “This nation's general character is a singular mixture of arrogance and baseness, of artificial gravity and true contemptibility, of refined courtesy and crude boorishness.”
De modo que cuando un viejo viajero, llamado Sir John Barrow, habituado a observar y comparar las cosas a fondo, decía de ellos: «El carácter general de esta nación es una extraña mezcla de orgullo y bajeza, de seriedad artificial y auténtica ausencia de dignidad, de refinada cortesía y grosera falta de educación», no puede deducirse gran cosa de la descripción.
It’s then that you’re most capable of deceiving, of playing tricks and using sophistry to persuade, of committing treacherous acts, pretending to be hard done by and even humiliating yourself in order to get what you want, of trying to arouse a woman’s pity, pretending to be tormented or ill, of lying to a woman and betraying a friend, of resorting to contemptible behaviour of which you will later feel ashamed, or which you will try not to recall so as to pretend it never happened and that the person who committed it is dead and buried: ‘That’s not me any more, he was just a child, and what children do doesn’t count.
Es entonces cuando uno es capaz de engañar, de emplear ardides y convencer con sofismas y consumar felonías, de jugar a la baja y de humillarse con un propósito y procurar dar mucha pena, de fingirse atormentado o enfermo, de mentir a una mujer y de traicionar a un amigo, de incurrir en bajezas de las que le tocará avergonzarse, o que intentará no recordar para hacerse la ilusión de que no tuvieron lugar o de que el que las cometió está sepultado: «Ese ya no soy yo, ese era un chico, y no cuenta lo que hacen los chicos.
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