Translation for "distinguishing himself" to spanish

Distinguishing himself

• distinguiéndose

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distinguiéndose

A general, he was one of Caesar’s most valiant officers and distinguished himself in several campaigns, playing a key role in the siege of Marseilles (Massilia) as commander of the fleet.
Fue uno de sus más valerosos oficiales distinguiéndose en varias campañas, desempeñando un papel importante en el asedio de Marsella como comandante de la flota.

At thirty-six, he was young to be deputy chief of homicide in the Personal Crimes Division, but no one questioned his competence. Shortly after he graduated from high school—with great difficulty, having distinguished himself only on the sports field—he had spent a week partying with his buddies, forgetting that he was recently married and that his wife had just given birth to a baby girl. So his mother and grandmother forced him to wash dishes in one of the family restaurants, working shoulder to shoulder with the poorest Mexican immigrants—half of them illegals—to teach him what earning a living was like with no qualifications and no profession.
Con treinta y siete años, era muy joven para ocupar el puesto de jefe del Departamento de Homicidios, pero nadie cuestionaba su competencia. Había terminado la secundaria a duras penas, distinguiéndose sólo en los deportes, y llevaba una semana festejando su graduación con sus amigotes, sin acordarse de que estaba recién casado y su mujer había dado a luz a una niña, cuando su madre y su abuela lo pusieron a lavar platos en uno de los restaurantes de la familia, codo a codo con los inmigrantes mexicanos más pobres, la mitad de ellos ilegales, para que supiera lo que era ganarse la vida sin un título o un oficio.