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You have such distinguished champions, but you will work with Madame claire until elevenses.
—Con tan distinguidos defensores… Pero trabajarás con Madame Claire hasta las once.
'It's well past elevenses, old man,' continued an enthusiastic, loud Ferguson.
—Son las once bien pasadas, amigo —prosiguió un Ferguson entusiasta y gritón—.
It was past ten forty-five, and Miss Pembroke was almost as serious about her elevenses as she was about her position, about which she was very serious indeed.
Eran las 10.45, y la señorita Pembroke se tomaba su tentempié de las once casi tan en serio como su trabajo, que ciertamente realizaba con mucha seriedad.
The only novelty for Don Luis was having, when he returned home, elevenses, the amiable Chilean version of British afternoon tea: cups of verbena with teacakes, dulce de leche, and almond pastries.
La única novedad para don Luis fue la de tomar, al regresar a casa, "las once", la simpática versión chilena del afternoon tea británico: tazas de verbena con masitas, dulce de leche y alfajores.
Given Mexican schedules, however (office from ten to two, dinner from two to four, final business items from four to six), Don Luis had elevenses a little later, at seven in the evening, though this sweet custom cut his appetite for even the monastic meal he ate at nine.
Don Luis, aunque un poquitín más tarde dados los horarios mexicanos (oficina de diez a dos, comida de dos a cuatro, órdenes finales del negocio de cuatro a seis), tomó "las once" a las siete de la tarde, aunque esta costumbre dulzona le cortaba el apetito, incluso, para la monacal merienda de las nueve de la noche.
That cruise on the Coronia to Europe twenty years ago with Oz had by itself generated enough acquaintances to populate a lifetime—their mates at the table with the edge that came up in rough weather, the people in blankets beside them on the deck having bouillon at elevenses, the couples they met in the bar at midnight, the stewards, the captain with his square-cut ginger beard, everyone so friendly and interesting because they were young, young;
Aquel viaje a Europa con Oz, en el Coronta, veinte años atrás, le había proporcionado una cantidad de conocidos suficiente para llenar toda una vida: sus compañeros de mesa, inquietos cuando el mar se alborotaba; las personas envueltas en mantas a su lado, sobre la cubierta, tomando caldo a las once; las parejas que encontraban en el bar a medianoche; los camareros, y el capitán con su barba rojiza y cuadrada;
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