Translation for "engross" to spanish
Engross
verb
Translation examples
verb
I must not permit myself to be wholly engrossed by the Big Four.’ Ah!
No debo dejarme absorber por completo por el caso de los Cuatro Grandes». ¡Vaya!
For hours she would sit quietly in a comer chair, pretending to be deeply engrossed in sketching a picture or diligently at work on a piece of needlework, when she was actually devouring every word of overheard conversation and relishing the marvelous authority and strength she heard in her father’s voice.
Durante horas permanecía sentada en una silla ubicada en un rincón, simulando estar absorbida por la ejecución de un dibujo, o cosiendo, cuando en realidad se dedicaba a absorber cada palabra de la conversación, disfrutando de la asombrosa autoridad y energía que emanaban de la voz de su padre.
Before we came to Trenton a lady with a lorgnette in one of the staterooms was suspiciously turning the pages of hers, the young man who had the upper of my section was deeply engrossed in his and a girl with reddish hair and peculiarly mellow eyes was playing tic-tac-toe in the back of a third.
Antes de llegar a Trenton una señora con impertinentes pasaba en su cabina páginas sin demasiada convicción, mi joven compañero de compartimento se dejaba absorber por la lectura, y una chica pelirroja de mirada especialmente dulce jugaba al tres en raya sobre la tapa del libro.
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