Translation examples
This bilateral illusion of unilateral attention was almost infantilely gratifying from an emotional standpoint: you got to believe you were receiving somebody’s complete attention without having to return it.
La ilusión bilateral de atención unilateral era casi infantilmente gratificante desde el punto de vista emocional: tenías que creer que recibías toda la atención de alguien sin tener que devolverla.
At dinner parties, Martin used to have the rather infantile tendency to marvel at reality imitating art, and he would even go so far as to imagine, though only as a joke, that the police would take his story to be the Valencian killer’s source of inspiration, although this hypothesis was far from probable, since it had only ever been published in Basque.
En las cenas Martin se solía jactar un tanto infantilmente de que «la realidad imita al arte», y fantaseaba incluso con que la policía descubriese que el asesino de Valencia había actuado inspirado por su cuento, algo poco probable aunque solo fuera porque había sido editado únicamente en euskera.
When, after evening Association—at some infantile early hour—we were sent to our cells, I gained a kind of confidence from the certainty that another world was waiting, a certainty, if you like, of uncertainty, the only part of my life whose goings-on were subject to nobody’s control.
Cuando, tras la reunión vespertina, a una hora infantilmente temprana, nos enviaban a nuestras celdas, experimentaba una especie de confianza debida a la certeza de que me aguardaba otro mundo, una certeza, si se quiere, de la incertidumbre, la única parte de mi vida cuyos sucesos no estaban sometido al control de nadie.
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