Translation for "old-fogey" to spanish
Translation examples
Perhaps it’s the reassurance to be derived from knowing that even if you live to be a hundred, you’ll never be an old fogey: you’ll always be the younger generation.
Quizá sea la seguridad que se deriva de saber que, aunque viva cien años, nunca seré un vejestorio: siempre perteneceré a la generación más joven.
He gestured as he said the word, his powerful hands clenching to become hammers then opening again, harmless, munificent. The young men watched enthralled. He could hold them spellbound, could teach without seeming like a ridiculous old fogey on a parade ground.
Se expresaba con mímica ante aquellos chicos encandilados, sus manos potentes se cerraban como martillos y después se abrían en ofrendas inofensivas. Cautivaba la atención, se aseguraba la instrucción sin el ridículo de un vejestorio en el cuartel.
They were four clean-cut kids who were having lots of fun, and they were driving Yossarian nuts. He could not make them understand that he was a crotchety old fogey of twenty-eight, that he belonged to another generation, another era, another world, that having a good time bored him and was not worth the effort, and that they bored him, too.
Eran cuatro chavales sanos que lo pasaban estupendamente y que volvían loco a Yossarian, que no conseguía meterles en la cabeza que él era un vejestorio maniático de veintiocho años, que pertenecía a otra generación, a otra época, a otro mundo, que divertirse lo aburría y que no valía la pena el esfuerzo, y que ellos también lo aburrían.
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