Translation for "porfirian" to spanish
Porfirian
Translation examples
After all, who were the real losers in this little Revolution of ours? The old Porfirian aristocracy?
¿Quiénes perdieron la Revolu-ción según usted? ¿Los porfirianos?
As for me, I've simply gone and turned my lawyer's degree into the modus vivendi for a streetwalker's attorney. There's nothing either better or worse I could have done with that sacred scrap of paper originally destined to hang on some wall in the graveyard of the Porfirian establishment where the rest of my family lived and died.
Convertí el título de abogado en modus vivendi para un licenciado de putas, nada mejor/peor pude haber hecho con el papel sagrado cuya función original era ser colgado en las oficinas centrales del cementerio porfiriano en que mi familia vivió y murió.
He lived in one of the last remaining Porfirian mansions, as they’re called, in reference to the dictatorship of General Porfirio Díaz, specifically the period from 1884 to 1910, our pretend belle époque. For some unknown reason, no one had torn down the mansion, unlike the rest of the Roma neighborhood of Mexico City, which has been razed to make way for office buildings, condominiums, and shops.
Es una de las últimas mansiones llamadas porfirianas, en referencia a los treinta años de dictadura del general Porfirio Díaz entre 1884 y 1910 —nuestra belle époque fantasiosa— que quedan de pie en la colonia Roma de la Ciudad de México. A nadie se le ha ocurrido arrasar con ella, como han arrasado con el barrio entero, para construir oficinas, comercios o condominios.
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