Translation for "present oneself" to spanish
Present oneself
verb
Translation examples
The ideal was to present oneself in a splendor of dress and company.
Lo ideal era presentarse con todo esplendor tanto de vestimenta como de compañía.
This willingness to present oneself as a caricature had always struck me as an expression of cultural despair.
A mí siempre me ha resultado extraño ese valor para presentarse como caricatura, como expresión de la desesperación cultural.
Now she’d figured out that presenting oneself as a lady is simply another game, and she was playing it as a mock.
Ahora ella se daría cuenta de que presentarse como una dama era simplemente otro juego, y ella lo estaba jugando como una burla.
It is pain enough to have been shot at by an enemy without the additional hazard of presenting oneself as a mark to-dare I say-one's friends.
Ya es bastante doloroso el haber recibido los disparos del enemigo sin contar con el peligro adicional de presentarse como blanco a —si se me permite decirlo— los amigos de uno.
His landlady was a decent woman enough, and a payer of rates and taxes, but it would look odd, to say the least of it, to present oneself in Great Russell Street armed with this person's recommendation.
Su casera era una buena mujer y pagaba sus impuestos, pero, por decirlo suavemente, habría sido raro presentarse en Great Russell Street provisto de una carta de presentación de dicha persona.
But one notices most a peculiar play-acting, an elaborate and sometimes quite artistic manner of presenting oneself as an individual and a strange desire for originality, distinction, interest--yes, interest!
Pero lo que más llama la atención es una peculiar interpretación teatral, una complicada y en ocasiones muy artística manera de presentarse uno mismo como individuo y un extraño afán de originalidad, distinción, interés (¡sí, interés!).
I scrambled to my feet and took the heavy, dark blue coat from its place and handed it to the captain, who took it without a word and put it on, for he was wearing naught but an undershirt and it was a fierce unsightly way to present oneself to another man.
Me puse en pie, cogí el pesado abrigo azul marino de su percha y se lo tendí al capitán. Él lo tomó sin pronunciar palabra y se lo puso, pues no llevaba más que una camisa de dormir, una forma bien fea de presentarse en público.
He was a wellborn Spaniard, but in his eyes there was melancholy and in his body a disquiet that fascinated and disturbed her, invited her to penetrate a mystery, and she wondered if this might not be the subtlest trick of a Spanish hidalgo (as she quickly nicknamed him): to present oneself to the world as an enigma.
Era un español y era de buena clase, pero había en su mirada una melancolía y en su cuerpo una inquietud que no sólo la fascinaron; la inquietaron, la invitaron a penetrar un misterio y ella se preguntó si ésta no era la trampa más sutil del hidalgo -así lo motejó enseguida-: presentarse ante el mundo como un enigma.
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