Translation for "tinny" to spanish
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adjective
And yet, far in the back of his mind, he heard the tinny ringing of the alarm bells that were built into every human brain.
Sin embargo, en lo más recóndito de su mente oyó el cascado repiqueteo de los timbres de la alarma incorporados a todos los cerebros humanos.
and this forlornness was not as in other places confined to the moment of waking, was not dispelled by the crowing of cocks or the bells of high noon, all equally tinny, converging from the hundred sectors of the city (the television sets blaring in abandoned houses, the empty roaring buses, black rattletraps with drivers looking as if they’d been burned to a crisp long ago and were held together only by their uniforms).
angustia, opresión que, a diferencia de lo que ocurría fuera de allí, no se reducía al momento del despertar y que no se podía ahuyentar con el canto de los gallos y luego con las campanas del mediodía, todas ellas con el mismo sonido metálico y cascado, que llegaban de miles de sitios distintos de la ciudad (los televisores resonando desde casas abandonadas y los autobuses vacíos pasando con estrépito, negros armazones de barras negras, con los conductores delante, como si estuvieran carbonizados desde hacía tiempo, sostenidos sólo por sus uniformes)?
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