Translation for "under-nourished" to spanish
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Joe, I noticed, was regarding him like a cannibal inspecting an under-nourished missionary.
Observé que Joe lo contemplaba como un caníbal que examina a un misionero desnutrido.
The first, dated August 1970, attested that Jan Elvis was under-nourished and suffered from severe emotional trauma.
Del primero, de agosto de 1970, se desprendía que Jan Elvis estaba desnutrido y sufría fuertes perturbaciones emocionales.
They knew he had strength of his own. They took him for an obstinate play-actor. Even his thinness was no longer convincing. He was certainly not under-nourished.
Pensaban que tenía fuerza por sí solo, pero también que era un comediante empedernido. Llegaron a dudar hasta de su flacura. Desnutrido no estaba, desde luego.
She had what Rebecca Dew calls a ‘delicate air’, and gave me the impression of a child who was more or less under-nourished – not in body, but in soul.
Tenía lo que Rebecca Dew llama «un aire delicado», y me dio la impresión de una criatura más o menos desnutrida… no en cuerpo sino en alma.
The generals who had been present at the disaster of Paektu returned to the capital in their limousines, sweeping through villages of rake-thin, under-nourished peasants who cheered them because they dared do nothing else.
Los generales que presenciaron el desastre de Paektu volvieron a la capital en sus limusinas, atravesando aldeas llenas de campesinos flacos y desnutridos que los aclamaron porque no osaban dejar de hacerlo.
The Rana had not been a big man, but then he had always been magnificently dressed and glittering with jewels, and always the centre of a subservient court; all of which had tended to make him seem a good deal larger than he was. But the spare, white-shrouded corpse on the bier looked no larger than an under-nourished child of ten.
El Rana nunca había sido un hombre alto, pero siempre estaba vestido con gran lujo y rutilante de joyas, y era siempre el centro de una gran corte, lo cual tendía a hacerlo parecer mucho más grande de lo que era. Pero el pequeño cadáver con la mortaja blanca, en el ataúd no parecía más grande que el de un chico de diez años, desnutrido.
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