Translation examples
This is for the Zipped-Up Negroes, the upwardly mobile American and Non-American Blacks who don’t talk about Life Experiences That Have to Do Exclusively with Being Black.
Escribo esto para los negros con la cremallera echada, los negros estadounidenses y no estadounidenses con movilidad ascendente que no hablan de Experiencias Vitales que Tienen que Ver Exclusivamente con el Hecho de Ser Negro.
I see his frail grasp of life at those moments of his prose, his after-dinner guard let down and his upwardly mobile decency become vulnerable to his self-creation.
Veo su frágil comprensión de la vida en esos momentos de su prosa, cuando baja la guardia de las sobremesas y esa decencia de la movilidad ascendente suya pasa a ser vulnerable a su creación de sí mismo.
He was small and trim and well turned out in a charcoal suit with sloping shoulders and one button to the jacket, all in the style of your upwardly mobile executive when Brue had been one himself.
Bajo de estatura y en buena forma, lucía un traje gris marengo sin hombreras y chaqueta de un solo botón, todo a la manera del ejecutivo de movilidad ascendente en la época en que lo era el propio Brue.
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