Translation for "well-to-do" to spanish
Well-to-do
adjective
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Translation examples
adjective
As he despised the well-to-do.
Como despreciaba a la gente adinerada.
An extremely well-to-do locality.
Una localidad de gente muy adinerada.
In Shanghai, our family had been well-to-do.
En Shanghai éramos una familia adinerada.
This carriage could be carrying a potential well-to-do customer.
Ese carruaje quizá llevara a un cliente adinerado.
the well-to-do, whoever they are, can choose their stamping ground.
la gente adinerada, quienquiera que sea, puede elegir su territorio.
Society afflicted the poor and the well-to-do equally.
El sistema social asolaba no sólo a los miserables, sino también a los adinerados.
West German appliances, a common affectation of the Russian well-to-do.
Electrodomésticos de Alemania occidental; una debilidad habitual de los rusos adinerados.
If I had earned a hundred a year she would have thought we were well-to-do.
Con que hubiese ganado cien al año, ella habría pensado que éramos adinerados.
He was shocked by the misery of the London poor and the hypocritical respectability of the well-to-do.
Lo escandalizó la miseria de los pobres londinenses y la hipócrita respetabilidad de los adinerados.
They were people of a certain age, well-to-do, of some social standing, and incredibly discreet.
Era gente de cierta edad, adinerada, cuando no burguesa, pero increíblemente discreta.
adjective
Then there was something else. He was not only well-to-do, but also belonged to a world which afforded easy access to the stage and the films.
Y había algo más: no sólo era un hombre de buena posición, sino que pertenecía a un mundo con fácil acceso a escenarios y palcos.
Outrage was especially rife, as may be supposed, among the well-to-do households, of a relatively superior rank, which were to be found among the serfs, families of serfs supplying mayors to the community from generation to generation, such as are found as far back as the twelfth century taking the first place in the villages.
Los ultrajes caían ante todo, como es fácil imaginar, sobre las familias desahogadas, relativamente distinguidas, que se encontraban entre los siervos, es decir, familias de siervos alcaldes que vemos ya en el siglo XII a la cabeza de la aldea.
Such characters would best know just how easily personal conflicts and money concerns can lead to violence, even in a family what seems happy and peaceful on the outside: they likely would’ve seen or at least heard of women going after their own kids when things got especially discouraging or frustrating, and wouldn’t have your more well-to-do man’s opinions about the purity of female motives and actions.
Estos individuos sabrían que era fácil que los conflictos personales y las preocupaciones económicas condujeran a la violencia, incluso en el seno de una familia en apariencia feliz y bien avenida. Habrían oído hablar de mujeres que agredían a sus propios hijos en momentos de desaliento o frustración, y no compartirían las ideas de los ricos sobre la pureza de las motivaciones y las acciones femeninas.
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