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The old man smacked his lips like a wine-taster.
—El anciano chasqueó la lengua como un catador de vinos.
‘Cold,’ he said, fitting his lips around the word in a wine-taster’s pout.
—Qué frío —dijo, encajando los labios en torno a la palabra en un puchero de catador.
I made polite groans, naturally, but with the professional sincerity of the wine-taster as opposed to the candid slavering of the alcoholic.
Solté algunos educados gruñidos, claro, pero no denotaban la franca adicción del alcohólico sino la sincera profesionalidad del catador.
the podgy godling, swigging at his bowl, was not her ideal of a wine-taster; nevertheless, something in the picture appealed to her deeply.
Aunque el rechoncho diosecillo tragando de un cuenco no era su ideal de catador de vinos, el cuadro tenía algo que le llamaba la atención poderosamente.
I know you just gargle it and spit it out and smack your lips like the real wine-tasters. But they’d never believe it.
Haces unas gárgaras, escupes y solo saboreas lo que te queda en los labios, como los catadores auténticos, pero la gente jamás lo creería y se lo tomaría a la tremenda.
Sarsi’s subsequent rebuttals had been just as sharp; he had referred to Il Saggiatore as L’Assaggiatore, The Wine-Taster, which everyone laughed at, except Galileo.
Las posteriores réplicas de Sarsi habían sido igualmente agudas: se había referido a Il Saggiatore como L'Assagiatore, «El catador de vinos», broma que había hecho reír a todo el mundo excepto a Galileo.
Some of these men had been storemen and book-keepers. Others were shearers, lawyers’ clerks, wine-tasters, bootmakers, plumbers’ mates, or had travelled in kitchenware or ladies’ lingerie.
Algunos habían sido contables o dependientes, cortadores, asistentes de abogados, catadores de vinos, zapateros, aprendices de fontanero, o viajantes que vendían utensilios de cocina o ropa íntima para dama.
Two thousand six hundred silver talents in coin and five hundred minae in ingots, more than three hundred and fifty concubines, three hundred and twenty-nine flute and harp players, three hundred cooks, seventy wine-tasters, thirteen confectioners and forty perfume makers.
En total dos mil seiscientos talentos de plata en monedas y quinientas minas en lingotes, aparte de trescientas cincuenta concubinas, trescientas veintinueve tocadoras de flauta y de arpa, trescientos cocineros, setenta catadores de vino, trece pasteleros y cuarenta perfumistas.
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