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Trinchaba, comía y lo alababa todo con deleite y alacridad.
He carved, and ate, and praised with delighted alacrity;
Esa noche, no obstante, le sorprendió la chispeante alacridad del saludo del edecán.
This evening, however, he was struck by the beaming alacrity of the aide-de-camp's greeting.
Como corresponde a un tipo de matrimonio sin hijos, me ‘adoptaron’ con facilidad, incluso con alacridad.
As befits a certain type of childless couple, they ‘adopted’ me very easily, even with alacrity.
Con gran alacridad, Bernard miró a su alrededor, todavía al lado de sus compañeros.
Bernard, professing great alacrity, looked about him; but he still lingered near his companions.
Y yo le había contestado cada vez, sin alacridad pero con deferencia: 'Sí lo hay, incipiente, quiero decir que podría haberlo.
And I had answered every time, without alacrity but with due deference: ‘Yes, the beginnings of comradeship, I mean it could happen.
Porque, además, a fuerza de experimentar e insistir, consiguió que esos ingraciados apéndices participaran, con la alacridad de la boca o la eficacia del tacto, en sus noches de amor.
Because, moreover, by dint of careful and persistent experimenting, he had managed to get those graceless appendages to participate, along with the alacrity of his mouth and the efficacy of his sense of touch, in his nights of love.
En el caso de Gibbon, el cuerpo era ridículo: prodigiosamente gordo, enormemente desproporcionado, precariamente equilibrado sobre unos pies pequeños que le permitían moverse con asombrosa alacridad.
The body in Gibbon’s case was ridiculous-prodigiously fat, enormously top-heavy, precariously balanced upon little feet upon which he spun round with astonishing alacrity.
Por primera vez, Yama pensó en la posibilidad de dar una orden directa a la capitana Lorquital, pero pensar que pudiera obedecerlo con la misma alacridad incondicional que cualquier máquina se le antojaba insoportablemente horrible.
For the first time, Yama considered giving Captain Lorquital a direct order, but the thought that she might obey him with the same unquestioning alacrity as any machine was unnervingly horrible.
La vieja preguntó a la señora Henchard-Newson qué quería en cuanto la vio y le sirvió la solicitada ración de un penique con más alacridad que cuando le pedían raciones de seis peniques en sus días jóvenes.
The old woman begged for the latter's custom as soon as she saw her, and responded to Mrs. Henchard-Newson's request for a pennyworth with more alacrity than she had shown in selling six-pennyworths in her younger days.
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