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La oficina de la Dependencia en Ammán está compuesta por un oficial de seguridad nacional (oficial nacional) y un almacenista (contratación local).
The General Support Unit in Amman will also be staffed by one national Security Officer (National Officer) and one Storekeeper (Local level).
Me he presentado a varios almacenistas como probable comprador, despertando así su interés;
I introduced myself to storekeepers as a prospective buyer and so gained their interest.
Los nativos dicen que nada y caza como uno de ellos… Un muchacho muy inteligente. ¿Le he contado alguna vez la historia del almacenista que fue asesinado en Mándalas?
The natives say that he walks like one and hunts like one...a terribly clever fellow...Did I ever tell you the story of the storekeeper who was murdered at Manandalas?
Los almacenes se hallaban atestados de hombres que compraban, hacían proyectos, solicitaban consejos de los almacenistas y de los demás… En una palabra, de todo aquel que estuviera dispuesto a prestarles atención.
The provision stores were crowded with men buying, planning, asking advice of the storekeepers and of others—of anyone, in fact, who had time to listen. “Butter?”
Se ha quitado toda la mugre de encima y ha empezado a relacionarse con los almacenistas, de ahí la anchurosa camisa africana y las chancletas saharianas de estreno que lleva puestas, pero se ha quedado con su barba a lo Rasputín.
He had washed and spruced himself up, made friends among the storekeepers – which explained the brand-new kamis and Saharan flip-flops that he was wearing – but he hadn’t touched a hair of his Rasputin-like beard.
Mientras que antes le sorprendía, con frecuencia desagradablemente, que hubiera tantas firmas exportadoras y que los tinglados, todos iguales, que se extendían a lo largo de la orilla, ostentaran tantos letreros de firmas distintas, ahora cada empresa adquiría su propia individualidad, individualidad que uno reconocía en la persona de los almacenistas, gordos o delgados, y en la de los contramaestres, rudos o amables.
While formerly he had at the most been surprised, occasionally indeed even irritated, that there should be so many export firms, and that the sheds, all alike, on the quays, should bear so many separate names, now the different businesses took on an individuality which one could recognize from the appearance of their stout or lean storekeepers, their gruff or pleasant stevedores.
Cada día pasaba dos horas en su despacho oficial, dictaba reprensiones a los diversos jefes de sección, examinaba con mirada de águila la lista de salarios, castigaba las menudas malversaciones que son el abecé de los almacenistas, refería a su administrador general la historia de cómo empezó él su carrera sin un céntimo, llegando con su laboriosidad a amasar una fortuna, y luego se encerraba en su gabinete y redactaba la carta o la conferencia (porque también actuaba de orador en las sociedades literarias), que ocupaban su atención en el momento.
For two hours a day he attended his head office and dictated reproofs to the various heads of departments, watched salary lists with the eye of an eagle, punished the petty defalcations which are the common experience of storekeepers, told his general manager the story of how he started life with nothing and by his industry and application to business had amassed a fortune—and then went back to his room, the windows of which looked across the budding green of trees, and composed the letter or the lecture (for he was in demand as a speaker at literary societies) which occupied his attention at the moment.
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