Translation for "autobombo" to english
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noun
Me pareció una actitud indignante y de autobombo (así como algo decidido con una rapidez excesiva).
This struck me as outrageous and self-praising (as well as too quickly decided).
Este cumplido pilló a Japp un poco desprevenido, pues Poirot solía ser dado exclusivamente al autobombo.
Japp was rather taken aback by the compliment—Poirot being usually given to exclusive self-praise.
Ese gran hecho, ese gran autobombo, era lo que prevalecía por encima de todos los detalles: nombres, fechas, vencedores, perdedores. Era lo esencial.
It was this great fact, this great self-praise, that made itself felt over all the details: all the names, dates, winners, losers. It was the essential.
Por otro lado, existe el peligro de ser retrospectivamente antiheroico: fingir que te comportaste peor puede ser una forma de autobombo.
On the other hand, there is the danger of being retrospectively anti-heroic: making yourself out to have behaved worse than you actually did can be a form of self-praise.
Primero, la autocompasión, después, el autobombo, y ahí seguía sentada, por el amor de Dios, sosteniendo el nombre de Asieo en la mano, ¿por qué?, ¿acaso no sabía su nombre sin tener que mirarlo?, ¿qué le pasaba?
First self-pity, then self-praise, and here she still sat, for God’s love, holding Asieo’s name in her hand, why? Didn’t she know his name without looking it up? What was wrong with her?
noun
Ni con celuloide. Ni con autobombo. Tiene que ver con carne y con sangre.
Not with celluloid. Not with self-advertisement. With flesh and with blood.
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