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noun
Guerra, sadismo, autodegradación, en eso consistía todo.
War, sadism, self-abasement, it was all that.
Era un nimio protocolo de autodegradación que a regañadientes se creía obligado a realizar.
It was a tiny protocol of self-abasement that he had found himself reluctantly obliged to follow.
En los peores momentos de autodegradación, trataba de encontrar consuelo pensando que Flamel había aprobado este cambio de rumbo.
In his worst moments of self-abasement he tried to find solace in the thought that Flamel had sanctioned his course.
En segundo lugar, experimentó la profunda autodegradación o aniquilación mental provocada por casi concebir a un ser de un orden superior.
Secondly, he experienced the profound self-abasement or mental annihilation caused by the near conception of a being of a superior order.
En esa fantasía suya de autodegradación, Lizabeta no había llegado a completar la trama de aquel cruel cuento de hadas).
In her fantasy of self-abasement, Lizabeta hadn't fully worked out the plot of this cruel fairy tale.) For the house on Braam Road was elderly Mrs.
—Se esforzaba y farfullaba, y la intensidad de su autodegradación inspiraba repugnancia, pero al mismo tiempo era imposible no sentir compasión—.
He struggled and fumbled, half revolting in the fervor of his self-abasement, but half--ah, half you could not help feeling sorry.
Instar a los seres humanos a ser sobrehumanos so pena de muerte y tortura es instar a una terrible autodegradación y al reiterado e inevitable fracaso a la hora de respetar las reglas.
Urging humans to be superhumans, on pain of death and torture, is the urging of terrible self-abasement at their repeated and inevitable failure to keep the rules.
Él asume un control al que ella no pone objeciones: cuándo se verán, cómo se comportarán, qué se le ocurrirá pedirle a su amante, sumida en un tórrido estado de autodegradación.
He assumes uncontested control—when they will meet, how they will conduct themselves, what endeavors he will think up for her in her torrid state of self-abasement.
Y esta inconsciente comunión con Antonapoulos había crecido y cambiado como si estuvieran juntos en carne y hueso Á veces pensaba en Antonapoulos con temor y autodegradación, a veces con orgullo, pero siempre con un amor no obstaculizado por la crítica, libre.
And this submerged communion with Antonapoulos had grown and changed as though they were together in the flesh. Sometimes he thought of Antonapoulos with awe and self-abasement, sometimes with pride--always with love unchecked by criticism, freed of will.
Sus reprimendas, sus rechazos, podían ser sulfurosos. Sus rachas de autodegradación casi histérica en las cuales confesaba estar «loco» o ser «malo», en las que aludía a episodios de un humor obsceno, dejaban petrificados a sus oyentes.
His rebukes, his dismissals could be sulphurous. Gusts of almost hysterical self-abasement in which he confessed to being “mad” or “evil,” in which he hinted at scurrilous episodes, left his listeners numb.
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