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Eramos un par de novios sólidos y avezados cuyo vínculo no necesitaba mucha expresión visible.
We were like sturdy and accustomed sweethearts, whose bond needs not much outward expression.
Constance los oía darse breves instrucciones, consejos prácticos de hombres avezados en esa labor.
Constance heard them giving brief instructions, the kind of practical advice you’d expect from men accustomed to such work.
Maldijo a los dos guardianes, pero eran hombres corpulentos avezados a someter a los prisioneros e ignoraron sus juramentos.
He swore at the two guards, but they were big men accustomed to subduing prisoners and they ignored his oaths, instead turning him onto his back.
Me siento medio avergonzada al confesar que deseo leerlos, porque estoy muy avezada a mis opiniones escépticas y no creo en la videncia para nada.
I am half ashamed of wanting to read them, for I am accustomed to my own skeptic views and I have no faith in second sight.
Se trataba de una sensación corriente, a la que estaba avezado, sabedor de que el Orbe de los Dragones -tal era la vibrante, abigarrada esfera- intentaba poner en desventaja a quien lo utilizaba.
It was a common feeling and he was accustomed to it, knowing that the dragon orb—for such was the shimmering, swirling-colored crystal globe—sought always to put its user at a disadvantage.
Eran hombres sin hogar, sin familia y hasta sin esperanzas, avezados al sistema carcelario, y que en este nuevo modo de vida encontraban una agradable variación de la existencia a que estaban acostumbrados.
They were men without homes, without people, mainly without hope; men inured to the prison system, and who found, in this novel method of living, a delightful variation of the life to which they were most accustomed.
La película de aquel día la interpreta precisamente Bolivia Samsonite, que ejecuta todo cuanto puede ejecutar una actriz avezada en tales papeles, es decir, siempre las mismas cosas y más o menos bien.
That day’s movie stars Miss Samsonite, who accomplishes everything an artist accustomed to such roles can accomplish: in other words, always the same thing, in varying degrees of excellence.
Era la primera vez que los italianos, avezados a los combates caballerescos del siglo XV, se topaban con los terribles ultramontanos, quienes, menos civilizados, todavía no consideraban la guerra como un juego hábil, sino como una lucha mortal.
This was the first occasion on which the Italians, accustomed as they were to the chivalrous contests of the fifteenth century, found themselves in contact with savage foreigners who, less advanced in civilisation, had not yet come to consider war as a clever game, but looked upon it as simply a mortal conflict.
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