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Y Stanley ha ido a blanquearse los dientes, así que.... ... están tratando de encontrar a alguien que pueda hacer la llamada.
And Stanley is having his teeth whitened now so they're trying to find someone at Trade to do the call.
- Claro. ¿Blanquearse los dientes es una buena idea?
Um, all right, for example, is teeth whitener a good idea?
Tenían que frotarse con ceniza para blanquearse la piel.
They would rub themselves with powdered ash to whiten their skin.
Y del dictador, dicen que usaba polvos de arroz para blanquearse.
And it’s said about Daz that he used rice powder to whiten himself.
Que, después de blanquearse la piel, las iniciadas repiten una frase: «A una persona blanca —es decir, que se haya cubierto de cenizas— no se le prohíbe nada».
That, as an elaboration of the whitening of the skin, the initiates repeat a saying: “To a white person” — that is, one powdered with ashes — “nothing is prohibited.”
Emily permaneció quieta. Su cabeza era un suave borrón oscuro frente a la ventana que comenzaba a blanquearse con el alba.
Emily sat quietly, her head a soft blur of darkness against the window that was beginning to whiten with dawn.
Luego se había pasado muchas noches delante de la clínica dental en la que Dientecito se había gastado el primer sueldo en blanquearse aquellos dientes que el humo y la droga le habían ennegrecido.
Then he’d spent night after sleepless night outside the dentist’s office where Dentino had spent his first month’s wages on whitening the teeth that smoke and drugs had blackened.
–Ya ve, es un tipo listo -dijo apologéticamente el padre Brown-, y estoy seguro de que no se le ocurrirá blanquearse la cara. –Entonces, ¿qué podría hacer?. –Creo que la oscurecerá -dijo el padre Brown.
"You see, he is really a clever man," said Father Brown apologetically. "And I'm sure he wouldn't whiten his face." "Well, but what would he do?" "I think," said Father Brown, "he would blacken his face."
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