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Si consigo hacer carambola evitando las bolas del medio, la persona que espero vendrá.
If I get a cannon avoiding the balls in between, the person I'm waiting for shall come.
Fuera cual fuese su nombre, el compuesto de azúcar era la clave… la dulzura que había usado para lograr su difícil carambola.
Whatever its name, the sugar compound was the key… the sweetness he had used to forge a gingerbread cannon.
Y Vimes escuchó y las bolas rojas rebotaron sobre el tapete, haciendo carambolas con las de colores, mientras la ley se infringía a troche y moche con el fin de imponer la ley.
And Vimes listened and the red balls bounced across the baize, cannoning off the coloured balls, and the law was being broken wholesale for the purpose of upholding the law.
Falló carambolas por un pelo, cuando quería entronerar una bola, esta rebotaba en la boca de la tronera y se quedaban fuera, y cuando intentaba un jenny, a menudo fallaba estrepitosamente la roja.
He missed cannons by a whisker, his winning hazards rattled in the jaws of the pocket and stayed out, his losers just wouldn’t drop, and when he tried a jenny he often missed the red altogether.
Se trataba de una Girándula verde lima, de una Carambola vienesa rebotadora y de una Fogata ultramarina, y aunque el efecto de cada uno de el os por separado hubiera sido modesto, juntos resultaron bastante impactantes.
They were a lime-green Catherine Wheel, a ricocheting Viennese Cannon, and an Ultramarine Bonfire, and although the effect of each one individually would have been modest, taken together they became quite potent.
Así, de carambola, supo Todos los Santos que su alumna se encontraba a gusto en La Catunga y que en alguna parte del país tenía una tía de apodo arrabalero, de donde dedujo que el oficio de la vida le llegaba por tradición familiar.
Just like that, like a cannon shot, Todos los Santos learned that her student was happy in La Catunga and that in some part of the country she had an aunt with a vulgar nickname, by which she deduced that the girl’s vocation came to her by family tradition.
Y lo peor de todo, yo tenía la negra y en cambio Cutts tenía la suerte de cara. Lograba jennies en la tronera media que Joe Bennet ni siquiera habría mirado, acertaba jugadas dificilísimas, hizo rodar la bola por toda la mesa en una espectacular carambola, y cuando intentó billas largas sacó un par de breeches.
What made it worse, my eye was out, and Cutts’ luck was dead in - he brought off middle-pocket jennies that Joe Bennet wouldn’t have looked at, missed easy hazards and had his ball roll all round the table for a cannon, and when he tried long pots as often as not he got a pair of breeches. By the time he had taken a fiver apiece from us, I was sick of it.
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