Translation examples
Se sabía a Shakespeare de memoria en armenio, y solía citarlo a menudo.
He knew Shakespeare backwards and forwards in Armenian, and would often quote him.
—Fue Laocoonte quien lo dijo, Homero se limitó a citarlo —dijo Danny.
Homer said so and he was right.” “It was Laocoon who said it. Homer was just quoting him,” said Danny.
Lucas siempre tenía a mano una buena excusa y, al parecer, Anna acababa de citarlo literalmente.
Lucas always had a ready excuse, and Anna was probably quoting him directly.
Es una noticia vieja. Le sonreí y me permití citarle: —A mi edad, todo me parece joven, senador.
It’s old news.” I smiled and quoted him: “‘Everything but yesterday seems young,’ Senator.”
Cuando tenía seis años, sabía muchas cosas sobre él, y ahora, a los treinta y cinco, todavía puedo citarle literalmente.
By the time I was six I was full of lore concerning him, and now, at age thirty-five, I can still quote him chapter and verse.
Siendo como era un historiador tendenciosamente objetivo, y muy atento a “las pruebas “artefacciosas” de la disparidad entre las clases sociales”, por citarle de nuevo, encontró en el baño un auténtico tesoro de fontanería victoriana.
As an historian with a particular bias towards the objective, and again to quote him ‘the artefactual evidence of class disparity’, the bathroom held treasures of Victorian plumbing.
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