Translation for "contra toda expectativa" to english

Contra toda expectativa

• against all expectations
• against all expectation

Translation examples

against all expectations

Y entonces, contra toda expectativa, el partido de fútbol se detuvo.
And then, against all expectation, the football match stopped.

Para su horror, se dio cuenta de que el Cabo Nobbs, contra toda expectativa, tenía un punto—.
To his horror, he realized that Corporal Nobbs, against all expectation, had a point.

Conseguía, contra toda expectativa, que durante algunos minutos, incluso horas, me olvidara del hueco lacerante que sentía en el centro del pecho y, por supuesto, que me sintiera menos sola.
Against all expectations, I managed, for a few minutes, sometimes even hours at a time, to forget the excruciating hollow I felt in the middle of my chest and, of course, to feel less alone.

Tres de sus hombres habían caído mientras descendían y, contra toda expectativa, uno de ellos había sobrevivido, aterrizando en un montón de nieve tan hondo que el guerrero, aturdido, tuvo que ser desenterrado por sus compañeros.
Three of his men had fallen on the descent, and against all expectations, one of them had survived, landing in a drift so deep that the stunned warrior had to be dug out by his companions.

Poco le había revelado que no supiera o sospechara ya, pero al leer las palabras de Gehn a aquella distancia de los acontecimientos, se había sentido, contra toda expectativa, impresionado por el intelecto de su padre, y se había quedado pensando en qué habría podido ser Gehn si D’ni no hubiera caído.
It had told him little that he did not already know or suspect, yet, reading Gehn’s words at this distance from events, he had, against all expectation, been impressed by his father’s intellect, and had found himself wondering what Gehn might have become had D’ni not fallen.

sentía las imágenes afluir y taladrarme el cerebro; se debió de notar porque se calló, frunciendo la frente, cada vez más preocupada. No tardó en tomar la única decisión posible, ocuparse de mi pene, y lo hizo con tal ternura, con tal habilidad en los dedos y en la boca que contra toda expectativa se me volvió a poner dura, y un minuto después estaba dentro de ella, y la cosa iba bien, la cosa volvía a funcionar, yo estaba totalmente presente en la situación y ella también, creo incluso que hacía mucho que no había disfrutado tan intensamente; por lo menos conmigo, me dije a los dos minutos, pero esta vez logré espantar el pensamiento de mi mente, la estreché en mis brazos con mucha ternura, con toda la ternura de la que era capaz, y me concentré con todas mis fuerzas en su cuerpo, en la presencia actual, cálida y viva, de su cuerpo.
I felt the images flood my brain, this must have been obvious because she stopped talking and her forehead became more and more creased with concern. Very quickly she made the only decision possible, to take care of my sex, and she did it with such tenderness, such skill, with her fingers and her mouth, that against all expectation I began to get hard again, and a minute later I was inside her, and it was good, it was good again, I was completely in the moment and so was she, I even believe that she hadn’t felt such pleasure in a long time—with me at least, I told myself a couple of minutes later, but this time I managed to chase the thought from my mind, and I held her very tenderly in my arms, with all the tenderness I was capable of, and I concentrated with all my strength on her body, on the actual, warm, living presence of her body.