Translation examples
—¿Y si le toca a usted un cortapuros de oro? —Imposible.
‘Suppose you get a gold cigar-cutter?’ ‘Impossible.
De otro bolsillo más pequeño extraje el cortapuros y una caja de cerillas.
From a still smaller pocket I took out my cigar cutter and matches.
Compró un cortapuros de oro para Rhett, pero le faltó valor para enviarlo.
She bought a gold cigar-cutter for Rhett, but she lacked the nerve to send it.
Me saqué otro puro de la chaqueta y se lo tendí, junto al cortapuros y las cerillas.
I took another cigar from my jacket and handed it to her along with the cigar cutter and matches.
Nick miró a Toby en busca de ayuda, pero este estaba sacando una caja de puros y el cortapuros;
Nick looked across to Toby for help, but he was laying out a box of cigars and the cigar cutter;
Ojalá no fuera un reloj de oro, ni un cortapuros, ni un alfiler de corbata, objetos que nunca iba a usar.
He hoped not a gold watch, a cigar cutter, nor a tie-pin, none of which he would use.
—¿Pero no está seguro? —insistió ella en tono desencantado dejando el cortapuros en su sitio—. No puede imaginarse lo difícil que resulta encontrar algo que guste a todos… especialmente a los hombres.
‘But you aren’t sure?’ she asked in a tone of disappointment and put the cigar-cutter down. ‘You don’t know how difficult it is to find something which will please everybody - especially the men.’
Pero la mirada de Rom era clara y la expresión inquebrantable… incluso mientras Corban se inclinaba con el instrumento, que se asemejaba a un cortapuros, y le cortaba el dedo meñique con un fuerte chasquido.
But Rom’s eyes were clear, his expression unflinching…. even as Corban leaned over with the instrument, which resembled a cigar cutter, and cut off his smallest finger with a hard snick.
Luego cortó uno de los extremos con un cortapuros, y se colocó el cigarro en la boca, haciéndolo girar una y otra vez entre los labios hasta que las hojas exteriores de la punta estuvieron adecuadamente húmedas.
Then he clipped the end with a cigar cutter from his vest pocket, stuck the clipped cheroot between his lips and rolled it over and over until the outer leaves of the lip-end were agreeably wet.
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