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A medida que crece, va descubriendo la estricta moral y los remilgos de sus padres.
As she grew up, she was confronted with the strict morals of her prudish parents.
Nacido en 1803, Mérimée pertenece a la generación que crece al socaire de la charanga y turbulencia de las guerras napoleónicas.
Born in 1803, Mérimée belongs to the generation that grew up under the brass bands and turbulence of the Napoleonic Wars.
En medio de tal caos, el niño crece espabilado y cada vez más unido a su madre por un afecto desbordante.
In the midst of all that confusion the child grew up alert and energetic and increasingly tied by bonds of overwhelming affection to his mother.
Es lo que ocurre cuando alguien crece huyendo, bajo asedio, siempre pendiente de que lo capturen o maten en cualquier momento.
That was what happened when someone grew up on the run, under siege, always expecting capture or death at any moment.
Rex engendró a su propia némesis en la violación: en el instante exacto del crimen, dos células se funden y comienzan una vida que crece en el útero de Grace, ese feto que la acompaña a Chicago, ese niño que nació en secreto y se convirtió en un cazador que treinta años después regresa y castiga al criminal.
Rex spawned his own nemesis during the rape. At the precise moment of the crime, two cells came together to form the life that grew inside Grace’s womb, the embryo that went with her to Chicago, the child that was born in secret and grew up to become a rabbit hunter who, thirty years later, has returned to punish the rapist.
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