Translation for "de solterona" to english
De solterona
adjective
Translation examples
adjective
Uno de sus días de solterona.
One of her old-maidish days.
Hay en él algo de solterona vieja.
There is something old-maidish about him.
El patrón se inclinó hacia delante, esbozando una auténtica sonrisa de solterona.
The skipper leant forward, smiling a positively old-maidish smile.
En él se habían acentuado las manías de solterón, y los últimos preparativos antes de la partida adoptaron la forma de innumerables notas garabateadas que dejaba a este criado o a aquel, para recordarles sus obligaciones.
Old-maidish mannerisms had grown on him, and final preparations for going took the form of innumerable scribbled notes to be left with this servant and with that to remind them of their duties.
Era una casa que en otros tiempos había albergado a novias, madres y esposas vivaces, y la atmósfera de sus amores y de sus vidas todavía latía en ella; el régimen de solteronas de Elizabeth y Laura no la había anulado.
It was a house which aforetime had had vivid brides and mothers and wives, and the atmosphere of their loves and lives still hung around it, not yet banished by the old-maidishness of the regime of Elizabeth and Laura.
Sin embargo, en compensación, Román Bogdanovich (que estaba reuniendo material para el diario que mandaba todas las semanas con precisión de solterona a un amigo de Tallin) era el mismo tipo sonoro y pesado de siempre.
In compensation, however, Roman Bogdanovich (who was gathering material for the diary which with old-maidish precision he weekly sent to a friend in Tallin) was more than ever his sonorous and importunate self.
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