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La etiqueta con el precio que colgaba de la solapa de su traje nuevo le daba un toque curioso, aunque no lograba restarle seriedad a su rostro amenazante.
The price tag dangling from the lapel of his new suit was a bizarre touch, but not enough to detract from his seriously threatening demeanor.
Llevaba un traje vaporoso, de tela barata, con zapatos y medias del mismo color,—mas ello sólo aumentaba su belleza, porque era joven y estaba radiante.
She had on a gaudy, cheap, flimsy dress, with shoes and stockings to match, but these did not detract from her prettiness. She was young and radiant.
A pesar del frío, llevaba el sobretodo de cachemira colgado sobre los hombros como una capa, sin bufanda que desvirtuara la línea impecable de su traje italiano.
In spite of the cold, his cashmere greatcoat was slung indifferently round his shoulders like a cape, and he wore no scarf to detract from the crisp, clean lines of his Italian suit.
La presencia de un cadáver —un hombre cuidadosamente pintado y vestido con un traje de sarga azul, sonriendo amablemente en un ataúd de ébano detrás de un macizo de flores en el fondo de la capilla— no alcanzaba a disminuir la importancia de la ocasión.
The presence of a dead body, a man carefully painted and wearing a blue serge suit, gently smiling in an ebony casket behind a bank of flowers at the chapel's end, did not detract as much as one might have supposed from the occasion's importance.
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