Translation for "egoístamente" to english
Egoístamente
adverb
Translation examples
sobre todo, lo que lo conmovía era el don, no el circuito cerrado que va de la mano a la boca y que en esa rueda, egoístamente, se exalta y se odia, sino la mano que se abre hacia otra que toma.
above all, it was the gift that moved him, not the closed circuit that goes from the hand to the mouth and that, in this turnstile, egoistically exalts and hates itself, but rather the hand that opens toward another who takes.
Tal vez, un poco egoístamente, pensamos en la terraformación. Ella podría formar otro planeta Terra o Tierra.
Perhaps a little egotistically, we call that terraforming, that we could form another planet in the shape of Terra, or the Earth.
Puedo estar loco ahora, egoístamente envalentonado por mi reciente y bien ganada victoria...
Um, I might be crazy right now, egotistically emboldened by my recent and well-deserved win...
Siempre egoístamente, por supuesto.
always sometimes egotistic, of course .
En segundo lugar, siempre se puede confiar egoístamente en que uno será perdonado personalmente, acogido con satisfacción en el seno del gran exterminador y que observará desde un lugar seguro el sufrimiento de los menos afortunados.
Second, it can always be egotistically hoped that one will be personally spared, gathered contentedly to the bosom of the mass exterminator, and from a safe place observe the suffer- ings of those less fortunate.
Flaco servicio el suyo, pasé meses atormentado por mi saber —que ella me ampliaba y renovaba teatral y egoístamente, cada vez más presa de narcisismo—, con la certidumbre de que ante mi amigo yo debía guardar silencio: no ya por juzgarme sin derecho a enterarlo de lo que acaso él —cómo saberlo— habría preferido seguir ignorando;
She did me a very poor service indeed, for I spent months tormented by that knowledge — which she theatrically and egotistically expanded on and updated, ever more in thrall to narcissism — knowing that with my friend, her husband, I had to remain silent: not because I didn’t feel I had the right to tell him something about which he might — although how was I to know — have preferred to remain in ignorance;
Ambos, tan seguros en su culpa, tan egoístamente convencidos de que solamente ellos podían ser el objeto de un odio lo bastante intenso para soportar lo peor que podía ofrecer la Galaxia para alcanzar la venganza… Sí, y ambos habían estado tan convencidos de que su astucia normal, que ya había sido demostrada brillantemente, les había abandonado y se equivocaron de medio a medio al interpretar la mirada cálida y afectuosa de sus ojos.
Both of them, so blissfully secure in their guilt, so egotistically certain that they and they alone were the objects of a hatred intense enough to endure the worst that the Galaxy had to offer in order to attain vengeance—why, they had both been so positive that their normal and already demonstrated cunning had deserted them and they had completely misread the warmth in his eyes!
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