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Parafraseando a Shakespeare, he venido a enterrar a Jiba, no a elogiarle.
To paraphrase Shakespeare, I come to bury Jiba, not to praise him.
No había acudido para denigrar a su padre, ni para elogiarle, ni siquiera para mencionarle.
He was not about to denigrate his father. Or praise him. Or even mention him.
Web bajó los hombros en un gesto de clara frustración, pero Claire se apresuró a elogiarlo.
Webs shoulders collapsed in obvious frustration, but Claire was quick to praise him.
Si Plaxy quería que demostrase valor, ¿por qué no venía a acariciarlo y elogiarlo?
If she wanted him to have spunk, why didn't she come and praise him and pet him?
Pero por una vez, noté, en lugar de admirarlo y elogiarlo, no cesaba un momento de criticarlo.
But for once, I noticed, instead of admiring and praising him, he never stopped criticizing him for a moment.
Aquello era valor, el verdadero valor, porque a su alrededor no había nadie para admirarle o elogiarle por ello.
This, he knew, was courage, the truest, ultimate courage, because there was no one here to sympathize or praise him for it.
Me dio la impresión de que su madre no solía elogiarlo a menudo, pero que, cuando lo hacía, Lucas lo recibía como el agua de mayo.
I got the sense that his mother didn't praise him much, but he ate it up when she did.
—preguntó Lope—. Si fuese un traidor, cosa que os recuerdo que no creo que sea así, pero si lo fuese, ¿no difamará al Rey en lugar de elogiarle?
Lope asked. "If he is a traitor--I don't believe it, mind you, but if he is--won't he slander the King instead of praising him?"
A pesar de todo ello, yo debía elogiarlo y me disponía a modificar mentalmente, una vez más, mi breve discurso cuando vi que Evert atravesaba el patio hacia mi escalera.
Still, praise him I must, and I was changing my little essay once again in my mind when I saw Evert coming across the quad towards my staircase.
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