Translation for "gota de amargura" to english
Gota de amargura
Translation examples
Las discusiones sostenidas en Londres tuvieron una importancia de lejano alcance; y la decisión tomada en las oficinas, veladas por la niebla, de la Compañía de Borneo obscurecieron para Almayer el brillante resplandor de los trópicos y añadieron otra gota de amargura a la copa de sus desencantos.
The deliberations conducted in London have a farreaching importance, and so the decision issued from the fogveiled offices of the Borneo Company darkened for Almayer the brilliant sunshine of the Tropics, and added another drop of bitterness to the cup of his disenchantments.
Consideraba una fortuna que en medio de tantos encuentros aventurados, la única que le hizo probar una gota de amargura fue la tortuosa Sara Noriega, que terminó sus días en el manicomio de la Divina Pastora, recitando versos seniles de tan desaforada obscenidad, que debieron aislarla para que no acabara de enloquecer a las otras locas.
He considered it a stroke of good fortune that among so many hazardous encounters, the only woman who had made him taste a drop of bitterness was the sinuous Sara Noriega, who ended her days in the Divine Shepherdess Asylum, reciting senile verses of such outrageous obscenity that they were forced to isolate her so that she would not drive the rest of the madwomen crazy.
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