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La espera, el silencio, el hedor empezaron a hacer mella en los nervios.
The waiting, the silence, the smell began to tell on their nerves.
Todo aquello empezó a hacer mella en él: en palabras de Orville, «volvía a casa pálido».
And it all began to tell on him. In Orville’s words, he would “come home white.”
Quizá Ari supiera disimularlo mejor, pero también en él empezaba a hacer mella la tensión.
Perhaps he had a better way of disguising it but the pressure was beginning to tell on him too.
no podía determinar si el incendio iba a hacer mella finalmente en los soportes que mantenían al edificio.
there was no telling if the fire below eventually would weaken the supports that held up the. Building.
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