Translation for "imitar a aquellos" to english

Imitar a aquellos

• imitate those

Translation examples

imitate those

Mientras examinaba cuidadosamente nuestra despensa paseándose entre tarros de mermelada y encurtidos, que le interesaron mucho, y tinajas de aceite de oliva y vinagre, vio el retrato que yo le había encargado a un pintor veneciano y se atrevió a ir un poco más allá; como quien revela un secreto, me confesó que en realidad Él no era un verdadero amigo de los turcos, sino que escribía cosas malas sobre nosotros: escribía acerca del principio de nuestro declive, hablaba de nuestras mentes como de armarios sucios llenos de porquerías, que no teníamos remedio, que nuestra única posibilidad de salvación era someternos a ellos cuanto antes, y que luego, durante siglos, no podríamos sino imitar a aquellos a quienes nos habríamos sometido.
While examining our pantry, among the jars of preserves and pickles, the jugs of olive oil and vinegar, which rather interested him, he saw my portrait in oil that I’d commissioned from a Venetian painter and further confided, as if he were betraying a secret, that actually He was not a true friend of the Turks, that He’d written unflattering things about them: He’d written that we were now in decline, described our minds as if they were dirty cupboards filled with old junk. He’d said we could not be reformed, that if we were to survive our only alternative was to submit immediately, and after this we would not be able to do anything for centuries but imitate those to whom we had surrendered.