Translation for "intenté volver" to english
- i tried to return
- i tried again
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Yo intenté volver al tema que me había llevado allí:
I tried to return to the subject that had brought me.
Mientras tanto, para consolidar a su alrededor el clima de bienestar, intenté volver a los gestos habituales, como un enfermo después de una larga estancia en el hospital, que para vencer el miedo a la recaída quiere unirse a toda prisa a la vida de los sanos.
Meanwhile, to consolidate a climate of benevolence, I tried to return to normal activities, like a sick person who has been in the hospital for a long time and, partly to overcome the fear of falling ill again, wants to reanchor himself to the life of the healthy.
Una vez, estando Hawa y yo casualmente solas en el patio mientras ella me trenzaba el pelo, intenté volver a tocar temas espinosos, explotando la intimidad del momento para preguntarle por un rumor que me había llegado sobre la desaparición de una mujer de la aldea, presuntamente capturada por la policía, la madre de un joven que había participado en una intentona golpista reciente.
Once, when it happened to be just Hawa and me in the yard, and she was plaiting my hair, I tried again to speak of difficult things, exploiting the intimacy of the moment to ask her about a rumor I’d heard, about a vanished village woman, apparently seized by the police, the mother of a young man who’d participated in a recent attempted coup.
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