Translation for "listeza" to english
Translation examples
Habilidad y listeza, el Ladronzuelo ha mostrado todos han perdido la cabeza, las huellas con destreza ha embrollado.
The thief is clever in this case. Leaving neither clue nor trace!
La listeza es la sombra, mientras que la inteligencia es la esencia».
Cleverness is the shadow whereas intelligence is the substance.
Era capaz de despojarse de todos ellos, lo mismo que de su listeza, con la misma facilidad con que un cisne se hunde en el agua.
She could shed it all, and her cleverness too, as easily as a swan water-drops.
aunque no sé yo en qué consistirá su listeza», decía Romola Cheyne, «porque prácticamente no habla.
Cheyne, “I never can see where her cleverness comes in, for she hardly speaks at all.
Los mayores le elogiaban por su obediencia y listeza, pero el abuelo no tenía muchos encomios para él, y le!jamaba "maulero".
The adults praised him highly for his obedience and his cleverness, but grandfather looked on him with no favorable eye, and used to say: "An artful beggar that!"
Este acceso al poder por parte de figuras que proceden de las clases bajas queda legitimado por su industriosidad, su listeza, su don de la oportunidad y su franqueza» (The Brothers Grimm, pág. 114-115).
The succession to power of lower-class figures is legitimized by their essential qualities of industriousness, cleverness, opportunism, and frankness’ (The Brothers Grimm, pp. 114–15).
Bien: si recorro, digamos, mis tres últimos meses, y si intento aislar y descartar toda mi precocidad y todo mi infantilismo, mi listeza de alumno de sexto y mi marrullería de alumno de quinto, y toda mi autocomplacencia y autorepugnancia y autoloquequieran, quizá pueda localizar mi hamartanein y averiguar qué clase de adulto voy a ser.
So: if I run through, let's say, the last three months, and if I try to sort out all my precocity and childishness, my sixth-form cleverness and fifth-form nastiness, all the self-consciousness and self-disgust and self-infatuation and self- ... you name it, perhaps I'll be able to locate my hamartia and see what kind of grownup I shall make.
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