Translation for "manera distraída" to english

Manera distraída

• distracted way
• absently

Translation examples

distracted way

Y me observa Rosita Viterbo, la antigua alumna, de una cierta manera distraída:
And Rosita Viterbo, my one-time pupil, watches me in a distracted way.

absently

—Sí, sigue con eso —le dije de manera distraída a la vez que leía la corta nota.
"Yeah, go ahead with that," I said absently, rereading the brief note.

Hadley, mirándole de manera distraída, remachó sus palabras como si fuesen clavos.
Hadley, regarding him as though in an absent-minded fashion, drove in his words like nails.

Observó, de manera distraída, que Peter había puesto kilos, y músculos. —He estado ocupado.
He noticed, absently, that Peter had put on some weight-and apparently some muscle. “I’ve been busy.”

Empezó a acariciarme la espalda con una mano, de manera distraída, como si yo fuese un cachorrillo lloriqueante.
One hand began rubbing my back absently, as if I was a puppy who had whimpered.

Eva no acariciaba a la perra de manera distraída, sino que le rascaba en los lugares donde ésta no podía alcanzar.
Eva didn’t pat the dog absently, but scratched the dog in places it couldn’t reach.

Entonces esto está bien. Está bien —dijo esas palabras de manera distraída como si no recordara del todo donde estaba—.
That’s good then. That’s good.” Pax said the words absently, as though he didn’t wholly remember where he was.

Ella la tomó de manera distraída, le dio un mordisquito y siguió pensando intrigada en las cosas que Sheridan había dicho.
She took it absently, nibbled a bite and then held it while she puzzled on the things Sheridan had said.

Estrechó la mano de Tupra y la mía de manera distraída, cavilatoria, ausente (una mano mullida, algo floja, quizá sólo por la cavilación).
He shook Tupra’s hand and mine in a distracted, preoccupied, absent way (a soft, rather limp hand, perhaps because he was preoccupied).