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Me pregunté, mezquinamente, dónde habría encontrado el dinero.
I found myself wondering, meanly, where she had found the money.
No pregunté mezquinamente qué se había ofrecido Tabitha a hacer por mamá, cuando papá «faleció».
Not asking meanly what Tabitha had offered to do for Mom, after Dad “passed.”
Yo tomo parte en ese juego, como tú le llamas mezquinamente, porque sus historias son fantásticas y originales.
I enter into it, as you call it so meanly, because his stories are so fantastic and so original;
Con nobleza salvaremos o echaremos por tierra mezquinamente la última y mejor esperanza del mundo.[587]
We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best, hope of earth.81
Clary, que un momento antes se habría sentido mezquinamente complacida, sintió una oleada de cólera hacia Jace.
Clary, who a moment ago would have been meanly pleased, felt a rush of anger toward Jace.
Esta mañana he ido al pueblo para herrar a un caballo y comprar grano para el ganado. Me ha vuelto a sorprender lo feos, lo mezquinamente utilitarios que son los edificios.
In the village this morning to have a horse reshod and buy grain for the livestock, I was struck once again by how plain, how meanly utilitarian, the buildings are.
Supongo que debía de haber fotografiado a miles de hermosas mujeres y estaba seguro de que no debía ser nada tímido. Le envidié mezquinamente.
I suppose he'd taken pictures of a thousand beautiful women in his career and I was sure he hadn't been shy to begin with. Meanly, I envied him.
Pero durante los últimos meses Napoleón había manipulado las cosas de tal modo que Lowe se veía obligado constantemente, en defensa propia o por otra razón, a proceder o parecer que procedía mezquinamente.
But over the past months Napoleon had so contrived things that Lowe was continually obliged, either in self-defence or for some other reason, to act or appear to act meanly.
Cada uno trabajaba por su cuenta, celoso de los propios resultados, mezquinamente avaro e incluso dispuesto a entregar una versión malograda o incompleta con tal de no deber nunca nada al otro.
Each of us would work on our own account, jealously and meanly avid of our own marks, even ready, just so as to owe nothing to the other side, to give in an unfinished or erroneous version.
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