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Tiene muchas sílabas y mucha jerga psicológica.
- You're writing too many syllables. I mean, what's with all the psychobabble insight?
quizá un vocablo psiquiátrico de muchas sílabas, o dos sencillitos, como mala fe.
maybe a psychiatric word with many syllables or maybe a simple word like “spite.”
Con frecuencia se reían de él, y cuando esto sucedía erguía su cuerpo y hablaba despreciativamente con palabras de muchas sílabas.
Often he was laughed at, and when this happened he held his stunted body very straight and spoke scornfully hi words of many syllables.
—Agradezco —dijo Benny, su acento adornando la palabra con muchas sílabas— tu apoyo en esta primera noche de servicio de habitaciones nocturno.
'I appreciate,' said Benny, his accent flowering the word with many syllables, 'your support on this first night of room service.'
A Bella no le pareció inglesa y, cuando habló, su voz la delató como alguien llegado de lo que una vez había sido probablemente Checoslovaquia, pero que ahora era cualquiera de una cantidad de países con muchas sílabas, aún más consonantes y unas pocas vocales.
She didn’t look English to Bella, and when she spoke, her voice gave her away as someone from what had once probably been Czechoslovakia but was now any one of a number of countries with many syllables, even more consonants, and few vowels, because Bella could not keep track of them and no longer tried.
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