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En el centro había un platito en el que ardía un grueso velón.
In the centre was a little plate upon which a fat candle was burning.
Cookie trasteaba en la cocina sacando vasos y platitos.
Cookie bustled around the kitchen, getting out glasses and little plates.
—dice la anfitriona a su atractivo huésped mientras le ofrece un platito de caviar—.
declared the hostess to her guest as she handed him a little plate of caviar.
Había un jarro de latón lleno de agua y un platito con chutney[6] de coco recién hecho.
There was a brass jar of water and a little plate of fresh coconut chutney.
Nos la trajo junto a un platito de galletas y dos chupitos de aguardiente obsequio de la casa.
He brought it to us together with a little plate of biscuits and two small glasses of brandy on the house.
Sirvieron la sopa y el pan en unos platitos pintados con cigüeñas que volaban y alzaban el vuelo sobre los plumosos juncos.
The soup came, and bread, on little plates painted with flying storks and rising storks and feathery reeds.
Caminó hasta el cuarto y regresó con un chaleco de lana negro, se detuvo en la cocina y llenó un platito con agua para los patos.
He walked to his room and came back with a black wool vest, stopped in the kitchen and filled a little plate with water for the ducks.
Los adultos nos servimos varios platitos, mi marido tiene vergüenza de abrir nuestra caja y la deja a un costado.
We grown-ups help ourselves to little platefuls of food. My husband is too embarrassed to open the box of pastries we brought and leaves it off to one side.
Se ponía en una bandejita o en un platito cerca del plato principal, para que lo vieras y te entraran ganas de comerlo cuando todavía estabas escarbando en la otra bazofia.
It was put down on a little plate or in a little dish next to your dinnerplate so you could look at it and want it while you plowed through the other muck.
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