Translation examples
sin destetar, seguíamos chupando puerilmente placeres del campo?
were we not weaned till then, but sucked on country pleasures, childishly?
Tras la primera hora de relativa y hasta aburrida tranquilidad, se volvió puerilmente irritable, insolente.
After the first hour of relative quiet, even boredom he became childishly irritable.
¿Cómo explicaríamos la realidad de que, en lugar de organizarnos eficientemente como un solo sistema para gestionar apropiadamente este hogar que compartimos, puerilmente nos dividimos y competimos y nos aprovechamos unos de otros a través de un juego arcaico y completamente desvinculado del entorno.
How would we explain the reality that, rather than organizing ourselves efficiently, as a single system to properly manage this household we share, we childishly divide and compete and exploit each other through an archaic, completely environmentally decoupled game.
—¿Por qué? —pregunté, meditando puerilmente sobre aquella imagen.
‘Why?’ I asked him, pondering childishly over this picture.
Y, puerilmente, quise taparme los oídos con las manos.
Childishly, I wanted to put my hands over my ears.
—Bien —dijo puerilmente—, pero luego me la darás, ¿verdad?
“All right,” he said childishly, “but then will you give it to me?”
Interpretaba el papel con gran vivacidad, de un modo puerilmente aproximativo.
He was acting the role with high spirits, in a childishly approximate way.
Ahora que sabemos cómo Cazalis las elegía, la respuesta es puerilmente clara.
Now that we know how Cazalis picked them, the answer is childishly clear.
Siempre balbuceaba su nombre puerilmente en los momentos en que se sentía menos pueril. —No.
He always lisped her name childishly at the moments when he felt least childish. "No.
—Bueno, es lo que suele pasar —dijo puerilmente. Puse los ojos en blanco.
‘Well, that’s what you get,’ he said childishly. I rolled my eyes.
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