Translation examples
—Me ha pegado —dijo quejosamente. —Hai! Allah-tobah!
‘She hit me,’ he said plaintively. ‘Hai! Allah-tobah!
—¿Por qué —preguntó Filipo quejosamente— caminas de aquí para allá?
“Why,” asked Philip plaintively, “do you keep walking about?”
Simón Pedro hab1ó quejosamente. -¿ Adónde iremos, y a quién?
Simon Peter spoke up plaintively: “Where shall we go and to whom?
Arriba, el macho las mira quejosamente y, cuando Portia le dirige la mirada, pide permiso para comer.
Up above, the male is looking down plaintively and, when Portia checks on him, he signals for permission to feed.
La señorita Wang alzó la vista de su bordado féng—huang y dijo quejosamente: —Me gustaría que usaras metáforas menos ofensivas.
Miss Wang looked up from her feng-huang embroidery and said plaintively, "I wish you would use less offensive metaphors."
Sin embargo lo fui, e hice bien, porque no hice más que acabar el trabajito cuando Kavanaugh apareció al pie de la ventana, aireando quejosamente su urdu en mi busca y queriendo saber por qué me había entretenido.
I was, though, and it was just as well, for I’d no sooner finished the business than Kavanaugh was under the window, airing his Urdu plaintively in search of me, and wanting to know what was the delay?
Un hombre cayó ante un gancho de derecha de Shasa. —Eh, oiga —protestó quejosamente, desde el suelo—, yo soy de los suyos. Shasa, sin prestarle atención, sacó a Tara por la puerta lateral y la arrastró corriendo hasta el Packard.
One of them went down before Shasa's right hook, and protested plaintively from the floor, Hey, man, I'm on your side, but Shasa dragged Tara out of the side door and they ran to the Packard.
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