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Por lo tanto, como verdadero oriental, debía reducirme para ostentar su propia estatura.
Therefore, like a true Oriental, he must reduce me to demonstrate his own stature.
Era consciente de que estar perdiendo el oremus y de que ella no tardaría en reducirme a una condición tan desesperada, en términos de conversación, como la suya propia. —Sí —admitió.
I knew that I was losing my head, that she would soon reduce me to as desperate a state, conversationally speaking, as herself. ‘Yes,’ she admitted.
—Eso acabará conmigo —dijo con tristeza el Espantapájaros.-Una pequeña llama, azul o verde, basta para reducirme a una pila de cenizas. —¿Os rendís? —exigió el Rey.
"That will be the end of me, all right," said the Scarecrow, sorrowfully. "One small blaze, blue or green, is enough to reduce me to an ash-heap." "Do you surrender?" demanded the King.
Parecía que estuviera yo disputando una carrera con la confusión a la que él trataba de reducirme, y creo que llegó a vencerme cuando, antes de que entráramos en el atrio de la iglesia me dijo: —¡Quiero estar con mis iguales!
I seemed literally to be running a race with some confusion to which he was about to reduce me, but I felt that he had got in first when, before we had even entered the churchyard, he threw out— "I want my own sort!"
Los buscapleitos o enredadores, la mayoría de ellos eunucos que no tenían nada mejor que hacer, me contaban historias de cómo Nur al-Din estaba preparando un gran ejército para tomar El Cairo y reducirme al estado de vasallo, pero yo despreciaba todos esos chismorreos basados solamente en rumores.
Mischief-makers, most of them eunuchs with nothing better to do, would come to me with stories of how Nur al-Din was preparing a big army to take Cairo and reduce me to the status of a vassal, but I ignored such talk, for it was based on rumour.
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