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Es curioso echar una ojeada a la vida pasada, a todos los diversos incidentes y escenas, a esa multitud de retazos.
It is curious to look back over life, over all the varying incidents and scenes–such a multitude of odds and ends.
La llenó con los retazos de información que había reunido y guardado durante la semana sin haber podido ordenarlos, ni agruparlos.
All the odds and ends of information he had been collecting and storing during the week, without having them sorted out and pieced together to consider where they could possibly lead, filled a sheet of paper.
Estas aguas residuales son una solución diluida de restos de comida, jabón y detergente, excrementos humanos, papel higiénico, compresas y otros retazos de residuos orgánicos humanos, a menudo muy infecciosos.
That portion of the sewage is a thin solution of food scraps, soap and detergents, human excrement, toilet paper, sanitary napkins and other organic, and often highly infectious, odds and ends of human waste.
En vano procuró la madre suavizar tan fría doctrina con pinceladas de consejo espiritual, retazos tomados de un pozo de conocimiento que día a día la alejaba del mundo de la existencia física y que una niña no podía comprender.
Her mother, tentatively and ineffectually, tried to soften this chilly doctrine with some odds and ends of spiritual counsel, snippets from a store of knowledge which led her daily farther from the world in which her body had its existence, which no child was capable of understanding.
la naturaleza, cuyo mayor pecado no es la extensión, tal vez incómoda de esta frase, ha complicado su tarea y ha perfeccionado nuestra confusión, suministrándonos un surtido completo de retazos —un fragmento del pantalón de un gendarme al lado de un jirón del velo nupcial de la reina Alejandra— y ha dispuesto además que un solo hilván los conserve juntos.
nature, who has so much to answer for besides the perhaps unwieldy length of this sentence, has further complicated her task and added to our confusion by providing not only a perfect rag-bag of odds and ends within us—a piece of a policeman’s trousers lying cheek by jowl with Queen Alexandra’s wedding veil—but has contrived that the whole assortment shall be lightly stitched together by a single thread.
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