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Grantland empezó a hablar rápidamente, rodeándose de una pantalla de palabras para protegerse:
Grantland began to speak rapidly, surrounding himself with a protective screen of words:
El viejo buitre quería consolarse del desecho de su vida rodeándose de una juventud también de desecho.
He wanted, the old vulture, to console himself for his own wasted life by surrounding himself with wasted youth.
Un señor ordenó a sus hombres prender hogueras a su alrededor, rodeándose así de una muralla de llamas.
One lord commanded his men to build fires all around him, surrounding himself with walls of flame.
No me parecía bien, por principio, que un escritor se refugiase en la universidad, rodeándose de personas afines y viviendo demasiado a gusto.
Just on principle, it felt wrong to me for a writer to hide out in a university, to surround himself with too many like-minded people, to get too comfortable.
Quizá porque había estado hablando de ello, el profesor Fitch pasó a dibujar la Defensa Easton, rodeándose con nueve círculos menores que tocaban al de mayor tamaño en los puntos de sujeción.
Perhaps because he’d been talking about it, Professor Fitch went to draw the Easton Defense, surrounding himself with nine smaller circles touching the larger one at the bind points.
Herman, el hermano mayor y el más importante, había cumplido los sesenta y tantos y le gustaba fingir que no ora escoria rodeándose de las cosas exquisitas de la vida: clubes privados que no le querían, exposiciones de arte de nuevos ricos, fiestas de beneficencia, chefs franceses que trataban a cualquiera que les diese menos de cincuenta dólares de propina como si fuesen personas que no pudiesen limpiarle las suelas de los zapatos.
Herman, the older brother and big cheese, was in his sixties now and liked to pretend he wasn't scum by surrounding himself with the finer things in life: restricted clubs that didn't want him, nouveau-riche art exhibits, well-coiffed charities, midtown French maitre d's who treated anyone who tipped with less than a Jackson like something they couldn't scrape off the soles of their shoes.
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