Translation for "tortuosamente" to english

Tortuosamente

• tortuously

Translation examples

tortuously

Lentamente, tortuosamente, todo se hacía en la oscuridad.
Slowly, tortuously, everything was done in darkness.

—Prolongó la palabra tortuosamente.
‘Yes…’ She prolonged the word tortuously.

Durante cincuenta millas el camino había estado zigzagueando tortuosamente a lo largo de los acantilados sobre el mar.
For fifty miles the road had been winding tortuously along the cliffs above the sea.

Tortuosamente, interpretó las primeras líneas y las tradujo casi como si lo hiciera de una lengua extranjera:
Tortuously, he made out the first few lines, translating them almost as he would have a foreign language:

Dos horas y media transcurrieron tortuosamente hasta que Gideon oyó abrirse la puerta principal y las chicas entraron parloteando. —Cariño, estamos en casa —gritó Val.
Two and a half hours ticked by tortuously until Gideon heard the front door being opened and the girls ran in jabbering. “Hon, I’m home,” Val called.

Ellos mostraban la nueva conciencia propia de la era axial, mientras el auditorio veía cómo la mente de los protagonistas iba dando vueltas sobre sí misma, meditando sobre las alternativas, y llegando, tortuosamente, a una conclusión.
They displayed the new self-consciousness of the Axial Age, as the audience watched the mind of the protagonist turning in upon itself, meditating upon alternatives, and coming, tortuously, to a conclusion.

(3) una tira de tul que ha perdido su dignidad y se arrastra tortuosamente por toda la escena; y (4) sobre dos pequeñas sillas una colección de ropa interior que supera a toda descripción.
(3) a roll of tulle, which has lost its dignity and wound itself tortuously around everything in sight, and (4) upon the two small chairs, a collection of lingerie that beggars description.

—Yatima recibía etiquetas gestalt enviadas por el icono del tubo de rayos catódicos. Etiquetas repletas de información adicional, Pero Orlando leía tortuosamente eso mismo en texto lineal, en una ventana de traducción que su exoyó había pegado al panorama.
Yatima was receiving gestalt tags broadcast by the cathode-ray tube icon, packed with supplementary information, but Orlando was tortuously reading the same things in linear text from a translation window pasted into the scape by his exoself.

El humo que escapaba a sus pulmones ávidos se dirigía tortuosamente al combado techo de la tienda, que descansaba en siete nervaduras curvadas hacia abajo desde el poste central, y depositaba sobre el viejo cuero sin curtir su pequeña limosna de resina y hollín.
Such of them as escaped her greedy lungs tortuously found their way to the tent's saggy roof, resting on seven ribs down-curving from the central pole, and deposited on the ancient rawhide their tiny dole of resin and soot.

Era un organismo enteramente sin ojos, y pensó, al verle, en las frutas que recordaba de su niñez, las peras demasiado maduras caídas entre la hierba, cubiertas por una agitada capa de amarillentos insectos atraídos por el dulzón olor de la podredumbre. La criatura era vagamente esférica, y estaba encajada en una especie de arnés que apretaba tortuosamente su blando cuerpo, sin duda para poder moverse en un ambiente terrestre.
It was an organism without eyes entirely, and he thought, seeing it, of fruit he had come onto as a child, overripe pears lying in the weedy grass, covered by a crawling layer of yellow jackets attracted by the sweet odor of rot. The creature was vaguely spherical. It had fitted itself into a harness, however, which had squeezed its soft body tortuously; no doubt it needed this in order to get around in the Terran environment.