Translation examples
Greer nodded, her fingers dexterously working on her datapad.
Greer asintió, mientras con los dedos maniobraba hábilmente su datapad.
She digs it out of her bag with dexterity, as she’s still holding Toto.
Lo saca hábilmente del bolso sin dejar de sujetar a Toto.
She shed tears which she dexterously manipulated with the folded edge of her handkerchief.
Ella vertió lágrimas que manipuló hábilmente con el borde doblado de su pañuelo.
As he advanced, groups dexterously broke up before he was obliged to meet them.
Cuando caminaba, los grupos de paseantes se disolvían hábilmente antes de que se viese obligado a encontrarse con ellos.
She watched him flicking cutlets dexterously on to plates with his left hand.
Le observaba mientras iba sirviendo hábilmente, con la mano izquierda, chuletas en los platos.
The canopy of the sky seemed most dexterously washed in to fill up the outline of roof and chimney.
El dosel del cielo parecía hábilmente desteñido para destacar los contornos de las chimeneas y de los techos.
Mademoiselle Tràn felt the young woman’s hands skim dexterously over her breasts and between her thighs.
La señorita Tràn siente las manos de la joven pasar hábilmente sobre sus senos, entre sus nalgas.
Herbie dug into an old hat box and with two fingers dexterously extracted an old wax cylinder.
Herbie buscó en una vieja caja de sombreros y con dos dedos extrajo hábilmente un viejo cilindro de cera.
In the silent room her eye rested on the huge fish-bone that someone had dexterously extracted without breaking.
En medio del silencio, Ellen posó la mirada en la espina entera del pescado que alguien había extraído hábilmente sin romperla.
Not rudely interrupted. The interruption was suave, dexterous, persuasive rather than contradictory. “Please don’t refuse offhand, M. Poirot.
No con brusquedad sino suave y hábilmente, con ánimo de persuadirle. Por favor, monsieur Poirot, no se niegue usted sin considerarlo antes.
He dexterously turned the boat as directed.
Gobernó diestramente el bote en la forma que se le indicaba.
slipped it dexterously to her feet, and bore it away.
diestramente lo hizo resbalar hasta dejarlo a los pies de su señora y se lo llevó.
said Hector, who sensed a strain in the conversation and sought dexterously to relieve it.
—dijo Hector con intención de aliviar diestramente la repentina tirantez.
The four diners leaned in closer and dexterously ripped off legs and wings.
Los cuatro comensales se acercaron a la bandeja y arrancaron diestramente patas y alas.
The host leafed dexterously through his little book of rejoinders but did not come up with anything.
El anfitrión pasaba diestramente las hojas de un librito de réplicas, pero no encontraba nada.
'Have you seen the young lady at all?' Surefoot opened another bottle of beer dexterously.
—¿Ha visto usted a la muchacha? Surefoot abrió diestramente otra botella de cerveza.
“Now here’s my advice,” said Gruzinov, dexterously rolling up the map and handing it back to Martin.
—Ahora bien, este es mi consejo —abrevió Gruzinov, enrollando diestramente el mapa y devolviéndoselo a Martin—.
Then I placed him in front of me and with my hands on his waist I pushed him along, guiding him lightly and dexterously about the floor.
Después lo coloqué delante de mí y con las manos en su cintura lo llevé empujándolo, guiándolo ligera y diestramente por la pista.
Mike’s companion passed his hand dexterously into the indicated pocket and flicked out three or four folded sheets of foolscap. “Dat it, Mike?”
El compañero de Mike metió diestramente la mano en el bolsillo indicado y sacó tres o cuatro hojas dobladas. —¿Es esto, Mike?
Sma watched the machine, its unseen fields manipulating the little blossoms as dexterously as any lace-maker flicking a pattern into existence.
Sma observó a la máquina mientras manipulaba esas florecitas con sus campos invisibles tan diestramente como la encajera que hace surgir un delicado dibujo de la nada.
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