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The worker looked thirstily and commandingly into the eyes of the soldier, and the soldier anxiously and diffidently looked away. This meant that, in a way, the soldier could no longer answer for himself. The worker approached the soldier more boldly. | El obrero miraba ávida e imperiosamente a los ojos del soldado, y éste rehuía, intranquilo e inseguro, su mirada: esto significaba que el soldado no respondía ya de sí. |
The Brok report hints at this, although rather diffidently. | El informe Brok lo apunta, aunque de un modo algo tímido. |
Here is an author who never freely expresses his own thoughts, but diffidently restates the thoughts of others. | Aquí tenemos a un autor que nunca expresa libremente sus propios pensamientos, sino que tímidamente hace uso de los ajenos. |
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