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If you don't save my number, I'm going to ask why a parvenu is working a part-time job. I'm going to ask you that question. | Si no vas a guardarlo, voy a preguntar por qué Nueva Rica trabaja... a ti. |
To this must be added the hatred of the crisis-shattered intellectual youth for the lawyers, the deputies and the parvenu ministers. | A esto debe agregarse el odio de la juventud intelectual, aplastada por la crisis, hacia los abogados, los profesores, los diputados y los ministros advenedizos. |
Looking for an escape out of the mortal crisis, the parvenu states aspire, and cannot fail to aspire, to new partitioning of the world. | Buscando una salida a la crisis mortal, los estados advenedizos aspiran, y no pueden dejar de hacerlo, a una nueva repartición del mundo. |
The one was an accidental figure, a parvenu, the other a man with a big revolutionary past–both of them pure adventurers, ready for anything. Filonenko at least was ready for anything, and Savinkov was ready for much. | El primero era una figura accidental; el segundo contaba con un gran pasado revolucionario; ambos eran aventureros de pies a cabeza, dispuestos a todo, como Filonenko, o, por lo menos, a mucho, como Savinkov. |
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