Sentence examples of "astonishing" in English
The skyscraper's elevators ascend at an astonishing rate of speed.
Los ascensores del rascacielos suben a una velocidad asombrosa.
I have been more than once intoxicated, my passions have always bordered on extravagance: I am not ashamed to confess it; for I have learned, by my own experience, that all extraordinary men, who have accomplished great and astonishing actions, have ever been decried by the world as drunken or insane.
Yo he estado intoxicado más de una vez, mis pasiones siempre han bordeado con la extravagancia: no estoy avergonzado de confesarlo; pues yo he aprendido, en mi propia experiencia, que todos los hombres extraordinarios que han logrado grandes y asombrosas hazañas, siempre han sido despreciados por el mundo como borrachos o locos.
It was completely astonishing, as you would expect.
Fue completamente alucinante, como cabría esperar.
It is astonishing to witness that the Iranians, onto whom the Arabs imposed Islam through military defeat, have become its most zealous followers to the point of oppressing those of Zoroastrianism, though it is the religion of their own fathers. A kind of Stockholm syndrome on the national scale.
Es sorprendente atestiguar que los iraníes, sobre quienes los árabes impusieron el Islam a través de la derrota militar, se han convertido en sus seguidores más fervientes, hasta el punto de oprimir a aquellos del zoroastrismo, a pesar de ser la religión de sus propios padres. Es una especie de síndrome de Estocolmo a escala nacional.
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