Translation of "desconfía" to English language:
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| Tomás desconfía de los extraños. | Tom doesn't trust strangers. |
| Tom desconfía de Mary aunque asegure lo contrario. | Tom is suspicious of Mary even though he declares otherwise. |
| Desde Iraq, desconfía de las intervenciones militares que generan un hundimiento. | Since Iraq, it distrusts military interventions, which run into quicksands. |
| Ahora, si uno desconfía de alguien le pone límites, no es cierto? | Now, if you don't trust someone, you place restrictions on them, right? |
| La creciente desigualdad de ingresos en toda la eurozona ha creado una subclase marginada que desconfía cada vez más de la unión monetaria. | Throughout the eurozone, rising income inequality has created an underclass that is increasingly suspicious of the monetary union. |
| Tal vez el lector se pregunte cómo puedo decir esto siendo, como soy, profesor de economía esa ciencia triste que dice que no hay almuerzos gratis, que a todo beneficio le corresponde un costo y que cuando la limosna es grande, hasta el santo desconfía. | How, you might ask, can I say this? I am an economist a professor of the Dismal Science, in which there are no free lunches, in which benefits are always balanced by costs, and in which stories that sound too good to be true almost inevitably are. |
| En otras palabras, si uno diverge marcadamente del nivel de confianza promedio que existe en la sociedad, es probable que termine perdiendo, sea porque desconfía tanto de los demás que pierde oportunidades para invertir y lograr un intercambio mutuamente beneficioso, sea porque uno confía tanto que se expone al engaño y el abuso. | In other words, if you diverge markedly from society s average level of trust, you are likely to lose out, either because you are so distrustful of others that you miss out on opportunities for investment and mutually beneficial exchange, or because you are so trusting that you leave yourself open to being cheated and abused. |
