una sonrisa permanente colgada de los labios.

English translation: a permanent / constant smile on his face.

19:36 May 11, 2002

Spanish to English translations [Non-PRO]
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Spanish term or phrase: una sonrisa permanente colgada de los labios.

era un hombre menudo, de escaso pelo ojo spequenos pero vivos, expresivos de un azul acerado, manos anchas y fuertes y un sonrisa.....

rachel

English translation:a permanent / constant smile on his face.

Explanation:
None needed.

Selected response from:

A. Deb
Spain
Local time: 23:11

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Summary of answers provided

4 +5

a permanent / constant smile on his face.

A. Deb

".. a permanent smile hanging on his lips"

Leonardo Parachú

A steady smile on his lips

Yvette Arcelay (X)

always with a smile on his face

Sheilann

Answers

1 min confidence:

peer agreement (net): +5

a permanent / constant smile on his face.

Explanation:
None needed.

A. Deb
Spain
Local time: 23:11
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in pair: 102

4 mins confidence:

".. a permanent smile hanging on his lips"

Explanation:
"Without using any appellations of HAJI, or Dr., though he amply deserves both, having performed HAJ and having recently earned his doctorate, we at the Secretariat know him as simple HASANAIN. Always amiable, cheerful and helpful, he wears a disarming smile hanging on his lips; a smile though demure, yet always ready to break into a hearty laughter. A man of keen wit, and humour, HASANAIN invariably manages to see a lighter side of every dark cloud. At our Office bearer weekly meetings, a mixed agenda for deliberations called for very serious considerations. In the midst of the crucial moments of debate and exchange of views, HASANAIN would pick up a point or two for its humorous treatment, crack a joke, relate a parable, and thus dispel the descending gloom. The fact is that he kept our spirits high, preventing from being dampened."

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HTH

www.world-federation.org/Secretariat/Archives/ PressRelease/Parting_Colleague.htm

Leonardo Parachú
Local time: 18:11
Native speaker of:

Spanish
PRO pts in pair: 433

17 mins confidence:

A steady smile on his lips

Explanation:
Espero que te sea de uso

Yvette Arcelay (X)
Local time: 17:11
Native speaker of:

Spanish,

English
PRO pts in pair: 30

38 mins confidence:

always with a smile on his face

Explanation:
Another suggestion

Sheilann
Spain
Local time: 23:11
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in pair: 886

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