Adventures of Huckleberry Finn — Page 8
We stop stages and carriages on the road, with masks on, and kill the people and take their watches and money."
Detenemos diligencias y carruajes en el camino, con máscaras puestas, matamos a la gente y les quitamos los relojes y el dinero."
"Must we always kill the people?"
"¿Tenemos que matar siempre a la gente?"
"Oh, certainly.
"Oh, claro que sí.
It's best.
Es lo mejor.
Some authorities think different, but mostly it's considered best to kill them—except some that you bring to the cave here, and keep them till they're ransomed."
Algunas autoridades piensan de manera diferente, pero en general se considera mejor matarlos, excepto a algunos que traes aquí a la cueva y los guardas hasta que los rescaten."
"Ransomed? What's that?"
"¿Rescatados? ¿Qué es eso?"
"I don't know.
"No lo sé.
But that's what they do.
Pero eso es lo que hacen.
I've seen it in books; and so of course that's what we've got to do."
Lo he visto en los libros; y por supuesto eso es lo que tenemos que hacer."
"But how can we do it if we don't know what it is?"
"¿Pero cómo podemos hacerlo si no sabemos qué es?"
"Why, blame it all, we've _got_ to do it.
"Vaya, maldita sea, _tenemos_ que hacerlo.
Don't I tell you it's in the books?
¿No te digo que está en los libros?
Do you want to go to doing different from what's in the books, and get things all muddled up?"
¿Quieres hacer algo diferente a lo que dice en los libros y enredar todo?"
"Oh, that's all very fine to _say_, Tom Sawyer, but how in the nation are these fellows going to be ransomed if we don't know how to do it to them?—that's the thing _I_ want to get at.
"Oh, eso está muy bien _decirlo_, Tom Sawyer, pero ¿cómo demonios van a ser rescatados estos tipos si no sabemos cómo hacerlo?—eso es lo que _yo_ quiero saber.
Now, what do you _reckon_ it is?"
Ahora, ¿qué _crees_ tú que es?"
"Well, I don't know.
"Bueno, no lo sé.
But per'aps if we keep them till they're ransomed, it means that we keep them till they're dead."
Pero quizás si los guardamos hasta que sean rescatados, significa que los guardamos hasta que estén muertos."
"Now, that's something _like_.
"Ahora sí, eso _tiene_ sentido.
That'll answer.
Con eso basta.
Why couldn't you said that before?
¿Por qué no lo dijiste antes?
We'll keep them till they're ransomed to death; and a bothersome lot they'll be, too—eating up everything, and always trying to get loose."
Los guardaremos hasta que sean rescatados a muerte; y serán un grupo muy molesto también, comiéndose todo y siempre intentando escaparse."
"How you talk, Ben Rogers.
"Cómo hablas, Ben Rogers.
Vocabulary
- Detenemos
- We stop or detain (first person plural present)
- diligencias
- Errands, tasks, or stagecoaches used for transportation
- carruajes
- Carriages or horse-drawn vehicles for transportation
- en
- In, on, or at (preposition)
- el
- The (masculine singular definite article)
- camino
- Road, path, or way
- con
- With (preposition)
- máscaras
- Masks worn to conceal identity
- puestas
- Placed or put on (feminine plural past participle)
- matamos
- We kill or murder (first person plural present)
- la
- The (feminine singular definite article)
- gente
- People or folk
- les
- To/for them (indirect object pronoun)
- quitamos
- We take away or remove (first person plural present)
- los
- The (masculine plural definite article or object pronoun)
- relojes
- Watches or clocks
- dinero
- Money or currency
- Tenemos
- We have (first person plural present)
- que
- That or what (conjunction/relative pronoun)
- matar
- To kill or murder (infinitive)
- siempre
- Always or ever
- claro
- Clear, obvious, or of course
- sí
- Yes (affirmative response)
- Es
- Is or it is (third person singular present)
- lo
- It or the (masculine singular object pronoun)
- mejor
- Better or best
- Algunas
- Some (feminine plural)
- autoridades
- Authorities or officials in power
- piensan
- They think or believe (third person plural present)
- de
- Of or from (preposition)
- manera
- Manner, way, or mode
- diferente
- Different or distinct
- pero
- But or however (conjunction)
- general
- General or usually (adjective/adverb)
- se
- Oneself or reflexive pronoun
- considera
- Is considered or thought to be
- matarlos
- To kill them (infinitive with object pronoun)
- excepto
- Except or excluding
- algunos
- Some or certain (masculine plural)
- traes
- You bring or carry (second person singular present)
- aquí
- Here or at this place
- cueva
- Cave or cavern for shelter
- guardas
- You guard or keep (second person singular present)
- hasta
- Until or up to a certain point
- rescaten
- They rescue or recover (third person plural subjunctive)
- Rescatados
- Rescued or recovered (masculine plural past participle)
- Qué
- What or which (interrogative pronoun)
- es
- Is or it is (third person singular present)
- eso
- That or that thing (demonstrative pronoun)
- No
- No or not (negation)
- sé
- I know (first person singular present)
- Pero
- But or however (conjunction)
- hacen
- They make or do (third person plural present)
- Lo
- It or the (masculine singular object pronoun)
- he
- I have (first person singular present auxiliary)
- visto
- Seen (masculine singular past participle)
- libros
- Books or literary works
- por
- By, for, or through (preposition)
- supuesto
- Of course or supposed (adverb)
- tenemos
- We have or must (first person plural present)
- hacer
- To make or do (infinitive)
- cómo
- How or in what way (interrogative adverb)
- podemos
- We can or are able (first person plural present)
- hacerlo
- To do it or make it (infinitive with pronoun)
- si
- If or whether (conjunction)
- no
- No or not (negation)
- sabemos
- We know (first person plural present)
- qué
- What (interrogative pronoun)
- Vaya
- Go or let's go (third person singular subjunctive)
- maldita
- Cursed or damned (feminine singular adjective)
- sea
- Be or let it be (third person singular subjunctive)
- _tenemos_
- We have (first person plural present, emphasized)
- te
- You or to you (direct/indirect object pronoun)
- digo
- I say or tell (first person singular present)
- está
- Is or he/she/it is (third person singular present)
- Quieres
- You want or wish (second person singular present)
- algo
- Something or anything
- dice
- He/she says or tells (third person singular present)
- enredar
- To tangle, complicate, or get involved in trouble
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