Jane Eyre: An Autobiography — Page 3
They were those which treat of the haunts of sea-fowl; of "the solitary rocks and promontories" by them only inhabited; of the coast of Norway, studded with isles from its southern extremity, the Lindeness, or Naze, to the North Cape—
Eran aquellos que tratan de los refugios de las aves marinas; de «las rocas solitarias y los promontorios» habitados únicamente por ellas; de la costa de Noruega, salpicada de islas desde su extremo meridional, el Lindeness, o Naze, hasta el Cabo Norte—
"Where the Northern Ocean, in vast whirls, Boils round the naked, melancholy isles Of farthest Thule; and the Atlantic surge Pours in among the stormy Hebrides."
«Donde el Océano del Norte, en vastos remolinos, hierve en torno a las desnudas y melancólicas islas de la lejana Thule; y la marea atlántica se vierte entre las tormentosas Hébridas.»
Nor could I pass unnoticed the suggestion of the bleak shores of Lapland, Siberia, Spitzbergen, Nova Zembla, Iceland, Greenland, with "the vast sweep of the Arctic Zone, and those forlorn regions of dreary space,—that reservoir of frost and snow, where firm fields of ice, the accumulation of centuries of winters, glazed in Alpine heights above heights, surround the pole, and concentre the multiplied rigours of extreme cold."
Tampoco podía pasar por alto la evocación de las sombrías orillas de Laponia, Siberia, Spitzbergen, Nueva Zembla, Islandia, Groenlandia, con «la vasta extensión de la Zona Ártica, y aquellas desoladas regiones del lúgubre espacio,—ese depósito de hielo y nieve, donde compactos campos de hielo, acumulación de siglos de inviernos, vidriados en alturas alpinas sobre alturas, rodean el polo y concentran los multiplicados rigores del frío extremo».
Of these death-white realms I formed an idea of my own: shadowy, like all the half-comprehended notions that float dim through children's brains, but strangely impressive.
De estos reinos blancos como la muerte me formé una idea propia: difusa, como todas las nociones a medias comprendidas que flotan vagamente por las mentes de los niños, pero extrañamente impresionante.
The words in these introductory pages connected themselves with the succeeding vignettes, and gave significance to the rock standing up alone in a sea of billow and spray; to the broken boat stranded on a desolate coast; to the cold and ghastly moon glancing through bars of cloud at a wreck just sinking.
Las palabras de estas páginas introductorias se enlazaron con las viñetas siguientes, y dieron significado a la roca que se alzaba solitaria en un mar de olas y espuma; al bote roto varado en una costa desolada; a la fría y fantasmal luna que asomaba entre franjas de nubes sobre un naufragio a punto de hundirse.
I cannot tell what sentiment haunted the quite solitary churchyard, with its inscribed headstone; its gate, its two trees, its low horizon, girdled by a broken wall, and its newly-risen crescent, attesting the hour of eventide.
No puedo decir qué sentimiento rondaba aquel cementerio completamente solitario, con su lápida grabada; su verja, sus dos árboles, su horizonte bajo, ceñido por un muro en ruinas, y su creciente recién surgida, que atestiguaba la hora del atardecer.
Vocabulary
- Eran
- Were (past tense of ser)
- aquellos
- Those (masculine plural demonstrative pronoun)
- que
- That, which (relative pronoun)
- tratan
- Deal with, treat (third person plural present)
- de
- Of, from (preposition)
- los
- The (masculine plural definite article)
- refugios
- Shelters, refuges (plural noun)
- las
- The (feminine plural definite article)
- aves
- Birds (plural noun)
- marinas
- Marine, sea-related (feminine plural adjective)
- rocas
- Rocks (plural noun)
- solitarias
- Solitary, lonely (feminine plural adjective)
- promontorios
- Headlands, capes (plural noun)
- habitados
- Inhabited, occupied (masculine plural adjective)
- únicamente
- Solely, only (adverb)
- por
- By, for, through (preposition)
- ellas
- Them, they (feminine plural pronoun)
- la
- The (feminine singular definite article)
- costa
- Coast, shoreline (noun)
- salpicada
- Sprinkled, dotted (feminine singular adjective)
- islas
- Islands (plural noun)
- desde
- From, since (preposition)
- su
- His, her, its, their (possessive adjective)
- extremo
- Extreme, end (noun/adjective)
- meridional
- Southern, meridional (adjective)
- el
- The (masculine singular definite article)
- hasta
- Until, up to, as far as (preposition)
- Cabo
- Cape, headland (noun)
- Norte
- North (noun)
- Donde
- Where (relative adverb)
- Océano
- Ocean (noun)
- del
- Of the (contraction of de + el)
- en
- In, on, at (preposition)
- vastos
- Vast, extensive (masculine plural adjective)
- remolinos
- Whirlpools, swirls (plural noun)
- hierve
- Boils, seethes (third person singular present)
- torno
- Around, about (noun/preposition)
- desnudas
- Bare, naked (feminine plural adjective)
- melancólicas
- Melancholic, sad (feminine plural adjective)
- lejana
- Distant, remote (feminine singular adjective)
- marea
- Tide (noun)
- atlántica
- Atlantic (feminine singular adjective)
- se
- Reflexive pronoun (himself, herself, itself)
- vierte
- Pours, spills (third person singular present)
- entre
- Between, among (preposition)
- tormentosas
- Stormy, turbulent (feminine plural adjective)
- Tampoco
- Neither, not either (adverb)
- podía
- Could, was able (third person singular imperfect)
- pasar
- Pass, go (verb infinitive)
- alto
- High, tall; stop (adjective/noun)
- evocación
- Evocation, recall (noun)
- sombrías
- Dark, gloomy, somber (feminine plural adjective)
- orillas
- Shores, banks, edges (plural noun)
- Nueva
- New (feminine singular adjective)
- con
- With (preposition)
- vasta
- Vast, extensive (feminine singular adjective)
- extensión
- Extension, expanse, area (noun)
- Zona
- Zone, area, region (noun)
- Ártica
- Arctic (feminine singular adjective)
- aquellas
- Those (feminine plural demonstrative pronoun)
- desoladas
- Desolate, abandoned (feminine plural adjective)
- regiones
- Regions, areas (plural noun)
- lúgubre
- Gloomy, dismal, lugubrious (adjective)
- espacio
- Space, expanse, room (noun)
- ese
- That (masculine singular demonstrative pronoun)
- depósito
- Deposit, repository (noun)
- hielo
- Ice (noun)
- nieve
- Snow (noun)
- donde
- Where, in which (relative adverb)
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