Peter Pan — Page 9
When you play at it by day with the chairs and table-cloth, it is not in the least alarming, but in the two minutes before you go to sleep it becomes very real.
Cuando juegas durante el día con las sillas y el mantel, no resulta en absoluto alarmante, pero en los dos minutos antes de que te quedes dormido se vuelve muy real.
That is why there are night-lights.
Por eso existen las luces nocturnas.
Occasionally in her travels through her children's minds Mrs. Darling found things she could not understand, and of these quite the most perplexing was the word Peter.
En ocasiones, durante sus viajes por las mentes de sus hijos, la señora Darling encontraba cosas que no podía comprender, y de todas ellas la más desconcertante era la palabra Peter.
She knew of no Peter, and yet he was here and there in John and Michael's minds, while Wendy's began to be scrawled all over with him.
Ella no conocía a ningún Peter, y sin embargo aparecía aquí y allá en las mentes de John y Michael, mientras que la de Wendy comenzaba a estar garabateada por todas partes con él.
The name stood out in bolder letters than any of the other words, and as Mrs. Darling gazed she felt that it had an oddly cocky appearance.
El nombre destacaba en letras más gruesas que cualquiera de las otras palabras, y mientras la señora Darling lo contemplaba, sintió que tenía un aspecto extrañamente arrogante.
"Yes, he is rather cocky," Wendy admitted with regret.
—Sí, es bastante arrogante —admitió Wendy con pesar.
Her mother had been questioning her.
Su madre la había estado interrogando.
"But who is he, my pet?"
—Pero ¿quién es él, mi niña?
"He is Peter Pan, you know, mother."
—Es Peter Pan, ya sabes, mamá.
At first Mrs. Darling did not know, but after thinking back into her childhood she just remembered a Peter Pan who was said to live with the fairies.
Al principio la señora Darling no lo sabía, pero después de remontarse a su infancia recordó vagamente a un Peter Pan del que se decía que vivía con las hadas.
There were odd stories about him, as that when children died he went part of the way with them, so that they should not be frightened.
Había historias extrañas sobre él, como que cuando los niños morían él los acompañaba una parte del camino, para que no tuviesen miedo.
She had believed in him at the time, but now that she was married and full of sense she quite doubted whether there was any such person.
Ella había creído en él en aquella época, pero ahora que estaba casada y llena de sensatez dudaba bastante de que existiera semejante persona.
"Besides," she said to Wendy, "he would be grown up by this time.
—Además —le dijo a Wendy—, para estas alturas ya habría crecido.
Vocabulary
- Cuando
- Conjunction meaning 'when', used to indicate time.
- juegas
- Second person singular present of 'jugar', meaning 'you play'.
- durante
- Preposition meaning 'during' or 'throughout a period'.
- día
- Noun meaning 'day', a unit of time.
- sillas
- Plural noun meaning 'chairs', common household furniture.
- mantel
- Noun meaning 'tablecloth', fabric covering a table.
- resulta
- Third person singular present of 'resultar', meaning 'turns out'.
- absoluto
- Adjective meaning 'absolute'; in 'en absoluto' means 'not at all'.
- alarmante
- Adjective meaning 'alarming' or 'worrying', causing concern.
- minutos
- Plural noun meaning 'minutes', units of time.
- antes
- Adverb meaning 'before' or 'previously' in time.
- quedes
- Subjunctive form of 'quedarse', meaning 'you stay' or 'remain'.
- dormido
- Past participle of 'dormir', meaning 'asleep' or 'fallen asleep'.
- vuelve
- Third person singular of 'volverse', meaning 'becomes' or 'turns'.
- real
- Adjective meaning 'real' or 'actual', existing in reality.
- existen
- Third person plural of 'existir', meaning 'they exist'.
- luces
- Plural noun meaning 'lights', sources of illumination.
- nocturnas
- Feminine plural adjective meaning 'nocturnal' or 'nighttime'.
- ocasiones
- Plural noun meaning 'occasions' or 'times', specific moments.
- viajes
- Plural noun meaning 'trips' or 'journeys', acts of traveling.
- mentes
- Plural noun meaning 'minds', the thinking faculty of people.
- hijos
- Plural noun meaning 'children' or 'sons', offspring of parents.
- señora
- Noun meaning 'Mrs.' or 'lady', polite term for a woman.
- encontraba
- Imperfect tense of 'encontrar', meaning 'she used to find'.
- podía
- Imperfect of 'poder', meaning 'she could' or 'was able to'.
- comprender
- Infinitive meaning 'to understand' or 'to comprehend'.
- desconcertante
- Adjective meaning 'disconcerting' or 'puzzling', causing confusion.
- palabra
- Noun meaning 'word', a unit of language.
- conocía
- Imperfect of 'conocer', meaning 'she knew' or 'was acquainted with'.
- ningún
- Adjective meaning 'no' or 'not any', indicating absence.
- sin
- Preposition meaning 'without', indicating absence of something.
- embargo
- In 'sin embargo', means 'however' or 'nevertheless'.
- aparecía
- Imperfect of 'aparecer', meaning 'it appeared' or 'kept appearing'.
- aquí
- Adverb meaning 'here', indicating a nearby location.
- allá
- Adverb meaning 'there' or 'over there', indicating distant location.
- mientras
- Conjunction meaning 'while' or 'whereas', indicating simultaneity.
- comenzaba
- Imperfect of 'comenzar', meaning 'was beginning' or 'started to'.
- garabateada
- Adjective meaning 'scrawled' or 'scribbled', written messily.
- partes
- Plural noun meaning 'parts' or 'places', sections of something.
- nombre
- Noun meaning 'name', a word used to identify someone.
- destacaba
- Imperfect of 'destacar', meaning 'stood out' or 'was prominent'.
- letras
- Plural noun meaning 'letters', characters of the alphabet.
- gruesas
- Feminine plural adjective meaning 'thick' or 'bold', of large size.
- cualquiera
- Indefinite pronoun meaning 'any' or 'whichever', without distinction.
- palabras
- Plural noun meaning 'words', units of spoken or written language.
- contemplaba
- Imperfect of 'contemplar', meaning 'she was contemplating' or 'gazing at'.
- sintió
- Preterite of 'sentir', meaning 'she felt' or 'sensed'.
- aspecto
- Noun meaning 'appearance' or 'aspect', how something looks.
- extrañamente
- Adverb meaning 'strangely' or 'oddly', in an unusual manner.
- arrogante
- Adjective meaning 'arrogant', showing an exaggerated sense of superiority.
- bastante
- Adverb or adjective meaning 'quite', 'enough', or 'rather'.
- admitió
- Preterite of 'admitir', meaning 'she admitted' or 'acknowledged'.
- pesar
- Noun meaning 'regret'; in 'a pesar de' means 'in spite of'.
- madre
- Noun meaning 'mother', a female parent.
- interrogando
- Gerund of 'interrogar', meaning 'interrogating' or 'questioning'.
- quién
- Interrogative pronoun meaning 'who', asking about a person.
- niña
- Noun meaning 'girl' or 'little girl', a young female.
- ya
- Adverb meaning 'already', 'now', or 'anymore' depending on context.
- sabes
- Second person singular present of 'saber', meaning 'you know'.
- mamá
- Noun meaning 'mom' or 'mother', informal term for mother.
- principio
- Noun meaning 'beginning' or 'principle'; 'al principio' means 'at first'.
- sabía
- Imperfect of 'saber', meaning 'she knew' or 'used to know'.
- después
- Adverb meaning 'after' or 'later', indicating subsequent time.
- remontarse
- Reflexive infinitive meaning 'to go back' or 'to trace back in time'.
- infancia
- Noun meaning 'childhood' or 'infancy', early years of life.
- recordó
- Preterite of 'recordar', meaning 'she remembered' or 'recalled'.
- vagamente
- Adverb meaning 'vaguely' or 'dimly', not clearly or precisely.
- decía
- Imperfect of 'decir', meaning 'used to say' or 'was saying'.
- vivía
- Imperfect of 'vivir', meaning 'used to live' or 'was living'.
- hadas
- Plural noun meaning 'fairies', mythical magical creatures.
- historias
- Plural noun meaning 'stories' or 'histories', narrative accounts.
- extrañas
- Feminine plural adjective meaning 'strange' or 'odd', unusual.
- sobre
- Preposition meaning 'about' or 'over', indicating topic or position.
- cuando
- Conjunction meaning 'when', used to indicate a time condition.
- niños
- Plural noun meaning 'children' or 'boys', young people.
- morían
- Imperfect of 'morir', meaning 'used to die' or 'were dying'.
- acompañaba
- Imperfect of 'acompañar', meaning 'used to accompany' or 'escort'.
- parte
- Noun meaning 'part' or 'portion', a section of a whole.
- camino
- Noun meaning 'road', 'path', or 'way', a route or journey.
- tuviesen
- Past subjunctive of 'tener', meaning 'they would have' or 'might have'.
- miedo
- Noun meaning 'fear', an emotion felt in response to danger.
- creído
- Past participle of 'creer', meaning 'believed', used in perfect tenses.
- aquella
- Demonstrative adjective meaning 'that' (far), referring to a distant thing.
- época
- Noun meaning 'era', 'age', or 'time period', a span of time.
- ahora
- Adverb meaning 'now', referring to the present moment.
- casada
- Adjective meaning 'married', describing a woman's marital status.
- llena
- Adjective meaning 'full' or 'filled', containing all that is possible.
- sensatez
- Noun meaning 'good sense' or 'sensibleness', sound judgment.
- dudaba
- Imperfect of 'dudar', meaning 'she doubted' or 'used to doubt'.
- existiera
- Past subjunctive of 'existir', meaning 'existed' in a hypothetical sense.
- semejante
- Adjective meaning 'such a' or 'similar', of the same kind.
- persona
- Noun meaning 'person', an individual human being.
- Además
- Adverb meaning 'besides', 'moreover', or 'furthermore'.
- dijo
- Preterite of 'decir', meaning 'said' or 'told', past action.
- alturas
- Plural noun meaning 'heights'; 'a estas alturas' means 'by now'.
- habría
- Conditional of 'haber', meaning 'would have', used in conditionals.
- crecido
- Past participle of 'crecer', meaning 'grown' or 'grown up'.
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