The Odyssey: Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original — Page 3
(b) Owing to the reduction in the size of the page it has been necessary to shorten some of the headlines, and here advantage has been taken of various corrections of and additions to the headlines and shoulder-notes made by Butler in his own copies of the two books.
(b) Debido a la reducción en el tamaño de la página, ha sido necesario acortar algunos de los encabezados, y aquí se ha aprovechado diversas correcciones y adiciones a los encabezados y notas marginales realizadas por Butler en sus propias copias de los dos libros.
(c) For the most part each of the illustrations now occupies a page, whereas in the original editions they generally appeared two on the page.
(c) En su mayor parte, cada una de las ilustraciones ocupa ahora una página, mientras que en las ediciones originales generalmente aparecían dos en la página.
It has been necessary to reduce the plan of the House of Ulysses.
Ha sido necesario reducir el plano de la Casa de Ulises.
On page 153 of "The Authoress" Butler says: "No great poet would compare his hero to a paunch full of blood and fat, cooking before the fire (xx, 24-28)."
En la página 153 de «La Autora», Butler dice: «Ningún gran poeta compararía a su héroe con una panza llena de sangre y grasa cocinándose ante el fuego (xx, 24-28).»
This passage is not given in the abridged Story of the "Odyssey" at the beginning of the book, but in the Translation it occurs in these words:
Este pasaje no aparece en la versión abreviada de la historia de la «Odisea» al comienzo del libro, pero en la Traducción figura con estas palabras:
"Thus he chided with his heart, and checked it into endurance, but he tossed about as one who turns a paunch full of blood and fat in front of a hot fire, doing it first on one side then on the other, that he may get it cooked as soon as possible; even so did he turn himself about from side to side, thinking all the time how, single-handed as he was, he should contrive to kill so large a body of men as the wicked suitors.
«Así reprendió a su corazón y lo contuvo en la resistencia, pero se agitaba como aquel que da vuelta a una panza llena de sangre y grasa frente a un fuego ardiente, haciéndolo primero por un lado y luego por el otro, para que se cocine lo antes posible; de igual manera se volvía de un lado a otro, pensando todo el tiempo cómo, solo como estaba, podría ingeniárselas para matar a tan numeroso grupo de hombres como los malvados pretendientes.
Vocabulary
- Debido
- Due to; owing to something
- reducción
- Reduction; the act of making something smaller
- tamaño
- Size; the dimensions of something
- página
- Page; a single side of a sheet
- sido
- Been; past participle of ser
- necesario
- Necessary; required or essential
- acortar
- To shorten; to make something briefer
- algunos
- Some; an unspecified number of things
- encabezados
- Headings; titles at the top of sections
- aquí
- Here; in this place
- aprovechado
- Taken advantage of; made use of something
- diversas
- Various; several different kinds
- correcciones
- Corrections; fixes made to errors
- adiciones
- Additions; things added to something
- notas
- Notes; written remarks or annotations
- marginales
- Marginal; written in the margins of a text
- realizadas
- Made; carried out or completed
- propias
- Own; belonging to oneself
- copias
- Copies; duplicate versions of a document
- libros
- Books; written or printed works
- mayor
- Greater; larger or more significant
- parte
- Part; a portion of a whole
- cada
- Each; every individual one
- ilustraciones
- Illustrations; images accompanying a text
- ocupa
- Occupies; takes up space or a position
- ahora
- Now; at the present moment
- mientras
- While; during the time that something happens
- ediciones
- Editions; versions of a published work
- originales
- Original; first or earliest versions
- generalmente
- Generally; in most cases or usually
- aparecían
- Appeared; used to show up or be visible
- reducir
- To reduce; to make something smaller or less
- plano
- Flat; a level surface or plane
- Casa
- House; a building used as a home
- Autora
- Author; a female writer of a work
- dice
- Says; expresses something in words
- Ningún
- No; not any, negating a noun
- gran
- Great; large or impressive
- poeta
- Poet; a person who writes poetry
- compararía
- Would compare; conditional form of comparar
- héroe
- Hero; a brave or admired person
- panza
- Belly; the stomach or abdomen
- llena
- Full; filled to capacity
- sangre
- Blood; the red fluid in the body
- grasa
- Fat; grease or fatty substance
- cocinándose
- Cooking itself; being cooked over heat
- ante
- Before; in front of something
- fuego
- Fire; burning flames producing heat
- Este
- This; demonstrative pronoun or adjective
- pasaje
- Passage; a section of a text
- aparece
- Appears; shows up or is present
- versión
- Version; a particular form of something
- abreviada
- Abbreviated; shortened form of something
- historia
- Story or history; narrative of events
- comienzo
- Beginning; the start of something
- libro
- Book; a written or printed work
- pero
- But; conjunction showing contrast
- Traducción
- Translation; converting text to another language
- figura
- Appears; is found or represented in text
- estas
- These; demonstrative adjective feminine plural
- palabras
- Words; units of language with meaning
- Así
- Thus; in this way or so
- reprendió
- Reprimanded; scolded or told off
- corazón
- Heart; the organ or seat of emotions
- contuvo
- Contained; held back or restrained
- resistencia
- Resistance; the act of withstanding something
- agitaba
- Agitated; was stirring or disturbing
- como
- Like or as; used for comparisons
- aquel
- That; demonstrative pronoun referring to distance
- da
- Gives or turns; third person singular dar
- vuelta
- Turn; a rotation or reversal of direction
- frente
- In front of; facing something
- ardiente
- Burning; intensely hot or on fire
- haciéndolo
- Doing it; turning it from one side
- primero
- First; the earliest or foremost one
- lado
- Side; one of two opposite surfaces
- luego
- Then; afterward or later
- otro
- Other; a different or additional one
- para
- For or in order to; indicates purpose
- cocine
- Cooks; subjunctive form of cocinar
- antes
- Before; earlier in time
- posible
- Possible; able to happen or be done
- igual
- Same or equal; identical in value
- manera
- Manner; a way of doing something
- volvía
- Was returning; kept going back repeatedly
- pensando
- Thinking; in the process of considering
- todo
- All or everything; the whole amount
- tiempo
- Time; the duration or period of something
- cómo
- How; in what way something is done
- solo
- Alone; without others, by oneself
- estaba
- Was; past imperfect of estar
- podría
- Could; conditional form of poder
- ingeniárselas
- To manage; to find a clever way
- matar
- To kill; to cause death
- tan
- So or such; used in comparisons
- numeroso
- Numerous; very large in number
- grupo
- Group; a collection of people or things
- hombres
- Men; adult male human beings
- malvados
- Wicked; evil or morally bad people
- pretendientes
- Suitors; those seeking to marry someone
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