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Vaughan12 05 2013
Vaughan12 05 2013
357 TH LESSON
Traduccin inversa
Practica la gramtica y el vocabulario para nivel principiante (1), intermedio (2) y avanzado (3) de Vaughan Systems www.vausys.com.
LEVEL 1. Estn jugando mal? Are they playing badly? No estn siendo razonables. They`re not being reasonable. Qu dicen de nosotros? What are they saying about us? Estoy lavando mi ropa. I`m washing my clothes. No estoy de pie, estoy sentado. I`m not standing, I`m sitting. LEVEL 2. No sabamos cuntos aos tena. We didn`t know how old he was. Nos importa dnde estuvieron? Do we care where they were? Saban quin eras. They knew who you were. Por qu necesitamos saber con cuntas chicas estuviste? Why do we need to know how many people you were with? LEVEL 3. No debes de estar muy contenta con ello, verdad? You can`t be very happy about it, can you? No ha hecho buen tiempo ltimamente. The weather hasn`t been very good lately. Alguna vez ha ledo la Biblia? Has she ever read the Bible? Trabajis en Escocia desde hace seis aos. You`ve worked in Scotland for six years. lead, as they crumple under their crushing weight. Thieves are bitten by snakes. A whole mob of cheats (alchemists, wizards and perjurers) are sick with leprosy or fever. Finally, the traitors, contorted like curled up snakes, are sunk in ice. Judas suffers the worst tortureofall,hisheaddevoured bythejawsofthedevil.Satan,a terrible three-headed beast condemned for the most vile of sins, betraying God, is also stuck in the ice up to the waist, crying,droolingandflappinghis wingsasifstrugglingtoescape.
souls of the wrathful are mired [1]in the Stygian Marsh. The fuming beat and bite each other, tearing one another apart. Those who have employed violence againstpeopleandpropertyare immersed in a river of scalding [2] blood, the graver [3]their sin,thedeepertheirimmersion. Those who committed suicide [4] have been turned into knottytrees,peckedandshredded byharpies.Blasphemers,sodo-
mites and usurers are found in a scorching desert on which flames rain down. Sycophants are immersed in human excrement; corrupt politicians, in boilingtar.Hypocritesweargolden cloaks that turn out to be
VAUGHANS EXPLANATION
[1]Mired(Encenegadas).Eladjetivo,encenegado no se usa mucho, como tampoco se usa mired,omire(cinega,lodazal)perosutilizamos elverbocompuestomiredown,amenudoconget, paraformarlafrasegetmireddown(atascarse,paralizarse).[2]Scalding(hirviente).Haymuchossinnimosparacaliente(scalding,boiling,burning, sweltering...)queseusanencontextosdeterminados.Porejemplo,hablamosdescaldingliquids (lquidoshirvientes),unred-hotiron(unhierrocandente)yunswelteringsummer(unveranosofocante).[3]Grave(grave).Eladjetivograveeninglsnoseusadelamismaformaqueenespaol, donde se podra traducir por serious o major (ungraveerror=aserious/majorerror).Eninglstiene una connotacin moral, tica o religiosa, y se usaencontextosmsliterarios.[4]Commitsuicide(suicidarse).Eninglsnohayunverboparasuicidarsesinoquehayqueusarlafrasecommitsuicide.Tampocoseusamuchoelsustantivosuicide parareferirsealapersona,sinoalacto,porloquerecurrimosaquaThosewhocommittedsuicide....
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