Translation examples
On the next day, which was Sunday, came James to droll with us upon the martial madness that had overcome the University.
Al día siguiente, domingo, James vino a bromear con nosotros acerca de la locura marcial que se había apoderado de la universidad.
To say that I was drawn to her story because it was so lurid is only the half of it: there was the way the tale was told. Lydia’s easy, familiar, even cozy manner with misery, her droll acceptance of her own madness, greatly increased the story’s appeal—or, to put it another way, did much to calm whatever fears one might expect an inexperienced young man of a conventional background to have about a woman bearing such a ravaged past. Who would call “crazy” a woman who spoke with such detachment of her history of craziness?
Podría decir que me fascinaba su historia, de tan espeluznante, pero sería una verdad a medias. Estaba, además, la forma que le daba al relato: la actitud serena, familiar, incluso íntima, de Lydia ante el dolor, su cómica aceptación de su propia locura, aumentaban considerablemente el atractivo de la historia, o, para expresarlo de otro modo, contribuían en buena parte a calmar los temores que pudiesen esperarse en un hombre joven y sin experiencia, proveniente de un medio convencional, respecto de una mujer con un pasado tan difícil.
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