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No había duda de que era un arma recién fabricada, porque la albura de la cara interna del arco era casi blanca.
The stave was new because the sapwood, which formed the back of the bow, was almost white.
la madera clara de la albura cedía a la presión hasta curvarse aunque, como el tronco, tendía a volver a la posición inicial, con una elasticidad que, al ceder la fuerza de tracción, recuperaba como un resorte.
It resisted bending, while the light-colored sapwood of the bow’s spine did not mind being pulled into a curve, yet, like the heartwood, it wanted to straighten and it possessed a springiness that, released from pressure, whipped the stave back to its normal shape.
Árbol de rápido crecimiento y de cuarenta metros de altura, doscientos años de existencia y mil de esperanza de vida, bajo las amplias y abundantes ramas de aquel tilo podía uno reunirse en paz, en una calma garantizada por las virtudes antiespasmódicas de su albura.
A fast-growing tree, 130 feet tall, two hundred years old, and with a life-span of close to a thousand: under the vast, spreading branches of this lime tree, they could meet up in privacy, and in an atmosphere of calm ensured by the antispasmodic qualities of its sapwood.
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