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Para aquéllos que no recibían ningún pago por sus batallas, la colección de relicarios, anillos y gemas manchados de sangre era algo codiciable en la nueva sociedad que Gengis estaba creando.
For those who received no pay for their battles, the collection of bloodstained lockets, rings and gems was something to covet in the new society Genghis was creating.
De qué sirve tener algo valioso si no se pasea y se exhibe y aun se restriega a los otros, de qué algo codiciable si no se palpa la codicia ajena o se siente su posibilidad al menos y el peligro de que se lo arrebaten, de qué un secreto si alguna vez no se cuenta y se lo traiciona.
What’s the point of having something valuable if you don’t parade and exhibit and rub it in people’s faces, or of having something covetable if you can’t feel other people’s covetousness or at least the possibility and the risk that they might snatch it from you, or of having a secret if, at some point, you don’t reveal or betray it.
Tampoco eran muy receptivos a la idea de los lugares sagrados, de una tierra que no podía pisarse, y menos aún si esa tierra albergaba en sus entrañas plata u oro u otras materias codiciables.
Australians like these had little use for the concept of sacred sites, of ground that no human being should be allowed to tread, especially when gold or silver or other coveted commodities lay beneath that ground.
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