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—Te cambio todas las libras de grasa de tu barriga por mis años a los remos.
“I’ll trade you all the pounds of fat on your belly for my years at the oars.”
El resultado de aquella caza fueron trescientas libras de grasa, que debían emplearse enteramente en la elaboración de las bujías.
The result of the hunt was this: nearly three hundred pounds of fat, all to be employed in the fabrication of candles.
Por su parte, Niva procuraba tragar la menor cantidad posible de agua. Si hubiera ido solo, sus trece libras de grasa le hubieran llevado flotando por el río como si fuese un balón de fútbol. Pero llevando aquel lastre de las catorce libras del perro al cuello, era para el osezno un verdadero problema el no hundirse.
To an extent this helped Neewa in the heroic fight he was making to keep from shipping too much water himself. Had he been alone his ten or eleven pounds of fat would have carried him down-stream like a toy balloon covered with fur, but, with the fourteen-pound drag around his neck, the problem of not going under completely was a serious one.
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