The Secret Sharer (Webster's Spanish Thesaurus Edition)

THE SECRET SHARER WEBSTER'S SPANISH THESAURUS EDITION

for ESL, EFL, ELP, TOEFL®, TOEIC®, and AP® Test Preparation

Joseph Conrad

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The Secret Sharer Webster's Spanish Thesaurus Edition

for ESL, EFL, ELP, TOEFL®, TOEIC®, and AP® Test Preparation

Joseph Conrad

TOEFL®, TOEIC®, AP® and Advanced Placement® are trademarks of the Educational Testing Service which has neither reviewed nor endorsed this book. All rights reserved.

ii ICON CLASSICS Published by ICON Group International, Inc. 7404 Trade Street San Diego, CA 92121 USA www.icongrouponline.com The Secret Sharer: Webster's Spanish Thesaurus Edition for ESL, EFL, ELP, TOEFL®, TOEIC®, and AP® Test Preparation This edition published by ICON Classics in 2005 Printed in the United States of America. Copyright ©2005 by ICON Group International, Inc. Edited by Philip M. Parker, Ph.D. (INSEAD); Copyright ©2005, all rights reserved. All rights reserved. This book is protected by copyright. No part of it may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without written permission from the publisher. Copying our publications in whole or in part, for whatever reason, is a violation of copyright laws and can lead to penalties and fines. Should you want to copy tables, graphs, or other materials, please contact us to request permission (E-mail: [email protected]). ICON Group often grants permission for very limited reproduction of our publications for internal use, press releases, and academic research. Such reproduction requires confirmed permission from ICON Group International, Inc. TOEFL®, TOEIC®, AP® and Advanced Placement® are trademarks of the Educational Testing Service which has neither reviewed nor endorsed this book. All rights reserved. ISBN 0-497-25950-8

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Contents PREFACE FROM THE EDITOR .......................................................................................... 1 I........................................................................................................................................ 2 II .................................................................................................................................... 23 GLOSSARY ..................................................................................................................... 47

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PREFACE FROM THE EDITOR Webster’s paperbacks take advantage of the fact that classics are frequently assigned readings in English courses. By using a running English-to-Spanish thesaurus at the bottom of each page, this edition of The Secret Sharer by Joseph Conrad was edited for three audiences. The first includes Spanish-speaking students enrolled in an English Language Program (ELP), an English as a Foreign Language (EFL) program, an English as a Second Language Program (ESL), or in a TOEFL® or TOEIC® preparation program. The second audience includes English-speaking students enrolled in bilingual education programs or Spanish speakers enrolled in English speaking schools. The third audience consists of students who are actively building their vocabularies in 1 Spanish in order to take foreign service, translation certification, Advanced Placement® (AP®) or similar examinations. By using the Webster's Spanish Thesaurus Edition when assigned for an English course, the reader can enrich their vocabulary in anticipation of an examination in Spanish or English. Webster’s edition of this classic is organized to expose the reader to a maximum number of difficult and potentially ambiguous English words. Rare or idiosyncratic words and expressions are given lower priority compared to “difficult, yet commonly used” words. Rather than supply a single translation, many words are translated for a variety of meanings in Spanish, allowing readers to better grasp the ambiguity of English, and avoid them using the notes as a pure translation crutch. Having the reader decipher a word’s meaning within context serves to improve vocabulary retention and understanding. Each page covers words not already highlighted on previous pages. If a difficult word is not translated on a page, chances are that it has been translated on a previous page. A more complete glossary of translations is supplied at the end of the book; translations are extracted from Webster’s Online Dictionary. Definitions of remaining terms as well as translations can be found at www.websters-onlinedictionary.org. Please send suggestions to [email protected] The Editor Webster’s Online Dictionary www.websters-online-dictionary.org

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On %my right hand there were lines of fishing stakes resembling a mysterious system of half-submerged bamboo fences, incomprehensible in its division of the domain of tropical fishes, and crazy of aspect as if abandoned forever by some nomad tribe of fishermen now gone to the other end of the ocean; for there was no sign of human habitation as far as the eye could reach. To the left a group of barren islets, suggesting ruins of stone walls, towers, and blockhouses, had its foundations set in a blue sea that itself looked solid, so still and stable did it lie below my feet; even the track of light from the westering sun shone smoothly, without that animated glitter which tells of an imperceptible ripple. And when I turned my head to take a parting glance at the tug which had just left us anchored outside the bar, I saw the straight line of the flat shore joined to the stable sea, edge to edge, with a perfect and unmarked closeness, in one leveled floor half brown, half blue under the enormous dome of the sky. Corresponding in their insignificance to the islets of the sea, two small clumps of trees, one on each side of the only fault in the impeccable joint, marked the mouth of the river Meinam we had just left on the first preparatory stage of our homeward journey; and, far back on the inland level, a larger and loftier mass, the grove surrounding the great Paknam pagoda, was the only thing on which the eye could rest from the vain task of exploring the monotonous sweep of the horizon. Here and there gleams as of a few scattered pieces of silver marked the

Spanish anchored: anclado. animated: animado. bamboo: bambú. barren: árido, estéril, yermo. closeness: cercanía. dome: cúpula, domo. exploring: explorando. glitter: lustre. grove: bosquecillo. habitation: habitación. homeward: hacia casa. horizon: horizonte.

impeccable: impecable. imperceptible: imperceptible. incomprehensible: incomprensible. insignificance: insignificancia. leveled: Nivelado. monotonous: monótono. nomad: nómada. pagoda: pagoda. parting: separación. preparatory: preparatorio. resembling: parecido a, Parecer, pareciendo.

ripple: onda, rizado, rizo, ondulación. ruins: ruinas. scattered: disperso, esparcido. shone: brillado, pret y pp de shine. smoothly: fácilmente. stakes: estacas, intereses en juego. sweep: barrer, barrido. towers: torres. tribe: tribu. tug: tirar, remolcador, tirón. unmarked: no notificado. vain: vano, hueco, vanidoso.

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windings of the great river; and on the nearest of them, just within the bar, the tug steaming right into the land became lost to my sight, hull and funnel and masts, as though the impassive earth had swallowed her up without an effort, without a tremor. My eye followed the light cloud of her smoke, now here, now there, above the plain, according to the devious curves of the stream, but always fainter and farther away, till I lost it at last behind the miter-shaped hill of the great pagoda. And then I was left alone with my ship, anchored at the head of the Gulf of Siam.% She floated at the starting point of a long journey, very still in an immense stillness, the shadows of her spars flung far to the eastward by the setting sun. At that moment I was alone on her decks. There was not a sound in her--and around us nothing moved, nothing lived, not a canoe on the water, not a bird in the air, not a cloud in the sky. In this breathless pause at the threshold of a long passage we seemed to be measuring our fitness for a long and arduous enterprise, the appointed task of both our existences to be carried out, far from all human eyes, with only sky and sea for spectators and for judges. There must have been some glare in the air to interfere with one's sight, because it was only just before the sun left us that my roaming eyes made out beyond the highest ridges of the principal islet of the group something which did away with the solemnity of perfect solitude. The tide of darkness flowed on swiftly; and with tropical suddenness a swarm of stars came out above the shadowy earth, while I lingered yet, my hand resting lightly on my ship's rail as if on the shoulder of a trusted friend. But, with all that multitude of celestial bodies staring down at one, the comfort of quiet communion with her was gone for good. And there were also disturbing sounds by this time--voices, footsteps forward; the steward flitted along the main-deck, a busily ministering spirit; a hand bell tinkled urgently under the poop deck.... I found my two officers waiting for me near the supper table, in the lighted cuddy. We sat down at once, and as I helped the chief mate, I said: “Are you aware that there is a ship anchored inside the islands? I saw her mastheads above the ridge as the sun went down.”

Spanish according: conforme, de acuerdo con. arduous: arduo, difícil. busily: atareadamente, diligentemente, afanosamente, ajetreadamente, ocupadamente. canoe: canoa, piragua. celestial: celeste, celestial. decks: engalana. devious: desviado. eastward: hacia el este, al este. flitted: aleteado, revoloteado, revoloteó.

flowed: fluido. funnel: embudo. impassive: impasible. islet: isleta. lighted: encendido. lingered: Demorado, quedado, durado, tardado, remoloneado, permanecido, pausado, persistido. ministering: atendiendo, auxiliando, asistiendo, oficiando. poop: popa, caca. ridges: ralladuras.

roaming: itinerancia, vagando. shadowy: oscuro. solemnity: solemnidad. solitude: soledad. spars: boxea, pelea, riñe. steaming: humeante. stillness: quietud. suddenness: rapidez. swarm: enjambre, pulular, hormiguear. tremor: temblor. windings: bobinado.

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He%raised sharply his simple face, overcharged by a terrible growth of whisker, and emitted his usual ejaculations: “Bless my soul, sir! You don't say so!” My second mate was a round-cheeked, silent young man, grave beyond his years, I thought; but as our eyes happened to meet I detected a slight quiver on his lips. I looked down at once. It was not my part to encourage sneering on board my ship. It must be said, too, that I knew very little of my officers. In consequence of certain events of no particular significance, except to myself, I had been appointed to the command only a fortnight before. Neither did I know much of the hands forward. All these people had been together for eighteen months or so, and my position was that of the only stranger on board. I mention this because it has some bearing on what is to follow. But what I felt most was my being a stranger to the ship; and if all the truth must be told, I was somewhat of a stranger to myself. The youngest man on board (barring the second mate), and untried as yet by a position of the fullest responsibility, I was willing to take the adequacy of the others for granted. They had simply to be equal to their tasks; but I wondered how far I should turn out faithful to that ideal conception of one's own personality every man sets up for himself secretly. Meantime the chief mate, with an almost visible effect of collaboration on the part of his round eyes and frightful whiskers, was trying to evolve a theory of the anchored ship. His dominant trait was to take all things into earnest consideration. He was of a painstaking turn of mind. As he used to say, he “liked to account to himself” for practically everything that came in his way, down to a miserable scorpion he had found in his cabin a week before. The why and the wherefore of that scorpion--how it got on board and came to select his room rather than the pantry (which was a dark place and more what a scorpion would be partial to), and how on earth it managed to drown itself in the inkwell of his writing desk--had exercised him infinitely. The ship within the islands was much more easily accounted for; and just as we were about to rise from table he made his pronouncement. She was, he doubted not, a ship from home lately arrived. Probably she drew too much water to cross the bar except at the top of

Spanish accounted: contabilizados, contabilizo. adequacy: suficiencia, adecuación. cabin: cabaña, camarote, cabina, litera. detected: detectado. don't: no. doubted: dudado. drown: ahogarse, ahogar. earnest: serio. emitted: emitido. evolve: evolucionar, evoluciona, evoluciono, evolucionen, evolucionas, evolucionan,

evolucionamos, evolucionad, evolucionáis, desenvolver, desenvolverse. exercised: ejercitado. faithful: fiel, leal. frightful: espantoso, horrible. infinitely: infinitamente. inkwell: tintero. lately: últimamente. painstaking: esmerado. pantry: despensa. pronouncement: declaración.

quiver: temblar, carcaj, estremecerse. scorpion: escorpión. secretly: secretamente. sneering: burlón. trait: rasgo, característica. untried: no probado. wherefore: por qué, por eso, por consiguiente. whisker: pelo de el bigote, pelo de la barba, pelo del bigote. whiskers: patillas, bigotes. youngest: más joven.

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spring tides. Therefore she went into that natural harbor to wait for a few days in preference to remaining in an open roadstead.% “That's so,” confirmed the second mate, suddenly, in his slightly hoarse voice. “She draws over twenty feet. She's the Liverpool ship Sephora with a cargo of coal. Hundred and twenty-three days from Cardiff.” We looked at him in surprise. “The tugboat skipper told me when he came on board for your letters, sir,” explained the young man. “He expects to take her up the river the day after tomorrow.” After thus overwhelming us with the extent of his information he slipped out of the cabin. The mate observed regretfully that he “could not account for that young fellow's whims.” What prevented him telling us all about it at once, he wanted to know. I detained him as he was making a move. For the last two days the crew had had plenty of hard work, and the night before they had very little sleep. I felt painfully that I--a stranger--was doing something unusual when I directed him to let all hands turn in without setting an anchor watch. I proposed to keep on deck myself till one o'clock or thereabouts. I would get the second mate to relieve me at that hour. “He will turn out the cook and the steward at four,” I concluded, “and then give you a call. Of course at the slightest sign of any sort of wind we'll have the hands up and make a start at once.” He concealed his astonishment. “Very well, sir.” Outside the cuddy he put his head in the second mate's door to inform him of my unheard-of caprice to take a five hours' anchor watch on myself. I heard the other raise his voice incredulously--”What? The Captain himself?” Then a few more murmurs, a door closed, then another. A few moments later I went on deck. My strangeness, which had made me sleepless, had prompted that unconventional arrangement, as if I had expected in those solitary hours of the night to get on terms with the ship of which I knew nothing, manned by men of

Spanish anchor: ancla, anclar, fondear, anclaje, áncora, el ancla. astonishment: asombro. caprice: capricho. cargo: carga, cargamento, flete. concealed: ocultado, disimulado. detained: retenido. draws: dibuja, traza, encanta. expects: espera. harbor: puerto. hoarse: ronco. inform: informar, informe, informen,

informo, informa, informad, informáis, informamos, informas, informan, enterar. manned: tripulado. overwhelming: abrumador, aplastante, enterrando, contundente. painfully: dolorosamente. regretfully: sentidamente, con pesar, arrepentidamente, lamentablemente. relieve: aliviar, alivie, alivias, aliviad, alivio, alivien, aliviamos, aliviáis, alivian, alivia, relevar.

skipper: capitán, patrón. sleepless: insomne. solitary: solo, solitario, único. steward: camarero, administrador, mayordomo. strangeness: extrañeza. thereabouts: en los alrededores. tides: mareas. tugboat: remolcador. twenty-three: veintitrés. unconventional: libre de reglas. we'll: Haremos.

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whom I knew very little more. Fast alongside a wharf, littered like any ship in port with a tangle of unrelated things, invaded by unrelated shore people, I had hardly seen her yet properly. Now, as she lay cleared for sea, the stretch of her main-deck seemed to me very find under the stars. Very fine, very roomy for her size, and very inviting. I descended the poop and paced the waist, my mind picturing to myself the coming passage through the Malay Archipelago, down the Indian Ocean, and up the Atlantic. All its phases were familiar enough to me, every characteristic, all the alternatives which were likely to face me on the high seas-- everything! . . . except the novel responsibility of command. But I took heart from the reasonable thought that the ship was like other ships, the men like other men, and that the sea was not likely to keep any special surprises expressly for my discomfiture.% Arrived at that comforting conclusion, I bethought myself of a cigar and went below to get it. All was still down there. Everybody at the after end of the ship was sleeping profoundly. I came out again on the quarter-deck, agreeably at ease in my sleeping suit on that warm breathless night, barefooted, a glowing cigar in my teeth, and, going forward, I was met by the profound silence of the fore end of the ship. Only as I passed the door of the forecastle, I heard a deep, quiet, trustful sigh of some sleeper inside. And suddenly I rejoiced in the great security of the sea as compared with the unrest of the land, in my choice of that untempted life presenting no disquieting problems, invested with an elementary moral beauty by the absolute straightforwardness of its appeal and by the singleness of its purpose. The riding light in the forerigging burned with a clear, untroubled, as if symbolic, flame, confident and bright in the mysterious shades of the night. Passing on my way aft along the other side of the ship, I observed that the rope side ladder, put over, no doubt, for the master of the tug when he came to fetch away our letters, had not been hauled in as it should have been. I became annoyed at this, for exactitude in some small matters is the very soul of discipline. Then I reflected that I had myself peremptorily dismissed my officers from duty, and by my own act had prevented the anchor watch being formally

Spanish aft: a popa. agreeably: agradablemente. barefooted: descalzo. bethought: pret y pp de bethink. breathless: jadeante, sin aliento. cigar: cigarro, puro, el puro, el cigarro, cigarro puro. comforting: confortante, consolador. descended: descendido, bajado. disquieting: inquietando. exactitude: exactitud. fore: frente, delantero.

forecastle: castillo de proa, castillo. glowing: resplandeciente. hauled: acarreado. invaded: invadido. littered: ensuciado. paced: Medido. peremptorily: terminantemente, perentoriamente. picturing: imaginar. quarter-deck: alcázar, cubierta de popa. rejoiced: Regocijado, deleitado,

jubilado, alborozado, alegrado. roomy: espacioso. singleness: unidad, lealtad, resolución, soltería. sleeper: coche cama, durmiente, traviesa. straightforwardness: franqueza, honradez, sinceridad. tangle: enredo, caos. trustful: confiado. untroubled: sereno, tranquilo. wharf: muelle, andén.

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set and things properly attended to. I asked myself whether it was wise ever to interfere with the established routine of duties even from the kindest of motives. My action might have made me appear eccentric. Goodness only knew how that absurdly whiskered mate would “account” for my conduct, and what the whole ship thought of that informality of their new captain. I was vexed with myself.% Not from compunction certainly, but, as it were mechanically, I proceeded to get the ladder in myself. Now a side ladder of that sort is a light affair and comes in easily, yet my vigorous tug, which should have brought it flying on board, merely recoiled upon my body in a totally unexpected jerk. What the devil! . . . I was so astounded by the immovableness of that ladder that I remained stockstill, trying to account for it to myself like that imbecile mate of mine. In the end, of course, I put my head over the rail. The side of the ship made an opaque belt of shadow on the darkling glassy shimmer of the sea. But I saw at once something elongated and pale floating very close to the ladder. Before I could form a guess a faint flash of phosphorescent light, which seemed to issue suddenly from the naked body of a man, flickered in the sleeping water with the elusive, silent play of summer lightning in a night sky. With a gasp I saw revealed to my stare a pair of feet, the long legs, a broad livid back immersed right up to the neck in a greenish cadaverous glow. One hand, awash, clutched the bottom rung of the ladder. He was complete but for the head. A headless corpse! The cigar dropped out of my gaping mouth with a tiny plop and a short hiss quite audible in the absolute stillness of all things under heaven. At that I suppose he raised up his face, a dimly pale oval in the shadow of the ship's side. But even then I could only barely make out down there the shape of his black-haired head. However, it was enough for the horrid, frost-bound sensation which had gripped me about the chest to pass off. The moment of vain exclamations was past, too. I only climbed on the spare spar and leaned over the rail as far as I could, to bring my eyes nearer to that mystery floating alongside. As he hung by the ladder, like a resting swimmer, the sea lightning played about his limbs at every stir; and he appeared in it ghastly, silvery, fishlike. He

Spanish absurdly: absurdamente. astounded: pasmado, pasmar, aturdir, asombrado, sorprender. awash: inundado, a flor de agua. cadaverous: cadavérico. compunction: escrúpulo. darkling: durante anochecer, oscuro. elongated: largo, prolongar, alargar, alargado, alargarse. flickered: parpadeó. frost-bound: congelado. gaping: abertura, hueco, abrir la boca,

abrir boquete en, boquete, vacío, boquiabierto, bostezar, intervalo, abrir brecha en, bostezo. glassy: cristalino, vítreo, vidrioso. greenish: verdoso. headless: acéfalo. hiss: siseo, silbido, soplido. horrid: hórrido. imbecile: imbécil. immersed: sumergido. informality: informalidad, sencillez. jerk: sacudida, tirón.

livid: lívido. opaque: opaco. phosphorescent: fosforescente. plop: caerse haciendo paf, caerse haciendo plaf, hacer plaf, plaf, porrazo. shimmer: luz trémula, vibración. silvery: plateado. spar: entrenarse. swimmer: nadador, flotador. vexed: enfadado. whiskered: bigotudo.

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remained as mute as a fish, too. He made no motion to get out of the water, either. It was inconceivable that he should not attempt to come on board, and strangely troubling to suspect that perhaps he did not want to. And my first words were prompted by just that troubled incertitude.% “What's the matter?” I asked in my ordinary tone, speaking down to the face upturned exactly under mine. “Cramp,” it answered, no louder. Then slightly anxious, “I say, no need to call anyone.” “I was not going to,” I said. “Are you alone on deck?” “Yes.” I had somehow the impression that he was on the point of letting go the ladder to swim away beyond my ken--mysterious as he came. But, for the moment, this being appearing as if he had risen from the bottom of the sea (it was certainly the nearest land to the ship) wanted only to know the time. I told him. And he, down there, tentatively: “I suppose your captain's turned in?” “I am sure he isn't,” I said. He seemed to struggle with himself, for I heard something like the low, bitter murmur of doubt. “What's the good?” His next words came out with a hesitating effort. “Look here, my man. Could you call him out quietly?” I thought the time Had come to declare myself. “I am the captain.” I heard a “By Jove!” whispered at the level of the water. The phosphorescence flashed in the swirl of the water all about his limbs, his other hand seized the ladder. “My name's Leggatt.”

Spanish appearing: apareciendo, compareciendo. bitter: amargo, agrio. declare: declarar, declaras, declaren, declare, declarad, declaro, declaran, declaráis, declara, declaramos. flashed: destellado. hesitating: vacilando, titubeando. inconceivable: inconcebible. ladder: escala, escalera, escalera de mano, la escalera. letting: alquilando, dejando.

limbs: extremidades. murmur: murmurar, murmullo. mute: mudo, muda, sordina. nearest: más cercano. phosphorescence: fosforescencia. prompted: interactiva, incitado. risen: subido, pp de rise. seized: agarrado, asido. strangely: extrañamente. suspect: sospechar, dudar, sospechoso. swim: nadar, nadas, nado, naden,

nadad, nadan, nadáis, nadamos, nada, nade. swirl: remolino, torbellino, arremolinarse. tentatively: tentativamente. troubled: molestar, de enfermedad, agitado, problema, desventurado, apurado, molestarse, dificultad, no sabroso, pasado difícilmente, pena. troubling: molestar, atormentador, preocupante. upturned: levantado, volcador.

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The voice was calm and resolute. A good voice. The self-possession of that man had somehow induced a corresponding state in myself. It was very quietly that I remarked: “You must be a good swimmer.” “Yes. I've been in the water practically since nine o'clock. The question for me now is whether I am to let go this ladder and go on swimming till I sink from exhaustion, or--to come on board here.” I felt this was no mere formula of desperate speech, but a real alternative in the view of a strong soul. I should have gathered from this that he was young; indeed, it is only the young who are ever confronted by such clear issues. But at the time it was pure intuition on my part. A mysterious communication was established already between us two--in the face of that silent, darkened tropical sea. I was young, too; young enough to make no comment. The man in the water began suddenly to climb up the ladder, and I hastened away from the rail to fetch some clothes.% Before entering the cabin I stood still, listening in the lobby at the foot of the stairs. A faint snore came through the closed door of the chief mate's room. The second mate's door was on the hook, but the darkness in there was absolutely soundless. He, too, was young and could sleep like a stone. Remained the steward, but he was not likely to wake up before he was called. I got a sleeping suit out of my room and, coming back on deck, saw the naked man from the sea sitting on the main hatch, glimmering white in the darkness, his elbows on his knees and his head in his hands. In a moment he had concealed his damp body in a sleeping suit of the same gray-stripe pattern as the one I was wearing and followed me like my double on the poop. Together we moved right aft, barefooted, silent. “What is it?” I asked in a deadened voice, taking the lighted lamp out of the binnacle, and raising it to his face. “An ugly business.”

Spanish binnacle: bitácora. confronted: afrontado, careado, encarado, enfrentado, Confrontado. damp: húmedo, mojar, humedad. darkened: oscurecido. deadened: amortiguado, amortizado. deck: cubierta. exhaustion: agotamiento. faint: desmayarse, débil, desmayo, tenue. fetch: traer, traemos, traed, trae, traéis, traes, traigo, traigan, traen, traiga,

coger. glimmering: resplandor, alborear, brillar, luz ténue, vislumbre. hastened: apresurado, acelerado. hatch: escotilla, incubar. hook: gancho, anzuelo, garfio, enganchar, enganche. induced: inducido. intuition: intuición. lamp: lámpara, la lámpara. lobby: grupo de presión, vestíbulo, antecámara, cabildear.

mysterious: misterioso. practically: prácticamente. remarked: Observado. resolute: resuelto. sink: fregadero, sumidero, bucear, lavabo, hundir. sleeping: durmiendo, durmiente. snore: roncar, ronquido. soundless: silencioso. swimming: nadando, natación. tropical: tropical. ugly: feo.

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He had rather regular features; a good mouth; light eyes under somewhat heavy, dark eyebrows; a smooth, square forehead; no growth on his cheeks; a small, brown mustache, and a well-shaped, round chin. His expression was concentrated, meditative, under the inspecting light of the lamp I held up to his face; such as a man thinking hard in solitude might wear. My sleeping suit was just right for his size. A well-knit young fellow of twenty-five at most. He caught his lower lip with the edge of white, even teeth.% “Yes,” I said, replacing the lamp in the binnacle. The warm, heavy tropical night closed upon his head again. “There's a ship over there,” he murmured. “Yes, I know. The Sephora. Did you know of us?” “Hadn't the slightest idea. I am the mate of her--” He paused and corrected himself. “I should say I was.” “Aha! Something wrong?” “Yes. Very wrong indeed. I've killed a man.” “What do you mean? Just now?” “No, on the passage. Weeks ago. Thirty-nine south. When I say a man--” “Fit of temper,” I suggested, confidently. The shadowy, dark head, like mine, seemed to nod imperceptibly above the ghostly gray of my sleeping suit. It was, in the night, as though I had been faced by my own reflection in the depths of a somber and immense mirror. “A pretty thing to have to own up to for a Conway boy,” murmured my double, distinctly. “You're a Conway boy?” “I am,” he said, as if startled. Then, slowly . . . “Perhaps you too--” It was so; but being a couple of years older I had left before he joined. After a quick interchange of dates a silence fell; and I thought suddenly of my absurd mate with his terrific whiskers and the “Bless my soul--you don't say so” type of intellect. My double gave me an inkling of his thoughts by saying: “My father's

Spanish absurd: absurdo. cheeks: mejillas. chin: barba, barbilla, la barbilla, mentón. concentrated: concentrado. confidently: confiadamente. corrected: corregido. depths: lo más hondo. distinctly: distintamente. eyebrows: las cejas. forehead: frente, la frente. ghostly: fantasmal, espiritual.

gray: gris. immense: inmenso. imperceptibly: imperceptiblemente. inkling: atisbo, concepto, creencia, noción, modelo, indicio, ingenio, sospecha, idea. inspecting: inspeccionando. intellect: intelecto. interchange: intercambio, cambiar. lip: labio, el labio. mate: compañero, aparearse. meditative: meditativo.

murmured: Murmurado. mustache: bigote, el bigote. nod: inclinación, cabecear. reflection: reflexión, reflejo. replacing: sustituyendo, reemplazando. somber: afligido, oscuro, triste, sombrío. startled: sobresaltado. terrific: tremendo, estupendo, extraordinario, fabuloso, formidable, maravilloso, terrífico.

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a parson in Norfolk. Do you see me before a judge and jury on that charge? For myself I can't see the necessity. There are fellows that an angel from heaven-And I am not that. He was one of those creatures that are just simmering all the time with a silly sort of wickedness. Miserable devils that have no business to live at all. He wouldn't do his duty and wouldn't let anybody else do theirs. But what's the good of talking! You know well enough the sort of ill-conditioned snarling cur--” He appealed to me as if our experiences had been as identical as our clothes. And I knew well enough the pestiferous danger of such a character where there are no means of legal repression. And I knew well enough also that my double there was no homicidal ruffian. I did not think of asking him for details, and he told me the story roughly in brusque, disconnected sentences. I needed no more. I saw it all going on as though I were myself inside that other sleeping suit.% “It happened while we were setting a reefed foresail, at dusk. Reefed foresail! You understand the sort of weather. The only sail we had left to keep the ship running; so you may guess what it had been like for days. Anxious sort of job, that. He gave me some of his cursed insolence at the sheet. I tell you I was overdone with this terrific weather that seemed to have no end to it. Terrific, I tell you--and a deep ship. I believe the fellow himself was half crazed with funk. It was no time for gentlemanly reproof, so I turned round and felled him like an ox. He up and at me. We closed just as an awful sea made for the ship. All hands saw it coming and took to the rigging, but I had him by the throat, and went on shaking him like a rat, the men above us yelling, `Look out! look out!' Then a crash as if the sky had fallen on my head. They say that for over ten minutes hardly anything was to be seen of the ship--just the three masts and a bit of the forecastle head and of the poop all awash driving along in a smother of foam. It was a miracle that they found us, jammed together behind the forebitts. It's clear that I meant business, because I was holding him by the throat still when they picked us up. He was black in the face. It was too much for them. It seems they rushed us aft together, gripped as we were, screaming `Murder!' like a lot of lunatics, and broke into the cuddy. And the ship running for her life, touch and

Spanish brusque: brusco. can't: no puede. crazed: loco. devils: diablo. disconnected: desconectado. felled: truncado, derribado, desanimado, cortado. foresail: trinquete, varal. funk: canguelo, jindama, no tener agallas, acobardamiento, acobardarse, gallina, mieditis, tener olor malo, temor.

gentlemanly: caballeroso, caballerosamente. homicidal: homicida. ill-conditioned: en mal estado, desabrido, mal acondicionamiento, de maneras malas. insolence: insolencia. jammed: apretado, polvo, atascado. overdone: exagerado. ox: buey. parson: sacerdote, cura, párroco. pestiferous: pernicioso, pesado,

fastidioso, pestífero. reproof: reparo, censura, reprobación. rigging: aparejo. ruffian: rufián. simmering: estofando, fermentando, hirviendo. smother: sofocar, humareda. snarling: enredar, enredo, gruñido, gruñir, maraña. wickedness: maldad. yelling: grito, gritos, gritar, gritante, dar alaridos, aullido, aullar, alarido.

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go all the time, any minute her last in a sea fit to turn your hair gray only alooking at it. I understand that the skipper, too, started raving like the rest of them. The man had been deprived of sleep for more than a week, and to have this sprung on him at the height of a furious gale nearly drove him out of his mind. I wonder they didn't fling me overboard after getting the carcass of their precious shipmate out of my fingers. They had rather a job to separate us, I've been told. A sufficiently fierce story to make an old judge and a respectable jury sit up a bit. The first thing I heard when I came to myself was the maddening howling of that endless gale, and on that the voice of the old man. He was hanging on to my bunk, staring into my face out of his sou'wester.% “`Mr. Leggatt, you have killed a man. You can act no longer as chief mate of this ship.'“ His care to subdue his voice made it sound monotonous. He rested a hand on the end of the skylight to steady himself with, and all that time did not stir a limb, so far as I could see. “Nice little tale for a quiet tea party,” he concluded in the same tone. One of my hands, too, rested on the end of the skylight; neither did I stir a limb, so far as I knew. We stood less than a foot from each other. It occurred to me that if old “Bless my soul--you don't say so” were to put his head up the companion and catch sight of us, he would think he was seeing double, or imagine himself come upon a scene of weird witchcraft; the strange captain having a quiet confabulation by the wheel with his own gray ghost. I became very much concerned to prevent anything of the sort. I heard the other's soothing undertone. “My father's a parson in Norfolk,” it said. Evidently he had forgotten he had told me this important fact before. Truly a nice little tale. “You had better slip down into my stateroom now,” I said, moving off stealthily. My double followed my movements; our bare feet made no sound; I let him in, closed the door with care, and, after giving a call to the second mate, returned on deck for my relief.

Spanish bunk: litera. carcass: cadáver, canal. confabulation: confabulación, conferencia. fling: arrojado, tiro, tirar, lanzar, lanzamiento, lanza, lance, echar al suelo, echar, echada, aventura amorosa. gale: vendaval. howling: aullido, lamentarse, clamoroso, aullador, alarido, aullar, lamento, gritar, rugir, grito, dar

alaridos. limb: miembro, limbo. maddening: enloquecedor, enloqueciendo, exasperante. other's: otro. overboard: por la borda. raving: delirio, delirando. shipmate: compañero de a bordo. skylight: claraboya, tragaluz, lucernario. soothing: calmando, consolador, calmante, tranquilizador.

sprung: pp de spring, de muelles, brotado, saltado. stateroom: camarote. stealthily: furtivamente, sigilosamente, disimuladamente, clandestinamente, a hurtadillas. subdue: dominar, dominen, domino, dominas, dominan, dominamos, domináis, dominad, domina, domine, sojuzgar. undertone: voz baja. witchcraft: brujería.

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“Not much sign of any wind yet,” I remarked when he approached.% “No, sir. Not much,” he assented, sleepily, in his hoarse voice, with just enough deference, no more, and barely suppressing a yawn. “Well, that's all you have to look out for. You have got your orders.” “Yes, sir.” I paced a turn or two on the poop and saw him take up his position face forward with his elbow in the ratlines of the mizzen rigging before I went below. The mate's faint snoring was still going on peacefully. The cuddy lamp was burning over the table on which stood a vase with flowers, a polite attention from the ship's provision merchant-- the last flowers we should see for the next three months at the very least. Two bunches of bananas hung from the beam symmetrically, one on each side of the rudder casing. Everything was as before in the ship-- except that two of her captain's sleeping suits were simultaneously in use, one motionless in the cuddy, the other keeping very still in the captain's stateroom. It must be explained here that my cabin had the form of the capital letter L, the door being within the angle and opening into the short part of the letter. A couch was to the left, the bed place to the right; my writing desk and the chronometers' table faced the door. But anyone opening it, unless he stepped right inside, had no view of what I call the long (or vertical) part of the letter. It contained some lockers surmounted by a bookcase; and a few clothes, a thick jacket or two, caps, oilskin coat, and such like, hung on hooks. There was at the bottom of that part a door opening into my bathroom, which could be entered also directly from the saloon. But that way was never used. The mysterious arrival had discovered the advantage of this particular shape. Entering my room, lighted strongly by a big bulkhead lamp swung on gimbals above my writing desk, I did not see him anywhere till he stepped out quietly from behind the coats hung in the recessed part. “I heard somebody moving about, and went in there at once,” he whispered. I, too, spoke under my breath.

Spanish assented: Consentido. bananas: plátano. bookcase: librería, estante para libros, armario para libros, biblioteca, el estante de libros. bulkhead: mamparo. bunches: coletas. caps: mayúsculas. casing: carcasa, cubierta, caja. coats: membranas. couch: canapé, dyschatell, cama, sofá, sofá cama.

deference: deferencia. hooks: ganchos, manos, garfios. lockers: los casilleros. mizzen: mesana. motionless: inmóvil, estático. oilskin: chubasquero, encerado, ahulado, hule, impermeable, tela encerada, traje de encerado. peacefully: pacíficamente. recessed: encajado, encastrado, empotrado. rudder: timón, volante.

saloon: taberna. sleepily: durmientemente, soñolientamente. snoring: ronquidos. suppressing: suprimiendo, sofocando, oprimiendo. surmounted: vencido, superado. swung: Columpiado, pret y pp de swing. symmetrically: simétricamente. vase: jarrón, vaso, florero. yawn: bostezo, bostezar, el bostezo.

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“Nobody is likely to come in here without knocking and getting permission.” He nodded. His face was thin and the sunburn faded, as though he had been ill. And no wonder. He had been, I heard presently, kept under arrest in his cabin for nearly seven weeks. But there was nothing sickly in his eyes or in his expression. He was not a bit like me, really; yet, as we stood leaning over my bed place, whispering side by side, with our dark heads together and our backs to the door, anybody bold enough to open it stealthily would have been treated to the uncanny sight of a double captain busy talking in whispers with his other self.% “But all this doesn't tell me how you came to hang on to our side ladder,” I inquired, in the hardly audible murmurs we used, after he had told me something more of the proceedings on board the Sephora once the bad weather was over. “When we sighted Java Head I had had time to think all those matters out several times over. I had six weeks of doing nothing else, and with only an hour or so every evening for a tramp on the quarter-deck.” He whispered, his arms folded on the side of my bed place, staring through the open port. And I could imagine perfectly the manner of this thinking out-- a stubborn if not a steadfast operation; something of which I should have been perfectly incapable. “I reckoned it would be dark before we closed with the land,” he continued, so low that I had to strain my hearing near as we were to each other, shoulder touching shoulder almost. “So I asked to speak to the old man. He always seemed very sick when he came to see me--as if he could not look me in the face. You know, that foresail saved the ship. She was too deep to have run long under bare poles. And it was I that managed to set it for him. Anyway, he came. When I had him in my cabin--he stood by the door looking at me as if I had the halter round my neck already-- I asked him right away to leave my cabin door unlocked at night while the ship was going through Sunda Straits. There would

Spanish arrest: detención, detener, arrestar, arresto, prender. audible: audible. backs: espaldas. bare: desnudo, pelado, descubierto. bold: grueso, negrita, audaz. faded: marchitado, se ajado, descolorado, despintado, desvaído, descolorirse, descolorido, descolorar, desaparecer, debilitarse, borroso. folded: doblado. halter: cabestro.

incapable: incapaz. inquired: inquirido, preguntado. knocking: llamar a la puerta, llamada, golpeteo, golpes, golpeo, golpear, golpe, choque, chocar, aldabonazo, topar. leaning: inclinación. presently: por ahora. reckoned: numerado, calculado, considerado. sickly: enfermizo. sighted: vidente.

steadfast: firme. strain: colar, esfuerzo, deformación, cepa, tensión, torcedura. stubborn: terco, testarudo, obstinado. sunburn: quemadura del sol. touching: conmovedor. tramp: puta, vagabundo, paso pesado. uncanny: misterioso. unlocked: desbloqueado. whispering: chismes, chismografía, con eco, cuchicheo, de difamación, rumores, susurro, de rumores.

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be the Java coast within two or three miles, off Angier Point. I wanted nothing more. I've had a prize for swimming my second year in the Conway.” “I can believe it,” I breathed out.% “God only knows why they locked me in every night. To see some of their faces you'd have thought they were afraid I'd go about at night strangling people. Am I a murdering brute? Do I look it? By Jove! If I had been he wouldn't have trusted himself like that into my room. You'll say I might have chucked him aside and bolted out, there and then--it was dark already. Well, no. And for the same reason I wouldn't think of trying to smash the door. There would have been a rush to stop me at the noise, and I did not mean to get into a confounded scrimmage. Somebody else might have got killed--for I would not have broken out only to get chucked back, and I did not want any more of that work. He refused, looking more sick than ever. He was afraid of the men, and also of that old second mate of his who had been sailing with him for years--a gray-headed old humbug; and his steward, too, had been with him devil knows how long-- seventeen years or more--a dogmatic sort of loafer who hated me like poison, just because I was the chief mate. No chief mate ever made more than one voyage in the Sephora, you know. Those two old chaps ran the ship. Devil only knows what the skipper wasn't afraid of (all his nerve went to pieces altogether in that hellish spell of bad weather we had)--of what the law would do to him--of his wife, perhaps. Oh, yes! she's on board. Though I don't think she would have meddled. She would have been only too glad to have me out of the ship in any way. The `brand of Cain' business, don't you see. That's all right. I was ready enough to go off wandering on the face of the earth-- and that was price enough to pay for an Abel of that sort. Anyhow, he wouldn't listen to me. 'This thing must take its course. I represent the law here.' He was shaking like a leaf. `So you won't?' `No!' 'Then I hope you will be able to sleep on that,' I said, and turned my back on him. `I wonder that you can,' cries he, and locks the door. “Well after that, I couldn't. Not very well. That was three weeks ago. We have had a slow passage through the Java Sea; drifted about Carimata for ten

Spanish anyhow: sin embargo. bolted: destornillador, cerrado, empernado. breathed: respirado. brute: bruto, bestia. chaps: rajar, resquebrajar, quijada, muchacho, grieta, carrillo, agrietar, zajones. chucked: Botado. confounded: perplejo. couldn't: no fue posible. cries: llora.

devil: diablo, el diablo. dogmatic: dogmático. drifted: llevado. gray-headed: cana, cano. hellish: infernal. humbug: farsa. leaf: hoja, la hoja. loafer: holgazán. locks: Bloqueos, pelo, cerradura, cabellos, bloquear. meddled: Metido, entremetido, entrometido, inmiscuido.

murdering: Asesinar. nerve: nervio. poison: veneno, envenenar, intoxicar. sailing: navegación. scrimmage: arrebatiña, melé, peléese, pelea, pelear. shaking: sacudiendo, sacudida. smash: rotura, golpear, romper. strangling: estrangulando. trusted: confiado, confidente. voyage: viaje. wandering: errante, vagando.

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days. %When we anchored here they thought, I suppose, it was all right. The nearest land (and that's five miles) is the ship's destination; the consul would soon set about catching me; and there would have been no object in bolding to these islets there. I don't suppose there's a drop of water on them. I don't know how it was, but tonight that steward, after bringing me my supper, went out to let me eat it, and left the door unlocked. And I ate it--all there was, too. After I had finished I strolled out on the quarter-deck. I don't know that I meant to do anything. A breath of fresh air was all I wanted, I believe. Then a sudden temptation came over me. I kicked off my slippers and was in the water before I had made up my mind fairly. Somebody heard the splash and they raised an awful hullabaloo. `He's gone! Lower the boats! He's committed suicide! No, he's swimming.' Certainly I was swimming. It's not so easy for a swimmer like me to commit suicide by drowning. I landed on the nearest islet before the boat left the ship's side. I heard them pulling about in the dark, hailing, and so on, but after a bit they gave up. Everything quieted down and the anchorage became still as death. I sat down on a stone and began to think. I felt certain they would start searching for me at daylight. There was no place to hide on those stony things-- and if there had been, what would have been the good? But now I was clear of that ship, I was not going back. So after a while I took off all my clothes, tied them up in a bundle with a stone inside, and dropped them in the deep water on the outer side of that islet. That was suicide enough for me. Let them think what they liked, but I didn't mean to drown myself. I meant to swim till I sank--but that's not the same thing. I struck out for another of these little islands, and it was from that one that I first saw your riding light. Something to swim for. I went on easily, and on the way I came upon a flat rock a foot or two above water. In the daytime, I dare say, you might make it out with a glass from your poop. I scrambled up on it and rested myself for a bit. Then I made another start. That last spell must have been over a mile.” His whisper was getting fainter and fainter, and all the time he stared straight out through the porthole, in which there was not even a star to be seen. I had not interrupted him. There was something that made comment impossible in his narrative, or perhaps in himself; a sort of feeling, a quality, which I can't

Spanish anchorage: anclaje, ancladero, fondeadero. bundle: bulto, manojo, haz, paquete, mazo. catching: cogiendo, contagioso, asiendo, acertando. commit: cometer, comete, cometo, cometes, cometen, cometed, cometan, cometéis, cometemos, cometa. consul: cónsul. daylight: luz del día, luz de día, luz natural.

daytime: día, diurno, tiempo de día. destination: destino. drowning: ahogándose, el ahogamiento, ahogar, ahogo, ahogamiento. hailing: granizar. hullabaloo: desorden, desmadre, batahola, barullo, alboroto, jaleo, tumulto, vocería. interrupted: interrumpido. kicked: pateado. narrative: narrativa, narración,

narrativo. porthole: tronera, portilla. quieted: calmado. rested: descansado. scrambled: revuelto. slippers: zapatillas. splash: salpicar, salpicadura. stony: pedregoso. strolled: paseó. temptation: tentación. whisper: cuchichear, cuchicheo, susurrar, susurro, murmurar.

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find a name for. And when he ceased, all I found was a futile whisper: “So you swam for our light?” “Yes--straight for it. It was something to swim for. I couldn't see any stars low down because the coast was in the way, and I couldn't see the land, either. The water was like glass. One might have been swimming in a confounded thousand-feet deep cistern with no place for scrambling out anywhere; but what I didn't like was the notion of swimming round and round like a crazed bullock before I gave out; and as I didn't mean to go back. . . No. Do you see me being hauled back, stark naked, off one of these little islands by the scruff of the neck and fighting like a wild beast? Somebody would have got killed for certain, and I did not want any of that. So I went on. Then your ladder--” “Why didn't you hail the ship?” I asked, a little louder.% He touched my shoulder lightly. Lazy footsteps came right over our heads and stopped. The second mate had crossed from the other side of the poop and might have been hanging over the rail for all we knew. “He couldn't hear us talking--could he?” My double breathed into my very ear, anxiously. His anxiety was in answer, a sufficient answer, to the question I had put to him. An answer containing all the difficulty of that situation. I closed the porthole quietly, to make sure. A louder word might have been overheard. “Who's that?” he whispered then. “My second mate. But I don't know much more of the fellow than you do.” And I told him a little about myself. I had been appointed to take charge while I least expected anything of the sort, not quite a fortnight ago. I didn't know either the ship or the people. Hadn't had the time in port to look about me or size anybody up. And as to the crew, all they knew was that I was appointed to take the ship home. For the rest, I was almost as much of a stranger on board as himself, I said. And at the moment I felt it most acutely. I felt that it would take very little to make me a suspect person in the eyes of the ship's company.

Spanish acutely: agudamente. anxiety: ansiedad. anxiously: ansiosamente. beast: bestia, animal. bullock: buey. ceased: ceso, Cesado. cistern: cisterna, tanque, aljibe. containing: conteniendo. crew: tripulación, equipo. crossed: cruzado. ear: oreja, espiga, la oreja, oído. fellow: compañero, hombre, socio,

tipo, becario. footsteps: Huellas. fortnight: quincena, quince días. futile: fútil. hadn't: no ha. hail: granizo, granizar, alabar, pedrisco. hanging: ahorcamiento, pendiente. lightly: ligeramente. naked: desnudo. notion: noción, idea, inteligencia. overheard: sorprendido, oído, pret y

pp de overhear. scrambling: aleatorización. scruff: pescuezo. stark: severo. stranger: forastero, extraño, desconocido. swam: Nadó, pret de swim. touched: palpar, tocar, tocado, pulsación, toque, emocionado, conmover, chiflado, alcanzar, tacto, conmovido. whispered: chuchicheado.

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He%had turned about meantime; and we, the two strangers in the ship, faced each other in identical attitudes. “Your ladder--” he murmured, after a silence. “Who'd have thought of finding a ladder hanging over at night in a ship anchored out here! I felt just then a very unpleasant faintness. After the life I've been leading for nine weeks, anybody would have got out of condition. I wasn't capable of swimming round as far as your rudder chains. And, lo and behold! there was a ladder to get hold of. After I gripped it I said to myself, `What's the good?' When I saw a man's head looking over I thought I would swim away presently and leave him shouting--in whatever language it was. I didn't mind being looked at. I--I liked it. And then you speaking to me so quietly--as if you had expected me--made me hold on a little longer. It had been a confounded lonely time--I don't mean while swimming. I was glad to talk a little to somebody that didn't belong to the Sephora. As to asking for the captain, that was a mere impulse. It could have been no use, with all the ship knowing about me and the other people pretty certain to be round here in the morning. I don't know-- I wanted to be seen, to talk with somebody, before I went on. I don't know what I would have said. . . . `Fine night, isn't it?' or something of the sort.” “Do you think they will be round here presently?” I asked with some incredulity. “Quite likely,” he said, faintly. “He looked extremely haggard all of a sudden. His head rolled on his shoulders. “H'm. We shall see then. Meantime get into that bed,” I whispered. “Want help? There.” It was a rather high bed place with a set of drawers underneath. This amazing swimmer really needed the lift I gave him by seizing his leg. He tumbled in, rolled over on his back, and flung one arm across his eyes. And then, with his face nearly hidden, he must have looked exactly as I used to look in that bed. I gazed upon my other self for a while before drawing across

Spanish amazing: asombrando, asombroso, maravilloso, maravillando, pasmando, pasmoso. behold: tenga. belong: pertenecer, pertenecemos, pertenezcan, pertenezco, pertenecen, perteneced, pertenece, pertenecéis, perteneces, pertenezca. chains: cadenas. drawers: calzoncillos. faced: enfrentado. faintly: débilmente.

faintness: debilidad. flung: pret y pp de fling. gazed: mirado. gripped: agarrado. haggard: ojeroso, macilento, demacrado. hidden: ocultado, oculto, escondido, secreto. identical: idéntico. impulse: impulso, instinto, impulsión. incredulity: incredulidad. lo: aquí.

lonely: solitario, solo. meantime: entretanto, mientras tanto. mere: mero. rolled: arrollado. seizing: agarrando, asiendo. self: mismo. sudden: repentino, brusco, súbito. tumbled: Derribado. underneath: abajo, debajo, debajo de, en el fondo. unpleasant: desagradable, bronco, brusco.

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carefully%the two green serge curtains which ran on a brass rod. I thought for a moment of pinning them together for greater safety, but I sat down on the couch, and once there I felt unwilling to rise and hunt for a pin. I would do it in a moment. I was extremely tired, in a peculiarly intimate way, by the strain of stealthiness, by the effort of whispering and the general secrecy of this excitement. It was three o'clock by now and I had been on my feet since nine, but I was not sleepy; I could not have gone to sleep. I sat there, fagged out, looking at the curtains, trying to clear my mind of the confused sensation of being in two places at once, and greatly bothered by an exasperating knocking in my head. It was a relief to discover suddenly that it was not in my head at all, but on the outside of the door. Before I could collect myself the words “Come in” were out of my mouth, and the steward entered with a tray, bringing in my morning coffee. I had slept, after all, and I was so frightened that I shouted, “This way! I am here, steward,” as though he had been miles away. He put down the tray on the table next the couch and only then said, very quietly, “I can see you are here, sir.” I felt him give me a keen look, but I dared not meet his eyes just then. He must have wondered why I had drawn the curtains of my bed before going to sleep on the couch. He went out, hooking the door open as usual. I heard the crew washing decks above me. I knew I would have been told at once if there had been any wind. Calm, I thought, and I was doubly vexed. Indeed, I felt dual more than ever. The steward reappeared suddenly in the doorway. I jumped up from the couch so quickly that he gave a start. “What do you want here?” “Close your port, sir--they are washing decks.” “It is closed,” I said, reddening. “Very well, sir.” But he did not move from the doorway and returned my stare in an extraordinary, equivocal manner for a time. Then his eyes wavered, all his expression changed, and in a voice unusually gentle, almost coaxingly: “May I come in to take the empty cup away, sir?”

Spanish bothered: molestado. brass: latón, metal. coaxingly: engatusar. dared: atrevido, aventurado, se atrevido, se arriesgado, osado, desafiado. doubly: con doblez, doblemente. dual: doble. equivocal: equívoco, ambiguo. exasperating: exasperando. hooking: enganchar, enganche. intimate: íntimo, cómodo, intimo.

peculiarly: raramente, peculiarmente, particularmente, de una manera extraña. pin: alfiler, patilla, perno, el alfiler, clavija, pasador. pinning: clavado. reappeared: reaparecido. reddening: enrojeciendo. rod: vara, barra, varilla, vástago. secrecy: secreto. sensation: sensación, sentimiento. serge: sarga, estameña.

sleepy: soñoliento. slept: dormido. stare: mirar fijamente, mirada fija. stealthiness: sigilo, clandestinidad, cautela. tray: bandeja. unusually: insólitamente, inusitadamente, extraordinariamente, desacostumbradamente, desusadamente, excepcionalmente. unwilling: reacio. wavered: vacilado.

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“Of course!” I turned my back on him while he popped in and out. Then I unhooked and closed the door and even pushed the bolt. This sort of thing could not go on very long. The cabin was as hot as an oven, too. I took a peep at my double, and discovered that he had not moved, his arm was still over his eyes; but his chest heaved; his hair was wet; his chin glistened with perspiration. I reached over him and opened the port.% “I must show myself on deck,” I reflected. Of course, theoretically, I could do what I liked, with no one to say nay to me within the whole circle of the horizon; but to lock my cabin door and take the key away I did not dare. Directly I put my head out of the companion I saw the group of my two officers, the second mate barefooted, the chief mate in long India-rubber boots, near the break of the poop, and the steward halfway down the poop ladder talking to them eagerly. He happened to catch sight of me and dived, the second ran down on the main-deck shouting some order or other, and the chief mate came to meet me, touching his cap. There was a sort of curiosity in his eye that I did not like. I don't know whether the steward had told them that I was “queer” only, or downright drunk, but I know the man meant to have a good look at me. I watched him coming with a smile which, as he got into point-blank range, took effect and froze his very whiskers. I did not give him time to open his lips. “Square the yards by lifts and braces before the hands go to breakfast.” It was the first particular order I had given on board that ship; and I stayed on deck to see it executed, too. I had felt the need of asserting myself without loss of time. That sneering young cub got taken down a peg or two on that occasion, and I also seized the opportunity of having a good look at the face of every foremast man as they filed past me to go to the after braces. At breakfast time, eating nothing myself, I presided with such frigid dignity that the two mates were only too glad to escape from the cabin as soon as decency permitted; and all the time the dual working of my mind distracted me almost to the point of insanity. I was constantly watching myself, my secret self, as dependent on my actions as my own personality, sleeping in that bed, behind that door which

Spanish asserting: afirmando. braces: tirantes. cub: cachorro. decency: decencia. distracted: distraído. dived: sumergido, saltado al agua, saltado, picado, caído en picado, buceado, bajado de golpe, tirado al agua, zambullido. downright: franco, absolutamente, categórico, completamente, francamente, claro, categóricamente,

completo. eagerly: ansiosamente, ávidamente. filed: archivado. foremast: trinquete. frigid: frígida, frío. froze: pret de freeze. glistened: brillado. heaved: tirado. insanity: locura, demencia. lifts: levanta. nay: más aún, más bien, voto negativo, voto en contra, no, negativa, mejor

dicho. peep: ojeada, pie, piara, piar, pío pío, pío, mirar furtivamente, mirar de reojo, mirar, mirada furtiva, mirada. peg: aperitivo, estaca, clavija. perspiration: sudor, transpiración. point-blank: categóricamente, a quemarropa, a quema ropa. popped: pinchado. presided: presidido. theoretically: teóricamente. unhooked: Desenganchado.

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faced me as I sat at the head of the table. It was very much like being mad, only it was worse because one was aware of it. I had to shake him for a solid minute, but when at last he opened his eyes it was in the full possession of his senses, with an inquiring look.% “All's well so far,” I whispered. “Now you must vanish into the bathroom.” He did so, as noiseless as a ghost, and then I rang for the steward, and facing him boldly, directed him to tidy up my stateroom while I was having my bath-”and be quick about it.” As my tone admitted of no excuses, he said, “Yes, sir,” and ran off to fetch his dustpan and brushes. I took a bath and did most of my dressing, splashing, and whistling softly for the steward's edification, while the secret sharer of my life stood drawn up bolt upright in that little space, his face looking very sunken in daylight, his eyelids lowered under the stern, dark line of his eyebrows drawn together by a slight frown. When I left him there to go back to my room the steward was finishing dusting. I sent for the mate and engaged him in some insignificant conversation. It was, as it were, trifling with the terrific character of his whiskers; but my object was to give him an opportunity for a good look at my cabin. And then I could at last shut, with a clear conscience, the door of my stateroom and get my double back into the recessed part. There was nothing else for it. He had to sit still on a small folding stool, half smothered by the heavy coats hanging there. We listened to the steward going into the bathroom out of the saloon, filling the water bottles there, scrubbing the bath, setting things to rights, whisk, bang, clatter--out again into the saloon--turn the key--click. Such was my scheme for keeping my second self invisible. Nothing better could be contrived under the circumstances. And there we sat; I at my writing desk ready to appear busy with some papers, he behind me out of sight of the door. It would not have been prudent to talk in daytime; and I could not have stood the excitement of that queer sense of whispering to myself. Now and then, glancing over my shoulder, I saw him far back there, sitting rigidly on the low stool, his bare feet close together, his arms folded, his head hanging on his breast--and perfectly still. Anybody would have taken him for me.

Spanish boldly: audazmente. brushes: escobillas. contrived: inventado, efectuado, tramado, ideado, planeado. dusting: desempolvamiento, quitar o sacudir el polvo, polvo, desempolvar, espolvereo. dustpan: recogedor. edification: edificación. folding: plegable. frown: ceño, fruncir el entrecejo, fruncir el ceño.

inquiring: inquiriendo, curioso, preguntando. insignificant: insignificante. noiseless: silencioso. prudent: prudente. queer: raro. rigidly: rígidamente, yertamente. scrubbing: depuración, lavado. sharer: partícipe. smothered: asfixiar, ahogado, humareda, polvareda, sofocado, sofocar, apagar.

splashing: chapoteo, riego, salpicar, salpicaduras. stern: popa, severo. sunken: hundido. trifling: fútil. vanish: desaparecer, desaparezca, desaparezcan, desapareces, desaparecen, desaparecemos, desaparecéis, desapareced, desaparece, desaparezco. whisk: batidor, batir. whistling: silbido.

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I was fascinated by it myself. Every moment I had to glance over my shoulder. I was looking at him when a voice outside the door said: “Beg pardon, sir.” “Well! . . . I kept my eyes on him, and so when the voice outside the door announced, “There's a ship's boat coming our way, sir,” I saw him give a start-the first movement he had made for hours. But he did not raise his bowed head.% “All right. Get the ladder over.” I hesitated. Should I whisper something to him? But what? His immobility seemed to have been never disturbed. What could I tell him he did not know already? . . . Finally I went on deck.

Spanish announced: anunciado. boat: barco, bote, barca, el barco. bowed: agobiado, arqueado, cabizbajo, encorvado, inclinado. coming: viniendo, proveniente, próximo, originario, natural. deck: cubierta. disturbed: molestado, incomodado, perturbado. fascinated: fascinado. finally: finalmente, al fin, por fin. glance: mirada, vistazo, ojeada.

hesitated: vacilado, titubeado. hours: horas, las horas. immobility: inmovilidad. kept: guardado, vigilado, conservado, preservado. ladder: escala, escalera, escalera de mano, la escalera. movement: movimiento, el movimiento. myself: yo mismo. outside: afuera, fuera de, fuera, exterior, externo.

pardon: perdón, perdonar, indulto, indultar. raise: levantar, entonar, criar, subir, alzar, elevar, alza, izar, aumento. shoulder: hombro, el hombro, espalda, lisera, banquina, reborde, espaldilla. whisper: cuchichear, cuchicheo, susurrar, susurro, murmurar.

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II The%skipper of the Sephora had a thin red whisker all round his face, and the sort of complexion that goes with hair of that color; also the particular, rather smeary shade of blue in the eyes. He was not exactly a showy figure; his shoulders were high, his stature but middling--one leg slightly more bandy than the other. He shook hands, looking vaguely around. A spiritless tenacity was his main characteristic, I judged. I behaved with a politeness which seemed to disconcert him. Perhaps he was shy. He mumbled to me as if he were ashamed of what he was saying; gave his name (it was something like Archbold-- but at this distance of years I hardly am sure), his ship's name, and a few other particulars of that sort, in the manner of a criminal making a reluctant and doleful confession. He had had terrible weather on the passage out--terrible-terrible-- wife aboard, too. By this time we were seated in the cabin and the steward brought in a tray with a bottle and glasses. “Thanks! No.” Never took liquor. Would have some water, though. He drank two tumblerfuls. Terrible thirsty work. Ever since daylight had been exploring the islands round his ship. “What was that for--fun?” I asked, with an appearance of polite interest. “No!” He sighed. “Painful duty.”

Spanish aboard: a bordo, a bordo de. ashamed: avergonzado, vergonzoso. bandy: arqueado. behaved: se comportado, portado, funcionado, conducido, educado, Comportado, comportarse bien, comportar. color: el color, pintar, colorear, color. complexion: cutis, tez. confession: confesión, declaración. disconcert: desconcertar, desconciertas, desconciertan,

desconcierten, desconcertamos, desconcertad, desconcertáis, desconcierto, desconcierta, desconcierte. doleful: triste. drank: pret de drink, bebió. judged: juzgado. liquor: alcohol, licor, el licor. mumbled: mascullado. particulars: detalles. polite: cortés, educado. politeness: cortesía, educación,

atenciones. seated: sentado. shade: sombra, sombrear, pantalla, matizar, tono, matiz. showy: vistoso, llamativo. shy: tímido, vergonzoso. smeary: graso, untuoso. spiritless: exánime. stature: estatura, altura, talla. tenacity: tenacidad. thirsty: sediento. vaguely: vagamente.

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As he persisted in his mumbling and I wanted my double to hear every word, I hit upon the notion of informing him that I regretted to say I was hard of hearing.% “Such a young man, too!” he nodded, keeping his smeary blue, unintelligent eyes fastened upon me. “What was the cause of it-- some disease?” he inquired, without the least sympathy and as if he thought that, if so, I'd got no more than I deserved. “Yes; disease,” I admitted in a cheerful tone which seemed to shock him. But my point was gained, because he had to raise his voice to give me his tale. It is not worth while to record his version. It was just over two months since all this had happened, and he had thought so much about it that he seemed completely muddled as to its bearings, but still immensely impressed. “What would you think of such a thing happening on board your own ship? I've had the Sephora for these fifteen years. I am a well-known shipmaster.” He was densely distressed--and perhaps I should have sympathized with him if I had been able to detach my mental vision from the unsuspected sharer of my cabin as though he were my second self. There he was on the other side of the bulkhead, four or five feet from us, no more, as we sat in the saloon. I looked politely at Captain Archbold (if that was his name), but it was the other I saw, in a gray sleeping suit, seated on a low stool, his bare feet close together, his arms folded, and every word said between us falling into the ears of his dark head bowed on his chest. “I have been at sea now, man and boy, for seven-and-thirty years, and I've never heard of such a thing happening in an English ship. And that it should be my ship. Wife on board, too.” I was hardly listening to him. “Don't you think,” I said, “that the heavy sea which, you told me, came aboard just then might have killed the man? I have seen the sheer weight of a sea kill a man very neatly, by simply breaking his neck.”

Spanish bearings: cojinetes, rumbos, rodamientos. breaking: ruptura, rotura. cheerful: alegre, animado. densely: densamente. deserved: merecido. detach: destacar, destaquen, destacad, destacamos, destacan, destacas, destaco, destaque, destaca, destacáis, desprender. ears: orejas, las orejas, oídos. falling: cayéndose, decreciendo,

derribando, caída. fastened: fijado, sujetado, atado. gained: ganado. immensely: inmensamente. impressed: impresionado. informing: informando, enterando. i've: he, Tengo. muddled: desordenó. mumbling: mascullando. neatly: aseadamente. persisted: persistido. politely: comedidamente,

cortésmente, educadamente, refinadamente. regretted: Lamentado. sheer: puro. stool: taburete. sympathized: simpatizado. sympathy: simpatía. tale: cuento. unintelligent: poco inteligente. unsuspected: insospechado. well-known: conocido, sabido, notorio.

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“Good God!” he uttered, impressively, fixing his smeary blue eyes on me. “The sea! No man killed by the sea ever looked like that.” He seemed positively scandalized at my suggestion. And as I gazed at him certainly not prepared for anything original on his part, he advanced his head close to mine and thrust his tongue out at me so suddenly that I couldn't help starting back.% After scoring over my calmness in this graphic way he nodded wisely. If I had seen the sight, he assured me, I would never forget it as long as I lived. The weather was too bad to give the corpse a proper sea burial. So next day at dawn they took it up on the poop, covering its face with a bit of bunting; he read a short prayer, and then, just as it was, in its oilskins and long boots, they launched it amongst those mountainous seas that seemed ready every moment to swallow up the ship herself and the terrified lives on board of her. “That reefed foresail saved you,” I threw in. “Under God--it did,” he exclaimed fervently. “It was by a special mercy, I firmly believe, that it stood some of those hurricane squalls.” “It was the setting of that sail which--” I began. “God's own hand in it,” he interrupted me. “Nothing less could have done it. I don't mind telling you that I hardly dared give the order. It seemed impossible that we could touch anything without losing it, and then our last hope would have been gone.” The terror of that gale was on him yet. I let him go on for a bit, then said, casually--as if returning to a minor subject: “You were very anxious to give up your mate to the shore people, I believe?” He was. To the law. His obscure tenacity on that point had in it something incomprehensible and a little awful; something, as it were, mystical, quite apart from his anxiety that he should not be suspected of “countenancing any doings of that sort.” Seven-and-thirty virtuous years at sea, of which over twenty of immaculate command, and the last fifteen in the Sephora, seemed to have laid him under some pitiless obligation.

Spanish bunting: empavesado, verderón, estameña, escribano, banderas, lanilla. burial: entierro, enterramiento. calmness: calma, tranquilidad. corpse: cadáver. doings: chisme, sucesos, conducta, hace, acciones, hechos, actuación, actos. exclaimed: exclamado. fervently: fervorosamente. fixing: fijando, reparando, fijación,

accesorios. graphic: gráfico. hurricane: huracán. immaculate: inmaculado. impressively: impresionantemente, grandiosamente. mercy: misericordia, compasión. mountainous: montañoso. mystical: místico. pitiless: despiadado. positively: positivamente. sail: vela, navegar, la vela.

scandalized: escandalizado. scoring: veintena, raya, estriación, tanteo, cuenta, reprimenda, rayar, rayado, partitura, orquestar, orquestación. seas: mares. swallow: golondrina, tragar, golondrina común, deglutir. terrified: aterrorizado, aterrado. uttered: pronunciado. virtuous: virtuoso. wisely: sabiamente.

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“And you know,” he went on, groping shame-facedly amongst his feelings, “I did not engage that young fellow. His people had some interest with my owners. I was in a way forced to take him on. He looked very smart, very gentlemanly, and all that. But do you know--I never liked him, somehow. I am a plain man. You see, he wasn't exactly the sort for the chief mate of a ship like the Sephora.” I had become so connected in thoughts and impressions with the secret sharer of my cabin that I felt as if I, personally, were being given to understand that I, too, was not the sort that would have done for the chief mate of a ship like the Sephora. I had no doubt of it in my mind.% “Not at all the style of man. You understand,” he insisted, superfluously, looking hard at me. I smiled urbanely. He seemed at a loss for a while. “I suppose I must report a suicide.” “Beg pardon?” “Suicide! That's what I'll have to write to my owners directly I get in.” “Unless you manage to recover him before tomorrow,” I assented, dispassionately. . . . “I mean, alive.” He mumbled something which I really did not catch, and I turned my ear to him in a puzzled manner. He fairly bawled: “The land--I say, the mainland is at least seven miles off my anchorage.” “About that.” My lack of excitement, of curiosity, of surprise, of any sort of pronounced interest, began to arouse his distrust. But except for the felicitous pretense of deafness I had not tried to pretend anything. I had felt utterly incapable of playing the part of ignorance properly, and therefore was afraid to try. It is also certain that he had brought some ready-made suspicions with him, and that he viewed my politeness as a strange and unnatural phenomenon. And yet how else could I have received him? Not heartily! That was impossible for

Spanish arouse: despertar, despiertas, despierten, despiertan, despierta, despertamos, despertáis, despertad, despierto, despierte. curiosity: curiosidad. deafness: sordera. dispassionately: desapasionadamente, serenamente, imparcialmente. distrust: desconfianza. engage: comprometer, compromete, comprometed, comprometan, comprometéis, comprometemos,

comprometen, comprometes, comprometo, comprometa, engranar. felicitous: oportuno, feliz. groping: tentando. heartily: sinceramente. ignorance: ignorancia. mainland: continente, tierra firme. pretend: fingir, fingimos, finjo, fingís, fingid, finges, fingen, finge, finjan, finja, pretender. pretense: pretensión. pronounced: pronunciado, marcado.

puzzled: perplejo, desconcertado. ready-made: prefabricado. recover: recuperar, sanar, recupere, sanad, recuperad, recuperáis, recuperamos, recuperan, recuperas, recuperen, recupero. smart: listo, inteligente, astuto, majo. superfluously: superfluamente. unnatural: innatural, antinatural. urbanely: urbanamente. utterly: absolutamente. viewed: visto.

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psychological reasons, which I need not state here. My only object was to keep off his inquiries. Surlily? Yes, but surliness might have provoked a point-blank question. From its novelty to him and from its nature, punctilious courtesy was the manner best calculated to restrain the man. But there was the danger of his breaking through my defense bluntly. I could not, I think, have met him by a direct lie, also for psychological (not moral) reasons. If he had only known how afraid I was of his putting my feeling of identity with the other to the test! But, strangely enough--(I thought of it only afterwards)-- I believe that he was not a little disconcerted by the reverse side of that weird situation, by something in me that reminded him of the man he was seeking--suggested a mysterious similitude to the young fellow he had distrusted and disliked from the first.% However that might have been, the silence was not very prolonged. He took another oblique step. “I reckon I had no more than a two-mile pull to your ship. Not a bit more.” “And quite enough, too, in this awful heat,” I said. Another pause full of mistrust followed. Necessity, they say, is mother of invention, but fear, too, is not barren of ingenious suggestions. And I was afraid he would ask me point-blank for news of my other self. “Nice little saloon, isn't it?” I remarked, as if noticing for the first time the way his eyes roamed from one closed door to the other. “And very well fitted out, too. Here, for instance,” I continued, reaching over the back of my seat negligently and flinging the door open, “is my bathroom.” He made an eager movement, but hardly gave it a glance. I got up, shut the door of the bathroom, and invited him to have a look round, as if I were very proud of my accomodation. He had to rise and be shown round, but he went through the business without any raptures whatever. “And now we'll have a look at my stateroom,” I declared, in a voice as loud as I dared to make it, crossing the cabin to the starboard side with purposely heavy steps.

Spanish accomodation: adaptación. bluntly: bruscamente. courtesy: cortesía. defense: defensa. disconcerted: desconcertado. disliked: detestado. eager: ansioso, ávido, codicioso. flinging: lanzar. ingenious: ingenioso. invention: invención, invento. loud: alto, fuerte, ruidoso, chillón. mistrust: desconfiar de.

negligently: negligentemente. noticing: notando. novelty: novedad, noticias. oblique: oblicuo, inclinado. pause: descanso, pausa, pausar, hacer una pausa, la pausa. prolonged: prolongado. provoked: provocado. punctilious: quisquilloso, formalista, meticuloso, puntilloso. purposely: intencionalmente, deliberadamente, a propósito.

restrain: refrenar, contener, refrene, refrenas, refrena, contengo, refrenad, contiene, contienen, contienes, refrenen. roamed: Vagado. similitude: analogía, similitud, forma, imagen. starboard: estribor, de estribor. surliness: displicencia, falta de educación, aspereza, hosquedad, mal humor. weird: raro, misterioso, extraño.

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He followed me in and gazed around. My intelligent double had vanished. I played my part.% “Very convenient--isn't it?” Very nice. Very comf . . .” He didn't finish and went out brusquely as if to escape from some unrighteous wiles of mine. But it was not to be. I had been too frightened not to feel vengeful; I felt I had him on the run, and I meant to keep him on the run. My polite insistence must have had something menacing in it, because he gave in suddenly. And I did not let him off a single item; mate's room, pantry, storerooms, the very sail locker which was also under the poop-he had to look into them all. When at last I showed him out on the quarter-deck he drew a long, spiritless sigh, and mumbled dismally that he must really be going back to his ship now. I desired my mate, who had joined us, to see to the captain's boat. The man of whiskers gave a blast on the whistle which he used to wear hanging round his neck, and yelled, “Sephora's away!” My double down there in my cabin must have heard, and certainly could not feel more relieved than I. Four fellows came running out from somewhere forward and went over the side, while my own men, appearing on deck too, lined the rail. I escorted my visitor to the gangway ceremoniously, and nearly overdid it. He was a tenacious beast. On the very ladder he lingered, and in that unique, guiltily conscientious manner of sticking to the point: “I say . . . you . . . you don't think that--” I covered his voice loudly: “Certainly not. . . . I am delighted. Good-by.” I had an idea of what he meant to say, and just saved myself by the privilege of defective hearing. He was too shaken generally to insist, but my mate, close witness of that parting, looked mystified and his face took on a thoughtful cast. As I did not want to appear as if I wished to avoid all communication with my officers, he had the opportunity to address me.

Spanish blast: explosión. brusquely: bruscamente. ceremoniously: ceremoniosamente. conscientious: concienzudo. defective: defectuoso, defectivo. delighted: encantado, gozoso. desired: deseado. dismally: deprimentemente, desconsoladamente. escorted: acompañado. gangway: paso, pasarela, pasillo, pasadizo.

guiltily: culpablemente. insistence: insistencia, instancia. lined: rayado. locker: armario, cajón, el casillero, casillero, taquilla. loudly: en alta voz, ruidosamente. menacing: amenazador. mystified: engañado. overdid: pret de overdo. privilege: privilegio, privilegiar. relieved: aliviado, relevado, desahogado.

shaken: sacudido. sigh: suspirar, suspiro. sticking: pegajoso. tenacious: tenaz. thoughtful: pensativo, atento, prudente, circunspecto. unrighteous: injusto. vanished: desaparecido. vengeful: vengativo. whistle: silbar, silbato, silbido, pito. wiles: engaños, seduce. yelled: grito, gritado.

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“Seems a very nice man. His boat's crew told our chaps a very extraordinary story, if what I am told by the steward is true. I suppose you had it from the captain, sir?”% “Yes. I had a story from the captain.” “A very horrible affair--isn't it, sir?” “It is.” “Beats all these tales we hear about murders in Yankee ships.” “I don't think it beats them. I don't think it resembles them in the least.” “Bless my soul--you don't say so! But of course I've no acquaintance whatever with American ships, not I so I couldn't go against your knowledge. It's horrible enough for me. . . . But the queerest part is that those fellows seemed to have some idea the man was hidden aboard here. They had really. Did you ever hear of such a thing?” “Preposterous--isn't it?” We were walking to and fro athwart the quarter-deck. No one of the crew forward could be seen (the day was Sunday), and the mate pursued: “There was some little dispute about it. Our chaps took offense. `As if we would harbor a thing like that,' they said. `Wouldn't you like to look for him in our coal-hole?' Quite a tiff. But they made it up in the end. I suppose he did drown himself. Don't you, sir?” “I don't suppose anything.” “You have no doubt in the matter, sir?” “None whatever.” I left him suddenly. I felt I was producing a bad impression, but with my double down there it was most trying to be on deck. And it was almost as trying to be below. Altogether a nerve-trying situation. But on the whole I felt less torn in two when I was with him. There was no one in the whole ship whom I dared take into my confidence. Since the hands had got to know his story, it would

Spanish acquaintance: conocido, conocimiento, notoriedad. athwart: a través de. captain: capitán. confidence: confianza, confidencia. dispute: disputa. double: doble, doblar, doblado. doubt: dudar, duda. extraordinary: extraordinario. forward: adelante, delantero, reenviar, hacia delante, enviar, remitir, hacia adelante.

fro: atrás, allá. horrible: temeroso, abominable, lúgubre, horroroso, horrible. impression: impresión. murders: homicidio. offense: delito. producing: produciendo. pursued: perseguido. resembles: parece. ship: barco, enviar, enviad, envía, envíen, envíe, envías, envían, enviamos, enviáis, envío.

ships: envía, despacha, expide. suddenly: de repente, de golpe, repentinamente, de sopetón. suppose: suponer, suponéis, supongo, supon, suponed, suponemos, suponen, supones, supongan, supone, suponga. tales: cuentos. tiff: pelea. torn: roto. walking: andando, caminando, ambulante.

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have been impossible to pass him off for anyone else, and an accidental discovery was to be dreaded now more than ever. . . .% The steward being engaged in laying the table for dinner, we could talk only with our eyes when I first went down. Later in the afternoon we had a cautious try at whispering. The Sunday quietness of the ship was against us; the stillness of air and water around her was against us; the elements, the men were against us--everything was against us in our secret partnership; time itself--for this could not go on forever. The very trust in Providence was, I suppose, denied to his guilt. Shall I confess that this thought cast me down very much? And as to the chapter of accidents which counts for so much in the book of success, I could only hope that it was closed. For what favorable accident could be expected? “Did you hear everything?” were my first words as soon as we took up our position side by side, leaning over my bed place. He had. And the proof of it was his earnest whisper, “The man told you he hardly dared to give the order.” I understood the reference to be to that saving foresail. “Yes. He was afraid of it being lost in the setting.” “I assure you he never gave the order. He may think he did, but he never gave it. He stood there with me on the break of the poop after the main topsail blew away, and whimpered about our last hope-- positively whimpered about it and nothing else--and the night coming on! To hear one's skipper go on like that in such weather was enough to drive any fellow out of his mind. It worked me up into a sort of desperation. I just took it into my own hands and went away from him, boiling, and--But what's the use telling you? you know! . . . Do you think that if I had not been pretty fierce with them I should have got the men to do anything? Not It! The bo's'n perhaps? Perhaps! It wasn't a heavy sea--it was a sea gone mad! I suppose the end of the world will be something like that; and a man may have the heart to see it coming once and be done with it-- but to have to face it day after day--I don't blame anybody. I was precious little better than the rest. Only--I was an officer of that old coal wagon, anyhow--”

Spanish accidental: accidental, fortuito. accidents: accidentes. assure: asegurar, asegura, aseguren, aseguras, aseguran, aseguramos, aseguráis, asegurad, aseguro, asegure, garantizar. blew: pret de blow, Sopló. boiling: ebullición, hervor, hirviente, hirviendo, hervir. cautious: precavido, prudente, circunspecto, cauto, cauteloso. confess: confesar, confiesan, confiesen,

confieso, confiesas, confesamos, confesad, confesáis, confiesa, confiese, declarar. counts: recuentos. desperation: desesperación. discovery: descubrimiento. dreaded: temido. engaged: ocupado, comprometido, engranado, prometido. favorable: propicio. fierce: feroz. forever: para siempre, siempre.

guilt: culpa. laying: colocando, poniendo. one's: uno, propio. precious: precioso, preciosa. proof: prueba, demostración, probanza. quietness: quietud, tranquilidad. saving: guardando, salvando, ahorrando, ahorro. topsail: gavia. wagon: vagón, carro. whimpered: Lloriqueó.

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“I quite understand,” I conveyed that sincere assurance into his ear. He was out of breath with whispering; I could hear him pant slightly. It was all very simple. The same strung-up force which had given twenty-four men a chance, at least, for their lives, had, in a sort of recoil, crushed an unworthy mutinous existence.% But I had no leisure to weigh the merits of the matter-- footsteps in the saloon, a heavy knock. “There's enough wind to get under way with, sir.” Here was the call of a new claim upon my thoughts and even upon my feelings. “Turn the hands up,” I cried through the door. “I'll be on deck directly.” I was going out to make the acquaintance of my ship. Before I left the cabin our eyes met--the eyes of the only two strangers on board. I pointed to the recessed part where the little campstool awaited him and laid my finger on my lips. He made a gesture--somewhat vague--a little mysterious, accompanied by a faint smile, as if of regret. This is not the place to enlarge upon the sensations of a man who feels for the first time a ship move under his feet to his own independent word. In my case they were not unalloyed. I was not wholly alone with my command; for there was that stranger in my cabin. Or rather, I was not completely and wholly with her. Part of me was absent. That mental feeling of being in two places at once affected me physically as if the mood of secrecy had penetrated my very soul. Before an hour had elapsed since the ship had begun to move, having occasion to ask the mate (he stood by my side) to take a compass bearing of the pagoda, I caught myself reaching up to his ear in whispers. I say I caught myself, but enough had escaped to startle the man. I can't describe it otherwise than by saying that he shied. A grave, preoccupied manner, as though he were in possession of some perplexing intelligence, did not leave him henceforth. A little later I moved away from the rail to look at the compass with such a stealthy gait that the helmsman noticed it-- and I could not help noticing the unusual roundness of his eyes. These are trifling instances, though it's to no commander's advantage to be suspected of ludicrous eccentricities. But I was also more seriously affected. There are to a seaman certain words, gestures, that should in

Spanish awaited: esperado, aguardado. compass: brújula, compás. conveyed: entregado, alargado. eccentricities: excentricidades. elapsed: transcurrido. enlarge: ampliar, amplíe, amplía, amplíen, amplías, amplían, ampliamos, ampliáis, ampliad, amplío, agrandar. gait: paso. helmsman: timonel. henceforth: de aquí en adelante.

ludicrous: ridículo. mutinous: rebelde, amotinado. pant: jadear. penetrated: penetrado. perplexing: complicando, embrollando, enmarañando, que causa perplejidad, poco claro, desconcertar, dejar perplejo, confuso, complicado. preoccupied: preocupado. recoil: culatazo, repliegue, recular, retroceso, retroceder de, reculada,

rechazo, rebufar, retirarse, retraso, retroceder. roundness: redondez. seaman: marinero, marino. sincere: sincero. startle: sobresaltar, sobresaltas, sobresaltan, sobresaltamos, sobresaltáis, sobresaltad, sobresalta, sobresalten, sobresalte, sobresalto. stealthy: furtivo. unalloyed: sin aleación. unworthy: indigno, desmerecedor.

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given conditions come as naturally, as instinctively as the winking of a menaced eye. A certain order should spring on to his lips without thinking; a certain sign should get itself made, so to speak, without reflection. But all unconscious alertness had abandoned me. I had to make an effort of will to recall myself back (from the cabin) to the conditions of the moment. I felt that I was appearing an irresolute commander to those people who were watching me more or less critically.% And, besides, there were the scares. On the second day out, for instance, coming off the deck in the afternoon (I had straw slippers on my bare feet) I stopped at the open pantry door and spoke to the steward. He was doing something there with his back to me. At the sound of my voice he nearly jumped out of his skin, as the saying is, and incidentally broke a cup. “What on earth's the matter with you?” I asked, astonished. He was extremely confused. “Beg your pardon, sir. I made sure you were in your cabin.” “You see I wasn't.” “No, sir. I could have sworn I had heard you moving in there not a moment ago. It's most extraordinary . . . very sorry, sir.” I passed on with an inward shudder. I was so identified with my secret double that I did not even mention the fact in those scanty, fearful whispers we exchanged. I suppose he had made some slight noise of some kind or other. It would have been miraculous if he hadn't at one time or another. And yet, haggard as he appeared, he looked always perfectly self-controlled, more than calm--almost invulnerable. On my suggestion he remained almost entirely in the bathroom, which, upon the whole, was the safest place. There could be really no shadow of an excuse for anyone ever wanting to go in there, once the steward had done with it. It was a very tiny place. Sometimes he reclined on the floor, his legs bent, his head sustained on one elbow. At others I would find him on the campstool, sitting in his gray sleeping suit and with his cropped dark hair like a patient, unmoved convict. At night I would smuggle him into my bed

Spanish alertness: vigilancia. astonished: asombrado, sorprendido, estupefacto. bent: inclinación, torcido. confused: confuso, confundido. convict: convicto, condenado. cropped: recortado. elbow: codo, el codo. exchanged: cambiada, cambiado. fearful: temeroso, medroso, angustioso. incidentally: incidentalmente, a

propósito. instinctively: instintivamente. invulnerable: invulnerable. inward: interior, interno. irresolute: irresoluto, indeciso. menaced: Amenazado. miraculous: milagroso. reclined: reclinado. scanty: escaso, parco. shudder: estremecerse. smuggle: pasar de contrabando, contrabandear, contrabandea,

contrabandeo, contrabandeen, contrabandee, contrabandeas, contrabandean, contrabandeamos, contrabandeáis, contrabandead. straw: paja, pajita, la paja. sustained: sostenido, continuo. sworn: jurado. unconscious: desmayado, inconsciente. unmoved: firme, impasible. winking: guiñar, intermitente, parpadeo.

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place, and we would whisper together, with the regular footfalls of the officer of the watch passing and repassing over our heads. It was an infinitely miserable time. It was lucky that some tins of fine preserves were stowed in a locker in my stateroom; hard bread I could always get hold of; and so he lived on stewed chicken, pate de foie gras, asparagus, cooked oysters, sardines-- on all sorts of abominable sham delicacies out of tins. My early-morning coffee he always drank; and it was all I dared do for him in that respect.% Every day there was the horrible maneuvering to go through so that my room and then the bathroom should be done in the usual way. I came to hate the sight of the steward, to abhor the voice of that harmless man. I felt that it was he who would bring on the disaster of discovery. It hung like a sword over our heads. The fourth day out, I think (we were then working down the east side of the Gulf of Siam, tack for tack, in light winds and smooth water)-- the fourth day, I say, of this miserable juggling with the unavoidable, as we sat at our evening meal, that man, whose slightest movement I dreaded, after putting down the dishes ran up on deck busily. This could not be dangerous. Presently he came down again; and then it appeared that he had remembered a coat of mine which I had thrown over a rail to dry after having been wetted in a shower which had passed over the ship in the afternoon. Sitting stolidly at the head of the table I became terrified at the sight of the garment on his arm. Of course he made for my door. There was no time to lose. “Steward,” I thundered. My nerves were so shaken that I could not govern my voice and conceal my agitation. This was the sort of thing that made my terrifically whiskered mate tap his forehead with his forefinger. I had detected him using that gesture while talking on deck with a confidential air to the carpenter. It was too far to hear a word, but I had no doubt that this pantomime could only refer to the strange new captain. “Yes, sir,” the pale-faced steward turned resignedly to me. It was this maddening course of being shouted at, checked without rhyme or reason, arbitrarily chased out of my cabin, suddenly called into it, sent flying out of his

Spanish abhor: detestar, detesta, detesten, detestan, detestas, detesto, detestamos, detestáis, detestad, deteste, aborrecer. abominable: abominable, horrible, horroroso. agitation: agitación, ruido. arbitrarily: arbitrariamente. asparagus: espárrago. carpenter: carpintero, el carpintero. delicacies: comestibles finos. early-morning: matutino.

forefinger: dedo índice. juggling: hacer malabares, hacer malabarismos, juglaria, malabar, malabarismo, malabares. maneuvering: maniobrar, maniobra. oysters: Ostiones. pale-faced: caripálido. pantomime: pantomima. pate: cabeza. preserves: conservas. resignedly: resignadamente, con resignación.

rhyme: rima, rimar. sham: fingir, fingido. stewed: estofado. stolidly: estólidamente, impasiblemente. stowed: estibado. tack: tachuela, amura, puño de amura. terrifically: espantosamente, tremendamente. thundered: Tronado. unavoidable: inevitable. wetted: mojado.

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pantry on incomprehensible errands, that accounted for the growing wretchedness of his expression.% “Where are you going with that coat?” “To your room, sir.” “Is there another shower coming?” “I'm sure I don't know, sir. Shall I go up again and see, sir?” “No! never mind.” My object was attained, as of course my other self in there would have heard everything that passed. During this interlude my two officers never raised their eyes off their respective plates; but the lip of that confounded cub, the second mate, quivered visibly. I expected the steward to hook my coat on and come out at once. He was very slow about it; but I dominated my nervousness sufficiently not to shout after him. Suddenly I became aware (it could be heard plainly enough) that the fellow for some reason or other was opening the door of the bathroom. It was the end. The place was literally not big enough to swing a cat in. My voice died in my throat and I went stony all over. I expected to hear a yell of surprise and terror, and made a movement, but had not the strength to get on my legs. Everything remained still. Had my second self taken the poor wretch by the throat? I don't know what I could have done next moment if I had not seen the steward come out of my room, close the door, and then stand quietly by the sideboard. “Saved,” I thought. “But, no! Lost! Gone! He was gone!” I laid my knife and fork down and leaned back in my chair. My head swam. After a while, when sufficiently recovered to speak in a steady voice, I instructed my mate to put the ship round at eight o'clock himself. “I won't come on deck,” I went on. “I think I'll turn in, and unless the wind shifts I don't want to be disturbed before midnight. I feel a bit seedy.”

Spanish attained: alcanzado. bathroom: cuarto de baño, baño, establecimiento de baños, estación balnearia, el baño. dominated: dominado. fork: tenedor, horquilla, el tenedor, horca, bifurcación. instructed: notificado. interlude: interludio, intermedio, intervalo. leaned: inclinado, ladeado. literally: literalmente, woertlich.

midnight: medianoche, media noche, la medianoche. nervousness: nerviosidad, nerviosismo. plainly: simplemente. plates: placas. quivered: temblado. recovered: sanado, recuperado, recobrado. respective: respectivo. shout: gritar, grito. shower: ducha, la ducha, chaparrón,

chubasco. sideboard: armario, aparador. steady: estable. sufficiently: suficientemente, bastante. swing: balancear, columpio, balancearse, oscilación. terror: terror. throat: garganta, la garganta. visibly: visiblemente. wretch: desgraciado. wretchedness: miseria. yell: grito, gritar, aullar, chillar.

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“You did look middling bad a little while ago,” the chief mate remarked without showing any great concern.% They both went out, and I stared at the steward clearing the table. There was nothing to be read on that wretched man's face. But why did he avoid my eyes, I asked myself. Then I thought I should like to hear the sound of his voice. “Steward!” “Sir!” Startled as usual. “Where did you hang up that coat?” “In the bathroom, sir.” The usual anxious tone. “It's not quite dry yet, sir.” For some time longer I sat in the cuddy. Had my double vanished as he had come? But of his coming there was an explanation, whereas his disappearance would be inexplicable. . . . I went slowly into my dark room, shut the door, lighted the lamp, and for a time dared not turn round. When at last I did I saw him standing bolt-upright in the narrow recessed part. It would not be true to say I had a shock, but an irresistible doubt of his bodily existence flitted through my mind. Can it be, I asked myself, that he is not visible to other eyes than mine? It was like being haunted. Motionless, with a grave face, he raised his hands slightly at me in a gesture which meant clearly, “Heavens! what a narrow escape!” Narrow indeed. I think I had come creeping quietly as near insanity as any man who has not actually gone over the border. That gesture restrained me, so to speak. The mate with the terrific whiskers was now putting the ship on the other tack. In the moment of profound silence which follows upon the hands going to their stations I heard on the poop his raised voice: “Hard alee!” and the distant shout of the order repeated on the main-deck. The sails, in that light breeze, made but a faint fluttering noise. It ceased. The ship was coming round slowly: I held my breath in the renewed stillness of expectation; one wouldn't have thought that there was a single living soul on her decks. A sudden brisk shout, “Mainsail haul!” broke the spell, and in the noisy cries and rush overhead of the

Spanish anxious: inquieto, ansioso. bodily: corporal. breeze: brisa, la brisa. brisk: rápido. clearing: aclaración, claro, compensación. creeping: arrastrando. disappearance: desaparición. distant: lejano, distante. expectation: expectativa, expectación, espera, esperanza. fluttering: revolotear.

gesture: gesto, ademán, acción. grave: tumba, grave, crítico, sepulcro. hang: colgar. haunted: encantado, frecuentado, embrujado, aterrorizado, obsesionado. inexplicable: indefinible. irresistible: irresistible. middling: mediano, regular. noisy: ruidoso, bullicioso. overhead: arriba, gastos generales. profound: profundo.

renewed: renovado. repeated: repetido. restrained: contenido, refrenado, dueño de sí mismo, reprimido. rush: apresurarse, junco, prisa. sails: paño. soul: alma, espíritu, ánimo. spell: deletrear, el hechizo, el encanto. visible: visible. wretched: miserable, menesteroso, pobre, infeliz, necesitado, desdichado.

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men running away with the main brace we two, down in my cabin, came together in our usual position by the bed place.% He did not wait for my question. “I heard him fumbling here and just managed to squat myself down in the bath,” he whispered to me. “The fellow only opened the door and put his arm in to hang the coat up. All the same--” “I never thought of that,” I whispered back, even more appalled than before at the closeness of the shave, and marveling at that something unyielding in his character which was carrying him through so finely. There was no agitation in his whisper. Whoever was being driven distracted, it was not he. He was sane. And the proof of his sanity was continued when he took up the whispering again. “It would never do for me to come to life again.” It was something that a ghost might have said. But what he was alluding to was his old captain's reluctant admission of the theory of suicide. It would obviously serve his turn--if I had understood at all the view which seemed to govern the unalterable purpose of his action. “You must maroon me as soon as ever you can get amongst these islands off the Cambodge shore,” he went on. “Maroon you! We are not living in a boy's adventure tale,” I protested. His scornful whispering took me up. “We aren't indeed! There's nothing of a boy's tale in this. But there's nothing else for it. I want no more. You don't suppose I am afraid of what can be done to me? Prison or gallows or whatever they may please. But you don't see me coming back to explain such things to an old fellow in a wig and twelve respectable tradesmen, do you? What can they know whether I am guilty or not-- or of what I am guilty, either? That's my affair. What does the Bible say? `Driven off the face of the earth.' Very well, I am off the face of the earth now. As I came at night so I shall go.” “Impossible!” I murmured. “You can't.”

Spanish adventure: aventura. alluding: aludiendo. appalled: desmayado, espantado, repugnado, horrorizado. brace: abrazadera, corchete, llave, berbiquí, puntal. finely: finamente, en trozos menudos. fumbling: chapuceando, manoseando. gallows: horca. ghost: fantasma, el fantasma, imagen fantasma, aparición. govern: gobernar, gobiernen,

gobiernas, gobiernan, gobierna, gobernamos, gobernáis, gobernad, gobierne, gobierno, capitanear. maroon: corinto, petardo, marrón carmesí, marrón, dejar abandonado, castaño, castaña, aislar, abandonar en un sitio desolado, granate. marveling: Maravillar. protested: protestado. reluctant: reacio, renuente. respectable: respetable, honorable. sane: sano, cuerdo.

sanity: cordura. scornful: desdeñoso, despreciativo. shave: afeitar, afeitado, afeitarse, rapar. squat: ponerse en cuclillas. suicide: suicidio. tradesmen: trabajadores especializados. unalterable: inalterable. unyielding: inflexible. whoever: quien. wig: peluca.

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“Can't? . . . Not naked like a soul on the Day of Judgment. I shall freeze on to this sleeping suit. The Last Day is not yet-- and . . . you have understood thoroughly. Didn't you?” I felt suddenly ashamed of myself. I may say truly that I understood-- and my hesitation in letting that man swim away from my ship's side had been a mere sham sentiment, a sort of cowardice.% “It can't be done now till next night,” I breathed out. “The ship is on the offshore tack and the wind may fail us.” “As long as I know that you understand,” he whispered. “But of course you do. It's a great satisfaction to have got somebody to understand. You seem to have been there on purpose.” And in the same whisper, as if we two whenever we talked had to say things to each other which were not fit for the world to hear, he added, “It's very wonderful.” We remained side by side talking in our secret way-- but sometimes silent or just exchanging a whispered word or two at long intervals. And as usual he stared through the port. A breath of wind came now and again into our faces. The ship might have been moored in dock, so gently and on an even keel she slipped through the water, that did not murmur even at our passage, shadowy and silent like a phantom sea. At midnight I went on deck, and to my mate's great surprise put the ship round on the other tack. His terrible whiskers flitted round me in silent criticism. I certainly should not have done it if it had been only a question of getting out of that sleepy gulf as quickly as possible. I believe he told the second mate, who relieved him, that it was a great want of judgment. The other only yawned. That intolerable cub shuffled about so sleepily and lolled against the rails in such a slack, improper fashion that I came down on him sharply. “Aren't you properly awake yet?” “Yes, sir! I am awake.”

Spanish awake: despierto, despertar, despertarse. dock: muelle, dique, dársena, reducir, atracar. exchanging: cambiar. freeze: congelar, helar, congelación, congelarse, helada. gulf: golfo, abismo, despeñadero, precipicio. hesitation: vacilación, duda. improper: impropio. intervals: intervalos.

intolerable: intolerable. judgment: juicio, fallo, sentencia, criterio. keel: quilla, la quilla. lolled: Repantigado, colgado, pendido. moored: amarrado. phantom: fantasma. rails: valores de ferrocarriles, vertical de barras. satisfaction: satisfacción. sentiment: sentimiento, opinión,

sensibilidad, parecer, sentimentalismo. sharply: bruscamente. shuffled: barajado. slack: flojo, flojera. slipped: resbalado. thoroughly: completamente. truly: verdaderamente, de veras, en realidad, en efecto, realmente. whenever: cada vez que, cuando quiera que, cuando. yawned: Bostezó.

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“Well, then, be good enough to hold yourself as if you were. And keep a lookout. If there's any current we'll be closing with some islands before daylight.” The east side of the gulf is fringed with islands, some solitary, others in groups. One the blue background of the high coast they seem to float on silvery patches of calm water, arid and gray, or dark green and rounded like clumps of evergreen bushes, with the larger ones, a mile or two long, showing the outlines of ridges, ribs of gray rock under the dark mantle of matted leafage. Unknown to trade, to travel, almost to geography, the manner of life they harbor is an unsolved secret. There must be villages-- settlements of fishermen at least--on the largest of them, and some communication with the world is probably kept up by native craft. But all that forenoon, as we headed for them, fanned along by the faintest of breezes, I saw no sign of man or canoe in the field of the telescope I kept on pointing at the scattered group.% At noon I have no orders for a change of course, and the mate's whiskers became much concerned and seemed to be offering themselves unduly to my notice. At last I said: “I am going to stand right in. Quite in--as far as I can take her.” The stare of extreme surprise imparted an air of ferocity also to his eyes, and he looked truly terrific for a moment. “We're not doing well in the middle of the gulf,” I continued, casually. “I am going to look for the land breezes tonight.” “Bless my soul! Do you mean, sir, in the dark amongst the lot of all them islands and reefs and shoals?” “Well--if there are any regular land breezes at all on this coast one must get close inshore to find them, mustn't one?” “Bless my soul!” he exclaimed again under his breath. All that afternoon he wore a dreamy, contemplative appearance which in him was a mark of perplexity. After dinner I went into my stateroom as if I meant to take some rest. There we two bent our dark heads over a half-unrolled chart lying on my bed.

Spanish arid: árido. casually: por accidente, por casualidad, sin darle importancia, transeúntemente, casualmente, como al descuido, ocasional, accidentalmente, ocasionalmente. chart: gráfico, diagrama, tabla, mapa. contemplative: contemplativo. dreamy: soñador. evergreen: de hoja perenne. fanned: ventilado. ferocity: ferocidad, la ferocidad.

float: flotar, nadar, flotador, balsa, carroza, flotante. forenoon: día de la mañana, la mañana, mañana. fringed: floqueado. geography: geografía. imparted: impartido. inshore: cercano a la orilla, cerca de la costa, costero. leafage: capa. lookout: atalaya. mantle: abrigo, manto.

matted: enmarañado. native: indígena, nativo, innato. noon: mediodía. outlines: contornos. patches: placas. perplexity: perplejidad. ribs: costillas. rounded: redondeado. telescope: telescopio, catalejo. unduly: indebidamente, excesivamente, impropiamente. unsolved: no resuelto.

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“There,” I said. “It's got to be Koh-ring. I've been looking at it ever since sunrise. It has got two hills and a low point. It must be inhabited. And on the coast opposite there is what looks like the mouth of a biggish river--with some towns, no doubt, not far up. It's the best chance for you that I can see.” “Anything. Koh-ring let it be.” He looked thoughtfully at the chart as if surveying chances and distances from a lofty height--and following with his eyes his own figure wandering on the blank land of Cochin-China, and then passing off that piece of paper clean out of sight into uncharted regions. And it was as if the ship had two captains to plan her course for her. I had been so worried and restless running up and down that I had not had the patience to dress that day. I had remained in my sleeping suit, with straw slippers and a soft floppy hat. The closeness of the heat in the gulf had been most oppressive, and the crew were used to seeing me wandering in that airy attire.% “She will clear the south point as she heads now,” I whispered into his ear. “Goodness only knows when, though, but certainly after dark. I'll edge her in to half a mile, as far as I may be able to judge in the dark--” “Be careful,” he murmured, warningly--and I realized suddenly that all my future, the only future for which I was fit, would perhaps go irretrievably to pieces in any mishap to my first command. I could not stop a moment longer in the room. I motioned him to get out of sight and made my way on the poop. That unplayful cub had the watch. I walked up and down for a while thinking things out, then beckoned him over. “Send a couple of hands to open the two quarter-deck ports,” I said, mildly. He actually had the impudence, or else so forgot himself in his wonder at such an incomprehensible order, as to repeat: “Open the quarter-deck ports! What for, sir?” “The only reason you need concern yourself about is because I tell you to do so. Have them open wide and fastened properly.”

Spanish airy: airoso. beckoned: llamado, Atraído. biggish: bastante grande, grandecito. blank: blanco, espacio en blanco, en blanco, formulario, vacío, hoja. chances: posibilidades. floppy: flexible. forgot: olvidado, pret de forget. goodness: bondad. hat: sombrero, el sombrero. impudence: impudencia, descaro. inhabited: habitado, poblado.

irretrievably: irreparablemente, irrecuperablemente, incobrablemente. lofty: alto, encumbrado. mildly: suavemente. mile: legua, milla, la milla. mishap: contratiempo. motioned: Promovido. oppressive: oprimido, opresivo. passing: paso. patience: paciencia. ports: puertos.

realized: comprendido, entendido. repeat: repetir, repita, repitan, repito, repites, repetid, repite, repetís, repetimos, repiten, reiterar. restless: inquieto. sunrise: salida del sol, amanecer. surveying: topografía, agrimensura. thoughtfully: atentamente. uncharted: desconocido, no trazado, inexplorado, fuera de el mapa. worried: preocupado, angustiado, inquieto.

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He reddened and went off, but I believe made some jeering remark to the carpenter as to the sensible practice of ventilating a ship's quarter-deck. I know he popped into the mate's cabin to impart the fact to him because the whiskers came on deck, as it were by chance, and stole glances at me from below-- for signs of lunacy or drunkenness, I suppose.% A little before supper, feeling more restless than ever, I rejoined, for a moment, my second self. And to find him sitting so quietly was surprising, like something against nature, inhuman. I developed my plan in a hurried whisper. “I shall stand in as close as I dare and then put her round. I will presently find means to smuggle you out of here into the sail locker, which communicates with the lobby. But there is an opening, a sort of square for hauling the sails out, which gives straight on the quarter-deck and which is never closed in fine weather, so as to give air to the sails. When the ship's way is deadened in stays and all the hands are aft at the main braces you will have a clear road to slip out and get overboard through the open quarter-deck port. I've had them both fastened up. Use a rope's end to lower yourself into the water so as to avoid a splash--you know. It could be heard and cause some beastly complication.” He kept silent for a while, then whispered, “I understand.” “I won't be there to see you go,” I began with an effort. “The rest . . . I only hope I have understood, too.” “You have. From first to last”--and for the first time there seemed to be a faltering, something strained in his whisper. He caught hold of my arm, but the ringing of the supper bell made me start. He didn't though; he only released his grip. After supper I didn't come below again till well past eight o'clock. The faint, steady breeze was loaded with dew; and the wet, darkened sails held all there was of propelling power in it. The night, clear and starry, sparkled darkly, and the opaque, lightless patches shifting slowly against the low stars were the

Spanish beastly: bestial. communicates: comunica. darkly: cetrinamente, misteriosamente, oscuramente, tristemente. dew: rocío. drunkenness: embriaguez, ebriedad, borrachera. faltering: titubeando. hauling: transportación, acarrear. impart: impartir, imparta, comunicar, impartan, imparto, impartís,

impartimos, impartes, imparte, imparten, impartid. inhuman: inhumano. jeering: mofándose. loaded: cargado. lunacy: locura. propelling: propulsando. reddened: enrojecido. rejoined: replicado, reunido. remark: comentario, observación, reparo, censura, nota, notar. ringing: zumbido, sonando,

sobreoscilación. shifting: cambiar, desplazamiento, movedizo. sparkled: chispeado. starry: estrellado. stays: queda, permanece. stole: estola. strained: torcer, entiesar, torcido, torcedura, tirantez, tirante, tenso, tensión, rasgo heredado, poner tirante, pasado. ventilating: ventilando.

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drifting islets. On the port bow there was a big one more distant and shadowily imposing by the great space of sky it eclipsed.% On opening the door I had a back view of my very own self looking at a chart. He had come out of the recess and was standing near the table. “Quite dark enough,” I whispered. He stepped back and leaned against my bed with a level, quiet glance. I sat on the couch. We had nothing to say to each other. Over our heads the officer of the watch moved here and there. Then I heard him move quickly. I knew what that meant. He was making for the companion; and presently his voice was outside my door. “We are drawing in pretty fast, sir. Land looks rather close.” “Very well,” I answered. “I am coming on deck directly.” I waited till he was gone out of the cuddy, then rose. My double moved too. The time had come to exchange our last whispers, for neither of us was ever to hear each other's natural voice. “Look here!” I opened a drawer and took out three sovereigns. “Take this anyhow. I've got six and I'd give you the lot, only I must keep a little money to buy some fruit and vegetables for the crew from native boats as we go through Sunda Straits.” He shook his head. “Take it,” I urged him, whispering desperately. “No one can tell what--” He smiled and slapped meaningly the only pocket of the sleeping jacket. It was not safe, certainly. But I produced a large old silk handkerchief of mine, and tying the three pieces of gold in a corner, pressed it on him. He was touched, I supposed, because he took it at last and tied it quickly round his waist under the jacket, on his bare skin. Our eyes met; several seconds elapsed, till, our glances still mingled, I extended my hand and turned the lamp out. Then I passed through the cuddy, leaving the door of my room wide open. . . . “Steward!”

Spanish answered: contesta, Contestado. bow: proa, arco, reverencia, inclinarse, lazo. companion: acompañante, compañero. desperately: desesperadamente. drawer: cajón, librador, la gaveta, gaveta. drifting: llevar. handkerchief: pañuelo. imposing: imponente, imponiendo. jacket: chaqueta, americana, la

chaqueta, cubierta, funda, envoltura, camisa, cazadora. meaningly: con aire significativo. mingled: mezclado, triscado. pocket: bolsillo, el bolsillo, bolsa, casilla. pressed: prensado, apretado, planchado, plegado a presión. recess: descanso, hueco, recreo, nicho. shadowily: indistintamente, espectralmente, oscuramente, tenebrosamente, vagamente.

silk: seda, la seda. slapped: abofeteado. stepped: escalonado. tied: atado. till: caja, hasta que, hasta, a que. tying: ligamiento, atar, atadura. urged: Instado. vegetables: verduras, vegetales, verdura. waist: cintura, la cintura, talle. waited: Esperado, aguardado, perdado.

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He was still lingering in the pantry in the greatness of his zeal, giving a rubup to a plated cruet stand the last thing before going to bed. Being careful not to wake up the mate, whose room was opposite, I spoke in an undertone.% He looked round anxiously. “Sir!” “Can you get me a little hot water from the galley?” “I am afraid, sir, the galley fire's been out for some time now.” “Go and see.” He flew up the stairs. “Now,” I whispered, loudly, into the saloon--too loudly, perhaps, but I was afraid I couldn't make a sound. He was by my side in an instant--the double captain slipped past the stairs--through a tiny dark passage . . . a sliding door. We were in the sail locker, scrambling on our knees over the sails. A sudden thought struck me. I saw myself wandering barefooted, bareheaded, the sun beating on my dark poll. I snatched off my floppy hat and tried hurriedly in the dark to ram it on my other self. He dodged and fended off silently. I wonder what he thought had come to me before he understood and suddenly desisted. Our hands met gropingly, lingered united in a steady, motionless clasp for a second. . . . No word was breathed by either of us when they separated. I was standing quietly by the pantry door when the steward returned. “Sorry, sir. Kettle barely warm. Shall I light the spirit lamp?” “Never mind.” I came out on deck slowly. It was now a matter of conscience to shave the land as close as possible--for now he must go overboard whenever the ship was put in stays. Must! There could be no going back for him. After a moment I walked over to leeward and my heart flew into my mouth at the nearness of the land on the bow. Under any other circumstances I would not have held on a minute longer. The second mate had followed me anxiously. I looked on till I felt I could command my voice. “She will weather,” I said then in a quiet tone.

Spanish bareheaded: descubierto. barely: apenas. beating: paliza, pulsación, latido. clasp: broche. command: mando, orden, mandato, comando, instrucción, capitanear, acaudillar. conscience: conciencia. cruet: vinajeras, vinagrera, ampolla, salvilla. desisted: desistido. dodged: eludido.

fended: rechazado, defendido. flew: voló, pret de fly. galley: galera, cocina. greatness: grandeza. gropingly: inquisitivamente. hurriedly: precipitadamente, apresuradamente. knees: rodillas. leeward: sotavento. lingering: prolongado. nearness: proximidad. passage: paso, pasillo, pasaje.

plated: chapado. poll: votación. ram: carnero, morueco. separated: separado. silently: silenciosamente, silencioso. sliding: corredizo, deslizamiento. snatched: arrebatado. stairs: escalera, escaleras. struck: pret y pp de strike, golpeado. understood: entendido, comprendido. wake: estela, despertar. zeal: celo, ahínco.

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“Are you going to try that, sir?” he stammered out incredulously.% I took no notice of him and raised my tone just enough to be heard by the helmsman. “Keep her good full.” “Good full, sir.” The wind fanned my cheek, the sails slept, the world was silent. The strain of watching the dark loom of the land grow bigger and denser was too much for me. I had shut my eyes--because the ship must go closer. She must! The stillness was intolerable. Were we standing still? When I opened my eyes the second view started my heart with a thump. The black southern hill of Koh-ring seemed to hang right over the ship like a towering fragment of everlasting night. On that enormous mass of blackness there was not a gleam to be seen, not a sound to be heard. It was gliding irresistibly towards us and yet seemed already within reach of the hand. I saw the vague figures of the watch grouped in the waist, gazing in awed silence. “Are you going on, sir?” inquired an unsteady voice at my elbow. I ignored it. I had to go on. “Keep her full. Don't check her way. That won't do now,” I said warningly. “I can't see the sails very well,” the helmsman answered me, in strange, quavering tones. Was she close enough? Already she was, I won't say in the shadow of the land, but in the very blackness of it, already swallowed up as it were, gone too close to be recalled, gone from me altogether. “Give the mate a call,” I said to the young man who stood at my elbow as still as death. “And turn all hands up.” My tone had a borrowed loudness reverberated from the height of the land. Several voices cried out together: “We are all on deck, sir.” Then stillness again, with the great shadow gliding closer, towering higher, without a light, without a sound. Such a hush had fallen on the ship that she

Spanish awed: atemorizado, sobrecogido. blackness: oscuridad, negrura. borrowed: prestado. cheek: mejilla, la mejilla, carrillo. everlasting: eterno. fragment: fragmento, pieza. gazing: mirar. gleam: destello. gliding: deslizar, planeación. grouped: agrupado. hush: silencio, acallar. irresistibly: irresistiblemente.

loom: telar. loudness: sonoridad, volumen. quavering: trinar, tembloroso. recalled: hacer volver, desmarcado, recordar, recordado, llamar de nuevo, recuperar, llamada, desmarcar, recuperado, revocar, revocación. reverberated: reverberado. shadow: sombra, sombreado. stammered: tartamudeó. swallowed: deglutido, dar crédito a,

contener, golondrina, tragado, tragarse, tragar. thump: porrazo. tones: tonos. towering: imponente, violento, torre, sobresalir, muy alto, encumbrado, elevarse, elevado, elevadísimo, muy violento, dominar. unsteady: inseguro, inconstante, inestable. vague: vago. warningly: Advertir.

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might have been a bark of the dead floating in slowly under the very gate of Erebus.% “My God! Where are we?” It was the mate moaning at my elbow. He was thunderstruck, and as it were deprived of the moral support of his whiskers. He clapped his hands and absolutely cried out, “Lost!” “Be quiet,” I said, sternly. He lowered his tone, but I saw the shadowy gesture of his despair. “What are we doing here?” “Looking for the land wind.” He made as if to tear his hair, and addressed me recklessly. “She will never get out. You have done it, sir. I knew it'd end in something like this. She will never weather, and you are too close now to stay. She'll drift ashore before she's round. O my God!” I caught his arm as he was raising it to batter his poor devoted head, and shook it violently. “She's ashore already,” he wailed, trying to tear himself away. “Is she? . . . Keep good full there!” “Good full, sir,” cried the helmsman in a frightened, thin, childlike voice. I hadn't let go the mate's arm and went on shaking it. “Ready about, do you hear? You go forward”--shake--”and stop there”--shake--”and hold your noise”-shake--” and see these head-sheets properly overhauled”-- shake, shake--shake. And all the time I dared not look towards the land lest my heart should fail me. I released my grip at last and he ran forward as if fleeing for dear life. I wondered what my double there in the sail locker thought of this commotion. He was able to hear everything--and perhaps he was able to understand why, on my conscience, it had to be thus close--no less. My first order “Hard alee!” re-echoed ominously under the towering shadow of Koh-ring as if I had shouted in a mountain gorge. And then I watched the land intently.

Spanish ashore: en tierra. bark: ladrar, corteza, ladrido, barco, cáscara. batter: pasta. childlike: infantil. clapped: Aplaudido. commotion: escándalo, conmoción, alboroto. deprived: privado. despair: desesperación. devoted: afectuoso, consagrado, dedicado, adicto, fiel.

drift: deriva, derivar del rumbo, corriente. fleeing: huyendo. floating: flotante, flotación. gorge: garganta, barranca, cañón. intently: atentamente, con más atención. it'd: hace. lest: para que no, a no ser que, con el fin de, no sea que, si es necesario. lowered: bajado, arriado. moaning: gemiendo.

ominously: presagiosamente, siniestramente, ominosamente. recklessly: descuidadamente, atronadamente, aturdidamente, imprudentemente, temerariamente, inconsideradamente. sternly: severamente. tear: lágrima, desgarrar, rajar, romper, rasgar, desgarro. thunderstruck: atónito. violently: violentamente. wailed: Gemido.

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In%that smooth water and light wind it was impossible to feel the ship comingto. No! I could not feel her. And my second self was making now ready to ship out and lower himself overboard. Perhaps he was gone already . . . ? The great black mass brooding over our very mastheads began to pivot away from the ship's side silently. And now I forgot the secret stranger ready to depart, and remembered only that I was a total stranger to the ship. I did not know her. Would she do it? How was she to be handled? I swung the mainyard and waited helplessly. She was perhaps stopped, and her very fate hung in the balance, with the black mass of Koh-ring like the gate of the everlasting night towering over her taffrail. What would she do now? Had she way on her yet? I stepped to the side swiftly, and on the shadowy water I could see nothing except a faint phosphorescent flash revealing the glassy smoothness of the sleeping surface. It was impossible to tell-- and I had not learned yet the feel of my ship. Was she moving? What I needed was something easily seen, a piece of paper, which I could throw overboard and watch. I had nothing on me. To run down for it I didn't dare. There was no time. All at once my strained, yearning stare distinguished a white object floating within a yard of the ship's side. White on the black water. A phosphorescent flash passed under it. What was that thing? . . . I recognized my own floppy hat. It must have fallen off his head . . . and he didn't bother. Now I had what I wanted--the saving mark for my eyes. But I hardly thought of my other self, now gone from the ship, to be hidden forever from all friendly faces, to be a fugitive and a vagabond on the earth, with no brand of the curse on his sane forehead to stay a slaying hand . . . too proud to explain. And I watched the hat--the expression of my sudden pity for his mere flesh. It had been meant to save his homeless head from the dangers of the sun. And now--behold--it was saving the ship, by serving me for a mark to help out the ignorance of my strangeness. Ha! It was drifting forward, warning me just in time that the ship had gathered sternaway. “Shift the helm,” I said in a low voice to the seaman standing still like a statue.

Spanish bother: molestar, fastidiar, incomodar, molestia, estorbar, preocuparse. brand: marca, marcar. brooding: empollar. curse: maldecir, maldición, jurar. dare: atreverse, reto, cariño. depart: salir, salís, salgo, salga, sales, salen, saled, sale, salgan, salimos, sal. distinguished: distinguido. fate: destino, suerte, sino, hado. flash: destello, llamarada, centella, rebaba, fogonazo, relampaguear,

destellar. fugitive: fugitivo. gathered: reunido, reunió. handled: manejado. helplessly: impotentemente, desvalidamente, imposibilitadamente. homeless: sin techo, desposeído, sin hogar. hung: colgó, pret y pp de hang, colgado, continuado. pity: dolerse por, piedad, compadecer

a, lástima, compasión. pivot: pivote. recognized: reconocido. revealing: revelando. serving: sirviendo, ración. slaying: matando. smoothness: suavidad, lisura. statue: estatua, la estatua. swiftly: de prisa, pronto, rápidamente. vagabond: errabundo, vagabundo. yearning: anhelo, añoranza, anhelando.

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The man's eyes glistened wildly in the binnacle light as he jumped round to the other side and spun round the wheel.% I walked to the break of the poop. On the over-shadowed deck all hands stood by the forebraces waiting for my order. The stars ahead seemed to be gliding from right to left. And all was so still in the world that I heard the quiet remark, “She's round,” passed in a tone of intense relief between two seamen. “Let go and haul.” The foreyards ran round with a great noise, amidst cheery cries. And now the frightful whiskers made themselves heard giving various orders. Already the ship was drawing ahead. And I was alone with her. Nothing! no one in the world should stand now between us, throwing a shadow on the way of silent knowledge and mute affection, the perfect communion of a seaman with his first command. Walking to the taffrail, I was in time to make out, on the very edge of a darkness thrown by a towering black mass like the very gateway of Erebus--yes, I was in time to catch an evanescent glimpse of my white hat left behind to mark the spot where the secret sharer of my cabin and of my thoughts, as though he were my second self, had lowered himself into the water to take his punishment: a free man, a proud swimmer striking out for a new destiny.

Spanish affection: afecto, cariño, afectuosidad, amor. amidst: en medio de, entre. catch: coger, cogéis, cojan, coged, cogemos, cogen, coges, coja, coge, cojo, asir. cheery: alegre. communion: comunión. darkness: tinieblas, oscuridad, la oscuridad. destiny: destino, suerte. drawing: dibujando, dibujo,

encantando, trazando, plano, giro. evanescent: evanescente. gateway: puerta, pasarela, entrada. glimpse: vislumbrar. intense: violento, intenso, fuerte. jumped: Saltado. noise: ruido, alboroto, el ruido. proud: orgulloso. punishment: castigo, escarmiento, punición, pena. seamen: marineros. secret: secreto, el secreto, arcano,

clandestino. silent: silencioso, mudo, callado. spot: mancha, punto, sitio, verrugato croca, manchar, mancilla, lugar. spun: hilado. stars: estrellas. striking: llamativo. thoughts: pensamientos. throwing: lanzamiento. thrown: tirado, pp de throw. tone: tono. wildly: ferozmente.

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GLOSSARY abandoned: abandonado, desamparado, dejado, abandonados, abandonada, olvidado, abandonadas abhor: detestar, detesta, detesten, detestan, detestas, detesto, detestamos, detestáis, detestad, deteste, aborrecer aboard: a bordo, a bordo de abominable: abominable, horrible, horroroso absent: ausente absolute: absoluto, completo, cabal absolutely: absolutamente, verdaderamente, en efecto, en realidad, de veras absurd: absurdo absurdly: absurdamente accident: accidente, desgracia, un accidente, el accidente accidental: accidental, fortuito accidents: accidentes accomodation: adaptación accompanied: acompañado according: conforme, de acuerdo con account: cuenta, considerar, comunicación, creer, contemplar, lugar, tomar en consideración, motivo, noticia, explicación, información accounted: contabilizados, contabilizo acquaintance: conocido, conocimiento, notoriedad actions: acciones acutely: agudamente added: sumado, agregado, añadido address: dirección, dirigir, discurso, señas, dirigirse a, alocución, dirigirse, domicilio, dirigir la palabra a addressed: dirigido adequacy: suficiencia, adecuación admission: admisión, entrada, ingreso, confesión, precio de entrada, declaración, aceptación admitted: confesado, admitido

advanced: avanzado, adelantado advantage: ventaja, provecho, la ventaja adventure: aventura affair: asunto, caso, particular, aventura affected: afectado, conmovido affection: afecto, cariño, afectuosidad, amor afraid: miedoso, temeroso, asustado, medroso, miedo, encogido, angustioso, tímido, be - tener miedo aft: a popa afternoon: tarde, la tarde agitation: agitación, ruido ago: hace agreeably: agradablemente aha: ah ahead: adelante, delante, anteriormente air: aire, airear, el aire, aéreo, orear airy: airoso alertness: vigilancia alive: vivo, viviente alluding: aludiendo alone: solo, único, solamente, sólo along: a lo largo de, por alongside: a lo largo de, junto a, al lado de alternative: alternativo, alternativa alternatives: alternativas altogether: todo, en conjunto amazing: asombrando, asombroso, maravilloso, maravillando, pasmando, pasmoso american: americano, estadounidense, norteamericano, americana amidst: en medio de, entre amongst: entre anchor: ancla, anclar, fondear, anclaje, áncora, el ancla anchorage: anclaje, ancladero, fondeadero anchored: anclado angel: ángel animated: animado

announced: anunciado annoyed: fastidiado, molestado, enojado, enfadado answer: respuesta, responder, contestar, contestación, responder a, corresponder al, contestar a, la respuesta, réplica answered: contesta, Contestado anxiety: ansiedad anxious: inquieto, ansioso anxiously: ansiosamente anybody: alguien, alguno, cierto, cualquiera anyhow: sin embargo anyone: alguien, cualquiera anyway: sin embargo anywhere: dondequiera, en cualquier parte apart: aparte, por separado, particular, separado appalled: desmayado, espantado, repugnado, horrorizado appeal: apelación, llamada, apelar, recurso, oración, ruego, atracción, atractivo, recurrir appealed: Apelado appear: aparecer, aparece, aparezco, aparezcan, apareces, aparecen, aparecemos, aparecéis, apareced, aparezca, parecer appearance: aspecto, apariencia, aparición, comparecencia, vista, apersonamiento appeared: Aparecido, comparecido appearing: apareciendo, compareciendo appointed: nombrado, designado approached: Acercado arbitrarily: arbitrariamente archipelago: archipiélago arduous: arduo, difícil arid: árido arm: brazo, armar, el brazo, arma arms: brazos, los brazos, armas arouse: despertar, despiertas, despierten, despiertan, despierta, despertamos, despertáis, despertad,

48 despierto, despierte arrangement: arreglo, acuerdo, construcción, disposición, orden, combinación arrest: detención, detener, arrestar, arresto, prender arrival: llegada, aprovisionamiento, arribo, venida arrived: llegado ashamed: avergonzado, vergonzoso ashore: en tierra aside: aparte, al lado ask: preguntar, preguntáis, preguntad, pregunto, pregunten, preguntas, preguntan, preguntamos, pregunte, pregunta, pedir asking: preguntando, pidiendo, solicitando asparagus: espárrago aspect: aspecto, vista assented: Consentido asserting: afirmando assurance: garantía, convicción, aseguramiento assure: asegurar, asegura, aseguren, aseguras, aseguran, aseguramos, aseguráis, asegurad, aseguro, asegure, garantizar assured: asegurado astonished: asombrado, sorprendido, estupefacto astonishment: asombro astounded: pasmado, pasmar, aturdir, asombrado, sorprender ate: comí athwart: a través de atlantic: Atlántico attained: alcanzado attempt: intentar, intenta, intentad, intentáis, intentamos, intentas, intente, intenten, intentan, intento, tentativa attended: asistido attention: atención, firmes attire: atavío, indumentaria, atraer attitudes: actitudes audible: audible avoid: evitar, evito, evitan, evitamos, evitáis, evitad, eviten, evita, evitas, evite, eludir awaited: esperado, aguardado awake: despierto, despertar, despertarse aware: consciente awash: inundado, a flor de agua awed: atemorizado, sobrecogido awful: horrible, abominable, horroroso, atroz, tremendo background: fondo, antecedentes, segundo plano, trasfondo, de fondo, movimiento propio, luminancia de fondo

The Secret Sharer backs: espaldas bad: malo, mal, podrido balance: equilibrio, saldo, balancear, balanza, balance, saldar, equilibrar bamboo: bambú bananas: plátano bandy: arqueado bang: golpe bar: barra, bar, salvo, cercar, taberna, obstrucción, impedir, impidan, cercad, cercáis, cercamos bare: desnudo, pelado, descubierto barefooted: descalzo bareheaded: descubierto barely: apenas bark: ladrar, corteza, ladrido, barco, cáscara barren: árido, estéril, yermo barring: salvo, cercando, impidiendo, excepto bath: baño, bañera bathroom: cuarto de baño, baño, establecimiento de baños, estación balnearia, el baño batter: pasta beam: viga, rayo, haz, plegador, radio, haz de luz bearing: cojinete, abolas, rodamiento bearings: cojinetes, rumbos, rodamientos beast: bestia, animal beastly: bestial beating: paliza, pulsación, latido beauty: belleza, la belleza beckoned: llamado, Atraído bed: cama, lecho, cauce, la cama, bancada, cuadro, madre beg: mendigar, mendigas, mendiguen, mendigan, mendigáis, mendiga, mendigad, mendigamos, mendigo, mendigue, pedir limosna begun: empezado, principiado behaved: se comportado, portado, funcionado, conducido, educado, Comportado, comportarse bien, comportar behold: tenga bell: timbre, campana, campanilla, la campana belong: pertenecer, pertenecemos, pertenezcan, pertenezco, pertenecen, perteneced, pertenece, pertenecéis, perteneces, pertenezca below: abajo, debajo de, debajo, bajo, por debajo de, en el fondo belt: cinturón, correa, cinto, pretina bent: inclinación, torcido besides: además, demás, además de, amén de bethought: pret y pp de bethink beyond: más allá de, a través de, luego, después, allende, más allá

bible: Biblia bigger: más grande, mayor, más biggish: bastante grande, grandecito binnacle: bitácora bird: pájaro, ave bit: pedazo, tela, trozo, broca bitter: amargo, agrio blackness: oscuridad, negrura blame: culpa, reprender, valorar en, reprobar, culpar blank: blanco, espacio en blanco, en blanco, formulario, vacío, hoja blast: explosión bless: bendecir, bendecimos, bendigo, bendigan, bendices, bendicen, bendecís, bendecid, bendice, bendiga blew: pret de blow, Sopló blue: azul, azular bluntly: bruscamente board: tabla, tablero, bordo, cartón, placa, panel, abordar, junta, tablón, cuadro, consejo boat: barco, bote, barca, el barco bodily: corporal boiling: ebullición, hervor, hirviente, hirviendo, hervir bold: grueso, negrita, audaz boldly: audazmente bolt: perno, cerrojo, saeta, tornillo, bulón, pestillo, clavija bolted: destornillador, cerrado, empernado bookcase: librería, estante para libros, armario para libros, biblioteca, el estante de libros boots: botas border: borde, orilla, frontera, límite, margen, baranda borrowed: prestado bother: molestar, fastidiar, incomodar, molestia, estorbar, preocuparse bothered: molestado bottle: botella, la botella, embotellar, vaciar, frasco, biberón bottles: las botellas bottom: fondo, suelo, inferior, lado inferior, el fondo, culo, posaderas, trasero bow: proa, arco, reverencia, inclinarse, lazo bowed: agobiado, arqueado, cabizbajo, encorvado, inclinado boy: chico, muchacho, niño, el muchacho, criado, chamaco brace: abrazadera, corchete, llave, berbiquí, puntal braces: tirantes brand: marca, marcar brass: latón, metal bread: pan, el pan

Joseph Conrad break: romper, descanso, interrupción, rotura, quebrar, corte, pausa, adiestrar, fractura, interrumpir breakfast: desayuno, el desayuno, desayunar breaking: ruptura, rotura breath: aliento, respiración, hálito breathed: respirado breathless: jadeante, sin aliento breeze: brisa, la brisa bright: claro, luminoso, brillante, magnífico bring: traer, traigan, trae, traed, traéis, traemos, traen, traigo, traes, traiga, llevar bringing: trayendo brisk: rápido broad: ancho broke: bollado, rotura, rompió, romper, pret de break, interrupción, fracturar, sin blanca, comienzo, pelado, descanso broken: roto, estropeado, entrecortado, quebrado brooding: empollar brought: Traído brown: marrón, pardo, moreno, dorar, castaño brushes: escobillas brusque: brusco brusquely: bruscamente brute: bruto, bestia bulkhead: mamparo bullock: buey bunches: coletas bundle: bulto, manojo, haz, paquete, mazo bunk: litera bunting: empavesado, verderón, estameña, escribano, banderas, lanilla burial: entierro, enterramiento burned: quemó burning: quemadura, ardiente busily: atareadamente, diligentemente, afanosamente, ajetreadamente, ocupadamente busy: ocupado buy: comprar, compra, procurarse, adquisición cabin: cabaña, camarote, cabina, litera cadaverous: cadavérico cain: Caín calculated: calculado, computado call: llamada, llamar, llaman, llamen, llamad, llamas, llamo, llamamos, llamáis, llame, llama calm: tranquilo, calma, calmar, quieto, silencio, sosegado, sosegar, aquietar, sereno

calmness: calma, tranquilidad canoe: canoa, piragua can't: no puede cap: gorro, gorra, birrete, el gorro, tapa, tapón, zuncho, tapar, casquillo, bonete capable: capaz, hábil capital: capital, capitel, mayúscula, la capital caprice: capricho caps: mayúsculas captain: capitán carcass: cadáver, canal cardiff: Habitante De Cardiff, Hombre De Cardivo careful: cuidadoso, prudente, circunspecto, precavido carefully: cuidadosamente cargo: carga, cargamento, flete carpenter: carpintero, el carpintero carried: Llevado, cargado, transportado carrying: llevando, transportando, cargando casing: carcasa, cubierta, caja cast: lanzar, lanzamiento, arrojar, echar, colar, elenco, molde casually: por accidente, por casualidad, sin darle importancia, transeúntemente, casualmente, como al descuido, ocasional, accidentalmente, ocasionalmente cat: gato, el gato catch: coger, cogéis, cojan, coged, cogemos, cogen, coges, coja, coge, cojo, asir catching: cogiendo, contagioso, asiendo, acertando caught: cogido, asido, acertado cause: causa, causar, ocasionar, dar lugar a, instigar, producir, maquinar, provocar cautious: precavido, prudente, circunspecto, cauto, cauteloso ceased: ceso, Cesado celestial: celeste, celestial ceremoniously: ceremoniosamente certainly: ciertamente, desde luego chains: cadenas chair: silla, la silla, presidencia, cátedra chance: azar, suerte, acontecimiento, acaso, oportunidad chances: posibilidades changed: cambio, cambió, cambiado chaps: rajar, resquebrajar, quijada, muchacho, grieta, carrillo, agrietar, zajones chapter: capítulo, capitulo, sección character: carácter, seña, naturaleza, índole, personaje characteristic: característica,

49 característico, cualidad charge: carga, cargo, acusación, gastos, cargar, cobro, cobrar, imputación chart: gráfico, diagrama, tabla, mapa chased: cazado, persiguió check: cheque, comprobar, revisar, control, controlar, cuenta, talón, verificación, contener, verificar, reprimir checked: a cuadros cheek: mejilla, la mejilla, carrillo cheeks: mejillas cheerful: alegre, animado cheery: alegre chest: pecho, arca, aparador, el pecho, caja chicken: pollo, gallina, el pollo chief: jefe, principal, caudillo, dueño, capitán, comandante, arzo, patrón, archi, amo, caporal childlike: infantil chin: barba, barbilla, la barbilla, mentón choice: elección, opción, selección, surtido chucked: Botado cigar: cigarro, puro, el puro, el cigarro, cigarro puro circle: círculo, rodear, cerco circumstances: circunstancias, circunstancia cistern: cisterna, tanque, aljibe claim: reclamación, derecho, pretensión, demanda, reivindicación, crédito, pretender, afirmación clapped: Aplaudido clasp: broche clean: limpio, limpiar, limpiáis, limpiad, limpien, limpie, limpias, limpiamos, limpian, limpia, puro cleared: limpiado, depurado clearing: aclaración, claro, compensación clearly: claramente climb: trepar, subir, escalar, subida, ascender, subir a, escalada climbed: Subido close: cerrar, cierras, cierra, cierren, cerráis, cerrad, cerramos, cierro, cierre, cierran, cerca closed: cerrado closeness: cercanía closer: íntimamente closing: Cerrando, cierre, conexión, cerrar clothes: ropa, viste, la ropa, ropaje cloud: nube, la nube, nublar coal: carbón, hulla coast: costa coat: abrigo, chaqueta, capa

50 coats: membranas coaxingly: engatusar coffee: café collaboration: colaboración collect: recoger, recoged, recojo, recoge, recogéis, recogemos, recogen, recoges, recoja, recojan, coleccionar color: el color, pintar, colorear, color comes: Viene comfort: comodidad, consolar, anchas, consuelo, confort comforting: confortante, consolador coming: viniendo, proveniente, próximo, originario, natural command: mando, orden, mandato, comando, instrucción, capitanear, acaudillar commander: comandante comment: comentario, observación commit: cometer, comete, cometo, cometes, cometen, cometed, cometan, cometéis, cometemos, cometa committed: cometido, comprometido commotion: escándalo, conmoción, alboroto communicates: comunica communication: comunicación, noticia, noticias, publicación communion: comunión companion: acompañante, compañero compared: Comparado, cotejado compass: brújula, compás complete: completo, lleno, completar, llenar, cabal, concluir, cumplido completely: completamente complexion: cutis, tez complication: complicación compunction: escrúpulo conceal: ocultar, ocultamos, oculten, ocultan, ocultáis, ocultad, oculta, ocultas, oculto, oculte, recatar concealed: ocultado, disimulado concentrated: concentrado conception: concepción, concepto concern: concernir, cuidado, preocupación, importancia concerned: interesado, en cuestión, dicho concluded: despachado conclusion: conclusión condition: condición, acondicionar, estado conditions: condiciones conduct: conducir, guiar, dirigir, conducta, comportamiento confabulation: confabulación, conferencia confess: confesar, confiesan, confiesen, confieso, confiesas,

The Secret Sharer confesamos, confesad, confesáis, confiesa, confiese, declarar confession: confesión, declaración confidence: confianza, confidencia confident: seguro confidential: confidencial confidently: confiadamente confirmed: confirmado, empedernido confounded: perplejo confronted: afrontado, careado, encarado, enfrentado, Confrontado confused: confuso, confundido connected: conectado, conexo conscience: conciencia conscientious: concienzudo consequence: consecuencia, secuela consideration: consideración, contraprestación, contemplación constantly: constantemente, siempre, continuamente consul: cónsul contained: contenido containing: conteniendo contemplative: contemplativo continued: continuado, durado contrived: inventado, efectuado, tramado, ideado, planeado conversation: conversación conveyed: entregado, alargado convict: convicto, condenado cook: cocinar, cocinero, cocinera, cocer, el cocinero, guisar cooked: cocido, cocinado corner: esquina, ángulo, rincón corpse: cadáver corrected: corregido corresponding: correspondiente, correspondiendo, empalmando couch: canapé, dyschatell, cama, sofá, sofá cama couldn't: no fue posible countenancing: Aprobar counts: recuentos couple: embragar, pareja, par, acoplar course: curso, plato, cursillo, rumbo, transcurso, recorrido courtesy: cortesía covered: cubierto, cubierto de verdor covering: envoltura, cobertura, revestimiento, cubrir, cubierta cowardice: cobardía craft: astucia, destreza, embarcación, oficio crash: choque, caída, chocar, quiebra crazed: loco crazy: loco, chiflado, chalado creeping: arrastrando crew: tripulación, equipo cried: Lloró cries: llora criminal: delictivo, malhechor

critically: críticamente criticism: crítica, reparo, censura cropped: recortado cross: cruz, atravesar, cruzar, transversal, aspa, cruce crossed: cruzado crossing: cruce, cruzamiento, travesía cruet: vinajeras, vinagrera, ampolla, salvilla crushed: aplastado cub: cachorro cup: taza, la taza, copa curiosity: curiosidad current: corriente, actual, contemporáneo, en curso, común curse: maldecir, maldición, jurar cursed: maldito curtains: las cortinas curves: curvas damp: húmedo, mojar, humedad danger: peligro, el peligro dangerous: peligroso dare: atreverse, reto, cariño dared: atrevido, aventurado, se atrevido, se arriesgado, osado, desafiado dark: oscuro, tenebroso darkened: oscurecido darkling: durante anochecer, oscuro darkly: cetrinamente, misteriosamente, oscuramente, tristemente darkness: tinieblas, oscuridad, la oscuridad dates: dátiles, citas dawn: amanecer, alba, madrugada, aurora daylight: luz del día, luz de día, luz natural daytime: día, diurno, tiempo de día dead: muerto deadened: amortiguado, amortizado deafness: sordera dear: caro, querido, estimado decency: decencia deck: cubierta decks: engalana declare: declarar, declaras, declaren, declare, declarad, declaro, declaran, declaráis, declara, declaramos declared: declarado deep: profundo, hondo defective: defectuoso, defectivo defense: defensa deference: deferencia delicacies: comestibles finos delighted: encantado, gozoso denied: negado, desmentido densely: densamente depart: salir, salís, salgo, salga, sales, salen, saled, sale, salgan, salimos, sal dependent: dependiente, persona a

Joseph Conrad cargo deprived: privado depths: lo más hondo descended: descendido, bajado describe: describir, describís, describo, describimos, describid, describen, describe, describan, describes, describa deserved: merecido desired: deseado desisted: desistido desk: pupitre, escritorio, el escritorio, mostrador, mesa de trabajo despair: desesperación desperate: desesperado desperately: desesperadamente desperation: desesperación destination: destino destiny: destino, suerte detach: destacar, destaquen, destacad, destacamos, destacan, destacas, destaco, destaque, destaca, destacáis, desprender details: orden del día, entresijos, detalles detained: retenido detected: detectado developed: revelado, desarrollado devil: diablo, el diablo devils: diablo devious: desviado devoted: afectuoso, consagrado, dedicado, adicto, fiel dew: rocío died: muerto difficulty: dificultad, inconveniente dignity: dignidad dimly: turbio, oscuramente, débilmente dinner: cena, comida, banquete direct: directo, mandar, guiar, derecho, dirigir directed: dirigido directly: directamente, seguido disappearance: desaparición disaster: desastre, el desastre discipline: disciplina discomfiture: desconcierto disconcert: desconcertar, desconciertas, desconciertan, desconcierten, desconcertamos, desconcertad, desconcertáis, desconcierto, desconcierta, desconcierte disconcerted: desconcertado disconnected: desconectado discover: descubrir, descubrimos, descubrís, descubrid, descubres, descubren, descubre, descubran, descubro, descubra discovered: descubierto discovery: descubrimiento

dishes: los platos disliked: detestado dismally: deprimentemente, desconsoladamente dismissed: despedido dispassionately: desapasionadamente, serenamente, imparcialmente dispute: disputa disquieting: inquietando distance: distancia, alejamiento distant: lejano, distante distinctly: distintamente distinguished: distinguido distracted: distraído distrust: desconfianza disturbed: molestado, incomodado, perturbado disturbing: molestando, perturbando, incomodando dived: sumergido, saltado al agua, saltado, picado, caído en picado, buceado, bajado de golpe, tirado al agua, zambullido division: división, escisión dock: muelle, dique, dársena, reducir, atracar dodged: eludido dogmatic: dogmático doings: chisme, sucesos, conducta, hace, acciones, hechos, actuación, actos doleful: triste domain: dominio dome: cúpula, domo dominant: dominante dominated: dominado don't: no doorway: puerta double: doble, doblar, doblado doubly: con doblez, doblemente doubt: dudar, duda doubted: dudado downright: franco, absolutamente, categórico, completamente, francamente, claro, categóricamente, completo drank: pret de drink, bebió drawer: cajón, librador, la gaveta, gaveta drawers: calzoncillos drawing: dibujando, dibujo, encantando, trazando, plano, giro drawn: dibujado, encantado, trazado draws: dibuja, traza, encanta dreaded: temido dreamy: soñador dress: vestido, vestir, vendar, vestirse, el vestido, ponerse, revestir dressing: abono, preparación, aliño, apósito drift: deriva, derivar del rumbo,

51 corriente drifted: llevado drifting: llevar drive: conducir, conducen, conduzcan, conduzco, conducís, conducimos, conduzca, conduces, conduce, conducid, propulsión driven: conducido, manejado driving: conduciendo, manejando, conducción, conducir drop: gota, caer, disminuir, amainar, decrecer, menguar, caída, descenso, dejar caer dropped: soltar drove: manada drown: ahogarse, ahogar drowning: ahogándose, el ahogamiento, ahogar, ahogo, ahogamiento drunk: borracho, bebido, ebrio drunkenness: embriaguez, ebriedad, borrachera dry: seco, secar, enjugar dual: doble dusk: anochecer, crepúsculo dusting: desempolvamiento, quitar o sacudir el polvo, polvo, desempolvar, espolvereo dustpan: recogedor duty: deber, servicio, obligación, impuesto eager: ansioso, ávido, codicioso eagerly: ansiosamente, ávidamente ear: oreja, espiga, la oreja, oído early-morning: matutino earnest: serio ears: orejas, las orejas, oídos ease: facilidad, comodidad, mitigar easily: fácilmente east: este, el este, oriente, levante eastward: hacia el este, al este easy: fácil eat: comer, comemos, comes, coméis, comed, coman, como, comen, coma, Come eating: comiendo eccentric: excéntrico, extravagante eccentricities: excentricidades eclipsed: eclipsado edge: borde, orilla, filo, canto, arista, baranda, ribetear, margen edification: edificación effort: esfuerzo, afán eight: ocho eighteen: dieciocho, diez y ocho elapsed: transcurrido elbow: codo, el codo elementary: elemental elements: elementos, abecé, alfabeto elongated: largo, prolongar, alargar, alargado, alargarse elusive: evasivo, huidizo

52 emitted: emitido empty: vacío, vaciar, evacuar, desocupado, desocupar encourage: animar, animad, animo, animáis, animamos, animan, animas, animen, anima, anime, alentar endless: interminable, sin fin engage: comprometer, compromete, comprometed, comprometan, comprometéis, comprometemos, comprometen, comprometes, comprometo, comprometa, engranar engaged: ocupado, comprometido, engranado, prometido english: inglés, inglesa enlarge: ampliar, amplíe, amplía, amplíen, amplías, amplían, ampliamos, ampliáis, ampliad, amplío, agrandar enormous: enorme, ingente entered: entrado, inscrito, montado entering: entrando, inscribiendo, montando enterprise: empresa, negocio entirely: enteramente, completamente, totalmente equal: igual equivocal: equívoco, ambiguo erebus: Tinieblas Eternas escape: escaparse, escapar, huida, fuga, escape, evadir, escapada, huir escaped: escapado escorted: acompañado established: establecido, edificado evanescent: evanescente evening: tarde, noche, anochecer events: eventos evergreen: de hoja perenne everlasting: eterno everybody: todos, cada uno, cada, todo el mundo, todo everything: todo evidently: evidentemente evolve: evolucionar, evoluciona, evoluciono, evolucionen, evolucionas, evolucionan, evolucionamos, evolucionad, evolucionáis, desenvolver, desenvolverse exactitude: exactitud exactly: exactamente, justamente, en punto exasperating: exasperando except: excepto, menos, exceptuar, además de, amén de exchange: cambio, intercambio, cambiar, central, central telefónica, canjear, intercambiar, bolsa, permutar exchanged: cambiada, cambiado exchanging: cambiar

The Secret Sharer excitement: excitación, agitación exclaimed: exclamado excuse: excusa, excusar, disculpa, disculpar excuses: deshechas executed: ejecutado exercised: ejercitado exhaustion: agotamiento existence: existencia expectation: expectativa, expectación, espera, esperanza expected: esperado, previsto expects: espera experiences: experiencias explain: explicar, explica, explico, explicas, explican, explicamos, explicáis, explicad, expliquen, explique, aclarar explained: explicado explanation: explicación exploring: explorando expression: expresión expressly: expresamente extended: ampliado, alargado, extendido extent: alcance, magnitud, extensión extraordinary: extraordinario extreme: extremo extremely: extremamente, extremadamente, sumamente eye: ojo, el ojo, ojear, mirar eyebrows: las cejas faced: enfrentado faces: Caras facing: paramento, frente a, revestimiento faded: marchitado, se ajado, descolorado, despintado, desvaído, descolorirse, descolorido, descolorar, desaparecer, debilitarse, borroso fail: fallar, fracasar, faltar faint: desmayarse, débil, desmayo, tenue faintly: débilmente faintness: debilidad fairly: bastante, con justicia faithful: fiel, leal fallen: se caído, caído, decrecido, derribado falling: cayéndose, decreciendo, derribando, caída faltering: titubeando familiar: conocido fanned: ventilado farther: más lejos fascinated: fascinado fashion: moda fast: rápido, ayunar, fijo, de prisa, pronto, veloz, ligero, firme, ayuno fastened: fijado, sujetado, atado fate: destino, suerte, sino, hado

fault: culpa, defecto, avería, falla, falta, fallo, error, imperfección favorable: propicio fear: temer, miedo, temor, angustia, recelar fearful: temeroso, medroso, angustioso features: características, funciones feeling: sentimiento, sintiendo, palpando, sensación feels: siente, palpa feet: los pies, pies felicitous: oportuno, feliz fell: talar, derribar felled: truncado, derribado, desanimado, cortado fellow: compañero, hombre, socio, tipo, becario fended: rechazado, defendido ferocity: ferocidad, la ferocidad fervently: fervorosamente fetch: traer, traemos, traed, trae, traéis, traes, traigo, traigan, traen, traiga, coger few: pocos field: campo, el campo, zona, cancha fierce: feroz fifteen: quince fighting: contender, riña, pelea, luchar, luchador, lucha, el luchar, duelo, de combate, combativo, combatir figure: figura, cifra, calcular, figurar, computar, retrato, reproducción, ilustración figures: cifras filed: archivado filling: relleno, empaste finally: finalmente, al fin, por fin finding: fundando, hallazgo, fundiendo, encontrar fine: multa, fino, multar, excelente, bonito, delgado, bien, estupendo, bueno finely: finamente, en trozos menudos finger: dedo, el dedo, tocar, manga fingers: los dedos finish: acabar, acabas, acabo, acabe, acaban, acabamos, acabáis, acabad, acaba, acaben, terminar finished: acabado, terminado, listo, concluido finishing: acabando, terminando, acabado, concluyendo firmly: firmemente fish: pez, pescado, pescar, el pescado, pescados, peces, el pez fishing: pesca, pesquero fit: adaptar, acomodar, ajustar, apoplejía, ajuste, caber, ataque, en forma, encajar fitness: capacidad, disposición,

Joseph Conrad aptitud fitted: en buen salud, ajustarse, conveniente, capacitado, ataque, apto, convulsión, capaz, encajar, entallar, instalada fixing: fijando, reparando, fijación, accesorios flame: llama, flamear, la flama flash: destello, llamarada, centella, rebaba, fogonazo, relampaguear, destellar flashed: destellado flat: plano, llano, apartamento, piso, liso, bemol, bastidor, desinflado, cuarto fleeing: huyendo flesh: carne, pulpa flew: voló, pret de fly flickered: parpadeó fling: arrojado, tiro, tirar, lanzar, lanzamiento, lanza, lance, echar al suelo, echar, echada, aventura amorosa flinging: lanzar flitted: aleteado, revoloteado, revoloteó float: flotar, nadar, flotador, balsa, carroza, flotante floated: fratasado, flotado floating: flotante, flotación floor: piso, suelo, el suelo, pavimento floppy: flexible flowed: fluido flowers: las flores flung: pret y pp de fling fluttering: revolotear flying: volando, volante foam: espuma, la espuma folded: doblado folding: plegable follow: seguir, seguid, sigues, siguen, sigue, sigo, sigan, seguís, seguimos, siga, venir después followed: seguido follows: sigue foot: pie, pata, el pie, pujamen footsteps: Huellas force: fuerza, forzar, obligar, virtud forced: forzado fore: frente, delantero forecastle: castillo de proa, castillo forefinger: dedo índice forehead: frente, la frente foremast: trinquete forenoon: día de la mañana, la mañana, mañana foresail: trinquete, varal forever: para siempre, siempre forget: olvidar, olvidan, olviden, olvidas, olvidamos, olvidáis, olvidad, olvida, olvide, olvido, olvidarse

forgot: olvidado, pret de forget forgotten: olvidado fork: tenedor, horquilla, el tenedor, horca, bifurcación formally: formalmente formula: fórmula fortnight: quincena, quince días forward: adelante, delantero, reenviar, hacia delante, enviar, remitir, hacia adelante foundations: cimientos fourth: cuarto, el cuarto fragment: fragmento, pieza freeze: congelar, helar, congelación, congelarse, helada fresh: fresco friend: amigo, amiga, el amigo friendly: amistoso, amable, bonito, gracioso, amigable frightened: espantado, asustado frightful: espantoso, horrible frigid: frígida, frío fringed: floqueado fro: atrás, allá frost-bound: congelado frown: ceño, fruncir el entrecejo, fruncir el ceño froze: pret de freeze fruit: fruta, la fruta, fruto fugitive: fugitivo fumbling: chapuceando, manoseando funk: canguelo, jindama, no tener agallas, acobardamiento, acobardarse, gallina, mieditis, tener olor malo, temor funnel: embudo furious: torcido, furioso, furibundo futile: fútil future: futuro, porvenir, próximo, entrante, el futuro gained: ganado gait: paso gale: vendaval galley: galera, cocina gallows: horca gangway: paso, pasarela, pasillo, pasadizo gaping: abertura, hueco, abrir la boca, abrir boquete en, boquete, vacío, boquiabierto, bostezar, intervalo, abrir brecha en, bostezo garment: prenda gasp: boqueada, anhelar gate: puerta, paso, verja, compuerta, barrera gateway: puerta, pasarela, entrada gathered: reunido, reunió gazed: mirado gazing: mirar generally: generalmente gentle: dulce, suave, manso, apacible

53 gentlemanly: caballeroso, caballerosamente gently: suavemente geography: geografía gesture: gesto, ademán, acción ghastly: horrible, horroroso, lúgubre ghost: fantasma, el fantasma, imagen fantasma, aparición ghostly: fantasmal, espiritual gives: da giving: dando glad: alegre, contento glance: mirada, vistazo, ojeada glancing: oblicuo glare: deslumbramiento, deslumbrar glass: vidrio, vaso, cristal, copa, el vidrio glasses: gafas, lentes, anteojos glassy: cristalino, vítreo, vidrioso gleam: destello gliding: deslizar, planeación glimmering: resplandor, alborear, brillar, luz ténue, vislumbre glimpse: vislumbrar glistened: brillado glitter: lustre glow: resplandecer, resplandor glowing: resplandeciente god: Dios goes: va, marcha gold: oro, el oro, de oro gone: ido, marchado good-by: adiós, despedida goodness: bondad gorge: garganta, barranca, cañón govern: gobernar, gobiernen, gobiernas, gobiernan, gobierna, gobernamos, gobernáis, gobernad, gobierne, gobierno, capitanear granted: aceptado, otorgado, admitido, concedido graphic: gráfico grave: tumba, grave, crítico, sepulcro gray: gris gray-headed: cana, cano greater: mayor greatly: muy, grandemente greatness: grandeza green: verde greenish: verdoso grip: gripe, asir, agarrar, coger, agarre, apretar, empuñar gripped: agarrado groping: tentando gropingly: inquisitivamente grouped: agrupado groups: grupos grove: bosquecillo grow: crecer, crecen, crezco, crece, creced, crecemos, crezcan, crecéis, creces, crezca, cultivar growing: creciendo, aumentando,

54 creciente, crecimiento growth: aumento, incremento, crecimiento, desarrollo guess: adivinar, suponer, suposición, asumir guilt: culpa guiltily: culpablemente guilty: culpable gulf: golfo, abismo, despeñadero, precipicio ha: ah, decir ah, ja habitation: habitación hadn't: no ha haggard: ojeroso, macilento, demacrado hail: granizo, granizar, alabar, pedrisco hailing: granizar hair: pelo, cabello, el pelo, vello halfway: a medio camino halter: cabestro handkerchief: pañuelo handled: manejado hands: las manos hang: colgar hanging: ahorcamiento, pendiente happened: pasado, acontecido, ocurrido, sucedido, acaecido happening: pasando, aconteciendo, ocurriendo, sucediendo, suceso, acaeciendo, acontecimiento harbor: puerto hard: duro, difícil, tieso hardly: apenas harmless: inofensivo, indemne, inocuo hastened: apresurado, acelerado hat: sombrero, el sombrero hatch: escotilla, incubar hate: odiar, odio, aborrecer, detestar hated: odiado, odioso, detestado haul: tirar, tirón, redada, transportar hauled: acarreado hauling: transportación, acarrear haunted: encantado, frecuentado, embrujado, aterrorizado, obsesionado headed: con membrete, dirigió, repolludo, en dirección a headless: acéfalo heads: cabezas, administradores hear: oír, oigan, oyes, oyen, oye, oís, oigo, oíd, oímos, oiga heard: oído hearing: oyendo, oído, audiencia, vista, audición heart: corazón, cogollo heartily: sinceramente heat: calor, calentar, el calor, hornada, carga de fusión heaved: tirado heaven: cielo

The Secret Sharer heavens: cielo, cielos heavy: pesado height: altura, altitud, elevación, la altura, estatura, cerro held: tuvo lugar, sostuvo hellish: infernal helmsman: timonel helped: ayudado helplessly: impotentemente, desvalidamente, imposibilitadamente henceforth: de aquí en adelante herself: sí, ella misma, se, sí misma hesitated: vacilado, titubeado hesitating: vacilando, titubeando hesitation: vacilación, duda hidden: ocultado, oculto, escondido, secreto hide: ocultar, oculto, oculta, oculte, ocultas, ocultan, ocultamos, ocultáis, ocultad, oculten, piel higher: superior highest: sumo, el más alto, suma, máximo, sumamente, alto, máxima hill: colina, loma, cerro, la colina, la loma hiss: siseo, silbido, soplido hit: golpear, acertar, golpe, pegar, llamar, éxito hoarse: ronco hold: tener, sujetar, continuar, retención, sostener, contener, mantener, retenido, presa, bodega holding: mantenimiento, tenencia homeless: sin techo, desposeído, sin hogar homeward: hacia casa homicidal: homicida hook: gancho, anzuelo, garfio, enganchar, enganche hooking: enganchar, enganche hooks: ganchos, manos, garfios hope: esperanza, esperar, espera, espere, esperen, esperas, esperan, esperamos, esperáis, esperad, espero horizon: horizonte horrible: temeroso, abominable, lúgubre, horroroso, horrible horrid: hórrido hot: caliente, picante, caluroso hour: hora, la hora hours: horas, las horas howling: aullido, lamentarse, clamoroso, aullador, alarido, aullar, lamento, gritar, rugir, grito, dar alaridos hull: casco, cáscara hullabaloo: desorden, desmadre, batahola, barullo, alboroto, jaleo, tumulto, vocería human: humano humbug: farsa

hundred: ciento, cien, centenar hung: colgó, pret y pp de hang, colgado, continuado hunt: cazar, cazo, caza, cazáis, cazas, cazamos, cazad, cacen, cace, cazan, acosar hurricane: huracán hurried: apresuradamente, apresurado, apurado, hecho de prisa, precipitado, superficial hurriedly: precipitadamente, apresuradamente hush: silencio, acallar i'd: Hago ideal: ideal identical: idéntico identified: identificado identity: identidad ignorance: ignorancia ignored: ignorado ill: enfermo, malo, doliente ill-conditioned: en mal estado, desabrido, mal acondicionamiento, de maneras malas i'm: soy imagine: figurarse, imaginar, imaginad, imaginen, imagine, imaginas, imaginan, imagino, imaginamos, imagináis, imagina imbecile: imbécil immaculate: inmaculado immense: inmenso immensely: inmensamente immersed: sumergido immobility: inmovilidad impart: impartir, imparta, comunicar, impartan, imparto, impartís, impartimos, impartes, imparte, imparten, impartid imparted: impartido impassive: impasible impeccable: impecable imperceptible: imperceptible imperceptibly: imperceptiblemente imposing: imponente, imponiendo impossible: imposible impressed: impresionado impression: impresión impressively: impresionantemente, grandiosamente improper: impropio impudence: impudencia, descaro impulse: impulso, instinto, impulsión incapable: incapaz incertitude: incierto incidentally: incidentalmente, a propósito incomprehensible: incomprensible inconceivable: inconcebible incredulity: incredulidad incredulously: incrédulamente indeed: verdaderamente, en efecto,

Joseph Conrad de veras, en realidad, efectivamente independent: independiente indian: indio, indico, amerindio, indio americano induced: inducido inexplicable: indefinible infinitely: infinitamente inform: informar, informe, informen, informo, informa, informad, informáis, informamos, informas, informan, enterar informality: informalidad, sencillez informing: informando, enterando ingenious: ingenioso inhabited: habitado, poblado inhuman: inhumano inkling: atisbo, concepto, creencia, noción, modelo, indicio, ingenio, sospecha, idea inkwell: tintero inland: interior, tierra adentro inquired: inquirido, preguntado inquiring: inquiriendo, curioso, preguntando insanity: locura, demencia inshore: cercano a la orilla, cerca de la costa, costero inside: dentro, dentro de, interior, adentro, en, por, interna insignificance: insignificancia insignificant: insignificante insist: insistir, insista, insiste, insisto, insistís, insistimos, insistid, insistes, insisten, insistan, instar insisted: insistido, instado insistence: insistencia, instancia insolence: insolencia inspecting: inspeccionando instance: instancia, ejemplo, ejemplar instances: instancias instinctively: instintivamente instructed: notificado intellect: intelecto intelligence: inteligencia intelligent: inteligente intense: violento, intenso, fuerte intently: atentamente, con más atención interchange: intercambio, cambiar interfere: interponer, injerir, inmiscuirse, interferirse, entrometido, interponerse, interpuesto, intervenga, introducir, interferir, obstruir interlude: interludio, intermedio, intervalo interrupted: interrumpido intervals: intervalos intimate: íntimo, cómodo, intimo intolerable: intolerable intuition: intuición invaded: invadido

invention: invención, invento invested: invertido invisible: invisible invited: invitado inviting: invitando invulnerable: invulnerable inward: interior, interno irresistible: irresistible irresistibly: irresistiblemente irresolute: irresoluto, indeciso irretrievably: irreparablemente, irrecuperablemente, incobrablemente islet: isleta issue: emisión, promulgar, cuestión, proclamar, problema, edición, dar parte de, emitir, descendencia, expedir, número it'd: hace item: artículo, elemento, partida, ítem, rubro i've: he, Tengo jacket: chaqueta, americana, la chaqueta, cubierta, funda, envoltura, camisa, cazadora jammed: apretado, polvo, atascado jeering: mofándose jerk: sacudida, tirón joined: juntado, unido, ligado joint: común, articulación, juntura, junta, porro, conjunto, colectivo, empalme journey: viaje, viajar jove: Júpiter judge: juez, juzgar, el juez, criticar judged: juzgado judges: jueces, juzgar, juez judgment: juicio, fallo, sentencia, criterio juggling: hacer malabares, hacer malabarismos, juglaria, malabar, malabarismo, malabares jumped: Saltado jury: jurado keel: quilla, la quilla keen: perspicaz, afilado keeping: guardando, vigilando, custodia, cuidado, conservando, preservando kept: guardado, vigilado, conservado, preservado kettle: hervidor key: llave, tecla, clave, la llave, teclear, chaveta kicked: pateado kill: matar killed: matado knees: rodillas knife: cuchillo, el cuchillo, cuchilla, la navaja, acuchillar knock: llamar, golpear, golpe, topar, tocar, llamar a la puerta

55 knocking: llamar a la puerta, llamada, golpeteo, golpes, golpeo, golpear, golpe, choque, chocar, aldabonazo, topar knowing: sabiendo, conociendo knowledge: conocimiento, saber knows: sabe, conoce lack: falta, carencia, escasez, faltar, carecer de, carecer ladder: escala, escalera, escalera de mano, la escalera laid: puesto, colocado, recostado, acostado lamp: lámpara, la lámpara land: tierra, aterrizar, país, abordar, atracar, la tierra, terreno landed: puesto, posado, pescado, obtenido, logrado, llegado, hecho, hacendado, ganado, conseguido, dado language: lengua, lenguaje, idioma, el idioma, la lengua, el lenguaje larger: Mayor largest: el más grande lately: últimamente launched: Lanzado lay: poner, colocar, coloque, colocamos, pongan, ponga, pones, ponen, ponemos, ponéis, poned laying: colocando, poniendo lazy: perezoso, holgazán, vago, guapo leading: guiando, conduciendo, dirigiendo leaf: hoja, la hoja leafage: capa leaned: inclinado, ladeado leaning: inclinación learned: aprendido, estudiado, docto, erudito, sabio least: menos, mínimo, menor leave: salir, sal, sale, salís, salimos, salgo, salgan, salga, sales, salen, saled leaving: saliendo, dejando leeward: sotavento leg: pierna, la pierna, pata, tramo legal: jurídico, legal legs: las piernas leisure: ocio, el ocio, tiempo libre lest: para que no, a no ser que, con el fin de, no sea que, si es necesario letter: carta, letra, la carta letters: letras letting: alquilando, dejando leveled: Nivelado lie: mentir, mentira, yacer, estar tendido, embuste, echarse lift: ascensor, levantar, subir, alzar, elevar, elevación, levante, desnivel entre tramos, sustentación lifts: levanta

56 light: luz, claro, ligero, encender, alumbrar, débil, liviano, la luz, radiación visible, lámpara, iluminar lighted: encendido lightly: ligeramente lightning: relámpago, rayo, el relámpago liked: apreciable, estimado, apreciado limb: miembro, limbo limbs: extremidades lined: rayado lines: partida de matrimonio, destino, pauta, especificado de líneas, líneas, papel lingered: Demorado, quedado, durado, tardado, remoloneado, permanecido, pausado, persistido lingering: prolongado lip: labio, el labio lips: labios, los labios liquor: alcohol, licor, el licor listen: escuchar, escuche, escucha, escuchas, escuchad, escuchen, escucho, escucháis, escuchamos, escuchan, oír listened: Escuchado listening: escuchando literally: literalmente, woertlich littered: ensuciado live: vivir, viven, vive, vivo, vivan, vivís, vivimos, vives, viva, vivid, habitar lived: vivido, habitado liverpool: bocado de codo militar lives: Vive, habita livid: lívido living: viviendo, habitando, vivo, viviente lo: aquí loaded: cargado loafer: holgazán lobby: grupo de presión, vestíbulo, antecámara, cabildear lock: cerradura, esclusa, cerrar, la cerradura, cerrojo, bloquear, la esclusa, bucle, mechón, bloqueo, cerrar con llave locked: estén aseguradas, cerrado, bloqueado, protegido locker: armario, cajón, el casillero, casillero, taquilla lockers: los casilleros locks: Bloqueos, pelo, cerradura, cabellos, bloquear lofty: alto, encumbrado lolled: Repantigado, colgado, pendido lonely: solitario, solo longer: más, más tiempo lookout: atalaya looks: mira

The Secret Sharer loom: telar lose: perder, pierda, pierdo, perdéis, perdemos, pierdan, pierde, pierden, pierdes, perded, adelgazar losing: perdiendo, perdedor, adelgazando loss: pérdida, perdida, pérdidas, siniestro, atenuación lost: perdido, adelgazado lot: lote, porción, solar loud: alto, fuerte, ruidoso, chillón loudly: en alta voz, ruidosamente loudness: sonoridad, volumen low: bajo, depresión lower: bajar, baja, bajo, bajen, baje, bajas, bajan, bajamos, bajáis, bajad, inferior lowered: bajado, arriado lucky: afortunado, feliz ludicrous: ridículo lunacy: locura lying: mentiroso mad: loco, enojado, chiflado, majara, majareta, demente, enfadado maddening: enloquecedor, enloqueciendo, exasperante mainland: continente, tierra firme mainsail: vela mayor malay: malayo manage: administrar, administras, administro, administren, administre, administrad, administráis, administramos, administra, administran, mandar managed: administrado, Manejado, gestionado, dirigido maneuvering: maniobrar, maniobra manned: tripulado manner: manera mantle: abrigo, manto mark: señal, seña, marca, nota, marcar, sellar, signo, timbrar, señalar, marcos, marco marked: marcado maroon: corinto, petardo, marrón carmesí, marrón, dejar abandonado, castaño, castaña, aislar, abandonar en un sitio desolado, granate marveling: Maravillar mass: masa, misa, en masa master: maestro, amo, dueño, patrón, principal, magister mate: compañero, aparearse matted: enmarañado matter: materia, asunto, particular, caso, importar meal: comida, harina, la comida meaningly: con aire significativo meant: pret de mean meantime: entretanto, mientras tanto measuring: medida, medición mechanically: mecánicamente

meddled: Metido, entremetido, entrometido, inmiscuido meditative: meditativo meet: encontrar, encontrad, encuentro, encuentren, encuentre, encuentras, encuentran, encontramos, encontráis, encuentra, quedar menaced: Amenazado menacing: amenazador mental: psíquico, mental mention: mencionar, mención mercy: misericordia, compasión mere: mero merely: meramente, simplemente, sólo met: encontrado, hallado middle: medio, centro middling: mediano, regular midnight: medianoche, media noche, la medianoche mildly: suavemente mile: legua, milla, la milla mine: mina, mío, minar mingled: mezclado, triscado ministering: atendiendo, auxiliando, asistiendo, oficiando minor: menor minute: minuto, el minuto, minuta, menudo minutes: acta, minutos, multa, proceso verbal miracle: milagro miraculous: milagroso mirror: espejo, el espejo, reflejar miserable: pobre, deplorable, malo, triste, indigente, menesteroso, afligido, necesitado, desgraciado, miserable mishap: contratiempo mistrust: desconfiar de mizzen: mesana moaning: gemiendo monotonous: monótono mood: humor, el humor, estado de ánimo, capricho moored: amarrado moral: moral, moraleja motion: movimiento, moción, petición motioned: Promovido motionless: inmóvil, estático mountain: montaña, monte mountainous: montañoso mouth: boca, desembocadura, la boca move: mover, conmover, moverse, mudar, mudanza, movimiento, trasladar, traslado, mudarse, jugada moved: emotiva, movido, emocionado, afectado movement: movimiento, el movimiento

Joseph Conrad movements: los movimientos moving: conmovedor muddled: desordenó multitude: multitud, la multitud mumbled: mascullado mumbling: mascullando murdering: Asesinar murders: homicidio murmur: murmurar, murmullo murmured: Murmurado mustache: bigote, el bigote mute: mudo, muda, sordina mutinous: rebelde, amotinado myself: yo mismo mysterious: misterioso mystery: misterio, el misterio mystical: místico mystified: engañado naked: desnudo narrative: narrativa, narración, narrativo narrow: estrecho, angosto native: indígena, nativo, innato natural: natural naturally: naturalmente nature: naturaleza, índole, carácter nay: más aún, más bien, voto negativo, voto en contra, no, negativa, mejor dicho near: cerca, próximo, cerca de, cercano, entrante, casi nearest: más cercano nearly: casi nearness: proximidad neatly: aseadamente necessity: necesidad neck: cuello, el cuello, garganta, pescuezo, cerviz needed: necesario, necesitado negligently: negligentemente neither: tampoco, ninguno, nadie, ni nerve: nervio nerves: nervios, nervio nervousness: nerviosidad, nerviosismo news: noticias, noticia, nueva, las noticias nice: agradable, amable, bueno, bonito, rico, simpático, lindo, Niza nine: nueve nobody: nadie, ninguno nod: inclinación, cabecear nodded: Cabeceado noise: ruido, alboroto, el ruido noiseless: silencioso noisy: ruidoso, bullicioso nomad: nómada none: ninguno, nadie, nada noon: mediodía notice: cartel, aviso, anuncio, notar, advertir, nota, notificación, noticias, noticia, percibir, publicación

noticed: advertido noticing: notando notion: noción, idea, inteligencia novel: novela, nuevo, la novela novelty: novedad, noticias o: oxígeno object: objeto, el objeto, objetar obligation: obligación, deber, compromiso oblique: oblicuo, inclinado obscure: oscuro, disimular, disimulan, disimulas, disimulo, disimule, disimula, disimuláis, disimulamos, disimulad, disimulen observed: observado obviously: evidentemente, obviamente occasion: motivo, ocasión, lugar, oportunidad occurred: ocurrido ocean: océano o'clock: hora, en punto offense: delito offering: ofrenda, oferta, ofrecer officer: funcionario, oficial, empleado officers: oficialidad, personal directivo, Mesa oilskin: chubasquero, encerado, ahulado, hule, impermeable, tela encerada, traje de encerado older: mayor ominously: presagiosamente, siniestramente, ominosamente ones: unos one's: uno, propio opaque: opaco opened: abierto opening: abriendo, abertura, apertura, entrada, inauguración, abrir operation: operación, funcionamiento, explotación, manejo opportunity: acontecimiento, oportunidad, ocasión opposite: enfrente de, opuesto, contra, enfrente, contrario, frente a, frontero oppressive: oprimido, opresivo ordinary: ordinario, común original: original other's: otro otherwise: de otra manera, de lo contrario outer: externo, exterior outlines: contornos outside: afuera, fuera de, fuera, exterior, externo oval: ovalado, óvalo, aovado, elipse oven: horno, estufa, el horno, orno overboard: por la borda overdid: pret de overdo

57 overdone: exagerado overhead: arriba, gastos generales overheard: sorprendido, oído, pret y pp de overhear overwhelming: abrumador, aplastante, enterrando, contundente ox: buey oysters: Ostiones paced: Medido pagoda: pagoda painful: doloroso, penoso painfully: dolorosamente painstaking: esmerado pair: par, pareja, emparejar pale: pálido, palidecer, descolorido pale-faced: caripálido pant: jadear pantomime: pantomima pantry: despensa paper: papel, documento, el papel, papel pintado, ponencia, tapizar, periódico papers: papeles pardon: perdón, perdonar, indulto, indultar parson: sacerdote, cura, párroco partial: parcial particulars: detalles parting: separación partnership: asociación, sociedad, sociedad colectiva pass: pasar, adelantar, paso, pase, desfiladero, entregar, pasada, aprobar, alargar, paso de montaña, llegar passage: paso, pasillo, pasaje passed: pasado passing: paso patches: placas pate: cabeza patience: paciencia patient: paciente pattern: patrón, modelo, dibujo, pauta, muestra, diseño, modalidad pause: descanso, pausa, pausar, hacer una pausa, la pausa paused: detenido, en pausa, parado, pausa peacefully: pacíficamente peculiarly: raramente, peculiarmente, particularmente, de una manera extraña peep: ojeada, pie, piara, piar, pío pío, pío, mirar furtivamente, mirar de reojo, mirar, mirada furtiva, mirada peg: aperitivo, estaca, clavija penetrated: penetrado peremptorily: terminantemente, perentoriamente perfect: perfecto, perfeccionar perfectly: perfectamente permission: permiso, autorización,

58 declaración, el permiso permitted: lícito, permitido perplexing: complicando, embrollando, enmarañando, que causa perplejidad, poco claro, desconcertar, dejar perplejo, confuso, complicado perplexity: perplejidad persisted: persistido personality: personalidad, índole, naturaleza personally: personalmente perspiration: sudor, transpiración pestiferous: pernicioso, pesado, fastidioso, pestífero phantom: fantasma phenomenon: fenómeno phosphorescence: fosforescencia phosphorescent: fosforescente physically: físicamente picked: picado picturing: imaginar piece: pieza, pedazo, parte, trozo, tela pieces: material de artillería pin: alfiler, patilla, perno, el alfiler, clavija, pasador pinning: clavado pitiless: despiadado pity: dolerse por, piedad, compadecer a, lástima, compasión pivot: pivote plain: llanura, llano, claro, evidente, liso, plano plainly: simplemente plan: plano, propósito, proyectar, diseño, planificar, plan, intención, proyecto, planear, esquema plated: chapado plates: placas play: jugar, jueguen, juega, juegan, juegue, jugad, jugáis, jugamos, juegas, juego, tocar played: jugado, tocado playing: jugando, tocando, jugar please: por favor, agradar, gustar, complacer, haz el favor, contentar, haz favor plenty: lleno plop: caerse haciendo paf, caerse haciendo plaf, hacer plaf, plaf, porrazo pocket: bolsillo, el bolsillo, bolsa, casilla point-blank: categóricamente, a quemarropa, a quema ropa pointed: puntiagudo pointing: rejuntado poison: veneno, envenenar, intoxicar polite: cortés, educado politely: comedidamente, cortésmente, educadamente, refinadamente

The Secret Sharer politeness: cortesía, educación, atenciones poll: votación poop: popa, caca poor: pobre, malo, deplorable, indigente, miserable popped: pinchado port: puerto, babor, puerta, oporto, portuario porthole: tronera, portilla ports: puertos positively: positivamente possession: posesión, tenencia practically: prácticamente practice: ejercicio, practicar, emplear, práctica, ejercer prayer: oración, rezo, ruego, plegaria, súplica precious: precioso, preciosa preference: preferencia preoccupied: preocupado preparatory: preparatorio prepared: preparado presenting: presentar, presentación presently: por ahora preserves: conservas presided: presidido pressed: prensado, apretado, planchado, plegado a presión pretend: fingir, fingimos, finjo, fingís, fingid, finges, fingen, finge, finjan, finja, pretender pretense: pretensión pretty: bonito, lindo, majo, amable, guapo, bastante, guapa prevent: impedir, impedid, impido, impides, impiden, impide, impidan, impida, impedimos, impedís, prevenir prevented: impedido, prevenido price: precio, el precio, costo principal: principal, mandante, comitente, ordenante prison: prisión, cárcel, presidio, encierro privilege: privilegio, privilegiar prize: premio, el premio proceeded: actuado, provenido, avanzado, procedido proceedings: actas produced: producido producing: produciendo profound: profundo profoundly: profundamente prolonged: prolongado prompted: interactiva, incitado pronounced: pronunciado, marcado pronouncement: declaración proof: prueba, demostración, probanza propelling: propulsando proper: conveniente, preciso,

correcto, apropiado, propio, debido properly: correctamente, como es debido, debidamente proposed: propuesto protested: protestado proud: orgulloso providence: providencia provision: provisión, reserva, disposición provoked: provocado prudent: prudente psychological: psicológico pull: tirar, tiramos, tiráis, tirad, tiran, tiras, tiren, tire, tira, tiro, halar pulling: tirando, halando, tracción punctilious: quisquilloso, formalista, meticuloso, puntilloso punishment: castigo, escarmiento, punición, pena pure: puro, limpio purpose: fin, objeto, finalidad, propósito, intención purposely: intencionalmente, deliberadamente, a propósito pursued: perseguido pushed: empujado putting: poniendo, metiendo, colocando puzzled: perplejo, desconcertado quality: calidad, ralea, cualidad, la calidad quarter-deck: alcázar, cubierta de popa quavering: trinar, tembloroso queer: raro quick: rápido, pronto quickly: rápidamente, de prisa, aprisa, pronto quiet: quieto, silencio, tranquilo, calmar, silencioso, sosegar, callado quieted: calmado quietly: calladamente, silenciosamente quietness: quietud, tranquilidad quiver: temblar, carcaj, estremecerse quivered: temblado rail: carril, riel, pasamanos, barandilla, baranda rails: valores de ferrocarriles, vertical de barras raise: levantar, entonar, criar, subir, alzar, elevar, alza, izar, aumento raised: alzado, elevado, en relieve, levantado, peraltada, recrecido raising: reunir, levantar, alza, alzar, aumento, aumento de sueldo, cría de ganado, criar, cultivar, elevación, elevar ram: carnero, morueco ran: corrió, participio pasivo del verbo run, pret de run rang: sonó, pret de ring

Joseph Conrad range: alcance, gama, rango, intervalo, ámbito, margen, recorrido rat: rata, la rata raving: delirio, delirando reach: alcanzar, alcance reached: alcanzado reaching: alcanzar ready: listo, preparado, propenso, disponible ready-made: prefabricado realized: comprendido, entendido reappeared: reaparecido reason: motivo, causa, razón, lugar, razonar reasonable: razonable, prudencial reasons: razona recall: recordar, llamada, hacer volver, recuerdo recalled: hacer volver, desmarcado, recordar, recordado, llamar de nuevo, recuperar, llamada, desmarcar, recuperado, revocar, revocación received: recibido recess: descanso, hueco, recreo, nicho recessed: encajado, encastrado, empotrado recklessly: descuidadamente, atronadamente, aturdidamente, imprudentemente, temerariamente, inconsideradamente reckon: calcular, darse cuenta reckoned: numerado, calculado, considerado reclined: reclinado recognized: reconocido recoil: culatazo, repliegue, recular, retroceso, retroceder de, reculada, rechazo, rebufar, retirarse, retraso, retroceder record: registro, registrar, récord, disco, expediente, grabar, inscribir, acta, certificar, ficha recover: recuperar, sanar, recupere, sanad, recuperad, recuperáis, recuperamos, recuperan, recuperas, recuperen, recupero recovered: sanado, recuperado, recobrado red: rojo, tinto, encarnado reddened: enrojecido reddening: enrojeciendo refer: remitir, referirse, referir reference: referencia reflected: reflejado reflection: reflexión, reflejo refused: rehusado regions: regiones regret: sentir, lamentar, deplorar, arrepentirse, pesar regretfully: sentidamente, con pesar, arrepentidamente, lamentablemente

regretted: Lamentado regular: regular, normal rejoiced: Regocijado, deleitado, jubilado, alborozado, alegrado rejoined: replicado, reunido released: liberado relief: alivio, relieve, socorro, asistencia, relevo relieve: aliviar, alivie, alivias, aliviad, alivio, alivien, aliviamos, aliviáis, alivian, alivia, relevar relieved: aliviado, relevado, desahogado reluctant: reacio, renuente remained: restado, Permanecido remaining: restante, restando, permaneciendo remark: comentario, observación, reparo, censura, nota, notar remarked: Observado remembered: recordado reminded: recordado renewed: renovado repeat: repetir, repita, repitan, repito, repites, repetid, repite, repetís, repetimos, repiten, reiterar repeated: repetido replacing: sustituyendo, reemplazando represent: representar, represente, representad, representáis, representamos, representan, representas, representen, represento, representa, reproducir repression: represión reproof: reparo, censura, reprobación resembles: parece resembling: parecido a, Parecer, pareciendo resignedly: resignadamente, con resignación resolute: resuelto respect: respetar, respeto, estima, estimación respectable: respetable, honorable respective: respectivo responsibility: responsabilidad, autoría rest: descansar, descanso, resto, detrito, desechos, reposar, reposo rested: descansado resting: anidación, descansar, en reposo restless: inquieto restrain: refrenar, contener, refrene, refrenas, refrena, contengo, refrenad, contiene, contienen, contienes, refrenen restrained: contenido, refrenado, dueño de sí mismo, reprimido returned: devuelto returning: volver

59 revealed: revelado revealing: revelando reverberated: reverberado reverse: inverso, reverso, marcha atrás, revés, parte trasera, al contrario, al revés rhyme: rima, rimar ribs: costillas ridge: cresta, caballón ridges: ralladuras riding: paseo a caballo, cabalgar, de equitación, de montar, equitación, ir montado en, montar, paseo, paseo en coche rigging: aparejo rights: derechos rigidly: rígidamente, yertamente ringing: zumbido, sonando, sobreoscilación ripple: onda, rizado, rizo, ondulación rise: subir, levantarse, aumento, levantamiento, alza, subida risen: subido, pp de rise river: río roadstead: fondeadero roamed: Vagado roaming: itinerancia, vagando rock: roca, balancear, piedra, mecer, peña rod: vara, barra, varilla, vástago rolled: arrollado roomy: espacioso rope: cuerda, soga, la cuerda, cabo rose: rosa, la rosa roughly: ásperamente, aproximadamente, bruscamente rounded: redondeado roundness: redondez routine: rutina rudder: timón, volante ruffian: rufián ruins: ruinas rung: escalón, peldaño running: corriendo, funcionamiento rush: apresurarse, junco, prisa rushed: apresurarse, a prisa, apresurado, con prisas, prisa, precipitar safe: seguro, caja fuerte, salvo, a salvo, caja de caudales safety: seguridad sail: vela, navegar, la vela sailing: navegación sails: paño saloon: taberna sane: sano, cuerdo sanity: cordura sat: pret y pp de sit, sáb, servicio de administración tributaria, sentado, sábado, soplado, asentado, empollado, se sentado, sentido satisfaction: satisfacción

60 save: guardar, guarda, guardan, guardáis, guardamos, guardas, guarde, guardo, guardad, guarden, salvar saved: guardado, salvado, ahorrado saving: guardando, salvando, ahorrando, ahorro saying: diciendo, dicho, decir, refrán scandalized: escandalizado scanty: escaso, parco scattered: disperso, esparcido scene: escena, escenario scheme: esquema, propósito, plan, intrigar scoring: veintena, raya, estriación, tanteo, cuenta, reprimenda, rayar, rayado, partitura, orquestar, orquestación scornful: desdeñoso, despreciativo scorpion: escorpión scrambled: revuelto scrambling: aleatorización screaming: llamativo, chillón, chillar, estridente, grito, gritar scrimmage: arrebatiña, melé, peléese, pelea, pelear scrubbing: depuración, lavado scruff: pescuezo sea: mar, el mar seaman: marinero, marino seamen: marineros searching: minucioso, búsqueda seas: mares seat: asiento, el asiento, sitio, sede, asentar, sentar seated: sentado seconds: sobras, segundos, artículos de segunda clase secrecy: secreto secret: secreto, el secreto, arcano, clandestino secretly: secretamente security: seguridad, garantía, dinero del embase, recaudo seedy: granado, sórdido seeing: viendo, serrando seem: parecer, parezca, parecen, parezcan, pareces, parezco, parecemos, parecéis, parece, pareced seized: agarrado, asido seizing: agarrando, asiendo select: seleccionar, seleccionan, selecciono, seleccionen, seleccionas, seleccionamos, seleccionáis, seleccionad, selecciona, seleccione, escoger self: mismo send: enviar, envío, envía, envíe, enviad, enviáis, enviamos, envían, envías, envíen, mandar sensation: sensación, sentimiento senses: juicio, los sentidos, sentido

The Secret Sharer sensible: sensato, razonable sent: enviado, mandado, despachado sentiment: sentimiento, opinión, sensibilidad, parecer, sentimentalismo separate: separado, separar, apartar, aparte, particular, dividir, separarse, segregar, independiente, compartir separated: separado serge: sarga, estameña seriously: seriamente, gravemente serve: servir, sirva, sirvo, servimos, servid, servís, sirvan, sirve, sirven, sirves serving: sirviendo, ración setting: puesta, ajuste, escena, configuración, cuajado, escenario seven: siete seventeen: diecisiete, diez y siete shade: sombra, sombrear, pantalla, matizar, tono, matiz shades: averno, matices, sombras, tinieblas shadow: sombra, sombreado shadowily: indistintamente, espectralmente, oscuramente, tenebrosamente, vagamente shadows: oscuridad shadowy: oscuro shake: sacudir, sacuda, sacudimos, sacudís, sacudid, sacudes, sacuden, sacude, sacudan, sacudo, sacudida shaken: sacudido shaking: sacudiendo, sacudida sham: fingir, fingido shape: forma, formar, figura, amoldar, horma, la forma, perfil, conformar sharer: partícipe sharply: bruscamente shave: afeitar, afeitado, afeitarse, rapar sheer: puro sheet: hoja, lámina, sábana, libra, escota, folio, placa, chapa, plancha, sabana shift: turno, desplazamiento, desplazar, cambiar, jornada, tanda, cambio shifting: cambiar, desplazamiento, movedizo shimmer: luz trémula, vibración ship: barco, enviar, enviad, envía, envíen, envíe, envías, envían, enviamos, enviáis, envío shipmaster: capitán de un buque mercante, patrón shipmate: compañero de a bordo ships: envía, despacha, expide shock: choque, impacto, susto, sacudida, conmoción shone: brillado, pret y pp de shine

shook: sacudió, pret de shake shore: orilla, costa, ribera short: corto, bajo, breve shoulder: hombro, el hombro, espalda, lisera, banquina, reborde, espaldilla shoulders: espalda, hombros shout: gritar, grito shouted: gritado shouting: griterío showed: mostrado, pret de show shower: ducha, la ducha, chaparrón, chubasco showing: mostrando, exhibición shown: mostrado showy: vistoso, llamativo shudder: estremecerse shuffled: barajado shut: cerrar, cerrado shy: tímido, vergonzoso sick: enfermo sickly: enfermizo sideboard: armario, aparador sigh: suspirar, suspiro sighed: suspirado sight: vista, aspecto, mira, avistar sighted: vidente sign: firmar, señal, seña, signo, agüero, letrero, prueba, el letrero, rótulo, muestra significance: significación, significado, importancia signs: señales, carteles de señalización, signo silence: silencio, acallar, hacer callar, el silencio silent: silencioso, mudo, callado silently: silenciosamente, silencioso silk: seda, la seda silly: tonto, necio, absurdo, bobo silver: plata, la plata, plateado silvery: plateado similitude: analogía, similitud, forma, imagen simmering: estofando, fermentando, hirviendo simple: sencillo, simple simply: simplemente, sencillamente simultaneously: simultáneamente sincere: sincero single: soltero, solo, único, simple, individual singleness: unidad, lealtad, resolución, soltería sink: fregadero, sumidero, bucear, lavabo, hundir sir: señor sit: sentarse, estar sentado, sentar sitting: sesión, sentada situation: situación size: tamaño, talla, calibre, formato, ajustar tamaño, dimensión, grandor

Joseph Conrad skin: piel, cáscara, la piel, cutis, pelar skipper: capitán, patrón sky: cielo, el cielo skylight: claraboya, tragaluz, lucernario slack: flojo, flojera slapped: abofeteado slaying: matando sleep: dormir, duerme, duermes, dormimos, duermen, duermo, dormís, dormid, duerma, duerman, sueño sleeper: coche cama, durmiente, traviesa sleepily: durmientemente, soñolientamente sleeping: durmiendo, durmiente sleepless: insomne sleepy: soñoliento slept: dormido sliding: corredizo, deslizamiento slight: leve, desaire slightly: ligeramente, un poco, levemente slip: deslizamiento, resbalar, desliz, deslizar, combinación slipped: resbalado slippers: zapatillas slow: lento slowly: lentamente, despacio smart: listo, inteligente, astuto, majo smash: rotura, golpear, romper smeary: graso, untuoso smile: sonrisa, sonreír, la sonrisa, sonreírse smiled: sonreído smoke: fumar, fumo, fume, fumas, fuman, fumamos, fumáis, fumad, fuma, fumen, humo smooth: liso, plano, alisar, suavizar, suave smoothly: fácilmente smoothness: suavidad, lisura smother: sofocar, humareda smothered: asfixiar, ahogado, humareda, polvareda, sofocado, sofocar, apagar smuggle: pasar de contrabando, contrabandear, contrabandea, contrabandeo, contrabandeen, contrabandee, contrabandeas, contrabandean, contrabandeamos, contrabandeáis, contrabandead snarling: enredar, enredo, gruñido, gruñir, maraña snatched: arrebatado sneering: burlón snore: roncar, ronquido snoring: ronquidos soft: blando, suave, tierno, dulce softly: suavemente solemnity: solemnidad

solid: sólido, fuerte, macizo solitary: solo, solitario, único solitude: soledad somber: afligido, oscuro, triste, sombrío somebody: alguien, alguno, cierto somehow: de algún modo somewhat: algo, poco, bastante somewhere: en alguna parte soon: pronto, luego soothing: calmando, consolador, calmante, tranquilizador sorry: afligido, arrepentido, pesaroso, siento, triste soul: alma, espíritu, ánimo sound: sonido, sonar, ruido, tocar, sano, sondear, legítimo, auscultar, sólido, oscilación acústica, vibración acústica soundless: silencioso southern: del sur, meridional, sureño, austral sou'wester: sueste space: espacio, el espacio, espaciar spar: entrenarse spare: sobrante, ahorrar, recambio, perdonar sparkled: chispeado spars: boxea, pelea, riñe speak: hablar, hablamos, hablo, hablas, habláis, hablad, hablen, habla, hablan, hable speaking: hablando, parlante spectators: espectador, público, espectadoras speech: discurso, habla, lenguaje, oración, conversación, dialecto, idioma spell: deletrear, el hechizo, el encanto spirit: espíritu spiritless: exánime splash: salpicar, salpicadura splashing: chapoteo, riego, salpicar, salpicaduras spoke: decir, radio, rayo, raya, radioactivo, rayo de rueda, hablar, pret de speak, expresar spot: mancha, punto, sitio, verrugato croca, manchar, mancilla, lugar spring: fuente, muelle, saltar, primavera, resorte, la primavera, manantial, brincar sprung: pp de spring, de muelles, brotado, saltado spun: hilado square: plaza, cuadrado, cuadro, escuadra, el cuadro, en Ángulo Recto, glorieta, cuadrar, casilla squat: ponerse en cuclillas stable: cuadra, establo, estable, fijo, caballeriza stage: escenario, fase, etapa, escena,

61 plataforma, estrado, organizar stairs: escalera, escaleras stakes: estacas, intereses en juego stammered: tartamudeó stand: estar de pie, puesto, levantarse, granero, posición, cabina, soporte, base, estante, caseta, pararse standing: permanente, posición star: estrella, la estrella, astro starboard: estribor, de estribor stare: mirar fijamente, mirada fija staring: llamativo stark: severo starry: estrellado stars: estrellas started: comenzado, encaminado starting: arranque, comenzar startle: sobresaltar, sobresaltas, sobresaltan, sobresaltamos, sobresaltáis, sobresaltad, sobresalta, sobresalten, sobresalte, sobresalto startled: sobresaltado stateroom: camarote statue: estatua, la estatua stature: estatura, altura, talla stay: quedarse, quedar, queden, quede, quedas, quedan, quedamos, quedáis, quedad, queda, quedo stayed: quedado, permanecido stays: queda, permanece steadfast: firme steady: estable stealthily: furtivamente, sigilosamente, disimuladamente, clandestinamente, a hurtadillas stealthiness: sigilo, clandestinidad, cautela stealthy: furtivo steaming: humeante step: paso, escalón, peldaño stepped: escalonado steps: pasos stern: popa, severo sternly: severamente steward: camarero, administrador, mayordomo stewed: estofado sticking: pegajoso stillness: quietud stir: conmover, revolver, remover, agitar stole: estola stolidly: estólidamente, impasiblemente stone: piedra, la piedra, cálculo stony: pedregoso stood: pret y pp de stand stool: taburete stop: parar, paran, paras, paren, paráis, parad, paramos, pare, para, paro, parada

62 stopped: parado, detenido story: historia, piso, cuento, relato, el cuento stowed: estibado straight: derecho, recto, directamente, recta straightforwardness: franqueza, honradez, sinceridad strain: colar, esfuerzo, deformación, cepa, tensión, torcedura strained: torcer, entiesar, torcido, torcedura, tirantez, tirante, tenso, tensión, rasgo heredado, poner tirante, pasado straits: necesidad, paso, estrecho, estrecheces strange: extraño, raro, ajeno strangely: extrañamente strangeness: extrañeza stranger: forastero, extraño, desconocido strangling: estrangulando straw: paja, pajita, la paja stream: arroyo, corriente, flujo, chorro, riachuelo, secuencia strength: fuerza, resistencia, virtud, potencia, fortaleza stretch: estiramiento, estirar, extender, tramo striking: llamativo strolled: paseó strong: fuerte, intenso, marcado strongly: fuertemente struck: pret y pp de strike, golpeado struggle: batalla, forcejeo, lucha, contienda stubborn: terco, testarudo, obstinado style: estilo subdue: dominar, dominen, domino, dominas, dominan, dominamos, domináis, dominad, domina, domine, sojuzgar subject: asunto, tema, asignatura, someter, sujeto, cuestión, materia success: éxito, acierto, desarrollo sudden: repentino, brusco, súbito suddenly: de repente, de golpe, repentinamente, de sopetón suddenness: rapidez sufficient: suficiente, bastante sufficiently: suficientemente, bastante suggested: sugerido, designado, propuesto suggesting: sugiriendo, designando suggestion: sugerencia, propuesta, proposición suicide: suicidio suit: traje, convenir, el traje, pleito summer: verano, el verano, estival sun: sol, el sol sunburn: quemadura del sol

The Secret Sharer sunday: domingo, el domingo sunken: hundido sunrise: salida del sol, amanecer superfluously: superfluamente supper: cena, la cena suppose: suponer, suponéis, supongo, supon, suponed, suponemos, suponen, supones, supongan, supone, suponga supposed: supuesto suppressing: suprimiendo, sofocando, oprimiendo sure: seguro, cierto surface: superficie surliness: displicencia, falta de educación, aspereza, hosquedad, mal humor surmounted: vencido, superado surprise: sorprender, sorpresa, la sorpresa surprising: sorprendente, asombroso surrounding: circundante, rodeando, circundando surveying: topografía, agrimensura suspect: sospechar, dudar, sospechoso suspected: sospechoso, desconfiar de, sospechado, sospechar sustained: sostenido, continuo swallow: golondrina, tragar, golondrina común, deglutir swallowed: deglutido, dar crédito a, contener, golondrina, tragado, tragarse, tragar swam: Nadó, pret de swim swarm: enjambre, pulular, hormiguear sweep: barrer, barrido swiftly: de prisa, pronto, rápidamente swim: nadar, nadas, nado, naden, nadad, nadan, nadáis, nadamos, nada, nade swimmer: nadador, flotador swimming: nadando, natación swing: balancear, columpio, balancearse, oscilación swirl: remolino, torbellino, arremolinarse sword: espada sworn: jurado swung: Columpiado, pret y pp de swing symbolic: simbólico symmetrically: simétricamente sympathized: simpatizado sympathy: simpatía tack: tachuela, amura, puño de amura tale: cuento tales: cuentos talk: hablar, hablas, hablan, hablad, habláis, hablamos, hablo, hable,

hablen, habla, charla talked: Hablado, charlado talking: hablando, parlante, charlando, hablar tangle: enredo, caos tap: grifo, palmadita, toma, llave, espita, derivación task: tarea, quehacer, trabajo tasks: quehaceres, tareas tea: té, te tear: lágrima, desgarrar, rajar, romper, rasgar, desgarro teeth: dientes, dentadura telescope: telescopio, catalejo telling: contando, relatando, narración tells: cuenta, relata temptation: tentación tenacious: tenaz tenacity: tenacidad tentatively: tentativamente terms: condiciones, condición terrible: terrible terrific: tremendo, estupendo, extraordinario, fabuloso, formidable, maravilloso, terrífico terrifically: espantosamente, tremendamente terrified: aterrorizado, aterrado terror: terror test: examen, probar, prueba, ensayo, intentar, carnet, carné, test, examinar, el examen, ensayar thanks: gracias, agradece theirs: suyo, sus theoretically: teóricamente theory: teoría thereabouts: en los alrededores thick: grueso, espeso, gordo, denso thin: delgado, fino, flaco, ralo thinking: pensando, reflexionando, pensamiento, pensante thirsty: sediento thirty-nine: treinta y nueve thoroughly: completamente thoughtful: pensativo, atento, prudente, circunspecto thoughtfully: atentamente thoughts: pensamientos threshold: umbral threw: pret de throw, Tiró, tiro throat: garganta, la garganta throw: lanzar, echar, tirar, tirada, arrojar, lanzamiento throwing: lanzamiento thrown: tirado, pp de throw thrust: empujar, empuje, empujón thump: porrazo thundered: Tronado thunderstruck: atónito tide: marea tides: mareas

Joseph Conrad tidy: arreglar, ordenado tied: atado tiff: pelea till: caja, hasta que, hasta, a que tins: latas tiny: diminuto tired: cansado tomorrow: mañana tone: tono tones: tonos tongue: lengua, la lengua, lengüeta tonight: esta noche top: cima, superficie, parte superior, superior, cumbre topsail: gavia torn: roto total: suma totally: totalmente touch: tocar, toque, tacto, palpar, contacto, rozar touched: palpar, tocar, tocado, pulsación, toque, emocionado, conmover, chiflado, alcanzar, tacto, conmovido touching: conmovedor towering: imponente, violento, torre, sobresalir, muy alto, encumbrado, elevarse, elevado, elevadísimo, muy violento, dominar towers: torres towns: pueblos track: pista, vía, huella, impresión, rastrear, trayectoria trade: comercio, oficio, negocio, intercambiar tradesmen: trabajadores especializados trait: rasgo, característica tramp: puta, vagabundo, paso pesado travel: viajar, viaje, viajo, viaja, viajas, viajan, viajamos, viajen, viajad, viajáis, conducir tray: bandeja treated: tratado trees: árboles tremor: temblor tribe: tribu tried: probado trifling: fútil tropical: tropical troubled: molestar, de enfermedad, agitado, problema, desventurado, apurado, molestarse, dificultad, no sabroso, pasado difícilmente, pena troubling: molestar, atormentador, preocupante true: verdadero, cierto truly: verdaderamente, de veras, en realidad, en efecto, realmente trust: confiar, fideicomiso, confianza, fiduciario trusted: confiado, confidente

trustful: confiado truth: verdad, veras, la verdad trying: molesto tug: tirar, remolcador, tirón tugboat: remolcador tumbled: Derribado turn: girar, gira, giro, giráis, giramos, giran, giras, gire, giren, girad, vuelta turned: girado, vuelto, trastornado twelve: doce twenty: veinte twenty-five: veinticinco twenty-four: veinticuatro twenty-three: veintitrés tying: ligamiento, atar, atadura type: tipo, escribir a máquina, escribir, teclear, mecanografiar ugly: feo unalloyed: sin aleación unalterable: inalterable unavoidable: inevitable uncanny: misterioso uncharted: desconocido, no trazado, inexplorado, fuera de el mapa unconscious: desmayado, inconsciente unconventional: libre de reglas underneath: abajo, debajo, debajo de, en el fondo understand: entender, entiendes, entienda, entiendan, entendemos, entendéis, entended, entienden, entiendo, entiende, comprender understood: entendido, comprendido undertone: voz baja unduly: indebidamente, excesivamente, impropiamente unexpected: inesperado, imprevisto unhooked: Desenganchado unintelligent: poco inteligente unique: único united: reunido, unido unknown: desconocido, incógnita unless: a menos que, a no ser que unlocked: desbloqueado unmarked: no notificado unmoved: firme, impasible unnatural: innatural, antinatural unpleasant: desagradable, bronco, brusco unrelated: no relacionado, inconexo unrest: inquietud, molestia unrighteous: injusto unsolved: no resuelto unsteady: inseguro, inconstante, inestable unsuspected: insospechado untried: no probado untroubled: sereno, tranquilo unusual: raro, insólito, excepcional unusually: insólitamente, inusitadamente,

63 extraordinariamente, desacostumbradamente, desusadamente, excepcionalmente unwilling: reacio unworthy: indigno, desmerecedor unyielding: inflexible upright: vertical, montante, derecho upturned: levantado, volcador urbanely: urbanamente urged: Instado urgently: urgentemente usual: común, general, universal, acostumbrado, habitual uttered: pronunciado utterly: absolutamente vagabond: errabundo, vagabundo vague: vago vaguely: vagamente vain: vano, hueco, vanidoso vanish: desaparecer, desaparezca, desaparezcan, desapareces, desaparecen, desaparecemos, desaparecéis, desapareced, desaparece, desaparezco vanished: desaparecido various: varios, varias, diferente vase: jarrón, vaso, florero vegetables: verduras, vegetales, verdura vengeful: vengativo ventilating: ventilando version: versión, variante vertical: vertical vexed: enfadado viewed: visto vigorous: vigoroso violently: violentamente virtuous: virtuoso visible: visible visibly: visiblemente vision: visión visitor: visitante voyage: viaje wagon: vagón, carro wailed: Gemido waist: cintura, la cintura, talle wait: esperar, espera, espere, esperad, espero, esperen, esperas, esperan, esperamos, esperáis, aguardar waited: Esperado, aguardado, perdado waiting: esperando, espera, aguardando, servicio wake: estela, despertar walked: andado, Caminado walking: andando, caminando, ambulante wandering: errante, vagando wanting: queriendo, deseando, falto warm: caliente, caluroso, calentar, cálido warning: aviso, avisando,

64 advertencia, advirtiendo, amonestación warningly: Advertir washing: lavando, lavado watch: reloj, mirar, observar, reloj de pulsera, ver, contemplar, el reloj, prestar atención, vigilar, guardia, guardar watched: Mirado watching: tener cuidado, vigilar, observar, mirar, investigación, acechanza, reloj, velar, vigilante, vigilancia, acecho wavered: vacilado wear: llevar, desgaste, usar, tener puesto, vestir, uso, llevar puesto wearing: llevando, llevar, llevar puesto, usar, uso, desgastado, usando weather: tiempo, el tiempo, clima weeks: semanas weigh: pesar, pese, pesa, pesad, pesáis, pesamos, pesan, pesas, peso, pesen, ponderar weight: peso, carga, el peso, asignar un peso a, la pesa, pesa weird: raro, misterioso, extraño we'll: Haremos well-known: conocido, sabido, notorio wet: mojado, húmedo, mojar, humedecer wetted: mojado wharf: muelle, andén whatever: cualquier, lo que, cualquier cosa wheel: rueda, la rueda whenever: cada vez que, cuando quiera que, cuando whereas: considerando que, por cuanto wherefore: por qué, por eso, por consiguiente whimpered: Lloriqueó whims: caprichos whisk: batidor, batir whisker: pelo de el bigote, pelo de la barba, pelo del bigote whiskered: bigotudo whiskers: patillas, bigotes whisper: cuchichear, cuchicheo, susurrar, susurro, murmurar whispered: chuchicheado whispering: chismes, chismografía, con eco, cuchicheo, de difamación, rumores, susurro, de rumores whistle: silbar, silbato, silbido, pito whistling: silbido whoever: quien wholly: enteramente whom: quien, quién, que whose: cuyo, cuya

The Secret Sharer wickedness: maldad wide: ancho, amplio, vasto, lejos wife: esposa, mujer, la esposa wig: peluca wild: fiero, salvaje, silvestre wildly: ferozmente wiles: engaños, seduce willing: dispuesto, deseoso wind: viento, serpentear, el viento, enrollar, devanar windings: bobinado winking: guiñar, intermitente, parpadeo wise: sabio, sensato, guisa wisely: sabiamente wished: deseado witchcraft: brujería witness: testigo, presenciar, atestiguar, testimonio wonder: preguntarse, maravilla, asombrarse, prodigio, preguntar wondered: Preguntado wonderful: maravilloso word: palabra, la palabra, vocablo, término, formular wore: falacia, pret de wear, Llevó worked: trabajo worried: preocupado, angustiado, inquieto worse: peor worth: valor wretch: desgraciado wretched: miserable, menesteroso, pobre, infeliz, necesitado, desdichado wretchedness: miseria write: escribir, escriba, escriban, escribo, escribís, escribimos, escribid, escribes, escribe, escriben writing: escribiendo, escritura, letra, inscripción wrong: malo, mal, falso, incorrecto, entuerto, agravio, impropio, erróneo yankee: yanqui yard: patio, corral, yarda, grave yawn: bostezo, bostezar, el bostezo yawned: Bostezó yearning: anhelo, añoranza, anhelando yell: grito, gritar, aullar, chillar yelled: grito, gritado yelling: grito, gritos, gritar, gritante, dar alaridos, aullido, aullar, alarido youngest: más joven yourself: tú mismo, se zeal: celo, ahínco