El Capitán Veneno. Pedro Antonio de Alarcón
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Название: El Capitán Veneno

Автор: Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

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СКАЧАТЬ the tibia was shattered. The subject of the infinitive is the post-placed noun tibia.

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a solas, alone, privately: as feminine -mente is universal for the adverb ending, and as cosa is so often understood, it has come about that the fashion is to make adverbial expressions with a feminine form: cf. apenas, a duras penas, a ciegas; and even where the feminine is illogical, as in a ojos vistas, a pie juntillas, a ojos cegarritas: two constructions are confused, the adverb from a noun: a ojos, a pie, a la vista, and the adverb from an adjective.

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tres Marías: reference to the three Marys at the crucifixion, Matthew 27:56. The phrase has become common with the legend that the three Marys came to Provence together.

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¡cáspita…! and (20) ¡caracoles…!: note the disguised [encubierto] oath, how it starts as though to say Cristo and switches off to ca-something, any word beginning with ca- (canastos, caminos, canales, calles, culebrines, etc.), or even ca alone, or que. The commonest is caramba. In the Diario I, p. 32, and elsewhere several times, Alarcón speaks of the great amount of swearing: Valiéndose de distintas interjecciones y muletillas, usando de diverso género de oratorio, declaman, votan, refieren, arguyan, se insultan, se reconcilian… Using different interjections and gags, using a varied kind of oratory, they declaim, swear, quote, argue, insult each other, make up… Cf. our disguised forms for Jesus: By Joe, by George, Gewhiz, Jerusalem, Jehosaphat, Jimminy, and many more.

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Y cuenta que = Tenga usted en cuenta que, And remember or just to think; in Don Quixote, haz cuenta que. Cf. the fuller form Hágase V. cuenta de que no nos hemos abrazado todavía, Remember we have not embraced each other yet. Escándalo, p. 151.

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calaverada: cf. Aquella calaverada propuesta por la serpiente y aceptada por Eva, That prank proposed by the serpent and accepted by Eve.

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velis nolis [Latin], whether or no, willy nilly = Spanish quiera o no quiera. Another form is de buen o mal grado, in La Pródiga.

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dejarse cuidar… por, let [some one] take care of him: se is the object of cuidar, then por following mixes the construction. Cf. English I have heard say by somebody, a mixed construction for I have heard said by somebody, and I have heard somebody say.

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so pena, under penalty: so pretexto, and so capa, under pretext; so, often pronounced jo, gave way to bajo, which is the common word for under. So [Lat. sub] remains in a few legal or set phrases.

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precauciones nasales, nasal precautions: facetious, like the expressions of a baseball reporter with us; it is a style of playfulness common with Alarcón.

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alguno after its word = ninguno.

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interrumpió: a marked trait of Jorge.

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señores: includes señoras; cf. los reyes católicos de España, the Catholic king and queen of Spain, i.e. Ferdinand and Isabel.

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la contraria [razón]: Alarcón uses el contrario, lo contrario, in the same sense.

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himno de Riego: not so much that he indorsed Riego, as to be mean and pique the marquis. Alarcón would not have a hero too radical. He tells us Jorge had never been a revolutionist (lo que nunca ha hecho ha sido pronunciarse). He tells us of himself that he was anti-royalist only a little while: his democratic impulses (pujos democráticos) were sudden and fleeting (repentinos y fugaces). See Diario I, p. 11.

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a quien nadie mandaba echar su cuarto a espadas, whom nobody told to bet his money on spades, i.e. he had no business to get into the fray: the figure is of betting on cards.

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podía haber escarmentado, he might have known better.

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perito agrónomo, land expert, surveyor: agrónomo is an adjective.

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Señoras y señores: addressed to the same ones he called señores before.

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partiendo de la base, starting from the basis = taking for granted.

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resabios, tricks: note the sense flavor, taste, bad taste, of the stem saber, to taste, smack, flavor, here and in sinsabores, desabrimiento, desabor. Cf. English disgusting [gust, 'taste'].

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ahorrar descontentos y sinsabores, to spare the lady annoyances and offenses.

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proveer = resolver, deciding.

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gran: apocopated, instead of grande as usual whether before masculine or feminine noun.

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Bilbao: one would think first of the famous Chilean patriot, Francisco Bilbao, after mention of Riego; but as there was no man Maella corresponding, the two names must refer to the towns. Bilbao was besieged several times, and as late as 1874, in the Carlist wars. The Bilbaínos are sturdy and brave, love liberty, and easily join against the government. The battle of Maella was won by General Cabrera in 1830.

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en esto, meantime: like en tanto, en cuanto.

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a fuer de = al tenor de, as a.

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en sendas butacas, in their respective chairs.

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generalato: note -ato and -ado, different forms of the same ending.

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condado: note -ato and -ado, different forms of the same ending.

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a poco, in a little while, as soon as: cf. al ver, when he saw.

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hurgó [from furca, fork; cf. stir, prod]: preterit of hurgar, confused with urgió, urged, from urgir.

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