Vocabulario Avanzado: The Road Cormac McCarthy
CrestedThey went to the top of the hill where the road crested.
Mote
The lamp in the rock on the side of the hill was little more than a mote of light and after a while they walked back.
Bleak
uncouple
Everything uncoupled from its shoring
Gryke
He descended into a gryke in the stone and there he couched coughing and he coughed for a long time.
Sludge
Fossil tracks in the dried sludge
Grimace
A corpse in a doorway dried to leather. Grimacing at the day.
Rowboat
He sat in the back of the rowboat trailing his hand in the cold wake while his uncle bent to the oars.
Uprights
The old man´s feet in their back kid shoes braced against the uprights.
Thin drool
His cob pipe in his teeth and a thin drool swinging from the pipebowl.
Oarhandles
He turned to take a sight on the far shore, cradling the oarhandles, taking the pipe his mouth to wipe his chin with the back of his hand.
Riprap
the edge of the lake a riprap of twisted stumps, gray and weathered, the windfall trees of a hurricane years past.
Windowslights
The lake dark glass and windowlights coming on along the shore. A radio somewhere.
Crouched
He descended into a gryke in the stone and there he couched coughing and he coughed for a long time.
Evergreens
The shore was lined with birchtrees that stood bone pale against the dark of the evergreens beyond.
Shoals of ash
The blackened shapes of rock standing out of the shoals of ash
Wonky
One of the front wheels of the cart had gone wonky.
Cauterized
The were days fording that cauterized terrain.
Shivering
He held the boy shivering against him and counted each frail breath in the blackness.
Shallows, transon = popa
His uncle turned the boat and shipped the oars and they drifted over the sandy shallows until the transon grated in the sand.
leverage = apalancamiento, apalancar
He picked one out and they turned it over, using the roots for leverage, until they got it half floating in the water.
Cauterized Terrain
They were days fording that cauterized terrain.
Wonky = flojo
One of the front wheels of the cart had gone wonky.
Quivering, sourceless and refracted = temblando, sin origen y reflactado
The faint light all about, quivering and sourceless, refracted in the rain of drifting soot.
Blackened
No sound but the wind in the bare and blackened trees
marauders
No one traveled this road. No roadagents, no marauders.
Bolt and resleeved
He pulled the bolt and bored out the collet with a hand drill and resleeved it with a section of pipe he´d cut to length with a hacksaw.
Barndoor, boarhide, barndoor, ratty, rafters and slats.
In the morning they went on. Desolate country. A boarhide nailed to a barndoor. Ratty. Wisp of a tail. Inside the barn three bodies hanging from the rafters, dried and dusty among the wan slats of light.
Batboard, smokehouse, ham gambreled and drawn.
In an old batboard smokehouse they found a ham gambreled up in a high corner. It looked like something fetched from a tomb, so died and drawn.
To simmer
They fried it that night over their fire, thick slices of it, and put the slices to simmer with a tin of beans.
Bride = novia
In dreams his pale bride came to him out of a green and leafy canopy. Her nipples pipeclayed and her rib bones painted white.
Beads and Lightwires
Beads of small gray ice strung along the lightwires overhead.
Lying there in the dark with the uncanny taste of a peach from some phantom orchard fading in his mouth.
Plodded on and scent.
From daydreams on the road there was no waking. He plodded on. He could remember everything of her save her scent.
Scent = odor, olor, rastro
He could remember everything of her save scent.
No roadagents, no marauders. = agentes viales, merodeadores.
Bolt = tornillo, cerrojo, empernar
He pulled the bolt and bored out the collet witha hand drill and resleeved it with a section of pipe he´d cut to length with a hacksaw.
Wrapped in the blankets, watching the nameless dark come to enshroud them.
