Vocabulario de Adolfo Miller

El pobre no tenía en qué ni dónde caer muerto

He was so poor he didn’t have a place to die

Deshacía (deshacer)

To destroy

Se fue ganando

He went around earning sympathy

Dondequiera

Wherever

Alzar

To stack

Adolfo se echó cuerpo y alma en su trabajo

Adolfo put his body and soul in his work

La confianza

Trust

Los quehaceres

Chores

Correteando (corretear)

To run around

Pudo haber nacido entre los dos algo

Something could have been born between the two of them

Las instancias

Instances, moments between the two of them

Guiñar el ojo

To wink

Los nietos

Grandchildren

Se encargaba (encargarse)

To take care of

Contrataba y despedía peones

Hired and fired ‘pawns’

La cárcel

Jail

Acaso

Perhaps

Yerno

Son in law

Aguantarse

To endure, to bear, to stand

Seguía haciendo

To continue doing

Hondo

Deep, hollow

Ferrocarril

Railroad

Las paradas

Stop (as in buses and trains)

Honradamente

Honestly

El ganado

Livestock