The Time Machine (Webster's Spanish Thesaurus Edition)

THE TIME MACHINE WEBSTER'S SPANISH THESAURUS EDITION

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

H.G. Wells

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The Time Machine Webster's Spanish Thesaurus Edition

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

H.G. Wells

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 Time Machine: 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 0-497-25922-2

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Contents PREFACE FROM THE EDITOR .......................................................................................... 1 CHAPTER I ....................................................................................................................... 2 CHAPTER II .................................................................................................................... 11 CHAPTER III ................................................................................................................... 17 CHAPTER IV ................................................................................................................... 23 CHAPTER V .................................................................................................................... 33 CHAPTER VI ................................................................................................................... 49 CHAPTER VII .................................................................................................................. 55 CHAPTER VIII ................................................................................................................. 62 CHAPTER IX ................................................................................................................... 69 CHAPTER X .................................................................................................................... 76 CHAPTER XI ................................................................................................................... 80 CHAPTER XII .................................................................................................................. 85 EPILOGUE ...................................................................................................................... 91 GLOSSARY ..................................................................................................................... 92

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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 Time Machine by H.G. Wells 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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The Time Machine

CHAPTER I

The%Time Traveller (for so it will be convenient to speak of him) was expounding a recondite matter to us. His grey eyes shone and twinkled, and his usually pale face was flushed and animated. The fire burned brightly, and the soft radiance of the incandescent lights in the lilies of silver caught the bubbles that flashed and passed in our glasses. Our chairs, being his patents, embraced and caressed us rather than submitted to be sat upon, and there was that luxurious after-dinner atmosphere when thought roams gracefully free of the trammels of precision. And he put it to us in this way--marking the points with a lean forefinger--as we sat and lazily admired his earnestness over this new paradox (as we thought it:) and his fecundity. `You must follow me carefully. I shall have to controvert one or two ideas that are almost universally accepted. The geometry, for instance, they taught you at school is founded on a misconception.’ `Is not that rather a large thing to expect us to begin upon?’ said Filby, an argumentative person with red hair. `I do not mean to ask you to accept anything without reasonable ground for it. You will soon admit as much as I need from you. You know of course that a mathematical line, a line of thickness nil, has no real existence. They taught you that? Neither has a mathematical plane. These things are mere abstractions.’

Spanish after-dinner: de sobremesa. animated: animado. argumentative: argumentativo, discutidor. brightly: brillantemente. bubbles: burbuja, porosidad, burbujas. caressed: Cariciado. controvert: controvertido, controvertir, contradecir, contradiga, controvertid, controvierto, controvierten, controvierte,

controviertan, controvierta, controvertís. earnestness: seriedad. embraced: abrazado. expounding: comentando, exponiendo. fecundity: fecundidad. geometry: geometría. gracefully: graciosamente, desenvueltamente, elegantemente, gallardamente, airosamente. incandescent: incandescente.

lazily: remolonamente, holgazanamente, perezosamente. luxurious: lujoso, suntuoso. patents: patentes. radiance: resplandor, radiancia, radiación, fulgor, brillantez, luminancia energética. recondite: recóndito. roams: vaga. shone: brillado, pret y pp de shine. trammels: trabas, traba. twinkled: Centelleado.

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`That is all right,’ said the Psychologist.% `Nor, having only length, breadth, and thickness, can a cube have a real existence.’ `There I object,’ said Filby. `Of course a solid body may exist. All real things-’ `So most people think. But wait a moment. Can an instantaneous cube exist?’ `Don’t follow you,’ said Filby. `Can a cube that does not last for any time at all, have a real existence?’ Filby became pensive. `Clearly,’ the Time Traveller proceeded, `any real body must have extension in four directions: it must have Length, Breadth, Thickness, and--Duration. But through a natural infirmity of the flesh, which I will explain to you in a moment, we incline to overlook this fact. There are really four dimensions, three which we call the three planes of Space, and a fourth, Time. There is, however, a tendency to draw an unreal distinction between the former three dimensions and the latter, because it happens that our consciousness moves intermittently in one direction along the latter from the beginning to the end of our lives.’ `That,’ said a very young man, making spasmodic efforts to relight his cigar over the lamp; `that . . . very clear indeed.’ `Now, it is very remarkable that this is so extensively overlooked,’ continued the Time Traveller, with a slight accession of cheerfulness. `Really this is what is meant by the Fourth Dimension, though some people who talk about the Fourth Dimension do not know they mean it. It is only another way of looking at Time. There is no difference between time and any of the three dimensions of space except that our consciousness moves along it. But some foolish people have got hold of the wrong side of that idea. You have all heard what they have to say about this Fourth Dimension?’ `I have not,’ said the Provincial Mayor.

Spanish accession: presentación, acceso, accesión, adhesión, asentimiento, adquisición, compra, ganancia, acrecencia, entrada. breadth: ancho, amplitud, anchura. cheerfulness: alegría. cigar: cigarro, puro, el puro, el cigarro, cigarro puro. consciousness: conciencia, consciencia, conocimiento. cube: cubo, el cubo. dimensions: dimensiones.

directions: instrucciones, indicaciones. extensively: extensivamente, extensamente. flesh: carne, pulpa. foolish: zote, tonto, necio, bobo. incline: inclinar, propender, cuesta. infirmity: enfermedad, debilidad. instantaneous: instantáneo. intermittently: intermitentemente. lamp: lámpara, la lámpara. moves: mueve. overlook: pasar por alto.

pensive: pensativo. proceeded: actuado, provenido, avanzado, procedido. relight: volver a arder. remarkable: notable. slight: leve, desaire. solid: sólido, fuerte, macizo. spasmodic: espasmódico. tendency: tendencia, tentación. thickness: espesor, grosor, espesura, grueso. unreal: irreal, imaginario.

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The Time Machine

`It is simply this. That Space, as our mathematicians have it, is spoken of as having three dimensions, which one may call Length, Breadth, and Thickness, and is always definable by reference to three planes, each at right angles to the others. But some philosophical people have been asking why three dimensions particularly--why not another direction at right angles to the other three?--and have even tried to construct a Four-Dimension geometry. Professor Simon Newcomb was expounding this to the New York Mathematical Society only a month or so ago. You know how on a flat surface, which has only two dimensions, we can represent a figure of a three-dimensional solid, and similarly they think that by models of thee dimensions they could represent one of four--if they could master the perspective of the thing. See?’ `I think so,’ murmured the Provincial Mayor; and, knitting his brows, he lapsed into an introspective state, his lips moving as one who repeats mystic words. `Yes, I think I see it now,’ he said after some time, brightening in a quite transitory manner.% `Well, I do not mind telling you I have been at work upon this geometry of Four Dimensions for some time. Some of my results are curious. For instance, here is a portrait of a man at eight years old, another at fifteen, another at seventeen, another at twenty-three, and so on. All these are evidently sections, as it were, Three-Dimensional representations of his Four-Dimensioned being, which is a fixed and unalterable thing. `Scientific people,’ proceeded the Time Traveller, after the pause required for the proper assimilation of this, `know very well that Time is only a kind of Space. Here is a popular scientific diagram, a weather record. This line I trace with my finger shows the movement of the barometer. Yesterday it was so high, yesterday night it fell, then this morning it rose again, and so gently upward to here. Surely the mercury did not trace this line in any of the dimensions of Space generally recognized? But certainly it traced such a line, and that line, therefore, we must conclude was along the Time-Dimension.’ `But,’ said the Medical Man, staring hard at a coal in the fire, `if Time is really only a fourth dimension of Space, why is it, and why has it always been,

Spanish angles: anglos. assimilation: asimilación. barometer: barómetro. brightening: aclarando, avivando, esclareciendo, abrillantando, Aclarar, avivamiento. conclude: despachar, despacháis, despacho, despachen, despache, despachas, despachan, despachamos, despacha, despachad, concluir. construct: construir, construya, construyan, construyo, construyes,

construye, construís, construimos, construid, construyen, edificar. definable: definible. diagram: diagrama, esquema, propósito, reproducción, retrato, gráfico, plano. evidently: evidentemente. introspective: introspectivo. knitting: tejido de punto. lapsed: decrépito. mercury: Mercurio, azogue. mystic: místico.

philosophical: filosófico. portrait: retrato, vertical. repeats: repite. representations: declaraciones. thee: ustedes, te, vosotros, usted, tú. three-dimensional: tridimensional. traced: trazado. transitory: transitorio. twenty-three: veintitrés. unalterable: inalterable. upward: hacia arriba, desde abajo hacia arriba, ascendente.

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regarded as something different? And why cannot we move in Time as we move about in the other dimensions of Space?’ The Time Traveller smiled. `Are you sure we can move freely in Space? Right and left we can go, backward and forward freely enough, and men always have done so. I admit we move freely in two dimensions. But how about up and down? Gravitation limits us there.’ `Not exactly,’ said the Medical Man. `There are balloons.’ `But before the balloons, save for spasmodic jumping and the inequalities of the surface, man had no freedom of vertical movement.’ `Still they could move a little up and down,’ said the Medical Man.% `Easier, far easier down than up.’ `And you cannot move at all in Time, you cannot get away from the present moment.’ `My dear sir, that is just where you are wrong. That is just where the whole world has gone wrong. We are always getting away from the present moment. Our mental existences, which are immaterial and have no dimensions, are passing along the Time-Dimension with a uniform velocity from the cradle to the grave. Just as we should travel down if we began our existence fifty miles above the earth’s surface.’ `But the great difficulty is this,’ interrupted the Psychologist. `You can move about in all directions of Space, but you cannot move about in Time.’ `That is the germ of my great discovery. But you are wrong to say that we cannot move about in Time. For instance, if I am recalling an incident very vividly I go back to the instant of its occurrence: I become absent-minded, as you say. I jump back for a moment. Of course we have no means of staying back for any length of Time, any more than a savage or an animal has of staying six feet above the ground. But a civilized man is better off than the savage in this respect. He can go up against gravitation in a balloon, and why should he not hope that ultimately he may be able to stop or accelerate his drift along the Time-Dimension, or even turn about and travel the other way?’

Spanish absent-minded: distraído. accelerate: acelerar, aceleran, acelero, aceleras, aceleramos, aceleráis, acelerad, acelera, aceleren, acelere. backward: hacia atrás, atrasado, retrógrado, de espaldas, atrás, boca arriba. balloon: globo, aeróstato. balloons: globos. cannot: presente de no poder. civilized: civilizado. cradle: cuna, patria, horquilla,

plataforma. drift: deriva, derivar del rumbo, corriente. freely: libremente. germ: germen. grave: tumba, grave, crítico, sepulcro. gravitation: gravitación. immaterial: inmaterial. instant: momento, instante, momentito, instantáneo. interrupted: interrumpido. jumping: saltar.

occurrence: ocurrencia, suceso, acaecimiento, aparición, acontecimiento. recalling: recordar. savage: fiero, salvaje. uniform: uniforme. velocity: velocidad. vertical: vertical. vividly: vivamente, vívidamente, intensamente, enérgicamente, súbitamente, de modo pintoresco, con rasgos enérgicos.

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`Oh, this,’ began Filby, `is all--’ `Why not?’ said the Time Traveller. `It’s against reason,’ said Filby.% `What reason?’ said the Time Traveller. `You can show black is white by argument,’ said Filby, `but you will never convince me.’ `Possibly not,’ said the Time Traveller. `But now you begin to see the object of my investigations into the geometry of Four Dimensions. Long ago I had a vague inkling of a machine--’ `To travel through Time!’ exclaimed the Very Young Man. `That shall travel indifferently in any direction of Space and Time, as the driver determines.’ Filby contented himself with laughter. `But I have experimental verification,’ said the Time Traveller. `It would be remarkably convenient for the historian,’ the Psychologist suggested. `One might travel back and verify the accepted account of the Battle of Hastings, for instance!’ `Don’t you think you would attract attention?’ said the Medical Man. `Our ancestors had no great tolerance for anachronisms.’ `One might get one’s Greek from the very lips of Homer and Plato,’ the Very Young Man thought. `In which case they would certainly plough you for the Little-go. The German scholars have improved Greek so much.’ `Then there is the future,’ said the Very Young Man. `Just think! One might invest all one’s money, leave it to accumulate at interest, and hurry on ahead!’ `To discover a society,’ said I, `erected on a strictly communistic basis.’ `Of all the wild extravagant theories!’ began the Psychologist. `Yes, so it seemed to me, and so I never talked of it until--’

Spanish accumulate: acumular, acumuláis, acumulo, acumulen, acumulas, acumulamos, acumulad, acumula, acumulan, acumule, acumularse. ancestors: ascendientes, antepasados. attract: atraer, atraigan, atraes, atraen, atraemos, atraigo, atraéis, atraed, atrae, atraiga, encantar. communistic: comunista. contented: contento, satisfecho. convenient: conveniente. convince: convencer, convenza,

convencen, convences, convenzo, convenzan, convencéis, convenced, convence, convencemos. exclaimed: exclamado. experimental: experimental. extravagant: extravagante. hurry: apresurarse, prisa. indifferently: indiferentemente. inkling: atisbo, concepto, creencia, noción, modelo, indicio, ingenio, sospecha, idea. invest: invertir, invierta, invertimos,

invertís, invierto, inviertes, invierten, invierte, inviertan, invertid, colocar. laughter: risa, la risa, carcajada. plough: arado, arar. remarkably: notablemente. strictly: estrictamente. tolerance: tolerancia. vague: vago. verify: controlar, comprobar, revisar, controlamos, controla, controlo, controlen, controle, controlan, controláis, controlad.

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`Experimental verification!’ cried I. `You are going to verify that?’ `The experiment!’ cried Filby, who was getting brain-weary. `Let’s see your experiment anyhow,’ said the Psychologist, `though it’s all humbug, you know.’ The Time Traveller smiled round at us. Then, still smiling faintly, and with his hands deep in his trousers pockets, he walked slowly out of the room, and we heard his slippers shuffling down the long passage to his laboratory.% The Psychologist looked at us. `I wonder what he’s got?’ `Some sleight-of-hand trick or other,’ said the Medical Man, and Filby tried to tell us about a conjurer he had seen at Burslem; but before he had finished his preface the Time Traveller came back, and Filby’s anecdote collapsed. The thing the Time Traveller held in his hand was a glittering metallic framework, scarcely larger than a small clock, and very delicately made. There was ivory in it, and some transparent crystalline substance. And now I must be explicit, for this that follows--unless his explanation is to be accepted--is an absolutely unaccountable thing. He took one of the small octagonal tables that were scattered about the room, and set it in front of the fire, with two legs on the hearthrug. On this table he placed the mechanism. Then he drew up a chair, and sat down. The only other object on the table was a small shaded lamp, the bright light of which fell upon the model. There were also perhaps a dozen candles about, two in brass candlesticks upon the mantel and several in sconces, so that the room was brilliantly illuminated. I sat in a low arm-chair nearest the fire, and I drew this forward so as to be almost between the Time Traveller and the fireplace. Filby sat behind him, looking over his shoulder. The Medical Man and the Provincial Mayor watched him in profile from the right, the Psychologist from the left. The Very Young Man stood behind the Psychologist. We were all on the alert. It appears incredible to me that any kind of trick, however subtly conceived and however adroitly done, could have been played upon us under these conditions.

Spanish adroitly: diestramente. alert: alerta, alarma, alertar. anecdote: anécdota. arm-chair: sillón, butaca. brilliantly: brillantemente. candlesticks: candelabros. collapsed: desplomado. conceived: concebido. conjurer: mago. crystalline: cristalino. delicately: delicadamente. faintly: débilmente.

fireplace: chimenea, la chimenea, el hogar, hogar. glittering: brillar. humbug: farsa. illuminated: alumbrado, iluminado. ivory: marfil, de marfil. mantel: manto, manto de chimenea. metallic: metálico. octagonal: octágono, octagonal. preface: prefacio, prólogo. scattered: disperso, esparcido. sconces: fortines.

shaded: matizado, obscurecido, matiz, matizar, obscurecer, Sombread, sombreado, sombrear, degradado, tono, sombra. shuffling: que arrastra los pies, evasivo, intercalado, arrastramiento, lento, barajar o barajamiento, barajar, barajada, revolver, evasiva. slippers: zapatillas. subtly: disimuladamente, sutilmente. transparent: transparente. unaccountable: inexplicable.

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The Time Traveller looked at us, and then at the mechanism. `Well?’ said the Psychologist. `This little affair,’ said the Time Traveller, resting his elbows upon the table and pressing his hands together above the apparatus, `is only a model. It is my plan for a machine to travel through time. You will notice that it looks singularly askew, and that there is an odd twinkling appearance about this bar, as though it was in some way unreal.’ He pointed to the part with his finger. `Also, here is one little white lever, and here is another.’ The Medical Man got up out of his chair and peered into the thing. `It’s beautifully made,’ he said.% `It took two years to make,’ retorted the Time Traveller. Then, when we had all imitated the action of the Medical Man, he said: `Now I want you clearly to understand that this lever, being pressed over, sends the machine gliding into the future, and this other reverses the motion. This saddle represents the seat of a time traveller. Presently I am going to press the lever, and off the machine will go. It will vanish, pass into future Time, and disappear. Have a good look at the thing. Look at the table too, and satisfy yourselves there is no trickery. I don’t want to waste this model, and then be told I’m a quack.’ There was a minute’s pause perhaps. The Psychologist seemed about to speak to me, but changed his mind. Then the Time Traveller put forth his finger towards the lever. `No,’ he said suddenly. `Lend me your hand.’ And turning to the Psychologist, he took that individual’s hand in his own and told him to put out his forefinger. So that it was the Psychologist himself who sent forth the model Time Machine on its interminable voyage. We all saw the lever turn. I am absolutely certain there was no trickery. There was a breath of wind, and the lamp flame jumped. One of the candles on the mantel was blown out, and the little machine suddenly swung round, became indistinct, was seen as a ghost for a second perhaps, as an eddy of faintly glittering brass and ivory; and it was gone--vanished! Save for the lamp the table was bare. Everyone was silent for a minute. Then Filby said he was damned.

Spanish apparatus: aparato. askew: atravesado, sesgo, de reojo, de soslayo, oblicuo, torcido, ladeado. blown: soplado, hinchado, estropeado, jadeante, insípido, pp de blow. brass: latón, metal. damned: condenado, maldito. eddy: remolino, remanso, torbellino. flame: llama, flamear, la flama. forefinger: dedo índice. gliding: deslizar, planeación.

imitated: Imitado. indistinct: indistinto. interminable: incabable. lever: palanca, levantar. peered: mirado. resting: anidación, descansar, en reposo. retorted: Replicado. saddle: montura. sends: envía, manda, despacha. singularly: particularmente, singularmente.

swung: Columpiado, pret y pp de swing. traveller: viajero, viajante. trickery: engaño. twinkling: centelleando. vanish: desaparecer, desaparezca, desaparezcan, desapareces, desaparecen, desaparecemos, desaparecéis, desapareced, desaparece, desaparezco. voyage: viaje. yourselves: ustedes mismos.

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The Psychologist recovered from his stupor, and suddenly looked under the table. At that the Time Traveller laughed cheerfully. `Well?’ he said, with a reminiscence of the Psychologist. Then, getting up, he went to the tobacco jar on the mantel, and with his back to us began to fill his pipe.% We stared at each other. `Look here,’ said the Medical Man, `are you in earnest about this? Do you seriously believe that that machine has travelled into time?’ `Certainly,’ said the Time Traveller, stooping to light a spill at the fire. Then he turned, lighting his pipe, to look at the Psychologist’s face. (The Psychologist, to show that he was not unhinged, helped himself to a cigar and tried to light it uncut.) `What is more, I have a big machine nearly finished in there’--he indicated the laboratory--`and when that is put together I mean to have a journey on my own account.’ `You mean to say that that machine has travelled into the future?’ said Filby. `Into the future or the past--I don’t, for certain, know which.’ After an interval the Psychologist had an inspiration. `It must have gone into the past if it has gone anywhere,’ he said. `Why?’ said the Time Traveller. `Because I presume that it has not moved in space, and if it travelled into the future it would still be here all this time, since it must have travelled through this time.’ `But,’ I said, `If it travelled into the past it would have been visible when we came first into this room; and last Thursday when we were here; and the Thursday before that; and so forth!’ `Serious objections,’ remarked the Provincial Mayor, with an air of impartiality, turning towards the Time Traveller. `Not a bit,’ said the Time Traveller, and, to the Psychologist: `You think. You can explain that. It’s presentation below the threshold, you know, diluted presentation.’

Spanish cheerfully: alegremente. diluted: diluido. earnest: serio. impartiality: imparcialidad. indicated: indicado. inspiration: inspiración. interval: intervalo, intervalo logarítmico de frecuencia. jar: tarro, jarra, la jarra. lighting: iluminación, alumbrado. pipe: pipa, cañería, tubo, tubería, conducto, la pipa.

presentation: presentación, oferta, ofrecimiento, proposición. presume: suponer, supone, supongan, suponen, supones, supongo, suponemos, suponéis, suponed, supon, suponga. recovered: sanado, recuperado, recobrado. remarked: Observado. reminiscence: reminiscencia. spill: derramar, derrame, derramarse, vertido.

stooping: inclinar, inclinarse, rebajamiento, rebajar, rebajarse, cargado de espaldas, agachado, agacharse, inclinación, humillarse, encorvado. stupor: estupor. threshold: umbral. tobacco: tabaco. travelled: viaje, moverse, viajado, viajar, viajar por, camino. unhinged: desquiciado. visible: visible.

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`Of course,’ said the Psychologist, and reassured us. `That’s a simple point of psychology. I should have thought of it. It’s plain enough, and helps the paradox delightfully. We cannot see it, nor can we appreciate this machine, any more than we can the spoke of a wheel spinning, or a bullet flying through the air. If it is travelling through time fifty times or a hundred times faster than we are, if it gets through a minute while we get through a second, the impression it creates will of course be only one-fiftieth or one-hundredth of what it would make if it were not travelling in time. That’s plain enough.’ He passed his hand through the space in which the machine had been. `You see?’ he said, laughing.% We sat and stared at the vacant table for a minute or so. Then the Time Traveller asked us what we thought of it all. `It sounds plausible enough to-night,’ said the Medical Man; ‘but wait until to-morrow. Wait for the common sense of the morning.’ `Would you like to see the Time Machine itself?’ asked the Time Traveller. And therewith, taking the lamp in his hand, he led the way down the long, draughty corridor to his laboratory. I remember vividly the flickering light, his queer, broad head in silhouette, the dance of the shadows, how we all followed him, puzzled but incredulous, and how there in the laboratory we beheld a larger edition of the little mechanism which we had seen vanish from before our eyes. Parts were of nickel, parts of ivory, parts had certainly been filed or sawn out of rock crystal. The thing was generally complete, but the twisted crystalline bars lay unfinished upon the bench beside some sheets of drawings, and I took one up for a better look at it. Quartz it seemed to be. `Look here,’ said the Medical Man, `are you perfectly serious? Or is this a trick--like that ghost you showed us last Christmas?’ `Upon that machine,’ said the Time Traveller, holding the lamp aloft, `I intend to explore time. Is that plain? I was never more serious in my life.’ None of us quite knew how to take it. I caught Filby’s eye over the shoulder of the Medical Man, and he winked at me solemnly.

Spanish aloft: arriba. beheld: considerado, observado, contemplado, visto, advertido, mirado, Percibido, pret y pp de behold. bullet: bala, bola, viñeta. creates: crea. delightfully: deleitablemente, deleitosamente, deliciosamente, encantadamente, encantado. draughty: abierto a corrientes de aire. filed: archivado.

flickering: parpadeo. ghost: fantasma, el fantasma, imagen fantasma, aparición. incredulous: incrédulo. nickel: níquel. one-hundredth: cien. paradox: paradoja. plausible: fidedigno, creíble, plausible. puzzled: perplejo, desconcertado. queer: raro. reassured: tranquilizado.

sawn: pp de saw, visto. shadows: oscuridad. silhouette: silueta. solemnly: solemnemente. spinning: hilado, giro. therewith: con esto, además de eso, con eso. to-morrow: mañana. twisted: retorcido, torcido. unfinished: inacabado. vacant: vacante, vacío, libre. winked: Guiñado.

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I think that at that time none of us quite believed in the Time Machine. The fact is, the Time Traveller was one of those men who are too clever to be believed: you never felt that you saw all round him; you always suspected some subtle reserve, some ingenuity in ambush, behind his lucid frankness. Had Filby shown the model and explained the matter in the Time Traveller’s words, we should have shown him far less scepticism. For we should have perceived his motives; a pork butcher could understand Filby. But the Time Traveller had more than a touch of whim among his elements, and we distrusted him. Things that would have made the frame of a less clever man seemed tricks in his hands. It is a mistake to do things too easily. The serious people who took him seriously never felt quite sure of his deportment; they were somehow aware that trusting their reputations for judgment with him was like furnishing a nursery with eggshell china. So I don’t think any of us said very much about time travelling in the interval between that Thursday and the next, though its odd potentialities ran, no doubt, in most of our minds: its plausibility, that is, its practical incredibleness, the curious possibilities of anachronism and of utter confusion it suggested. For my own part, I was particularly preoccupied with the trick of the model. That I remember discussing with the Medical Man, whom I met on Friday at the Linnaean. He said he had seen a similar thing at Tubingen, and laid

Spanish ambush: emboscada, acecho. anachronism: anacronismo. butcher: carnicero, matar. clever: hábil, diestro, experto, ágil, listo, inteligente. confusion: confusión. curious: curioso. deportment: conducta. discussing: discutiendo, debatiendo. frankness: franqueza. furnishing: amueblando. incredibleness: incredibilidad.

ingenuity: ingenio, ingeniosidad. lucid: lúcido. nursery: vivero, guardería, criadero, semillero. perceived: percibido. plausibility: verosimilitud, plausibilidad. pork: carne de cerdo, cerdo. possibilities: posibilidades. preoccupied: preocupado. reserve: reservar, reserva, pedir. scepticism: escepticismo.

subtle: sutil. suspected: sospechoso, desconfiar de, sospechado, sospechar. travelling: corredizo, de viaje, ambulante, el viajar, itinerante, viajar, viajes. trick: engañar, truco, resabio, mala costumbre. tricks: engaños. trusting: confiar. utter: absoluto, total, proferir. whim: capricho, antojo.

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considerable stress on the blowing out of the candle. But how the trick was done he could not explain.% The next Thursday I went again to Richmond--I suppose I was one of the Time Traveller’s most constant guests--and, arriving late, found four or five men already assembled in his drawing-room. The Medical Man was standing before the fire with a sheet of paper in one hand and his watch in the other. I looked round for the Time Traveller, and--`It’s half-past seven now,’ said the Medical Man. `I suppose we’d better have dinner?’ `Where’s----?’ said I, naming our host. `You’ve just come? It’s rather odd. He’s unavoidably detained. He asks me in this note to lead off with dinner at seven if he’s not back. Says he’ll explain when he comes.’ `It seems a pity to let the dinner spoil,’ said the Editor of a well-known daily paper; and thereupon the Doctor rang the bell. The Psychologist was the only person besides the Doctor and myself who had attended the previous dinner. The other men were Blank, the Editor aforementioned, a certain journalist, and another--a quiet, shy man with a beard--whom I didn’t know, and who, as far as my observation went, never opened his mouth all the evening. There was some speculation at the dinnertable about the Time Traveller’s absence, and I suggested time travelling, in a half-jocular spirit. The Editor wanted that explained to him, and the Psychologist volunteered a wooden account of the `ingenious paradox and trick’ we had witnessed that day week. He was in the midst of his exposition when the door from the corridor opened slowly and without noise. I was facing the door, and saw it first. `Hallo!’ I said. `At last!’ And the door opened wider, and the Time Traveller stood before us. I gave a cry of surprise. `Good heavens! man, what’s the matter?’ cried the Medical Man, who saw him next. And the whole tableful turned towards the door. He was in an amazing plight. His coat was dusty and dirty, and smeared with green down the sleeves; his hair disordered, and as it seemed to me greyer-

Spanish aforementioned: antes mencionado, antedicho, susodicho. arriving: llegando. assembled: ensamblado, congregado. blowing: soplado, sopladura, soplar, silbido, soplo. candle: vela, la vela, bujía, candela, cirio. detained: retenido. disordered: desarreglado, desconcertado en algo, trastornado, desordenado.

drawing-room: estrado. dusty: polvoriento. exposition: exposición. heavens: cielo, cielos. journalist: periodista. midst: medio. naming: hacer mención de, nombramiento, elección de un nombre, designar, denominar, denominación, dar nombre, asignar nombre, apellidar, nombre, nombrar. pity: dolerse por, piedad, compadecer

a, lástima, compasión. plight: situación. shy: tímido, vergonzoso. sleeves: manguitos, mangas. smeared: untó. speculation: especulación. thereupon: luego, por eso, por tanto, en eso. unavoidably: inevitablemente, forzosamente, ineludiblemente. volunteered: Ofrecido. witnessed: presenciado.

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-either with dust and dirt or because its colour had actually faded. His face was ghastly pale; his chin had a brown cut on it--a cut half healed; his expression was haggard and drawn, as by intense suffering. For a moment he hesitated in the doorway, as if he had been dazzled by the light. Then he came into the room. He walked with just such a limp as I have seen in footsore tramps. We stared at him in silence, expecting him to speak.% He said not a word, but came painfully to the table, and made a motion towards the wine. The Editor filled a glass of champagne, and pushed it towards him. He drained it, and it seemed to do him good: for he looked round the table, and the ghost of his old smile flickered across his face. `What on earth have you been up to, man?’ said the Doctor. The Time Traveller did not seem to hear. `Don’t let me disturb you,’ he said, with a certain faltering articulation. `I’m all right.’ He stopped, held out his glass for more, and took it off at a draught. `That’s good,’ he said. His eyes grew brighter, and a faint colour came into his cheeks. His glance flickered over our faces with a certain dull approval, and then went round the warm and comfortable room. Then he spoke again, still as it were feeling his way among his words. `I’m going to wash and dress, and then I’ll come down and explain things. . . Save me some of that mutton. I’m starving for a bit of meat.’ He looked across at the Editor, who was a rare visitor, and hoped he was all right. The Editor began a question. `Tell you presently,’ said the Time Traveller. `I’m--funny! Be all right in a minute.’ He put down his glass, and walked towards the staircase door. Again I remarked his lameness and the soft padding sound of his footfall, and standing up in my place, I saw his feet as he went out. He had nothing on them but a pair of tattered blood-stained socks. Then the door closed upon him. I had half a mind to follow, till I remembered how he detested any fuss about himself. For a minute, perhaps, my mind was wool-gathering. Then, ‘Remarkable Behaviour of an Eminent Scientist,’ I heard the Editor say, thinking (after his wont) in headlines. And this brought my attention back to the bright dinner-table.

Spanish articulation: articulación. brighter: lucido. dazzled: deslumbrado. detested: detestado. disturb: molestar, moleste, molestad, molestáis, molestamos, molestan, molestas, molesta, molesto, molesten, incomodar. drained: agotado, desaguado, purgado. draught: calado, trago. faltering: titubeando.

flickered: parpadeó. footfall: pisada. footsore: con los pies doloridos, dolorido. fuss: hazañería, preocuparse, fastidiar, preocuparse por pequeñeces, jaleo, lío, tejemaneje, escándalo, protesta, afanarse, agitarse. ghastly: horrible, horroroso, lúgubre. haggard: ojeroso, macilento, demacrado. healed: curado.

lameness: flojedad, cojera, lo de flojedad. limp: cojear, cojera, claudicar, flojo. mutton: carnero, carne de carnero. padding: relleno, acolchado. painfully: dolorosamente. socks: calcetines. staircase: escalera, la escalera. starving: hambriento. tattered: andrajoso. tramps: vagabundos. wont: acostumbrado, costumbre.

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`What’s the game?’ said the Journalist. `Has he been doing the Amateur Cadger? I don’t follow.’ I met the eye of the Psychologist, and read my own interpretation in his face. I thought of the Time Traveller limping painfully upstairs. I don’t think any one else had noticed his lameness.% The first to recover completely from this surprise was the Medical Man, who rang the bell--the Time Traveller hated to have servants waiting at dinner--for a hot plate. At that the Editor turned to his knife and fork with a grunt, and the Silent Man followed suit. The dinner was resumed. Conversation was exclamatory for a little while, with gaps of wonderment; and then the Editor got fervent in his curiosity. `Does our friend eke out his modest income with a crossing? or has he his Nebuchadnezzar phases?’ he inquired. `I feel assured it’s this business of the Time Machine,’ I said, and took up the Psychologist’s account of our previous meeting. The new guests were frankly incredulous. The Editor raised objections. `What was this time travelling? A man couldn’t cover himself with dust by rolling in a paradox, could he?’ And then, as the idea came home to him, he resorted to caricature. Hadn’t they any clothes-brushes in the Future? The Journalist too, would not believe at any price, and joined the Editor in the easy work of heaping ridicule on the whole thing. They were both the new kind of journalist--very joyous, irreverent young men. `Our Special Correspondent in the Day after To-morrow reports,’ the Journalist was saying-or rather shouting--when the Time Traveller came back. He was dressed in ordinary evening clothes, and nothing save his haggard look remained of the change that had startled me. `I say,’ said the Editor hilariously, `these chaps here say you have been travelling into the middle of next week! Tell us all about little Rosebery, will you? What will you take for the lot?’ The Time Traveller came to the place reserved for him without a word. He smiled quietly, in his old way. `Where’s my mutton?’ he said. `What a treat it is to stick a fork into meat again!’ `Story!’ cried the Editor.

Spanish caricature: caricatura. chaps: rajar, resquebrajar, quijada, muchacho, grieta, carrillo, agrietar, zajones. crossing: cruce, cruzamiento, travesía. curiosity: curiosidad. eke: aumentas, aumento, aumente, aumentan, aumentamos, aumentáis, aumentad, aumenta, aumenten, escatime, suplir las deficiencias. exclamatory: exclamatorio. fervent: ferviente.

fork: tenedor, horquilla, el tenedor, horca, bifurcación. frankly: francamente. grunt: gruñido, gruñir. hated: odiado, odioso, detestado. heaping: apilado, cucharita colmada, amontonar, amontonamiento, acumulación. hilariously: hilarantemente, alegremente, cachondamente, bulliciosamente. inquired: inquirido, preguntado.

irreverent: irreverente. joyous: jubiloso, gozoso, de jubiloso, alegre. limping: cojera, cojear. objections: objeciones. reserved: reservado, reservada. resorted: Recurrido. resumed: reanudado. ridicule: ridiculizar, ridículo. rolling: rodante. startled: sobresaltado. wonderment: maravilla, admiración.

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`Story be damned!’ said the Time Traveller. `I want something to eat. I won’t say a word until I get some peptone into my arteries. Thanks. And the salt.’ `One word,’ said I. `Have you been time travelling?’ `Yes,’ said the Time Traveller, with his mouth full, nodding his head.% `I’d give a shilling a line for a verbatim note,’ said the Editor. The Time Traveller pushed his glass towards the Silent Man and rang it with his fingernail; at which the Silent Man, who had been staring at his face, started convulsively, and poured him wine. The rest of the dinner was uncomfortable. For my own part, sudden questions kept on rising to my lips, and I dare say it was the same with the others. The Journalist tried to relieve the tension by telling anecdotes of Hettie Potter. The Time Traveller devoted his attention to his dinner, and displayed the appetite of a tramp. The Medical Man smoked a cigarette, and watched the Time Traveller through his eyelashes. The Silent Man seemed even more clumsy than usual, and drank champagne with regularity and determination out of sheer nervousness. At last the Time Traveller pushed his plate away, and looked round us. `I suppose I must apologize,’ he said. `I was simply starving. I’ve had a most amazing time.’ He reached out his hand for a cigar, and cut the end. `But come into the smoking-room. It’s too long a story to tell over greasy plates.’ And ringing the bell in passing, he led the way into the adjoining room. `You have told Blank, and Dash, and Chose about the machine?’ he said to me, leaning back in his easy-chair and naming the three new guests. `But the thing’s a mere paradox,’ said the Editor. `I can’t argue to-night. I don’t mind telling you the story, but I can’t argue. I will,’ he went on, `tell you the story of what has happened to me, if you like, but you must refrain from interruptions. I want to tell it. Badly. Most of it will sound like lying. So be it! It’s true--every word of it, all the same. I was in my laboratory at four o’clock, and since then . . . I’ve lived eight days . . . such days as no human being ever lived before! I’m nearly worn out, but I shan’t sleep till

Spanish adjoining: contiguo, vecino, adyacente. appetite: apetito, el apetito. arteries: las arterias. champagne: champaña, champán. clumsy: torpe. convulsively: convulsivamente. devoted: afectuoso, consagrado, dedicado, adicto, fiel. drank: pret de drink, bebió. easy-chair: sillón. eyelashes: las pestañas, pestañas.

fingernail: uña. greasy: grasiento, gordo, grueso, untuoso. leaning: inclinación. nervousness: nerviosidad, nerviosismo. nodding: cabecear, cabeceo. peptone: peptona. poured: vertido. refrain: estribillo, abstenerse. regularity: regularidad. relieve: aliviar, alivie, alivias, aliviad,

alivio, alivien, aliviamos, aliviáis, alivian, alivia, relevar. ringing: zumbido, sonando, sobreoscilación. shilling: chelín. smoked: fumado, ahumado, humeado. smoking-room: fumadero. tramp: puta, vagabundo, paso pesado. uncomfortable: incómodo. verbatim: literalmente, al pie de la letra.

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I’ve %told this thing over to you. Then I shall go to bed. But no interruptions! Is it agreed?’ `Agreed,’ said the Editor, and the rest of us echoed `Agreed.’ And with that the Time Traveller began his story as I have set it forth. He sat back in his chair at first, and spoke like a weary man. Afterwards he got more animated. In writing it down I feel with only too much keenness the inadequacy of pen and ink --and, above all, my own inadequacy--to express its quality. You read, I will suppose, attentively enough; but you cannot see the speaker’s white, sincere face in the bright circle of the little lamp, nor hear the intonation of his voice. You cannot know how his expression followed the turns of his story! Most of us hearers were in shadow, for the candles in the smoking-room had not been lighted, and only the face of the Journalist and the legs of the Silent Man from the knees downward were illuminated. At first we glanced now and again at each other. After a time we ceased to do that, and looked only at the Time Traveller’s face.

Spanish attentively: atentamente. bright: claro, luminoso, brillante, magnífico. ceased: ceso, Cesado. chair: silla, la silla, presidencia, cátedra. circle: círculo, rodear, cerco. downward: descendente, hacia abajo, de arriba hacia abajo. echoed: resonado. express: expresar, expresa, expresas, expresen, expresan, expresamos,

expresáis, expresad, expreso, exprese. expression: expresión. followed: seguido. forth: adelante. glanced: mirado. inadequacy: insuficiencia. ink: tinta, la tinta, entintar. intonation: entonación. keenness: agudeza, viveza, sutileza, perspicacia, ansia, entusiasmo. knees: rodillas. legs: las piernas.

lighted: encendido. pen: pluma, la pluma, corral, un bolígrafo. shadow: sombra, sombreado. sincere: sincero. spoke: decir, radio, rayo, raya, radioactivo, rayo de rueda, hablar, pret de speak, expresar. turns: gira, vuelve, trastorna. weary: cansado, fatigado. writing: escribiendo, escritura, letra, inscripción.

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`I told some of you last Thursday of the principles of the Time Machine, and showed you the actual thing itself, incomplete in the workshop. There it is now, a little travel-worn, truly; and one of the ivory bars is cracked, and a brass rail bent; but the rest of it’s sound enough. I expected to finish it on Friday, but on Friday, when the putting together was nearly done, I found that one of the nickel bars was exactly one inch too short, and this I had to get remade; so that the thing was not complete until this morning. It was at ten o’clock to-day that the first of all Time Machines began its career. I gave it a last tap, tried all the screws again, put one more drop of oil on the quartz rod, and sat myself in the saddle. I suppose a suicide who holds a pistol to his skull feels much the same wonder at what will come next as I felt then. I took the starting lever in one hand and the stopping one in the other, pressed the first, and almost immediately the second. I seemed to reel; I felt a nightmare sensation of falling; and, looking round, I saw the laboratory exactly as before. Had anything happened? For a moment I suspected that my intellect had tricked me. Then I noted the clock. A moment before, as it seemed, it had stood at a minute or so past ten; now it was nearly half-past three! `I drew a breath, set my teeth, gripped the starting lever with both hands, and went off with a thud. The laboratory got hazy and went dark. Mrs. Watchett came in and walked, apparently without seeing me, towards the

Spanish bars: cerca, impide. bent: inclinación, torcido. clock: reloj, el reloj, ceas. cracked: agrietado. falling: cayéndose, decreciendo, derribando, caída. feels: siente, palpa. gripped: agarrado. hazy: brumoso, neblinoso. inch: pulgada. incomplete: incompleto. intellect: intelecto.

laboratory: laboratorio. nightmare: pesadilla, la pesadilla. noted: nombrado. pistol: pistola. pressed: prensado, apretado, planchado, plegado a presión. quartz: cuarzo. reel: bobina, carrete. remade: Rehizo, pret y pp de remake, rehecho. rod: vara, barra, varilla, vástago. screws: tornillos.

sensation: sensación, sentimiento. skull: cráneo, calavera. stopping: parando, deteniendo. suicide: suicidio. tap: grifo, palmadita, toma, llave, espita, derivación. thud: porrazo. to-day: hoy. tricked: bureado de todo. truly: verdaderamente, de veras, en realidad, en efecto, realmente. workshop: taller, seminario.

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garden door. I suppose it took her a minute or so to traverse the place, but to me she seemed to shoot across the room like a rocket. I pressed the lever over to its extreme position. The night came like the turning out of a lamp, and in another moment came to-morrow. The laboratory grew faint and hazy, then fainter and ever fainter. To-morrow night came black, then day again, night again, day again, faster and faster still. An eddying murmur filled my ears, and a strange, dumb confusedness descended on my mind.% `I am afraid I cannot convey the peculiar sensations of time travelling. They are excessively unpleasant. There is a feeling exactly like that one has upon a switchback--of a helpless headlong motion! I felt the same horrible anticipation, too, of an imminent smash. As I put on pace, night followed day like the flapping of a black wing. The dim suggestion of the laboratory seemed presently to fall away from me, and I saw the sun hopping swiftly across the sky, leaping it every minute, and every minute marking a day. I supposed the laboratory had been destroyed and I had come into the open air. I had a dim impression of scaffolding, but I was already going too fast to be conscious of any moving things. The slowest snail that ever crawled dashed by too fast for me. The twinkling succession of darkness and light was excessively painful to the eye. Then, in the intermittent darknesses, I saw the moon spinning swiftly through her quarters from new to full, and had a faint glimpse of the circling stars. Presently, as I went on, still gaining velocity, the palpitation of night and day merged into one continuous greyness; the sky took on a wonderful deepness of blue, a splendid luminous color like that of early twilight; the jerking sun became a streak of fire, a brilliant arch, in space; the moon a fainter fluctuating band; and I could see nothing of the stars, save now and then a brighter circle flickering in the blue. `The landscape was misty and vague. I was still on the hill-side upon which this house now stands, and the shoulder rose above me grey and dim. I saw trees growing and changing like puffs of vapour, now brown, now green; they grew, spread, shivered, and passed away. I saw huge buildings rise up faint and fair, and pass like dreams. The whole surface of the earth seemed changed--

Spanish anticipation: anticipación, previsión. arch: arco, bóveda, archi, arquear. color: el color, pintar, colorear, color. crawled: Arrastrado, Repelado. dashed: quebrado. deepness: profundidad. descended: descendido, bajado. dim: oscuro, turbio. dumb: mudo. excessively: excesivamente. flapping: batir, aleteo, aleteador. fluctuating: fluctuando.

gaining: ganar. greyness: canicie. headlong: precipitado. helpless: desvalido, impotente. hopping: Saltar. imminent: inminente. intermittent: intermitente. leaping: saltar. luminous: luminoso. merged: fusionado. misty: brumoso, empañado. murmur: murmurar, murmullo.

palpitation: palpitación. presently: por ahora. rocket: cohete, oruga. scaffolding: andamiaje. shivered: tiritado. slowest: el más lento. smash: rotura, golpear, romper. snail: caracol, el caracol. streak: rayado, raya. traverse: travesaño. twilight: crepúsculo, anochecer. vapour: vapor, vaho.

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melting and flowing under my eyes. The little hands upon the dials that registered my speed raced round faster and faster. Presently I noted that the sun belt swayed up and down, from solstice to solstice, in a minute or less, and that consequently my pace was over a year a minute; and minute by minute the white snow flashed across the world, and vanished, and was followed by the bright, brief green of spring.% `The unpleasant sensations of the start were less poignant now. They merged at last into a kind of hysterical exhilaration. I remarked indeed a clumsy swaying of the machine, for which I was unable to account. But my mind was too confused to attend to it, so with a kind of madness growing upon me, I flung myself into futurity. At first I scarce thought of stopping, scarce thought of anything but these new sensations. But presently a fresh series of impressions grew up in my mind--a certain curiosity and therewith a certain dread--until at last they took complete possession of me. What strange developments of humanity, what wonderful advances upon our rudimentary civilization, I thought, might not appear when I came to look nearly into the dim elusive world that raced and fluctuated before my eyes! I saw great and splendid architecture rising about me, more massive than any buildings of our own time, and yet, as it seemed, built of glimmer and mist. I saw a richer green flow up the hill-side, and remain there, without any wintry intermission. Even through the veil of my confusion the earth seemed very fair. And so my mind came round to the business of stopping, `The peculiar risk lay in the possibility of my finding some substance in the space which I, or the machine, occupied. So long as I travelled at a high velocity through time, this scarcely mattered; I was, so to speak, attenuated--was slipping like a vapour through the interstices of intervening substances! But to come to a stop involved the jamming of myself, molecule by molecule, into whatever lay in my way; meant bringing my atoms into such intimate contact with those of the obstacle that a profound chemical reaction--possibly a far-reaching explosion -would result, and blow myself and my apparatus out of all possible dimensions-into the Unknown. This possibility had occurred to me again and again while I

Spanish elusive: evasivo, huidizo. exhilaration: alegría, acento, excitación, regocijo, efecto tónico. flashed: destellado. flowing: fluido, corriente. fluctuated: fluctuado. flung: pret y pp de fling. futurity: futuro, futuridad. glimmer: brillar tenuemente. hysterical: histérico. intermission: descanso, intermisión. intervening: intermedio,

interviniendo. jamming: interferencia, interferencia intencionada. madness: locura, demencia, chifladura. mattered: Importado. melting: deshielo, fusión, derretirse, fundición. molecule: molécula. obstacle: obstáculo, impedimento. poignant: punzante, conmovedor. raced: competido.

richer: y todos nosotros somos mucho más ricos por ello. rudimentary: rudimentario. scarce: escaso. solstice: solsticio. swayed: Oscilado. swaying: oscilación, oscilar, ladearse, tambalear, vaivén, que balancea, oscilante, mimbrear, influir en, inclinarse, inclinación lateral. veil: velo. wintry: invernal.

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was making the machine; but then I had cheerfully accepted it as an unavoidable risk-- one of the risks a man has got to take! Now the risk was inevitable, I no longer saw it in the same cheerful light. The fact is that insensibly, the absolute strangeness of everything, the sickly jarring and swaying of the machine, above all, the feeling of prolonged falling, had absolutely upset my nerve. I told myself that I could never stop, and with a gust of petulance I resolved to stop forthwith. Like an impatient fool, I lugged over the lever, and incontinently the thing went reeling over, and I was flung headlong through the air.% `There was the sound of a clap of thunder in my ears. I may have been stunned for a moment. A pitiless hail was hissing round me, and I was sitting on soft turf in front of the overset machine. Everything still seemed grey, but presently I remarked that the confusion in my ears was gone. I looked round me. I was on what seemed to be a little lawn in a garden, surrounded by rhododendron bushes, and I noticed that their mauve and purple blossoms were dropping in a shower under the beating of the hail-stones. The rebounding, dancing hail hung in a cloud over the machine, and drove along the ground like smoke. In a moment I was wet to the skin. “Fine hospitality,” said I, “to a man who has travelled innumerable years to see you.” `Presently I thought what a fool I was to get wet. I stood up and looked round me. A colossal figure, carved apparently in some white stone, loomed indistinctly beyond the rhododendrons through the hazy downpour. But all else of the world was invisible. `My sensations would be hard to describe. As the columns of hail grew thinner, I saw the white figure more distinctly. It was very large, for a silver birch-tree touched its shoulder. It was of white marble, in shape something like a winged sphinx, but the wings, instead of being carried vertically at the sides, were spread so that it seemed to hover. The pedestal, it appeared to me, was of bronze, and was thick with verdigris. It chanced that the face was towards me; the sightless eyes seemed to watch me; there was the faint shadow of a smile on the lips. It was greatly weather-worn, and that imparted an unpleasant suggestion of disease. I stood looking at it for a little space--half a minute,

Spanish chanced: Acaecido. clap: aplaudir, palmada. colossal: colosal. downpour: aguacero. forthwith: inmediatamente. gust: ráfaga, racha. hail: granizo, granizar, alabar, pedrisco. hissing: silbar, silbido, sisteo. hover: cernerse. imparted: impartido. incontinently: incontinentemente.

indistinctly: indistintamente. insensibly: insensiblemente. jarring: jarra, discorde, discordante, desapacible, chocar, adverso, frasco, jarro, opuesto, producir un efecto desagradable, que chocan. loomed: Asomado. lugged: Arrastrado, llevado. mauve: malva. overset: Trastorne, violar tensamente. pedestal: pedestal. petulance: petulancia, mal humor,

irritabilidad. pitiless: despiadado. rebounding: rebotar. reeling: Tambalear. rhododendron: rododendro. sickly: enfermizo. sightless: ciegas, ciego, ciega, invisible. sphinx: esfinge. strangeness: extrañeza. verdigris: verdín. winged: alado.

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perhaps, or half an hour. It seemed to advance and to recede as the hail drove before it denser or thinner. At last I tore my eyes from it for a moment and saw that the hail curtain had worn threadbare, and that the sky was lightening with the promise of the Sun.% `I looked up again at the crouching white shape, and the full temerity of my voyage came suddenly upon me. What might appear when that hazy curtain was altogether withdrawn? What might not have happened to men? What if cruelty had grown into a common passion? What if in this interval the race had lost its manliness and had developed into something inhuman, unsympathetic, and overwhelmingly powerful? I might seem some old-world savage animal, only the more dreadful and disgusting for our common likeness--a foul creature to be incontinently slain. `Already I saw other vast shapes--huge buildings with intricate parapets and tall columns, with a wooded hill-side dimly creeping in upon me through the lessening storm. I was seized with a panic fear. I turned frantically to the Time Machine, and strove hard to readjust it. As I did so the shafts of the sun smote through the thunderstorm. The grey downpour was swept aside and vanished like the trailing garments of a ghost. Above me, in the intense blue of the summer sky, some faint brown shreds of cloud whirled into nothingness. The great buildings about me stood out clear and distinct, shining with the wet of the thunderstorm, and picked out in white by the unmelted hailstones piled along their courses. I felt naked in a strange world. I felt as perhaps a bird may feel in the clear air, knowing the hawk wings above and will swoop. My fear grew to frenzy. I took a breathing space, set my teeth, and again grappled fiercely, wrist and knee, with the machine. It gave under my desperate onset and turned over. It struck my chin violently. One hand on the saddle, the other on the lever, I stood panting heavily in attitude to mount again. `But with this recovery of a prompt retreat my courage recovered. I looked more curiously and less fearfully at this world of the remote future. In a circular opening, high up in the wall of the nearer house, I saw a group of figures clad in rich soft robes. They had seen me, and their faces were directed towards me.

Spanish clad: vestido, pret y pp de clothe. crouching: Agachar, agachándose, agazapándose. dimly: turbio, oscuramente, débilmente. fearfully: aprensivamente, con miedo, pavorosamente, recelosamente, temerosamente, miedosamente. frenzy: frenesí. inhuman: inhumano. lessening: achicando, minorando. lightening: relampagueando,

aligerando. manliness: virilidad. nothingness: nada. old-world: del viejo mundo. panting: jadeante, palpitación. readjust: reajustar, reajustas, reajusta, reajusto, reajusten, reajustamos, reajustáis, reajustad, reajustan, reajuste, arreglar de nuevo. recede: retroceder, retrocede, retrocedes, retrocedo, retroceden, retroceded, retrocedan,

retrocedemos, retrocedéis, retroceda. robes: ropaje. shreds: desbrizna, despedaza. slain: matado. smote: pret de smite. strove: pret de strive. swoop: descenso súbito. temerity: temeridad, temor. threadbare: raído. thunderstorm: tormenta, tronada, la tronada. unsympathetic: incompasivo.

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`Then I heard voices approaching me. Coming through the bushes by the White Sphinx were the heads and shoulders of men running. One of these emerged in a pathway leading straight to the little lawn upon which I stood with my machine. He was a slight creature--perhaps four feet high--clad in a purple tunic, girdled at the waist with a leather belt. Sandals or buskins--I could not clearly distinguish which--were on his feet; his legs were bare to the knees, and his head was bare. Noticing that, I noticed for the first time how warm the air was.% `He struck me as being a very beautiful and graceful creature, but indescribably frail. His flushed face reminded me of the more beautiful kind of consumptive--that hectic beauty of which we used to hear so much. At the sight of him I suddenly regained confidence. I took my hands from the machine.

Spanish approaching: acercamiento, acercar, aproximado, acercarse, aproximar, aproximarse, dirigirse a uno, venidero, tocar un tema, semejante, que se acerca. bare: desnudo, pelado, descubierto. beauty: belleza, la belleza. belt: cinturón, correa, cinto, pretina. creature: criatura. distinguish: distinguir, distinguís, distinguid, distingues, distinguen, distingue, distingo, distinga,

distinguimos, distingan. emerged: aparecido, emergido. flushed: derramarse, sofoco, vaciar, afluir, cisterna, sonrojo, inundar, limpiado, llenarse de agua, rubor, ruborizarse. frail: frágil. girdled: rodeado. graceful: gracioso, elegante, airoso, garboso. hectic: agitado. indescribably: indescriptiblemente.

lawn: césped, el césped, batista, el prado. leather: cuero, duro, el cuero, piel. noticing: notando. pathway: camino, senda. purple: morado, púrpura, purpúreo, lila. regained: recobrado, recuperado. reminded: recordado. struck: pret y pp de strike, golpeado. tunic: túnica. waist: cintura, la cintura, talle.

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`In%another moment we were standing face to face, I and this fragile thing out of futurity. He came straight up to me and laughed into my eyes. The absence from his bearing of any sign of fear struck me at once. Then he turned to the two others who were following him and spoke to them in a strange and very sweet and liquid tongue. `There were others coming, and presently a little group of perhaps eight or ten of these exquisite creatures were about me. One of them addressed me. It came into my head, oddly enough, that my voice was too harsh and deep for them. So I shook my head, and, pointing to my ears, shook it again. He came a step forward, hesitated, and then touched my hand. Then I felt other soft little tentacles upon my back and shoulders. They wanted to make sure I was real. There was nothing in this at all alarming. Indeed, there was something in these pretty little people that inspired confidence--a graceful gentleness, a certain childlike ease. And besides, they looked so frail that I could fancy myself flinging the whole dozen of them about like nine-pins. But I made a sudden motion to warn them when I saw their little pink hands feeling at the Time Machine. Happily then, when it was not too late, I thought of a danger I had hitherto forgotten, and reaching over the bars of the machine I unscrewed the little levers that would set it in motion, and put these in my pocket. Then I turned again to see what I could do in the way of communication.

Spanish addressed: dirigido. alarming: alarmante, crítico, grave. bearing: cojinete, abolas, rodamiento. childlike: infantil. dozen: docena, la docena. ears: orejas, las orejas, oídos. ease: facilidad, comodidad, mitigar. exquisite: exquisito. fancy: figurarse, de fantasía, imaginación. flinging: lanzar. forgotten: olvidado.

fragile: frágil. gentleness: apacibilidad, suavidad. harsh: áspero, severo, brusco, bronco, duro. hesitated: vacilado, titubeado. hitherto: hasta aquí, hasta ahora. inspired: inspirado. laughed: Reído. levers: mandos, palancas. liquid: líquido. oddly: singularmente, sobrantemente, imparmente, extrañamente,

desapareadamente. pink: rosado, rosa, clavel. pointing: rejuntado. reaching: alcanzar. shoulders: espalda, hombros. sudden: repentino, brusco, súbito. sweet: dulce, caramelo, postre. tongue: lengua, la lengua, lengüeta. unscrewed: destornillado. warn: avisar, aviso, avisa, avise, avisas, avisan, avisamos, avisen, avisad, avisáis, advertir.

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`And then, looking more nearly into their features, I saw some further peculiarities in their Dresden-china type of prettiness. Their hair, which was uniformly curly, came to a sharp end at the neck and cheek; there was not the faintest suggestion of it on the face, and their ears were singularly minute. The mouths were small, with bright red, rather thin lips, and the little chins ran to a point. The eyes were large and mild; and--this may seem egotism on my part--I fancied even that there was a certain lack of the interest I might have expected in them.% `As they made no effort to communicate with me, but simply stood round me smiling and speaking in soft cooing notes to each other, I began the conversation. I pointed to the Time Machine and to myself. Then hesitating for a moment how to express time, I pointed to the sun. At once a quaintly pretty little figure in chequered purple and white followed my gesture, and then astonished me by imitating the sound of thunder. `For a moment I was staggered, though the import of his gesture was plain enough. The question had come into my mind abruptly: were these creatures fools? You may hardly understand how it took me. You see I had always anticipated that the people of the year Eight Hundred and Two Thousand odd would be incredibly in front of us in knowledge, art, everything. Then one of them suddenly asked me a question that showed him to be on the intellectual level of one of our five-year-old children-- asked me, in fact, if I had come from the sun in a thunderstorm! It let loose the judgment I had suspended upon their clothes, their frail light limbs, and fragile features. A flow of disappointment rushed across my mind. For a moment I felt that I had built the Time Machine in vain. `I nodded, pointed to the sun, and gave them such a vivid rendering of a thunderclap as startled them. They all withdrew a pace or so and bowed. Then came one laughing towards me, carrying a chain of beautiful flowers altogether new to me, and put it about my neck. The idea was received with melodious applause; and presently they were all running to and fro for flowers, and laughingly flinging them upon me until I was almost smothered with blossom.

Spanish applause: aplauso, el aplauso. astonished: asombrado, sorprendido, estupefacto. blossom: flor, florecer, lozanía. bowed: agobiado, arqueado, cabizbajo, encorvado, inclinado. chequered: a cuadros. cooing: arrullar, arrullo. curly: rizado, ensortijado. egotism: egotismo. fancied: preferido, imaginario. fro: atrás, allá.

hesitating: vacilando, titubeando. imitating: imitando. incredibly: increíblemente. laughingly: reír, risueñamente. limbs: extremidades. melodious: melodioso. prettiness: lindeza. quaintly: anticuadamente, extravagantemente. rendering: interpretación. smothered: asfixiar, ahogado, humareda, polvareda, sofocado,

sofocar, apagar. staggered: alternado, asombrar, azorar, bamboleo, tambaleado, tambalear, tambalearse, tambaleo, tresbolillo, temblar. thunder: trueno, tronar, el trueno. thunderclap: tronido. uniformly: concordemente, uniformadamente, uniformemente, constante. vain: vano, hueco, vanidoso. vivid: vívido, gráfico.

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You who have never seen the like can scarcely imagine what delicate and wonderful flowers countless years of culture had created. Then someone suggested that their plaything should be exhibited in the nearest building, and so I was led past the sphinx of white marble, which had seemed to watch me all the while with a smile at my astonishment, towards a vast grey edifice of fretted stone. As I went with them the memory of my confident anticipations of a profoundly grave and intellectual posterity came, with irresistible merriment, to my mind.% `The building had a huge entry, and was altogether of colossal dimensions. I was naturally most occupied with the growing crowd of little people, and with the big open portals that yawned before me shadowy and mysterious. My general impression of the world I saw over their heads was a tangled waste of beautiful bushes and flowers, a long neglected and yet weedless garden. I saw a number of tall spikes of strange white flowers, measuring a foot perhaps across the spread of the waxen petals. They grew scattered, as if wild, among the variegated shrubs, but, as I say, I did not examine them closely at this time. The Time Machine was left deserted on the turf among the rhododendrons. `The arch of the doorway was richly carved, but naturally I did not observe the carving very narrowly, though I fancied I saw suggestions of old Phoenician decorations as I passed through, and it struck me that they were very badly broken and weather- worn. Several more brightly clad people met me in the doorway, and so we entered, I, dressed in dingy nineteenth-century garments, looking grotesque enough, garlanded with flowers, and surrounded by an eddying mass of bright, soft-colored robes and shining white limbs, in a melodious whirl of laughter and laughing speech. `The big doorway opened into a proportionately great hall hung with brown. The roof was in shadow, and the windows, partially glazed with coloured glass and partially unglazed, admitted a tempered light. The floor was made up of huge blocks of some very hard white metal, not plates nor slabs--blocks, and it was so much worn, as I judged by the going to and fro of past generations, as to be deeply channelled along the more frequented ways. Transverse to the length

Spanish astonishment: asombro. carving: tallando, labrando, talla. channelled: Acanalado. countless: innumerable, incontable. dingy: oscuro. edifice: edificio. exhibited: exhibido. frequented: frecuentado, asendereado. fretted: preocupado. garlanded: enguirnaldado. garments: ornamentos. glazed: vidriado, barnizado.

grotesque: grotesco. irresistible: irresistible. merriment: alegría. narrowly: estrechamente. plaything: juguete. portals: portales. posterity: posteridad. profoundly: profundamente. proportionately: proporcionalmente. richly: ricamente. shadowy: oscuro. shining: brillante, luminoso.

spikes: picos, zapatillas con clavos, análisis de añadidos recuperados, estacas, empalars. tangled: enredado. tempered: templado. turf: césped, tepe. unglazed: sin vidrios. variegated: abigarrado. waxen: ceroso. whirl: giro rápido, torbellino, dar vueltas. yawned: Bostezó.

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were innumerable tables made of slabs of polished stone, raised perhaps a foot from the floor, and upon these were heaps of fruits. Some I recognized as a kind of hypertrophied raspberry and orange, but for the most part they were strange.% `Between the tables was scattered a great number of cushions. Upon these my conductors seated themselves, signing for me to do likewise. With a pretty absence of ceremony they began to eat the fruit with their hands, flinging peel and stalks, and so forth, into the round openings in the sides of the tables. I was not loath to follow their example, for I felt thirsty and hungry. As I did so I surveyed the hall at my leisure. `And perhaps the thing that struck me most was its dilapidated look. The stained-glass windows, which displayed only a geometrical pattern, were broken in many places, and the curtains that hung across the lower end were thick with dust. And it caught my eye that the corner of the marble table near me was fractured. Nevertheless, the general effect was extremely rich and picturesque. There were, perhaps, a couple of hundred people dining in the hall, and most of them, seated as near to me as they could come, were watching me with interest, their little eyes shining over the fruit they were eating. All were clad in the same soft and yet strong, silky material. `Fruit, by the by, was all their diet. These people of the remote future were strict vegetarians, and while I was with them, in spite of some carnal cravings, I had to be frugivorous also. Indeed, I found afterwards that horses, cattle, sheep, dogs, had followed the Ichthyosaurus into extinction. But the fruits were very delightful; one, in particular, that seemed to be in season all the time I was there-a floury thing in a three-sided husk --was especially good, and I made it my staple. At first I was puzzled by all these strange fruits, and by the strange flowers I saw, but later I began to perceive their import. `However, I am telling you of my fruit dinner in the distant future now. So soon as my appetite was a little checked, I determined to make a resolute attempt to learn the speech of these new men of mine. Clearly that was the next thing to do. The fruits seemed a convenient thing to begin upon, and holding one

Spanish carnal: carnal, de matanza. cushions: cojines. delightful: bonito, lindo, delicioso, encantador, deleitoso. dilapidated: decrépito, ruinoso. dining: cenando. extinction: extinción, extinguir. floury: harinoso. fractured: fracturado, quebrado. geometrical: geométrico. heaps: muchísimo. husk: cáscara, vaina.

hypertrophied: hiperatrofió. innumerable: innumerable. likewise: igualmente, también, ídem, asimismo. loath: renuente. marble: mármol, canica, jaspear. openings: oportunidad. peel: cáscara, pelar, piel, mondar, pelarse. perceive: percibir, perciben, percibes, percibe, perciban, percibid, percibimos, percibís, percibo, perciba.

picturesque: pintoresco. polished: fino, pulido, esmerado. raspberry: frambuesa, la frambuesa. resolute: resuelto. seated: sentado. silky: sedoso. spite: rencor. stalks: raspón. staple: grapa. surveyed: Inspeccionado. thirsty: sediento. vegetarians: vegetarianos.

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of these up I began a series of interrogative sounds and gestures. I had some considerable difficulty in conveying my meaning. At first my efforts met with a stare of surprise or inextinguishable laughter, but presently a fair-haired little creature seemed to grasp my intention and repeated a name. They had to chatter and explain the business at great length to each other, and my first attempts to make the exquisite little sounds of their language caused an immense amount of amusement. However, I felt like a schoolmaster amidst children, and persisted, and presently I had a score of noun substantives at least at my command; and then I got to demonstrative pronouns, and even the verb “to eat.” But it was slow work, and the little people soon tired and wanted to get away from my interrogations, so I determined, rather of necessity, to let them give their lessons in little doses when they felt inclined. And very little doses I found they were before long, for I never met people more indolent or more easily fatigued.% `A queer thing I soon discovered about my little hosts, and that was their lack of interest. They would come to me with eager cries of astonishment, like children, but like children they would soon stop examining me and wander away after some other toy. The dinner and my conversational beginnings ended, I noted for the first time that almost all those who had surrounded me at first were gone. It is odd, too, how speedily I came to disregard these little people. I went out through the portal into the sunlit world again as soon as my hunger was satisfied. I was continually meeting more of these men of the future, who would follow me a little distance, chatter and laugh about me, and, having smiled and gesticulated in a friendly way, leave me again to my own devices. `The calm of evening was upon the world as I emerged from the great hall, and the scene was lit by the warm glow of the setting sun. At first things were very confusing. Everything was so entirely different from the world I had known--even the flowers. The big building I had left was situated on the slope of a broad river valley, but the Thames had shifted perhaps a mile from its present position. I resolved to mount to the summit of a crest perhaps a mile and a half away, from which I could get a wider view of this our planet in the year Eight

Spanish amidst: en medio de, entre. amusement: diversión, divertimento, entretenimiento, distracción. beginnings: principios. chatter: charlar, charla, castañetear, parlotear. confusing: confundiendo. conversational: locuaz, conversacional. conveying: alargando, entregando. crest: cresta, penacho. cries: llora.

demonstrative: demostrativo, pronombre demostrativo. disregard: desatender, descuido. fair-haired: rubio. gesticulated: gesticulado. glow: resplandecer, resplandor. indolent: indolente. inextinguishable: inextinguible. interrogations: interrogatorios. interrogative: interrogativo. noun: substantivo, nombre, sustantivo, el sustantivo.

persisted: persistido. portal: entrada, puerta. schoolmaster: maestro de escuela. speedily: rápidamente. substantives: sustantivo. sunlit: iluminado por el sol. toy: juguete, el juguete. verb: verbo, el verbo. wander: desviarse, vagar, vago, fluctuación lenta de fase, vague, errar, vagamos, vaga, vagáis, vagan, vagas.

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Hundred and Two Thousand Seven Hundred and One A.D. For that, I should explain, was the date the little dials of my machine recorded. `As I walked I was watching for every impression that could possibly help to explain the condition of ruinous splendour in which I found the world--for ruinous it was. A little way up the hill, for instance, was a great heap of granite, bound together by masses of aluminium, a vast labyrinth of precipitous walls and crumpled heaps, amidst which were thick heaps of very beautiful pagodalike plants--nettles possibly--but wonderfully tinted with brown about the leaves, and incapable of stinging. It was evidently the derelict remains of some vast structure, to what end built I could not determine. It was here that I was destined, at a later date, to have a very strange experience--the first intimation of a still stranger discovery--but of that I will speak in its proper place.% `Looking round with a sudden thought, from a terrace on which I rested for a while, I realized that there were no small houses to be seen. Apparently the single house, and possibly even the household, had vanished. Here and there among the greenery were palace-like buildings, but the house and the cottage, which form such characteristic features of our own English landscape, had disappeared. `”Communism,” said I to myself. `And on the heels of that came another thought. I looked at the half-dozen little figures that were following me. Then, in a flash, I perceived that all had the same form of costume, the same soft hairless visage, and the same girlish rotundity of limb. It may seem strange, perhaps, that I had not noticed this before. But everything was so strange. Now, I saw the fact plainly enough. In costume, and in all the differences of texture and bearing that now mark off the sexes from each other, these people of the future were alike. And the children seemed to my eyes to be but the miniatures of their parents. I judged, then, that the children of that time were extremely precocious, physically at least, and I found afterwards abundant verification of my opinion. `Seeing the ease and security in which these people were living, I felt that this close resemblance of the sexes was after all what one would expect; for the

Spanish abundant: abundante. aluminium: aluminio. costume: traje. crumpled: arrugado, estropeado, chafado, estrujado. derelict: derrelicto, abandonado. destined: destinado. girlish: juvenil, de chica, de moza, de muchacha, de niña. granite: granito. greenery: verdor. hairless: pelado.

heap: montón, grupo, cúmulo, amontonar, pila. heels: taco, tacón. incapable: incapaz. intimation: insinuación. labyrinth: laberinto, dédalo. limb: miembro, limbo. plainly: simplemente. precipitous: escarpado. precocious: precoz. resemblance: parecido. rested: descansado.

rotundity: rotundidad. ruinous: ruinoso. splendour: fausto, pomposidad, fulgor, esplendor, lujo. stinging: escozor, picar, punzante. texture: textura. tinted: teñido. vanished: desaparecido. verification: verificación, comprobación. visage: visaje, semblante, rostro, gesto. wonderfully: maravillosamente.

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strength of a man and the softness of a woman, the institution of the family, and the differentiation of occupations are mere militant necessities of an age of physical force; where population is balanced and abundant, much childbearing becomes an evil rather than a blessing to the State; where violence comes but rarely and off-spring are secure, there is less necessity--indeed there is no necessity--for an efficient family, and the specialization of the sexes with reference to their children’s needs disappears. We see some beginnings of this even in our own time, and in this future age it was complete. This, I must remind you, was my speculation at the time. Later, I was to appreciate how far it fell short of the reality.% `While I was musing upon these things, my attention was attracted by a pretty little structure, like a well under a cupola. I thought in a transitory way of the oddness of wells still existing, and then resumed the thread of my speculations. There were no large buildings towards the top of the hill, and as my walking powers were evidently miraculous, I was presently left alone for the first time. With a strange sense of freedom and adventure I pushed on up to the crest. `There I found a seat of some yellow metal that I did not recognize, corroded in places with a kind of pinkish rust and half smothered in soft moss, the armrests cast and filed into the resemblance of griffins’ heads. I sat down on it, and I surveyed the broad view of our old world under the sunset of that long day. It was as sweet and fair a view as I have ever seen. The sun had already gone below the horizon and the west was flaming gold, touched with some horizontal bars of purple and crimson. Below was the valley of the Thames, in which the river lay like a band of burnished steel. I have already spoken of the great palaces dotted about among the variegated greenery, some in ruins and some still occupied. Here and there rose a white or silvery figure in the waste garden of the earth, here and there came the sharp vertical line of some cupola or obelisk. There were no hedges, no signs of proprietary rights, no evidences of agriculture; the whole earth had become a garden.

Spanish blessing: bendiciendo, bendición. burnished: abrillantado, bruñido, bruñir, lustre. childbearing: parto, maternidad, natalidad. corroded: corroído. crimson: carmesí. cupola: cúpula. differentiation: diferenciación. disappears: desaparece. dotted: punteado. flaming: llameante, encendido.

militant: militante. miraculous: milagroso. moss: musgo. musing: meditación, meditar, meditativo, musa, reflexionar. necessities: artículos de primera necesidad. obelisk: obelisco. occupations: ocupaciones. oddness: singularidad, rareza, extravagancia. palaces: palacios.

pinkish: rosado, rosáceo. proprietary: propietario, patentado. ruins: ruinas. rust: óxido, herrumbre, moho, oxidación, el moho, aherrumbrar. silvery: plateado. softness: blandura, suavidad. specialization: especialización. speculations: especulaciones. sunset: puesta del sol, ocaso, puesta de sol. thread: hilo, rosca, hebra, el hilo.

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`So%watching, I began to put my interpretation upon the things I had seen, and as it shaped itself to me that evening, my interpretation was something in this way. (Afterwards I found I had got only a half-truth--or only a glimpse of one facet of the truth.) `It seemed to me that I had happened upon humanity upon the wane. The ruddy sunset set me thinking of the sunset of mankind. For the first time I began to realize an odd consequence of the social effort in which we are at present engaged. And yet, come to think, it is a logical consequence enough. Strength is the outcome of need; security sets a premium on feebleness. The work of ameliorating the conditions of life--the true civilizing process that makes life more and more secure--had gone steadily on to a climax. One triumph of a united humanity over Nature had followed another. Things that are now mere dreams had become projects deliberately put in hand and carried forward. And the harvest was what I saw! `After all, the sanitation and the agriculture of to-day are still in the rudimentary stage. The science of our time has attacked but a little department of the field of human disease, but even so, it spreads its operations very steadily and persistently. Our agriculture and horticulture destroy a weed just here and there and cultivate perhaps a score or so of wholesome plants, leaving the greater number to fight out a balance as they can. We improve our favourite plants and animals --and how few they are--gradually by selective breeding; now a new and better peach, now a seedless grape, now a sweeter and larger flower, now a more convenient breed of cattle. We improve them gradually, because our ideals are vague and tentative, and our knowledge is very limited; because Nature, too, is shy and slow in our clumsy hands. Some day all this will be better organized, and still better. That is the drift of the current in spite of the eddies. The whole world will be intelligent, educated, and co-operating; things will move faster and faster towards the subjugation of Nature. In the end, wisely and carefully we shall readjust the balance of animal and vegetable me to suit our human needs.

Spanish ameliorating: mejorando. breeding: cría, crianza, reproducción. civilizing: civilizando. climax: clímax. co-operating: coopere, cooperando. cultivate: cultivar, cultive, cultivo, cultiváis, cultiven, cultivas, cultivad, cultiva, cultivamos, cultivan. facet: faceta. feebleness: debilidad. grape: uva, la uva. horticulture: horticultura.

ideals: ideales. mankind: humanidad. peach: melocotón, durazno. persistently: continuamente, persistentemente. ruddy: rojo. sanitation: higienización, saneamiento. seedless: sin pepitas, sin semillas. shaped: formado, conformado. spreads: producto para untar. subjugation: dominación.

tentative: provisional, tentativa, tentativo. vegetable: verduras, vegetal, hortaliza, la legumbre, verdura, legumbre. wane: menguar, menguad, menguáis, menguamos, menguan, menguas, mengüe, menguo, mengua, mengüen. weed: mala hierba, escardar, cizaña, maleza. wholesome: sano. wisely: sabiamente.

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`This adjustment, I say, must have been done, and done well; done indeed for all Time, in the space of Time across which my machine had leaped. The air was free from gnats, the earth from weeds or fungi; everywhere were fruits and sweet and delightful flowers; brilliant butterflies flew hither and thither. The ideal of preventive medicine was attained. Diseases had been stamped out. I saw no evidence of any contagious diseases during all my stay. And I shall have to tell you later that even the processes of putrefaction and decay had been profoundly affected by these changes.% `Social triumphs, too, had been effected. I saw mankind housed in splendid shelters, gloriously clothed, and as yet I had found them engaged in no toil. There were no signs of struggle, neither social nor economical struggle. The shop, the advertisement, traffic, all that commerce which constitutes the body of our world, was gone. It was natural on that golden evening that I should jump at the idea of a social paradise. The difficulty of increasing population had been met, I guessed, and population had ceased to increase. `But with this change in condition comes inevitably adaptations to the change. What, unless biological science is a mass of errors, is the cause of human intelligence and vigour? Hardship and freedom: conditions under which the active, strong, and subtle survive and the weaker go to the wall; conditions that put a premium upon the loyal alliance of capable men, upon self-restraint, patience, and decision. And the institution of the family, and the emotions that arise therein, the fierce jealousy, the tenderness for offspring, parental selfdevotion, all found their justification and support in the imminent dangers of the young. now, where are these imminent dangers? There is a sentiment arising, and it will grow, against connubial jealousy, against fierce maternity, against passion of all sorts; unnecessary things now, and things that make us uncomfortable, savage survivals, discords in a refined and pleasant life. `I thought of the physical slightness of the people, their lack of intelligence, and those big abundant ruins, and it strengthened my belief in a perfect conquest of Nature. For after the battle comes Quiet. Humanity had been strong, energetic, and intelligent, and had used all its abundant vitality to alter

Spanish adaptations: adaptaciones. attained: alcanzado. clothed: vestido. connubial: conyugal. conquest: conquista. contagious: contagioso. economical: económico. effected: realizado. energetic: enérgico, energético. fungi: hongos. gloriously: magníficamente, espléndidamente, gloriosamente.

hardship: penalidad, dificultades excepcionalmente gravosas. hither: acá. leaped: Saltado. maternity: maternidad. preventive: preventivo. putrefaction: putrefacción. refined: fino, refinado. self-restraint: autodominio. sentiment: sentimiento, opinión, sensibilidad, parecer, sentimentalismo.

shelters: techados de protección, valores seguros. slightness: delgadez. stamped: estampillado. survivals: sobrevivencias. tenderness: ternura. therein: en eso, adjunto. thither: allá. toil: trabajo, afanar. vigour: fuerza, virtud. vitality: vitalidad. weeds: malas hierbas, hierbajos.

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the%conditions under which it lived. And now came the reaction of the altered conditions. `Under the new conditions of perfect comfort and security, that restless energy, that with us is strength, would become weakness. Even in our own time certain tendencies and desires, once necessary to survival, are a constant source of failure. Physical courage and the love of battle, for instance, are no great help-may even be hindrances--to a civilized man. And in a state of physical balance and security, power, intellectual as well as physical, would be out of place. For countless years I judged there had been no danger of war or solitary violence, no danger from wild beasts, no wasting disease to require strength of constitution, no need of toil. For such a life, what we should call the weak are as well equipped as the strong, are indeed no longer weak. Better equipped indeed they are, for the strong would be fretted by an energy for which there was no outlet. No doubt the exquisite beauty of the buildings I saw was the outcome of the last surgings of the now purposeless energy of mankind before it settled down into perfect harmony with the conditions under which it lived--the flourish of that triumph which began the last great peace. This has ever been the fate of energy in security; it takes to art and to eroticism, and then come languor and decay. `Even this artistic impetus would at last die away--had almost died in the Time I saw. To adorn themselves with flowers, to dance, to sing in the sunlight: so much was left of the artistic spirit, and no more. Even that would fade in the end into a contented inactivity. We are kept keen on the grindstone of pain and necessity, and, it seemed to me, that here was that hateful grindstone broken at last! `As I stood there in the gathering dark I thought that in this simple explanation I had mastered the problem of the world-- mastered the whole secret of these delicious people. Possibly the checks they had devised for the increase of population had succeeded too well, and their numbers had rather diminished than kept stationary. That would account for the abandoned ruins. Very simple was my explanation, and plausible enough--as most wrong theories are!

Spanish adorn: decorar, decora, decoren, decore, decoras, decoran, decoramos, decoráis, decoro, decorad, adornar. artistic: artístico. beasts: ganado. decay: decadencia, decaimiento, putrefacción, baja, deterioración, descomposición. delicious: delicioso. devised: ideado. diminished: disminuido. equipped: equipado.

eroticism: erotismo. fade: marchitarse, marchitar. flourish: florecer, florecemos, florezco, florezcan, florezca, florecen, florecéis, floreced, florece, floreces, prosperar. gathering: recolección, reunión. grindstone: muela, asperón. harmony: armonía. hateful: odioso. impetus: instinto, ímpetu, impulso. inactivity: inactividad. judged: juzgado.

languor: languidez. mastered: dominado. outlet: salida, toma, desembocadura, toma de corriente. purposeless: inútil, indeciso, irresoluto, sin objetivo, sin objeto. restless: inquieto. solitary: solo, solitario, único. stationary: estacionario. sunlight: luz del sol, luz solar. tendencies: tendencias. wasting: acabando, gastando.

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CHAPTER V

`As I stood there musing over this too perfect triumph of man, the full moon, yellow and gibbous, came up out of an overflow of silver light in the north-east. The bright little figures ceased to move about below, a noiseless owl flitted by, and I shivered with the chill of the night. I determined to descend and find where I could sleep.% `I looked for the building I knew. Then my eye travelled along to the figure of the White Sphinx upon the pedestal of bronze, growing distinct as the light of the rising moon grew brighter. I could see the silver birch against it. There was the tangle of rhododendron bushes, black in the pale light, and there was the little lawn. I looked at the lawn again. A queer doubt chilled my complacency. “No,” said I stoutly to myself, “that was not the lawn.” `But it was the lawn. For the white leprous face of the sphinx was towards it. Can you imagine what I felt as this conviction came home to me? But you cannot. The Time Machine was gone! `At once, like a lash across the face, came the possibility of losing my own age, of being left helpless in this strange new world. The bare thought of it was an actual physical sensation. I could feel it grip me at the throat and stop my breathing. In another moment I was in a passion of fear and running with great leaping strides down the slope. Once I fell headlong and cut my face; I lost no time in stanching the blood, but jumped up and ran on, with a warm trickle

Spanish birch: abedul. breathing: respirando, respiración, respirar. bronze: bronce, bronceado, broncear. chill: frío, enfriar. chilled: refrigerado, enfriado. complacency: complacencia. conviction: condena. descend: descender, descendéis, desciendo, desciendes, descienden, desciende, desciendan, descendemos, descended, descienda, bajar.

flitted: aleteado, revoloteado, revoloteó. gibbous: giboso. grip: gripe, asir, agarrar, coger, agarre, apretar, empuñar. jumped: Saltado. lash: pestaña, latigazo, azote. leprous: leproso. moon: luna, la luna. noiseless: silencioso. overflow: desbordamiento, inundación, inundar, desbordar,

rebosadero. owl: búho, lechuza. passion: pasión. slope: cuesta, pendiente, inclinación, declive, inclinarse, talud, ladera. stanching: restañando. stoutly: corpulentamente, fuerte, reciamente, resueltamente, robustamente. strides: zancadas. tangle: enredo, caos. triumph: triunfo.

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down my cheek and chin. All the time I ran I was saying to myself: “They have moved it a little, pushed it under the bushes out of the way.” Nevertheless, I ran with all my might. All the time, with the certainty that sometimes comes with excessive dread, I knew that such assurance was folly, knew instinctively that the machine was removed out of my reach. My breath came with pain. I suppose I covered the whole distance from the hill crest to the little lawn, two miles perhaps, in ten minutes. And I am not a young man. I cursed aloud, as I ran, at my confident folly in leaving the machine, wasting good breath thereby. I cried aloud, and none answered. Not a creature seemed to be stirring in that moonlit world.% `When I reached the lawn my worst fears were realized. Not a trace of the thing was to be seen. I felt faint and cold when I faced the empty space among the black tangle of bushes. I ran round it furiously, as if the thing might be hidden in a corner, and then stopped abruptly, with my hands clutching my hair. Above me towered the sphinx, upon the bronze pedestal, white, shining, leprous, in the light of the rising moon. It seemed to smile in mockery of my dismay. `I might have consoled myself by imagining the little people had put the mechanism in some shelter for me, had I not felt assured of their physical and intellectual inadequacy. That is what dismayed me: the sense of some hitherto unsuspected power, through whose intervention my invention had vanished. Yet, for one thing I felt assured: unless some other age had produced its exact duplicate, the machine could not have moved in time. The attachment of the levers--I will show you the method later-- prevented any one from tampering with it in that way when they were removed. It had moved, and was hid, only in space. But then, where could it be? `I think I must have had a kind of frenzy. I remember running violently in and out among the moonlit bushes all round the sphinx, and startling some white animal that, in the dim light, I took for a small deer. I remember, too, late that night, beating the bushes with my clenched fist until my knuckles were gashed and bleeding from the broken twigs. Then, sobbing and raving in my

Spanish attachment: afectuosidad, fijación, conexión, anexo, enlace, embargo, adjunto, acoplamiento, atadura, apego, unión. bleeding: sangrando, sangría, sangrante, sangrado, hemorragia. clenched: apretado. consoled: Consolado. cursed: maldito. deer: ciervo, venado. dismay: espantar, consternar. dismayed: entelerido.

dread: miedo. duplicate: duplicado, multiplicar, duplicar, copiar. fist: puño. folly: tontería. furiously: sañudo, reñidamente, rabiosamente, furiosamente. hid: escondió, pret de hide. imagining: imaginando. instinctively: instintivamente. mockery: burla. moonlit: luz de la luna, iluminado por

la luna. raving: delirio, delirando. sobbing: sollozar. startling: sobresaltando. stirring: agitación, conmovedor, emocionante, inspirador, removida, turbulento. tampering: manoseando. towered: dominado. twigs: leña menuda. unsuspected: insospechado. violently: violentamente.

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anguish of mind, I went down to the great building of stone. The big hall was dark, silent, and deserted. I slipped on the uneven floor, and fell over one of the malachite tables, almost breaking my shin. I lit a match and went on past the dusty curtains, of which I have told you.% `There I found a second great hall covered with cushions, upon which, perhaps, a score or so of the little people were sleeping. I have no doubt they found my second appearance strange enough, coming suddenly out of the quiet darkness with inarticulate noises and the splutter and flare of a match. For they had forgotten about matches. “Where is my Time Machine?” I began, bawling like an angry child, laying hands upon them and shaking them up together. It must have been very queer to them. Some laughed, most of them looked sorely frightened. When I saw them standing round me, it came into my head that I was doing as foolish a thing as it was possible for me to do under the circumstances, in trying to revive the sensation of fear. For, reasoning from their daylight behaviour, I thought that fear must be forgotten. `Abruptly, I dashed down the match, and, knocking one of the people over in my course, went blundering across the big dining-hall again, out under the moonlight. I heard cries of terror and their little feet running and stumbling this way and that. I do not remember all I did as the moon crept up the sky. I suppose it was the unexpected nature of my loss that maddened me. I felt hopelessly cut off from my own kind--a strange animal in an unknown world. I must have raved to and fro, screaming and crying upon God and Fate. I have a memory of horrible fatigue, as the long night of despair wore away; of looking in this impossible place and that; of groping among moon-lit ruins and touching strange creatures in the black shadows; at last, of lying on the ground near the sphinx and weeping with absolute wretchedness. I had nothing left but misery. Then I slept, and when I woke again it was full day, and a couple of sparrows were hopping round me on the turf within reach of my arm. `I sat up in the freshness of the morning, trying to remember how I had got there, and why I had such a profound sense of desertion and despair. Then things came clear in my mind. With the plain, reasonable daylight, I could look

Spanish anguish: angustia, miedo, angustiar. blundering: equivocación, equivocarse, estropear, pifia, Pifiar, torpe, torpeza, tropezar. crept: Arrastrado. daylight: luz del día, luz de día, luz natural. desertion: deserción. fatigue: fatiga, fatigar. flare: bengala. freshness: frescura. groping: tentando.

hopelessly: desesperadamente. inarticulate: inarticulado, desarticulado. knocking: llamar a la puerta, llamada, golpeteo, golpes, golpeo, golpear, golpe, choque, chocar, aldabonazo, topar. maddened: enloquecido. malachite: malaquita. moonlight: luz de la luna. raved: delirado. reasoning: razonamiento.

revive: reponerse, reavivar, resucitar, reanimar, reavivan, reaviven, reavive, reavivas, reaviváis, reavivad, reaviva. shin: espinilla. sorely: penosamente. splutter: balbuceo, balbucear. stumbling: tropezar. uneven: desigual, impar, irregular. weeping: llorando, lloroso, llanto, llorón. wretchedness: miseria.

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my circumstances fairly in the face. I saw the wild folly of my frenzy overnight, and I could reason with myself. “Suppose the worst?” I said. “Suppose the machine altogether lost--perhaps destroyed? It behooves me to be calm and patient, to learn the way of the people, to get a clear idea of the method of my loss, and the means of getting materials and tools; so that in the end, perhaps, I may make another.” That would be my only hope, perhaps, but better than despair. And, after all, it was a beautiful and curious world.% `But probably, the machine had only been taken away. Still, I must be calm and patient, find its hiding-place, and recover it by force or cunning. And with that I scrambled to my feet and looked about me, wondering where I could bathe. I felt weary, stiff, and travel-soiled. The freshness of the morning made me desire an equal freshness. I had exhausted my emotion. Indeed, as I went about my business, I found myself wondering at my intense excitement overnight. I made a careful examination of the ground about the little lawn. I wasted some time in futile questionings, conveyed, as well as I was able, to such of the little people as came by. They all failed to understand my gestures; some were simply stolid, some thought it was a jest and laughed at me. I had the hardest task in the world to keep my hands off their pretty laughing faces. It was a foolish impulse, but the devil begotten of fear and blind anger was ill curbed and still eager to take advantage of my perplexity. The turf gave better counsel. I found a groove ripped in it, about midway between the pedestal of the sphinx and the marks of my feet where, on arrival, I had struggled with the overturned machine. There were other signs of removal about, with queer narrow footprints like those I could imagine made by a sloth. This directed my closer attention to the pedestal. It was, as I think I have said, of bronze. It was not a mere block, but highly decorated with deep framed panels on either side. I went and rapped at these. The pedestal was hollow. Examining the panels with care I found them discontinuous with the frames. There were no handles or keyholes, but possibly the panels, if they were doors, as I supposed, opened from within. One thing was clear enough to my mind. It took no very great mental effort to infer that my Time Machine was inside that pedestal. But how it got there was a different problem.

Spanish bathe: bañar, bañarse, báñados, báñate, báñense, me baño, nos bañamos, os bañáis, se baña, se bañan, te bañas. begotten: engendrado. behooves: toca, atañe, corresponde, incumbe. conveyed: entregado, alargado. cunning: astucia, astuto, hábil. curbed: limitado. discontinuous: discontinuo. footprints: modelos o tamaños.

framed: encuadrado. futile: fútil. groove: surco, ranura, acanaladura, estría, acanalar, estriar. handles: asas. hardest: duramente. hiding-place: escondite. impulse: impulso, instinto, impulsión. infer: inferir, deducir, infiera, inferís, deduzca, infiero, deduzcan, deducís, deduzco, inferimos, infieran. jest: bromear, broma.

midway: a mitad de camino, mitad del camino, mitad de el camino, medio camino, avenida central, a mitad del camino, situado a medio camino. overturned: invertido, trastornado, volcado. perplexity: perplejidad. rapped: golpeado. ripped: rasgado. scrambled: revuelto. sloth: pereza, perezoso. stolid: estólido.

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`I saw the heads of two orange-clad people coming through the bushes and under some blossom-covered apple-trees towards me. I turned smiling to them and beckoned them to me. They came, and then, pointing to the bronze pedestal, I tried to intimate my wish to open it. But at my first gesture towards this they behaved very oddly. I don’t know how to convey their expression to you. Suppose you were to use a grossly improper gesture to a delicate-minded woman--it is how she would look. They went off as if they had received the last possible insult. I tried a sweet-looking little chap in white next, with exactly the same result. Somehow, his manner made me feel ashamed of myself. But, as you know, I wanted the Time Machine, and I tried him once more. As he turned off, like the others, my temper got the better of me. In three strides I was after him, had him by the loose part of his robe round the neck, and began dragging him towards the sphinx. Then I saw the horror and repugnance of his face, and all of a sudden I let him go.% `But I was not beaten yet. I banged with my fist at the bronze panels. I thought I heard something stir inside--to be explicit, I thought I heard a sound like a chuckle--but I must have been mistaken. Then I got a big pebble from the river, and came and hammered till I had flattened a coil in the decorations, and the verdigris came off in powdery flakes. The delicate little people must have heard me hammering in gusty outbreaks a mile away on either hand, but nothing came of it. I saw a crowd of them upon the slopes, looking furtively at me. At last, hot and tired, I sat down to watch the place. But I was too restless to watch long; I am too Occidental for a long vigil. I could work at a problem for years, but to wait inactive for twenty-four hours--that is another matter. `I got up after a time, and began walking aimlessly through the bushes towards the hill again. “Patience,” said I to myself. “If you want your machine again you must leave that sphinx alone. If they mean to take your machine away, it’s little good your wrecking their bronze panels, and if they don’t, you will get it back as soon as you can ask for it. To sit among all those unknown things before a puzzle like that is hopeless. That way lies monomania. Face this world. Learn its ways, watch it, be careful of too hasty guesses at its meaning.

Spanish aimlessly: sin objeto, sin propósito fijo. ashamed: avergonzado, vergonzoso. beckoned: llamado, Atraído. behaved: se comportado, portado, funcionado, conducido, educado, Comportado, comportarse bien, comportar. coil: bobina, rollo. dragging: arrastrando, remolcando. flakes: copos. flattened: aplanado.

furtively: furtivamente. grossly: groseramente. gusty: borrascoso. hammered: insolvencia en Bolsa, martillado. hammering: martilleo. hasty: apresurado, precipitado. hopeless: desesperado. improper: impropio. inactive: inactivo. insult: insultar, insulto, injuria, injuriar, ofender, ofensa, ultrajar,

ultraje, improperio, el insulto, denuesto. mistaken: malo, equivocado. monomania: monomanía. pebble: guijarro. powdery: polvoriento. puzzle: enigma, rompecabezas. repugnance: repugnancia. robe: vestido, toga. vigil: vigilia. wrecking: destructivo, demolición, auxilio, destruir.

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In the end you will find clues to it all.” Then suddenly the humour of the situation came into my mind: the thought of the years I had spent in study and toil to get into the future age, and now my passion of anxiety to get out of it. I had made myself the most complicated and the most hopeless trap that ever a man devised. Although it was at my own expense, I could not help myself. I laughed aloud.% `Going through the big palace, it seemed to me that the little people avoided me. It may have been my fancy, or it may have had something to do with my hammering at the gates of bronze. Yet I felt tolerably sure of the avoidance. I was careful, however, to show no concern and to abstain from any pursuit of them, and in the course of a day or two things got back to the old footing. I made what progress I could in the language, and in addition I pushed my explorations here and there. Either I missed some subtle point or their language was excessively simple--almost exclusively composed of concrete substantives and verbs. There seemed to be few, if any, abstract terms, or little use of figurative language. Their sentences were usually simple and of two words, and I failed to convey or understand any but the simplest propositions. I determined to put the thought of my Time Machine and the mystery of the bronze doors under the sphinx as much as possible in a corner of memory, until my growing knowledge would lead me back to them in a natural way. Yet a certain feeling, you may understand, tethered me in a circle of a few miles round the point of my arrival. `So far as I could see, all the world displayed the same exuberant richness as the Thames valley. From every hill I climbed I saw the same abundance of splendid buildings, endlessly varied in material and style, the same clustering thickets of evergreens, the same blossom-laden trees and tree-ferns. Here and there water shone like silver, and beyond, the land rose into blue undulating hills, and so faded into the serenity of the sky. A peculiar feature, which presently attracted my attention, was the presence of certain circular wells, several, as it seemed to me, of a very great depth. One lay by the path up the hill, which I had followed during my first walk. Like the others, it was rimmed with

Spanish abstain: abstenerse, abstener, se abstienen, absténedos, os abstenéis, te abstienes, se abstiene, me abstengo, absténganse, ábstente, nos abstenemos. abundance: abundancia, riqueza. avoidance: evitación, anulación. circular: circular. clustering: clasificación, arracimar, conglomeración. composed: dueño de sí mismo, compuesto, sosegado.

concrete: hormigón, concreto. convey: alargar, entregar, llevar, entrega, entregan, entreguen, entregue, entregas, entregamos, entregáis, entregad. endlessly: interminablemente, inacabablemente, sin fin, eternamente. evergreens: plantas de hojas perennes. exuberant: exuberante. faded: marchitado, se ajado, descolorado, despintado, desvaído,

descolorirse, descolorido, descolorar, desaparecer, debilitarse, borroso. figurative: figurado, figurativo. footing: fundamento, pata. peculiar: raro. pursuit: persecución, acosamiento. richness: riqueza, abundancia. serenity: serenidad. tethered: atado. tolerably: tolerablemente. trap: trampa, atrapar. undulating: Ondular, ondeo.

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bronze, curiously wrought, and protected by a little cupola from the rain. Sitting by the side of these wells, and peering down into the shafted darkness, I could see no gleam of water, nor could I start any reflection with a lighted match. But in all of them I heard a certain sound: a thud-thud-thud, like the beating of some big engine; and I discovered, from the flaring of my matches, that a steady current of air set down the shafts. Further, I threw a scrap of paper into the throat of one, and, instead of fluttering slowly down, it was at once sucked swiftly out of sight.% `After a time, too, I came to connect these wells with tall towers standing here and there upon the slopes; for above them there was often just such a flicker in the air as one sees on a hot day above a sun-scorched beach. Putting things together, I reached a strong suggestion of an extensive system of subterranean ventilation, whose true import it was difficult to imagine. I was at first inclined to associate it with the sanitary apparatus of these people. It was an obvious conclusion, but it was absolutely wrong. `And here I must admit that I learned very little of drains and bells and modes of conveyance, and the like conveniences, during my time in this real future. In some of these visions of Utopias and coming times which I have read, there is a vast amount of detail about building, and social arrangements, and so forth. But while such details are easy enough to obtain when the whole world is contained in one’s imagination, they are altogether inaccessible to a real traveller amid such realities as I found here. Conceive the tale of London which a negro, fresh from Central Africa, would take back to his tribe! What would he know of railway companies, of social movements, of telephone and telegraph wires, of the Parcels Delivery Company, and postal orders and the like? Yet we, at least, should be willing enough to explain these things to him! And even of what he knew, how much could he make his untravelled friend either apprehend or believe? Then, think how narrow the gap between a negro and a white man of our own times, and how wide the interval between myself and these of the Golden Age! I was sensible of much which was unseen, and which contributed

Spanish apprehend: aprehender, aprehendemos, aprehendéis, aprehendo, aprehenden, aprehende, aprehendes, aprehendan, aprehended, aprehenda. associate: socio, unirse, asociar, juntarse, asociado. bells: las campanas. connect: conectar, conecta, conectad, conecto, conecten, conectas, conectan, conectáis, conectamos, conecte, comunicar.

conveyance: transmisión. curiously: curiosamente. flaring: abocinado. flicker: parpadeo, centelleo. fluttering: revolotear. gleam: destello. inaccessible: inaccesible. inclined: inclinado. negro: negro. peering: mirar. postal: tarjeta postal. sanitary: sanitario.

scrap: chatarra, recorte, desechar, sobras, desguazar, de desecho. shafts: ejes. subterranean: subterráneo. sucked: chupado. telegraph: telégrafo, telegrafiar. towers: torres. tribe: tribu. unseen: no visto. untravelled: inexplorado. ventilation: ventilación. wrought: forjado.

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to my comfort; but save for a general impression of automatic organization, I fear I can convey very little of the difference to your mind. `In the matter of sepulchre, for instance, I could see no signs of crematoria nor anything suggestive of tombs. But it occurred to me that, possibly, there might be cemeteries (or crematoria) somewhere beyond the range of my explorings. This, again, was a question I deliberately put to myself, and my curiosity was at first entirely defeated upon the point. The thing puzzled me, and I was led to make a further remark, which puzzled me still more: that aged and infirm among this people there were none.% `I must confess that my satisfaction with my first theories of an automatic civilization and a decadent humanity did not long endure. Yet I could think of no other. Let me put my difficulties. The several big palaces I had explored were mere living places, great dining-halls and sleeping apartments. I could find no machinery, no appliances of any kind. Yet these people were clothed in pleasant fabrics that must at times need renewal, and their sandals, though undecorated, were fairly complex specimens of metalwork. Somehow such things must be made. And the little people displayed no vestige of a creative tendency. There were no shops, no workshops, no sign of importations among them. They spent all their time in playing gently, in bathing in the river, in making love in a half-playful fashion, in eating fruit and sleeping. I could not see how things were kept going. `Then, again, about the Time Machine: something, I knew not what, had taken it into the hollow pedestal of the White Sphinx. Why? For the life of me I could not imagine. Those waterless wells, too, those flickering pillars. I felt I lacked a clue. I felt--how shall I put it? Suppose you found an inscription, with sentences here and there in excellent plain English, and interpolated therewith, others made up of words, of letters even, absolutely unknown to you? Well, on the third day of my visit, that was how the world of Eight Hundred and Two Thousand Seven Hundred and One presented itself to me! `That day, too, I made a friend--of a sort. It happened that, as I was watching some of the little people bathing in a shallow, one of them was seized with

Spanish appliances: electrodomésticos. bathing: bañándose. cemeteries: cementerios. civilization: civilización. clue: pista. confess: confesar, confiesan, confiesen, confieso, confiesas, confesamos, confesad, confesáis, confiesa, confiese, declarar. decadent: decadente. endure: durar, duráis, duro, duren, dure, duras, duran, duramos, dura,

durad, tolerar. explored: explorado. hollow: hueco, cavidad, hondonada, vacuo. humanity: humanidad. infirm: débil. inscription: inscripción. interpolated: interpolado. lacked: faltaba. metalwork: metalistería. pillars: pilar. remark: comentario, observación,

reparo, censura, nota, notar. renewal: renovación. sandals: sandalias. seized: agarrado, asido. sepulchre: mausoleo, sepulcro, sepultura, tumba. sleeping: durmiendo, durmiente. specimens: muestras. suggestive: sugestivo. tombs: tumbas. vestige: vestigio. waterless: anhidro.

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cramp and began drifting downstream. The main current ran rather swiftly, but not too strongly for even a moderate swimmer. It will give you an idea, therefore, of the strange deficiency in these creatures, when I tell you that none made the slightest attempt to rescue the weakly crying little thing which was drowning before their eyes. When I realized this, I hurriedly slipped off my clothes, and, wading in at a point lower down, I caught the poor mite and drew her safe to land. A little rubbing of the limbs soon brought her round, and I had the satisfaction of seeing she was all right before I left her. I had got to such a low estimate of her kind that I did not expect any gratitude from her. In that, however, I was wrong.% `This happened in the morning. In the afternoon I met my little woman, as I believe it was, as I was returning towards my centre from an exploration, and she received me with cries of delight and presented me with a big garland of flowers-- evidently made for me and me alone. The thing took my imagination. Very possibly I had been feeling desolate. At any rate I did my best to display my appreciation of the gift. We were soon seated together in a little stone arbour, engaged in conversation, chiefly of smiles. The creature’s friendliness affected me exactly as a child’s might have done. We passed each other flowers, and she kissed my hands. I did the same to hers. Then I tried talk, and found that her name was Weena, which, though I don’t know what it meant, somehow seemed appropriate enough. That was the beginning of a queer friendship which lasted a week, and ended--as I will tell you! `She was exactly like a child. She wanted to be with me always. She tried to follow me everywhere, and on my next journey out and about it went to my heart to tire her down, and leave her at last, exhausted and calling after me rather plaintively. But the problems of the world had to be mastered. I had not, I said to myself, come into the future to carry on a miniature flirtation. Yet her distress when I left her was very great, her expostulations at the parting were sometimes frantic, and I think, altogether, I had as much trouble as comfort from her devotion. Nevertheless she was, somehow, a very great comfort. I thought it was mere childish affection that made her cling to me. Until it was too late, I

Spanish arbour: cenador, emparrado. chiefly: principalmente, sobretodo. childish: aniñado, pueril, infantil. cling: agarrarse. cramp: calambre, grapa. deficiency: deficiencia, falta, carencia, defecto. desolate: desolado, desolar. devotion: devoción. downstream: aguas abajo, río abajo, parte a pasar, descendente. drifting: llevar.

drowning: ahogándose, el ahogamiento, ahogar, ahogo, ahogamiento. expostulations: protestas. flirtation: flirteo, coqueteo. frantic: frenético. friendliness: simpatía, amigabilidad. garland: guirnalda. gratitude: gratitud, gracias, reconocimiento. hurriedly: precipitadamente, apresuradamente.

miniature: miniatura. mite: óbolo, ácaro. parting: separación. plaintively: lastimeramente, melancólicamente. rubbing: frotamiento, fricción, frotación. swimmer: nadador, flotador. tire: neumático, llanta, cansar, cansarse, la llanta, fatigar. wading: vadeando. weakly: débilmente.

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did not clearly know what I had inflicted upon her when I left her. Nor until it was too late did I clearly understand what she was to me. For, by merely seeming fond of me, and showing in her weak, futile way that she cared for me, the little doll of a creature presently gave my return to the neighbourhood of the White Sphinx almost the feeling of coming home; and I would watch for her tiny figure of white and gold so soon as I came over the hill.% `It was from her, too, that I learned that fear had not yet left the world. She was fearless enough in the daylight, and she had the oddest confidence in me; for once, in a foolish moment, I made threatening grimaces at her, and she simply laughed at them. But she dreaded the dark, dreaded shadows, dreaded black things. Darkness to her was the one thing dreadful. It was a singularly passionate emotion, and it set me thinking and observing. I discovered then, among other things, that these little people gathered into the great houses after dark, and slept in droves. To enter upon them without a light was to put them into a tumult of apprehension. I never found one out of doors, or one sleeping alone within doors, after dark. Yet I was still such a blockhead that I missed the lesson of that fear, and in spite of Weena’s distress I insisted upon sleeping away from these slumbering multitudes. `It troubled her greatly, but in the end her odd affection for me triumphed, and for five of the nights of our acquaintance, including the last night of all, she slept with her head pillowed on my arm. But my story slips away from me as I speak of her. It must have been the night before her rescue that I was awakened about dawn. I had been restless, dreaming most disagreeably that I was drowned, and that sea anemones were feeling over my face with their soft palps. I woke with a start, and with an odd fancy that some greyish animal had just rushed out of the chamber. I tried to get to sleep again, but I felt restless and uncomfortable. It was that dim grey hour when things are just creeping out of darkness, when everything is colourless and clear cut, and yet unreal. I got up, and went down into the great hall, and so out upon the flagstones in front of the palace. I thought I would make a virtue of necessity, and see the sunrise.

Spanish acquaintance: conocido, conocimiento, notoriedad. apprehension: arresto, detención, aprensión, aprehensión. awakened: despertado. blockhead: tonto. cared: Cuidado. colourless: incoloro. creeping: arrastrando. disagreeably: desagradablemente. distress: afligir, indigencia, entristecer, acongojar, dolor.

doll: muñeca. dreaded: temido. dreaming: soñar. drowned: se ahogado, ahogado. fearless: intrépido, arrojado. fond: aficionado. greyish: grisáceo. inflicted: infligido. multitudes: las multitudes. observing: observando. passionate: apasionado. rushed: apresurarse, a prisa,

apresurado, con prisas, prisa, precipitar. seeming: pareciendo. slips: comprobantes de pago. slumbering: dormir. sunrise: salida del sol, amanecer. triumphed: Triunfado. troubled: molestar, de enfermedad, agitado, problema, desventurado, apurado, molestarse, dificultad, no sabroso, pasado difícilmente, pena. tumult: tumulto, ruido.

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`The moon was setting, and the dying moonlight and the first pallor of dawn were mingled in a ghastly half-light. The bushes were inky black, the ground a sombre grey, the sky colourless and cheerless. And up the hill I thought I could see ghosts. There several times, as I scanned the slope, I saw white figures. Twice I fancied I saw a solitary white, ape-like creature running rather quickly up the hill, and once near the ruins I saw a leash of them carrying some dark body. They moved hastily. I did not see what became of them. It seemed that they vanished among the bushes. The dawn was still indistinct, you must understand. I was feeling that chill, uncertain, early-morning feeling you may have known. I doubted my eyes.% `As the eastern sky grew brighter, and the light of the day came on and its vivid colouring returned upon the world once more, I scanned the view keenly. But I saw no vestige of my white figures. They were mere creatures of the half light. “They must have been ghosts,” I said; “I wonder whence they dated.” For a queer notion of Grant Allen’s came into my head, and amused me. If each generation die and leave ghosts, he argued, the world at last will get overcrowded with them. On that theory they would have grown innumerable some Eight Hundred Thousand Years hence, and it was no great wonder to see four at once. But the jest was unsatisfying, and I was thinking of these figures all the morning, until Weena’s rescue drove them out of my head. I associated them in some indefinite way with the white animal I had startled in my first passionate search for the Time Machine. But Weena was a pleasant substitute. Yet all the same, they were soon destined to take far deadlier possession of my mind. `I think I have said how much hotter than our own was the weather of this Golden Age. I cannot account for it. It may be that the sun was hotter, or the earth nearer the sun. It is usual to assume that the sun will go on cooling steadily in the future. But people, unfamiliar with such speculations as those of the younger Darwin, forget that the planets must ultimately fall back one by one into the parent body. As these catastrophes occur, the sun will blaze with renewed energy; and it may be that some inner planet had suffered this fate.

Spanish amused: se divertido, entretenido. blaze: resplandecer, gritar a los cuatro vientos, brillo, estrella, brillar, explosión, arranque, flamear, fogata, fuego, hoguera. cheerless: triste. colouring: colorar, colorido, colorante. cooling: enfriamiento, refrescante, refrigeración. doubted: dudado. early-morning: matutino. ghosts: duende, fantasma, imágenes

fantasma, espectro, fantasmas. half-light: media luz. hastily: precipitadamente, apresuradamente. indefinite: indefinido. inky: manchado de tinta. keenly: afiladamente, agudamente, de modo penetrante, perspicazmente. leash: correa, traílla. mingled: mezclado, triscado. overcrowded: apiñado, superpoblado, atestado, atestado de gente,

congestionado, masificado, muy lleno. pallor: palidez. planets: planetas. renewed: renovado. scanned: explorado. sombre: sombrío. unfamiliar: poco familiar, desconocido. unsatisfying: poco satisfactorio, insatisfactorio. whence: de dónde.

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Whatever the reason, the fact remains that the sun was very much hotter than we know it. `Well, one very hot morning--my fourth, I think--as I was seeking shelter from the heat and glare in a colossal ruin near the great house where I slept and fed, there happened this strange thing: Clambering among these heaps of masonry, I found a narrow gallery, whose end and side windows were blocked by fallen masses of stone. By contrast with the brilliancy outside, it seemed at first impenetrably dark to me. I entered it groping, for the change from light to blackness made spots of colour swim before me. Suddenly I halted spellbound. A pair of eyes, luminous by reflection against the daylight without, was watching me out of the darkness.% `The old instinctive dread of wild beasts came upon me. I clenched my hands and steadfastly looked into the glaring eyeballs. I was afraid to turn. Then the thought of the absolute security in which humanity appeared to be living came to my mind. And then I remembered that strange terror of the dark. Overcoming my fear to some extent, I advanced a step and spoke. I will admit that my voice was harsh and ill-controlled. I put out my hand and touched something soft. At once the eyes darted sideways, and something white ran past me. I turned with my heart in my mouth, and saw a queer little ape-like figure, its head held down in a peculiar manner, running across the sunlit space behind me. It blundered against a block of granite, staggered aside, and in a moment was hidden in a black shadow beneath another pile of ruined masonry. `My impression of it is, of course, imperfect; but I know it was a dull white, and had strange large greyish-red eyes; also that there was flaxen hair on its head and down its back. But, as I say, it went too fast for me to see distinctly. I cannot even say whether it ran on all-fours, or only with its forearms held very low. After an instant’s pause I followed it into the second heap of ruins. I could not find it at first; but, after a time in the profound obscurity, I came upon one of those round well-like openings of which I have told you, half closed by a fallen pillar. A sudden thought came to me. Could this Thing have vanished down the shaft? I lit a match, and, looking down, I saw a small, white, moving

Spanish blackness: oscuridad, negrura. blocked: bloqueado. blundered: Pifiado. brilliancy: resplandor, lustre, lucidez, brillo, brillantez. distinctly: distintamente. flaxen: de lino, muy rubio, rubio. glare: deslumbramiento, deslumbrar. glaring: brillante. halted: parado, paralizado. impenetrably: impenetrable. imperfect: imperfecto, pretérito

imperfecto. instinctive: instintivo. masonry: albañilería, mampostería, masonería. masses: masas, vulgo. obscurity: oscuridad. overcoming: superando. pillar: columna, pilar. profound: profundo. ruin: ruina, arruinar. ruined: arruinado. shaft: eje, árbol, pozo, fuste.

sideways: de lado. slept: dormido. spellbound: hechizado. spots: lunares, granos, bienes con entrega inmediata. steadfastly: fijamente, firmemente, constantemente, invariablemente, inmóvilmente. swim: nadar, nadas, nado, naden, nadad, nadan, nadáis, nadamos, nada, nade. terror: terror.

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creature, with large bright eyes which regarded me steadfastly as it retreated. It made me shudder. It was so like a human spider! It was clambering down the wall, and now I saw for the first time a number of metal foot and hand rests forming a kind of ladder down the shaft. Then the light burned my fingers and fell out of my hand, going out as it dropped, and when I had lit another the little monster had disappeared. `I do not know how long I sat peering down that well. It was not for some time that I could succeed in persuading myself that the thing I had seen was human. But, gradually, the truth dawned on me: that Man had not remained one species, but had differentiated into two distinct animals: that my graceful children of the Upper-world were not the sole descendants of our generation, but that this bleached, obscene, nocturnal Thing, which had flashed before me, was also heir to all the ages.% `I thought of the flickering pillars and of my theory of an underground ventilation. I began to suspect their true import. And what, I wondered, was this Lemur doing in my scheme of a perfectly balanced organization? How was it related to the indolent serenity of the beautiful Upper-worlders? And what was hidden down there, at the foot of that shaft? I sat upon the edge of the well telling myself that, at any rate, there was nothing to fear, and that there I must descend for the solution of my difficulties. And withal I was absolutely afraid to go! As I hesitated, two of the beautiful Upper-world people came running in their amorous sport across the daylight in the shadow. The male pursued the female, flinging flowers at her as he ran. `They seemed distressed to find me, my arm against the overturned pillar, peering down the well. Apparently it was considered bad form to remark these apertures; for when I pointed to this one, and tried to frame a question about it in their tongue, they were still more visibly distressed and turned away. But they were interested by my matches, and I struck some to amuse them. I tried them again about the well, and again I failed. So presently I left them, meaning to go back to Weena, and see what I could get from her. But my mind was already in revolution; my guesses and impressions were slipping and sliding to a new

Spanish amorous: amoroso. amuse: divertir, diviértete, diviértase, diviértanse, divértidos, me divierto, nos divertimos, os divertís, se divierte, se divierten, te diviertes. balanced: equilibrado. bleached: blanqueado. burned: quemó. clambering: trepando, Gatear, trepanación. descendants: descendencia. differentiated: diferenciado.

distressed: afligido, penado, angustioso, angustiado. forming: formación. heir: heredero. import: importación, importar, importado. ladder: escala, escalera, escalera de mano, la escalera. lit: encendido, pret y pp de light, alumbrado, iluminado. matches: cerillas. monster: monstruo.

nocturnal: nocturno. obscene: obsceno. persuading: convenciendo, persuadiendo. pursued: perseguido. retreated: retirado. shudder: estremecerse. sliding: corredizo, deslizamiento. slipping: corrimiento, resbalar. spider: araña, cuerpo, estrella, arana. visibly: visiblemente. withal: además.

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adjustment. I had now a clue to the import of these wells, to the ventilating towers, to the mystery of the ghosts; to say nothing of a hint at the meaning of the bronze gates and the fate of the Time Machine! And very vaguely there came a suggestion towards the solution of the economic problem that had puzzled me. `Here was the new view. Plainly, this second species of Man was subterranean. There were three circumstances in particular which made me think that its rare emergence above ground was the outcome of a long-continued underground habit. In the first place, there was the bleached look common in most animals that live largely in the dark--the white fish of the Kentucky caves, for instance. Then, those large eyes, with that capacity for reflecting light, are common features of nocturnal things-- witness the owl and the cat. And last of all, that evident confusion in the sunshine, that hasty yet fumbling awkward flight towards dark shadow, and that peculiar carriage of the head while in the light--all reinforced the theory of an extreme sensitiveness of the retina.% `Beneath my feet, then, the earth must be tunnelled enormously, and these tunnellings were the habitat of the new race. The presence of ventilating shafts and wells along the hill slopes--everywhere, in fact except along the river valley -showed how universal were its ramifications. What so natural, then, as to assume that it was in this artificial Underworld that such work as was necessary to the comfort of the daylight race was done? The notion was so plausible that I at once accepted it, and went on to assume the how of this splitting of the human species. I dare say you will anticipate the shape of my theory; though, for myself, I very soon felt that it fell far short of the truth. `At first, proceeding from the problems of our own age, it seemed clear as daylight to me that the gradual widening of the present merely temporary and social difference between the Capitalist and the Labourer, was the key to the whole position. No doubt it will seem grotesque enough to you--and wildly incredible!--and yet even now there are existing circumstances to point that way. There is a tendency to utilize underground space for the less ornamental purposes of civilization; there is the Metropolitan Railway in London, for instance, there are new electric railways, there are subways, there are

Spanish adjustment: ajuste, arreglo, adaptación, regulación, acuerdo, construcción. anticipate: anticipe, prever, preven, preveo, prevemos, preveis, preved, prevean, prevea, preve, preves. awkward: difícil. carriage: coche, carro, cureña. caves: cuevas. emergence: aparecimiento, salida, emergencia. enormously: enormemente.

fumbling: chapuceando, manoseando. gradual: gradual. habitat: hábitat. hint: indirecta. instance: instancia, ejemplo, ejemplar. ornamental: decorativo, ornamental. proceeding: procedimiento, proceder. reflecting: reflejando. reinforced: reforzado. sensitiveness: sensibilidad, susceptibilidad. splitting: división, fraccionamiento.

sunshine: sol, solana. underground: subterráneo, metro, subsuelo. utilize: aprovechar, aprovecho, aprovechad, aprovecháis, aprovechamos, aprovechan, aprovechas, aproveche, aprovechen, aprovecha, explotar. vaguely: vagamente. ventilating: ventilando. widening: ensanchando, ensanche. wildly: ferozmente.

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underground%workrooms and restaurants, and they increase and multiply. Evidently, I thought, this tendency had increased till Industry had gradually lost its birthright in the sky. I mean that it had gone deeper and deeper into larger and ever larger underground factories, spending a still-increasing amount of its time therein, till, in the end--! Even now, does not an East-end worker live in such artificial conditions as practically to be cut off from the natural surface of the earth? `Again, the exclusive tendency of richer people--due, no doubt, to the increasing refinement of their education, and the widening gulf between them and the rude violence of the poor-- is already leading to the closing, in their interest, of considerable portions of the surface of the land. About London, for instance, perhaps half the prettier country is shut in against intrusion. And this same widening gulf--which is due to the length and expense of the higher educational process and the increased facilities for and temptations towards refined habits on the part of the rich--will make that exchange between class and class, that promotion by intermarriage which at present retards the splitting of our species along lines of social stratification, less and less frequent. So, in the end, above ground you must have the Haves, pursuing pleasure and comfort and beauty, and below ground the Have-nots, the Workers getting continually adapted to the conditions of their labour. Once they were there, they would no doubt have to pay rent, and not a little of it, for the ventilation of their caverns; and if they refused, they would starve or be suffocated for arrears. Such of them as were so constituted as to be miserable and rebellious would die; and, in the end, the balance being permanent, the survivors would become as well adapted to the conditions of underground life, and as happy in their way, as the Upperworld people were to theirs. As it seemed to me, the refined beauty and the etiolated pallor followed naturally enough. `The great triumph of Humanity I had dreamed of took a different shape in my mind. It had been no such triumph of moral education and general cooperation as I had imagined. Instead, I saw a real aristocracy, armed with a perfected science and working to a logical conclusion the industrial system of to-

Spanish adapted: adaptado. aristocracy: aristocracia. arrears: atrasos. birthright: derechos de nacimiento. constituted: constituido. continually: continuamente, siempre. dreamed: soñado. etiolated: descoloró. gulf: golfo, abismo, despeñadero, precipicio. habits: hábitos. intermarriage: matrimonio mixto.

intrusion: intrusión. miserable: pobre, deplorable, malo, triste, indigente, menesteroso, afligido, necesitado, desgraciado, miserable. multiply: multiplicar, multiplico, multipliquen, multiplicas, multiplican, multiplicamos, multiplicáis, multiplicad, multiplica, multiplique. perfected: perfecto, perfeccionado. pursuing: persiguiendo.

rebellious: rebelde. refinement: refinamiento, finura. retards: retarda. rude: grosero, rudo, insolente, descortés. starve: morir de hambre. stratification: estratificación. suffocated: sofocado, se ahogado. survivors: supervivientes, sobrevivientes. temptations: tentaciones. theirs: suyo, sus.

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day. Its triumph had not been simply a triumph over Nature, but a triumph over Nature and the fellow-man. This, I must warn you, was my theory at the time. I had no convenient cicerone in the pattern of the Utopian books. My explanation may be absolutely wrong. I still think it is the most plausible one. But even on this supposition the balanced civilization that was at last attained must have long since passed its zenith, and was now far fallen into decay. The too-perfect security of the Upper-worlders had led them to a slow movement of degeneration, to a general dwindling in size, strength, and intelligence. That I could see clearly enough already. What had happened to the Under-grounders I did not yet suspect; but from what I had seen of the Morlocks--that, by the by, was the name by which these creatures were called--I could imagine that the modification of the human type was even far more profound than among the “Eloi,” the beautiful race that I already knew.% `Then came troublesome doubts. Why had the Morlocks taken my Time Machine? For I felt sure it was they who had taken it. Why, too, if the Eloi were masters, could they not restore the machine to me? And why were they so terribly afraid of the dark? I proceeded, as I have said, to question Weena about this Under-world, but here again I was disappointed. At first she would not understand my questions, and presently she refused to answer them. She shivered as though the topic was unendurable. And when I pressed her, perhaps a little harshly, she burst into tears. They were the only tears, except my own, I ever saw in that Golden Age. When I saw them I ceased abruptly to trouble about the Morlocks, and was only concerned in banishing these signs of the human inheritance from Weena’s eyes. And very soon she was smiling and clapping her hands, while I solemnly burned a match.

Spanish abruptly: bruscamente, abruptamente. banishing: desterrando. burst: ráfaga, reventar, estallar, salva, reventón, resquebrajarse, quebraja, grieta, hendidura, henderse, ráfaga de impulsos. clapping: aplauso, palmada, aplausos, aplaudir, cerrar de golpe. degeneration: degeneración. disappointed: decepcionado. doubts: duda. dwindling: menguando.

harshly: everamente, ásperamente, bruscamente, duramente, adustamente, violentamente, severamente. inheritance: herencia. intelligence: inteligencia. modification: modificación. refused: rehusado. restore: restaurar, restablecer, restaure, restaurad, restablezca, restableces, restablecen, restablecemos, restablecéis,

restableced, restablece. smiling: sonriente. supposition: suposición, conjetura. suspect: sospechar, dudar, sospechoso. tears: desgarra, rasga. terribly: terriblemente. topic: tema, asunto. troublesome: molesto. unendurable: inaguantable, insoportable. zenith: cenit.

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CHAPTER VI

`It%may seem odd to you, but it was two days before I could follow up the new-found clue in what was manifestly the proper way. I felt a peculiar shrinking from those pallid bodies. They were just the half-bleached colour of the worms and things one sees preserved in spirit in a zoological museum. And they were filthily cold to the touch. Probably my shrinking was largely due to the sympathetic influence of the Eloi, whose disgust of the Morlocks I now began to appreciate. `The next night I did not sleep well. Probably my health was a little disordered. I was oppressed with perplexity and doubt. Once or twice I had a feeling of intense fear for which I could perceive no definite reason. I remember creeping noiselessly into the great hall where the little people were sleeping in the moonlight--that night Weena was among them--and feeling reassured by their presence. It occurred to me even then, that in the course of a few days the moon must pass through its last quarter, and the nights grow dark, when the appearances of these unpleasant creatures from below, these whitened Lemurs, this new vermin that had replaced the old, might be more abundant. And on both these days I had the restless feeling of one who shirks an inevitable duty. I felt assured that the Time Machine was only to be recovered by boldly penetrating these underground mysteries. Yet I could not face the mystery. If only I had had a companion it would have been different. But I was so horribly

Spanish appearances: apariciones. assured: asegurado. boldly: audazmente. companion: acompañante, compañero. definite: definido. disgust: aversión, repugnancia, asquear. filthily: cochambrosamente, cochinamente, impuramente, mugrientamente, suciamente. inevitable: inevitable.

intense: violento, intenso, fuerte. manifestly: evidentemente, manifiestamente, manifiesto. mysteries: misterios. mystery: misterio, el misterio. noiselessly: calladamente, silenciosamente, tranquilamente. occurred: ocurrido. odd: impar, extraño, raro. oppressed: apretado. pallid: pálido. penetrating: penetrando, penetrante.

preserved: en conserva. sees: Ve, serra. shirks: esquiva. shrinking: contracción, encoger, encogimiento. sympathetic: simpático, compasivo. unpleasant: desagradable, bronco, brusco. vermin: insectos dañinos, bicho. whitened: blanqueado. worms: gusanos. zoological: zoológico.

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alone, and even to clamber down into the darkness of the well appalled me. I don’t know if you will understand my feeling, but I never felt quite safe at my back.% `It was this restlessness, this insecurity, perhaps, that drove me further and further afield in my exploring expeditions. Going to the south-westward towards the rising country that is now called Combe Wood, I observed far off, in the direction of nineteenth-century Banstead, a vast green structure, different in character from any I had hitherto seen. It was larger than the largest of the palaces or ruins I knew, and the facade had an Oriental look: the face of it having the lustre, as well as the pale-green tint, a kind of bluish-green, of a certain type of Chinese porcelain. This difference in aspect suggested a difference in use, and I was minded to push on and explore. But the day was growing late, and I had come upon the sight of the place after a long and tiring circuit; so I resolved to hold over the adventure for the following day, and I returned to the welcome and the caresses of little Weena. But next morning I perceived clearly enough that my curiosity regarding the Palace of Green Porcelain was a piece of selfdeception, to enable me to shirk, by another day, an experience I dreaded. I resolved I would make the descent without further waste of time, and started out in the early morning towards a well near the ruins of granite and aluminium. `Little Weena ran with me. She danced beside me to the well, but when she saw me lean over the mouth and look downward, she seemed strangely disconcerted. “Good-bye, Little Weena,” I said, kissing her; and then putting her down, I began to feel over the parapet for the climbing hooks. Rather hastily, I may as well confess, for I feared my courage might leak away! At first she watched me in amazement. Then she gave a most piteous cry, and running to me, she began to pull at me with her little hands. I think her opposition nerved me rather to proceed. I shook her off, perhaps a little roughly, and in another moment I was in the throat of the well. I saw her agonized face over the parapet, and smiled to reassure her. Then I had to look down at the unstable hooks to which I clung.

Spanish afield: lejos de casa. agonized: agonizado. amazement: asombro, pasmo. appalled: desmayado, espantado, repugnado, horrorizado. caresses: caricias. clamber: trepar. clung: pret y pp de cling. danced: bailo. disconcerted: desconcertado. facade: fachada, frontón. hooks: ganchos, manos, garfios.

insecurity: inseguridad. kissing: besar. leak: fuga, filtración, escape. lustre: brillantez. minded: dispuesto. parapet: balaustrada, parapeto, pretil. piteous: patético. porcelain: porcelana. reassure: tranquilizar, tranquilice, tranquilizas, tranquilizan, tranquilizamos, tranquilizáis, tranquilizad, tranquiliza, tranquilizo,

tranquilicen, reasegurar. restlessness: desasosiego. self-deception: engaño de sí mismo, ilusión. shirk: esquivar, esquiva, esquiven, esquivas, esquivan, esquivamos, esquiváis, esquivo, esquivad, esquive, eludir. south-westward: hacia el suroeste. tint: teñir, tinte. tiring: fatigoso. unstable: inestable, inconstante.

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`I had to clamber down a shaft of perhaps two hundred yards. The descent was effected by means of metallic bars projecting from the sides of the well, and these being adapted to the needs of a creature much smaller and lighter than myself, I was speedily cramped and fatigued by the descent. And not simply fatigued! One of the bars bent suddenly under my weight, and almost swung me off into the blackness beneath. For a moment I hung by one hand, and after that experience I did not dare to rest again. Though my arms and back were presently acutely painful, I went on clambering down the sheer descent with as quick a motion as possible. Glancing upward, I saw the aperture, a small blue disk, in which a star was visible, while little Weena’s head showed as a round black projection. The thudding sound of a machine below grew louder and more oppressive. Everything save that little disk above was profoundly dark, and when I looked up again Weena had disappeared.% `I was in an agony of discomfort. I had some thought of trying to go up the shaft again, and leave the Under-world alone. But even while I turned this over in my mind I continued to descend. At last, with intense relief, I saw dimly coming up, a foot to the right of me, a slender loophole in the wall. Swinging myself in, I found it was the aperture of a narrow horizontal tunnel in which I could lie down and rest. It was not too soon. My arms ached, my back was cramped, and I was trembling with the prolonged terror of a fall. Besides this, the unbroken darkness had had a distressing effect upon my eyes. The air was full of the throb and hum of machinery pumping air down the shaft. `I do not know how long I lay. I was roused by a soft hand touching my face. Starting up in the darkness I snatched at my matches and, hastily striking one, I saw three stooping white creatures similar to the one I had seen above ground in the ruin, hastily retreating before the light. Living, as they did, in what appeared to me impenetrable darkness, their eyes were abnormally large and sensitive, just as are the pupils of the abysmal fishes, and they reflected the light in the same way. I have no doubt they could see me in that rayless obscurity, and they did not seem to have any fear of me apart from the light. But, so soon as I struck

Spanish abnormally: anormalmente. abysmal: abismal. ached: dolido, dolió. acutely: agudamente. agony: agonía, angustia, miedo. aperture: abertura, apertura. cramped: estrecho. descent: descenso, bajada, descendencia. discomfort: incomodidad. distressing: penoso. fatigued: fatigado, rendido.

horizontal: horizontal. hum: zumbido, tararear. hung: colgó, pret y pp de hang, colgado, continuado. impenetrable: insondable. lighter: encendedor, mechero, gabarra. loophole: aspillera, escapatoria. oppressive: oprimido, opresivo. projecting: sobresaliente, saliente, saledizo, proyectar. projection: proyección. prolonged: prolongado.

pumping: bombeo. retreating: retirar. roused: espoleado, instigado, animado. slender: fino, esbelto. snatched: arrebatado. striking: llamativo. swinging: balanceo. throb: latido, latir. touching: conmovedor. trembling: temblar, temblando. unbroken: irrompible, intacto.

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a match in order to see them, they fled incontinently, vanishing into dark gutters and tunnels, from which their eyes glared at me in the strangest fashion.% `I tried to call to them, but the language they had was apparently different from that of the Over-world people; so that I was needs left to my own unaided efforts, and the thought of flight before exploration was even then in my mind. But I said to myself, “You are in for it now,” and, feeling my way along the tunnel, I found the noise of machinery grow louder. Presently the walls fell away from me, and I came to a large open space, and striking another match, saw that I had entered a vast arched cavern, which stretched into utter darkness beyond the range of my light. The view I had of it was as much as one could see in the burning of a match. `Necessarily my memory is vague. Great shapes like big machines rose out of the dimness, and cast grotesque black shadows, in which dim spectral Morlocks sheltered from the glare. The place, by the by, was very stuffy and oppressive, and the faint halitus of freshly shed blood was in the air. Some way down the central vista was a little table of white metal, laid with what seemed a meal. The Morlocks at any rate were carnivorous! Even at the time, I remember wondering what large animal could have survived to furnish the red joint I saw. It was all very indistinct: the heavy smell, the big unmeaning shapes, the obscene figures lurking in the shadows, and only waiting for the darkness to come at me again! Then the match burned down, and stung my fingers, and fell, a wriggling red spot in the blackness. `I have thought since how particularly ill-equipped I was for such an experience. When I had started with the Time Machine, I had started with the absurd assumption that the men of the Future would certainly be infinitely ahead of ourselves in all their appliances. I had come without arms, without medicine, without anything to smoke--at times I missed tobacco frightfully--even without enough matches. If only I had thought of a Kodak! I could have flashed that glimpse of the Underworld in a second, and examined it at leisure. But, as it was, I stood there with only the weapons and the powers that Nature had

Spanish absurd: absurdo. arched: arqueado. carnivorous: carnívoro. cavern: caverna, cueva. dimness: lo confuso, casi obscuridad, debilidad, lo lerdo, semioscuridad, lo débil, lo sombrío, lo turbio, ofuscamiento, oscurecimiento, oscuridad. exploration: exploración, prospección. faint: desmayarse, débil, desmayo, tenue.

fled: huido. freshly: no hace mucho tiempo, recién, frescamente. furnish: amueblar, amueblas, amueblen, amueblo, amueble, amueblamos, amuebláis, amuebla, amueblan, amueblad, suministrar. glared: deslumbrado. glimpse: vislumbrar. infinitely: infinitamente. lurking: escondido. shapes: las formas, formas, aspectos.

sheltered: albergue, refugiarse, refugiado, protegido, asilo, amparar, abrigo, abrigado, proteger, resguardo, albergar. spectral: espectral. stuffy: mal ventilado. stung: picado, pret y pp de sting. unaided: sin ayuda. unmeaning: involuntario. vanishing: desapareciendo. vista: perspectiva. wriggling: retorciendo.

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endowed me with--hands, feet, and teeth; these, and four safety-matches that still remained to me.% `I was afraid to push my way in among all this machinery in the dark, and it was only with my last glimpse of light I discovered that my store of matches had run low. It had never occurred to me until that moment that there was any need to economize them, and I had wasted almost half the box in astonishing the Upper-worlders, to whom fire was a novelty. Now, as I say, I had four left, and while I stood in the dark, a hand touched mine, lank fingers came feeling over my face, and I was sensible of a peculiar unpleasant odour. I fancied I heard the breathing of a crowd of those dreadful little beings about me. I felt the box of matches in my hand being gently disengaged, and other hands behind me plucking at my clothing. The sense of these unseen creatures examining me was indescribably unpleasant. The sudden realization of my ignorance of their ways of thinking and doing came home to me very vividly in the darkness. I shouted at them as loudly as I could. They started away, and then I could feel them approaching me again. They clutched at me more boldly, whispering odd sounds to each other. I shivered violently, and shouted again rather discordantly. This time they were not so seriously alarmed, and they made a queer laughing noise as they came back at me. I will confess I was horribly frightened. I determined to strike another match and escape under the protection of its glare. I did so, and eking out the flicker with a scrap of paper from my pocket, I made good my retreat to the narrow tunnel. But I had scarce entered this when my light was blown out and in the blackness I could hear the Morlocks rustling like wind among leaves, and pattering like the rain, as they hurried after me. `In a moment I was clutched by several hands, and there was no mistaking that they were trying to haul me back. I struck another light, and waved it in their dazzled faces. You can scarce imagine how nauseatingly inhuman they looked--those pale, chinless faces and great, lidless, pinkish-grey eyes!--as they stared in their blindness and bewilderment. But I did not stay to look, I promise you: I retreated again, and when my second match had ended, I struck my third.

Spanish alarmed: alarmado. astonishing: asombroso, asombrando, sorprendiendo, sorprendente. bewilderment: desconcierto. blindness: ceguera. discordantly: discordantemente. disengaged: desembarazado. dreadful: terrible, espantoso. economize: economizar, economizad, economizo, economizas, economizan, economizáis, economiza, economicen, economizamos,

economice. eking: aumentando, escatimar. endowed: dotado. haul: tirar, tirón, redada, transportar. horribly: horriblemente. ignorance: ignorancia. lank: lacio. lidless: sin tapa. loudly: en alta voz, ruidosamente. mistaking: errar. nauseatingly: nauseabundamente, asquerosamente.

novelty: novedad, noticias. odour: olor. plucking: punteo, desnudamiento, arrancar. realization: realización, inteligencia. retreat: retirarse, retirada, retiro. rustling: crujido, crujiente, frufrú, susurrar, susurro, abigeato. wasted: gastado, acabado. whispering: chismes, chismografía, con eco, cuchicheo, de difamación, rumores, susurro, de rumores.

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It had almost burned through when I reached the opening into the shaft. I lay down on the edge, for the throb of the great pump below made me giddy. Then I felt sideways for the projecting hooks, and, as I did so, my feet were grasped from behind, and I was violently tugged backward. I lit my last match . . . and it incontinently went out. But I had my hand on the climbing bars now, and, kicking violently, I disengaged myself from the clutches of the Morlocks and was speedily clambering up the shaft, while they stayed peering and blinking up at me: all but one little wretch who followed me for some way, and wellnigh secured my boot as a trophy.% `That climb seemed interminable to me. With the last twenty or thirty feet of it a deadly nausea came upon me. I had the greatest difficulty in keeping my hold. The last few yards was a frightful struggle against this faintness. Several times my head swam, and I felt all the sensations of falling. At last, however, I got over the well-mouth somehow, and staggered out of the ruin into the blinding sunlight. I fell upon my face. Even the soil smelt sweet and clean. Then I remember Weena kissing my hands and ears, and the voices of others among the Eloi. Then, for a time, I was insensible.

Spanish blinding: deslumbrante, deslumbrando, deslumbramiento, esparcido de gravilla. blinking: intermitente, parpadear, parpadeo. boot: bota, maletero, arranque. climb: trepar, subir, escalar, subida, ascender, subir a, escalada. climbing: alpinismo, escalar. deadly: mortal. difficulty: dificultad, inconveniente. faintness: debilidad.

frightful: espantoso, horrible. giddy: mareado. grasped: agarrado. greatest: máximo, máxima. insensible: inconsciente, impasible, sin conocimiento, inconmovible. kicking: patear. nausea: náusea, repugnancia, aversión, asco. opening: abriendo, abertura, apertura, entrada, inauguración, abrir. pump: bomba, bombear, dar a la

bomba. secured: fijado, asegurado, afianzado. smelt: eperlano. soil: tierra, ensuciar, suelo, manchar. somehow: de algún modo. stayed: quedado, permanecido. struggle: batalla, forcejeo, lucha, contienda. swam: Nadó, pret de swim. thirty: treinta. wellnigh: casi. wretch: desgraciado.

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CHAPTER VII

`Now, %indeed, I seemed in a worse case than before. Hitherto, except during my night’s anguish at the loss of the Time Machine, I had felt a sustaining hope of ultimate escape, but that hope was staggered by these new discoveries. Hitherto I had merely thought myself impeded by the childish simplicity of the little people, and by some unknown forces which I had only to understand to overcome; but there was an altogether new element in the sickening quality of the Morlocks--a something inhuman and malign. Instinctively I loathed them. Before, I had felt as a man might feel who had fallen into a pit: my concern was with the pit and how to get out of it. Now I felt like a beast in a trap, whose enemy would come upon him soon. `The enemy I dreaded may surprise you. It was the darkness of the new moon. Weena had put this into my head by some at first incomprehensible remarks about the Dark Nights. It was not now such a very difficult problem to guess what the coming Dark Nights might mean. The moon was on the wane: each night there was a longer interval of darkness. And I now understood to some slight degree at least the reason of the fear of the little Upper-world people for the dark. I wondered vaguely what foul villainy it might be that the Morlocks did under the new moon. I felt pretty sure now that my second hypothesis was all wrong. The Upper-world people might once have been the favoured aristocracy, and the Morlocks their mechanical servants: but that had

Spanish altogether: todo, en conjunto. beast: bestia, animal. dark: oscuro, tenebroso. degree: grado, título, licencia. element: elemento, ingrediente. enemy: enemigo. favoured: favorecido. foul: falta, asqueroso, sucio. hypothesis: hipótesis. impeded: impedido. incomprehensible: incomprensible. least: menos, mínimo, menor.

loathed: detestado. longer: más, más tiempo. malign: difamar, difame, maligno, difamad, difamo, difamen, difamas, difaman, difamáis, difama, difamamos. mechanical: mecánico. mere: mero. pit: zanja, pozo, hoyo, foso, fosa, picadura. remarks: observaciones. servants: servicio.

sickening: asqueando, empalagando, enfermando, hartando, dar náuseas, cansarse, deprimente, enfermo, hartar, hartarse, nauseabundo. simplicity: simplicidad, sencillez. sustaining: sosteniendo. ultimate: último. understood: entendido, comprendido. unknown: desconocido, incógnita. villainy: villanía. wondered: Preguntado. worse: peor.

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long%since passed away. The two species that had resulted from the evolution of man were sliding down towards, or had already arrived at, an altogether new relationship. The Eloi, like the Carolingian kings, had decayed to a mere beautiful futility. They still possessed the earth on sufferance: since the Morlocks, subterranean for innumerable generations, had come at last to find the daylit surface intolerable. And the Morlocks made their garments, I inferred, and maintained them in their habitual needs, perhaps through the survival of an old habit of service. They did it as a standing horse paws with his foot, or as a man enjoys killing animals in sport: because ancient and departed necessities had impressed it on the organism. But, clearly, the old order was already in part reversed. The Nemesis of the delicate ones was creeping on apace. Ages ago, thousands of generations ago, man had thrust his brother man out of the ease and the sunshine. And now that brother was coming back changed! Already the Eloi had begun to learn one old lesson anew. They were becoming reacquainted with Fear. And suddenly there came into my head the memory of the meat I had seen in the Under-world. It seemed odd how it floated into my mind: not stirred up as it were by the current of my meditations, but coming in almost like a question from outside. I tried to recall the form of it. I had a vague sense of something familiar, but I could not tell what it was at the time. `Still, however helpless the little people in the presence of their mysterious Fear, I was differently constituted. I came out of this age of ours, this ripe prime of the human race, when Fear does not paralyse and mystery has lost its terrors. I at least would defend myself. Without further delay I determined to make myself arms and a fastness where I might sleep. With that refuge as a base, I could face this strange world with some of that confidence I had lost in realizing to what creatures night by night I lay exposed. I felt I could never sleep again until my bed was secure from them. I shuddered with horror to think how they must already have examined me. `I wandered during the afternoon along the valley of the Thames, but found nothing that commended itself to my mind as inaccessible. All the buildings and trees seemed easily practicable to such dexterous climbers as the Morlocks, to

Spanish anew: otra vez, de nuevo, nuevamente. apace: rápidamente, aprisa. commended: alabado. decayed: decrépito. departed: salido, partido. dexterous: diestro, hábil, ágil, experto. enjoys: disfruta, goza. fastness: solidez, firmeza. floated: fratasado, flotado. futility: inutilidad. habitual: acostumbrado, habitual.

inferred: inferido, deducido. intolerable: intolerable. meditations: meditaciones. organism: organismo. paralyse: paralizáis, paralizo, paralizas, paralizamos, paralizad, paraliza, paralicen, encadeno, encadene, encadenas, encadenan. possessed: poseído. practicable: transitable, factible, practicable. reacquainted: refamiliarizado.

realizing: comprendiendo, entendiendo. refuge: refugio, asilo. reversed: al contrario, al revés. ripe: maduro. shuddered: estremecido. stirred: batido. sufferance: toleranica, tolerancia, sufrimiento, consentimiento, paciencia. terrors: terrores. wandered: Vagado.

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judge by their wells, must be. Then the tall pinnacles of the Palace of Green Porcelain and the polished gleam of its walls came back to my memory; and in the evening, taking Weena like a child upon my shoulder, I went up the hills towards the south-west. The distance, I had reckoned, was seven or eight miles, but it must have been nearer eighteen. I had first seen the place on a moist afternoon when distances are deceptively diminished. In addition, the heel of one of my shoes was loose, and a nail was working through the sole--they were comfortable old shoes I wore about indoors--so that I was lame. And it was already long past sunset when I came in sight of the palace, silhouetted black against the pale yellow of the sky.% `Weena had been hugely delighted when I began to carry her, but after a while she desired me to let her down, and ran along by the side of me, occasionally darting off on either hand to pick flowers to stick in my pockets. My pockets had always puzzled Weena, but at the last she had concluded that they were an eccentric kind of vase for floral decoration. At least she utilized them for that purpose. And that reminds me! In changing my jacket I found . . .’ The Time Traveller paused, put his hand into his pocket, and silently placed two withered flowers, not unlike very large white mallows, upon the little table. Then he resumed his narrative. `As the hush of evening crept over the world and we proceeded over the hill crest towards Wimbledon, Weena grew tired and wanted to return to the house of grey stone. But I pointed out the distant pinnacles of the Palace of Green Porcelain to her, and contrived to make her understand that we were seeking a refuge there from her Fear. You know that great pause that comes upon things before the dusk? Even the breeze stops in the trees. To me there is always an air of expectation about that evening stillness. The sky was clear, remote, and empty save for a few horizontal bars far down in the sunset. Well, that night the expectation took the colour of my fears. In that darkling calm my senses seemed preternaturally sharpened. I fancied I could even feel the hollowness of the ground beneath my feet: could, indeed, almost see through it the Morlocks on their ant-hill going hither and thither and waiting for the dark. In my excitement

Spanish ant-hill: hormiguero. contrived: inventado, efectuado, tramado, ideado, planeado. darkling: durante anochecer, oscuro. darting: rápido. deceptively: ilusoriamente, engañosamente. decoration: alhaja, decoración, adorno. desired: deseado. dusk: anochecer, crepúsculo. eccentric: excéntrico, extravagante. floral: floral.

heel: talón, tacón, calcañal, escorar, calcañar. hollowness: alvéolo, vaciedad, oquedad, alveolo, cavernosidad. hugely: enormemente, inmensamente, muy. hush: silencio, acallar. lame: cojo. moist: húmedo. nail: clavo, uña, el clavo, clavar, taco, enclavar. narrative: narrativa, narración,

narrativo. preternaturally: preternaturalmente. reckoned: numerado, calculado, considerado. reminds: recuerda. sharpened: afilado, aguzado. silently: silenciosamente, silencioso. stillness: quietud. stops: para, detiene. utilized: aprovechado, explotado. vase: jarrón, vaso, florero. withered: marchito, marchitado.

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I fancied that they would receive my invasion of their burrows as a declaration of war. And why had they taken my Time Machine? `So we went on in the quiet, and the twilight deepened into night. The clear blue of the distance faded, and one star after another came out. The ground grew dim and the trees black. Weena’s fears and her fatigue grew upon her. I took her in my arms and talked to her and caressed her. Then, as the darkness grew deeper, she put her arms round my neck, and, closing her eyes, tightly pressed her face against my shoulder. So we went down a long slope into a valley, and there in the dimness I almost walked into a little river. This I waded, and went up the opposite side of the valley, past a number of sleeping houses, and by a statue--a Faun, or some such figure, minus the head. Here too were acacias. So far I had seen nothing of the Morlocks, but it was yet early in the night, and the darker hours before the old moon rose were still to come.% `From the brow of the next hill I saw a thick wood spreading wide and black before me. I hesitated at this. I could see no end to it, either to the right or the left. Feeling tired--my feet, in particular, were very sore--I carefully lowered Weena from my shoulder as I halted, and sat down upon the turf. I could no longer see the Palace of Green Porcelain, and I was in doubt of my direction. I looked into the thickness of the wood and thought of what it might hide. Under that dense tangle of branches one would be out of sight of the stars. Even were there no other lurking danger--a danger I did not care to let my imagination loose upon--there would still be all the roots to stumble over and the tree-boles to strike against. `I was very tired, too, after the excitements of the day; so I decided that I would not face it, but would pass the night upon the open hill. `Weena, I was glad to find, was fast asleep. I carefully wrapped her in my jacket, and sat down beside her to wait for the moonrise. The hill-side was quiet and deserted, but from the black of the wood there came now and then a stir of living things. Above me shone the stars, for the night was very clear. I felt a certain sense of friendly comfort in their twinkling. All the old constellations had gone from the sky, however: that slow movement which is imperceptible in a

Spanish asleep: dormido. branches: ramas. brow: ceja, frente. closing: Cerrando, cierre, conexión, cerrar. comfort: comodidad, consolar, anchas, consuelo, confort. declaration: declaración. deepened: ahondado. dense: denso. deserted: desierto. hide: ocultar, oculto, oculta, oculte,

ocultas, ocultan, ocultamos, ocultáis, ocultad, oculten, piel. imagination: imaginación. imperceptible: imperceptible. invasion: invasión. jacket: chaqueta, americana, la chaqueta, cubierta, funda, envoltura, camisa, cazadora. loose: suelto, flojo. lowered: bajado, arriado. minus: menos. moonrise: salida de la luna.

roots: raíz, raigambre, raíces. spreading: esparcimiento. stir: conmover, revolver, remover, agitar. stumble: tropiezo. thick: grueso, espeso, gordo, denso. tightly: apretadamente, herméticamente. waded: Vadeado. wrapped: envuelto, arroparse, chal, cubrir, cubrirse, envoltura, envolver, capa, envolverse, ajustado, manta.

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hundred human lifetimes, had long since rearranged them in unfamiliar groupings. But the Milky Way, it seemed to me, was still the same tattered streamer of star-dust as of yore. Southward (as I judged it) was a very bright red star that was new to me; it was even more splendid than our own green Sirius. And amid all these scintillating points of light one bright planet shone kindly and steadily like the face of an old friend.% `Looking at these stars suddenly dwarfed my own troubles and all the gravities of terrestrial life. I thought of their unfathomable distance, and the slow inevitable drift of their movements out of the unknown past into the unknown future. I thought of the great precessional cycle that the pole of the earth describes. Only forty times had that silent revolution occurred during all the years that I had traversed. And during these few revolutions all the activity, all the traditions, the complex organizations, the nations, languages, literatures, aspirations, even the mere memory of Man as I knew him, had been swept out of existence. Instead were these frail creatures who had forgotten their high ancestry, and the white Things of which I went in terror. Then I thought of the Great Fear that was between the two species, and for the first time, with a sudden shiver, came the clear knowledge of what the meat I had seen might be. Yet it was too horrible! I looked at little Weena sleeping beside me, her face white and starlike under the stars, and forthwith dismissed the thought. `Through that long night I held my mind off the Morlocks as well as I could, and whiled away the time by trying to fancy I could find signs of the old constellations in the new confusion. The sky kept very clear, except for a hazy cloud or so. No doubt I dozed at times. Then, as my vigil wore on, came a faintness in the eastward sky, like the reflection of some colourless fire, and the old moon rose, thin and peaked and white. And close behind, and overtaking it, and overflowing it, the dawn came, pale at first, and then growing pink and warm. No Morlocks had approached us. Indeed, I had seen none upon the hill that night. And in the confidence of renewed day it almost seemed to me that my fear had been unreasonable. I stood up and found my foot with the loose heel

Spanish amid: en medio de, entre. ancestry: linaje, ascendencia. cloud: nube, la nube, nublar. dismissed: despedido. dozed: dormitado. dwarfed: achicado. eastward: hacia el este, al este. horrible: temeroso, abominable, lúgubre, horroroso, horrible. kindly: amablemente, bondadosamente, amable. overflowing: desbordamiento,

desbordante. overtaking: adelantando, adelantamiento. peaked: cresta, alcanzar el máximo, cima, con visera, cúspide, cumbre, puntiagudo, punta, pico, máximo. planet: planeta, el planeta. rearranged: reorganizado. reflection: reflexión, reflejo. scintillating: chispeando. shiver: tiritar, temblar, escalofrío. splendid: espléndido.

starlike: brillante. steadily: firmemente, constantemente. streamer: gallardete, serpentina. swept: pret y pp de sweep, barrido. terrestrial: terrestre, terrenal. traditions: tradiciones. traversed: Atravesado. troubles: nubes. unfathomable: insondable. unreasonable: irrazonable. yore: antaño, de antaño, hace tiempo, tiempos pasados.

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swollen at the ankle and painful under the heel; so I sat down again, took off my shoes, and flung them away.% `I awakened Weena, and we went down into the wood, now green and pleasant instead of black and forbidding. We found some fruit wherewith to break our fast. We soon met others of the dainty ones, laughing and dancing in the sunlight as though there was no such thing in nature as the night. And then I thought once more of the meat that I had seen. I felt assured now of what it was, and from the bottom of my heart I pitied this last feeble rill from the great flood of humanity. Clearly, at some time in the Long-Ago of human decay the Morlocks’ food had run short. Possibly they had lived on rats and such-like vermin. Even now man is far less discriminating and exclusive in his food than he was--far less than any monkey. His prejudice against human flesh is no deep-seated instinct. And so these inhuman sons of men----! I tried to look at the thing in a scientific spirit. After all, they were less human and more remote than our cannibal ancestors of three or four thousand years ago. And the intelligence that would have made this state of things a torment had gone. Why should I trouble myself? These Eloi were mere fatted cattle, which the ant-like Morlocks preserved and preyed upon--probably saw to the breeding of. And there was Weena dancing at my side! `Then I tried to preserve myself from the horror that was coming upon me, by regarding it as a rigorous punishment of human selfishness. Man had been content to live in ease and delight upon the labours of his fellow-man, had taken Necessity as his watchword and excuse, and in the fullness of time Necessity had come home to him. I even tried a Carlyle-like scorn of this wretched aristocracy in decay. But this attitude of mind was impossible. However great their intellectual degradation, the Eloi had kept too much of the human form not to claim my sympathy, and to make me perforce a sharer in their degradation and their Fear. `I had at that time very vague ideas as to the course I should pursue. My first was to secure some safe place of refuge, and to make myself such arms of metal or stone as I could contrive. That necessity was immediate. In the next place, I

Spanish ankle: tobillo, el tobillo. cannibal: caníbal. contrive: idear. dainty: fino, amable, delicado, poquita. dancing: bailando, baile. degradation: degradación. discriminating: que distingue finamente. feeble: débil. flood: diluvio, inundación, enterrar, pleamar, inundar.

forbidding: prohibiendo, prohibitivo. fullness: plenitud. instinct: instinto. monkey: mono, el mono. perforce: forzosamente. pitied: compadecido. prejudice: prejuicio. preserve: conservar, guardar, preservar, confitura, conserva. preyed: atacado. rats: rata. rigorous: riguroso.

rill: arroyuelo. scorn: desdén, desdeñar. selfishness: egoísmo. sharer: partícipe. such-like: semejante. swollen: hinchado. torment: tormento. watchword: contraseña. wherewith: con lo cual. wretched: miserable, menesteroso, pobre, infeliz, necesitado, desdichado.

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hoped %to procure some means of fire, so that I should have the weapon of a torch at hand, for nothing, I knew, would be more efficient against these Morlocks. Then I wanted to arrange some contrivance to break open the doors of bronze under the White Sphinx. I had in mind a battering ram. I had a persuasion that if I could enter those doors and carry a blaze of light before me I should discover the Time Machine and escape. I could not imagine the Morlocks were strong enough to move it far away. Weena I had resolved to bring with me to our own time. And turning such schemes over in my mind I pursued our way towards the building which my fancy had chosen as our dwelling.

Spanish arrange: arreglar, arreglen, arreglan, arreglamos, arregláis, arregla, arreglad, arreglas, arreglo, arregle, organizar. battering: cañoneo. chosen: escogido, elegido. contrivance: invención. discover: descubrir, descubrimos, descubrís, descubrid, descubres, descubren, descubre, descubran, descubro, descubra. doors: las puertas.

dwelling: morando, vivienda, morada. efficient: eficiente, eficaz. enter: entrar, entro, entra, entrad, entráis, entramos, entran, entras, entren, entre, inscribir. escape: escaparse, escapar, huida, fuga, escape, evadir, escapada, huir. hoped: esperado. imagine: figurarse, imaginar, imaginad, imaginen, imagine, imaginas, imaginan, imagino, imaginamos, imagináis, imagina.

persuasion: persuasión. procure: procurarse, procurar, procura, procuro, procuren, procure, procuras, procuran, procuramos, procuráis, procurad. ram: carnero, morueco. resolved: resuelto. strong: fuerte, intenso, marcado. torch: antorcha, linterna, soplete. turning: girando, volviendo, trastornando. weapon: arma.

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CHAPTER VIII

`I%found the Palace of Green Porcelain, when we approached it about noon, deserted and falling into ruin. Only ragged vestiges of glass remained in its windows, and great sheets of the green facing had fallen away from the corroded metallic framework. It lay very high upon a turfy down, and looking north-eastward before I entered it, I was surprised to see a large estuary, or even creek, where I judged Wandsworth and Battersea must once have been. I thought then--though I never followed up the thought--of what might have happened, or might be happening, to the living things in the sea. `The material of the Palace proved on examination to be indeed porcelain, and along the face of it I saw an inscription in some unknown character. I thought, rather foolishly, that Weena might help me to interpret this, but I only learned that the bare idea of writing had never entered her head. She always seemed to me, I fancy, more human than she was, perhaps because her affection was so human. `Within the big valves of the door--which were open and broken--we found, instead of the customary hall, a long gallery lit by many side windows. At the first glance I was reminded of a museum. The tiled floor was thick with dust, and a remarkable array of miscellaneous objects was shrouded in the same grey covering. Then I perceived, standing strange and gaunt in the centre of the hall, what was clearly the lower part of a huge skeleton. I recognized by the oblique

Spanish approached: Acercado. array: matriz, serie, formación, orden, formar, conjunto. creek: cala, riachuelo, arroyo. customary: acostumbrado. dust: polvo, quitar el polvo, quitar el polvo a. estuary: estuario. fallen: se caído, caído, decrecido, derribado. foolishly: neciamente, tontamente, insensatamente, bobamente,

alocadamente. framework: armazón, estructura, marco. gallery: galería. gaunt: flaco, fino, triste, afligido, demacrado. glance: mirada, vistazo, ojeada. interpret: interpretar, interprete, interpretas, interpreto, interpreten, interpreta, interpretamos, interpretad, interpretáis, interpretan. miscellaneous: misceláneo, varios,

toda clase de. noon: mediodía. ragged: harapiento, mellado, andrajoso, desigual. recognized: reconocido. sheets: hoja, folio. shrouded: amortajó. skeleton: esqueleto, el esqueleto. surprised: sorprendido. tiled: alicatado, enlozado. valves: válvulas. vestiges: vestigios.

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feet that it was some extinct creature after the fashion of the Megatherium. The skull and the upper bones lay beside it in the thick dust, and in one place, where rain-water had dropped through a leak in the roof, the thing itself had been worn away. Further in the gallery was the huge skeleton barrel of a Brontosaurus. My museum hypothesis was confirmed. Going towards the side I found what appeared to be sloping shelves, and clearing away the thick dust, I found the old familiar glass cases of our own time. But they must have been air-tight to judge from the fair preservation of some of their contents.% `Clearly we stood among the ruins of some latter-day South Kensington! Here, apparently, was the Palaeontological Section, and a very splendid array of fossils it must have been, though the inevitable process of decay that had been staved off for a time, and had, through the extinction of bacteria and fungi, lost ninety-nine hundredths of its force, was nevertheless, with extreme sureness if with extreme slowness at work again upon all its treasures. Here and there I found traces of the little people in the shape of rare fossils broken to pieces or threaded in strings upon reeds. And the cases had in some instances been bodily removed--by the Morlocks as I judged. The place was very silent. The thick dust deadened our footsteps. Weena, who had been rolling a sea urchin down the sloping glass of a case, presently came, as I stared about me, and very quietly took my hand and stood beside me. `And at first I was so much surprised by this ancient monument of an intellectual age, that I gave no thought to the possibilities it presented. Even my preoccupation about the Time Machine receded a little from my mind. `To judge from the size of the place, this Palace of Green Porcelain had a great deal more in it than a Gallery of Palaeontology; possibly historical galleries; it might be, even a library! To me, at least in my present circumstances, these would be vastly more interesting than this spectacle of oldtime geology in decay. Exploring, I found another short gallery running transversely to the first. This appeared to be devoted to minerals, and the sight of a block of sulphur set my mind running on gunpowder. But I could find no saltpeter; indeed, no nitrates of any kind. Doubtless they had deliquesced ages ago. Yet the sulphur

Spanish air-tight: hermético. bacteria: bacterias. barrel: barril, tonel, cañón. bodily: corporal. deadened: amortiguado, amortizado. extinct: extinguido, extinto. footsteps: Huellas. geology: geología. gunpowder: pólvora. minerals: los minerales. monument: monumento. ninety-nine: noventa y nueve.

preoccupation: preocupación. preservation: conservación, preservación. receded: retrocedido. reeds: Peines, totoral. saltpeter: salitre. shelves: estantería. sloping: costanero, inclinado, desarrollo de una curva gráfica, sesgo, inclinación, en pendiente. slowness: lentitud. spectacle: espectáculo.

staved: desfondó. sulphur: azufre. sureness: confianza, seguridad, firmeza, certidumbre, certeza, lo certero. threaded: hilvanar. traces: trazas. transversely: transversalmente, tranversamente. treasures: tesoros. urchin: pilluelo. vastly: inmensamente, bastamente.

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hung%in my mind, and set up a train of thinking. As for the rest of the contents of that gallery, though on the whole they were the best preserved of all I saw, I had little interest. I am no specialist in mineralogy, and I went on down a very ruinous aisle running parallel to the first hall I had entered. Apparently this section had been devoted to natural history, but everything had long since passed out of recognition. A few shrivelled and blackened vestiges of what had once been stuffed animals, desiccated mummies in jars that had once held spirit, a brown dust of departed plants: that was all! I was sorry for that, because I should have been glad to trace the patent readjustments by which the conquest of animated nature had been attained. Then we came to a gallery of simply colossal proportions, but singularly ill-lit, the floor of it running downward at a slight angle from the end at which I entered. At intervals white globes hung from the ceiling--many of them cracked and smashed--which suggested that originally the place had been artificially lit. Here I was more in my element, for rising on either side of me were the huge bulks of big machines, all greatly corroded and many broken down, but some still fairly complete. You know I have a certain weakness for mechanism, and I was inclined to linger among these; the more so as for the most part they had the interest of puzzles, and I could make only the vaguest guesses at what they were for. I fancied that if I could solve their puzzles I should find myself in possession of powers that might be of use against the Morlocks. `Suddenly Weena came very close to my side. So suddenly that she startled me. Had it not been for her I do not think I should have noticed that the floor of the gallery sloped at all. [Footnote: It may be, of course, that the floor did not slope, but that the museum was built into the side of a hill.-ED.] The end I had come in at was quite above ground, and was lit by rare slit-like windows. As you went down the length, the ground came up against these windows, until at last there was a pit like the “area” of a London house before each, and only a narrow line of daylight at the top. I went slowly along, puzzling about the machines, and had been too intent upon them to notice the gradual diminution of the light, until Weena’s increasing apprehensions drew my attention. Then I saw that the gallery ran down at last into a thick darkness. I hesitated, and then,

Spanish aisle: pasillo, nave lateral. artificially: artificialmente. blackened: embetunado, ennegrecido. desiccated: disecado, disecar, desecado. diminution: disminución. footnote: nota a pie de página, nota. globes: GLOBOS. intent: intento, intención, propósito. intervals: intervalos. jars: paso. linger: demorarse.

mineralogy: mineralogía. parallel: paralelo. patent: patente, patentar, evidente, patente de invención. possession: posesión, tenencia. proportions: dimensiones. puzzling: perplejidad, enigmático, enigma, acertijo, adivinanza, embrollo, confundir, embrollar, misterioso, enredar, enredo. readjustments: reajustes. shrivelled: marchito, consumido,

apergaminado, arrugado, secado. sloped: atravesado, inclinado. solve: resolver, resuelve, resuelven, resuelves, resolvemos, resolved, resolvéis, resuelvo, resuelvan, resuelva, solucionar. specialist: especialista. stuffed: disecado, ahíto, llenó. trace: rastro, calcar, impresión, trazar, amojonar, traza, línea, señal, huella, barrido. weakness: debilidad.

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as I looked round me, I saw that the dust was less abundant and its surface less even. Further away towards the dimness, it appeared to be broken by a number of small narrow footprints. My sense of the immediate presence of the Morlocks revived at that. I felt that I was wasting my time in the academic examination of machinery. I called to mind that it was already far advanced in the afternoon, and that I had still no weapon, no refuge, and no means of making a fire. And then down in the remote blackness of the gallery I heard a peculiar pattering, and the same odd noises I had heard down the well.% `I took Weena’s hand. Then, struck with a sudden idea, I left her and turned to a machine from which projected a lever not unlike those in a signal-box. Clambering upon the stand, and grasping this lever in my hands, I put all my weight upon it sideways. Suddenly Weena, deserted in the central aisle, began to whimper. I had judged the strength of the lever pretty correctly, for it snapped after a minute’s strain, and I rejoined her with a mace in my hand more than sufficient, I judged, for any Morlock skull I might encounter. And I longed very much to kill a Morlock or so. Very inhuman, you may think, to want to go killing one’s own descendants! But it was impossible, somehow, to feel any humanity in the things. Only my disinclination to leave Weena, and a persuasion that if I began to slake my thirst for murder my Time Machine might suffer, restrained me from going straight down the gallery and killing the brutes I heard. `Well, mace in one hand and Weena in the other, I went out of that gallery and into another and still larger one, which at the first glance reminded me of a military chapel hung with tattered flags. The brown and charred rags that hung from the sides of it, I presently recognized as the decaying vestiges of books. They had long since dropped to pieces, and every semblance of print had left them. But here and there were warped boards and cracked metallic clasps that told the tale well enough. Had I been a literary man I might, perhaps, have moralized upon the futility of all ambition. But as it was, the thing that struck me with keenest force was the enormous waste of labour to which this sombre wilderness of rotting paper testified. At the time I will confess that I thought

Spanish ambition: ambición, aspiración. brutes: bestias. charred: carbonizado. correctly: correctamente. decaying: pudrirse, descomponer, decaimiento, decaer, decadente, ruina, decadencia, deteriorarse, putrefacción. disinclination: aversión, desgana. encounter: encuentro, encontrar, encuentran, encuentren, encuentre, encuentras, encuentra, encontramos,

encontrad, encontráis, hallar. flags: banderas. grasping: avaro. mace: macis, maza, mazo. moralized: Moralizado. projected: proyectado. rags: los trapos. rejoined: replicado, reunido. restrained: contenido, refrenado, dueño de sí mismo, reprimido. revived: reavivado. rotting: pudrir, podrido, podriendo,

corrompiendo, pudriendo, envaneciendo, descomponiendo, macándose. semblance: semejanza. slake: apagar, reducirse por. snapped: chasqueado. tale: cuento. testified: atestiguado, Testificado. thirst: sed, la sed. warped: alabeado. whimper: gimoteo. wilderness: desierto.

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chiefly of the Philosophical Transactions and my own seventeen papers upon physical optics.% `Then, going up a broad staircase, we came to what may once have been a gallery of technical chemistry. And here I had not a little hope of useful discoveries. Except at one end where the roof had collapsed, this gallery was well preserved. I went eagerly to every unbroken case. And at last, in one of the really air-tight cases, I found a box of matches. Very eagerly I tried them. They were perfectly good. They were not even damp. I turned to Weena. “Dance,” I cried to her in her own tongue. For now I had a weapon indeed against the horrible creatures we feared. And so, in that derelict museum, upon the thick soft carpeting of dust, to Weena’s huge delight, I solemnly performed a kind of composite dance, whistling The Land of the Leal as cheerfully as I could. In part it was a modest cancan, in part a step dance, in part a skirt-dance (so far as my tailcoat permitted), and in part original. For I am naturally inventive, as you know. `Now, I still think that for this box of matches to have escaped the wear of time for immemorial years was a most strange, as for me it was a most fortunate thing. Yet, oddly enough, I found a far unlikelier substance, and that was camphor. I found it in a sealed jar, that by chance, I suppose, had been really hermetically sealed. I fancied at first that it was paraffin wax, and smashed the glass accordingly. But the odour of camphor was unmistakable. In the universal decay this volatile substance had chanced to survive, perhaps through many thousands of centuries. It reminded me of a sepia painting I had once seen done from the ink of a fossil Belemnite that must have perished and become fossilized millions of years ago. I was about to throw it away, but I remembered that it was inflammable and burned with a good bright flame--was, in fact, an excellent candle--and I put it in my pocket. I found no explosives, however, nor any means of breaking down the bronze doors. As yet my iron crowbar was the most helpful thing I had chanced upon. Nevertheless I left that gallery greatly elated. `I cannot tell you all the story of that long afternoon. It would require a great effort of memory to recall my explorations in at all the proper order. I remember

Spanish camphor: alcanfor. cancan: cancán. carpeting: tejido de alfombra, tapiz, alfombrar, alfombrando, alfombrado, alfombra. chemistry: química. composite: compuesto. crowbar: palanca. damp: húmedo, mojar, humedad. delight: deleitar, delicia, encantar. eagerly: ansiosamente, ávidamente. elated: regocijado.

escaped: escapado. feared: temido. fortunate: afortunado. fossil: fósil. fossilized: se fosilizado, petrificado, fosilizado. hermetically: herméticamente. immemorial: inmemorial. inflammable: inflamable. inventive: inventivo. paraffin: parafina. perished: perecido.

sealed: sellado, hermético, estanco. sepia: calamar. seventeen: diecisiete, diez y siete. smashed: golpeado. substance: sustancia, substancia. tail-coat: frac. unmistakable: inequívoco, inconfundible. volatile: volátil. wax: cera, crema para zapatos, cerumen, crecer, la cera. whistling: silbido.

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a long gallery of rusting stands of arms, and how I hesitated between my crowbar and a hatchet or a sword. I could not carry both, however, and my bar of iron promised best against the bronze gates. There were numbers of guns, pistols, and rifles. The most were masses of rust, but many were of some new metal, and still fairly sound. But any cartridges or powder there may once have been had rotted into dust. One corner I saw was charred and shattered; perhaps, I thought, by an explosion among the specimens. In another place was a vast array of idols--Polynesian, Mexican, Grecian, Phoenician, every country on earth I should think. And here, yielding to an irresistible impulse, I wrote my name upon the nose of a steatite monster from South America that particularly took my fancy.% `As the evening drew on, my interest waned. I went through gallery after gallery, dusty, silent, often ruinous, the exhibits sometimes mere heaps of rust and lignite, sometimes fresher. In one place I suddenly found myself near the model of a tin-mine, and then by the merest accident I discovered, in an air-tight case, two dynamite cartridges! I shouted “Eureka!” and smashed the case with joy. Then came a doubt. I hesitated. Then, selecting a little side gallery, I made my essay. I never felt such a disappointment as I did in waiting five, ten, fifteen minutes for an explosion that never came. Of course the things were dummies, as I might have guessed from their presence. I really believe that had they not been so, I should have rushed off incontinently and blown Sphinx, bronze doors, and (as it proved) my chances of finding the Time Machine, all together into nonexistence. `It was after that, I think, that we came to a little open court within the palace. It was turfed, and had three fruit- trees. So we rested and refreshed ourselves. Towards sunset I began to consider our position. Night was creeping upon us, and my inaccessible hiding-place had still to be found. But that troubled me very little now. I had in my possession a thing that was, perhaps, the best of all defences against the Morlocks--I had matches! I had the camphor in my pocket, too, if a blaze were needed. It seemed to me that the best thing we could do would be to pass the night in the open, protected by a fire. In the morning there

Spanish chances: posibilidades. disappointment: desilusión, decepción. dynamite: dinamita. essay: ensayo. explosion: explosión. fresher: estudiante de primer año, fresco, mechón, novato, nuevo, puro, tierno. guessed: adivinado. hatchet: hacha de mano, hacha. joy: alegría.

lignite: lignito. nonexistence: inexistencia. pocket: bolsillo, el bolsillo, bolsa, casilla. powder: polvos, polvo, empolvar, pólvora, el polvo. promised: prometido. protected: protegido. refreshed: refrescado. rotted: pudrido, descompuesto, envanecido, podrido, se macado, corrompido.

rusting: oxidar. selecting: seleccionando, invitación a recibir. shattered: estrellado. shouted: gritado. silent: silencioso, mudo, callado. stands: tenderetes, jaulas. steatite: esteatita. sword: espada. waned: menguado. yielding: cediendo, rindiendo, rentando.

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was %the getting of the Time Machine. Towards that, as yet, I had only my iron mace. But now, with my growing knowledge, I felt very differently towards those bronze doors. Up to this, I had refrained from forcing them, largely because of the mystery on the other side. They had never impressed me as being very strong, and I hoped to find my bar of iron not altogether inadequate for the work.

Spanish altogether: todo, en conjunto. bar: barra, bar, salvo, cercar, taberna, obstrucción, impedir, impidan, cercad, cercáis, cercamos. bronze: bronce, bronceado, broncear. differently: diferentemente, de otra manera. doors: las puertas. forcing: compulsión. growing: creciendo, aumentando, creciente, crecimiento. hoped: esperado.

impressed: impresionado. inadequate: inadecuado, insuficiente. iron: hierro, planchar, plancha, de hierro, el hierro, fierro. knowledge: conocimiento, saber. largely: ampliamente. mace: macis, maza, mazo. mystery: misterio, el misterio. refrained: Refrenado. strong: fuerte, intenso, marcado.

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CHAPTER IX

`We%emerged from the palace while the sun was still in part above the horizon. I was determined to reach the White Sphinx early the next morning, and ere the dusk I purposed pushing through the woods that had stopped me on the previous journey. My plan was to go as far as possible that night, and then, building a fire, to sleep in the protection of its glare. Accordingly, as we went along I gathered any sticks or dried grass I saw, and presently had my arms full of such litter. Thus loaded, our progress was slower than I had anticipated, and besides Weena was tired. And I began to suffer from sleepiness too; so that it was full night before we reached the wood. Upon the shrubby hill of its edge Weena would have stopped, fearing the darkness before us; but a singular sense of impending calamity, that should indeed have served me as a warning, drove me onward. I had been without sleep for a night and two days, and I was feverish and irritable. I felt sleep coming upon me, and the Morlocks with it. `While we hesitated, among the black bushes behind us, and dim against their blackness, I saw three crouching figures. There was scrub and long grass all about us, and I did not feel safe from their insidious approach. The forest, I calculated, was rather less than a mile across. If we could get through it to the bare hill-side, there, as it seemed to me, was an altogether safer resting-place; I thought that with my matches and my camphor I could contrive to keep my path illuminated through the woods. Yet it was evident that if I was to flourish

Spanish accordingly: en consecuencia, de acuerdo con, por consiguiente. anticipated: previsto. besides: además, demás, además de, amén de. calamity: calamidad. calculated: calculado, computado. dried: seco. drove: manada. ere: antes de. evident: evidente. fearing: por miedo a, por temor a,

temer. feverish: febril, afiebrado. gathered: reunido, reunió. horizon: horizonte. impending: inminente. insidious: insidioso, astuto. irritable: irritable. litter: camilla, basura, andas, camada. loaded: cargado. mile: legua, milla, la milla. onward: adelante, hacia adelante. palace: palacio.

scrub: matorral, fregado, maleza. shrubby: arbustivo, lleno de arbustos. singular: original, excepcional, único, individual, raro, singularísimo, solo, extraño. sleepiness: somnolencia, sueño. slower: mas despacio. sticks: leño, vara, palillo, adherir, batuta, palo, pegar, ramitas, punzar, picar. tired: cansado. woods: bosque.

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matches with my hands I should have to abandon my firewood; so, rather reluctantly, I put it down. And then it came into my head that I would amaze our friends behind by lighting it. I was to discover the atrocious folly of this proceeding, but it came to my mind as an ingenious move for covering our retreat.% `I don’t know if you have ever thought what a rare thing flame must be in the absence of man and in a temperate climate. The sun’s heat is rarely strong enough to burn, even when it is focused by dewdrops, as is sometimes the case in more tropical districts. Lightning may blast and blacken, but it rarely gives rise to widespread fire. Decaying vegetation may occasionally smoulder with the heat of its fermentation, but this rarely results in flame. In this decadence, too, the art of fire-making had been forgotten on the earth. The red tongues that went licking up my heap of wood were an altogether new and strange thing to Weena. `She wanted to run to it and play with it. I believe she would have cast herself into it had I not restrained her. But I caught her up, and in spite of her struggles, plunged boldly before me into the wood. For a little way the glare of my fire lit the path. Looking back presently, I could see, through the crowded stems, that from my heap of sticks the blaze had spread to some bushes adjacent, and a curved line of fire was creeping up the grass of the hill. I laughed at that, and turned again to the dark trees before me. It was very black, and Weena clung to me convulsively, but there was still, as my eyes grew accustomed to the darkness, sufficient light for me to avoid the stems. Overhead it was simply black, except where a gap of remote blue sky shone down upon us here and there. I struck none of my matches because I had no hand free. Upon my left arm I carried my little one, in my right hand I had my iron bar. `For some way I heard nothing but the crackling twigs under my feet, the faint rustle of the breeze above, and my own breathing and the throb of the blood-vessels in my ears. Then I seemed to know of a pattering about me. I pushed on grimly. The pattering grew more distinct, and then I caught the same queer sound and voices I had heard in the Under-world. There were evidently

Spanish abandon: abandonar, abandonen, abandona, abandonad, abandonáis, abandonamos, abandonan, abandonas, abandone, abandono, desamparar. accustomed: acostumbrado. adjacent: adyacente, contiguo, vecino, colindante. amaze: asombrar, asombramos, asombren, asombran, asombráis, asombrad, asombra, asombras, asombre, asombro, maravillar.

atrocious: atroz. blacken: teñir de negro, ennegrecer. blast: explosión. crackling: crepitaciones. crowded: atestado. curved: curvo, encorvado. decadence: decadencia. fermentation: fermentación. firewood: leña. focused: enfocado. grimly: severamente, cruelmente. ingenious: ingenioso.

licking: lamer, lengüetada. overhead: arriba, gastos generales. plunged: hundido. reluctantly: renuentemente, reaciamente, desganadamente, a regañadientes, de mala gana. rustle: susurro. smoulder: arder sin llama. stems: vástagos. temperate: templado, moderado. tongues: lenguas. vegetation: vegetación.

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several of the Morlocks, and they were closing in upon me. Indeed, in another minute I felt a tug at my coat, then something at my arm. And Weena shivered violently, and became quite still.% `It was time for a match. But to get one I must put her down. I did so, and, as I fumbled with my pocket, a struggle began in the darkness about my knees, perfectly silent on her part and with the same peculiar cooing sounds from the Morlocks. Soft little hands, too, were creeping over my coat and back, touching even my neck. Then the match scratched and fizzed. I held it flaring, and saw the white backs of the Morlocks in flight amid the trees. I hastily took a lump of camphor from my pocket, and prepared to light is as soon as the match should wane. Then I looked at Weena. She was lying clutching my feet and quite motionless, with her face to the ground. With a sudden fright I stooped to her. She seemed scarcely to breathe. I lit the block of camphor and flung it to the ground, and as it split and flared up and drove back the Morlocks and the shadows, I knelt down and lifted her. The wood behind seemed full of the stir and murmur of a great company! `She seemed to have fainted. I put her carefully upon my shoulder and rose to push on, and then there came a horrible realization. In manoeuvring with my matches and Weena, I had turned myself about several times, and now I had not the faintest idea in what direction lay my path. For all I knew, I might be facing back towards the Palace of Green Porcelain. I found myself in a cold sweat. I had to think rapidly what to do. I determined to build a fire and encamp where we were. I put Weena, still motionless, down upon a turfy bole, and very hastily, as my first lump of camphor waned, I began collecting sticks and leaves. Here and there out of the darkness round me the Morlocks’ eyes shone like carbuncles. `The camphor flickered and went out. I lit a match, and as I did so, two white forms that had been approaching Weena dashed hastily away. One was so blinded by the light that he came straight for me, and I felt his bones grind under the blow of my fist. He gave a whoop of dismay, staggered a little way, and fell down. I lit another piece of camphor, and went on gathering my bonfire.

Spanish backs: espaldas. blinded: deslumbrado. bole: tronco. bones: huesos, los huesos. breathe: respirar, respira, respiren, respiras, respiran, respiramos, respirad, respiráis, respire, respiro. collecting: recogiendo, cobrando, coleccionando, colectivo. encamp: acampamos, acampen, acampe, acampo, acampáis, acampad, acampa, acampan,

acampas, hacer acampar, acamparse. fainted: pasmado, desfallecido, amortecido, desmayado. fizzed: burbujeado. flared: acampanado. fright: espanto, susto, miedo, angustia, terror. fumbled: chapuceado, manoseado. grind: moler. knelt: pret y pp de kneel, Arrodillado. lifted: levantado. lump: pedazo, masa, terrón, pieza,

bola, tela, grumo, bulto, chichón, pella. manoeuvring: maniobra. motionless: inmóvil, estático. scarcely: apenas, escasamente. scratched: rasguñado. stooped: rebajado. sweat: sudor, sudar, transpirar. tug: tirar, remolcador, tirón. whoop: dar alaridos, echar cana, alarido, divertirse tontamente, gritar, grito de alegría, grito, grite.

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Presently I noticed how dry was some of the foliage above me, for since my arrival on the Time Machine, a matter of a week, no rain had fallen. So, instead of casting about among the trees for fallen twigs, I began leaping up and dragging down branches. Very soon I had a choking smoky fire of green wood and dry sticks, and could economize my camphor. Then I turned to where Weena lay beside my iron mace. I tried what I could to revive her, but she lay like one dead. I could not even satisfy myself whether or not she breathed.% `Now, the smoke of the fire beat over towards me, and it must have made me heavy of a sudden. Moreover, the vapour of camphor was in the air. My fire would not need replenishing for an hour or so. I felt very weary after my exertion, and sat down. The wood, too, was full of a slumbrous murmur that I did not understand. I seemed just to nod and open my eyes. But all was dark, and the Morlocks had their hands upon me. Flinging off their clinging fingers I hastily felt in my pocket for the match-box, and--it had gone! Then they gripped and closed with me again. In a moment I knew what had happened. I had slept, and my fire had gone out, and the bitterness of death came over my soul. The forest seemed full of the smell of burning wood. I was caught by the neck, by the hair, by the arms, and pulled down. It was indescribably horrible in the darkness to feel all these soft creatures heaped upon me. I felt as if I was in a monstrous spider’s web. I was overpowered, and went down. I felt little teeth nipping at my neck. I rolled over, and as I did so my hand came against my iron lever. It gave me strength. I struggled up, shaking the human rats from me, and, holding the bar short, I thrust where I judged their faces might be. I could feel the succulent giving of flesh and bone under my blows, and for a moment I was free. `The strange exultation that so often seems to accompany hard fighting came upon me. I knew that both I and Weena were lost, but I determined to make the Morlocks pay for their meat. I stood with my back to a tree, swinging the iron bar before me. The whole wood was full of the stir and cries of them. A minute passed. Their voices seemed to rise to a higher pitch of excitement, and their movements grew faster. Yet none came within reach. I stood glaring at the

Spanish accompany: acompañar, acompañen, acompaña, acompaño, acompañas, acompañan, acompañamos, acompañáis, acompañad, acompañe. bitterness: amargura, rencor, amargor. blows: golpes. bone: hueso, el hueso, deshuesar. burning: quemadura, ardiente. casting: fundición, colada, vaciado. choking: la obstrucción aérea, estrangular, atragantamiento, ahogarse.

clinging: ceñido. exertion: esfuerzo. exultation: exultación. foliage: follaje. heaped: amontonado. monstrous: monstruoso. nipping: mordaz, pellizcante, pellizcar. nod: inclinación, cabecear. overpowered: predominado, abrumado. replenishing: repostando, reponiendo,

rellenando, llenando, reaprovisionando. rolled: arrollado. shaking: sacudiendo, sacudida. smoky: humeante. struggled: luchado. succulent: zumoso, carnoso, suculento, jugoso, planta carnosa, sabroso, suculenta. thrust: empujar, empuje, empujón. web: telaraña, red, tejido tela telaraña enredo red trama.

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blackness. Then suddenly came hope. What if the Morlocks were afraid? And close on the heels of that came a strange thing. The darkness seemed to grow luminous. Very dimly I began to see the Morlocks about me--three battered at my feet--and then I recognized, with incredulous surprise, that the others were running, in an incessant stream, as it seemed, from behind me, and away through the wood in front. And their backs seemed no longer white, but reddish. As I stood agape, I saw a little red spark go drifting across a gap of starlight between the branches, and vanish. And at that I understood the smell of burning wood, the slumbrous murmur that was growing now into a gusty roar, the red glow, and the Morlocks’ flight.% `Stepping out from behind my tree and looking back, I saw, through the black pillars of the nearer trees, the flames of the burning forest. It was my first fire coming after me. With that I looked for Weena, but she was gone. The hissing and crackling behind me, the explosive thud as each fresh tree burst into flame, left little time for reflection. My iron bar still gripped, I followed in the Morlocks’ path. It was a close race. Once the flames crept forward so swiftly on my right as I ran that I was outflanked and had to strike off to the left. But at last I emerged upon a small open space, and as I did so, a Morlock came blundering towards me, and past me, and went on straight into the fire! `And now I was to see the most weird and horrible thing, I think, of all that I beheld in that future age. This whole space was as bright as day with the reflection of the fire. In the centre was a hillock or tumulus, surmounted by a scorched hawthorn. Beyond this was another arm of the burning forest, with yellow tongues already writhing from it, completely encircling the space with a fence of fire. Upon the hill-side were some thirty or forty Morlocks, dazzled by the light and heat, and blundering hither and thither against each other in their bewilderment. At first I did not realize their blindness, and struck furiously at them with my bar, in a frenzy of fear, as they approached me, killing one and crippling several more. But when I had watched the gestures of one of them groping under the hawthorn against the red sky, and heard their moans, I was

Spanish agape: ágape, boquiabierto. battered: abollado. crippling: lisiar, herida. darkness: tinieblas, oscuridad, la oscuridad. encircling: rodeando. explosive: explosivo, detonante. fence: reja, valla, cerca, vallado, obstrucción, la cerca, cercado. gap: brecha, laguna, intervalo, huelgo. hawthorn: espino, espino blanco, majuelo.

hillock: montículo. incessant: incesante. killing: matanza. outflanked: flanqueado. realize: comprender, entender, darse cuenta de, entended, entiendo, entiendes, entienden, entiende, entiendan, entienda, entendemos. reddish: rojizo. roar: rugido, bramar, rugir, estruendo. scorched: achicharró, asurado. smell: oler, olor, apestar, oler mal,

olfatear, olfato. spark: chispa, echar chispas, chisme. starlight: luz de las estrellas. stream: arroyo, corriente, flujo, chorro, riachuelo, secuencia. surmounted: vencido, superado. swiftly: de prisa, pronto, rápidamente. tumulus: túmulo. weird: raro, misterioso, extraño. writhing: retorcer, retorcimiento, retorciendo. yellow: amarillo.

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assured of their absolute helplessness and misery in the glare, and I struck no more of them. `Yet every now and then one would come straight towards me, setting loose a quivering horror that made me quick to elude him. At one time the flames died down somewhat, and I feared the foul creatures would presently be able to see me. I was thinking of beginning the fight by killing some of them before this should happen; but the fire burst out again brightly, and I stayed my hand. I walked about the hill among them and avoided them, looking for some trace of Weena. But Weena was gone.% `At last I sat down on the summit of the hillock, and watched this strange incredible company of blind things groping to and fro, and making uncanny noises to each other, as the glare of the fire beat on them. The coiling uprush of smoke streamed across the sky, and through the rare tatters of that red canopy, remote as though they belonged to another universe, shone the little stars. Two or three Morlocks came blundering into me, and I drove them off with blows of my fists, trembling as I did so. `For the most part of that night I was persuaded it was a nightmare. I bit myself and screamed in a passionate desire to awake. I beat the ground with my hands, and got up and sat down again, and wandered here and there, and again sat down. Then I would fall to rubbing my eyes and calling upon God to let me awake. Thrice I saw Morlocks put their heads down in a kind of agony and rush into the flames. But, at last, above the subsiding red of the fire, above the streaming masses of black smoke and the whitening and blackening tree stumps, and the diminishing numbers of these dim creatures, came the white light of the day. `I searched again for traces of Weena, but there were none. It was plain that they had left her poor little body in the forest. I cannot describe how it relieved me to think that it had escaped the awful fate to which it seemed destined. As I thought of that, I was almost moved to begin a massacre of the helpless abominations about me, but I contained myself. The hillock, as I have said, was a kind of island in the forest. From its summit I could now make out through a

Spanish abominations: abominaciones. avoided: Evitado, eludido, rehuido. awake: despierto, despertar, despertarse. belonged: Pertenecido. blackening: ennegreciendo, embetunando, ennegrecimiento, ennegrecer. canopy: dosel. coiling: enroscadura, enrollar. diminishing: disminuyendo. elude: eludir, eludid, eludo, eludimos,

eludes, eluden, elude, eludan, eludís, eluda. helplessness: impotencia. incredible: increíble. massacre: masacre, matanza. misery: pobreza, miseria, indigencia. quivering: estremecimiento, vibrante, vibración, tembloroso, vibrar, temblor, parpadeante, estremecerse, carcaj, aljaba, temblador. relieved: aliviado, relevado, desahogado.

screamed: chillado. searched: buscado. streamed: corrido. streaming: flujo, difusión de video digital en tiempo real, efecto de canalización, correr, transferencia de datos desde el disco duro. stumps: desconcertado. subsiding: menguando, bajar. tatters: andrajos. uncanny: misterioso. whitening: blanqueando.

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haze of smoke the Palace of Green Porcelain, and from that I could get my bearings for the White Sphinx. And so, leaving the remnant of these damned souls still going hither and thither and moaning, as the day grew clearer, I tied some grass about my feet and limped on across smoking ashes and among black stems, that still pulsated internally with fire, towards the hiding-place of the Time Machine. I walked slowly, for I was almost exhausted, as well as lame, and I felt the intensest wretchedness for the horrible death of little Weena. It seemed an overwhelming calamity. Now, in this old familiar room, it is more like the sorrow of a dream than an actual loss. But that morning it left me absolutely lonely again--terribly alone. I began to think of this house of mine, of this fireside, of some of you, and with such thoughts came a longing that was pain.% `But as I walked over the smoking ashes under the bright morning sky, I made a discovery. In my trouser pocket were still some loose matches. The box must have leaked before it was lost.

Spanish alone: solo, único, solamente, sólo. ashes: cenizas. bearings: cojinetes, rumbos, rodamientos. clearer: aclarar, limpio, liquidador, claro, borrar, eliminar, puro, vaciar, el que despeja, despejado, anular. discovery: descubrimiento. dream: soñar, sueño, ensueño. exhausted: agotado, exhausto. familiar: conocido. fireside: hogar, chimenea.

grass: hierba, yerba, césped, la hierba, pasto. grew: creció, pret de grow, crecida. haze: bruma, calina, neblina, la bruma. internally: internamente. leaked: Salido. limped: Cojeado. lonely: solitario, solo. longing: anhelo, anhelante. moaning: gemiendo. overwhelming: abrumador, aplastante, enterrando, contundente.

pulsated: pulsado. remnant: remanente. sky: cielo, el cielo. smoke: fumar, fumo, fume, fumas, fuman, fumamos, fumáis, fumad, fuma, fumen, humo. smoking: fumando, humeando, fumar, ahumar. sorrow: tristeza, pena, dolor. thoughts: pensamientos. tied: atado. trouser: pantalón, de pantalón.

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CHAPTER X

`About%eight or nine in the morning I came to the same seat of yellow metal from which I had viewed the world upon the evening of my arrival. I thought of my hasty conclusions upon that evening and could not refrain from laughing bitterly at my confidence. Here was the same beautiful scene, the same abundant foliage, the same splendid palaces and magnificent ruins, the same silver river running between its fertile banks. The gay robes of the beautiful people moved hither and thither among the trees. Some were bathing in exactly the place where I had saved Weena, and that suddenly gave me a keen stab of pain. And like blots upon the landscape rose the cupolas above the ways to the Under-world. I understood now what all the beauty of the Over- world people covered. Very pleasant was their day, as pleasant as the day of the cattle in the field. Like the cattle, they knew of no enemies and provided against no needs. And their end was the same. `I grieved to think how brief the dream of the human intellect had been. It had committed suicide. It had set itself steadfastly towards comfort and ease, a balanced society with security and permanency as its watchword, it had attained its hopes--to come to this at last. Once, life and property must have reached almost absolute safety. The rich had been assured of his wealth and comfort, the toiler assured of his life and work. No doubt in that perfect world there had

Spanish absolute: absoluto, completo, cabal. arrival: llegada, aprovisionamiento, arribo, venida. banks: bancos. bitterly: amargamente. brief: breve, corto, informe, conciso. cattle: ganado, ganado vacuno. committed: cometido, comprometido. confidence: confianza, confidencia. covered: cubierto, cubierto de verdor. doubt: dudar, duda. fertile: fértil, fecundo.

gay: alegre, homosexual. grieved: afligido, apenado. keen: perspicaz, afilado. landscape: paisaje, panorama, horizontal. laughing: riendo. magnificent: magnífico, lucido. metal: metal, metálico. perfect: perfecto, perfeccionar. permanency: permanencia, puesto fijo, algo definitivo. pleasant: agradable, simpático,

placentero, grato. rich: rico. saved: guardado, salvado, ahorrado. scene: escena, escenario. seat: asiento, el asiento, sitio, sede, asentar, sentar. silver: plata, la plata, plateado. stab: picar, apuñalar, puñalada. toiler: trabajador. trees: árboles. viewed: visto. wealth: riqueza, abundancia, caudal.

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been no unemployed problem, no social question left unsolved. And a great quiet had followed.% `It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble. An animal perfectly in harmony with its environment is a perfect mechanism. Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no change and no need of change. Only those animals partake of intelligence that have to meet a huge variety of needs and dangers. `So, as I see it, the Upper-world man had drifted towards his feeble prettiness, and the Under-world to mere mechanical industry. But that perfect state had lacked one thing even for mechanical perfection--absolute permanency. Apparently as time went on, the feeding of the Under-world, however it was effected, had become disjointed. Mother Necessity, who had been staved off for a few thousand years, came back again, and she began below. The Under-world being in contact with machinery, which, however perfect, still needs some little thought outside habit, had probably retained perforce rather more initiative, if less of every other human character, than the Upper. And when other meat failed them, they turned to what old habit had hitherto forbidden. So I say I saw it in my last view of the world of Eight Hundred and Two Thousand Seven Hundred and One. It may be as wrong an explanation as mortal wit could invent. It is how the thing shaped itself to me, and as that I give it to you. `After the fatigues, excitements, and terrors of the past days, and in spite of my grief, this seat and the tranquil view and the warm sunlight were very pleasant. I was very tired and sleepy, and soon my theorizing passed into dozing. Catching myself at that, I took my own hint, and spreading myself out upon the turf I had a long and refreshing sleep. `I awoke a little before sunsetting. I now felt safe against being caught napping by the Morlocks, and, stretching myself, I came on down the hill towards the White Sphinx. I had my crowbar in one hand, and the other hand played with the matches in my pocket.

Spanish awoke: pret y pp de awake. disjointed: desarticulado. dozing: dormitando. drifted: llevado. feeding: alimentando, alimentación, cebando. forbidden: prohibido. grief: pesar, dolor. habit: costumbre, hábito, resabio, mala costumbre. intellectual: intelectual. invent: inventar, invente, invento,

inventas, inventen, inventan, inventamos, inventáis, inventad, inventa. machinery: maquinaria. mortal: mortal. napping: perchado, dormitar. partake: compartir, compartan, comparto, compartís, compartimos, compartid, compartes, comparte, comparta, comparten. refreshing: refrescando, refrescante. retained: retenido.

sleepy: soñoliento. stretching: estirar, extensión, estiramiento, estirado, ensanchamiento. theorizing: teorizando. tranquil: tranquilo, sosegado. unemployed: desempleado, parado, parados, desempleo. unsolved: no resuelto. useless: inútil, inservible. versatility: versatilidad. wit: ingenio.

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`And now came a most unexpected thing. As I approached the pedestal of the sphinx I found the bronze valves were open. They had slid down into grooves.% `At that I stopped short before them, hesitating to enter. `Within was a small apartment, and on a raised place in the corner of this was the Time Machine. I had the small levers in my pocket. So here, after all my elaborate preparations for the siege of the White Sphinx, was a meek surrender. I threw my iron bar away, almost sorry not to use it. `A sudden thought came into my head as I stooped towards the portal. For once, at least, I grasped the mental operations of the Morlocks. Suppressing a strong inclination to laugh, I stepped through the bronze frame and up to the Time Machine. I was surprised to find it had been carefully oiled and cleaned. I have suspected since that the Morlocks had even partially taken it to pieces while trying in their dim way to grasp its purpose. `Now as I stood and examined it, finding a pleasure in the mere touch of the contrivance, the thing I had expected happened. The bronze panels suddenly slid up and struck the frame with a clang. I was in the dark--trapped. So the Morlocks thought. At that I chuckled gleefully. `I could already hear their murmuring laughter as they came towards me. Very calmly I tried to strike the match. I had only to fix on the levers and depart then like a ghost. But I had overlooked one little thing. The matches were of that abominable kind that light only on the box. `You may imagine how all my calm vanished. The little brutes were close upon me. One touched me. I made a sweeping blow in the dark at them with the levers, and began to scramble into the saddle of the machine. Then came one hand upon me and then another. Then I had simply to fight against their persistent fingers for my levers, and at the same time feel for the studs over which these fitted. One, indeed, they almost got away from me. As it slipped from my hand, I had to butt in the dark with my head--I could hear the

Spanish abominable: abominable, horrible, horroroso. apartment: apartamento, piso, cuarto. butt: culata, colilla, extremo, tope. calmly: calmadamente, serenamente. clang: sonar, sonido metálico, sonido metálico resonante, resonar, estruendo, hacer sonar, hacer estruendo. cleaned: limpiado. depart: salir, salís, salgo, salga, sales, salen, saled, sale, salgan, salimos, sal.

elaborate: elaborar, detallado, elaborado. fix: fijar, fijad, fijáis, fijamos, fijan, fijas, fijen, fije, fijo, fija, reparar. gleefully: gozosamente, alegremente. grasp: agarrar, asir, coger, empuñar, asimiento, aferrar. inclination: inclinación, tentación. meek: manso, paciente. murmuring: murmurar. oiled: aceitado. panels: Tableros, paneles.

partially: parcialmente, en parte. persistent: persistente, perseverante. preparations: preparativos. scramble: cifrar. siege: sitio, asedio. slid: pret y pp de slide. studs: columnas, tacos. surrender: capitular, rendirse, rendición, renuncia, entregar, entrega, cesión. sweeping: barrido. unexpected: inesperado, imprevisto.

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Morlock’s skull ring--to recover it. It was a nearer thing than the fight in the forest, I think, this last scramble.% `But at last the lever was fitted and pulled over. The clinging hands slipped from me. The darkness presently fell from my eyes. I found myself in the same grey light and tumult I have already described.

Spanish clinging: ceñido. darkness: tinieblas, oscuridad, la oscuridad. described: descrito. fell: talar, derribar. fight: luchar, pelear, lucha, combate, pelea, batallar, riña, combatir. fitted: en buen salud, ajustarse, conveniente, capacitado, ataque, apto, convulsión, capaz, encajar, entallar, instalada. forest: bosque, el bosque, selva.

grey: gris, pardo. hands: las manos. lever: palanca, levantar. light: luz, claro, ligero, encender, alumbrar, débil, liviano, la luz, radiación visible, lámpara, iluminar. myself: yo mismo. presently: por ahora. pulled: tirado, halado. recover: recuperar, sanar, recupere, sanad, recuperad, recuperáis, recuperamos, recuperan, recuperas,

recuperen, recupero. skull: cráneo, calavera. slipped: resbalado. tumult: tumulto, ruido.

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CHAPTER XI

`I%have already told you of the sickness and confusion that comes with time travelling. And this time I was not seated properly in the saddle, but sideways and in an unstable fashion. For an indefinite time I clung to the machine as it swayed and vibrated, quite unheeding how I went, and when I brought myself to look at the dials again I was amazed to find where I had arrived. One dial records days, and another thousands of days, another millions of days, and another thousands of millions. Now, instead of reversing the levers, I had pulled them over so as to go forward with them, and when I came to look at these indicators I found that the thousands hand was sweeping round as fast as the seconds hand of a watch--into futurity. `As I drove on, a peculiar change crept over the appearance of things. The palpitating greyness grew darker; then--though I was still travelling with prodigious velocity--the blinking succession of day and night, which was usually indicative of a slower pace, returned, and grew more and more marked. This puzzled me very much at first. The alternations of night and day grew slower and slower, and so did the passage of the sun across the sky, until they seemed to stretch through centuries. At last a steady twilight brooded over the earth, a twilight only broken now and then when a comet glared across the darkling sky. The band of light that had indicated the sun had long since disappeared; for the sun had ceased to set--it simply rose and fell in the west,

Spanish amazed: asombrado, maravillado, pasmado, atónito. arrived: llegado. band: banda, venda, cinta. brooded: Empollado. centuries: siglos. comet: cometa. dial: marcar, cuadrante, esfera, disco. disappeared: desaparecido. fashion: moda. indicative: indicativo. indicators: indicadores.

instead: en cambio. machine: máquina. marked: marcado. millions: millones, millón. pace: paso. palpitating: palpitando. passage: paso, pasillo, pasaje. prodigious: prodigioso. properly: correctamente, como es debido, debidamente. records: archivos, archivo, registros. red: rojo, tinto, encarnado.

returned: devuelto. reversing: reversión, Invertir, inversión. rose: rosa, la rosa. sickness: enfermedad. steady: estable. stretch: estiramiento, estirar, extender, tramo. succession: sucesión. sun: sol, el sol. thousands: miles. vibrated: vibrado.

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and grew ever broader and more red. All trace of the moon had vanished. The circling of the stars, growing slower and slower, had given place to creeping points of light. At last, some time before I stopped, the sun, red and very large, halted motionless upon the horizon, a vast dome glowing with a dull heat, and now and then suffering a momentary extinction. At one time it had for a little while glowed more brilliantly again, but it speedily reverted to its sullen red heat. I perceived by this slowing down of its rising and setting that the work of the tidal drag was done. The earth had come to rest with one face to the sun, even as in our own time the moon faces the earth. Very cautiously, for I remembered my former headlong fall, I began to reverse my motion. Slower and slower went the circling hands until the thousands one seemed motionless and the daily one was no longer a mere mist upon its scale. Still slower, until the dim outlines of a desolate beach grew visible.% `I stopped very gently and sat upon the Time Machine, looking round. The sky was no longer blue. North-eastward it was inky black, and out of the blackness shone brightly and steadily the pale white stars. Overhead it was a deep Indian red and starless, and south-eastward it grew brighter to a glowing scarlet where, cut by the horizon, lay the huge hull of the sun, red and motionless. The rocks about me were of a harsh reddish colour, and all the trace of life that I could see at first was the intensely green vegetation that covered every projecting point on their south-eastern face. It was the same rich green that one sees on forest moss or on the lichen in caves: plants which like these grow in a perpetual twilight. `The machine was standing on a sloping beach. The sea stretched away to the south-west, to rise into a sharp bright horizon against the wan sky. There were no breakers and no waves, for not a breath of wind was stirring. Only a slight oily swell rose and fell like a gentle breathing, and showed that the eternal sea was still moving and living. And along the margin where the water sometimes broke was a thick incrustation of salt--pink under the lurid sky. There was a sense of oppression in my head, and I noticed that I was breathing

Spanish cautiously: cautamente. dome: cúpula, domo. drag: arrastrar, arrastro, arrastrad, arrastráis, arrastramos, arrastran, arrastras, arrastren, arrastra, arrastre, remolcar. eternal: eterno. glowed: resplandecido. glowing: resplandeciente. hull: casco, cáscara. incrustation: incrustación. intensely: intensamente.

lichen: liquen. lurid: agudo, afilado, pavoroso. margin: margen, cobertura. mist: niebla, neblina, bruma. momentary: momentáneo. oily: aceitoso, grasiento. oppression: opresión. outlines: contornos. perpetual: perpetuo. reverse: inverso, reverso, marcha atrás, revés, parte trasera, al contrario, al revés.

reverted: revertido. scarlet: escarlata. slowing: deceleración. south-eastern: del sudeste. south-eastward: del sudeste, hacia el sudeste. starless: sin estrellas. stretched: estirado. sullen: malhumorado, triste. swell: hincharse, oleaje, hinchar. tidal: de la marea. waves: olas.

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very fast. The sensation reminded me of my only experience of mountaineering, and from that I judged the air to be more rarefied than it is now.% `Far away up the desolate slope I heard a harsh scream, and saw a thing like a huge white butterfly go slanting and flittering up into the sky and, circling, disappear over some low hillocks beyond. The sound of its voice was so dismal that I shivered and seated myself more firmly upon the machine. Looking round me again, I saw that, quite near, what I had taken to be a reddish mass of rock was moving slowly towards me. Then I saw the thing was really a monstrous crab-like creature. Can you imagine a crab as large as yonder table, with its many legs moving slowly and uncertainly, its big claws swaying, its long antennae, like carters’ whips, waving and feeling, and its stalked eyes gleaming at you on either side of its metallic front? Its back was corrugated and ornamented with ungainly bosses, and a greenish incrustation blotched it here and there. I could see the many palps of its complicated mouth flickering and feeling as it moved. `As I stared at this sinister apparition crawling towards me, I felt a tickling on my cheek as though a fly had lighted there. I tried to brush it away with my hand, but in a moment it returned, and almost immediately came another by my ear. I struck at this, and caught something threadlike. It was drawn swiftly out of my hand. With a frightful qualm, I turned, and I saw that I had grasped the antenna of another monster crab that stood just behind me. Its evil eyes were wriggling on their stalks, its mouth was all alive with appetite, and its vast ungainly claws, smeared with an algal slime, were descending upon me. In a moment my hand was on the lever, and I had placed a month between myself and these monsters. But I was still on the same beach, and I saw them distinctly now as soon as I stopped. Dozens of them seemed to be crawling here and there, in the sombre light, among the foliated sheets of intense green. `I cannot convey the sense of abominable desolation that hung over the world. The red eastern sky, the northward blackness, the salt Dead Sea, the stony beach crawling with these foul, slow-stirring monsters, the uniform poisonous-looking green of the lichenous plants, the thin air that hurts one’s

Spanish antenna: antena. antennae: antena. apparition: aparición. blotched: cubierto de manchas, enrojecido. butterfly: mariposa, la mariposa. claws: garras. corrugated: ondulado, corrugado. crab: cangrejo, el cangrejo. crawling: arrastre. descending: descendiendo, bajando, descendente, descender,

descendiente. desolation: desolación. dismal: triste, lúgubre, deplorable, horroroso, afligido, horrible, común, menesteroso, miserable, necesitado, pobre. gleaming: brillar. greenish: verdoso. mountaineering: alpinismo. northward: hacia el norte. qualm: náusea. rarefied: rarefacido, refinado,

rarificarse, rarificar, rarificado, rarefacer, enrarecido. sinister: siniestro. slanting: inclinado, sesgo. slime: limo, barro, légamo, baba. stony: pedregoso. threadlike: filiforma. tickling: cosquillas. uncertainly: inciertamente. ungainly: desgarbado. whips: zurriagar. yonder: allí, ahí, aquel.

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lungs: all contributed to an appalling effect. I moved on a hundred years, and there was the same red sun--a little larger, a little duller--the same dying sea, the same chill air, and the same crowd of earthy crustacea creeping in and out among the green weed and the red rocks. And in the westward sky, I saw a curved pale line like a vast new moon.% `So I travelled, stopping ever and again, in great strides of a thousand years or more, drawn on by the mystery of the earth’s fate, watching with a strange fascination the sun grow larger and duller in the westward sky, and the life of the old earth ebb away. At last, more than thirty million years hence, the huge red-hot dome of the sun had come to obscure nearly a tenth part of the darkling heavens. Then I stopped once more, for the crawling multitude of crabs had disappeared, and the red beach, save for its livid green liverworts and lichens, seemed lifeless. And now it was flecked with white. A bitter cold assailed me. Rare white flakes ever and again came eddying down. To the north-eastward, the glare of snow lay under the starlight of the sable sky and I could see an undulating crest of hillocks pinkish white. There were fringes of ice along the sea margin, with drifting masses further out; but the main expanse of that salt ocean, all bloody under the eternal sunset, was still unfrozen. `I looked about me to see if any traces of animal life remained. A certain indefinable apprehension still kept me in the saddle of the machine. But I saw nothing moving, in earth or sky or sea. The green slime on the rocks alone testified that life was not extinct. A shallow sandbank had appeared in the sea and the water had receded from the beach. I fancied I saw some black object flopping about upon this bank, but it became motionless as I looked at it, and I judged that my eye had been deceived, and that the black object was merely a rock. The stars in the sky were intensely bright and seemed to me to twinkle very little. `Suddenly I noticed that the circular westward outline of the sun had changed; that a concavity, a bay, had appeared in the curve. I saw this grow larger. For a minute perhaps I stared aghast at this blackness that was creeping over the day, and then I realized that an eclipse was beginning. Either the moon

Spanish aghast: espantado. appalling: espantoso, aterrador. assailed: Asaltado. concavity: concavidad. contributed: Contribuido. crabs: cangrejos. crustacea: crustáceos. deceived: engañado. earthy: terroso. ebb: menguar, reflujo. eclipse: eclipse. expanse: extensión.

fascination: fascinación. flecked: mancha, moteado, motear. fringes: máximos y mínimos de interferencia. indefinable: indefinible. lifeless: inanimado. liverworts: hepáticas. livid: lívido. lungs: pulmones, livianos. multitude: multitud, la multitud. obscure: oscuro, disimular, disimulan, disimulas, disimulo, disimule,

disimula, disimuláis, disimulamos, disimulad, disimulen. red-hot: candente, salchicha, vigoroso. sable: marta cebellina, negro, marta. sandbank: banco de arena. tenth: décimo. twinkle: centellear, centellee, centelleo, centellea, centelleen, centelleas, centellean, centelleamos, centelleáis, centellead. unfrozen: descongelado. westward: hacia el oeste.

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or the planet Mercury was passing across the sun’s disk. Naturally, at first I took it to be the moon, but there is much to incline me to believe that what I really saw was the transit of an inner planet passing very near to the earth.% `The darkness grew apace; a cold wind began to blow in freshening gusts from the east, and the showering white flakes in the air increased in number. From the edge of the sea came a ripple and whisper. Beyond these lifeless sounds the world was silent. Silent? It would be hard to convey the stillness of it. All the sounds of man, the bleating of sheep, the cries of birds, the hum of insects, the stir that makes the background of our lives--all that was over. As the darkness thickened, the eddying flakes grew more abundant, dancing before my eyes; and the cold of the air more intense. At last, one by one, swiftly, one after the other, the white peaks of the distant hills vanished into blackness. The breeze rose to a moaning wind. I saw the black central shadow of the eclipse sweeping towards me. In another moment the pale stars alone were visible. All else was rayless obscurity. The sky was absolutely black. `A horror of this great darkness came on me. The cold, that smote to my marrow, and the pain I felt in breathing, overcame me. I shivered, and a deadly nausea seized me. Then like a red-hot bow in the sky appeared the edge of the sun. I got off the machine to recover myself. I felt giddy and incapable of facing the return journey. As I stood sick and confused I saw again the moving thing upon the shoal--there was no mistake now that it was a moving thing--against the red water of the sea. It was a round thing, the size of a football perhaps, or, it may be, bigger, and tentacles trailed down from it; it seemed black against the weltering blood-red water, and it was hopping fitfully about. Then I felt I was fainting. But a terrible dread of lying helpless in that remote and awful twilight sustained me while I clambered upon the saddle.

Spanish awful: horrible, abominable, horroroso, atroz, tremendo. bigger: más grande, mayor, más. bleating: Balando. blood-red: sanguino, sanguina. blow: soplar, golpe. bow: proa, arco, reverencia, inclinarse, lazo. breeze: brisa, la brisa. clambered: trepado, Gateado. confused: confuso, confundido. disk: disco.

distant: lejano, distante. fainting: desmayo, desvanecimiento. fitfully: irregularmente, espasmódicamente. freshening: refrescando. horror: horror, aversión. insects: insectos. marrow: médula, tuétano, calabacín. overcame: Venció, pret de overcome. pale: pálido, palidecer, descolorido. passing: paso. remote: remoto, lejano, apartado,

aislado, separado. ripple: onda, rizado, rizo, ondulación. sheep: oveja, la oveja. showering: llover. sick: enfermo. sustained: sostenido, continuo. thickened: espesado. trailed: Arrastrado. transit: tránsito, de tránsito. weltering: Revolcándose. whisper: cuchichear, cuchicheo, susurrar, susurro, murmurar.

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CHAPTER XII

`So%I came back. For a long time I must have been insensible upon the machine. The blinking succession of the days and nights was resumed, the sun got golden again, the sky blue. I breathed with greater freedom. The fluctuating contours of the land ebbed and flowed. The hands spun backward upon the dials. At last I saw again the dim shadows of houses, the evidences of decadent humanity. These, too, changed and passed, and others came. Presently, when the million dial was at zero, I slackened speed. I began to recognize our own petty and familiar architecture, the thousands hand ran back to the starting-point, the night and day flapped slower and slower. Then the old walls of the laboratory came round me. Very gently, now, I slowed the mechanism down. `I saw one little thing that seemed odd to me. I think I have told you that when I set out, before my velocity became very high, Mrs. Watchett had walked across the room, travelling, as it seemed to me, like a rocket. As I returned, I passed again across that minute when she traversed the laboratory. But now her every motion appeared to be the exact inversion of her previous ones. The door at the lower end opened, and she glided quietly up the laboratory, back foremost, and disappeared behind the door by which she had previously entered. Just before that I seemed to see Hillyer for a moment; but he passed like a flash.

Spanish appeared: Aparecido, comparecido. architecture: arquitectura. blue: azul, azular. breathed: respirado. changed: cambio, cambió, cambiado. ebbed: bajó. entered: entrado, inscrito, montado. exact: exacto, preciso. flapped: batido. flash: destello, llamarada, centella, rebaba, fogonazo, relampaguear, destellar.

flowed: fluido. foremost: primero, principal. freedom: libertad. gently: suavemente. glided: deslizado. golden: dorado, áureo, de oro. inversion: inversión. mechanism: mecanismo. motion: movimiento, moción, petición. opened: abierto. passed: pasado.

petty: mezquino, insignificante, pequeño. quietly: calladamente, silenciosamente. recognize: reconocer, reconozco, reconoced, reconocéis, reconocemos, reconocen, reconozcan, reconoces, reconozca, reconoce. slackened: aflojado. spun: hilado. walked: andado, Caminado. zero: cero, nulo.

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`Then I stopped the machine, and saw about me again the old familiar laboratory, my tools, my appliances just as I had left them. I got off the thing very shaky, and sat down upon my bench. For several minutes I trembled violently. Then I became calmer. Around me was my old workshop again, exactly as it had been. I might have slept there, and the whole thing have been a dream.% `And yet, not exactly! The thing had started from the south-east corner of the laboratory. It had come to rest again in the north-west, against the wall where you saw it. That gives you the exact distance from my little lawn to the pedestal of the White Sphinx, into which the Morlocks had carried my machine. `For a time my brain went stagnant. Presently I got up and came through the passage here, limping, because my heel was still painful, and feeling sorely begrimed. I saw the Pall Mall Gazette on the table by the door. I found the date was indeed to-day, and looking at the timepiece, saw the hour was almost eight o’clock. I heard your voices and the clatter of plates. I hesitated--I felt so sick and weak. Then I sniffed good wholesome meat, and opened the door on you. You know the rest. I washed, and dined, and now I am telling you the story. `I know,’ he said, after a pause, `that all this will be absolutely incredible to you. To me the one incredible thing is that I am here to-night in this old familiar room looking into your friendly faces and telling you these strange adventures.’ He looked at the Medical Man. `No. I cannot expect you to believe it. Take it as a lie--or a prophecy. Say I dreamed it in the workshop. Consider I have been speculating upon the destinies of our race until I have hatched this fiction. Treat my assertion of its truth as a mere stroke of art to enhance its interest. And taking it as a story, what do you think of it?’ He took up his pipe, and began, in his old accustomed manner, to tap with it nervously upon the bars of the grate. There was a momentary stillness. Then chairs began to creak and shoes to scrape upon the carpet. I took my eyes off the Time Traveller’s face, and looked round at his audience. They were in the dark, and little spots of colour swam before them. The Medical Man seemed absorbed in the contemplation of our host. The Editor was looking hard at the end of his

Spanish absorbed: absorbido, absorto. assertion: aserción, afirmación. begrimed: ensuciado, tiznado. bench: banco, estrado, banquillo, escaño. clatter: martilleo. contemplation: contemplación. creak: chirriar, chirrido, crujir, chirriad, chirrio, chirrien, chirrie, chirrias, chirrian, chirriáis, chirria. destinies: destinos. dined: cenado.

enhance: mejorar, mejoro, mejoras, mejoran, mejoramos, mejoráis, mejorad, mejoren, mejore, mejora, realzar. fiction: ficción. grate: parrilla, reja, rallar. hatched: con escotillas. nervously: nerviosamente. painful: doloroso, penoso. pause: descanso, pausa, pausar, hacer una pausa, la pausa. plates: placas.

prophecy: profecía. scrape: raspadura, rascar, raspar. shaky: inseguro. sniffed: olido. speculating: especulando. stagnant: estancado. stroke: acariciar, caricia, apoplejía, carrera, golpe, derrame cerebral, recorrido. timepiece: reloj. trembled: Temblado, tembló. washed: lavado, lavo.

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cigar--the sixth. The Journalist fumbled for his watch. The others, as far as I remember, were motionless.% The Editor stood up with a sigh. `What a pity it is you’re not a writer of stories!’ he said, putting his hand on the Time Traveller’s shoulder. `You don’t believe it?’ `Well----’ `I thought not.’ The Time Traveller turned to us. `Where are the matches?’ he said. He lit one and spoke over his pipe, puffing. `To tell you the truth . . . I hardly believe it myself. . . . And yet . . .’ His eye fell with a mute inquiry upon the withered white flowers upon the little table. Then he turned over the hand holding his pipe, and I saw he was looking at some half-healed scars on his knuckles. The Medical Man rose, came to the lamp, and examined the flowers. `The gynaeceum’s odd,’ he said. The Psychologist leant forward to see, holding out his hand for a specimen. `I’m hanged if it isn’t a quarter to one,’ said the Journalist. `How shall we get home?’ `Plenty of cabs at the station,’ said the Psychologist. `It’s a curious thing,’ said the Medical Man; `but I certainly don’t know the natural order of these flowers. May I have them?’ The Time Traveller hesitated. Then suddenly: `Certainly not.’ `Where did you really get them?’ said the Medical Man. The Time Traveller put his hand to his head. He spoke like one who was trying to keep hold of an idea that eluded him. ‘They were put into my pocket by Weena, when I travelled into Time.’ He stared round the room. `I’m damned if it isn’t all going. This room and you and the atmosphere of every day is too much for my memory. Did I ever make a Time Machine, or a model of a Time Machine? Or is it all only a dream? They say life is a dream, a precious poor

Spanish atmosphere: atmósfera, ambiente. cabs: taxis. eluded: eludido. examined: examinado, registrado. eye: ojo, el ojo, ojear, mirar. flowers: las flores. hanged: colgar, ahorcado, continuar, caída, colgó. hardly: apenas. holding: mantenimiento, tenencia. inquiry: encuesta, pregunta, investigación, interrogación,

demanda. leant: pret y pp de lean. memory: memoria, recuerdo, la memoria. mute: mudo, muda, sordina. natural: natural. precious: precioso, preciosa. puffing: reclamo excesivo, soplar. putting: poniendo, metiendo, colocando. quarter: barrio, cuarto, trimestre. scars: cicatrices.

shoulder: hombro, el hombro, espalda, lisera, banquina, reborde, espaldilla. sigh: suspirar, suspiro. sixth: sexto, sexta. specimen: muestra, espécimen. stood: pret y pp de stand. truth: verdad, veras, la verdad. watch: reloj, mirar, observar, reloj de pulsera, ver, contemplar, el reloj, prestar atención, vigilar, guardia, guardar. writer: autor, escritor.

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dream at times--but I can’t stand another that won’t fit. It’s madness. And where did the dream come from? . . . I must look at that machine. If there is one!’ He caught up the lamp swiftly, and carried it, flaring red, through the door into the corridor. We followed him. There in the flickering light of the lamp was the machine sure enough, squat, ugly, and askew; a thing of brass, ebony, ivory, and translucent glimmering quartz. Solid to the touch--for I put out my hand and felt the rail of it--and with brown spots and smears upon the ivory, and bits of grass and moss upon the lower parts, and one rail bent awry.% The Time Traveller put the lamp down on the bench, and ran his hand along the damaged rail. `It’s all right now,’ he said. ‘The story I told you was true. I’m sorry to have brought you out here in the cold.’ He took up the lamp, and, in an absolute silence, we returned to the smoking-room. He came into the hall with us and helped the Editor on with his coat. The Medical Man looked into his face and, with a certain hesitation, told him he was suffering from overwork, at which he laughed hugely. I remember him standing in the open doorway, bawling good night. I shared a cab with the Editor. He thought the tale a `gaudy lie.’ For my own part I was unable to come to a conclusion. The story was so fantastic and incredible, the telling so credible and sober. I lay awake most of the night thinking about it. I determined to go next day and see the Time Traveller again. I was told he was in the laboratory, and being on easy terms in the house, I went up to him. The laboratory, however, was empty. I stared for a minute at the Time Machine and put out my hand and touched the lever. At that the squat substantial-looking mass swayed like a bough shaken by the wind. Its instability startled me extremely, and I had a queer reminiscence of the childish days when I used to be forbidden to meddle. I came back through the corridor. The Time Traveller met me in the smoking-room. He was coming from the house. He had a small camera under one arm and a knapsack under the other. He laughed when he saw me, and gave me an elbow to shake. `I’m frightfully busy,’ said he, `with that thing in there.’ `But is it not some hoax?’ I said. `Do you really travel through time?’

Spanish bits: los bits. bough: rama. cab: taxi, cabina, policía. camera: cámara, cámara fotográfica, cámara de películas. corridor: pasillo, corredor. credible: creíble. damaged: estropeado, dañado, maltrecho. doorway: puerta. ebony: ébano. elbow: codo, el codo.

fantastic: fantástico, hueco. frightfully: espantosamente, horrorosamente, terriblemente, terroríficamente, tremendamente. glimmering: resplandor, alborear, brillar, luz ténue, vislumbre. hesitation: vacilación, duda. instability: inestabilidad. knapsack: mochila. meddle: entrometerse. overwork: exceso de trabajo. shake: sacudir, sacuda, sacudimos,

sacudís, sacudid, sacudes, sacuden, sacude, sacudan, sacudo, sacudida. shaken: sacudido. smears: manchas. sober: sobrio. squat: ponerse en cuclillas. touched: palpar, tocar, tocado, pulsación, toque, emocionado, conmover, chiflado, alcanzar, tacto, conmovido. translucent: translúcido, reluciente. ugly: feo.

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`Really and truly I do.’ And he looked frankly into my eyes. He hesitated. His eye wandered about the room. `I only want half an hour,’ he said. `I know why you came, and it’s awfully good of you. There’s some magazines here. If you’ll stop to lunch I’ll prove you this time travelling up to the hilt, specimen and all. If you’ll forgive my leaving you now?’ I consented, hardly comprehending then the full import of his words, and he nodded and went on down the corridor. I heard the door of the laboratory slam, seated myself in a chair, and took up a daily paper. What was he going to do before lunch-time? Then suddenly I was reminded by an advertisement that I had promised to meet Richardson, the publisher, at two. I looked at my watch, and saw that I could barely save that engagement. I got up and went down the passage to tell the Time Traveller.% As I took hold of the handle of the door I heard an exclamation, oddly truncated at the end, and a click and a thud. A gust of air whirled round me as I opened the door, and from within came the sound of broken glass falling on the floor. The Time Traveller was not there. I seemed to see a ghostly, indistinct figure sitting in a whirling mass of black and brass for a moment--a figure so transparent that the bench behind with its sheets of drawings was absolutely distinct; but this phantasm vanished as I rubbed my eyes. The Time Machine had gone. Save for a subsiding stir of dust, the further end of the laboratory was empty. A pane of the skylight had, apparently, just been blown in. I felt an unreasonable amazement. I knew that something strange had happened, and for the moment could not distinguish what the strange thing might be. As I stood staring, the door into the garden opened, and the manservant appeared. We looked at each other. Then ideas began to come. `Has Mr. ---- gone out that way?’ said I. `No, sir. No one has come out this way. I was expecting to find him here.’ At that I understood. At the risk of disappointing Richardson I stayed on, waiting for the Time Traveller; waiting for the second, perhaps still stranger

Spanish advertisement: anuncio, reclamo, aviso, el anuncio. awfully: terriblemente. barely: apenas. click: clic, hacer clic, chasquido, pulsar, chasquear. comprehending: encerrando, entendiendo, ideando, incluyendo, comprendiendo, Comprender. consented: Consentido. disappointing: desilusionando, desencantando, defraudando,

decepcionando, decepcionante, desilusionante, desilusionar. drawings: retiros. engagement: obligación, compromiso, contrato, contratación. exclamation: exclamación. expecting: esperando. forgive: perdonar, perdona, perdonad, perdono, perdonen, perdonas, perdonan, perdonamos, perdonáis, perdone. ghostly: fantasmal, espiritual.

hilt: puño. magazines: las revistas. pane: hoja de vidrio, panel, cristal. phantasm: fantasma, ilusión. publisher: editor. rubbed: frotado. skylight: claraboya, tragaluz, lucernario. slam: golpe. staring: llamativo. truncated: truncado. whirling: turbulencia.

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story, %and the specimens and photographs he would bring with him. But I am beginning now to fear that I must wait a lifetime. The Time Traveller vanished three years ago. And, as everybody knows now, he has never returned.

Spanish ago: hace. beginning: empezando, comienzo, principio, principiando, inicio, origen, el principio. bring: traer, traigan, trae, traed, traéis, traemos, traen, traigo, traes, traiga, llevar. everybody: todos, cada uno, cada, todo el mundo, todo. fear: temer, miedo, temor, angustia, recelar. knows: sabe, conoce.

lifetime: vida. returned: devuelto. specimens: muestras. story: historia, piso, cuento, relato, el cuento. vanished: desaparecido. wait: esperar, espera, espere, esperad, espero, esperen, esperas, esperan, esperamos, esperáis, aguardar.

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EPILOGUE

One%cannot choose but wonder. Will he ever return? It may be that he swept back into the past, and fell among the blood-drinking, hairy savages of the Age of Unpolished Stone; into the abysses of the Cretaceous Sea; or among the grotesque saurians, the huge reptilian brutes of the Jurassic times. He may even now--if I may use the phrase--be wandering on some plesiosaurus-haunted Oolitic coral reef, or beside the lonely saline lakes of the Triassic Age. Or did he go forward, into one of the nearer ages, in which men are still men, but with the riddles of our own time answered and its wearisome problems solved? Into the manhood of the race: for I, for my own part cannot think that these latter days of weak experiment, fragmentary theory, and mutual discord are indeed man’s culminating time! I say, for my own part. He, I know--for the question had been discussed among us long before the Time Machine was made--thought but cheerlessly of the Advancement of Mankind, and saw in the growing pile of civilization only a foolish heaping that must inevitably fall back upon and destroy its makers in the end. If that is so, it remains for us to live as though it were not so. But to me the future is still black and blank--is a vast ignorance, lit at a few casual places by the memory of his story. And I have by me, for my comfort, two strange white flowers --shrivelled now, and brown and flat and brittle--to witness that even when mind and strength had gone, gratitude and a mutual tenderness still lived on in the heart of man.

Spanish abysses: abismos. ages: siglos. answered: contesta, Contestado. casual: informal, ocasional, fortuito. cheerlessly: tristemente. coral: coral. culminating: culminando. destroy: destruir, destruid, destruimos, destruís, destruyan, destruye, destruyen, destruyes, destruyo, destruya. discord: discordia, disonancia.

discussed: discutido, debatido. experiment: experimento, experimentar. fragmentary: fragmentario. hairy: peludo, velludo, velloso, cabelludo. inevitably: inevitablemente. lakes: lagos. manhood: hombría. mutual: mutuo, mutua. pile: montón, pilote, pila, pelo, amontonar, estaca.

reef: roca, arrecife, escollo, arrizar. reptilian: reptil. saline: salino, salado. solved: resuelto, solucionado. vast: vasto. wandering: errante, vagando. weak: débil, flojo. wearisome: fatigoso. witness: testigo, presenciar, atestiguar, testimonio. wonder: preguntarse, maravilla, asombrarse, prodigio, preguntar.

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GLOSSARY abandon: abandonar, abandonen, abandona, abandonad, abandonáis, abandonamos, abandonan, abandonas, abandone, abandono, desamparar abandoned: abandonado, desamparado, dejado, abandonados, abandonada, olvidado, abandonadas abnormally: anormalmente abominable: abominable, horrible, horroroso abominations: abominaciones abruptly: bruscamente, abruptamente absence: ausencia, falta absent-minded: distraído absolute: absoluto, completo, cabal absolutely: absolutamente, verdaderamente, en efecto, en realidad, de veras absorbed: absorbido, absorto abstain: abstenerse, abstener, se abstienen, absténedos, os abstenéis, te abstienes, se abstiene, me abstengo, absténganse, ábstente, nos abstenemos abstract: resumen, abstracto, descolgar, extracto, decudir, arrancar, abstraer, quitar, compendio abstractions: abstracciones absurd: absurdo abundance: abundancia, riqueza abundant: abundante abysmal: abismal abysses: abismos academic: académico, estudiante accelerate: acelerar, aceleran, acelero, aceleras, aceleramos, aceleráis, acelerad, acelera, aceleren, acelere accept: aceptar, acepta, acepten, acepto, aceptas, aceptan, aceptamos, aceptáis, aceptad, acepte, admitir accepted: aceptado, admitido accession: presentación, acceso, accesión, adhesión, asentimiento,

adquisición, compra, ganancia, acrecencia, entrada accident: accidente, desgracia, un accidente, el accidente accompany: acompañar, acompañen, acompaña, acompaño, acompañas, acompañan, acompañamos, acompañáis, acompañad, acompañe accordingly: en consecuencia, de acuerdo con, por consiguiente accumulate: acumular, acumuláis, acumulo, acumulen, acumulas, acumulamos, acumulad, acumula, acumulan, acumule, acumularse accustomed: acostumbrado ached: dolido, dolió acquaintance: conocido, conocimiento, notoriedad active: activo, laborioso actual: real, actual, verdadero, efectivo acutely: agudamente adaptations: adaptaciones adapted: adaptado addition: adición, suma, apéndice, añadidura addressed: dirigido adjacent: adyacente, contiguo, vecino, colindante adjoining: contiguo, vecino, adyacente adjustment: ajuste, arreglo, adaptación, regulación, acuerdo, construcción admired: admirado admit: confesar, confesad, confesáis, confieso, confiesen, confiese, confiesas, confiesan, confiesa, confesamos, admitir admitted: confesado, admitido adorn: decorar, decora, decoren, decore, decoras, decoran, decoramos, decoráis, decoro, decorad, adornar adroitly: diestramente advance: avance, adelanto, anticipo, acercarse, progreso, adelantar,

proponer, aproximarse, avanzar, anticipar advanced: avanzado, adelantado advancement: adelantamiento, progreso, promoción, avance advances: insinuaciones, paso advantage: ventaja, provecho, la ventaja adventure: aventura advertisement: anuncio, reclamo, aviso, el anuncio affected: afectado, conmovido affection: afecto, cariño, afectuosidad, amor afield: lejos de casa aforementioned: antes mencionado, antedicho, susodicho afraid: miedoso, temeroso, asustado, medroso, miedo, encogido, angustioso, tímido, be - tener miedo africa: África after-dinner: de sobremesa afternoon: tarde, la tarde afterwards: después, luego, más adelante agape: ágape, boquiabierto aged: viejo, anciano ages: siglos aghast: espantado agonized: agonizado agony: agonía, angustia, miedo agreed: acordado, convenido, de acuerdo, vale, entendido, conforme, asentido, concordado, en orden agriculture: agricultura ahead: adelante, delante, anteriormente aimlessly: sin objeto, sin propósito fijo air-tight: hermético aisle: pasillo, nave lateral alarmed: alarmado alarming: alarmante, crítico, grave alert: alerta, alarma, alertar alike: semejante, igual, por igual alive: vivo, viviente alliance: alianza

H.G. Wells aloft: arriba alone: solo, único, solamente, sólo aloud: en voz alta alter: cambiar, cambia, cambien, cambie, cambias, cambian, cambio, cambiamos, cambiáis, cambiad, alterar altered: cambiado, alterado, mudado altogether: todo, en conjunto aluminium: aluminio amateur: aficionado, novicio amaze: asombrar, asombramos, asombren, asombran, asombráis, asombrad, asombra, asombras, asombre, asombro, maravillar amazed: asombrado, maravillado, pasmado, atónito amazement: asombro, pasmo amazing: asombrando, asombroso, maravilloso, maravillando, pasmando, pasmoso ambition: ambición, aspiración ambush: emboscada, acecho ameliorating: mejorando america: América, Estados Unidos amid: en medio de, entre amidst: en medio de, entre amorous: amoroso amuse: divertir, diviértete, diviértase, diviértanse, divértidos, me divierto, nos divertimos, os divertís, se divierte, se divierten, te diviertes amused: se divertido, entretenido amusement: diversión, divertimento, entretenimiento, distracción anachronism: anacronismo anachronisms: anacronismos ancestors: ascendientes, antepasados ancestry: linaje, ascendencia ancient: antiguo, vetusto anecdote: anécdota anew: otra vez, de nuevo, nuevamente anger: cólera, enojo, enfado, ira, enojar, furia angles: anglos angry: enojado, enfadado, furioso anguish: angustia, miedo, angustiar animal: bestia, animal, el animal animals: animales animated: animado ankle: tobillo, el tobillo answered: contesta, Contestado antenna: antena antennae: antena ant-hill: hormiguero anticipate: anticipe, prever, preven, preveo, prevemos, preveis, preved, prevean, prevea, preve, preves anticipated: previsto anticipation: anticipación, previsión anxiety: ansiedad

apace: rápidamente, aprisa apart: aparte, por separado, particular, separado apartment: apartamento, piso, cuarto aperture: abertura, apertura appalled: desmayado, espantado, repugnado, horrorizado appalling: espantoso, aterrador apparatus: aparato apparently: evidentemente, al parecer, aparentemente apparition: aparición appear: aparecer, aparece, aparezco, aparezcan, apareces, aparecen, aparecemos, aparecéis, apareced, aparezca, parecer appearance: aspecto, apariencia, aparición, comparecencia, vista, apersonamiento appearances: apariciones appeared: Aparecido, comparecido appears: aparece, comparece appetite: apetito, el apetito applause: aplauso, el aplauso appliances: electrodomésticos appreciate: apreciar, aprecia, apreciad, apreciáis, apreciamos, aprecian, aprecias, aprecien, aprecio, aprecie, gustar appreciation: apreciación, plusvalía apprehend: aprehender, aprehendemos, aprehendéis, aprehendo, aprehenden, aprehende, aprehendes, aprehendan, aprehended, aprehenda apprehension: arresto, detención, aprensión, aprehensión approached: Acercado approaching: acercamiento, acercar, aproximado, acercarse, aproximar, aproximarse, dirigirse a uno, venidero, tocar un tema, semejante, que se acerca approval: aprobación, homologación, aplauso, autorización, visto bueno arbour: cenador, emparrado arch: arco, bóveda, archi, arquear arched: arqueado architecture: arquitectura argue: discutir, discuto, discutís, discutan, discute, discuten, discutes, discutid, discutimos, argüir, discuta argued: Discutido, argüido, argumentado argumentative: argumentativo, discutidor arise: subir, nacer, nacéis, suban, suba, nace, naced, nacemos, nacen, sube, nazca arising: subiendo, naciendo aristocracy: aristocracia arm: brazo, armar, el brazo, arma

93 arm-chair: sillón, butaca armed: armado arrange: arreglar, arreglen, arreglan, arreglamos, arregláis, arregla, arreglad, arreglas, arreglo, arregle, organizar arrangements: acuerdos array: matriz, serie, formación, orden, formar, conjunto arrears: atrasos arrival: llegada, aprovisionamiento, arribo, venida arrived: llegado arriving: llegando arteries: las arterias articulation: articulación artificial: artificial artificially: artificialmente artistic: artístico ashamed: avergonzado, vergonzoso ashes: cenizas aside: aparte, al lado askew: atravesado, sesgo, de reojo, de soslayo, oblicuo, torcido, ladeado asking: preguntando, pidiendo, solicitando asks: pregunta, pide, solicita asleep: dormido aspect: aspecto, vista assailed: Asaltado assembled: ensamblado, congregado assertion: aserción, afirmación assimilation: asimilación associate: socio, unirse, asociar, juntarse, asociado associated: asociado assume: asumir, asumen, asumo, asumís, asumimos, asumes, asume, asuman, asumid, asuma, suponer assumption: suposición, asunción, supuesto, conjetura, presunción assurance: garantía, convicción, aseguramiento assured: asegurado astonished: asombrado, sorprendido, estupefacto astonishing: asombroso, asombrando, sorprendiendo, sorprendente astonishment: asombro atmosphere: atmósfera, ambiente atrocious: atroz attachment: afectuosidad, fijación, conexión, anexo, enlace, embargo, adjunto, acoplamiento, atadura, apego, unión attacked: Atacado attained: alcanzado attempt: intentar, intenta, intentad, intentáis, intentamos, intentas, intente, intenten, intentan, intento, tentativa

94 attempts: intenta attend: asistir, asistan, asisto, asistís, asistimos, asistid, asistes, asisten, asiste, asista, visitar attended: asistido attentively: atentamente attitude: actitud, posición, postura attract: atraer, atraigan, atraes, atraen, atraemos, atraigo, atraéis, atraed, atrae, atraiga, encantar attracted: atraído, encantado audience: audiencia, público automatic: automático avoid: evitar, evito, evitan, evitamos, evitáis, evitad, eviten, evita, evitas, evite, eludir avoidance: evitación, anulación avoided: Evitado, eludido, rehuido awake: despierto, despertar, despertarse awakened: despertado aware: consciente awful: horrible, abominable, horroroso, atroz, tremendo awfully: terriblemente awkward: difícil awoke: pret y pp de awake awry: torcido, de través, desviadamente, desviado, erradamente, torcidamente, ladeado background: fondo, antecedentes, segundo plano, trasfondo, de fondo, movimiento propio, luminancia de fondo backs: espaldas backward: hacia atrás, atrasado, retrógrado, de espaldas, atrás, boca arriba bacteria: bacterias badly: mal, malamente balance: equilibrio, saldo, balancear, balanza, balance, saldar, equilibrar balanced: equilibrado balloon: globo, aeróstato balloons: globos band: banda, venda, cinta banishing: desterrando banks: bancos bar: barra, bar, salvo, cercar, taberna, obstrucción, impedir, impidan, cercad, cercáis, cercamos bare: desnudo, pelado, descubierto barely: apenas barometer: barómetro barrel: barril, tonel, cañón bars: cerca, impide base: basar, pie, fundar, base, basamento, casquillo, fundamentar bathe: bañar, bañarse, báñados, báñate, báñense, me baño, nos bañamos, os bañáis, se baña, se bañan, te bañas

The Time Machine bathing: bañándose battered: abollado battering: cañoneo battle: batalla, pelea bay: bahía, caballo bayo, compartimiento, bayo, ladrar beach: playa, la playa, varar bearing: cojinete, abolas, rodamiento bearings: cojinetes, rumbos, rodamientos beast: bestia, animal beasts: ganado beat: golpear, batido, batir, pegar, apalear, pulsación, latido, batimiento beaten: vencido beating: paliza, pulsación, latido beautiful: bonito, hermoso, bello, precioso beautifully: bellamente, hermosamente beauty: belleza, la belleza beckoned: llamado, Atraído becomes: acontece becoming: conveniente, aconteciendo begin: empezar, empiecen, empezad, empezáis, empiece, empieza, empiezan, empiezas, empiezo, empezamos, comenzar beginnings: principios begotten: engendrado begrimed: ensuciado, tiznado begun: empezado, principiado behaved: se comportado, portado, funcionado, conducido, educado, Comportado, comportarse bien, comportar beheld: considerado, observado, contemplado, visto, advertido, mirado, Percibido, pret y pp de behold behooves: toca, atañe, corresponde, incumbe belief: creencia, credo, fe believed: Creído bell: timbre, campana, campanilla, la campana bells: las campanas belonged: Pertenecido belt: cinturón, correa, cinto, pretina bench: banco, estrado, banquillo, escaño beneath: debajo de, debajo, abajo bent: inclinación, torcido beside: cerca de, junto a, al lado de, al lado besides: además, demás, además de, amén de bewilderment: desconcierto bigger: más grande, mayor, más biological: biológico birch: abedul

bird: pájaro, ave birds: aves birthright: derechos de nacimiento bits: los bits bitter: amargo, agrio bitterly: amargamente bitterness: amargura, rencor, amargor blacken: teñir de negro, ennegrecer blackened: embetunado, ennegrecido blackening: ennegreciendo, embetunando, ennegrecimiento, ennegrecer blackness: oscuridad, negrura blank: blanco, espacio en blanco, en blanco, formulario, vacío, hoja blast: explosión blaze: resplandecer, gritar a los cuatro vientos, brillo, estrella, brillar, explosión, arranque, flamear, fogata, fuego, hoguera bleached: blanqueado bleating: Balando bleeding: sangrando, sangría, sangrante, sangrado, hemorragia blessing: bendiciendo, bendición blind: ciego, persiana, deslumbrar, deslumbrad, deslumbre, deslumbras, deslumbran, deslumbro, deslumbramos, deslumbráis, deslumbren blinded: deslumbrado blinding: deslumbrante, deslumbrando, deslumbramiento, esparcido de gravilla blindness: ceguera blinking: intermitente, parpadear, parpadeo block: bloque, manzana, bloquear, bloqueo, motón, polea, taco blocked: bloqueado blockhead: tonto blocks: estacón, tacos blood: sangre, la sangre blood-red: sanguino, sanguina bloody: sangriento, sanguinario, cruento blossom: flor, florecer, lozanía blotched: cubierto de manchas, enrojecido blow: soplar, golpe blowing: soplado, sopladura, soplar, silbido, soplo blown: soplado, hinchado, estropeado, jadeante, insípido, pp de blow blows: golpes blue: azul, azular blundered: Pifiado blundering: equivocación, equivocarse, estropear, pifia, Pifiar, torpe, torpeza, tropezar

H.G. Wells boards: tablazón, valla de madera bodily: corporal boldly: audazmente bole: tronco bone: hueso, el hueso, deshuesar bones: huesos, los huesos bonfire: hoguera, fogata boot: bota, maletero, arranque bottom: fondo, suelo, inferior, lado inferior, el fondo, culo, posaderas, trasero bough: rama bound: encuadernado, saltar, salto, ligado, límite, obligado bow: proa, arco, reverencia, inclinarse, lazo bowed: agobiado, arqueado, cabizbajo, encorvado, inclinado box: caja, estuche, arca, casilla, boxear, la caja, jarro, recuadro, olla, palco, cajetín brain: cerebro, seso branches: ramas brass: latón, metal breadth: ancho, amplitud, anchura break: romper, descanso, interrupción, rotura, quebrar, corte, pausa, adiestrar, fractura, interrumpir breaking: ruptura, rotura breath: aliento, respiración, hálito breathe: respirar, respira, respiren, respiras, respiran, respiramos, respirad, respiráis, respire, respiro breathed: respirado breathing: respirando, respiración, respirar breed: raza, casta, criar breeding: cría, crianza, reproducción breeze: brisa, la brisa brief: breve, corto, informe, conciso bright: claro, luminoso, brillante, magnífico brightening: aclarando, avivando, esclareciendo, abrillantando, Aclarar, avivamiento brighter: lucido brightly: brillantemente brilliancy: resplandor, lustre, lucidez, brillo, brillantez brilliant: brillante, magnífico, genial brilliantly: brillantemente bringing: trayendo broad: ancho broke: bollado, rotura, rompió, romper, pret de break, interrupción, fracturar, sin blanca, comienzo, pelado, descanso broken: roto, estropeado, entrecortado, quebrado brontosaurus: brontosauro bronze: bronce, bronceado, broncear

brooded: Empollado brother: hermano, el hermano, cofrade brow: ceja, frente brown: marrón, pardo, moreno, dorar, castaño brush: cepillo, cepillar, escobilla, pincel, brocha, el cepillo brutes: bestias bubbles: burbuja, porosidad, burbujas build: construir, edificar, tipo built: construido, construyó, fabricados, pret y pp de build bullet: bala, bola, viñeta burn: arder, quemar, quemadura, quemarse, encender, la quemadura, abrasar burned: quemó burning: quemadura, ardiente burnished: abrillantado, bruñido, bruñir, lustre burst: ráfaga, reventar, estallar, salva, reventón, resquebrajarse, quebraja, grieta, hendidura, henderse, ráfaga de impulsos butcher: carnicero, matar butt: culata, colilla, extremo, tope butterfly: mariposa, la mariposa cab: taxi, cabina, policía cabs: taxis cadger: gorrón, sablista calamity: calamidad calculated: calculado, computado calling: llamando, llamada calm: tranquilo, calma, calmar, quieto, silencio, sosegado, sosegar, aquietar, sereno calmly: calmadamente, serenamente camera: cámara, cámara fotográfica, cámara de películas camphor: alcanfor cancan: cancán candle: vela, la vela, bujía, candela, cirio candlesticks: candelabros cannibal: caníbal cannot: presente de no poder canopy: dosel capable: capaz, hábil capacity: capacidad capitalist: capitalista cared: Cuidado career: carrera, profesión careful: cuidadoso, prudente, circunspecto, precavido carefully: cuidadosamente caressed: Cariciado caresses: caricias caricature: caricatura carnal: carnal, de matanza carnivorous: carnívoro

95 carolingian: Carlolingio, Carlovingio, carolingio carpet: alfombra, la alfombra, alfombrar carpeting: tejido de alfombra, tapiz, alfombrar, alfombrando, alfombrado, alfombra carriage: coche, carro, cureña carried: Llevado, cargado, transportado carry: llevar, llevamos, lleváis, llevad, lleva, lleven, llevo, llevan, llevas, lleve, cargar carrying: llevando, transportando, cargando carved: tallado, labrado carving: tallando, labrando, talla cast: lanzar, lanzamiento, arrojar, echar, colar, elenco, molde casting: fundición, colada, vaciado casual: informal, ocasional, fortuito cat: gato, el gato catching: cogiendo, contagioso, asiendo, acertando cattle: ganado, ganado vacuno caught: cogido, asido, acertado caused: causado cautiously: cautamente cavern: caverna, cueva caves: cuevas ceased: ceso, Cesado cemeteries: cementerios centuries: siglos ceremony: ceremonia certainty: certidumbre, certeza chain: cadena, la cadena, encadenar chair: silla, la silla, presidencia, cátedra chairs: las sillas chamber: cámara, habitación, cuarto champagne: champaña, champán chanced: Acaecido chances: posibilidades changed: cambio, cambió, cambiado changing: cambiando channelled: Acanalado chap: raja chapel: capilla, iglesia chaps: rajar, resquebrajar, quijada, muchacho, grieta, carrillo, agrietar, zajones character: carácter, seña, naturaleza, índole, personaje characteristic: característica, característico, cualidad charred: carbonizado chatter: charlar, charla, castañetear, parlotear checked: a cuadros cheek: mejilla, la mejilla, carrillo cheeks: mejillas cheerful: alegre, animado

96 cheerfully: alegremente cheerfulness: alegría cheerless: triste cheerlessly: tristemente chemical: químico, química chemistry: química chequered: a cuadros chiefly: principalmente, sobretodo childbearing: parto, maternidad, natalidad childish: aniñado, pueril, infantil childlike: infantil chill: frío, enfriar chilled: refrigerado, enfriado chin: barba, barbilla, la barbilla, mentón chinese: chino, china choking: la obstrucción aérea, estrangular, atragantamiento, ahogarse choose: escoger, escojan, escoges, escogen, escogemos, escogéis, escoged, escojo, escoge, escoja, elegir chose: escoger chosen: escogido, elegido cigar: cigarro, puro, el puro, el cigarro, cigarro puro cigarette: cigarrillo, el cigarrillo circle: círculo, rodear, cerco circuit: circuito, el circuito circular: circular circumstances: circunstancias, circunstancia civilization: civilización civilized: civilizado civilizing: civilizando clad: vestido, pret y pp de clothe claim: reclamación, derecho, pretensión, demanda, reivindicación, crédito, pretender, afirmación clamber: trepar clambered: trepado, Gateado clambering: trepando, Gatear, trepanación clang: sonar, sonido metálico, sonido metálico resonante, resonar, estruendo, hacer sonar, hacer estruendo clap: aplaudir, palmada clapping: aplauso, palmada, aplausos, aplaudir, cerrar de golpe clatter: martilleo claws: garras clean: limpio, limpiar, limpiáis, limpiad, limpien, limpie, limpias, limpiamos, limpian, limpia, puro cleaned: limpiado clearer: aclarar, limpio, liquidador, claro, borrar, eliminar, puro, vaciar, el que despeja, despejado, anular clearing: aclaración, claro,

The Time Machine compensación clenched: apretado clever: hábil, diestro, experto, ágil, listo, inteligente click: clic, hacer clic, chasquido, pulsar, chasquear climate: clima, el clima climax: clímax climb: trepar, subir, escalar, subida, ascender, subir a, escalada climbed: Subido climbing: alpinismo, escalar cling: agarrarse clinging: ceñido clock: reloj, el reloj, ceas closed: cerrado closely: estrechamente closer: íntimamente closing: Cerrando, cierre, conexión, cerrar clothed: vestido clothes: ropa, viste, la ropa, ropaje clothing: ropa, vistiendo, la ropa cloud: nube, la nube, nublar clue: pista clumsy: torpe clung: pret y pp de cling clustering: clasificación, arracimar, conglomeración coal: carbón, hulla coat: abrigo, chaqueta, capa coil: bobina, rollo coiling: enroscadura, enrollar cold: frío, resfriado, catarro, constipado collapsed: desplomado collecting: recogiendo, cobrando, coleccionando, colectivo color: el color, pintar, colorear, color colossal: colosal coloured: pintado colouring: colorar, colorido, colorante colourless: incoloro columns: columnas comet: cometa comfort: comodidad, consolar, anchas, consuelo, confort comfortable: cómodo, agradable command: mando, orden, mandato, comando, instrucción, capitanear, acaudillar commended: alabado commerce: comercio committed: cometido, comprometido communicate: comunicar, comunicamos, comuniquen, comunico, comunican, comunicáis, comunicad, comunica, comunicas, comunique, contagiar communication: comunicación, noticia, noticias, publicación communistic: comunista

companion: acompañante, compañero compensation: compensación, indemnización, recompensa complacency: complacencia completely: completamente complex: complejo, complicado complicated: complicado, complejo composed: dueño de sí mismo, compuesto, sosegado composite: compuesto comprehending: encerrando, entendiendo, ideando, incluyendo, comprendiendo, Comprender concavity: concavidad conceive: concebir, conciban, concibo, concibes, concibe, concebís, concebimos, concebid, conciben, conciba conceived: concebido concern: concernir, cuidado, preocupación, importancia conclude: despachar, despacháis, despacho, despachen, despache, despachas, despachan, despachamos, despacha, despachad, concluir concluded: despachado conclusion: conclusión concrete: hormigón, concreto condition: condición, acondicionar, estado confess: confesar, confiesan, confiesen, confieso, confiesas, confesamos, confesad, confesáis, confiesa, confiese, declarar confidence: confianza, confidencia confident: seguro confirmed: confirmado, empedernido confused: confuso, confundido confusing: confundiendo confusion: confusión conjurer: mago connect: conectar, conecta, conectad, conecto, conecten, conectas, conectan, conectáis, conectamos, conecte, comunicar connubial: conyugal conquest: conquista conscious: consciente consciousness: conciencia, consciencia, conocimiento consented: Consentido consequence: consecuencia, secuela consequently: por consiguiente considerable: notable, considerable considered: considerado consoled: Consolado constant: constante, continuo constituted: constituido constitutes: constituye

H.G. Wells constitution: constitución, complexión construct: construir, construya, construyan, construyo, construyes, construye, construís, construimos, construid, construyen, edificar contact: contacto, contactar, ponerse en contacto contagious: contagioso contained: contenido contemplation: contemplación content: contenido, contento, satisfecho contented: contento, satisfecho contents: contenido, contenidos, índice continually: continuamente, siempre continued: continuado, durado continuous: continuo contrast: contraste, contrastar contributed: Contribuido contrivance: invención contrive: idear contrived: inventado, efectuado, tramado, ideado, planeado controvert: controvertido, controvertir, contradecir, contradiga, controvertid, controvierto, controvierten, controvierte, controviertan, controvierta, controvertís convenient: conveniente conversation: conversación conversational: locuaz, conversacional convey: alargar, entregar, llevar, entrega, entregan, entreguen, entregue, entregas, entregamos, entregáis, entregad conveyance: transmisión conveyed: entregado, alargado conveying: alargando, entregando conviction: condena convince: convencer, convenza, convencen, convences, convenzo, convenzan, convencéis, convenced, convence, convencemos convulsively: convulsivamente cooing: arrullar, arrullo cooling: enfriamiento, refrescante, refrigeración co-operating: coopere, cooperando co-operation: cooperación, unidad coral: coral corner: esquina, ángulo, rincón correctly: correctamente correspondent: corresponsal, correspondiente corridor: pasillo, corredor corroded: corroído corrugated: ondulado, corrugado costume: traje

cottage: cabaña, casa de campo counsel: consejo, aconsejar, abogado, anunciar countless: innumerable, incontable courage: valor, coraje, ánimo, virtud cover: cubrir, tapa, cobertura, recorrer, tapar, forrar, cubierta, neumático, portada, forro, encuadernación covered: cubierto, cubierto de verdor covering: envoltura, cobertura, revestimiento, cubrir, cubierta crab: cangrejo, el cangrejo crabs: cangrejos cracked: agrietado crackling: crepitaciones cradle: cuna, patria, horquilla, plataforma cramp: calambre, grapa cramped: estrecho crawled: Arrastrado, Repelado crawling: arrastre creak: chirriar, chirrido, crujir, chirriad, chirrio, chirrien, chirrie, chirrias, chirrian, chirriáis, chirria created: creado creates: crea creative: creativo creature: criatura credible: creíble creek: cala, riachuelo, arroyo creeping: arrastrando crept: Arrastrado crest: cresta, penacho cretaceous: cretáceo cried: Lloró cries: llora crimson: carmesí crippling: lisiar, herida crossing: cruce, cruzamiento, travesía crouching: Agachar, agachándose, agazapándose crowbar: palanca crowd: muchedumbre, multitud, gentío crowded: atestado cruelty: crueldad, sevicia crumpled: arrugado, estropeado, chafado, estrujado crustacea: crustáceos cry: llorar, grito, gritar, lamento crying: llorando crystal: cristal crystalline: cristalino cube: cubo, el cubo culminating: culminando cultivate: cultivar, cultive, cultivo, cultiváis, cultiven, cultivas, cultivad, cultiva, cultivamos, cultivan culture: cultura, cultivo cunning: astucia, astuto, hábil cupola: cúpula

97 curbed: limitado curiosity: curiosidad curious: curioso curiously: curiosamente curly: rizado, ensortijado cursed: maldito curtain: cortina, la cortina curtains: las cortinas curve: curva, curvo, curvar, la curva, encorvadura curved: curvo, encorvado cushions: cojines customary: acostumbrado cycle: ciclo, bicicleta, ir en bicicleta daily: diariamente, diario, cotidiano, de todos los días, todos los días dainty: fino, amable, delicado, poquita damaged: estropeado, dañado, maltrecho damned: condenado, maldito damp: húmedo, mojar, humedad dance: bailar, baile, danza, danzar, el baile danced: bailo dancing: bailando, baile danger: peligro, el peligro dare: atreverse, reto, cariño dark: oscuro, tenebroso darkling: durante anochecer, oscuro darkness: tinieblas, oscuridad, la oscuridad darting: rápido dash: raya, guión, arremetida, corre dashed: quebrado dated: fechado, anticuado dawn: amanecer, alba, madrugada, aurora daylight: luz del día, luz de día, luz natural dazzled: deslumbrado deadened: amortiguado, amortizado deadly: mortal dear: caro, querido, estimado decadence: decadencia decadent: decadente decay: decadencia, decaimiento, putrefacción, baja, deterioración, descomposición decayed: decrépito decaying: pudrirse, descomponer, decaimiento, decaer, decadente, ruina, decadencia, deteriorarse, putrefacción deceived: engañado deceptively: ilusoriamente, engañosamente declaration: declaración decorated: decorado, adornado decoration: alhaja, decoración, adorno deep: profundo, hondo

98 deepened: ahondado deeply: profundamente deepness: profundidad deer: ciervo, venado defeated: vencido, posición neutral, derrotado defend: defender, defiendes, defiendo, defendéis, defendemos, defiendan, defienden, defended, defiende, defienda deficiency: deficiencia, falta, carencia, defecto definable: definible definite: definido degeneration: degeneración degradation: degradación degree: grado, título, licencia delay: retraso, retardo, demora, retrasar, demorar, retardar deliberately: deliberadamente, de propósito delicate: delicado, fino delicately: delicadamente delicious: delicioso delight: deleitar, delicia, encantar delighted: encantado, gozoso delightful: bonito, lindo, delicioso, encantador, deleitoso delightfully: deleitablemente, deleitosamente, deliciosamente, encantadamente, encantado delivery: entrega, parto, suministro, liberación, alumbramiento demonstrative: demostrativo, pronombre demostrativo dense: denso depart: salir, salís, salgo, salga, sales, salen, saled, sale, salgan, salimos, sal departed: salido, partido deportment: conducta depth: profundidad, hondura, puntal, fondo derelict: derrelicto, abandonado descend: descender, descendéis, desciendo, desciendes, descienden, desciende, desciendan, descendemos, descended, descienda, bajar descendants: descendencia descended: descendido, bajado descending: descendiendo, bajando, descendente, descender, descendiente descent: descenso, bajada, descendencia describe: describir, describís, describo, describimos, describid, describen, describe, describan, describes, describa described: descrito describes: describe deserted: desierto

The Time Machine desertion: deserción desiccated: disecado, disecar, desecado desire: desear, deseo, tener, querer, gana, codiciar desired: deseado desolate: desolado, desolar desolation: desolación despair: desesperación desperate: desesperado destined: destinado destinies: destinos destroy: destruir, destruid, destruimos, destruís, destruyan, destruye, destruyen, destruyes, destruyo, destruya destroyed: destruido detail: detalle, pormenor detained: retenido determination: determinación determine: determinar, determinamos, determine, determina, determinan, determino, determináis, determinad, determinen, determinas, fijar determined: determinado, decidido determines: determina detested: detestado developed: revelado, desarrollado devices: artefactos, dispositivos, divisas devil: diablo, el diablo devised: ideado devoted: afectuoso, consagrado, dedicado, adicto, fiel devotion: devoción dexterous: diestro, hábil, ágil, experto diagram: diagrama, esquema, propósito, reproducción, retrato, gráfico, plano dial: marcar, cuadrante, esfera, disco die: morir, morid, mueran, muere, morís, mueren, mueres, muero, morimos, muera, molde diet: dieta differences: variedades differentiated: diferenciado differentiation: diferenciación differently: diferentemente, de otra manera difficulties: dificultades difficulty: dificultad, inconveniente dilapidated: decrépito, ruinoso diluted: diluido dim: oscuro, turbio dimension: dimensión, tamaño dimensions: dimensiones diminished: disminuido diminishing: disminuyendo diminution: disminución dimly: turbio, oscuramente, débilmente

dimness: lo confuso, casi obscuridad, debilidad, lo lerdo, semioscuridad, lo débil, lo sombrío, lo turbio, ofuscamiento, oscurecimiento, oscuridad dined: cenado dingy: oscuro dining: cenando dinner: cena, comida, banquete directed: dirigido direction: dirección, rumbo directions: instrucciones, indicaciones dirt: suciedad, mugre dirty: sucio, ensuciar, verde, manchar disagreeably: desagradablemente disappear: desaparecer, desapareced, desaparecéis, desaparecemos, desaparecen, desapareces, desaparezcan, desaparezco, desaparece, desaparezca disappeared: desaparecido disappears: desaparece disappointed: decepcionado disappointing: desilusionando, desencantando, defraudando, decepcionando, decepcionante, desilusionante, desilusionar disappointment: desilusión, decepción discomfort: incomodidad disconcerted: desconcertado discontinuous: discontinuo discord: discordia, disonancia discordantly: discordantemente discover: descubrir, descubrimos, descubrís, descubrid, descubres, descubren, descubre, descubran, descubro, descubra discovered: descubierto discovery: descubrimiento discriminating: que distingue finamente discussed: discutido, debatido discussing: discutiendo, debatiendo disease: enfermedad disengaged: desembarazado disgust: aversión, repugnancia, asquear disgusting: repugnante, asqueroso disinclination: aversión, desgana disjointed: desarticulado disk: disco dismal: triste, lúgubre, deplorable, horroroso, afligido, horrible, común, menesteroso, miserable, necesitado, pobre dismay: espantar, consternar dismayed: entelerido dismissed: despedido disordered: desarreglado, desconcertado en algo, trastornado,

H.G. Wells desordenado display: pantalla, exhibición, visualización, exponer, exposición, desplegar displayed: manifestado, expuesto, acusado, desplegado, lúcido, ostentado, presentado, demostrado disregard: desatender, descuido distance: distancia, alejamiento distant: lejano, distante distinct: claro, distinto, evidente distinction: distinción distinctly: distintamente distinguish: distinguir, distinguís, distinguid, distingues, distinguen, distingue, distingo, distinga, distinguimos, distingan distress: afligir, indigencia, entristecer, acongojar, dolor distressed: afligido, penado, angustioso, angustiado distressing: penoso disturb: molestar, moleste, molestad, molestáis, molestamos, molestan, molestas, molesta, molesto, molesten, incomodar doctor: médico, doctor dogs: los perros, las perras doll: muñeca dome: cúpula, domo doors: las puertas doorway: puerta dotted: punteado doubt: dudar, duda doubted: dudado doubtless: indudable doubts: duda downpour: aguacero downstream: aguas abajo, río abajo, parte a pasar, descendente downward: descendente, hacia abajo, de arriba hacia abajo dozed: dormitado dozen: docena, la docena dozing: dormitando drag: arrastrar, arrastro, arrastrad, arrastráis, arrastramos, arrastran, arrastras, arrastren, arrastra, arrastre, remolcar dragging: arrastrando, remolcando drained: agotado, desaguado, purgado drank: pret de drink, bebió draught: calado, trago draughty: abierto a corrientes de aire draw: dibujar, dibujáis, dibujad, dibujen, dibuje, dibujas, dibujamos, dibuja, dibujan, dibujo, tirar drawing-room: estrado drawings: retiros drawn: dibujado, encantado, trazado dread: miedo

dreaded: temido dreadful: terrible, espantoso dream: soñar, sueño, ensueño dreamed: soñado dreaming: soñar dreams: sueños dress: vestido, vestir, vendar, vestirse, el vestido, ponerse, revestir dressed: vestido, con guarnición de dried: seco drift: deriva, derivar del rumbo, corriente drifted: llevado drifting: llevar driver: chófer, conductor, controlador, chauffeur, mecánico drop: gota, caer, disminuir, amainar, decrecer, menguar, caída, descenso, dejar caer dropped: soltar dropping: goteante drove: manada drowned: se ahogado, ahogado drowning: ahogándose, el ahogamiento, ahogar, ahogo, ahogamiento dry: seco, secar, enjugar due: debido dull: embotado, obtuso, mate, aburrido, soso dumb: mudo duplicate: duplicado, multiplicar, duplicar, copiar dusk: anochecer, crepúsculo dust: polvo, quitar el polvo, quitar el polvo a dusty: polvoriento duty: deber, servicio, obligación, impuesto dwarfed: achicado dwelling: morando, vivienda, morada dwindling: menguando dying: muriendo, agonizante dynamite: dinamita eager: ansioso, ávido, codicioso eagerly: ansiosamente, ávidamente ear: oreja, espiga, la oreja, oído early-morning: matutino earnest: serio earnestness: seriedad ears: orejas, las orejas, oídos earthy: terroso ease: facilidad, comodidad, mitigar easier: mas fácil easily: fácilmente eastern: oriental eastward: hacia el este, al este easy-chair: sillón eat: comer, comemos, comes, coméis, comed, coman, como, comen, coma, Come

99 eating: comiendo ebb: menguar, reflujo ebbed: bajó ebony: ébano eccentric: excéntrico, extravagante echoed: resonado eclipse: eclipse economical: económico economize: economizar, economizad, economizo, economizas, economizan, economizáis, economiza, economicen, economizamos, economice eddy: remolino, remanso, torbellino edge: borde, orilla, filo, canto, arista, baranda, ribetear, margen edifice: edificio edition: edición editor: director, redactor, redactor jefe educated: educado, instruido educational: educativo, educacional effected: realizado efficient: eficiente, eficaz effort: esfuerzo, afán efforts: afán egotism: egotismo eighteen: dieciocho, diez y ocho eke: aumentas, aumento, aumente, aumentan, aumentamos, aumentáis, aumentad, aumenta, aumenten, escatime, suplir las deficiencias eking: aumentando, escatimar elaborate: elaborar, detallado, elaborado elated: regocijado elbow: codo, el codo electric: eléctrico element: elemento, ingrediente elements: elementos, abecé, alfabeto elude: eludir, eludid, eludo, eludimos, eludes, eluden, elude, eludan, eludís, eluda eluded: eludido elusive: evasivo, huidizo embraced: abrazado emerged: aparecido, emergido emergence: aparecimiento, salida, emergencia eminent: eminente, excelente emotion: emoción empty: vacío, vaciar, evacuar, desocupado, desocupar enable: habilitar, habilitamos, habilito, habiliten, habilitan, habilitáis, habilitad, habilita, habilitas, habilite, activar encamp: acampamos, acampen, acampe, acampo, acampáis, acampad, acampa, acampan, acampas, hacer acampar, acamparse encircling: rodeando

100 encounter: encuentro, encontrar, encuentran, encuentren, encuentre, encuentras, encuentra, encontramos, encontrad, encontráis, hallar ended: finalizó, terminado endlessly: interminablemente, inacabablemente, sin fin, eternamente endowed: dotado endure: durar, duráis, duro, duren, dure, duras, duran, duramos, dura, durad, tolerar enemy: enemigo energetic: enérgico, energético engaged: ocupado, comprometido, engranado, prometido engagement: obligación, compromiso, contrato, contratación engine: motor, máquina, artefacto, el motor enhance: mejorar, mejoro, mejoras, mejoran, mejoramos, mejoráis, mejorad, mejoren, mejore, mejora, realzar enjoys: disfruta, goza enormous: enorme, ingente enormously: enormemente enter: entrar, entro, entra, entrad, entráis, entramos, entran, entras, entren, entre, inscribir entered: entrado, inscrito, montado entirely: enteramente, completamente, totalmente entry: entrada, asiento, ingreso, partida, inscripción, acceso epilogue: epílogo equal: igual equipped: equipado ere: antes de erected: erigido eroticism: erotismo escape: escaparse, escapar, huida, fuga, escape, evadir, escapada, huir escaped: escapado essay: ensayo estimate: estimar, estiman, estimen, estimad, estimas, estimamos, estimáis, estimo, estime, estima, presupuesto estuary: estuario eternal: eterno etiolated: descoloró evergreens: plantas de hojas perennes everybody: todos, cada uno, cada, todo el mundo, todo everywhere: en todas partes, por todas partes evident: evidente evidently: evidentemente evil: mal, malo, malvado evolution: evolución, crecimiento,

The Time Machine desarrollo exact: exacto, preciso exactly: exactamente, justamente, en punto examination: examen, contemplación, vista, interrogatorio examine: examinar, examina, examinen, examine, examinas, examinan, examinamos, examináis, examinad, examino, registrar examined: examinado, registrado examining: examinando, registrando, examinar excellent: excelente except: excepto, menos, exceptuar, además de, amén de excessive: excesivo, desmesurado excessively: excesivamente exchange: cambio, intercambio, cambiar, central, central telefónica, canjear, intercambiar, bolsa, permutar excitement: excitación, agitación exclaimed: exclamado exclamation: exclamación exclamatory: exclamatorio exclusive: exclusivo exclusively: exclusivamente, sólo excuse: excusa, excusar, disculpa, disculpar exertion: esfuerzo exhausted: agotado, exhausto exhibited: exhibido exhilaration: alegría, acento, excitación, regocijo, efecto tónico exist: existir, existimos, existid, existo, existen, existe, existan, existes, existís, exista existence: existencia existing: existiendo, existente expanse: extensión expect: esperar, esperad, espero, esperen, esperáis, esperamos, esperas, esperan, espera, espere expectation: expectativa, expectación, espera, esperanza expecting: esperando expense: gasto, gastos, expensas experiment: experimento, experimentar experimental: experimental explain: explicar, explica, explico, explicas, explican, explicamos, explicáis, explicad, expliquen, explique, aclarar explained: explicado explanation: explicación explicit: explícito, expreso exploration: exploración, prospección explore: explorar, exploráis, exploren, explore, exploro, exploras, explorad, explora, exploran, exploramos

explored: explorado exploring: explorando explosion: explosión explosive: explosivo, detonante exposed: expuesto exposition: exposición expostulations: protestas expounding: comentando, exponiendo express: expresar, expresa, expresas, expresen, expresan, expresamos, expresáis, expresad, expreso, exprese expression: expresión exquisite: exquisito extension: extensión, prórroga, ampliación, prolongación extensive: extensivo, extenso, vasto extensively: extensivamente, extensamente extent: alcance, magnitud, extensión extinct: extinguido, extinto extinction: extinción, extinguir extravagant: extravagante extreme: extremo extremely: extremamente, extremadamente, sumamente exuberant: exuberante exultation: exultación eye: ojo, el ojo, ojear, mirar eyelashes: las pestañas, pestañas facade: fachada, frontón faced: enfrentado faces: Caras facet: faceta facilities: instalaciones, medios, facilidades facing: paramento, frente a, revestimiento factories: suerte fade: marchitarse, marchitar faded: marchitado, se ajado, descolorado, despintado, desvaído, descolorirse, descolorido, descolorar, desaparecer, debilitarse, borroso failed: fracasado, no satisfactorio, fallado failure: fallo, fracaso, bancarrota quiebra, avería, falla, aborto, falta faint: desmayarse, débil, desmayo, tenue fainted: pasmado, desfallecido, amortecido, desmayado fainting: desmayo, desvanecimiento faintly: débilmente faintness: debilidad fair: justo, rubio, mercado, feria, verbena, bazar, equitativo, hermoso fair-haired: rubio fairly: bastante, con justicia fall: caer, os caéis, cáedos, se caen, se

H.G. Wells cae, te caes, caígase, cáete, caíganse, me caigo, nos caemos fallen: se caído, caído, decrecido, derribado falling: cayéndose, decreciendo, derribando, caída faltering: titubeando familiar: conocido fancied: preferido, imaginario fancy: figurarse, de fantasía, imaginación fantastic: fantástico, hueco far-reaching: de largo alcance, transcendental, de gran alcance fascination: fascinación fashion: moda fast: rápido, ayunar, fijo, de prisa, pronto, veloz, ligero, firme, ayuno faster: ayunador, más rápido, asegurado fastness: solidez, firmeza fate: destino, suerte, sino, hado fatigue: fatiga, fatigar fatigued: fatigado, rendido faun: fauno favoured: favorecido favourite: favorito fear: temer, miedo, temor, angustia, recelar feared: temido fearfully: aprensivamente, con miedo, pavorosamente, recelosamente, temerosamente, miedosamente fearing: por miedo a, por temor a, temer fearless: intrépido, arrojado feature: característica, facción, función, rasgo features: características, funciones fecundity: fecundidad fed: alimentado, cebado feeble: débil feebleness: debilidad feeding: alimentando, alimentación, cebando feeling: sentimiento, sintiendo, palpando, sensación feels: siente, palpa fell: talar, derribar female: hembra, femenino fence: reja, valla, cerca, vallado, obstrucción, la cerca, cercado fermentation: fermentación fertile: fértil, fecundo fervent: ferviente feverish: febril, afiebrado fiction: ficción fierce: feroz fiercely: violentamente, acaloradamente, encarnizadamente, fieramente, furiosamente

fifteen: quince fifty: cincuenta fight: luchar, pelear, lucha, combate, pelea, batallar, riña, combatir fighting: contender, riña, pelea, luchar, luchador, lucha, el luchar, duelo, de combate, combativo, combatir figurative: figurado, figurativo figures: cifras filed: archivado fill: llenar, relleno, rellenar, ocupar, llenado filled: llenar, completar, despachar, terraplén, relleno, rellenar, redondear, ocupar, lleno, atestado, llenó filthily: cochambrosamente, cochinamente, impuramente, mugrientamente, suciamente finding: fundando, hallazgo, fundiendo, encontrar finger: dedo, el dedo, tocar, manga fingernail: uña fingers: los dedos finish: acabar, acabas, acabo, acabe, acaban, acabamos, acabáis, acabad, acaba, acaben, terminar finished: acabado, terminado, listo, concluido fireplace: chimenea, la chimenea, el hogar, hogar fireside: hogar, chimenea firewood: leña firmly: firmemente fish: pez, pescado, pescar, el pescado, pescados, peces, el pez fist: puño fit: adaptar, acomodar, ajustar, apoplejía, ajuste, caber, ataque, en forma, encajar fitfully: irregularmente, espasmódicamente fitted: en buen salud, ajustarse, conveniente, capacitado, ataque, apto, convulsión, capaz, encajar, entallar, instalada fix: fijar, fijad, fijáis, fijamos, fijan, fijas, fijen, fije, fijo, fija, reparar fixed: fijo, fijado, reparado fizzed: burbujeado flags: banderas flakes: copos flame: llama, flamear, la flama flaming: llameante, encendido flapped: batido flapping: batir, aleteo, aleteador flare: bengala flared: acampanado flaring: abocinado flash: destello, llamarada, centella, rebaba, fogonazo, relampaguear,

101 destellar flashed: destellado flat: plano, llano, apartamento, piso, liso, bemol, bastidor, desinflado, cuarto flattened: aplanado flaxen: de lino, muy rubio, rubio flecked: mancha, moteado, motear fled: huido flesh: carne, pulpa flew: voló, pret de fly flicker: parpadeo, centelleo flickered: parpadeó flickering: parpadeo flight: vuelo, huida, escape flinging: lanzar flirtation: flirteo, coqueteo flitted: aleteado, revoloteado, revoloteó floated: fratasado, flotado flood: diluvio, inundación, enterrar, pleamar, inundar floral: floral flourish: florecer, florecemos, florezco, florezcan, florezca, florecen, florecéis, floreced, florece, floreces, prosperar floury: harinoso flow: flujo, corriente, fluir, correr flowed: fluido flower: flor, la flor, florecer flowers: las flores flowing: fluido, corriente fluctuated: fluctuado fluctuating: fluctuando flung: pret y pp de fling flushed: derramarse, sofoco, vaciar, afluir, cisterna, sonrojo, inundar, limpiado, llenarse de agua, rubor, ruborizarse fluttering: revolotear fly: volar, voláis, vuelen, vuele, vuelas, volamos, vuela, volad, vuelan, vuelo, mosca flying: volando, volante focused: enfocado foliage: follaje follow: seguir, seguid, sigues, siguen, sigue, sigo, sigan, seguís, seguimos, siga, venir después folly: tontería fond: aficionado fool: engañar, necio, tonto foolish: zote, tonto, necio, bobo foolishly: neciamente, tontamente, insensatamente, bobamente, alocadamente foot: pie, pata, el pie, pujamen football: fútbol, fútbol americano, balón footfall: pisada footing: fundamento, pata

102 footnote: nota a pie de página, nota footprints: modelos o tamaños footsore: con los pies doloridos, dolorido footsteps: Huellas forbidden: prohibido forbidding: prohibiendo, prohibitivo forces: efectivo forcing: compulsión forefinger: dedo índice foremost: primero, principal forest: bosque, el bosque, selva forget: olvidar, olvidan, olviden, olvidas, olvidamos, olvidáis, olvidad, olvida, olvide, olvido, olvidarse forgive: perdonar, perdona, perdonad, perdono, perdonen, perdonas, perdonan, perdonamos, perdonáis, perdone forgotten: olvidado fork: tenedor, horquilla, el tenedor, horca, bifurcación forming: formación forms: formas, Formularios forth: adelante forthwith: inmediatamente fortunate: afortunado forty: cuarenta fossil: fósil fossilized: se fosilizado, petrificado, fosilizado foul: falta, asqueroso, sucio founded: fue fundado o se fundó, fundado fourth: cuarto, el cuarto fractured: fracturado, quebrado fragile: frágil fragmentary: fragmentario frail: frágil frame: marco, trama, bastidor, chasis, armadura, armazón, cuadro, estructura, enmarcar framed: encuadrado frames: cuadros framework: armazón, estructura, marco frankly: francamente frankness: franqueza frantic: frenético frantically: frenéticamente freedom: libertad freely: libremente frenzy: frenesí frequent: frecuente, frecuentar frequented: frecuentado, asendereado fresh: fresco freshening: refrescando fresher: estudiante de primer año, fresco, mechón, novato, nuevo, puro, tierno

The Time Machine freshly: no hace mucho tiempo, recién, frescamente freshness: frescura fretted: preocupado friday: viernes, el viernes friendliness: simpatía, amigabilidad friendly: amistoso, amable, bonito, gracioso, amigable friendship: amistad fright: espanto, susto, miedo, angustia, terror frightened: espantado, asustado frightful: espantoso, horrible frightfully: espantosamente, horrorosamente, terriblemente, terroríficamente, tremendamente fringes: máximos y mínimos de interferencia fro: atrás, allá front: frente, fachada, delantero, el frente, frontón, delantera fruit: fruta, la fruta, fruto fullness: plenitud fumbled: chapuceado, manoseado fumbling: chapuceando, manoseando fungi: hongos furiously: sañudo, reñidamente, rabiosamente, furiosamente furnish: amueblar, amueblas, amueblen, amueblo, amueble, amueblamos, amuebláis, amuebla, amueblan, amueblad, suministrar furnishing: amueblando furtively: furtivamente fuss: hazañería, preocuparse, fastidiar, preocuparse por pequeñeces, jaleo, lío, tejemaneje, escándalo, protesta, afanarse, agitarse futile: fútil futility: inutilidad futurity: futuro, futuridad gaining: ganar gallery: galería gap: brecha, laguna, intervalo, huelgo garden: jardín, el jardín garland: guirnalda garlanded: enguirnaldado garments: ornamentos gathered: reunido, reunió gathering: recolección, reunión gaudy: ostentoso, llamativo gaunt: flaco, fino, triste, afligido, demacrado gay: alegre, homosexual gazette: periódico, gaceta generation: generación gentle: dulce, suave, manso, apacible gentleness: apacibilidad, suavidad gently: suavemente geology: geología

geometrical: geométrico geometry: geometría germ: germen gesticulated: gesticulado gesture: gesto, ademán, acción gets: obtiene ghastly: horrible, horroroso, lúgubre ghost: fantasma, el fantasma, imagen fantasma, aparición ghostly: fantasmal, espiritual ghosts: duende, fantasma, imágenes fantasma, espectro, fantasmas gibbous: giboso giddy: mareado gift: regalo, donación, el regalo, don, talento girdled: rodeado girlish: juvenil, de chica, de moza, de muchacha, de niña gives: da glad: alegre, contento glance: mirada, vistazo, ojeada glanced: mirado glancing: oblicuo glare: deslumbramiento, deslumbrar glared: deslumbrado glaring: brillante glass: vidrio, vaso, cristal, copa, el vidrio glasses: gafas, lentes, anteojos glazed: vidriado, barnizado gleam: destello gleaming: brillar gleefully: gozosamente, alegremente glided: deslizado gliding: deslizar, planeación glimmer: brillar tenuemente glimmering: resplandor, alborear, brillar, luz ténue, vislumbre glimpse: vislumbrar glittering: brillar globes: GLOBOS gloriously: magníficamente, espléndidamente, gloriosamente glow: resplandecer, resplandor glowed: resplandecido glowing: resplandeciente gold: oro, el oro, de oro golden: dorado, áureo, de oro good-bye: despedida, adiós graceful: gracioso, elegante, airoso, garboso gracefully: graciosamente, desenvueltamente, elegantemente, gallardamente, airosamente gradual: gradual gradually: gradualmente, poco a poco granite: granito grant: subvención, concesión, beca, conceder, subsidio, otorgar, otorgamiento, donación, ceder

H.G. Wells grape: uva, la uva grasp: agarrar, asir, coger, empuñar, asimiento, aferrar grasped: agarrado grasping: avaro grass: hierba, yerba, césped, la hierba, pasto grate: parrilla, reja, rallar gratitude: gratitud, gracias, reconocimiento grave: tumba, grave, crítico, sepulcro gravitation: gravitación greasy: grasiento, gordo, grueso, untuoso greatest: máximo, máxima greatly: muy, grandemente grecian: griego greek: griego green: verde greenery: verdor greenish: verdoso grew: creció, pret de grow, crecida grey: gris, pardo greyish: grisáceo greyness: canicie grief: pesar, dolor grieved: afligido, apenado grimly: severamente, cruelmente grind: moler grindstone: muela, asperón grip: gripe, asir, agarrar, coger, agarre, apretar, empuñar gripped: agarrado groove: surco, ranura, acanaladura, estría, acanalar, estriar grooves: surcos, ranuras groping: tentando grossly: groseramente grotesque: grotesco grow: crecer, crecen, crezco, crece, creced, crecemos, crezcan, crecéis, creces, crezca, cultivar growing: creciendo, aumentando, creciente, crecimiento grown: crecido, aumentado, adulto grunt: gruñido, gruñir guess: adivinar, suponer, suposición, asumir guessed: adivinado gulf: golfo, abismo, despeñadero, precipicio gunpowder: pólvora gust: ráfaga, racha gusty: borrascoso habit: costumbre, hábito, resabio, mala costumbre habitat: hábitat habits: hábitos habitual: acostumbrado, habitual haggard: ojeroso, macilento, demacrado hail: granizo, granizar, alabar,

pedrisco hairless: pelado hairy: peludo, velludo, velloso, cabelludo half-light: media luz hall: vestíbulo, corredor, sala, hall halted: parado, paralizado hammered: insolvencia en Bolsa, martillado hammering: martilleo handle: asa, mango, manija, tratar, manejar, tacto, manivela, empuñadura, asidero, manubrio, palanca handles: asas hanged: colgar, ahorcado, continuar, caída, colgó happen: pasar, pasad, pasáis, pasamos, pasan, pasas, pasen, paso, pase, acontecer, pasa happening: pasando, aconteciendo, ocurriendo, sucediendo, suceso, acaeciendo, acontecimiento happens: pasa, acontece, ocurre, sucede, acaece happily: alegremente, felizmente, afortunadamente hardest: duramente hardly: apenas hardship: penalidad, dificultades excepcionalmente gravosas harmony: armonía harsh: áspero, severo, brusco, bronco, duro harshly: everamente, ásperamente, bruscamente, duramente, adustamente, violentamente, severamente harvest: cosecha, cosechar, siega, recolección, vendimia hastily: precipitadamente, apresuradamente hasty: apresurado, precipitado hatched: con escotillas hatchet: hacha de mano, hacha hated: odiado, odioso, detestado hateful: odioso haul: tirar, tirón, redada, transportar have-nots: pobres haves: tiene hawk: halcón hawthorn: espino, espino blanco, majuelo haze: bruma, calina, neblina, la bruma hazy: brumoso, neblinoso headlong: precipitado heads: cabezas, administradores healed: curado heap: montón, grupo, cúmulo, amontonar, pila heaped: amontonado

103 heaping: apilado, cucharita colmada, amontonar, amontonamiento, acumulación heaps: muchísimo heat: calor, calentar, el calor, hornada, carga de fusión heavens: cielo, cielos heavily: pesadamente, fuertemente heavy: pesado hectic: agitado heel: talón, tacón, calcañal, escorar, calcañar heels: taco, tacón heir: heredero helped: ayudado helpful: útil, servicial, oficioso helpless: desvalido, impotente helplessness: impotencia helps: ayuda defensiva hence: de aquí a, por tanto hermetically: herméticamente hers: suyo hesitated: vacilado, titubeado hesitating: vacilando, titubeando hesitation: vacilación, duda hid: escondió, pret de hide hidden: ocultado, oculto, escondido, secreto hide: ocultar, oculto, oculta, oculte, ocultas, ocultan, ocultamos, ocultáis, ocultad, oculten, piel hiding-place: escondite highly: muy, sumamente hilariously: hilarantemente, alegremente, cachondamente, bulliciosamente hill: colina, loma, cerro, la colina, la loma hillock: montículo hilt: puño hint: indirecta hissing: silbar, silbido, sisteo historical: histórico hither: acá hitherto: hasta aquí, hasta ahora holding: mantenimiento, tenencia hollow: hueco, cavidad, hondonada, vacuo hollowness: alvéolo, vaciedad, oquedad, alveolo, cavernosidad homer: Homero hooks: ganchos, manos, garfios hoped: esperado hopeless: desesperado hopelessly: desesperadamente hopping: Saltar horizon: horizonte horizontal: horizontal horrible: temeroso, abominable, lúgubre, horroroso, horrible horribly: horriblemente horror: horror, aversión

104 horse: caballo, el caballo, potro, cabio horses: los caballos horticulture: horticultura host: anfitrión, huésped, posadero, hostia hot: caliente, picante, caluroso housed: Albergó household: hogar, casa houses: casas hover: cernerse huge: enorme, inmenso, ingente hugely: enormemente, inmensamente, muy hull: casco, cáscara hum: zumbido, tararear humanity: humanidad humbug: farsa humour: humor hung: colgó, pret y pp de hang, colgado, continuado hunger: hambre, la hambre hungry: hambriento hurried: apresuradamente, apresurado, apurado, hecho de prisa, precipitado, superficial hurriedly: precipitadamente, apresuradamente hurry: apresurarse, prisa hush: silencio, acallar husk: cáscara, vaina hypertrophied: hiperatrofió hypothesis: hipótesis hysterical: histérico ice: hielo, el hielo, helado ichthyosaurus: ictiosauro ideal: ideal ideals: ideales ignorance: ignorancia ill: enfermo, malo, doliente illuminated: alumbrado, iluminado imagination: imaginación imagine: figurarse, imaginar, imaginad, imaginen, imagine, imaginas, imaginan, imagino, imaginamos, imagináis, imagina imagined: imaginado imagining: imaginando imitated: Imitado imitating: imitando immaterial: inmaterial immediate: inmediato immediately: inmediatamente, ahora mismo, directamente, en seguida, en el acto immemorial: inmemorial immense: inmenso imminent: inminente imparted: impartido impartiality: imparcialidad impatient: impaciente impeded: impedido impending: inminente

The Time Machine impenetrable: insondable impenetrably: impenetrable imperceptible: imperceptible imperfect: imperfecto, pretérito imperfecto impetus: instinto, ímpetu, impulso import: importación, importar, importado impossible: imposible impressed: impresionado impression: impresión improper: impropio improve: mejorar, mejora, mejore, mejoran, mejoramos, mejoráis, mejorad, mejoren, mejoro, mejoras improved: mejorado impulse: impulso, instinto, impulsión inaccessible: inaccesible inactive: inactivo inactivity: inactividad inadequacy: insuficiencia inadequate: inadecuado, insuficiente inarticulate: inarticulado, desarticulado incandescent: incandescente incapable: incapaz incessant: incesante inch: pulgada incident: incidente inclination: inclinación, tentación incline: inclinar, propender, cuesta inclined: inclinado incomplete: incompleto incomprehensible: incomprensible incontinently: incontinentemente increased: aumentado increasing: creciente incredible: increíble incredibleness: incredibilidad incredibly: increíblemente incredulous: incrédulo incrustation: incrustación indefinable: indefinible indefinite: indefinido indescribably: indescriptiblemente indian: indio, indico, amerindio, indio americano indicated: indicado indicative: indicativo indicators: indicadores indifferently: indiferentemente indistinct: indistinto indistinctly: indistintamente indolent: indolente inevitable: inevitable inevitably: inevitablemente inextinguishable: inextinguible infer: inferir, deducir, infiera, inferís, deduzca, infiero, deduzcan, deducís, deduzco, inferimos, infieran inferred: inferido, deducido infinitely: infinitamente

infirm: débil infirmity: enfermedad, debilidad inflammable: inflamable inflicted: infligido influence: influencia, influir en, influir, influenciar ingenious: ingenioso ingenuity: ingenio, ingeniosidad inheritance: herencia inhuman: inhumano initiative: iniciativa ink: tinta, la tinta, entintar inkling: atisbo, concepto, creencia, noción, modelo, indicio, ingenio, sospecha, idea inky: manchado de tinta inner: interior, interno, interna innumerable: innumerable inquired: inquirido, preguntado inquiry: encuesta, pregunta, investigación, interrogación, demanda inscription: inscripción insects: insectos insecurity: inseguridad insensible: inconsciente, impasible, sin conocimiento, inconmovible insensibly: insensiblemente insidious: insidioso, astuto insisted: insistido, instado inspiration: inspiración inspired: inspirado instability: inestabilidad instance: instancia, ejemplo, ejemplar instances: instancias instant: momento, instante, momentito, instantáneo instantaneous: instantáneo instead: en cambio instinct: instinto instinctive: instintivo instinctively: instintivamente institution: institución, instituto insult: insultar, insulto, injuria, injuriar, ofender, ofensa, ultrajar, ultraje, improperio, el insulto, denuesto intellect: intelecto intellectual: intelectual intelligence: inteligencia intelligent: inteligente intend: querer decir, tener el propósito intense: violento, intenso, fuerte intensely: intensamente intent: intento, intención, propósito intention: intención interested: interesado interesting: interesante intermarriage: matrimonio mixto interminable: incabable intermission: descanso, intermisión

H.G. Wells intermittent: intermitente intermittently: intermitentemente internally: internamente interpolated: interpolado interpret: interpretar, interprete, interpretas, interpreto, interpreten, interpreta, interpretamos, interpretad, interpretáis, interpretan interpretation: interpretación interrogations: interrogatorios interrogative: interrogativo interrupted: interrumpido interval: intervalo, intervalo logarítmico de frecuencia intervals: intervalos intervening: intermedio, interviniendo intervention: intervención intimate: íntimo, cómodo, intimo intimation: insinuación intolerable: intolerable intonation: entonación intricate: intrincado introspective: introspectivo intrusion: intrusión invasion: invasión invent: inventar, invente, invento, inventas, inventen, inventan, inventamos, inventáis, inventad, inventa invention: invención, invento inventive: inventivo inversion: inversión invest: invertir, invierta, invertimos, invertís, invierto, inviertes, invierten, invierte, inviertan, invertid, colocar invisible: invisible iron: hierro, planchar, plancha, de hierro, el hierro, fierro irresistible: irresistible irreverent: irreverente irritable: irritable island: isla, la isla iv: IV - intravenoso ivory: marfil, de marfil jacket: chaqueta, americana, la chaqueta, cubierta, funda, envoltura, camisa, cazadora jamming: interferencia, interferencia intencionada jar: tarro, jarra, la jarra jarring: jarra, discorde, discordante, desapacible, chocar, adverso, frasco, jarro, opuesto, producir un efecto desagradable, que chocan jars: paso jealousy: celos jest: bromear, broma joined: juntado, unido, ligado joint: común, articulación, juntura, junta, porro, conjunto, colectivo,

empalme journalist: periodista journey: viaje, viajar joy: alegría joyous: jubiloso, gozoso, de jubiloso, alegre judge: juez, juzgar, el juez, criticar judged: juzgado judgment: juicio, fallo, sentencia, criterio jump: saltar, salto, brinco, brincar jumped: Saltado jumping: saltar jurassic: jurásico justification: justificación keen: perspicaz, afilado keenly: afiladamente, agudamente, de modo penetrante, perspicazmente keenness: agudeza, viveza, sutileza, perspicacia, ansia, entusiasmo keeping: guardando, vigilando, custodia, cuidado, conservando, preservando kept: guardado, vigilado, conservado, preservado key: llave, tecla, clave, la llave, teclear, chaveta kicking: patear kill: matar killing: matanza kindly: amablemente, bondadosamente, amable kings: reyes kissed: Besado kissing: besar knapsack: mochila knee: rodilla, la rodilla knees: rodillas knelt: pret y pp de kneel, Arrodillado knife: cuchillo, el cuchillo, cuchilla, la navaja, acuchillar knitting: tejido de punto knocking: llamar a la puerta, llamada, golpeteo, golpes, golpeo, golpear, golpe, choque, chocar, aldabonazo, topar knowing: sabiendo, conociendo knows: sabe, conoce kodak: kodak, de Kodak laboratory: laboratorio labourer: obrero, trabajador, bracero labyrinth: laberinto, dédalo lack: falta, carencia, escasez, faltar, carecer de, carecer lacked: faltaba ladder: escala, escalera, escalera de mano, la escalera laid: puesto, colocado, recostado, acostado lakes: lagos lame: cojo

105 lameness: flojedad, cojera, lo de flojedad lamp: lámpara, la lámpara landscape: paisaje, panorama, horizontal languages: las lenguas languor: languidez lank: lacio lapsed: decrépito largely: ampliamente larger: Mayor largest: el más grande lash: pestaña, latigazo, azote lasted: Durado latter: último laugh: reír, reírse, risa, carcajada laughed: Reído laughing: riendo laughingly: reír, risueñamente laughter: risa, la risa, carcajada lawn: césped, el césped, batista, el prado lay: poner, colocar, coloque, colocamos, pongan, ponga, pones, ponen, ponemos, ponéis, poned laying: colocando, poniendo lazily: remolonamente, holgazanamente, perezosamente leading: guiando, conduciendo, dirigiendo leak: fuga, filtración, escape leaked: Salido lean: apoyarse, fino, magro, enjuto, apoyar, delgado leaning: inclinación leant: pret y pp de lean leaped: Saltado leaping: saltar learn: aprender, aprenda, aprendemos, aprendes, aprendo, aprenden, aprended, aprendan, aprende, aprendéis, estudiar learned: aprendido, estudiado, docto, erudito, sabio leash: correa, traílla least: menos, mínimo, menor leather: cuero, duro, el cuero, piel leaves: sale, deja, hojas, las hojas leaving: saliendo, dejando led: guiado, conducido, dirigido legs: las piernas leisure: ocio, el ocio, tiempo libre lemur: lémur lend: prestar, presto, preste, presten, prestas, prestan, prestamos, prestáis, prestad, presta length: longitud, largura, eslora, duración leprous: leproso lessening: achicando, minorando lesson: lección letters: letras

106 lever: palanca, levantar levers: mandos, palancas library: biblioteca, la biblioteca lichen: liquen licking: lamer, lengüetada lidless: sin tapa lie: mentir, mentira, yacer, estar tendido, embuste, echarse lifeless: inanimado lifetime: vida lifted: levantado lighted: encendido lightening: relampagueando, aligerando lighter: encendedor, mechero, gabarra lighting: iluminación, alumbrado lightning: relámpago, rayo, el relámpago lights: luces lignite: lignito likewise: igualmente, también, ídem, asimismo limb: miembro, limbo limbs: extremidades limited: limitado, limitada limits: límites limp: cojear, cojera, claudicar, flojo limped: Cojeado limping: cojera, cojear lines: partida de matrimonio, destino, pauta, especificado de líneas, líneas, papel linger: demorarse lips: labios, los labios liquid: líquido lit: encendido, pret y pp de light, alumbrado, iluminado literary: literario litter: camilla, basura, andas, camada lived: vivido, habitado liverworts: hepáticas lives: Vive, habita livid: lívido living: viviendo, habitando, vivo, viviente loaded: cargado loath: renuente loathed: detestado logical: lógico lonely: solitario, solo longer: más, más tiempo longing: anhelo, anhelante looks: mira loomed: Asomado loophole: aspillera, escapatoria loose: suelto, flojo losing: perdiendo, perdedor, adelgazando loudly: en alta voz, ruidosamente lowered: bajado, arriado loyal: fiel, leal

The Time Machine lucid: lúcido lugged: Arrastrado, llevado luminous: luminoso lump: pedazo, masa, terrón, pieza, bola, tela, grumo, bulto, chichón, pella lunch: almuerzo, almorzar, comer, el almuerzo, comida lungs: pulmones, livianos lurid: agudo, afilado, pavoroso lurking: escondido lustre: brillantez luxurious: lujoso, suntuoso lying: mentiroso mace: macis, maza, mazo machine: máquina machinery: maquinaria machines: máquinas maddened: enloquecido madness: locura, demencia, chifladura magazines: las revistas magnificent: magnífico, lucido maintained: mantenido, conservado malachite: malaquita male: masculino, macho, varón malign: difamar, difame, maligno, difamad, difamo, difamen, difamas, difaman, difamáis, difama, difamamos mall: centro comercial manhood: hombría manifestly: evidentemente, manifiestamente, manifiesto mankind: humanidad manliness: virilidad manner: manera manoeuvring: maniobra mantel: manto, manto de chimenea marble: mármol, canica, jaspear margin: margen, cobertura marked: marcado marking: marcado, marcar, marca, marcación marrow: médula, tuétano, calabacín masonry: albañilería, mampostería, masonería mass: masa, misa, en masa massacre: masacre, matanza masses: masas, vulgo massive: masivo, macizo master: maestro, amo, dueño, patrón, principal, magister mastered: dominado match: fósforo, cerilla, correspondencia, partido, coincidir, hacer juego con, emparejar matches: cerillas materials: materiales, material maternity: maternidad mathematical: matemático mattered: Importado

mauve: malva mayor: alcalde meal: comida, harina, la comida meaning: intención, significado, sentido, significación meant: pret de mean measuring: medida, medición meat: carne, la carne, carnes mechanical: mecánico mechanism: mecanismo meddle: entrometerse medical: médico medicine: medicina, medicamento, la medicina meditations: meditaciones meek: manso, paciente melodious: melodioso melting: deshielo, fusión, derretirse, fundición memory: memoria, recuerdo, la memoria mental: psíquico, mental mercury: Mercurio, azogue mere: mero merely: meramente, simplemente, sólo merged: fusionado merriment: alegría met: encontrado, hallado metal: metal, metálico metallic: metálico metalwork: metalistería method: método, procedimiento metropolitan: metropolitano mexican: mejicano, mexicano middle: medio, centro midst: medio midway: a mitad de camino, mitad del camino, mitad de el camino, medio camino, avenida central, a mitad del camino, situado a medio camino mild: suave, templado, apacible mile: legua, milla, la milla militant: militante milky: lácteo, lechoso millions: millones, millón minded: dispuesto mine: mina, mío, minar mineralogy: mineralogía minerals: los minerales mingled: mezclado, triscado miniature: miniatura minus: menos minute: minuto, el minuto, minuta, menudo miraculous: milagroso miscellaneous: misceláneo, varios, toda clase de misconception: concepto erróneo miserable: pobre, deplorable, malo, triste, indigente, menesteroso,

H.G. Wells afligido, necesitado, desgraciado, miserable misery: pobreza, miseria, indigencia missed: perdido mist: niebla, neblina, bruma mistake: error, equivocación, yerro, la falta mistaken: malo, equivocado mistaking: errar misty: brumoso, empañado mite: óbolo, ácaro moaning: gemiendo mockery: burla models: de baja tensión, los modelos moderate: moderado, módico, moderar modes: modo modest: modesto modification: modificación moist: húmedo molecule: molécula momentary: momentáneo monkey: mono, el mono monomania: monomanía monster: monstruo monstrous: monstruoso monument: monumento moon: luna, la luna moonlight: luz de la luna moonlit: luz de la luna, iluminado por la luna moonrise: salida de la luna moral: moral, moraleja moralized: Moralizado moreover: además, demás mortal: mortal moss: musgo motion: movimiento, moción, petición motionless: inmóvil, estático mount: montar, acomodar, montaña, adaptar mountaineering: alpinismo mouth: boca, desembocadura, la boca moved: emotiva, movido, emocionado, afectado movements: los movimientos moves: mueve moving: conmovedor multiply: multiplicar, multiplico, multipliquen, multiplicas, multiplican, multiplicamos, multiplicáis, multiplicad, multiplica, multiplique multitude: multitud, la multitud multitudes: las multitudes murder: asesinar, asesinato, homicidio, el asesinato murmur: murmurar, murmullo murmured: Murmurado murmuring: murmurar museum: museo, el museo

musing: meditación, meditar, meditativo, musa, reflexionar mute: mudo, muda, sordina mutton: carnero, carne de carnero mutual: mutuo, mutua mysteries: misterios mysterious: misterioso mystery: misterio, el misterio mystic: místico nail: clavo, uña, el clavo, clavar, taco, enclavar naked: desnudo naming: hacer mención de, nombramiento, elección de un nombre, designar, denominar, denominación, dar nombre, asignar nombre, apellidar, nombre, nombrar napping: perchado, dormitar narrative: narrativa, narración, narrativo narrow: estrecho, angosto narrowly: estrechamente naturally: naturalmente nausea: náusea, repugnancia, aversión, asco nauseatingly: nauseabundamente, asquerosamente nearest: más cercano nebuchadnezzar: nabucodonosor necessarily: necesariamente necessities: artículos de primera necesidad necessity: necesidad neck: cuello, el cuello, garganta, pescuezo, cerviz neglected: abandonado, descuidado negro: negro neighbourhood: barrio, vecindad, vecindario neither: tampoco, ninguno, nadie, ni nemesis: justo castigo, némesis, justicia nerve: nervio nervously: nerviosamente nervousness: nerviosidad, nerviosismo nevertheless: no obstante, sin embargo nickel: níquel nightmare: pesadilla, la pesadilla nil: nada, nulo ninety-nine: noventa y nueve nipping: mordaz, pellizcante, pellizcar nocturnal: nocturno nod: inclinación, cabecear nodded: Cabeceado nodding: cabecear, cabeceo noise: ruido, alboroto, el ruido noiseless: silencioso noiselessly: calladamente, silenciosamente, tranquilamente

107 none: ninguno, nadie, nada nonexistence: inexistencia noon: mediodía north-east: NE, nordeste northward: hacia el norte north-west: noroeste, NO nose: nariz, la nariz, proa note: nota, apuntar, billete, anotar, apunte, anotación, notar noted: nombrado notes: notas nothingness: nada notice: cartel, aviso, anuncio, notar, advertir, nota, notificación, noticias, noticia, percibir, publicación noticed: advertido noticing: notando notion: noción, idea, inteligencia noun: substantivo, nombre, sustantivo, el sustantivo novelty: novedad, noticias nursery: vivero, guardería, criadero, semillero obelisk: obelisco object: objeto, el objeto, objetar objections: objeciones objects: objetos oblique: oblicuo, inclinado obscene: obsceno obscure: oscuro, disimular, disimulan, disimulas, disimulo, disimule, disimula, disimuláis, disimulamos, disimulad, disimulen obscurity: oscuridad observation: observación, reparo, censura observe: observar, observa, observen, observe, observas, observan, observad, observáis, observo, observamos, hacer observed: observado observing: observando obstacle: obstáculo, impedimento obtain: obtener, obtenemos, obtienes, obtienen, obtiene, obtengan, obtenéis, obtened, obten, obtengo, obtenga obvious: obvio, evidente occasionally: de vez en cuando, a veces, ocasionalmente occidental: occidental occupations: ocupaciones occupied: ocupado, desempeñado occur: ocurrir, ocurrimos, ocurrís, ocurro, ocurres, ocurren, ocurran, ocurrid, acontecer, ocurra, ocurre occurred: ocurrido occurrence: ocurrencia, suceso, acaecimiento, aparición, acontecimiento ocean: océano octagonal: octágono, octagonal

108 odd: impar, extraño, raro oddly: singularmente, sobrantemente, imparmente, extrañamente, desapareadamente oddness: singularidad, rareza, extravagancia odour: olor offspring: vástago, descendiente, descendencia oil: aceite, el aceite, engrasar, petróleo, aceitar oiled: aceitado oily: aceitoso, grasiento old-world: del viejo mundo one-hundredth: cien ones: unos onset: ataque onward: adelante, hacia adelante oolitic: oolítico opened: abierto opening: abriendo, abertura, apertura, entrada, inauguración, abrir openings: oportunidad operations: operaciones opinion: opinión, dictamen, juicio, parecer opposite: enfrente de, opuesto, contra, enfrente, contrario, frente a, frontero opposition: oposición oppressed: apretado oppression: opresión oppressive: oprimido, opresivo optics: óptica orange: naranja, anaranjado, la naranja, naranjo ordinary: ordinario, común organism: organismo organization: organización, organismo organizations: las organizaciones organized: organizado oriental: oriental original: original originally: originalmente ornamental: decorativo, ornamental ours: nuestro ourselves: nosotros mismos outcome: resultado outflanked: flanqueado outlet: salida, toma, desembocadura, toma de corriente outline: esquema, esbozo, perfil, contorno, bosquejo, boceto outlines: contornos overcame: Venció, pret de overcome overcome: superar, superen, supera, superad, superado, superáis, superamos, superan, supere, supero, superas overcoming: superando

The Time Machine overcrowded: apiñado, superpoblado, atestado, atestado de gente, congestionado, masificado, muy lleno overflow: desbordamiento, inundación, inundar, desbordar, rebosadero overflowing: desbordamiento, desbordante overhead: arriba, gastos generales overlook: pasar por alto overnight: de la noche a la mañana overpowered: predominado, abrumado overset: Trastorne, violar tensamente overtaking: adelantando, adelantamiento overturned: invertido, trastornado, volcado overwhelming: abrumador, aplastante, enterrando, contundente overwhelmingly: contundentemente, irresistiblemente, inmensamente, de modo arrollador, arrolladoramente, aplastantemente, abrumadormente, abrumadoramente overwork: exceso de trabajo owl: búho, lechuza pace: paso padding: relleno, acolchado pain: dolor, el dolor, pena, sufrimiento painful: doloroso, penoso painfully: dolorosamente painting: pintura, cuadro, la pintura, pintar pair: par, pareja, emparejar palace: palacio palaces: palacios palaeontological: paleontológico palaeontology: paleontología pale: pálido, palidecer, descolorido pall: cortina, Saciar, Perder Su Sabor, perder el sabor, Palio, paño mortuorio, Empalagar, capa, Cansarse, Cansar, Féretro pallid: pálido pallor: palidez palpitating: palpitando palpitation: palpitación pane: hoja de vidrio, panel, cristal panels: Tableros, paneles panic: pánico panting: jadeante, palpitación papers: papeles paradise: paraíso paradox: paradoja paraffin: parafina parallel: paralelo paralyse: paralizáis, paralizo, paralizas, paralizamos, paralizad, paraliza, paralicen, encadeno,

encadene, encadenas, encadenan parapet: balaustrada, parapeto, pretil parent: padre, madre parental: paternal partake: compartir, compartan, comparto, compartís, compartimos, compartid, compartes, comparte, comparta, comparten partially: parcialmente, en parte parting: separación pass: pasar, adelantar, paso, pase, desfiladero, entregar, pasada, aprobar, alargar, paso de montaña, llegar passage: paso, pasillo, pasaje passed: pasado passing: paso passion: pasión passionate: apasionado patent: patente, patentar, evidente, patente de invención patents: patentes path: sendero, camino, ruta, senda, trayectoria, vía, ruta de acceso, trayecto, recorrido, la senda pathway: camino, senda 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 peace: paz, la paz peach: melocotón, durazno peaked: cresta, alcanzar el máximo, cima, con visera, cúspide, cumbre, puntiagudo, punta, pico, máximo pebble: guijarro peculiar: raro pedestal: pedestal peel: cáscara, pelar, piel, mondar, pelarse peered: mirado peering: mirar pen: pluma, la pluma, corral, un bolígrafo penetrating: penetrando, penetrante pensive: pensativo peptone: peptona perceive: percibir, perciben, percibes, percibe, perciban, percibid, percibimos, percibís, percibo, perciba perceived: percibido perfect: perfecto, perfeccionar perfected: perfecto, perfeccionado perfectly: perfectamente perforce: forzosamente performed: hecho perished: perecido

H.G. Wells permanency: permanencia, puesto fijo, algo definitivo permanent: permanente, continuo perpetual: perpetuo perplexity: perplejidad persisted: persistido persistent: persistente, perseverante persistently: continuamente, persistentemente perspective: perspectiva persuaded: convencido, persuadido persuading: convenciendo, persuadiendo persuasion: persuasión petty: mezquino, insignificante, pequeño petulance: petulancia, mal humor, irritabilidad phantasm: fantasma, ilusión philosophical: filosófico phoenician: fenicio physical: físico physically: físicamente pick: picar, piquen, pican, picamos, picáis, picad, picas, pique, pica, pico, arrancar picked: picado picturesque: pintoresco piece: pieza, pedazo, parte, trozo, tela pieces: material de artillería pile: montón, pilote, pila, pelo, amontonar, estaca piled: amontonado pillar: columna, pilar pillars: pilar pink: rosado, rosa, clavel pinkish: rosado, rosáceo pipe: pipa, cañería, tubo, tubería, conducto, la pipa pistol: pistola pit: zanja, pozo, hoyo, foso, fosa, picadura pitch: paso, pez, grado de inclinación, tono, cabeceo, diapasón, altura, brea, pendiente piteous: patético pitied: compadecido pitiless: despiadado pity: dolerse por, piedad, compadecer a, lástima, compasión placed: situado plain: llanura, llano, claro, evidente, liso, plano plainly: simplemente plaintively: lastimeramente, melancólicamente plane: plano, avión, cepillo, aeroplano, propósito, cepillar, plana planet: planeta, el planeta planets: planetas plants: plantas plate: plato, placa, lámina, libra, el

plato, plancha, chapa, chapar plates: placas plausibility: verosimilitud, plausibilidad plausible: fidedigno, creíble, plausible played: jugado, tocado playing: jugando, tocando, jugar plaything: juguete pleasant: agradable, simpático, placentero, grato pleasure: placer, agrado, gusto, complacencia, el gusto plenty: lleno plight: situación plough: arado, arar plucking: punteo, desnudamiento, arrancar plunged: hundido pocket: bolsillo, el bolsillo, bolsa, casilla pockets: alvéolos poignant: punzante, conmovedor pointed: puntiagudo pointing: rejuntado polished: fino, pulido, esmerado popular: popular porcelain: porcelana pork: carne de cerdo, cerdo portal: entrada, puerta portals: portales portrait: retrato, vertical possessed: poseído possession: posesión, tenencia possibilities: posibilidades possibility: posibilidad possibly: posiblemente, quizás, tal vez postal: tarjeta postal posterity: posteridad potter: alfarero, ceramista poured: vertido powder: polvos, polvo, empolvar, pólvora, el polvo powdery: polvoriento powerful: poderoso, potente, fuerte powers: potestades practicable: transitable, factible, practicable practical: práctico practically: prácticamente precious: precioso, preciosa precipitous: escarpado precision: precisión, exactitud precocious: precoz preface: prefacio, prólogo prejudice: prejuicio premium: premio, prima preoccupation: preocupación preoccupied: preocupado preparations: preparativos prepared: preparado

109 presence: presencia presentation: presentación, oferta, ofrecimiento, proposición presented: presentado presently: por ahora preservation: conservación, preservación preserve: conservar, guardar, preservar, confitura, conserva preserved: en conserva pressed: prensado, apretado, planchado, plegado a presión pressing: urgente, prensado presume: suponer, supone, supongan, suponen, supones, supongo, suponemos, suponéis, suponed, supon, suponga preternaturally: preternaturalmente prettiness: lindeza pretty: bonito, lindo, majo, amable, guapo, bastante, guapa prevented: impedido, prevenido preventive: preventivo previously: anteriormente, previamente, delante preyed: atacado principles: principios print: imprimir, impresión, copiar, estampa, escribir con letras de imprenta, huella proceed: proceder, actuar proceeded: actuado, provenido, avanzado, procedido proceeding: procedimiento, proceder procure: procurarse, procurar, procura, procuro, procuren, procure, procuras, procuran, procuramos, procuráis, procurad prodigious: prodigioso produced: producido professor: catedrático, profesor profile: perfil, perfilar profound: profundo profoundly: profundamente progress: progreso projected: proyectado projecting: sobresaliente, saliente, saledizo, proyectar projection: proyección prolonged: prolongado promise: prometer, prometéis, prometemos, prometen, prometo, promete, prometan, prometa, prometes, prometed, promesa promised: prometido promotion: promoción, ascenso prompt: indicador, aviso proper: conveniente, preciso, correcto, apropiado, propio, debido properly: correctamente, como es debido, debidamente prophecy: profecía

110 proportionately: proporcionalmente proportions: dimensiones proprietary: propietario, patentado protected: protegido protection: protección, amparo, defensa prove: probar, probad, prueban, pruebas, pruebo, probamos, probáis, prueben, prueba, pruebe, verificar proved: evidenciar, demostrar, pret de prove, probado, probar, poner a prueba provincial: provinciano psychologist: psicólogo psychology: psicología publisher: editor puffing: reclamo excesivo, soplar pull: tirar, tiramos, tiráis, tirad, tiran, tiras, tiren, tire, tira, tiro, halar pulled: tirado, halado pulsated: pulsado pump: bomba, bombear, dar a la bomba pumping: bombeo punishment: castigo, escarmiento, punición, pena pupils: alumnado purple: morado, púrpura, purpúreo, lila purpose: fin, objeto, finalidad, propósito, intención purposeless: inútil, indeciso, irresoluto, sin objetivo, sin objeto pursue: perseguir, perseguid, persiguen, persigue, persigo, persigan, persiga, perseguís, perseguimos, persigues pursued: perseguido pursuing: persiguiendo pursuit: persecución, acosamiento push: empujar, empujón, empuje pushed: empujado pushing: emprendedor, molesto, empujar, ambicioso, empuje putrefaction: putrefacción putting: poniendo, metiendo, colocando puzzle: enigma, rompecabezas puzzled: perplejo, desconcertado puzzling: perplejidad, enigmático, enigma, acertijo, adivinanza, embrollo, confundir, embrollar, misterioso, enredar, enredo quack: graznar, matasanos, graznido quaintly: anticuadamente, extravagantemente qualm: náusea quarter: barrio, cuarto, trimestre quarters: cuarta, cuartel, cuarteles, cuarto, alojamiento, cuartos traseros, domicilio, puesto de combate, trasero

The Time Machine quartz: cuarzo queer: raro quick: rápido, pronto quiet: quieto, silencio, tranquilo, calmar, silencioso, sosegar, callado quietly: calladamente, silenciosamente quivering: estremecimiento, vibrante, vibración, tembloroso, vibrar, temblor, parpadeante, estremecerse, carcaj, aljaba, temblador race: raza, carrera, correr, regata raced: competido radiance: resplandor, radiancia, radiación, fulgor, brillantez, luminancia energética ragged: harapiento, mellado, andrajoso, desigual rags: los trapos rail: carril, riel, pasamanos, barandilla, baranda railway: ferrocarril, vía férrea railways: ferrocarriles, valores de ferrocarriles rain: llover, lluvia, la lluvia raised: alzado, elevado, en relieve, levantado, peraltada, recrecido ram: carnero, morueco ran: corrió, participio pasivo del verbo run, pret de run rang: sonó, pret de ring rapidly: rápidamente rapped: golpeado rare: raro rarefied: rarefacido, refinado, rarificarse, rarificar, rarificado, rarefacer, enrarecido rarely: raramente, rara vez raspberry: frambuesa, la frambuesa rats: rata raved: delirado raving: delirio, delirando reach: alcanzar, alcance reached: alcanzado reaching: alcanzar reacquainted: refamiliarizado reaction: reacción readjust: reajustar, reajustas, reajusta, reajusto, reajusten, reajustamos, reajustáis, reajustad, reajustan, reajuste, arreglar de nuevo readjustments: reajustes reality: verdad, realidad realization: realización, inteligencia realize: comprender, entender, darse cuenta de, entended, entiendo, entiendes, entienden, entiende, entiendan, entienda, entendemos realized: comprendido, entendido realizing: comprendiendo, entendiendo rearranged: reorganizado

reasonable: razonable, prudencial reasoning: razonamiento reassure: tranquilizar, tranquilice, tranquilizas, tranquilizan, tranquilizamos, tranquilizáis, tranquilizad, tranquiliza, tranquilizo, tranquilicen, reasegurar reassured: tranquilizado rebellious: rebelde rebounding: rebotar recall: recordar, llamada, hacer volver, recuerdo recalling: recordar recede: retroceder, retrocede, retrocedes, retrocedo, retroceden, retroceded, retrocedan, retrocedemos, retrocedéis, retroceda receded: retrocedido receive: recibir, reciben, recibís, recibimos, recibes, recibe, reciban, recibid, reciba, recibo, tomar received: recibido reckoned: numerado, calculado, considerado recognition: reconocimiento recognize: reconocer, reconozco, reconoced, reconocéis, reconocemos, reconocen, reconozcan, reconoces, reconozca, reconoce recognized: reconocido recondite: recóndito recorded: grabado records: archivos, archivo, registros recover: recuperar, sanar, recupere, sanad, recuperad, recuperáis, recuperamos, recuperan, recuperas, recuperen, recupero recovered: sanado, recuperado, recobrado recovery: recuperación, restablecimiento, curación reddish: rojizo red-hot: candente, salchicha, vigoroso reeds: Peines, totoral reef: roca, arrecife, escollo, arrizar reel: bobina, carrete reeling: Tambalear reference: referencia refined: fino, refinado refinement: refinamiento, finura reflected: reflejado reflecting: reflejando reflection: reflexión, reflejo refrain: estribillo, abstenerse refrained: Refrenado refreshed: refrescado refreshing: refrescando, refrescante refuge: refugio, asilo refused: rehusado regained: recobrado, recuperado regarded: mirado regarding: mirando, con respecto a,

H.G. Wells referente registered: certificado, registrado, nominativo regularity: regularidad reinforced: reforzado rejoined: replicado, reunido related: relacionado, contado, emparentado, conexo relief: alivio, relieve, socorro, asistencia, relevo relieve: aliviar, alivie, alivias, aliviad, alivio, alivien, aliviamos, aliviáis, alivian, alivia, relevar relieved: aliviado, relevado, desahogado relight: volver a arder reluctantly: renuentemente, reaciamente, desganadamente, a regañadientes, de mala gana remade: Rehizo, pret y pp de remake, rehecho remain: quedarse, restar, permanecer, restas, resto, reste, restan, restamos, restáis, restad, resta remained: restado, Permanecido remains: restos, resta, permanece remark: comentario, observación, reparo, censura, nota, notar remarkable: notable remarkably: notablemente remarked: Observado remarks: observaciones remembered: recordado remind: recordar, recuerdo, recuerde, recuerdas, recuerdan, recuerda, recordamos, recordáis, recordad, recuerden reminded: recordado reminds: recuerda reminiscence: reminiscencia remnant: remanente remote: remoto, lejano, apartado, aislado, separado removal: remoción, eliminación removed: quitado, alejado, removido rendering: interpretación renewal: renovación renewed: renovado rent: alquiler, renta, alquilar, arrendar, el alquiler repeated: repetido repeats: repite replaced: sustituido, reemplazado replenishing: repostando, reponiendo, rellenando, llenando, reaprovisionando represent: representar, represente, representad, representáis, representamos, representan, representas, representen, represento, representa, reproducir representations: declaraciones

represents: representa reptilian: reptil repugnance: repugnancia require: necesitar, necesita, necesiten, necesite, necesitas, necesito, necesitan, necesitamos, necesitáis, necesitad, exigir rescue: salvar, rescate, rescatar, socorro, salvamento resemblance: parecido reserve: reservar, reserva, pedir reserved: reservado, reservada resolute: resuelto resolved: resuelto resorted: Recurrido respect: respetar, respeto, estima, estimación rested: descansado resting: anidación, descansar, en reposo restless: inquieto restlessness: desasosiego restore: restaurar, restablecer, restaure, restaurad, restablezca, restableces, restablecen, restablecemos, restablecéis, restableced, restablece restrained: contenido, refrenado, dueño de sí mismo, reprimido resulted: Resultado resumed: reanudado retained: retenido retards: retarda retina: retina retorted: Replicado retreat: retirarse, retirada, retiro retreated: retirado retreating: retirar returned: devuelto returning: volver reverse: inverso, reverso, marcha atrás, revés, parte trasera, al contrario, al revés reversed: al contrario, al revés reversing: reversión, Invertir, inversión reverted: revertido revive: reponerse, reavivar, resucitar, reanimar, reavivan, reaviven, reavive, reavivas, reaviváis, reavivad, reaviva revived: reavivado revolution: revolución, vuelta rhododendron: rododendro rich: rico richer: y todos nosotros somos mucho más ricos por ello richly: ricamente richness: riqueza, abundancia ridicule: ridiculizar, ridículo rigorous: riguroso rill: arroyuelo

111 ringing: zumbido, sonando, sobreoscilación ripe: maduro ripped: rasgado ripple: onda, rizado, rizo, ondulación rise: subir, levantarse, aumento, levantamiento, alza, subida rising: creciente, subida, alcista risks: los riesgos river: río roams: vaga roar: rugido, bramar, rugir, estruendo robe: vestido, toga robes: ropaje rock: roca, balancear, piedra, mecer, peña rocket: cohete, oruga rocks: risco rod: vara, barra, varilla, vástago rolled: arrollado rolling: rodante roof: tejado, techo, el techo, techado, techar roots: raíz, raigambre, raíces rose: rosa, la rosa rotted: pudrido, descompuesto, envanecido, podrido, se macado, corrompido rotting: pudrir, podrido, podriendo, corrompiendo, pudriendo, envaneciendo, descomponiendo, macándose rotundity: rotundidad roughly: ásperamente, aproximadamente, bruscamente roused: espoleado, instigado, animado rubbed: frotado rubbing: frotamiento, fricción, frotación ruddy: rojo rude: grosero, rudo, insolente, descortés rudimentary: rudimentario ruin: ruina, arruinar ruined: arruinado ruinous: ruinoso ruins: ruinas running: corriendo, funcionamiento rush: apresurarse, junco, prisa rushed: apresurarse, a prisa, apresurado, con prisas, prisa, precipitar rust: óxido, herrumbre, moho, oxidación, el moho, aherrumbrar rusting: oxidar rustle: susurro rustling: crujido, crujiente, frufrú, susurrar, susurro, abigeato sable: marta cebellina, negro, marta saddle: montura safe: seguro, caja fuerte, salvo, a

112 salvo, caja de caudales safety: seguridad saline: salino, salado salt: sal, la sal, salar, salado saltpeter: salitre sandals: sandalias sandbank: banco de arena sanitary: sanitario sanitation: higienización, saneamiento satisfaction: satisfacción satisfied: satisfecho, contento, complacido satisfy: complacer, complacen, complazca, complazcan, complaces, complazco, complacéis, complace, complaced, complacemos, satisfacer savage: fiero, salvaje save: guardar, guarda, guardan, guardáis, guardamos, guardas, guarde, guardo, guardad, guarden, salvar saved: guardado, salvado, ahorrado sawn: pp de saw, visto scaffolding: andamiaje scale: escama, escala, incrustación, balanza, ascender, escalar, báscula, subir a scanned: explorado scarce: escaso scarcely: apenas, escasamente scarlet: escarlata scars: cicatrices scattered: disperso, esparcido scene: escena, escenario scepticism: escepticismo schoolmaster: maestro de escuela science: ciencia, la ciencia scientific: científico scintillating: chispeando sconces: fortines scorched: achicharró, asurado score: puntuación, tanteo, marcar, cuenta, partitura, resultado scorn: desdén, desdeñar scramble: cifrar scrambled: revuelto scrap: chatarra, recorte, desechar, sobras, desguazar, de desecho scrape: raspadura, rascar, raspar scratched: rasguñado scream: gritar, chillar, chillido screamed: chillado screaming: llamativo, chillón, chillar, estridente, grito, gritar screws: tornillos scrub: matorral, fregado, maleza sealed: sellado, hermético, estanco search: buscar, búsqueda, busca, registro, investigación searched: buscado seat: asiento, el asiento, sitio, sede,

The Time Machine asentar, sentar seated: sentado seconds: sobras, segundos, artículos de segunda clase secret: secreto, el secreto, arcano, clandestino sections: corte, secciones secure: seguro, fijar, fija, fijen, fije, fijas, fijan, fijamos, fijo, fijad, fijáis secured: fijado, asegurado, afianzado seedless: sin pepitas, sin semillas seeing: viendo, serrando seeking: buscando seeming: pareciendo sees: Ve, serra seized: agarrado, asido selecting: seleccionando, invitación a recibir selective: selectivo self-deception: engaño de sí mismo, ilusión selfishness: egoísmo self-restraint: autodominio semblance: semejanza sends: envía, manda, despacha sensation: sensación, sentimiento senses: juicio, los sentidos, sentido sensible: sensato, razonable sensitive: sensible sensitiveness: sensibilidad, susceptibilidad sent: enviado, mandado, despachado sentiment: sentimiento, opinión, sensibilidad, parecer, sentimentalismo sepia: calamar sepulchre: mausoleo, sepulcro, sepultura, tumba serenity: serenidad seriously: seriamente, gravemente servants: servicio served: servido setting: puesta, ajuste, escena, configuración, cuajado, escenario settled: despachado seventeen: diecisiete, diez y siete shaded: matizado, obscurecido, matiz, matizar, obscurecer, Sombread, sombreado, sombrear, degradado, tono, sombra shadow: sombra, sombreado shadows: oscuridad shadowy: oscuro shaft: eje, árbol, pozo, fuste shafts: ejes shake: sacudir, sacuda, sacudimos, sacudís, sacudid, sacudes, sacuden, sacude, sacudan, sacudo, sacudida shaken: sacudido shaking: sacudiendo, sacudida shaky: inseguro shallow: poco profundo, somero, de

poca profundidad, superficial shape: forma, formar, figura, amoldar, horma, la forma, perfil, conformar shaped: formado, conformado shapes: las formas, formas, aspectos shared: compartido sharer: partícipe sharp: agudo, afilado, sostenido, justamente, acre, cortante, áspero sharpened: afilado, aguzado shattered: estrellado shed: cobertizo, derramar, derramáis, derramo, derramen, derrame, derramas, derramamos, derramado, derramad, derrama sheep: oveja, la oveja sheer: puro sheet: hoja, lámina, sábana, libra, escota, folio, placa, chapa, plancha, sabana sheets: hoja, folio shelter: guardar, abrigo, albergue, refugio, amparo, albergar, abrigar sheltered: albergue, refugiarse, refugiado, protegido, asilo, amparar, abrigo, abrigado, proteger, resguardo, albergar shelters: techados de protección, valores seguros shelves: estantería shifted: cambiado shilling: chelín shin: espinilla shining: brillante, luminoso shirk: esquivar, esquiva, esquiven, esquivas, esquivan, esquivamos, esquiváis, esquivo, esquivad, esquive, eludir shirks: esquiva shiver: tiritar, temblar, escalofrío shivered: tiritado shoes: los zapatos shone: brillado, pret y pp de shine shook: sacudió, pret de shake shoot: tirar, tiren, tiráis, tiramos, tiran, tirad, tire, tiras, tiro, tira, disparar shop: tienda, hacer las compras, ir de compras, almacén, taller shops: denuncia, negocios shoulder: hombro, el hombro, espalda, lisera, banquina, reborde, espaldilla shoulders: espalda, hombros shouted: gritado showed: mostrado, pret de show shower: ducha, la ducha, chaparrón, chubasco showering: llover showing: mostrando, exhibición shows: muestra

H.G. Wells shreds: desbrizna, despedaza shrinking: contracción, encoger, encogimiento shrivelled: marchito, consumido, apergaminado, arrugado, secado shrouded: amortajó shrubby: arbustivo, lleno de arbustos shudder: estremecerse shuddered: estremecido shuffling: que arrastra los pies, evasivo, intercalado, arrastramiento, lento, barajar o barajamiento, barajar, barajada, revolver, evasiva shut: cerrar, cerrado shy: tímido, vergonzoso sick: enfermo sickening: asqueando, empalagando, enfermando, hartando, dar náuseas, cansarse, deprimente, enfermo, hartar, hartarse, nauseabundo sickly: enfermizo sickness: enfermedad sides: costados, Lados sideways: de lado siege: sitio, asedio sigh: suspirar, suspiro sight: vista, aspecto, mira, avistar sightless: ciegas, ciego, ciega, invisible sign: firmar, señal, seña, signo, agüero, letrero, prueba, el letrero, rótulo, muestra signing: firma, firmar signs: señales, carteles de señalización, signo silence: silencio, acallar, hacer callar, el silencio silent: silencioso, mudo, callado silently: silenciosamente, silencioso silhouette: silueta silky: sedoso silver: plata, la plata, plateado silvery: plateado similarly: semejantemente simon: Simón simplicity: simplicidad, sencillez sincere: sincero sing: cantar, cantan, cantas, canten, cantamos, cantáis, canta, cantad, canto, cante singular: original, excepcional, único, individual, raro, singularísimo, solo, extraño singularly: particularmente, singularmente sinister: siniestro sit: sentarse, estar sentado, sentar sitting: sesión, sentada situated: situado sixth: sexto, sexta skeleton: esqueleto, el esqueleto skin: piel, cáscara, la piel, cutis, pelar

skull: cráneo, calavera sky: cielo, el cielo skylight: claraboya, tragaluz, lucernario slackened: aflojado slain: matado slake: apagar, reducirse por slam: golpe slanting: inclinado, sesgo sleep: dormir, duerme, duermes, dormimos, duermen, duermo, dormís, dormid, duerma, duerman, sueño sleepiness: somnolencia, sueño sleeping: durmiendo, durmiente sleepy: soñoliento sleeves: manguitos, mangas slender: fino, esbelto slept: dormido slid: pret y pp de slide sliding: corredizo, deslizamiento slight: leve, desaire slightness: delgadez slime: limo, barro, légamo, baba slipped: resbalado slippers: zapatillas slipping: corrimiento, resbalar slips: comprobantes de pago slope: cuesta, pendiente, inclinación, declive, inclinarse, talud, ladera sloped: atravesado, inclinado sloping: costanero, inclinado, desarrollo de una curva gráfica, sesgo, inclinación, en pendiente sloth: pereza, perezoso slow: lento slower: mas despacio slowest: el más lento slowing: deceleración slowly: lentamente, despacio slowness: lentitud slumbering: dormir smaller: menor smash: rotura, golpear, romper smashed: golpeado smeared: untó smears: manchas smell: oler, olor, apestar, oler mal, olfatear, olfato smelt: eperlano smile: sonrisa, sonreír, la sonrisa, sonreírse smiled: sonreído smiling: sonriente smoke: fumar, fumo, fume, fumas, fuman, fumamos, fumáis, fumad, fuma, fumen, humo smoked: fumado, ahumado, humeado smoking: fumando, humeando, fumar, ahumar smoking-room: fumadero

113 smoky: humeante smote: pret de smite smothered: asfixiar, ahogado, humareda, polvareda, sofocado, sofocar, apagar smoulder: arder sin llama snail: caracol, el caracol snapped: chasqueado snatched: arrebatado sniffed: olido snow: nevar, nieve, la nieve sobbing: sollozar sober: sobrio socks: calcetines soft: blando, suave, tierno, dulce softness: blandura, suavidad soil: tierra, ensuciar, suelo, manchar sole: lenguado, suela, único, solo, planta solemnly: solemnemente solid: sólido, fuerte, macizo solitary: solo, solitario, único solstice: solsticio solution: solución solve: resolver, resuelve, resuelven, resuelves, resolvemos, resolved, resolvéis, resuelvo, resuelvan, resuelva, solucionar solved: resuelto, solucionado sombre: sombrío somehow: de algún modo somewhat: algo, poco, bastante somewhere: en alguna parte sorely: penosamente sorrow: tristeza, pena, dolor soul: alma, espíritu, ánimo source: fuente, origen, manantial, procedencia south-eastern: del sudeste south-eastward: del sudeste, hacia el sudeste southward: hacia el sur, del sur south-westward: hacia el suroeste spark: chispa, echar chispas, chisme spasmodic: espasmódico speak: hablar, hablamos, hablo, hablas, habláis, hablad, hablen, habla, hablan, hable speaking: hablando, parlante specialist: especialista specialization: especialización species: especie specimen: muestra, espécimen specimens: muestras spectacle: espectáculo spectral: espectral speculating: especulando speculation: especulación speculations: especulaciones speech: discurso, habla, lenguaje, oración, conversación, dialecto, idioma

114 speed: velocidad, prisa, rapidez, la velocidad, prontitud speedily: rápidamente spellbound: hechizado spending: gastando, pasando, gasto spent: gastado, pasado sphinx: esfinge spider: araña, cuerpo, estrella, arana spikes: picos, zapatillas con clavos, análisis de añadidos recuperados, estacas, empalars spill: derramar, derrame, derramarse, vertido spinning: hilado, giro spirit: espíritu spite: rencor splendid: espléndido splendour: fausto, pomposidad, fulgor, esplendor, lujo split: dividir, partir, ofender, henderse, división, separarse, grieta, resquebrajarse, raja, separar, partido splitting: división, fraccionamiento splutter: balbuceo, balbucear spoke: decir, radio, rayo, raya, radioactivo, rayo de rueda, hablar, pret de speak, expresar spoken: hablado sport: deporte spot: mancha, punto, sitio, verrugato croca, manchar, mancilla, lugar spots: lunares, granos, bienes con entrega inmediata spread: propagar, extender, difundir, extensión, untar, diferencial, extenderse, cobertor spreading: esparcimiento spreads: producto para untar spring: fuente, muelle, saltar, primavera, resorte, la primavera, manantial, brincar spun: hilado squat: ponerse en cuclillas stab: picar, apuñalar, puñalada staggered: alternado, asombrar, azorar, bamboleo, tambaleado, tambalear, tambalearse, tambaleo, tresbolillo, temblar stagnant: estancado staircase: escalera, la escalera stalks: raspón stamped: estampillado stanching: restañando stand: estar de pie, puesto, levantarse, granero, posición, cabina, soporte, base, estante, caseta, pararse standing: permanente, posición stands: tenderetes, jaulas staple: grapa star: estrella, la estrella, astro stare: mirar fijamente, mirada fija

The Time Machine staring: llamativo starless: sin estrellas starlight: luz de las estrellas starlike: brillante stars: estrellas starting: arranque, comenzar startled: sobresaltado startling: sobresaltando starve: morir de hambre starving: hambriento stationary: estacionario staved: desfondó stayed: quedado, permanecido staying: quedando, permaneciendo steadfastly: fijamente, firmemente, constantemente, invariablemente, inmóvilmente steadily: firmemente, constantemente steady: estable steatite: esteatita steel: acero, ballena, el acero, acerar stems: vástagos step: paso, escalón, peldaño stepped: escalonado stick: pegar, palo, bastón sticks: leño, vara, palillo, adherir, batuta, palo, pegar, ramitas, punzar, picar stiff: rígido, tieso, espeso stillness: quietud stinging: escozor, picar, punzante stir: conmover, revolver, remover, agitar stirred: batido stirring: agitación, conmovedor, emocionante, inspirador, removida, turbulento stolid: estólido stone: piedra, la piedra, cálculo stony: pedregoso stooped: rebajado stooping: inclinar, inclinarse, rebajamiento, rebajar, rebajarse, cargado de espaldas, agachado, agacharse, inclinación, humillarse, encorvado stopped: parado, detenido stopping: parando, deteniendo stops: para, detiene store: tienda, almacenar, almacén, la tienda, memoria, depósito storm: tormenta, tempestad, la tormenta, borrasca, tomar por asalto stoutly: corpulentamente, fuerte, reciamente, resueltamente, robustamente straight: derecho, recto, directamente, recta strain: colar, esfuerzo, deformación, cepa, tensión, torcedura strange: extraño, raro, ajeno strangely: extrañamente

strangeness: extrañeza stranger: forastero, extraño, desconocido stratification: estratificación streak: rayado, raya stream: arroyo, corriente, flujo, chorro, riachuelo, secuencia streamed: corrido streamer: gallardete, serpentina streaming: flujo, difusión de video digital en tiempo real, efecto de canalización, correr, transferencia de datos desde el disco duro strength: fuerza, resistencia, virtud, potencia, fortaleza strengthened: fortalecido stress: tensión, estrés, acento, esfuerzo, acentuar, presión, recalcar, el estrés, la presión stretch: estiramiento, estirar, extender, tramo stretched: estirado stretching: estirar, extensión, estiramiento, estirado, ensanchamiento strict: estricto, severo, riguroso, áspero, inclemente strictly: estrictamente strides: zancadas strike: huelga, golpear, llamar, declararse en huelga, acertar, paro, golpe striking: llamativo strings: instrumentos de cuerda, cuerdas stroke: acariciar, caricia, apoplejía, carrera, golpe, derrame cerebral, recorrido strongly: fuertemente strove: pret de strive struck: pret y pp de strike, golpeado struggle: batalla, forcejeo, lucha, contienda struggled: luchado studs: columnas, tacos stuffed: disecado, ahíto, llenó stuffy: mal ventilado stumble: tropiezo stumbling: tropezar stumps: desconcertado stung: picado, pret y pp de sting stunned: aturdido stupor: estupor style: estilo subjugation: dominación submitted: sometido subsiding: menguando, bajar substance: sustancia, substancia substantives: sustantivo substitute: sustituir, sustituto, suplente, sucedáneo subterranean: subterráneo

H.G. Wells subtle: sutil subtly: disimuladamente, sutilmente succeed: tener éxito, conseguir, consigan, consiguen, consigue, consigo, conseguís, conseguimos, conseguid, consigues, consiga succeeded: conseguido succession: sucesión succulent: zumoso, carnoso, suculento, jugoso, planta carnosa, sabroso, suculenta such-like: semejante sucked: chupado sudden: repentino, brusco, súbito suffer: sufrir, sufres, sufro, sufrís, sufrid, sufren, sufre, sufran, sufrimos, sufra, padecer sufferance: toleranica, tolerancia, sufrimiento, consentimiento, paciencia suffered: sufrido, padecido suffering: sufriendo, padeciendo, sufrimiento sufficient: suficiente, bastante suffocated: sofocado, se ahogado suggested: sugerido, designado, propuesto suggestion: sugerencia, propuesta, proposición suggestive: sugestivo suicide: suicidio suit: traje, convenir, el traje, pleito sullen: malhumorado, triste sulphur: azufre summit: punta, cumbre, superficie, cima, cúspide sun: sol, el sol sunlight: luz del sol, luz solar sunlit: iluminado por el sol sunrise: salida del sol, amanecer sunset: puesta del sol, ocaso, puesta de sol sunshine: sol, solana suppose: suponer, suponéis, supongo, supon, suponed, suponemos, suponen, supones, supongan, supone, suponga supposed: supuesto supposition: suposición, conjetura suppressing: suprimiendo, sofocando, oprimiendo surely: seguramente, ciertamente sureness: confianza, seguridad, firmeza, certidumbre, certeza, lo certero surface: superficie surmounted: vencido, superado surprise: sorprender, sorpresa, la sorpresa surprised: sorprendido surrender: capitular, rendirse, rendición, renuncia, entregar,

entrega, cesión surrounded: rodeado, circundado surveyed: Inspeccionado survival: supervivencia survivals: sobrevivencias survive: sobrevivir, sobrevivo, sobrevivid, sobrevivimos, sobreviven, sobrevive, sobrevivan, sobrevivís, sobrevives, sobreviva survived: Sobrevivido survivors: supervivientes, sobrevivientes suspect: sospechar, dudar, sospechoso suspected: sospechoso, desconfiar de, sospechado, sospechar suspended: suspendido sustained: sostenido, continuo sustaining: sosteniendo swam: Nadó, pret de swim swayed: Oscilado swaying: oscilación, oscilar, ladearse, tambalear, vaivén, que balancea, oscilante, mimbrear, influir en, inclinarse, inclinación lateral sweat: sudor, sudar, transpirar sweeping: barrido sweet: dulce, caramelo, postre swell: hincharse, oleaje, hinchar swept: pret y pp de sweep, barrido swiftly: de prisa, pronto, rápidamente swim: nadar, nadas, nado, naden, nadad, nadan, nadáis, nadamos, nada, nade swimmer: nadador, flotador swinging: balanceo swollen: hinchado swoop: descenso súbito sword: espada swung: Columpiado, pret y pp de swing sympathetic: simpático, compasivo sympathy: simpatía tables: mesas, tablas tail-coat: frac tale: cuento talked: Hablado, charlado tall: alto tampering: manoseando tangle: enredo, caos tangled: enredado tap: grifo, palmadita, toma, llave, espita, derivación task: tarea, quehacer, trabajo tattered: andrajoso tatters: andrajos taught: enseñado, instruido, desacostumbrado tears: desgarra, rasga technical: técnico teeth: dientes, dentadura

115 telegraph: telégrafo, telegrafiar telephone: teléfono, telefonear telling: contando, relatando, narración temerity: temeridad, temor temper: humor, genio, templar, temperamento temperate: templado, moderado tempered: templado temporary: provisional, temporal, temporario temptations: tentaciones tendencies: tendencias tendency: tendencia, tentación tenderness: ternura tension: tensión, voltaje, afán tentative: provisional, tentativa, tentativo tenth: décimo terrace: terraza, terraplén, la terraza terrestrial: terrestre, terrenal terrible: terrible terribly: terriblemente terror: terror terrors: terrores testified: atestiguado, Testificado tethered: atado texture: textura thames: Támesis thanks: gracias, agradece thee: ustedes, te, vosotros, usted, tú theirs: suyo, sus theories: teorías theorizing: teorizando thereby: en consecuencia de esto, por lo tanto therein: en eso, adjunto thereupon: luego, por eso, por tanto, en eso therewith: con esto, además de eso, con eso thick: grueso, espeso, gordo, denso thickened: espesado thickness: espesor, grosor, espesura, grueso thin: delgado, fino, flaco, ralo thinking: pensando, reflexionando, pensamiento, pensante thinner: escaso, fino, flaco, ligero, ralo, enrarecerse, tenue, diluyente, aguarrás, débil, solvente thirst: sed, la sed thirsty: sediento thirty: treinta thither: allá thoughts: pensamientos thousand: mil thousands: miles thread: hilo, rosca, hebra, el hilo threadbare: raído threaded: hilvanar threadlike: filiforma

116 threatening: amenazando, amenazador, conminando, amenazante three-dimensional: tridimensional threshold: umbral threw: pret de throw, Tiró, tiro thrice: tres veces throat: garganta, la garganta throb: latido, latir throw: lanzar, echar, tirar, tirada, arrojar, lanzamiento thrust: empujar, empuje, empujón thud: porrazo thunder: trueno, tronar, el trueno thunderclap: tronido thunderstorm: tormenta, tronada, la tronada thursday: jueves, el jueves tickling: cosquillas tidal: de la marea tied: atado tightly: apretadamente, herméticamente tiled: alicatado, enlozado till: caja, hasta que, hasta, a que timepiece: reloj tint: teñir, tinte tinted: teñido tiny: diminuto tire: neumático, llanta, cansar, cansarse, la llanta, fatigar tired: cansado tiring: fatigoso tobacco: tabaco to-day: hoy toil: trabajo, afanar toiler: trabajador tolerably: tolerablemente tolerance: tolerancia tombs: tumbas to-morrow: mañana tongue: lengua, la lengua, lengüeta tongues: lenguas tools: herramientas topic: tema, asunto torch: antorcha, linterna, soplete tore: pret de tear, rompió torment: tormento touch: tocar, toque, tacto, palpar, contacto, rozar touched: palpar, tocar, tocado, pulsación, toque, emocionado, conmover, chiflado, alcanzar, tacto, conmovido touching: conmovedor towered: dominado towers: torres toy: juguete, el juguete trace: rastro, calcar, impresión, trazar, amojonar, traza, línea, señal, huella, barrido traced: trazado

The Time Machine traces: trazas traditions: tradiciones traffic: tráfico, circulación, tránsito, traficar trailed: Arrastrado trailing: estela, rastrear, rastreo, rastro, seguir, seguir la pista de, sendero, vereda, arrastrar, pista, huella train: tren, adiestrar, el tren, entrenar, entrenarse, ferrocarril, ejercitar trammels: trabas, traba tramp: puta, vagabundo, paso pesado tramps: vagabundos tranquil: tranquilo, sosegado transactions: actas, memorias transit: tránsito, de tránsito transitory: transitorio translucent: translúcido, reluciente transparent: transparente transverse: transverso transversely: transversalmente, tranversamente trap: trampa, atrapar travel: viajar, viaje, viajo, viaja, viajas, viajan, viajamos, viajen, viajad, viajáis, conducir travelled: viaje, moverse, viajado, viajar, viajar por, camino traveller: viajero, viajante travelling: corredizo, de viaje, ambulante, el viajar, itinerante, viajar, viajes traverse: travesaño traversed: Atravesado treasures: tesoros treat: tratar, curar, obsequio tree: árbol trees: árboles trembled: Temblado, tembló trembling: temblar, temblando triassic: triásico tribe: tribu trick: engañar, truco, resabio, mala costumbre tricked: bureado de todo trickery: engaño trickle: goteo tricks: engaños triumph: triunfo triumphed: Triunfado trophy: trofeo tropical: tropical trouble: molestar, prueba, inconveniente, incomodar, molestia, perturbación, problema, dificultad, avería, esfuerzo troubled: molestar, de enfermedad, agitado, problema, desventurado, apurado, molestarse, dificultad, no sabroso, pasado difícilmente, pena troubles: nubes

troublesome: molesto trouser: pantalón, de pantalón trousers: pantalón, pantalones truly: verdaderamente, de veras, en realidad, en efecto, realmente truncated: truncado trusting: confiar truth: verdad, veras, la verdad tug: tirar, remolcador, tirón tumult: tumulto, ruido tumulus: túmulo tunic: túnica tunnel: túnel turf: césped, tepe turning: girando, volviendo, trastornando turns: gira, vuelve, trastorna twenty-four: veinticuatro twenty-three: veintitrés twice: dos veces twigs: leña menuda twilight: crepúsculo, anochecer twinkle: centellear, centellee, centelleo, centellea, centelleen, centelleas, centellean, centelleamos, centelleáis, centellead twinkled: Centelleado twinkling: centelleando twisted: retorcido, torcido ugly: feo ultimate: último ultimately: finalmente, por fin, al fin, ultimadamente unable: incapaz unaccountable: inexplicable unaided: sin ayuda unalterable: inalterable unavoidable: inevitable unavoidably: inevitablemente, forzosamente, ineludiblemente unbroken: irrompible, intacto uncanny: misterioso uncertain: incierto uncertainly: inciertamente uncomfortable: incómodo uncut: sin tallar, no cortado, integral, en bruto, sin abrir, sin cortés, sin cortar, no tallado, sin labrar underground: subterráneo, metro, subsuelo understood: entendido, comprendido underworld: inframundo, mundo de hampa, infierno, infernal, hampa, del hampa, criminal, bajos fondos undulating: Ondular, ondeo unemployed: desempleado, parado, parados, desempleo unendurable: inaguantable, insoportable uneven: desigual, impar, irregular unexpected: inesperado, imprevisto unfamiliar: poco familiar,

H.G. Wells desconocido unfathomable: insondable unfinished: inacabado unfrozen: descongelado ungainly: desgarbado unglazed: sin vidrios unhinged: desquiciado uniform: uniforme uniformly: concordemente, uniformadamente, uniformemente, constante universal: universal universally: universalmente universe: universo unknown: desconocido, incógnita unlike: desemejante unmeaning: involuntario unmistakable: inequívoco, inconfundible unnecessary: innecesario unpleasant: desagradable, bronco, brusco unpolished: áspero unreal: irreal, imaginario unreasonable: irrazonable unsatisfying: poco satisfactorio, insatisfactorio unscrewed: destornillado unseen: no visto unsolved: no resuelto unstable: inestable, inconstante unsuspected: insospechado unsympathetic: incompasivo untravelled: inexplorado upper: superior, alto upset: trastornar, indispuesta, trastorno upstairs: arriba upward: hacia arriba, desde abajo hacia arriba, ascendente urchin: pilluelo useful: útil useless: inútil, inservible usual: común, general, universal, acostumbrado, habitual utilize: aprovechar, aprovecho, aprovechad, aprovecháis, aprovechamos, aprovechan, aprovechas, aproveche, aprovechen, aprovecha, explotar utilized: aprovechado, explotado utopian: utópico utter: absoluto, total, proferir v: foulardar, excitar, velocidad, v, operar, aumentar la torsión, impregnar, aplicar torsión suplementaria, accionar vacant: vacante, vacío, libre vague: vago vaguely: vagamente vain: vano, hueco, vanidoso valley: valle

valves: válvulas vanish: desaparecer, desaparezca, desaparezcan, desapareces, desaparecen, desaparecemos, desaparecéis, desapareced, desaparece, desaparezco vanished: desaparecido vanishing: desapareciendo vapour: vapor, vaho varied: variado variegated: abigarrado variety: variedad, cambio vase: jarrón, vaso, florero vast: vasto vastly: inmensamente, bastamente vegetable: verduras, vegetal, hortaliza, la legumbre, verdura, legumbre vegetarians: vegetarianos vegetation: vegetación veil: velo velocity: velocidad ventilating: ventilando ventilation: ventilación verb: verbo, el verbo verbatim: literalmente, al pie de la letra verdigris: verdín verification: verificación, comprobación verify: controlar, comprobar, revisar, controlamos, controla, controlo, controlen, controle, controlan, controláis, controlad vermin: insectos dañinos, bicho versatility: versatilidad vertical: vertical vertically: verticalmente vestige: vestigio vestiges: vestigios vibrated: vibrado viewed: visto vigil: vigilia vigour: fuerza, virtud villainy: villanía violence: violencia violently: violentamente virtue: virtud visage: visaje, semblante, rostro, gesto visible: visible visibly: visiblemente visitor: visitante vista: perspectiva vitality: vitalidad vivid: vívido, gráfico vividly: vivamente, vívidamente, intensamente, enérgicamente, súbitamente, de modo pintoresco, con rasgos enérgicos volatile: volátil volunteered: Ofrecido

117 voyage: viaje waded: Vadeado wading: vadeando waist: cintura, la cintura, talle wait: esperar, espera, espere, esperad, espero, esperen, esperas, esperan, esperamos, esperáis, aguardar waiting: esperando, espera, aguardando, servicio walk: andar, andamos, ando, anden, ande, andas, andáis, andad, anda, andan, caminar walked: andado, Caminado walking: andando, caminando, ambulante wan: red de área extensa, lívido, pálido wander: desviarse, vagar, vago, fluctuación lenta de fase, vague, errar, vagamos, vaga, vagáis, vagan, vagas wandered: Vagado wandering: errante, vagando wane: menguar, menguad, menguáis, menguamos, menguan, menguas, mengüe, menguo, mengua, mengüen waned: menguado warm: caliente, caluroso, calentar, cálido warn: avisar, aviso, avisa, avise, avisas, avisan, avisamos, avisen, avisad, avisáis, advertir warning: aviso, avisando, advertencia, advirtiendo, amonestación warped: alabeado wash: lavar, lave, lavo, lava, lavad, laváis, lavamos, lavas, laven, lavan, lavarse washed: lavado, lavo waste: desechos, desperdicio, residuo, residuos, detrito, gastar, acabar, desperdicios, derrochar, gasto, desecho wasted: gastado, acabado wasting: acabando, gastando 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 watchword: contraseña waterless: anhidro waved: indicar, ola, oleada, onda, Ondeado, ondear, ondular, señal, señalar, batido waves: olas

118 waving: ondear, señalar, cimbreante, señal, ondular, ondeante, onda, oleada, indicar, ola wax: cera, crema para zapatos, cerumen, crecer, la cera waxen: ceroso weak: débil, flojo weakly: débilmente weakness: debilidad wealth: riqueza, abundancia, caudal weapon: arma weapons: armas wear: llevar, desgaste, usar, tener puesto, vestir, uso, llevar puesto wearisome: fatigoso weary: cansado, fatigado weather: tiempo, el tiempo, clima web: telaraña, red, tejido tela telaraña enredo red trama weed: mala hierba, escardar, cizaña, maleza weeds: malas hierbas, hierbajos weeping: llorando, lloroso, llanto, llorón weight: peso, carga, el peso, asignar un peso a, la pesa, pesa weird: raro, misterioso, extraño welcome: dar la bienvenida, bienvenida, bienvenido, acoger, grato, agradable, acogida, acogen, acojan, acojo, acoges well-known: conocido, sabido, notorio wellnigh: casi weltering: Revolcándose westward: hacia el oeste wet: mojado, húmedo, mojar, humedecer wheel: rueda, la rueda whence: de dónde wherewith: con lo cual whim: capricho, antojo whimper: gimoteo whips: zurriagar whirl: giro rápido, torbellino, dar vueltas whirling: turbulencia whisper: cuchichear, cuchicheo, susurrar, susurro, murmurar whispering: chismes, chismografía, con eco, cuchicheo, de difamación, rumores, susurro, de rumores whistling: silbido whitened: blanqueado whitening: blanqueando wholesome: sano whoop: dar alaridos, echar cana, alarido, divertirse tontamente, gritar, grito de alegría, grito, grite wide: ancho, amplio, vasto, lejos widening: ensanchando, ensanche widespread: extendido

The Time Machine wild: fiero, salvaje, silvestre wilderness: desierto wildly: ferozmente willing: dispuesto, deseoso wind: viento, serpentear, el viento, enrollar, devanar windows: ventanas, ojal wine: vino, el vino wing: ala, el ala, guardabarros, la ala winged: alado wings: bastidores, alas winked: Guiñado wintry: invernal wisely: sabiamente wit: ingenio withal: además withdrawn: retirado withdrew: pret de withdraw, secretar, retiró withered: marchito, marchitado witness: testigo, presenciar, atestiguar, testimonio witnessed: presenciado woke: pret de wake, Despertó wonder: preguntarse, maravilla, asombrarse, prodigio, preguntar wondered: Preguntado wonderful: maravilloso wonderfully: maravillosamente wondering: preguntar wonderment: maravilla, admiración wont: acostumbrado, costumbre wood: madera, leño, bosque, la madera wooded: arbolado wooden: de madera woods: bosque wore: falacia, pret de wear, Llevó worker: trabajador, obrero, laborante workshop: taller, seminario worms: gusanos worn: gastado, usado worse: peor worst: peor wrapped: envuelto, arroparse, chal, cubrir, cubrirse, envoltura, envolver, capa, envolverse, ajustado, manta wrecking: destructivo, demolición, auxilio, destruir wretch: desgraciado wretched: miserable, menesteroso, pobre, infeliz, necesitado, desdichado wretchedness: miseria wriggling: retorciendo wrist: muñeca writer: autor, escritor writhing: retorcer, retorcimiento, retorciendo writing: escribiendo, escritura, letra, inscripción wrote: escribió

wrought: forjado x: equis, incógnita yawned: Bostezó yellow: amarillo yielding: cediendo, rindiendo, rentando yonder: allí, ahí, aquel yore: antaño, de antaño, hace tiempo, tiempos pasados younger: menor yourselves: ustedes mismos zenith: cenit zero: cero, nulo zoological: zoológico

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