Spanish–English parallel text
Es una broma
It Is a Joke
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Son las siete en punto de la mañana. La señora Berg está de pie en las escaleras.
It is seven o’clock in the morning. Mrs Berg stands at the stairs.
«Este es su trabajo», dice. «Todas. Use agua caliente».
“This is your job,” she says. “All of them. Use hot water.”
«¿Cuántos escalones hay?».
“How many stairs are there?”
«Esta noche sus manos pueden decirlo».
“Tonight your hands can say.”
Son las ocho en punto. Nina limpia el escalón veinte.
It is eight o’clock. Nina is cleaning stair twenty.
Son las diez en punto. Nina limpia el escalón cincuenta.
It is ten o’clock. Nina is cleaning stair fifty.
Este hotel es pequeño, pero tiene muchos escalones.
This hotel is small, but it has very many stairs.
Max entra. Tiene nieve en el pelo.
Max comes in. There is snow in his hair.
Sube las escaleras limpias. Ahora no están limpias.
He walks up the clean stairs. Now they are not clean.
Se sienta en el escalón diez.
He sits on stair ten.
La señora Berg sale de detrás de su mostrador.
Mrs Berg comes out from behind her desk.
Mira a Max. Max mira a la señora Berg.
She looks at Max. Max looks at Mrs Berg.
Nina para de trabajar. Conoce esto. Sara y Max hacen esto cada día.
Nina stops working. She knows this. Sara and Max do this every day.
Sara siempre para primero.
Sara always stops first.
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