ruby
noun
rubí
EN There is a coherence in things, a stability; something, she meant, is immune from change, and shines out (she glanced at the window with its ripple of reflected lights) in the face of the flowing, the fleeting, the spectral, like a ruby.
GL Existe unha certa coherencia, unha certa estabilidade nas cousas; algo, supoñía, que é inmune ó cambio e que brilla (contemplou a ventá, na que se ondulaban os reflexos das luces) fronte ó efémero, o fugaz, o espectral, coma un rubí.
Fonte: CAR (1627)
adjective
colorado
EN He recognized on the sign, however, the ruby face of King George, under which he had smoked so many a peaceful pipe; but even this was singularly metamorphosed.
GL Sen embargo, no letreiro puido recoñece-lo rostro colorado do rei Xurxo, baixo o que tantas veces gozara da tranquilidade dunha pipa; pero incluso aquel retrato sufrira unha estraña metamorfose.
Fonte: RIP (149)
|