patíbulo

EN Wolfgang's heart sickened within him, and he was turning shuddering from the horrible engine, when he beheld a shadowy form, cowering as it were at the foot of the steps which led up to the scaffold.
GL O corazón de Wolfgang fíxolle sentir noxo no seu interior. Xa lle estaba dando as costas, totalmente arrepiado, a aquel horrible instrumento, cando enxergou unha forma indefinida que estaba encollida ó pé dos chanzos que conducían ó patíbulo.
Fonte: EXP (33)

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cadafalso

EN Not to be too much at leisure is indeed often an advantage: on no occasion of their lives do men generally speak better than on the scaffold and with the executioner at their side: partly, indeed, because they are then most in earnest and unsolicitous about effect; but partly, also, because the pressure of the time sharpens and condenses the faculty of abstracting the capital points at issue.
GL Non estar demasiado ocioso é, de feito, a miúdo unha vantaxe. En ningunha ocasión das súas vidas falan mellor os homes en xeral que no cadafalso, e co executor ó seu carón; parte, ben é certo, porque entón están moi en serio, e despreocupados en canto ó efecto; pero parte tamén, porque a presión do tempo agudiza e condensa a facultade de abstrae-los puntos capitais en xogo.
Fonte: LET (425)

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