idleness
noun
desocupación
EN This has its advantages as well as its drawbacks, and accounts for the considerable amount of work done on a small scale: pottery, lace, spinning, weaving (on primitive hand-looms), sabot-making, boat-building --wherever the soil is barren the Galician devises some industry to keep his hands from idleness and his body from starvation.
GL Isto ten as súas vantaxes e os seus inconvenientes e xustifica a grande cantidade de traballo que se fai a pequena escala: cerámica, encaixes, fiado, tecidos (en primitivos teares de man), elaboración de zocos, construcción de barcos, etc. Onde queira que o solo sexa improductivo, o galego argalla algún tipo de actividade para afasta-las súas mans da desocupación e o seu corpo da fame.
Fonte: GAL (284)
ociosidade
EN He told some amusing plantation experiences, recollections of old Iberville and his youth, when he hunted possum in company with some friendly darky; thrashed the pecan trees, shot the grosbec, and roamed the woods and fields in mischievous idleness.
GL Contou experiencias divertidas da plantación, lembranzas do vello Iberville e da súa xuventude, de cando cazaba sarigüeias en compañía dos seus amigos de cor e batían as árbores de pacana, a tiros co picogordo, vagabundeando, na enguedellante ociosidade, polas fragas e polos campos.
Fonte: ESP (1947)
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