Sense and Sensibility
Hay palabras que no entendemos. Como cada vez que leemos los clásicos de la literatura en inglés tenemos dificultades en cuanto al vocabulario, a los lugares históricos y geográficos, etc. Veamos algunas palabras, un tanto oscuras, analizadas en contexto.
She was generous, amiable, interesting: she was everything
but prudent.
Their mother had nothing, and their
father only seven thousand pounds in his own disposal; for the remaining moiety of his first wife's fortune was
also secured to her child, and he had only a life-interest in it.