1.1.29
Don Quixote 1.1.29 · He declares it a fine helmet1.1.29He declares it a fine helmet
He rebuilds the helmet, stronger, and decides not to test it again.
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and
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de·JÓ
did failleft off
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to
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to look to himto seem to him
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badbadly
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ease
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had
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smashedmade
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pieces
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tofor
asegurarse17
a·se·gu·RAR·se
guard himselfto make himself safe
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against thisfrom this
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pe·LI·gro
danger
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it
tornó21
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againreturned
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ha·CER
make
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from
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scratchnew
, poniéndole26
po·NIÉN·do·le
putting
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some
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BA·rras
bars
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of
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HIE·rro
iron
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onthrough
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inside
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way
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that
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waswas left
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satisfied
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with
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its
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for·ta·LE·za
strength
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sin
without
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wanting
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ha·CER
to make
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anothernew
experiencia49
ex·pe·RIEN·cia
testexperience
della50
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of it
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appointeddeputed
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asfor
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helmet
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the finestvery fine
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closedfitting
. and the ease with which he had smashed it to pieces did not fail to look bad to him, and, to guard himself against this danger, he made it again from scratch, putting some iron bars on the inside, in such a way that he was satisfied with its strength; and, without wanting to make another test of it, he appointed it and held it as the finest closed helmet.
and the ease with which he had smashed it to pieces did not fail to look bad to him, and, to guard himself against this danger, he made it again from scratch, putting some iron bars on the inside, in such a way that he was satisfied with its strength; and, without wanting to make another test of it, he appointed it and held it as the finest closed helmet.
Interpretation
and he did not like the ease with which he had smashed it to pieces, so to guard against that danger he made it all over again, putting iron bars inside it, until he was satisfied with its strength; and, not wishing to put it to any further test, he declared it and held it to be a very fine closed helmet.
He builds the helmet again and then declines to test it. Experiencia keeps its Latin sense here, “a trial, a test”, the meaning still alive in experimento. The first test failed, and so he simply decides there will be no second one.
Diputó is a word of offices and appointments, the verb behind diputado, a deputy. He appoints the pasteboard to the post of helmet, as a king names an official. Helmets will come back to trouble him: in chapter 21 he takes a barber’s brass basin for the golden helmet of Mambrino.
1.1.30
Don Quixote 1.1.30 · A look at the nag1.1.30A look at the nag
His armor patched, the gentleman turns to his horse, and sees it as far finer than it is.
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He went then to see his nag, and although it had more cracks than a real and more flaws than the horse of Gonela, which was only skin and bones, it seemed to him that neither the Bucephalus of Alexander nor Babieca, the one of the Cid, were a match for him.