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Spanish to English: El avión de la bella durmiente-Gabriel García Marquez General field: Art/Literary Detailed field: Poetry & Literature
Source text - Spanish Era bella, elástica, con una piel tierna del color del pan y los ojos de almendras verdes, y tenía el cabello liso y negro y largo hasta la espalda, y una aura de antigüedad que lo mismo podía ser de Indonesia que de los Andes. Estaba vestida con un gusto sutil: chaqueta de lince, blusa de seda natural con flores muy tenues, pantalones de lino crudo, y unos zapatos lineales del color de las bugambilias. «Esta es la mujer más bella que he visto en mi vida», pensé, cuando la vi pasar con sus sigilosos trancos de leona, mientras yo hacía la cola para abordar el avión de Nueva York en el aeropuerto Charles de Gaulle de París. Fue una aparición sobrenatural que existió sólo un instante y desapareció en la muchedumbre del vestíbulo.
Translation - English She was beautiful, elastic, with a tender, ivory-coloured skin and green almond shaped eyes, her hair was smooth and black and waist length; she had an ancient aura, the kind that could have been Indonesia or The Andes. Her outfit was delicate: lynx jacket, natural silk blouse with soft flowers, nude linen trousers and high-heeled shoes, the colour of bougainvillea’s: "This is the most beautiful woman I have ever seen in my life," I thought when I saw her walking with a lion-like stride, while I was queuing to board the New York plane in the Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris. It was a paranormal apparition that existed just for an instant and vanished into the crowd in the lobby.
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