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Spanish to English: Fragmento de la película "ROMA" de Alfonso Cuarón General field: Art/Literary Detailed field: Other
Source text - Spanish Es la madrugada del miércoles 11 de noviembre de 1970, suena la alarma de un despertador en el cuarto de servicio. Cleo se despierta y la apaga para luego sentarse en la cama mientras la luz del alba entra por la ventana. La casa está en silencio y Adela duerme plácida en su cama. Pero ella no se siente muy bien, el día la sorprende con una sensación de náusea.
De repente Cleo se levanta y toma rápidamente la ropa de la silla y se acomoda los zapatos mientras camina apurada hacia la puerta y sale para bajar corriendo las escaleras, atravesar el patio pequeño y poder llegar al baño, donde ella vomita. El baño se encuentra limpio pero no ha tenido mantenimiento en mucho tiempo. La minúscula regadera no tiene cortina y el escusado no tiene asiento ni tapa en el tanque de agua. En el lavamanos, dos cepillos de dientes y un tubo apachurrado de Colgate. En una pequeña repisa, un frasco de nívea y una veladora apagada. Cleo decide tomar un baño y este se cubre inmediatamente en una nube de vapor.
Luego de alistarse para comenzar su rutina, Cleo sale de la cocina y cruza la casa que está aún en penumbras, aunque tras las ventanas del patio, ya recibe la primera luz del día. Llega a las escaleras y sube para despertar a los niños y ayudarlos a prepararse para comenzar el día.
Cleo primero despierta a Sofi y le susurra:
‘Mi chiquita… Mi chiquita bonita…’
Y le hace delicadas cosquillas en la cintura -
‘Despierta, despierta… despierta, despierta…ya amaneció y un nuevo día llegó…’
Las cosquillas saben como ejercito de hormigas por el torso de Sofi, quien sonríe pero finge seguir durmiendo. Cleo continúa:
‘y van subiendo poquito a poco’
Sofi por fin quiebra y ríe y mueve los brazos, modorra. Cleo, con un tono dulce le dice:
‘Bueno días princesita…’
Sofi la abraza del cuello. Y Cloe le insiste:
‘Ándali, ya levántate’
Sofi se levanta y dice:
‘Voy al baño’
Sofi sale del cuarto y cruza adormilada el hall mientras Cloe acomoda un uniforme de escuela limpio sobre la cama. La señora Teresa sale de su recámara y ve a Sofi a punto de entrar al baño y la saluda:
‘Bueno días, Sofi’
Sofi entra al baño sin voltearse y le responde:
‘Buenos días, abui’
Y cierra la puerta. La Señora Teresa baja las escaleras.
Mientras tanto, Cleo se sienta en la cama de Pepe y le da un beso asegurándose de no despertarlo y sale del cuarto. En el hall, prende la luz y entra al cuarto de Toño y Paco, que duermen profundamente. Se pone de cuclillas junto a Toño, le acaricia la cabeza y le susurra:
‘Toño, Toño, Toño… mi amor, ya hay que despertarse…’
Toño responde molesto diciendo:
‘Ya estoy despierto…’
Cloe sube las manos al aire y dice en tono burlón:
‘¡Ay! ¡Si ya está despierto! ¡Ay, que no lo toquen!
Toño se levanta, gruñón, y sale del cuarto para usar el baño pero Toño toca la puerta del baño y Sofi responde:
‘¡Ocupado!’
Toño toca la puerta otra vez y más fuerte:
‘¡Apúrate!’ ‘¡Tengo que entrar!’
A lo que Sofi le responde gritando:
‘¡Ya Voy!’
Al mismo tiempo,Cloe se sienta al pie de la cama de Paco, le saca un pie de las sábanas y le pone los calcetines sin despertarlo. Después, lo sienta recargado en ella y le quita la parte superior del pijama. En el hall, Toño sigue tocando la puerta del baño -
Se lo escucha a Toño insistir:
¡Que te salgas!
Sofi sale de baño y le dice a su hermano en un tono molesto:
‘¡Ya! ¡Pásale!’
Toño entra al baño y cierra la puerta gritando: ¡Gorda!
Sofi regresa a su cuarto mientras Cleo continua vistiendo a Paco, quien despierto ya se sienta en la cama luego de que Cleo consiguió ponerle la camiseta y le indica ‘Anda, termina de vestirte’. Paco obedece y se quita los pantalones del pijama. Cleo abandona el cuarto para ir a ayudara Sofi.
Translation - English It’s Wednesday morning and the alarm goes off in the domestic service room. Cleo, as soon as she wakes up, turns the alarm off and sits on her bed. First morning rays are shining through the window. The house is quiet and Adela is deeply asleep. But Cleo doesn’t feel right, she has a sudden nausea that makes her get up quickly grabbing some clothes from the chair and try to put on her shoes while heading towards the door in a rush. She runs down the stairs and gets into the tiny bathroom. She throws up. The bathroom where she finds herself is clean but it hasn’t been carried out any maintenance for a long time. The minuscule shower doesn’t have a curtain, the toilet doesn’t have a seat and the tank cover is missing. On the sink, two toothbrushes and a squeezed Colgate toothpaste tube. On a small shelf, a Nivea jar and a candle. Cleo, already feeling better and having some spare time before starting to work, decides to take a hot shower and the bathroom gradually covers in a thick cloud of steam.
After getting ready to start her daily routine, Cleo leaves the kitchen, goes across the patio and gets in the house, still in the shadow, even though some light beams reach the house through the patio windows. She goes up the stairs to wake up the kids and help them get ready to start the day. Cleo wakes up Sofi first so she gets into her room.
‘My little girl, my beautiful little girl,’ Cleo whispers. And gently tickles Sofi on her waist.
‘Wake up, wake up, it’s time to wake up, the sun is already up and a new day has arrived,’ she continues in a soft tone. The tickling sensation of an ant army crawling all throughout Sofi’s body, makes her smile but she’s still pretending to be asleep.
‘The tiny ants go up little by little,’ Cleo adds in a sweet, calm voice. Finally, Sofi laughs and stretches her arms in a lazy, slow way.
‘Morning, little princess…,’ said Cleo in a gentle voice. Sofi, still half asleep, stretches her arms to hug Cleo from the neck.
‘C’mon, get up!’ insists Cleo in a mild tone.
‘I’ll go pee,’ Sofi says.
‘Ok, then go!’ replies Cleo.
And, still sleepy, Sofi leaves the room and goes to the bathroom while Cleo starts laying down Sofi’s clean school uniform on the bed.
Mrs. Teresa comes out of her room and sees Sofi about to get into the bathroom.
‘Morning, Sofi,’ said Mrs. Teresa in a kindly voice.
Sofi goes into the restroom.
‘Morning, granny,’ she replies without turning around and shuts the door.
Mrs. Teresa goes down the stairs while Cleo sits on Pepe’s bed and kisses him on his cheeks trying not to wake him up. Then, she turns the hallway lights on and walks into Toño’s and Paco’s room, where both kids are deeply asleep. She kneels by Toño and stokes his hair.
‘Toño, Toño, Toño… it’s time to wake up, my love…,’ she whispers. Toño, without turning around, takes her hand away.
‘I’m already awake…,’ he says.
‘Ay ! He’s already awake! Ay, Don’t touch him!’ says Cleo rising up her arms in a jokey way.
And Toño gets up all grumpy and leaves the room to use the restroom. He knocks on the bathroom door impatiently.
’Busy!’ Sofi says in a clear voice. Toño knocks on the door again, but this time harder.
‘Hurry up, I have to use the bathroom!’
‘I’ll be done soon!’ cried Sofi.
While everyone is trying to start the day and get ready, Cleo sits on Paco’s bed, takes one of his feet under the sheets out and starts putting his socks on without waking him up. Then, she goes on sitting him straight and takes his pajamas shirt off. At the hallway, Toño is still knocking at the door asking his sister to leave the bathroom.
‘Get out!’
Sofi comes out of the restroom.
‘Done! All yours!’ she said in a loud voice.
Toño gets in the restroom quickly and, while closing the door, he shouts ‘Chubby!’
Sofi goes back to her room ignoring what Toño has just shouted at her. Cleo was able to put Paco his shirt on. He is already awake sitting on the bed.
‘Go, finish getting ready,’ Cleo asks him nicely. Paco obeys and takes off his pjs pants. Cleo goes across the hallway to get to Sofi’s room and start helping her get ready for school.
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