Después diría
que era un huerfanito abandonado en las calles, recogido por ella... ni
una palabra referente a quién pudiera ser la mamá ni menos el papá de
tal muñeco.
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Later, she'd claim he was an abandoned orphan found on the street and rescued by her... not a single word about who his mother could be, let alone his father.
Translated by
markvanroode 10207
4 weeks ago
Discussion
For what it's worth, I woul also tend to use 'she would' being a narrative, especially if the text is an older one and this has been the practice throughout.
by Merlin57 3 weeks, 6 days agoOf course, the meaning is the same. Yet, I was taught that contractions were used in dialogues and complete forms in narratives. Of course this is not always true; it depends on the effect you want to create . Here I suppose you prefer a contraction because these are her thougthts. O.K.
by marina 3 weeks, 6 days agoIt is not a modern text though.
'she'd' is short for 'she would' or 'she had'. See: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/she-d#google_vignette
by markvanroode 4 weeks agoMaybe : "she would claim", as this is not a dialogue.
by marina 4 weeks ago