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Yesterday I went down to the market and came away with more than I had intended. The heat lay heavy over everything, and the crowd moved through it wearily. What stayed with me was the smell of the oranges. **Alternatives** The hardest sentence was *Hacía mucho calor y la gente estaba cansada*, where the two clauses are joined by nothing stronger than *y* and the tiredness is left unexplained. 1. "It was very hot, and the people were tired." — the closest rendering, and the flattest. It keeps

**Revised passage** The town is thick with old buildings, and the buildings are coming apart at their seams — brick sloughing, cornices going soft as bread left out in the weather. A plan now exists to make them whole again. The townspeople are glad and, in the same breath, afraid, because the cost is steep. The mayor has said the work will begin in spring, weather permitting. **Feedback** - **Formality of tone** — The original drifts between civic report ("there is a plan to fix them up") an