SPANISH THROUGH TRANSLATION:
Ex presidente Gerald Ford será sepultado hoy en Michigan
(Ex-president Gerald Ford will be buried today in Michigan.)
Ford será sepultado en los terrenos del museo presidencial que lleva su nombre en Grand Rapids, Michigan.
(Ford will be interred today on the grounds of the presidential museum that bears his name in Grand Rapids, Michigan.)
El ex presidente de Estados Unidos Gerald Ford será sepultado hoy, miércoles, en la ciudad de Grand Rapids, Michigan, con lo que se pone fin a un período de seis días de servicios fúnebres públicos y privados.
(Ex-president of the United States Gerald Ford will be interred today, Wednesday, in the city of Grand Rapids, Michigan. This puts an end to a six-day period of public and private funeral services.)
Jimmy Carter, quien derrotó a Ford en la elección presidencial de 1976, pronunciará un panegírico en el funeral que tendrá lugar en una iglesia de Grand Rapids.
(Jimmy Carter, who defeated Ford in the presidential election of 1976, will give a eulogy that will take place in church in Grand Rapids.)
El trigésimo octavo presidente de Estados Unidos murió el 26 de diciembre, en California, a los 93 años de edad.
(The thirty-eighth president of the United States died the twenty-sixth of December in California, at 93 years of age.)
Vocabulary:
derrotar to defeat
pronunciar to pronouce; to deliver (a speech)
un panegírico a eulogy
una iglesia a church
trigésimo octavo thirty-eighth
ponerse fin a to put an end to
Miles de personas han esperado durante horas frente al museo para pasar frente al féretro de Ford, que ha estado en capilla ardiente desde el martes en la tarde.
(Thousands of people have waited for hours in front of the museum in order to pass before the coffin of Ford, which has been lying in state since Tuesday afternoon.)
Durante el funeral, el martes, en la Catedral Nacional de Washington, el presidente Bush recordó a Ford como un hombre cuyo carácter trajo calma y sanó las heridas durante uno de los momentos más divisivos en la historia de Estados Unidos.
(During the funeral Tuesday in National Cathedral at Washington, President Bush recalled Ford as a man who character bought calm and healed wounds during on of the most the most divisive moments of the history of the United States.)
Vocabulary:
calma calm
sanar to heal
divisivo divisive
durante during
el féretro the coffin
estar en capilla ardiente to be in state ; to lie in state
uno de los… más … one of the most…
pasar frente a to pass before/in front of
Original Spanish source: Voice of America