13 spanish books

Hace ya siglos (/it was/ centuries ago now) que en una gran ciudad (that in a big city), capital de un reino (the capital of the kingdom), cuyo nombre no importa saber (whose name is not important to know), vivía una pobre y honrada viuda (/there/ lived a poor and honest widow) que tenía una hija de quince abriles (who had a fifteen-year-old daughter: "a daughter of fifteen Aprils"), hermosa como un sol (beautiful as a sun) y cándida como una paloma (and innocent as a dove; cándido — innocent; simple; snow-white).

La excelente madre se miraba en ella como en un espejo (the excellent mother looked upon her as if in a mirror), y en su inocencia y beldad juzgaba poseer una joya riquísima (and in her innocence and beauty she thought she possessed the most splendid jewel; juzgar — to judge; think; consider; rico — rich; splendid) que no hubiera trocado por todos los tesoros del mundo (that she would not have traded for all the treasures of the world; trocar — to barter; trade).