Jiří Šalamoun's Tristram Shandy (3)

If ’tis wrote against any thing,——’tis wrote, an’ please your worships, against the spleen; in order, by a more frequent and a more convulsive elevation and depression of the diaphragm [bránice], and the succussations of the intercostal and abdominal muscles in laughter [smích], to drive the gall [zlač] and other bitter juices, from the gall bladder [žlučník], liver [játra] and sweet-bread [brzlík] of his majesty’s subjects, withal the inimicitious passions which belong to them, down in their duodenums [dvanácník].

Vol. IV, Chap. XXII

příbuznost - kinship, otec - father, matka - mother, dcera - daughter, syn - son

myšlenka - idea, thought, Anglie - England, Francie - France, Řím - Rome, Řecko - Greece

The first thing which entered my father’s head, after affairs were a little settled in the family, and Susannah had got possession of my mother’s green sattin night-gown,—was to sit down coolly, after the example of Xenophon, and write a TRISTRA-pœdia, or system of education for me.

 Vol. V, Chap. XVI

zevně - outside, uvnitř - inside, nos - nose

 smutný pes - sad dog

Now the radical moisture is not the tallow or fat of animals, but an oily and balsamous substance; for the fat and tallow, as also the phlegm or watery parts are cold; whereas the oily and balsamous parts are of a lively heat and spirit, which accounts for the observation of Aristotle, “Quod omne animal post coitum est triste.”

Vol. V, Chap. XXXVI