etimología:

las palabras castellanas "trabajo" y "trabajar", del castellano antiguo trebejare (esfuerzo, esforzarse), no derivan de la usual latina labor (que da las castellanas "labor" y "laborar"), sino de una tortura de la antigua roma cuyo nombre era tripalĭum (tres palos) y del verbo tripaliāre (torturar o torturarse).[1

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etymology:

the spanish word "trabajo" and "trabajar" (to work), from old castilian trebejare (effort, to make an effort), don't come from the latin word labor (which in spanish become "labor" and "laborar"), but from a torture from antique rome which name was tripalium (three sticks) and from the verb tripalare (to torture or torture oneself)

dentro de cinco años:
él-muerto de aburrimento
ella-aterrizaje en la tierra
yo-en los túneles, donde los gusanos enormes metálicos

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in five years:
he-deathly bored
she-arrival to the earth
me-in the tunnels, where the huge metalic worms

"...he didn't have many friends. he knew lot of them, yes, he was laughing with a lot of them (he was always laughing), he made jokes, but his friends were rather a few or none..."

("los detectives salvages"-"the savage detectives" de/by roberto bolaño)