Need Help with a Reading Passage – La Casa En Mango Street

Question

Hi,

I'm practicing my Spanish over the summer by reading a Spanish version of Sandra Cisneros' novel, The House On Mango Street.

I need help understanding this passage, in which the narrator is describing the scent of her mother's hair:

"...es el olor de cuando ella te hace un campito en su cama aún tibia de su piel, y una duerme a su lado, cae la lluvia afuera y Papá ronca."

Thank you!

Answer 1

It is the aroma of when she makes you a little space in her bed, still warm from her skin and you sleep next to her, the rain falling outside and Papa snoring.

Aha, I see! Thank you so much! - aschaaff18, Aug 23, 2011

Answer 2

I understand bits and pieces thanks to the translator:

"It's the odor of when she...makes you a field?...in your bed yet...shin of your skin?... and sleeps at your side, rain falls outside, and Papá snores."

But the middle part sounds so silly, of course, because I can't get it.

tibia here is "still warm from her skin"; nothing to do with the bone. caliente, tibia, fría (hot, warm, cold) - 0074b507, Aug 23, 2011

Ohhh okay. I see now. I've never heard of that before! Thanks so much :) - aschaaff18, Aug 23, 2011

Answer 3

What that means is that her mother's hair scent reminds her when she lays in her mother's warm bed and it is still warm, and she sleeps by her side, while its raining outside and her father its snoring...