Creo que sí, dijo, tomando los instrumentos de las manos del hombre.
—JOSÉ MÁRMOL.
(c) The conjunctive phrase and so is rendered y así when it is equal to and therefore. When it is equivalent to well, then, it is rendered conque.
We weren't busy, and so we could help them.
Nosotros no estábamos ocupados y así podíamos ayudarlos.
And so you say they are to be here at five o'clock?
Conque, ¿dice usted que han de estar aquí a las cinco?
—PÉREZ GALDÓS.
34. English to keep in its simplest meaning of to retain is rendered guardar or quedarse con. It has many other meanings, most of which may be obtained by paraphrase. So: to keep (observe) a holiday; to keep quiet (be still, stop talking); to keep out (not to enter); to keep in (not to let go out); to keep on (to continue, or not to take off); to keep from (to hinder, prevent, abstain from).