I’m not as opposed as many of my colleagues to using translation in language teaching, so I asked students to translate a few paragraphs from Benjamin Prado’s 2013 novel Ajuste de cuentas. One of the sentences is:
Money works like an axe that splits society in two. On the one side, there are those who have it and on the other, those who dream of having it.
One student came up with the following translation:
Money is an axe that splits society in two: the right-wingers who have money and the left-wingers who want to have it but can only keep fantasizing about it.

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