Historia de dos ciudades: 40 palabras para aprender antes de leerlo
A Tale of Two Cities
Las 40 palabras que Charles Dickens repite una y otra vez en «Historia de dos ciudades» y que no están entre las 4.000 más comunes del inglés. Apréndelas antes y los primeros capítulos se leerán mucho mejor. Cada una lleva su pronunciación, su traducción y una frase del libro.
knit/ˈnɪt/tricotar, tejer, hacer punto61 veces en el libro
… white with what they suppressed; nor foreheads knitted into the likeness of the gallows-rope they mused about enduring, or inflicting.
carriage/ˈkæɹɪdʒ/coche, carruaje, calesa51 veces en el libro
Say, shall I hire a carriage and post-horses?”
mendercomponedor48 veces en el libro
… as the like of himself had drooped before Monseigneur of the Court—only the difference was, that these faces drooped merely to suffer and not to propitiate—when a grizzled mender of the roads joined the group.
fountain/ˈfaʊntən/fuente, chafariz, fontana42 veces en el libro
At last, swooping at a street corner by a fountain, one of its wheels came to a sickening little jolt …
morrow/ˈmɑɹoʊ/mañana37 veces en el libro
… the iron gates were being closed with a jar and a rattle, and the dismal place was deserted until to-morrow morning’s interest of gallows, pillory …
courtyard/ˈkɔɹtˌjɑɹd/patio35 veces en el libro
The doorway of the staircase gives on the little courtyard close to the left here,” pointing with his hand, “near to the window of my establishment.
patriot/ˈpeɪtɹiət/patriota, repúblico30 veces en el libro
That, this patriot would be produced before them.
bless/ˈbɫɛs/bendecir29 veces en el libro
Mrs. Southcott had recently attained her five-and-twentieth blessed birthday, of whom a prophetic private in the Life Guards had heralded the sublime appearance by announcing that arrangements were made for the swallowing up of London and Westminster.
honour/ˈɑnɝ/honrar, rendir homenaje a28 veces en el libro
… and his body burned alive, because he had not kneeled down in the rain to do honour to a dirty procession of monks which passed within his view, at a distance of some fifty or sixty yards.
pity/ˈpɪti/lástima, pena26 veces en el libro
As he said the words he looked down, with an admiring pity, on the flowing golden hair; as if he pictured to himself that it might have been already tinged with grey.
afterwards/ˈæftɝwɝdz/después, consecuentemente, en seguida25 veces en el libro
She quickly brought them down and handed them in;—and immediately afterwards leaned against the door-post, knitting, and saw nothing.
stairs/ˈstɛɹz/escalera, escalinata, gradas24 veces en el libro
Thus, Monsieur Defarge, in a stern voice, to Mr. Lorry, as they began ascending the stairs.
dreadful/ˈdɹɛdfəɫ/empavorecedor, empavoreciente, espantoso24 veces en el libro
The faintness of the voice was pitiable and dreadful.
nephew/ˈnɛfju/sobrino24 veces en el libro
“My nephew,” said the Marquis, glancing at the supper preparation; “they said he was not arrived.”
gaolercarcelero23 veces en el libro
“You are not the gaoler’s daughter?”
dread/ˈdɹɛd/temer23 veces en el libro
… and always going on the side which Mr. Lorry took, as though he dreaded to be asked any question by the young lady, turned himself about here …
staircase/ˈstɛɹˌkeɪs/escalera, escalera fija, escalinata23 veces en el libro
In the gloomy tile-paved entry to the gloomy tile-paved staircase, Monsieur Defarge bent down on one knee to the child of his old master, and put her hand to his lips.
escort/ˈɛskɔɹt/escoltar23 veces en el libro
The great bell of Saint Paul’s was striking one in the cleared air, when Mr. Lorry, escorted by Jerry, high-booted and bearing a lantern, set forth on his return-passage to Clerkenwell.
summon/ˈsəmən/citar, llamar22 veces en el libro
“She had laid her head upon my shoulder, that night when I was summoned out—she had a fear of my going, though I had none—and when I was brought to the North Tower they found these upon my sleeve.
favour/ˈfeɪvɝ/favor21 veces en el libro
… in combination, had read that article of war which forbade a purpose otherwise strongly in favour of the argument, that some brute animals are endued with Reason …
vain/ˈveɪn/vanidoso, vano20 veces en el libro
He had a good leg, and was a little vain of it, for his brown stockings fitted sleek and close …
heap/ˈhip/montón, pila, cúmulo20 veces en el libro
The beach was a desert of heaps of sea and stones tumbling wildly about, and the sea did what it liked, and what it liked was destruction.
straw/ˈstɹɔ/paja20 veces en el libro
… he had only to shut himself up inside, keep the flint and steel sparks well off the straw, and get a light with tolerable safety and ease (if he were lucky) in five minutes.
faint/ˈfeɪnt/apagado, apenas perceptible, apenas visible20 veces en el libro
A faint voice answered something.
emigrant/ˈɛməɡɹənt/emigrante19 veces en el libro
… treason against the majesty of the people, in that I have acted against them for an emigrant.
lighted/ˈɫaɪtəd/iluminado19 veces en el libro
A face habitually suppressed and quieted, was still lighted up under the quaint wig by a pair of moist bright eyes that it must have cost their owner, in years gone by …
weep/ˈwip/llorar, lacrimar, lagrimar19 veces en el libro
… but I hope it is—if you hear in my voice any resemblance to a voice that once was sweet music in your ears, weep for it, weep for it!
fancy/ˈfænsi/la imaginación19 veces en el libro
After such imaginary discourse, the passenger in his fancy would dig, and dig, dig—now with a spade, now with a great key, now with his hands—to dig this wretched creature out.
tumbrilcarreta18 veces en el libro
… Death, had already set apart to be his tumbrils of the Revolution.
colour/ˈkəɫɝ/color18 veces en el libro
… being of a surface black, with no depth in the colour or form, and much too near together—as if they were afraid of being found out in something …
bosom/ˈbʊzəm/seno, busto, pechera18 veces en el libro
… at once in an auspicious and an evil hour detecting his infamy, had resolved to immolate the traitor he could no longer cherish in his bosom, on the sacred altar of his country.
messenger/ˈmɛsəndʒɝ/mensajero, emisario18 veces en el libro
“I know this messenger, guard,” said Mr. Lorry …
footstep/ˈfʊtˌstɛp/paso18 veces en el libro
On hearing footsteps close at hand, these three turned, and rose, and showed themselves to be the three of one name who had been drinking in the wine-shop.
softly/ˈsɔfɫi/suavemente18 veces en el libro
softly over the coach roof.
shoemaker/ˈʃuˌmeɪkɝ/zapatero, zapatera17 veces en el libro
“I want,” said Defarge, who had not removed his gaze from the shoemaker, “to let in a little more light here.
clasp/ˈkɫæsp/agarrar17 veces en el libro
… in a soothing tone, bringing his left hand from the back of the chair to lay it on the supplicatory fingers that clasped him in so violent a tremble: “pray control your agitation—a matter of business.
darling/ˈdɑɹɫɪŋ/persona muy querida17 veces en el libro
… my love, the darling of my soul, is dead …
mist/ˈmɪst/bruma, neblina17 veces en el libro
There was a steaming mist in all the hollows, and it had roamed in its forlornness up the hill, like an evil spirit, seeking rest and finding none.
cruel/ˈkɹuəɫ/cruel, cruento17 veces en el libro
The deepened marks in the nose, and the lengthening of the fine straight lines in the cruel face, looked ominous as to that …
spare/ˈspɛɹ/apiadar, dejar a salvo, mostrar misericordia a17 veces en el libro
… if the poor lady had suffered so intensely before her little child was born, that she came to the determination of sparing the poor child the inheritance of any part of the agony she had known the pains of, by rearing her in the belief that her father was dead—No …
Traducciones: WikDict, English to Spanish (Wiktionary, CC-BY-SA) Pronunciación: ipa-dict (MIT), a partir de Wiktionary.
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