Ana de las Tejas Verdes: 40 palabras para aprender antes de leerlo
Anne of Green Gables
Las 40 palabras que L. M. Montgomery repite una y otra vez en «Ana de las Tejas Verdes» 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.
splendid/ˈspɫɛndɪd/espléndido47 veces en el libro
Isn’t it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about?
brook/ˈbɹʊk/arroyo, arroyuelo40 veces en el libro
Thomas Lynde—a meek little man whom Avonlea people called “Rachel Lynde’s husband”—was sowing his late turnip seed on the hill field beyond the barn; and Matthew Cuthbert ought to have been sowing his on the big red brook field away over by Green Gables.
asylum/əˈsaɪɫəm/asilo, santuario38 veces en el libro
We’re getting a little boy from an orphan asylum in Nova Scotia and he’s coming on the train tonight.”
gable/ˈɡeɪbəɫ/gablete, frontón, aguilón36 veces en el libro
But the spare room was out of the question for such a stray waif, so there remained only the east gable room.
picnic/ˈpɪkˌnɪk/pícnic, jira35 veces en el libro
He felt as he had once felt in his rash youth when another boy had enticed him on the merry-go-round at a picnic.
brooch/ˈbɹoʊtʃ/broche34 veces en el libro
Marilla wore her amethyst brooch to church that day as usual.
thrill/ˈθɹɪɫ/escalofrío34 veces en el libro
I know because of the thrill.
orphan/ˈɔɹfən/huérfano, huérfana, guacho30 veces en el libro
… of course,” said Marilla, as if getting boys from orphan asylums in Nova Scotia were part of the usual spring work on any well-regulated Avonlea farm instead of being an unheard of innovation.
lane/ˈɫeɪn/camino29 veces en el libro
To be sure, the long lane made it a good deal further.
wicked/ˈwɪkəd/malvado, avieso28 veces en el libro
Mrs. Spencer said it was wicked of me to talk like that, but I didn’t mean to be wicked.
delight/dɪˈɫaɪt/complacer, delectar, deleitar28 veces en el libro
You don’t know how delighted I was.
dreadful/ˈdɹɛdfəɫ/empavorecedor, empavoreciente, espantoso27 veces en el libro
I guess that’s why I’m so thin—I am dreadful thin, ain’t I?
orchard/ˈɔɹtʃɝd/huerta, vergel, campo27 veces en el libro
The sun was coming in at the window warm and bright; the orchard on the slope below the house was in a bridal flush of pinky-white bloom, hummed over by a myriad of bees.
temper/ˈtɛmpɝ/temperamento, carácter26 veces en el libro
“A terrible worker and driver,” Mrs. Peter was said to be; and discharged servant girls told fearsome tales of her temper and stinginess, and her family of pert, quarrelsome children.
recite/ɹəˈsaɪt/recitar, declamar26 veces en el libro
Then all the other little girls recited a paraphrase.
spare/ˈspɛɹ/apiadar, dejar a salvo, mostrar misericordia a25 veces en el libro
… however, was spared the ordeal of speaking first, for as soon as she concluded that he was coming to her she stood up …
puff/ˈpəf/con mangas abullonadas24 veces en el libro
“But I’d be ever so much gratefuller if—if you’d made just one of them with puffed sleeves.
pity/ˈpɪti/apiadar, compadecer, condoler23 veces en el libro
My, but I pity him, that’s what.”
blossom/ˈbɫɑsəm/florecer23 veces en el libro
At last they lingered on one away to the left, far back from the road, dimly white with blossoming trees in the twilight of the surrounding woods.
spell/ˈspɛɫ/deletrear, espelear, espeletear23 veces en el libro
But if you call me Anne please call me Anne spelled with an E.”
anyhow/ˈɛniˌhaʊ/de todas formas, de todas maneras, al tuntún22 veces en el libro
She couldn’t be left at Bright River anyhow, no matter what mistake had been made …
exclaim/ɪkˈskɫeɪm/exclamar21 veces en el libro
“Dear, dear,” she exclaimed, “you’re the last folks I was looking for today, but I’m real glad to see you.
clasp/ˈkɫæsp/agarrar20 veces en el libro
She leaned back in the buggy, her thin hands clasped before her, her face lifted rapturously to the white splendor above.
awfully/ˈɑfɫi/muy20 veces en el libro
“It sounds awfully disrespectful to just say Marilla,” protested Anne.
geometry/dʒiˈɑmətɹi/geometría20 veces en el libro
By the end of the term Anne and Gilbert were both promoted into the fifth class and allowed to begin studying the elements of “the branches”—by which Latin, geometry, French …
twilight/ˈtwaɪˌɫaɪt/crepúsculo20 veces en el libro
Below the boughs the air was full of a purple twilight and far ahead a glimpse of painted sunset sky shone like a great rose window at the end of a cathedral aisle.
gasp/ˈɡæsp/jadear20 veces en el libro
“Spelled with an E,” gasped Anne, who, tremulous and excited as she was, was determined there should be no misunderstanding on that important point.
cherry/ˈtʃɛɹi/cerezo, guindo20 veces en el libro
… but the east one, whence you got a glimpse of the bloom white cherry-trees in the left orchard and nodding, slender birches down in the hollow by the brook …
lily/ˈɫɪɫi/azucena, lirio19 veces en el libro
I think it must have had honeysuckle over the parlor window and lilacs in the front yard and lilies of the valley just inside the gate.
fairy/ˈfɛɹi/hada, fada19 veces en el libro
And then Katie Maurice would have taken me by the hand and led me out into a wonderful place, all flowers and sunshine and fairies, and we would have lived there happy for ever after.
hollow/ˈhɑɫoʊ/casco, copa, depresión18 veces en el libro
… knitting “cotton warp” quilts—she had knitted sixteen of them, as Avonlea housekeepers were wont to tell in awed voices—and keeping a sharp eye on the main road that crossed the hollow and wound up the steep red hill beyond.
cordial/ˈkɔɹdʒəɫ/cordial17 veces en el libro
But there’s a bottle half full of raspberry cordial that was left over from the church social the other night.
ambition/æmˈbɪʃən/ambición17 veces en el libro
That is the height of their ambition.
bough/ˈbaʊ/de un árbol rama16 veces en el libro
A huge cherry-tree grew outside, so close that its boughs tapped against the house, and it was so thick-set with blossoms that hardly a leaf was to be seen.
spruce/ˈspɹus/pícea, abeto16 veces en el libro
Beyond it was a hill, green and feathery with spruce and fir; there was a gap in it where the gray gable end of the little house she had seen from the other side of the Lake of Shining Waters was visible.
birch/ˈbɝtʃ/abedul, aliso blanco16 veces en el libro
… whence you got a glimpse of the bloom white cherry-trees in the left orchard and nodding, slender birches down in the hollow by the brook, was greened over by a tangle of vines.
fir/ˈfɝ/abeto16 veces en el libro
On the right hand, scrub firs, their spirits quite unbroken by long years of tussle with the gulf winds, grew thickly.
raspberry/ˈɹæzˌbɛɹi/frambuesa, frambueso16 veces en el libro
… toothsome, raspberry tarts reposing there were divided among ten girls how many bites each girl would have.
delightful/dɪˈɫaɪtfəɫ/deleitoso, deleitable16 veces en el libro
It’s delightful when your imaginations come true, isn’t it?
sensible/ˈsɛnsəbəɫ/sensato, razonable, sesudo16 veces en el libro
I’d ruther Jane or Mary or some sensible name like that.
Traducciones: WikDict, English to Spanish (Wiktionary, CC-BY-SA) Pronunciación: ipa-dict (MIT), a partir de Wiktionary.
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