Carmen: 40 palabras para aprender antes de leerlo
Las 40 palabras que Prosper Mérimée repite una y otra vez en «Carmen» 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.
gipsygitano75 veces en el libro
You must see I’m a gipsy!
cigar/sɪˈɡɑɹ/puro, cigarro, habano14 veces en el libro
At the same time I pulled out my cigar-case.
blunderbusstrabuco13 veces en el libro
In the other he held a brass blunderbuss.
mantilla/mænˈtɪɫə/mantilla11 veces en el libro
When she drew near me, the woman let the mantilla which had covered her head drop on her shoulders, and “by the dim light falling from the stars” I perceived her to be young …
recognise/ˈɹɛkəɡˌnaɪz/reconocer9 veces en el libro
I sat upright, and then I thought I recognised Antonio.
bull/ˈbʊɫ/toro9 veces en el libro
“While I was hiding at Granada there were bull-fights there, to which Carmen went.
brigandbandido8 veces en el libro
I had no doubt at all I was in the company of a smuggler, and possibly of a brigand.
morrow/ˈmɑɹoʊ/mañana8 veces en el libro
So he’s to be garrotted the day after to-morrow, without fail.* So you see one theft more or less won’t affect his position.
dialect/ˈdaɪəˌɫɛkt/dialecto8 veces en el libro
In every Romany dialect a number of Greek words appear.
smuggler/ˈsməɡəɫɝ/contrabandista8 veces en el libro
The masons were working at it in the daytime, and at night a sentinel was posted on it, to prevent smugglers from getting in.
comrade/ˈkɑmˌɹæd/camarada, compañero, compañera8 veces en el libro
Like him, perchance, my comrade was musing over the home he had forfeited, the exile he had earned, by some misdeed.
inquire/ˌɪnˈkwaɪɹ/consultar, inquerir, inquirir8 veces en el libro
So I bestowed a friendly nod on the man with the blunderbuss, and inquired, with a smile, whether I had disturbed his nap.
fancy/ˈfænsi/la imaginación8 veces en el libro
In the stable, I fancy.
devil/ˈdɛvəɫ/diablo, demonio, mengue8 veces en el libro
To-day I’ll go and eat ices with a servant of the devil.
gitana/dʒiˈtænə/gitana7 veces en el libro
I then had time to take a leisurely view of my gitana, while several worthy individuals, who were eating their ices, stared open-mouthed at beholding me in such gay company.
till/ˈtɪɫ/hasta7 veces en el libro
His complexion, which may once have been fine, had been tanned by the sun till it was darker than his hair.
coin/ˈkɔɪn/una pieza de moneda moneda, numerario7 veces en el libro
Then she bade me cross my left hand with a silver coin, and the magic ceremonies duly began.
traveller/ˈtɹævəɫɝ/viajero, viajera, navegante6 veces en el libro
It was impossible to imagine any more delightful halting place for a traveller.
castanetscastañuelas6 veces en el libro
“The whole party was assembled in the patio, and in spite of the crowd I could see nearly everything that went on through the lattice.* I could hear the castanets and the tambourine, the laughter and applause.
delightful/dɪˈɫaɪtfəɫ/deleitoso, deleitable6 veces en el libro
He did not know the name of the delightful valley in which we were sitting, he could not tell me the names of any of the neighbouring villages …
cloak/ˈkɫoʊk/palio, pendil, percal6 veces en el libro
Meanwhile I had stretched myself out on the mule rugs, having carefully wrapped myself up in my own cloak, so as to avoid touching them.
sergeant/ˈsɑɹdʒənt/sargento6 veces en el libro
The old woman, when she was questioned by the sergeant, admitted that she knew Navarro …
acquaintance/əˈkweɪntəns/amistad, conocimiento, junta6 veces en el libro
I had yet another motive for prosecuting her acquaintance.
frighten/ˈfɹaɪtən/asustar, amedrentar, atemorizar6 veces en el libro
… because I told them that not all their Seville jacques,** and all their knives, would frighten an honest lad from our country, with his blue cap and his maquila!
seller/ˈsɛɫɝ/vendedor, vendedora6 veces en el libro
I have been insulted here, because I don’t belong to this land of rogues and sellers of rotten oranges; and those hussies are all banded together against me …
depart/dɪˈpɑɹt/salir, partir, irse6 veces en el libro
That instant he turned his back on me and departed at a great pace.
spite/ˈspaɪt/despecho, ojeriza6 veces en el libro
I was hoping the stranger might gradually fall into a confidential mood, and in spite of my guide’s winks, I turned the conversation to the subject of highwaymen.
fool/ˈfuɫ/tonto, necio, imbécil6 veces en el libro
How can you be such a fool as that?
whence/ˈhwɛns/de ahí, de donde5 veces en el libro
… and I noticed that he did not pronounce the letter s* in the Andalusian fashion, whence I concluded he was a traveller, like myself …
quay/ˈkeɪ/muelle, embarcadero5 veces en el libro
At Cordova a great many idlers collect, toward sunset, in the quay that runs along the right bank of the Guadalquivir.
acacia/əˈkeɪʃə/acacia, chacalshúchil5 veces en el libro
She had thrown her mantilla back, to show her shoulders, and a great bunch of acacia that was thrust into her chemise.
piastrepiastra5 veces en el libro
Then the Englishman stood up, gave me a piastre, and offered his arm to Carmen, as if she couldn’t have walked alone.
lighted/ˈɫaɪtəd/se posó5 veces en el libro
… most heartily, my eye lighted, at some distance from the path I was following …
astonished/əˈstɑnɪʃt/asombrado, turulato5 veces en el libro
Her face astonished you, at first sight, but nobody could forget it.
robber/ˈɹɑbɝ/ladrón, ladrona, chori5 veces en el libro
But I had heard so much about robbers, that, never seeing any, I had ceased to believe in their existence.
mistress/ˈmɪstɹəs/amante, querida, barragana5 veces en el libro
“I had often heard talk of certain smugglers who travelled about Andalusia, each riding a good horse, with his mistress behind him and his blunderbuss in his fist.
temper/ˈtɛmpɝ/temperamento, carácter5 veces en el libro
What he said I could not catch, but the tone of his voice revealed the fact that he was in a very evil temper.
fond/ˈfɑnd/querer, tener cariño a5 veces en el libro
“Do me the kindness to sing me something,” I said to him, “I’m passionately fond of your national music.”
scarf/ˈskɑɹf/bufanda, chalina5 veces en el libro
“Do you happen to have a handkerchief, a scarf, or a mantilla, that he gave you?”
lieutenant/ɫuˈtɛnənt/teniente5 veces en el libro
… followed by a young man, a lieutenant in our regiment.
Traducciones: WikDict, English to Spanish (Wiktionary, CC-BY-SA) Pronunciación: ipa-dict (MIT), a partir de Wiktionary.
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