Meditaciones: 40 palabras para aprender antes de leerlo
Meditations
Las 40 palabras que Marco Aurelio repite una y otra vez en «Meditaciones» 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.
thou/ˈðaʊ/tú857 veces en el libro
'If thou may not continually gather thyself together, namely sometimes do it, at least once a day, the morning or the evening.
unto/ˈəntu/a, hacia, hasta474 veces en el libro
The ideal Wise Man is sufficient unto himself in all things (αὐταρκής); and knowing these truths, he will be happy even when stretched upon the rack.
thee/ˈði/te, ti343 veces en el libro
'Why doth a little thing said or done against thee make thee sorry?
doth/ˈdɔθ/hace268 veces en el libro
'Whatsoever any man either doth or saith, thou must be good;' 'doth any man offend?
thyself/ˌðaɪˈsɛɫf/a ti mismo223 veces en el libro
Whensoever thou wilt rejoice thyself, think and meditate upon those good parts and especial gifts, which thou hast observed in any of them that live with thee:
whatsoever/ˌhwətsoʊˈɛvɝ/cualquiera149 veces en el libro
… and to do my business, whatsoever it be, thoroughly …
thine/ˈðaɪn/tu, tuya, tuyo71 veces en el libro
… like the Roman, bids 'study to withdraw thine heart from the love of things visible'; but it is not the busy life of duty he has in mind so much as the contempt of all worldly things …
wilt/ˈwɪɫt/quieres42 veces en el libro
At what time soever thou wilt, it is in thy power to retire into thyself, and to be at rest, and free from all businesses.
disposition/ˌdɪspəˈzɪʃən/disposición, carácter42 veces en el libro
… as the resemblances and parallels of several virtues, eminent in the dispositions of them that live with thee, especially when all at once …
rational/ˈɹæʃənəɫ/racional41 veces en el libro
… by how much that which ministers unto it doth excel; the one being a rational substance, and a spirit …
philosopher/fəˈɫɑsəfɝ/filósofo, filósofa38 veces en el libro
Cyprus has been from time immemorial a meeting-place of the East and West, and although we cannot grant any importance to a possible strain of Phœnician blood in him (for the Phoenicians were no philosophers), yet it is quite likely that through Asia Minor he may have come in touch with the Far East.
affection/əˈfɛkʃən/afecto, cariño, afección38 veces en el libro
Desire and dislike, opinion and affection, are within the power of the will; whereas health, wealth, honour, and other such are generally not so.
hinder/ˈhɪndɝ/estorbar, impedir, obstaculizar34 veces en el libro
… of what kind of universe it is: And that there is nobody that can hinder thee, but that thou mayest always both do and speak those things which are agreeable to that nature …
presently/ˈpɹɛzəntɫi/en seguida34 veces en el libro
For all these things, if once though but for a while, they begin to please, they presently prevail, and pervert a man's mind, or turn a man from the right way.
worldly/ˈwɝɫdɫi/mundano, mundanal33 veces en el libro
… bids 'study to withdraw thine heart from the love of things visible'; but it is not the busy life of duty he has in mind so much as the contempt of all worldly things, and the 'cutting away of all lower delectations.'
honour/ˈɑnɝ/honor, honra31 veces en el libro
Two years later Faustina brought him a daughter; and soon after the tribunate and other imperial honours were conferred upon him.
conceit/kənˈsit/concepción, concepto, idea30 veces en el libro
To Rusticus I am beholding, that I first entered into the conceit that my life wanted some redress and cure.
behold/bɪˈhoʊɫd/he aquí, mirad30 veces en el libro
Every man's happiness depends from himself, but behold thy life is almost at an end, whiles affording thyself no respect …
contrary/ˈkɑntɹɛɹi/contrario29 veces en el libro
Secondly, when she either is averse from any man, or led by contrary desires or affections, tending to his hurt and prejudice; such as are the souls of them that are angry.
grieve/ˈɡɹiv/contristarse28 veces en el libro
… and as it were an excrescency of the world, for to be grieved and displeased with anything that happens in the world, is direct apostacy from the nature of the universe …
indifferent/ˌɪnˈdɪfɝənt/indiferente, apático, desganado28 veces en el libro
Those outside things which are commonly called good or bad, such as health and sickness, wealth and poverty, pleasure and pain, are to him indifferent (ἀδιάφορα).
fancy/ˈfænsi/la imaginación28 veces en el libro
Spend not the remnant of thy days in thoughts and fancies concerning other men, when it is not in relation to some common good …
conceive/kənˈsiv/concebir28 veces en el libro
By whatever means induced, he had conceived the project of proclaiming himself emperor as soon as Marcus, who was then in feeble health …
soeverquiera25 veces en el libro
… whatsoever it be, and in what respect soever it be, that it is fair and goodly …
offend/əˈfɛnd/ofender25 veces en el libro
It is against himself that he doth offend: why should it trouble thee?'
divine/dɪˈvaɪn/adivinar, divinar25 veces en el libro
The Emperor Hadrian divined the fine character of the lad, whom he used to call not Verus but Verissimus, more Truthful than his own name.
esteem/əˈstim/estima, miramiento, reguardo24 veces en el libro
… (not interrupted, with any other cares and distractions,) in the study and esteem of philosophy: to be bountiful and liberal in the largest measure …
grief/ˈɡɹif/pena, pesar, dolor24 veces en el libro
The emperors great grief was that he must needs engage in the horrors of civil strife.
apprehension/ˌæpɹɪˈhɛnʃən/aprensión22 veces en el libro
He would not hastily give over the search of the matter, as one easy to be satisfied with sudden notions and apprehensions.
whereofde qué20 veces en el libro
… but that thou mayest always both do and speak those things which are agreeable to that nature, whereof thou art a part.
perchance/pɝˈtʃæns/por ventura19 veces en el libro
… and of other faculties, which perchance I might have dwelt upon, if I had found myself to go on in them with success.
commend/kəˈmɛnd/alabar, cumplimentar, elogiar19 veces en el libro
Moreover, that he was never commended by any man, as either a learned acute man …
depart/dɪˈpɑɹt/salir, partir, irse19 veces en el libro
Whatsoever thou dost affect, whatsoever thou dost project, so do, and so project all, as one who, for aught thou knowest, may at this very present depart out of this life.
sociable/ˈsoʊʃəbəɫ/que tiende a socializar o ser sociable18 veces en el libro
… an aged man; a sociable man; a Roman …
whereby/hwɛɹˈbaɪ/con los cuales, mediante el cual, por la cual18 veces en el libro
… but also because that intellective faculty in thee, whereby thou art enabled to know the true nature of things, and to order all thy actions by that knowledge …
deed/ˈdid/hecho, acta, escritura18 veces en el libro
… that whatsoever it is that hath happened unto thee, is in very deed no such thing of itself, as a misfortune …
providence/ˈpɹɑvədəns/cuidado prudente y administración de recursos17 veces en el libro
… or if all things go by chance and fortune, yet mayest thou use thine own providence in those things that concern thee properly; and then art thou well.'
endeavour/ɪnˈdɛvɝ/esforzarme17 veces en el libro
From Claudius Maximus, in all things to endeavour to have power of myself, and in nothing to be carried about …
emperor/ˈɛmpɝɝ/emperador17 veces en el libro
Thus the most religious of emperors came of the blood of the most pious of early kings.
likewise/ˈɫaɪˌkwaɪz/igualmente17 veces en el libro
and how many already, who once likewise prosecuted their enmities, suspected, hated, and fiercely contended, are now long ago stretched out, and reduced unto ashes?
Traducciones: WikDict, English to Spanish (Wiktionary, CC-BY-SA) Pronunciación: ipa-dict (MIT), a partir de Wiktionary.
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