Middlemarch: 40 palabras para aprender antes de leerlo
Las 40 palabras que George Eliot repite una y otra vez en «Middlemarch» 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.
oblige/əˈbɫaɪdʒ/complacer, favorecer, serviciar81 veces en el libro
He’s very hot on new sorts; to oblige you.”
hinder/ˈhɪndɝ/estorbar, impedir, obstaculizar75 veces en el libro
Certainly such elements in the character of a marriageable girl tended to interfere with her lot, and hinder it from being decided according to custom, by good looks …
till/ˈtɪɫ/hasta que75 veces en el libro
You know, he said that he had forgotten them till then.
fond/ˈfɑnd/querer, tener cariño a70 veces en el libro
“No, I have other things of mamma’s—her sandal-wood box which I am so fond of—plenty of things.
inward/ˈɪnwɝd/interior68 veces en el libro
If Miss Brooke ever attained perfect meekness, it would not be for lack of inward fire.
pity/ˈpɪti/lástima, pena63 veces en el libro
Celia felt that this was a pity.
clergyman/ˈkɫɝdʒiˌmæn/miembro varón del clero clérigo, celebrero61 veces en el libro
… not excepting even Monsieur Liret, the Vaudois clergyman who had given conferences on the history of the Waldenses.
dislike/dɪˈsɫaɪk/aversión, caer gordo, caer mal61 veces en el libro
So Miss Brooke presided in her uncle’s household, and did not at all dislike her new authority, with the homage that belonged to it.
delight/dɪˈɫaɪt/complacer, delectar, deleitar60 veces en el libro
… and was taking her usual place in the pretty sitting-room which divided the bedrooms of the sisters, bent on finishing a plan for some buildings (a kind of work which she delighted in), when Celia …
dread/ˈdɹɛd/temer59 veces en el libro
But he himself dreaded so much the sort of superior woman likely to be available for such a position, that he allowed himself to be dissuaded by Dorothea’s objections …
disagreeable/ˌdɪsəˈɡɹiəbəɫ/desagradable50 veces en el libro
But he was positively obtrusive at this moment, and his dimpled hands were quite disagreeable.
temper/ˈtɛmpɝ/temperamento, carácter50 veces en el libro
It was hardly a year since they had come to live at Tipton Grange with their uncle, a man nearly sixty, of acquiescent temper, miscellaneous opinions, and uncertain vote.
peculiar/pəkˈjuɫjɝ/peculiar, raro50 veces en el libro
… her eyes following the same direction as her uncle’s, she was struck with the peculiar effect of the announcement on Dorothea.
spite/ˈspaɪt/despecho, ojeriza50 veces en el libro
Riding was an indulgence which she allowed herself in spite of conscientious qualms; she felt that she enjoyed it in a pagan sensuous way, and always looked forward to renouncing it.
agreeable/əˈɡɹiəbəɫ/agradable, grato, lisonjero48 veces en el libro
But there may be good reasons for choosing not to do what is very agreeable,” said Dorothea.
chiefly/ˈtʃifɫi/mayormente, máxime47 veces en el libro
… and did not regard his future wife in the light of prey, valuable chiefly for the excitements of the chase.
beforehand/bɪˈfɔɹˌhænd/de antemano, adelantadamente, antes46 veces en el libro
You couldn’t put the thing better—couldn’t put it better, beforehand, you know.
thoroughly/ˈθɝoʊɫi/a cabalidad, a rajatabla, al cabal45 veces en el libro
She was thoroughly charming to him, but of course he theorized a little about his attachment.
clever/ˈkɫɛvɝ/listo, hábil, avispado44 veces en el libro
She was usually spoken of as being remarkably clever, but with the addition that her sister Celia had more common-sense.
ignorance/ˈɪɡnɝəns/ignorancia43 veces en el libro
This elevating thought lifted her above her annoyance at being twitted with her ignorance of political economy, that never-explained science which was thrust as an extinguisher over all her lights.
charm/ˈtʃɑɹm/encanto43 veces en el libro
Yet those who approached Dorothea, though prejudiced against her by this alarming hearsay, found that she had a charm unaccountably reconcilable with it.
carriage/ˈkæɹɪdʒ/coche, carruaje, calesa41 veces en el libro
When she got out of the carriage, her cheeks were pale and her eyelids red.
unpleasant/ənˈpɫɛzənt/desagradable, desapacible, insuave41 veces en el libro
He was not going to renounce his ride because of his friend’s unpleasant news—only to ride the faster in some other direction than that of Tipton Grange.
affection/əˈfɛkʃən/afecto, cariño, afección41 veces en el libro
… vanity, and merely canine affection.
morrow/ˈmɑɹoʊ/mañana40 veces en el libro
“You can go with me to-morrow, if you like.
banker/ˈbæŋkɝ/banquero, banquera40 veces en el libro
… who happened to be a manufacturer; the philanthropic banker his brother-in-law, who predominated so much in the town that some called him a Methodist …
disposition/ˌdɪspəˈzɪʃən/disposición, carácter38 veces en el libro
Miss Brooke argued from words and dispositions not less unhesitatingly than other young ladies of her age.
conscience/ˈkɑnʃəns/conciencia37 veces en el libro
… hardly more than a budding woman, but yet with an active conscience and a great mental need, not to be satisfied by a girlish instruction comparable to the nibblings and judgments of a discursive mouse.
uneasy/əˈnizi/incómodo36 veces en el libro
Dorothea felt a little more uneasy than usual.
afterwards/ˈæftɝwɝdz/después, consecuentemente, en seguida36 veces en el libro
… on plans at once narrow and promiscuous, first in an English family and afterwards in a Swiss family at Lausanne, their bachelor uncle and guardian trying in this way to remedy the disadvantages of their orphaned condition.
contrary/ˈkɑntɹɛɹi/contrario36 veces en el libro
“On the contrary, I am often unable to decide.
bill/ˈbɪɫ/letra35 veces en el libro
For the creditor to whom he owed a hundred and sixty held a firmer security in the shape of a bill signed by Mary’s father.
aunt/ˈænt/tía35 veces en el libro
“My aunt made an unfortunate marriage.
disgust/dɪsˈɡəst/asco, repugnancia, desazón34 veces en el libro
All her dear plans were embittered, and she thought with disgust of Sir James’s conceiving that she recognized him as her lover.
ignorant/ˈɪɡnɝənt/ignorante, chúntaro, desentendido34 veces en el libro
“I am very ignorant—you will quite wonder at my ignorance,” said Dorothea.
utter/ˈətɝ/perorar, resolgar, resollar34 veces en el libro
… present in the king’s mind, but not uttered,” said Mr. Casaubon, smiling and bending his head towards Celia …
offend/əˈfɛnd/ofender34 veces en el libro
… and was unhappy: she saw that she had offended her sister, and dared not say even anything pretty about the gift of the ornaments which she put back into the box and carried away.
fool/ˈfuɫ/tonto, necio, imbécil34 veces en el libro
A man always makes a fool of himself, speechifying: there’s no excuse but being on the right side, so that you can ask a blessing on your humming and hawing.
lately/ˈɫeɪtɫi/últimamente34 veces en el libro
I have been using up my eyesight on old characters lately; the fact is …
backward/ˈbækwɝd/atrás, hacia atrás33 veces en el libro
… the color rose in her cheeks, and her straw bonnet (which our contemporaries might look at with conjectural curiosity as at an obsolete form of basket) fell a little backward.
Traducciones: WikDict, English to Spanish (Wiktionary, CC-BY-SA) Pronunciación: ipa-dict (MIT), a partir de Wiktionary.
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