Oblómov: 40 palabras para aprender antes de leerlo
Oblomov
Las 40 palabras que Iván Goncharov repite una y otra vez en «Oblómov» 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.
inquire/ˌɪnˈkwaɪɹ/consultar, inquerir, inquirir33 veces en el libro
Oblomov inquired.
landlady/ˈɫændˌɫeɪdi/arredataria, casera, terrateniente28 veces en el libro
Your new landlady does not care for such tricks to be played upon her.
exclaim/ɪkˈskɫeɪm/exclamar27 veces en el libro
exclaimed Oblomov.
morrow/ˈmɑɹoʊ/mañana23 veces en el libro
“Because each time you have sent me away, and then put matters off until the morrow.”
weep/ˈwip/llorar, lacrimar, lagrimar23 veces en el libro
Rather, stretch out your hand to the fallen and raise him weep over him if he is lost beyond recall, but in no case make sport of him …
sofa/ˈsoʊfə/sofá, sillón22 veces en el libro
In it there stood a writing-table of redwood, a couple of sofas, upholstered in some silken material, and a handsome screen that was embroidered with birds and fruits unknown to Nature.
aunt/ˈænt/tía22 veces en el libro
Beside the table Oblomov could see seated the aunt of eighty who had always lived with them.
sorrow/ˈsɑɹoʊ/pesar, pena, acíbar21 veces en el libro
Involuntarily he would dream of Militrissa Kirbitievna, and feel attracted towards the country whereof nothing was known except that folk there went for walks, and were free from sorrow and care.
barinseñor18 veces en el libro
“You called me just now, barin?”
intellect/ˈɪnəˌɫɛkt/facultad de conocer y razonar18 veces en el libro
His intellect, his will, his feelings—what do they avail him?
scarcely/ˈskɛɹsɫi/apenas, difícilmente18 veces en el libro
Zakhar retired to his room again, but had scarcely rested his hands against his pallet before stretching himself out, when once more there came a peremptory shout of “Zakhar!
courtyard/ˈkɔɹtˌjɑɹd/patio17 veces en el libro
The courtyard looks quite dark.”
disturb/dɪˈstɝb/molestar, estorbar, importunar17 veces en el libro
Indeed, no sooner had he received the starosta’s first disturbing letter (he had done so three years ago) than he had set about devising a plan for changing and improving the administration of his property.
depart/dɪˈpɑɹt/salir, partir, irse16 veces en el libro
Zakhar departed again, and Oblomov resumed his reverie.
peasant/ˈpɛzənt/campesino, campesina, guajiro16 veces en el libro
Then the peasant, doffing his sheepskin, goes out in shirtsleeves alone, and shades his eyes with’ his hand as gladly he shrugs his shoulders and drinks his fill of the gleaming sunlight.
starostastárost, stárosta14 veces en el libro
The fact of the matter was that, overnight, he had received from the starosta * of his country estate an exceedingly unpleasant letter.
yawn/ˈjɔn/bostezo14 veces en el libro
said Oblomov with a yawn.
gown/ˈɡaʊn/vestido, túnica14 veces en el libro
The costume in question consisted of a dressing-gown of some Persian material—a real Eastern dressing-gown—a garment that was devoid both of tassels and velvet facings and a waist, yet so roomy that Oblomov might have wrapped himself in it once or twice over.
valet/væˈɫeɪ/criado13 veces en el libro
… two other rooms lay at his disposal, but seldom did he look into them save on mornings (which did not comprise by any means every morning) when his old valet happened to be sweeping out the study.
wholly/ˈhoʊɫi/totalmente13 veces en el libro
… now promoted to the dignity of a major-domo, and adorned with whiskers turned wholly grey, was laying a large …
attain/əˈteɪn/obtener mediante esfuerzo conseguir, lograr, alcanzar13 veces en el libro
When shall I attain the life of paradise—the life for which I yearn?
delight/dɪˈɫaɪt/deleite, delicia, gozo13 veces en el libro
“Quite so,” said the delighted littérateur.
kindly/ˈkaɪndɫi/agradable, bondadoso12 veces en el libro
… by February, detect the kindly odour of approaching spring.
mistress/ˈmɪstɹəs/ama12 veces en el libro
… adjudicated upon in detail, and adopted or rejected according to the final decision of the mistress.
dull/ˈdəɫ/chirle, desabrido, insulso12 veces en el libro
Oblomov’s face was neither reddy nor dull nor pale, but of an indefinite hue.
wherefore/wɛɹˈfɔɹ/por qué11 veces en el libro
… and indulge in wholesale immorality; wherefore the beatings have been a just retribution.”
verstversta11 veces en el libro
Why, I know an estate, only fifty versts from yours, where the harvest of last year was so good that it cleared the owner completely of debt.
slumber/ˈsɫəmbɝ/adormecimiento, adormilamiento11 veces en el libro
… and the path more and more tangled, while the consciousness of his condition kept awaking within him less and less frequently—to arouse only for a fleecing moment his slumbering faculties.
gentry/ˈdʒɛntɹi/alta sociedad11 veces en el libro
… so that none but the servants trod it, and at no time did the gentry walk there.
retort/ˈɹiˌtɔɹt/chistar, contrarreplicar, despachurrar11 veces en el libro
“I did not break it,” retorted Zakhar.
veranda/vɝˈændə/porche, galería11 veces en el libro
The veranda actually overhangs the ravine, and to reach it one has with one hand to grasp the herbage, and, with the other, the gable before setting foot upon the structure itself.
hasten/ˈheɪsən/acelerar11 veces en el libro
Tarantiev hastened to cram the note into his pocket.
powerless/ˈpaʊɝɫəs/sin poder / poderío / potencia11 veces en el libro
On a fair summer’s evening he seemed to be sitting at a tea-table on the terrace of Oblomovka—sitting under a canopy of leafy shade which the sun was powerless to penetrate.
handkerchief/ˈhæŋkɝtʃif/pañuelo, mocador, moquero11 veces en el libro
“My handkerchief!”
utter/ˈətɝ/perorar, resolgar, resollar11 veces en el libro
Ever since the world began, they have voiced but the querulous lament of a monster which, everlastingly doomed to torment, utters a chorus of shrill, malicious cries.
torture/ˈtɔɹtʃɝ/suplicio11 veces en el libro
Yet for another halfhour he lay prone under the torture of this resolve; until eventually he decided that such tackling could best be done after tea …
tremble/ˈtɹɛmbəɫ/temblar, rilar, sacudir11 veces en el libro
On seeing his long-dead parent, the sleeping Oblomov’s form trembled with delight and affection, and from under his unconscious eyelids there stole and remained two burning tears....
interval/ˈɪntɝvəɫ/intervalo11 veces en el libro
“Why do you not give me the accounts at intervals instead of in a batch like this?”
cease/ˈsis/dejar, cesar de11 veces en el libro
Also we have been told that we are to cease to make out formal documents in duplicate.
ruin/ˈɹuən/arruinar, desbaratar11 veces en el libro
“That is tantamount to saying that once in that faulty vessel there dwelt the supreme element—that, ruined though the man may be, he is still a human being …
Traducciones: WikDict, English to Spanish (Wiktionary, CC-BY-SA) Pronunciación: ipa-dict (MIT), a partir de Wiktionary.
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