Pollyanna: 40 palabras para aprender antes de leerlo
Las 40 palabras que Eleanor H. Porter repite una y otra vez en «Pollyanna» 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.
aunt/ˈænt/tía76 veces en el libro
You know she's all the aunt I've got, and I didn't know I had her for ever so long.
frown/ˈfɹaʊn/arrugar el ceño, encapotarse, fruncir el ceño44 veces en el libro
Her mistress frowned.
jelly/ˈdʒɛɫi/gelatina, jalea, jaletina42 veces en el libro
Pollyanna was carrying calf's-foot jelly to Mrs. Snow to-day.
reckon/ˈɹɛkən/coloquial: concluir, como por enumeración y balance de posibilidades40 veces en el libro
“After all, I—I reckon I'm glad she doesn't want me to talk about father,” Pollyanna was thinking.
stairs/ˈstɛɹz/escalera, escalinata, gradas36 veces en el libro
… Nancy,” Miss Polly was saying now, “you may clear the little room at the head of the stairs in the attic, and make up the cot bed.
niece/ˈnis/sobrina32 veces en el libro
My niece, Miss Pollyanna Whittier, is coming to live with me.
anyhow/ˈɛniˌhaʊ/de todas formas, de todas maneras, al tuntún30 veces en el libro
“Well, it's done—my part, anyhow,” she sighed.
jest/ˈdʒɛst/bromear, bufonear28 veces en el libro
But some day—some day I shall jest b'ile over; and when I do, of course it'll be good-by Nancy for me.
attic/ˈætɪk/ático, desván, buhardilla26 veces en el libro
“In the front attic.”
stern/ˈstɝn/severo, adusto, apremiante22 veces en el libro
“Nancy,”—Miss Polly's voice was very stern now—“when I'm talking to you, I wish you to stop your work and listen to what I have to say.”
retort/ˈɹiˌtɔɹt/chistar, contrarreplicar, despachurrar21 veces en el libro
“You don't seem ter see any trouble bein' glad about everythin',” retorted Nancy, choking a little over her remembrance of Pollyanna's brave attempts to like the bare little attic room.
till/ˈtɪɫ/hasta que20 veces en el libro
Father and the Ladies' Aid used to do it, too, till they found I always came back all right.”
queer/ˈkwɪɹ/queer, cuir, non heterosexual18 veces en el libro
She said you'd think 'twas queer.
chuckle/ˈtʃəkəɫ/reír entre dientes18 veces en el libro
Timothy chuckled softly; but Nancy was too disturbed to answer the merry flash from his eyes.
abruptly/əˈbɹəptɫi/abruptamente, en seco18 veces en el libro
Then, abruptly, her aunt opened a door and ascended another stairway.
morrow/ˈmɑɹoʊ/mañana17 veces en el libro
My niece will arrive to-morrow at four o'clock.
murmur/ˈmɝmɝ/hablar o emitir un ruido bajo e indistinguible17 veces en el libro
“I'm so glad now that the screens didn't come,” she murmured, blinking up at the stars; “else I couldn't have had this!”
lamb/ˈɫæm/cordero17 veces en el libro
Mrs. White had pictures, too, perfectly beautiful ones of roses and little girls kneeling and a kitty and some lambs and a lion—not together, you know—the lambs and the lion.
bang/ˈbæŋ/estallido, estruendo, chupinazo17 veces en el libro
… severe-faced woman who frowned if a knife clattered to the floor, or if a door banged—but who never thought to smile even when knives and doors were still.
carpet/ˈkɑɹpət/alfombra, moqueta16 veces en el libro
The Ladies' Aid bought it for me—and wasn't it lovely of them, when they wanted the carpet so?
stammer/ˈstæmɝ/tartamudear, balbucear, balbucir15 veces en el libro
“Yes, ma'am; I will, ma'am,” she stammered, righting the pitcher, and turning hastily.
hurriedly/ˈhɝidɫi/apremiadamente, apresuradamente, apriesa15 veces en el libro
Miss Polly Harrington entered her kitchen a little hurriedly this June morning.
crutch/ˈkɹətʃ/muleta15 veces en el libro
“Why, we began it on some crutches that came in a missionary barrel.”
gasp/ˈɡæsp/boquear, afogar un grito, ahogar un grito15 veces en el libro
gasped Nancy, surprised into an interruption.
choke/ˈtʃoʊk/atragantarse, ahogarse, atarugarse15 veces en el libro
She stopped with a little choking breath.
rejoin/ɹiˈdʒɔɪn/replicar14 veces en el libro
Well, that isn't exactly the word I should use,” rejoined Miss Polly, stiffly.
falter/ˈfɔɫtɝ/perder la fe o el vigor14 veces en el libro
“Of course, ma'am; it was only that I thought a little girl here might—might brighten things up for you,” she faltered.
mistress/ˈmɪstɹəs/ama14 veces en el libro
Nancy had been working in Miss Polly's kitchen only two months, but already she knew that her mistress did not usually hurry.
aloud/əˈɫaʊd/en voz alta, de viva voz, en alto14 veces en el libro
“When I ask a question, Pollyanna, I prefer that you should answer aloud not merely with your head.”
missionary/ˈmɪʃəˌnɛɹi/misionero, misionera, misionario14 veces en el libro
Jennie had preferred these—quite naturally, perhaps; so she had married the minister, and had gone south with him as a home missionary's wife.
bless/ˈbɫɛs/bendecir14 veces en el libro
The idea of stickin' that blessed child 'way off up here in this hot little room—with no fire in the winter, too, and all this big house ter pick and choose from!
pillow/ˈpɪɫoʊ/almohada, citara14 veces en el libro
… selected a nice fat soft one (it contained Miss Polly's sealskin coat) for a bed; and a thinner one to be doubled up for a pillow, and still another (which was so thin it seemed almost empty) for a covering.
clap/ˈkɫæp/aplaudir, batir palmas, dar palmas13 veces en el libro
At one of the windows, a few minutes later, Pollyanna gave a glad cry and clapped her hands joyously.
parlor/ˈpɑɹɫɝ/sala, sala de estar13 veces en el libro
… the wide, flat tin roof of Miss Polly's sun parlor built over the porte-cochere.
ejaculate/ɪˈdʒækjuˌɫeɪt/expeler, expulsar12 veces en el libro
she ejaculated, biting her lip.
heathen/ˈhiðən/pagano, pagana12 veces en el libro
“Oh, for the heathen,” surmised Pollyanna.
prism/ˈpɹɪzəm/prisma12 veces en el libro
It came from the prism pendants encircling the old-fashioned candelabrum in her hand.
homestead/ˈhoʊmˌstɛd/casal, caserío12 veces en el libro
Fifteen minutes later the great clock in the hallway of the Harrington homestead struck six.
erect/ɪˈɹɛkt/enhiesto, erguido12 veces en el libro
The old man drew himself erect.
calf/ˈkæf/ternero, becerro, ternera12 veces en el libro
Aunt Polly says she hopes you are comfortable to-day, and she's sent you some calf's-foot jelly.”
Traducciones: WikDict, English to Spanish (Wiktionary, CC-BY-SA) Pronunciación: ipa-dict (MIT), a partir de Wiktionary.
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