Los hermanos Karamázov: 40 palabras para aprender antes de leerlo
The Brothers Karamazov
Las 40 palabras que Fiódor Dostoyevski repite una y otra vez en «Los hermanos Karamázov» 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.
elder/ˈɛɫdɝ/mayor226 veces en el libro
At her death almost exactly the same thing happened to the two little boys as to their elder brother, Mitya.
monk/ˈməŋk/monje175 veces en el libro
In the evening of the same day he got drunk and abused the monks to Alyosha.
till/ˈtɪɫ/hasta153 veces en el libro
… and so that all be spent on them exclusively, with the condition that it be so portioned out as to last till they are twenty-one, for it is more than adequate provision for such children.
peasant/ˈpɛzənt/campesino148 veces en el libro
… kept in terror from her childhood, fell into that kind of nervous disease which is most frequently found in peasant women who are said to be “possessed by devils.”
afterwards/ˈæftɝwɝdz/después, consecuentemente, en seguida143 veces en el libro
He lived for many years afterwards abroad, but was at that time quite a young man …
monastery/ˈmɑnəˌstɛɹi/monasterio132 veces en el libro
His splendid estate lay on the outskirts of our little town and bordered on the lands of our famous monastery, with which Pyotr Alexandrovitch began an endless lawsuit …
scoundrel/ˈskaʊndɹəɫ/canalla, bribón, villano89 veces en el libro
An attractive theory for scoundrels!
exclaim/ɪkˈskɫeɪm/exclamar88 veces en el libro
exclaimed Dmitri furiously.
devil/ˈdɛvəɫ/diablo, demonio87 veces en el libro
It’s impossible, I think, for the devils to forget to drag me down to hell with their hooks when I die.
ashamed/əˈʃeɪmd/avergonzado, apenado, abochornado82 veces en el libro
… and he seemed to be expecting something, ashamed about something, while his brother Ivan …
spite/ˈspaɪt/despecho, ojeriza80 veces en el libro
… that Fyodor Pavlovitch, in spite of his parasitic position, was one of the bold and ironical spirits of that progressive epoch …
contrary/ˈkɑntɹɛɹi/contrario78 veces en el libro
… but not from shyness or a sullen unsociability; quite the contrary, from something different …
haste/ˈheɪst/prisa, apuro, acucia76 veces en el libro
… but as the latter had no family of his own, and after securing the revenues of his estates was in haste to return at once to Paris, he left the boy in charge of one of his cousins …
mutter/ˈmətɝ/murmurar, mascullar74 veces en el libro
Miüsov had time to mutter again.
bless/ˈbɫɛs/bendecir74 veces en el libro
… as it were, all over when the elder came out to the gates of the hermitage into the waiting crowd of pilgrims of the humbler class who had flocked from all parts of Russia on purpose to see the elder and obtain his blessing.
insult/ˈɪnˌsəɫt/insulto, denuesto, improperio73 veces en el libro
She was still alive, and had not, all those eight years, forgotten the insult done her.
fond/ˈfɑnd/querer, tener cariño a73 veces en el libro
He had known Proudhon and Bakunin personally, and in his declining years was very fond of describing the three days of the Paris Revolution of February 1848, hinting that he himself had almost taken part in the fighting on the barricades.
delight/dɪˈɫaɪt/deleite, delicia, gozo71 veces en el libro
“That I certainly will, without fail,” cried Fyodor Pavlovitch, hugely delighted at the invitation.
sofa/ˈsoʊfə/sofá, sillón71 veces en el libro
Father Zossima sat down on a very old-fashioned mahogany sofa, covered with leather …
weep/ˈwip/llorar, lacrimar, lagrimar70 veces en el libro
He understood it, but that the elder Zossima was this saint and custodian of God’s truth —of that he had no more doubt than the weeping peasants and the sick women who held out their children to the elder.
murderer/ˈmɝdɝɝ/asesino, asesina, homicida66 veces en el libro
I, a thief and murderer, am the only true Christian Church.’
tremble/ˈtɹɛmbəɫ/temblar, rilar, sacudir65 veces en el libro
He trembled for him, for his glory, and dreaded any affront to him, especially the refined, courteous irony of Miüsov and the supercilious half-utterances of the highly educated Ivan.
positively/ˈpɑzətɪvɫi/positivamente64 veces en el libro
… the young man had an unmistakable influence over his father, who positively appeared to be behaving more decently and even seemed at times ready to obey his son, though often extremely and even spitefully perverse.
fancy/ˈfænsi/la imaginación64 veces en el libro
What gave the marriage piquancy was that it was preceded by an elopement, and this greatly captivated Adelaïda Ivanovna’s fancy.
utter/ˈətɝ/perorar, resolgar, resollar63 veces en el libro
… slipped to the floor, tried to hide himself without uttering one word of abuse, enduring their insults in silence.
clever/ˈkɫɛvɝ/listo, hábil, avispado62 veces en el libro
This habit, however, is characteristic of a very great number of people, some of them very clever ones, not like Fyodor Pavlovitch.
conscience/ˈkɑnʃəns/conciencia62 veces en el libro
… that he had acquired the keenest intuition and could tell from an unknown face what a newcomer wanted, and what was the suffering on his conscience.
fool/ˈfuɫ/tonto, necio, imbécil62 veces en el libro
But, if you begin to play the fool I don’t intend to be associated with you here.
instant/ˈɪnstənt/instantáneo61 veces en el libro
The strange and instant healing of the frantic and struggling woman as soon as she was led up to the holy sacrament, which had been explained to me as due to malingering and the trickery of the “clericals,” arose probably in the most natural manner.
mamma/ˈmɑmə/mama60 veces en el libro
“I told mamma you’d be sure not to go.
frighten/ˈfɹaɪtən/asustar, amedrentar, atemorizar59 veces en el libro
… to accept everything without the least condemnation though often grieving bitterly: and this was so much so that no one could surprise or frighten him even in his earliest youth.
ruin/ˈɹuən/arruinar, desbaratar59 veces en el libro
And would you believe it, it ruined our business!
nonsense/ˈnɑnsɛns/disparate, sinsentido, tontería57 veces en el libro
An outer show elaborated through centuries, and nothing but charlatanism and nonsense underneath,” flashed through Miüsov’s mind.
unhappy/ənˈhæpi/no feliz56 veces en el libro
In the end this unhappy young woman, kept in terror from her childhood …
tavern/ˈtævɝn/taberna, caramanchel, chinchel55 veces en el libro
In a short time he opened a great number of new taverns in the district.
aloud/əˈɫaʊd/en voz alta, de viva voz, en alto54 veces en el libro
All that time she was obtaining exact information as to her Sofya’s manner of life, and hearing of her illness and hideous surroundings she declared aloud two or three times to her retainers: “It serves her right.
jealous/ˈdʒɛɫəs/celoso52 veces en el libro
… You wanted to put me in prison because you are jealous of me with her, because you’d begun to force your attentions upon her …
coffin/ˈkɔfɪn/ataúd, féretro, cajón52 veces en el libro
Fyodor Pavlovitch could not show him where his second wife was buried, for he had never visited her grave since he had thrown earth upon her coffin, and in the course of years had entirely forgotten where she was buried.
bow/ˈbaʊ/doblar52 veces en el libro
He only listened to Grigory’s minute and solemn account of the erection of the tomb; he stood with bowed head and walked away without uttering a word.
inquire/ˌɪnˈkwaɪɹ/inquirir, informarse, inquerir50 veces en el libro
She did inquire about him, but she did not know the proper place to inquire.
Traducciones: WikDict, English to Spanish (Wiktionary, CC-BY-SA) Pronunciación: ipa-dict (MIT), a partir de Wiktionary.
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