El libro de la selva: 40 palabras para aprender antes de leerlo
The Jungle Book
Las 40 palabras que Rudyard Kipling repite una y otra vez en «El libro de la selva» 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.
elephant/ˈɛɫəfənt/elefante, elefanta131 veces en el libro
The real reason for this is that man-killing means, sooner or later, the arrival of white men on elephants, with guns, and hundreds of brown men with gongs and rockets and torches.
jungle/ˈdʒəŋɡəɫ/jungla, selva101 veces en el libro
… because Tabaqui, more than anyone else in the jungle, is apt to go mad …
seal/ˈsiɫ/foca, lobo del mar, lobo marino94 veces en el libro
Nobody comes to Novastoshnah except on business, and the only people who have regular business there are the seals.
thou/ˈðaʊ/tú89 veces en el libro
… or by the Sambhur that I killed (I eat no starved cattle), back thou goest to thy mother, burned beast of the jungle …
thee/ˈði/te, ti76 veces en el libro
He shall live to run with the Pack and to hunt with the Pack; and in the end, look you, hunter of little naked cubs—frog-eater—fish-killer—he shall hunt thee!
till/ˈtɪɫ/hasta que71 veces en el libro
For loosed till dawn are we.
monkey/ˈməŋki/mono, mico, chango46 veces en el libro
We do not drink where the monkeys drink; we do not go where the monkeys go; we do not hunt where they hunt; we do not die where they die.
wolves/ˈwʊɫvz/lobos39 veces en el libro
“Good luck go with you, O chief of the wolves.”
herd/ˈhɝd/rebaño, hato, manada38 veces en el libro
The herds are shut in byre and hut
wolf/ˈwʊɫf/lobo, loba38 veces en el libro
“For a wolf, no,” said Tabaqui, “but for so mean a person as myself a dry bone is a good feast.
mule/ˈmjuɫ/mulo, mula, acémila37 veces en el libro
Just as I was getting ready to go to sleep I heard a jingle of harness and a grunt, and a mule passed me shaking his wet ears.
tiger/ˈtaɪɡɝ/tigre36 veces en el libro
Even the tiger runs and hides when little Tabaqui goes mad, for madness is the most disgraceful thing that can overtake a wild creature.
camel/ˈkæməɫ/camello, dromedario, camella33 veces en el libro
Thorn for the camel, fodder for the kine,
buffalo/ˈbəfəˌɫoʊ/búfalo33 veces en el libro
Everybody knew Bagheera, and nobody cared to cross his path; for he was as cunning as Tabaqui, as bold as the wild buffalo, and as reckless as the wounded elephant.
bull/ˈbʊɫ/toro32 veces en el libro
By the bull that I killed, am I to stand nosing into your dog’s den for my fair dues?
bullock/ˈbʊɫək/toro castrado31 veces en el libro
Does he think that our buck are like his fat Waingunga bullocks?”
cub/ˈkəb/cachorro, leoncillo, lobato30 veces en el libro
Mother Wolf lay with her big gray nose dropped across her four tumbling, squealing cubs, and the moon shone into the mouth of the cave where they all lived.
beast/ˈbist/bestia, fiera29 veces en el libro
… which never orders anything without a reason, forbids every beast to eat Man except when he is killing to show his children how to kill, and then he must hunt outside the hunting grounds of his pack or tribe.
mil/ˈmɪɫ/millas25 veces en el libro
Shere Khan was the tiger who lived near the Waingunga River, twenty miles away.
ravine/ɹəˈvin/barranco, cañada22 veces en el libro
When he comes back wait for me in the ravine by the dhâk tree in the center of the plain.
roar/ˈɹɔɹ/rugido21 veces en el libro
The tiger’s roar filled the cave with thunder.
cobra/ˈkoʊbɹə/cobra20 veces en el libro
said half a dozen low voices (every ruin in India becomes sooner or later a dwelling place of snakes, and the old summerhouse was alive with cobras).
mongoose/ˈmɑŋɡus/mangosta20 veces en el libro
He was a mongoose, rather like a little cat in his fur and his tail, but quite like a weasel in his head and his habits.
grunt/ˈɡɹənt/gruñido18 veces en el libro
“The fool has had no more sense than to jump at a woodcutter’s campfire, and has burned his feet,” said Father Wolf with a grunt.
flipper/ˈfɫɪpɝ/aleta17 veces en el libro
When he heaved himself up on his front flippers he stood more than four feet clear of the ground, and his weight …
trumpet/ˈtɹəmpət/barrito, berrido16 veces en el libro
And as soon as there was a lull you could hear his high-pitched yells of encouragement to Kala Nag, above the trumpeting and crashing, and snapping of ropes …
foolish/ˈfuɫɪʃ/tonto16 veces en el libro
Baloo knows it; I know it; the Pack know it; and even the foolish, foolish deer know.
nursery/ˈnɝsɝi/criadero16 veces en el libro
He only wanted room by the sea for his nursery.
frighten/ˈfɹaɪtən/asustar, amedrentar, atemorizar16 veces en el libro
He will frighten every head of game within ten miles, and I—I have to kill for two, these days.”
scratch/ˈskɹætʃ/arañar, rasguñar, rayar16 veces en el libro
It was seven o’clock of a very warm evening in the Seeonee hills when Father Wolf woke up from his day’s rest, scratched himself, yawned …
hind/ˈhaɪnd/trasero15 veces en el libro
… old Baloo, who can come and go where he pleases because he eats only nuts and roots and honey—rose upon his hind quarters and grunted.
howl/ˈhaʊɫ/aullido15 veces en el libro
Then there was a howl—an untigerish howl—from Shere Khan.
picket/ˈpɪkɪt/piquete14 veces en el libro
I will forget my ankle-ring and snap my picket stake.
graze/ˈɡɹeɪz/pastar, pacer, campear14 veces en el libro
At one end stood a little village, and at the other the thick jungle came down in a sweep to the grazing-grounds, and stopped there as though it had been cut off with a hoe.
frog/ˈfɹɑɡ/rana14 veces en el libro
Are there not enough beetles and frogs in the tanks that he must eat Man, and on our ground too!”
tusk/ˈtəsk/colmillo13 veces en el libro
… fat-necked, long-tusked walrus of the North Pacific, who has no manners except when he is asleep—as he was then …
snort/ˈsnɔɹt/bufido, resoplar, resoplido13 veces en el libro
There he checked, for he heard the yell of the Pack hunting, heard the bellow of a hunted Sambhur, and the snort as the buck turned at bay.
obey/oʊˈbeɪ/obedecer13 veces en el libro
Mowgli obeyed faithfully.
mile/ˈmaɪɫ/milla12 veces en el libro
Now to Baloo’s word I will add one bull, and a fat one, newly killed, not half a mile from here, if ye will accept the man’s cub according to the Law.
yoke/ˈjoʊk/yunta, emparejo12 veces en el libro
I heard a chain dragging along the ground, and a yoke of the great sulky white bullocks that drag the heavy siege guns when the elephants won’t go any nearer to the firing, came shouldering along together.
Traducciones: WikDict, English to Spanish (Wiktionary, CC-BY-SA) Pronunciación: ipa-dict (MIT), a partir de Wiktionary.
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