El principito: 40 palabras para aprender antes de leerlo
The Little Prince
Las 40 palabras que Antoine de Saint-Exupéry repite una y otra vez en «El principito» 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.
prince/ˈpɹɪns/príncipe, infante184 veces en el libro
He has gone to sleep…” And that is how I made the acquaintance of the little prince.
sheep/ˈʃip/oveja, carnero41 veces en el libro
It said: “If you please — draw me a sheep!”
geographer/dʒiˈɑɡɹəfɝ/geógrafo, geógrafa23 veces en el libro
“I am a geographer,” said the old gentleman.
baobabbaobab20 veces en el libro
It was in this way that I heard, on the third day, about the catastrophe of the baobabs.
lamplighter/ˈɫæmˌpɫaɪtɝ/farolero17 veces en el libro
There was just enough room on it for a street lamp and a lamplighter.
volcano/vɑɫˈkeɪnoʊ/volcán15 veces en el libro
He carefully cleaned out his active volcanoes.
sunset/ˈsənˌsɛt/ocaso, puesta del sol, puesta de sol15 veces en el libro
Bit by bit I came to understand the secrets of your sad little life… For a long time you had found your only entertainment in the quiet pleasure of looking at the sunset.
tame/ˈteɪm/domar, amansar, domeñar14 veces en el libro
“I am not tamed.”
constrictor/kənˈstɹɪktɝ/constrictor13 veces en el libro
It was a picture of a boa constrictor in the act of swallowing an animal.
thorn/ˈθɔɹn/espina, aguate / ahuate / afate / guate, ajuate / uguate / huate13 veces en el libro
“Even flowers that have thorns?”
explorer/ɪksˈpɫɔɹɝ/explorador, exploradora13 veces en el libro
Here is an explorer!”
conceited/kənˈsitəd/presuntuoso, creído, engreído11 veces en el libro
The second planet was inhabited by a conceited man.
tippleresponja10 veces en el libro
The next planet was inhabited by a tippler.
switchmanguardagujas8 veces en el libro
“Good morning”, said the railway switchman.
yawn/ˈjɔn/bostezar8 veces en el libro
And, after working with all this painstaking precision, she yawned and said: “Ah!
extinct/ɪkˈstɪŋkt/de un rasgo geológico: que ya no está activo8 veces en el libro
He also had one volcano that was extinct.
inhabit/ˌɪnˈhæbət/habitar, vivir, morar8 veces en el libro
Remember, I had crashed in the desert a thousand miles from any inhabited region.
magnificent/mæɡˈnɪfəsənt/magnífico, macanudo, pulento8 veces en el libro
Once when I was six years old I saw a magnificent picture in a book, called True Stories from Nature, about the primeval forest.
mil/ˈmɪɫ/mil7 veces en el libro
The first night, then, I went to sleep on the sand, a thousand miles from any human habitation.
pulley/ˈpʊɫi/polea, roldana, carrillo7 veces en el libro
“Everything is ready for use: the pulley, the bucket, the rope…” He laughed, touched the rope, and set the pulley to working.
lighted/ˈɫaɪtəd/encendió7 veces en el libro
And he lighted his lamp again.
globe/ˈɡɫoʊb/globo7 veces en el libro
… and added to himself, “This flower is a very complex creature…” “At night I want you to put me under a glass globe.
bushes/ˈbʊʃəz/arbustos5 veces en el libro
“It is true, isn’t it, that sheep eat little bushes?”
muzzle/ˈməzəɫ/bozal, mordaza5 veces en el libro
I will draw you a muzzle for your sheep.
asteroid/ˈæstɝˌɔɪd/asteroide, planetoide5 veces en el libro
I have serious reason to believe that the planet from which the little prince came is the asteroid known as B-612.
obey/oʊˈbeɪ/obedecer5 veces en el libro
… “if I ordered a general to change himself into a sea bird, and if the general did not obey me, that would not be the fault of the general.
butterfly/ˈbətɝˌfɫaɪ/mariposa5 veces en el libro
Does he collect butterflies?”
disturb/dɪˈstɝb/molestar, estorbar, importunar5 veces en el libro
Again the little prince disturbed my thoughts: “And you actually believe that the flowers — ” “Oh, no!”
pencil/ˈpɛnsəɫ/lápiz5 veces en el libro
And after some work with a colored pencil I succeeded in making my first drawing.
elephant/ˈɛɫəfənt/elefante, elefanta5 veces en el libro
It was a picture of a boa constrictor digesting an elephant.
queer/ˈkwɪɹ/extraña4 veces en el libro
What a queer idea!”
thirst/ˈθɝst/sed4 veces en el libro
And yet my little man seemed neither to be straying uncertainly among the sands, nor to be fainting from fatigue or hunger or thirst or fear.
thirsty/ˈθɝsti/sediento, tener sed, sediente4 veces en el libro
“He has never been either hungry or thirsty.
salute/səˈɫut/saludo militar / marcial / partidario / organizacional / organizativo, venia / salutación / saludación afiliada4 veces en el libro
“It is to raise in salute when people acclaim me.
petal/ˈpɛtəɫ/pétalo4 veces en el libro
They had only one ring of petals; they took up no room at all; they were a trouble to nobody.
scarcely/ˈskɛɹsɫi/apenas, difícilmente4 veces en el libro
It was a question of life or death for me: I had scarcely enough drinking water to last a week.
sorrow/ˈsɑɹoʊ/pesar, pena, acíbar4 veces en el libro
And once again, without understanding why, I had a queer sense of sorrow.
exclaim/ɪkˈskɫeɪm/exclamar4 veces en el libro
Then they would exclaim: “Oh, what a pretty house that is!”
cough/ˈkɑf/toser4 veces en el libro
Embarrassed over having let herself be caught on the verge of such a naïve untruth, she coughed two or three times, in order to put the little prince in the wrong.
flush/ˈfɫəʃ/se sonrojó4 veces en el libro
And he flushed.
Traducciones: WikDict, English to Spanish (Wiktionary, CC-BY-SA) Pronunciación: ipa-dict (MIT), a partir de Wiktionary.
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