El retrato de Dorian Gray: 40 palabras para aprender antes de leerlo
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Las 40 palabras que Oscar Wilde repite una y otra vez en «El retrato de Dorian Gray» 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.
charm/ˈtʃɑɹm/encanto64 veces en el libro
You seem to forget that I am married, and the one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
murmur/ˈmɝmɝ/murmullo44 veces en el libro
The sullen murmur of the bees shouldering their way through the long unmown grass, or circling with monotonous insistence round the dusty gilt horns of the straggling woodbine …
dreadful/ˈdɹɛdfəɫ/empavorecedor, empavoreciente, espantoso43 veces en el libro
… there have been either so many people that I have not been able to see the pictures, which was dreadful, or so many pictures that I have not been able to see the people …
duchess/ˈdətʃəs/duquesa32 veces en el libro
… much liked by every one who knew her, and of those ample architectural proportions that in women who are not duchesses are described by contemporary historians as stoutness.
hideous/ˈhɪdiəs/chocante, espantoso, feísimo32 veces en el libro
How perfectly hideous they are!
coloured/ˈkəɫɝd/colorado30 veces en el libro
It is not he who is revealed by the painter; it is rather the painter who, on the coloured canvas, reveals himself.
delightful/dɪˈɫaɪtfəɫ/deleitoso, deleitable29 veces en el libro
A bishop keeps on saying at the age of eighty what he was told to say when he was a boy of eighteen, and as a natural consequence he always looks absolutely delightful.
fancy/ˈfænsi/gustar, hacer tilín, ser atraído por29 veces en el libro
… and made a little moue of discontent to Lord Henry, to whom he had rather taken a fancy.
exquisite/ˈɛkskwəzət/exquisito, bonísimo26 veces en el libro
I had a strange feeling that fate had in store for me exquisite joys and exquisite sorrows.
monstrous/ˈmɑnstɹəs/monstruoso25 veces en el libro
Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful.
worship/ˈwɝʃəp/rendir / dar culto, rendir culto23 veces en el libro
No wonder Basil Hallward worshipped him.
till/ˈtɪɫ/hasta que23 veces en el libro
I have always been my own master; had at least always been so, till I met Dorian Gray.
romance/ˈɹoʊmæns/romance23 veces en el libro
It is a silly habit, I dare say, but somehow it seems to bring a great deal of romance into one’s life.
stain/ˈsteɪn/manchar, percudir22 veces en el libro
… thoughts that have filled you with terror, day-dreams and sleeping dreams whose mere memory might stain your cheek with shame—”
exclaim/ɪkˈskɫeɪm/exclamar22 veces en el libro
exclaimed Hallward, frowning.
colour/ˈkəɫɝ/color21 veces en el libro
Some day you will look at your friend, and he will seem to you to be a little out of drawing, or you won’t like his tone of colour, or something.
theatre/ˈθiətɝ/teatro19 veces en el libro
“Let us go to the theatre to-night,” said Lord Henry.
scarlet/ˈskɑɹɫət/escarlata18 veces en el libro
Yes, he was certainly wonderfully handsome, with his finely curved scarlet lips, his frank blue eyes, his crisp gold hair.
shudder/ˈʃədɝ/temblar18 veces en el libro
It makes me shudder when I hear it.
sorrow/ˈsɑɹoʊ/pesar, pena, acíbar18 veces en el libro
… whose joys seem to be remote from one, but whose sorrows stir one’s sense of beauty, and whose wounds are like red roses.
frown/ˈfɹaʊn/ceño, encapotadura, encapotamiento18 veces en el libro
asked Hallward, with a slight frown.
marvellous/ˈmɑɹvəɫəs/formidable17 veces en el libro
It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvellous to us.
pity/ˈpɪti/lástima, pena17 veces en el libro
It will be a great pity, for it will alter you.
mutter/ˈmətɝ/murmurar, mascullar17 veces en el libro
“You should have gone away when I asked you,” he muttered.
horrid/ˈhɔɹəd/horrendo, hórrido16 veces en el libro
The moment one sits down to think, one becomes all nose, or all forehead, or something horrid.
horribly/ˈhɔɹəbɫi/horriblemente16 veces en el libro
“How horribly unjust of you!”
poison/ˈpɔɪzən/emponzoñar, aponzoñar, envenenar16 veces en el libro
Every impulse that we strive to strangle broods in the mind and poisons us.
tremble/ˈtɹɛmbəɫ/temblar, rilar, sacudir16 veces en el libro
His finely chiselled nostrils quivered, and some hidden nerve shook the scarlet of his lips and left them trembling.
fantastic/fænˈtæstɪk/fantástico16 veces en el libro
He was brilliant, fantastic, irresponsible.
silly/ˈsɪɫi/absurdo, bobo, insensato16 veces en el libro
It is silly of you, for there is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
vulgar/ˈvəɫɡɝ/vulgar, chabacano, ramplón15 veces en el libro
The Academy is too large and too vulgar.
spoil/ˈspɔɪɫ/mimar, consentir, malcriar15 veces en el libro
Don’t spoil him.
jewel/ˈdʒuəɫ/joya, alhaite, alhaja15 veces en el libro
The waving of crooked, false-jewelled fingers gave grotesqueness to the words.
absurd/əbˈsɝd/absurdo15 veces en el libro
When we meet—we do meet occasionally, when we dine out together, or go down to the Duke’s—we tell each other the most absurd stories with the most serious faces.
dull/ˈdəɫ/chirle, desabrido, insulso15 veces en el libro
You never open your lips while you are painting, and it is horribly dull standing on a platform and trying to look pleasant.
terribly/ˈtɛɹəbɫi/muy15 veces en el libro
… Dorian Gray’s good looks—we shall all suffer for what the gods have given us, suffer terribly.”
upstairs/əpˈstɛɹz/subiendo las escaleras15 veces en el libro
One could hear her singing as she ran upstairs.
shallow/ˈʃæɫoʊ/que no es intelectualmente profundo15 veces en el libro
But the world might guess it, and I will not bare my soul to their shallow prying eyes.
gilt/ˈɡɪɫt/dorado14 veces en el libro
The sullen murmur of the bees shouldering their way through the long unmown grass, or circling with monotonous insistence round the dusty gilt horns of the straggling woodbine, seemed to make the stillness more oppressive.
fascinating/ˈfæsəˌneɪtɪŋ/que tiene cualidades interesantes14 veces en el libro
I knew that I had come face to face with some one whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if I allowed it to do so …
Traducciones: WikDict, English to Spanish (Wiktionary, CC-BY-SA) Pronunciación: ipa-dict (MIT), a partir de Wiktionary.
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