La historia del doctor Dolittle: 40 palabras para aprender antes de leerlo
The Story of Doctor Dolittle
Las 40 palabras que Hugh Lofting repite una y otra vez en «La historia del doctor Dolittle» 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.
monkey/ˈməŋki/toquetear58 veces en el libro
And when that red-faced booby started to monkey with me, I just couldn’t bear it any more.”
parrot/ˈpɛɹət/loro, papagayo, cotorra35 veces en el libro
But his favorite pets were Dab-Dab the duck, Jip the dog, Gub-Gub the baby pig, Polynesia the parrot, and the owl Too-Too.
sail/ˈseɪɫ/navegar, navegar a vela, hacer velerismo27 veces en el libro
And I sail the ocean Blue.
till/ˈtɪɫ/hasta que20 veces en el libro
… like the dormice and the water-voles and the bats, they will have to go back and live in the fields where they were born till we come home again.
sailor/ˈseɪɫɝ/marinero, marino, grumete17 veces en el libro
The parrot, Polynesia, was sitting in the window looking out at the rain and singing a sailor-song to herself.
jungle/ˈdʒəŋɡəɫ/jungla, selva17 veces en el libro
I hear footsteps in the jungle!”
snuff/ˈsnəf/rapé16 veces en el libro
“Snuff, by Jingo!—Black Rappee snuff.
downstairs/ˈdaʊnˈstɛɹz/abajo14 veces en el libro
So Polynesia took him downstairs into the inside of the ship and showed him the beds, set all on top of one another like book-shelves against a wall.
crocodile/ˈkɹɑkəˌdaɪɫ/cocodrilo, crocodilo13 veces en el libro
And another time, when the circus came to Puddleby, the crocodile who had a bad toothache escaped at night and came into the Doctor’s garden.
pirate/ˈpaɪɹət/barco pirata12 veces en el libro
When they reached the shore they saw the pirate-ship, with the three red sails …
anchor/ˈæŋkɝ/ancla, áncora, anclote12 veces en el libro
And you must have beef in cans—and an anchor.”
shark/ˈʃɑɹk/tiburón, escualo12 veces en el libro
“The sharks!
palace/ˈpæɫəs/palacio11 veces en el libro
WHEN they had gone a little way through the thick forest, they came to a wide, clear space; and they saw the King’s palace which was made of mud.
lion/ˈɫaɪən/león11 veces en el libro
So he sent messages to the other animals, like the lions and the leopards and the antelopes, to come and help with the nursing.
mil/ˈmɪɫ/milla10 veces en el libro
… but drove every Saturday all the way to Oxenthorpe, another town ten miles off, to see a different doctor.
terribly/ˈtɛɹəbɫi/muy10 veces en el libro
One day a plow-horse was brought to him; and the poor thing was terribly glad to find a man who could talk in horse-language.
clever/ˈkɫɛvɝ/listo, hábil, avispado9 veces en el libro
And whenever he walked down the street in his high hat everyone would say, “There goes the Doctor!—He’s a clever man.”
drown/ˈdɹaʊn/ahogarse, afogarse9 veces en el libro
And then, just at that moment, the old man’s hat came floating by; and I got into it because I did not want to be drowned.”
dreadfully/ˈdɹɛdfəɫi/terriblemente8 veces en el libro
Oh, sometimes people annoy me dreadfully—such airs they put on—talking about ‘the dumb animals.’
presently/ˈpɹɛzəntɫi/poco después8 veces en el libro
They all listened; and presently they heard the sound of some one running.
canary/kəˈnɛɹi/canario7 veces en el libro
“Don’t you hear the canaries singing?”
seashore/ˈsiˌʃɔɹ/costa, litoral6 veces en el libro
And when they had seen that there was plenty of hay in the loft to last the horse through the Winter, they carried all their luggage down to the seashore and got on to the boat.
leopard/ˈɫɛpɝd/leopardo6 veces en el libro
Then the leopards got proud too and said they wouldn’t help.
circus/ˈsɝkəs/circo6 veces en el libro
When the circus-men came to take him back he got so wild and savage that he frightened them away.
prince/ˈpɹɪns/príncipe, infante6 veces en el libro
“If I were only a white prince!”
upstairs/əpˈstɛɹz/arriba6 veces en el libro
I want to go upstairs again and see them start.”
fisherman/ˈfɪʃɝˌmæn/pescador, pescadora, pishiñero6 veces en el libro
But he said he didn’t want to be a pirate, because killing people and stealing was no work for a good fisherman to do.
dungeon/ˈdəndʒən/mazmorra, calabozo5 veces en el libro
So six of the black men led the Doctor and all his pets away and shut them up in a stone dungeon.
din/ˈdɪn/ruido5 veces en el libro
They looked under the mat; they looked under all the carpets; they looked in all the cupboards and drawers and lockers—in the big chests in the ship’s dining-room; they looked everywhere.
roast/ˈɹoʊst/asado, carne asada5 veces en el libro
“I smell roast beef cooking,” he mumbled—“underdone roast beef—with brown gravy over it.”
swift/ˈswɪft/rápido5 veces en el libro
“They are bad sailors,” said Jip; “and their ship is very swift.
sniff/ˈsnɪf/olfatear, olisquear, oliscar5 veces en el libro
She found Gub-Gub poking his nose through the bars of the window, trying to sniff the cooking-smells that came from the palace-kitchen.
frighten/ˈfɹaɪtən/asustar, amedrentar, atemorizar5 veces en el libro
When she flew down to get it, she found one of the white mice, very frightened, sitting inside it.
unhappy/ənˈhæpi/infeliz5 veces en el libro
The Doctor saw at once that the monkey’s collar was too tight and that he was dirty and unhappy.
cliff/ˈkɫɪf/vertical acantilado, risco, despeñadero5 veces en el libro
Then they all took shelter in a nice dry cave they found, high up in the cliffs, till the storm was over.
drawer/ˈdɹɔɹ/cajón, gaveta5 veces en el libro
Then he sold his piano, and let the mice live in a bureau-drawer.
morrow/ˈmɑɹoʊ/mañana4 veces en el libro
Just think—it’ll be a hundred and sixty-nine years to-morrow since I was here!
conceited/kənˈsitəd/presuntuoso, creído, engreído4 veces en el libro
“They’re just conceited.
stairs/ˈstɛɹz/escalera, escalinata, gradas4 veces en el libro
And she went back up the stairs of the ship, humming this song to herself,
grinder/ˈɡɹaɪndɝ/organillero4 veces en el libro
Once when he was sitting on his garden wall, smoking a pipe in the evening, an Italian organ-grinder came round with a monkey on a string.
Traducciones: WikDict, English to Spanish (Wiktionary, CC-BY-SA) Pronunciación: ipa-dict (MIT), a partir de Wiktionary.
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