Anne de Green Gables: 40 palavras para aprender antes de ler
Anne of Green Gables
As 40 palavras que L. M. Montgomery repete muitas vezes em «Anne de Green Gables» e que ficam fora das 4 mil mais comuns do inglês. Aprenda antes e os primeiros capítulos ficam bem mais fáceis. Cada uma vem com a pronúncia, a tradução e uma frase do livro.
splendid/ˈspɫɛndɪd/esplêndido47 vezes no livro
Isn’t it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about?
brook/ˈbɹʊk/riacho, córrego, corgo40 vezes no livro
Thomas Lynde—a meek little man whom Avonlea people called “Rachel Lynde’s husband”—was sowing his late turnip seed on the hill field beyond the barn; and Matthew Cuthbert ought to have been sowing his on the big red brook field away over by Green Gables.
asylum/əˈsaɪɫəm/asilo38 vezes no livro
We’re getting a little boy from an orphan asylum in Nova Scotia and he’s coming on the train tonight.”
gable/ˈɡeɪbəɫ/empena36 vezes no livro
But the spare room was out of the question for such a stray waif, so there remained only the east gable room.
picnic/ˈpɪkˌnɪk/piquenique35 vezes no livro
He felt as he had once felt in his rash youth when another boy had enticed him on the merry-go-round at a picnic.
brooch/ˈbɹoʊtʃ/broche34 vezes no livro
Marilla wore her amethyst brooch to church that day as usual.
thrill/ˈθɹɪɫ/arrepio34 vezes no livro
I know because of the thrill.
orphan/ˈɔɹfən/órfão, órfã30 vezes no livro
… of course,” said Marilla, as if getting boys from orphan asylums in Nova Scotia were part of the usual spring work on any well-regulated Avonlea farm instead of being an unheard of innovation.
lane/ˈɫeɪn/alameda29 vezes no livro
To be sure, the long lane made it a good deal further.
wicked/ˈwɪkəd/mau, malvado, bárbaro28 vezes no livro
Mrs. Spencer said it was wicked of me to talk like that, but I didn’t mean to be wicked.
delight/dɪˈɫaɪt/deliciar, encantar28 vezes no livro
You don’t know how delighted I was.
dreadful/ˈdɹɛdfəɫ/terrível, horrível, pavoroso27 vezes no livro
I guess that’s why I’m so thin—I am dreadful thin, ain’t I?
orchard/ˈɔɹtʃɝd/pomar27 vezes no livro
The sun was coming in at the window warm and bright; the orchard on the slope below the house was in a bridal flush of pinky-white bloom, hummed over by a myriad of bees.
temper/ˈtɛmpɝ/temperamento26 vezes no livro
“A terrible worker and driver,” Mrs. Peter was said to be; and discharged servant girls told fearsome tales of her temper and stinginess, and her family of pert, quarrelsome children.
recite/ɹəˈsaɪt/recitar26 vezes no livro
Then all the other little girls recited a paraphrase.
spare/ˈspɛɹ/poupar25 vezes no livro
… however, was spared the ordeal of speaking first, for as soon as she concluded that he was coming to her she stood up …
puff/ˈpəf/mangas bufantes24 vezes no livro
“But I’d be ever so much gratefuller if—if you’d made just one of them with puffed sleeves.
pity/ˈpɪti/apiedar-se de, sentir compaixão por, sentir dó de23 vezes no livro
My, but I pity him, that’s what.”
blossom/ˈbɫɑsəm/florescer, florir, desabrochar23 vezes no livro
At last they lingered on one away to the left, far back from the road, dimly white with blossoming trees in the twilight of the surrounding woods.
spell/ˈspɛɫ/soletrar23 vezes no livro
But if you call me Anne please call me Anne spelled with an E.”
anyhow/ˈɛniˌhaʊ/de qualquer modo, de todo modo22 vezes no livro
She couldn’t be left at Bright River anyhow, no matter what mistake had been made …
exclaim/ɪkˈskɫeɪm/exclamar21 vezes no livro
“Dear, dear,” she exclaimed, “you’re the last folks I was looking for today, but I’m real glad to see you.
clasp/ˈkɫæsp/agarrar20 vezes no livro
She leaned back in the buggy, her thin hands clasped before her, her face lifted rapturously to the white splendor above.
awfully/ˈɑfɫi/muito, extremamente20 vezes no livro
“It sounds awfully disrespectful to just say Marilla,” protested Anne.
geometry/dʒiˈɑmətɹi/geometria20 vezes no livro
By the end of the term Anne and Gilbert were both promoted into the fifth class and allowed to begin studying the elements of “the branches”—by which Latin, geometry, French …
twilight/ˈtwaɪˌɫaɪt/crepúsculo, lusco-fusco20 vezes no livro
Below the boughs the air was full of a purple twilight and far ahead a glimpse of painted sunset sky shone like a great rose window at the end of a cathedral aisle.
gasp/ˈɡæsp/arquejar, ofegar20 vezes no livro
“Spelled with an E,” gasped Anne, who, tremulous and excited as she was, was determined there should be no misunderstanding on that important point.
cherry/ˈtʃɛɹi/cereja, cerejeira20 vezes no livro
… but the east one, whence you got a glimpse of the bloom white cherry-trees in the left orchard and nodding, slender birches down in the hollow by the brook …
lily/ˈɫɪɫi/lírio19 vezes no livro
I think it must have had honeysuckle over the parlor window and lilacs in the front yard and lilies of the valley just inside the gate.
fairy/ˈfɛɹi/fada, elfo19 vezes no livro
And then Katie Maurice would have taken me by the hand and led me out into a wonderful place, all flowers and sunshine and fairies, and we would have lived there happy for ever after.
hollow/ˈhɑɫoʊ/caivanca, depressão18 vezes no livro
… knitting “cotton warp” quilts—she had knitted sixteen of them, as Avonlea housekeepers were wont to tell in awed voices—and keeping a sharp eye on the main road that crossed the hollow and wound up the steep red hill beyond.
cordial/ˈkɔɹdʒəɫ/licor17 vezes no livro
But there’s a bottle half full of raspberry cordial that was left over from the church social the other night.
ambition/æmˈbɪʃən/ambição17 vezes no livro
That is the height of their ambition.
bough/ˈbaʊ/de uma árvore ramo, galho, galhada16 vezes no livro
A huge cherry-tree grew outside, so close that its boughs tapped against the house, and it was so thick-set with blossoms that hardly a leaf was to be seen.
spruce/ˈspɹus/pícea, abeto vermelho, espruce16 vezes no livro
Beyond it was a hill, green and feathery with spruce and fir; there was a gap in it where the gray gable end of the little house she had seen from the other side of the Lake of Shining Waters was visible.
birch/ˈbɝtʃ/bétula, vidoeiro16 vezes no livro
… whence you got a glimpse of the bloom white cherry-trees in the left orchard and nodding, slender birches down in the hollow by the brook, was greened over by a tangle of vines.
fir/ˈfɝ/abeto16 vezes no livro
On the right hand, scrub firs, their spirits quite unbroken by long years of tussle with the gulf winds, grew thickly.
raspberry/ˈɹæzˌbɛɹi/framboesa16 vezes no livro
… toothsome, raspberry tarts reposing there were divided among ten girls how many bites each girl would have.
delightful/dɪˈɫaɪtfəɫ/delicioso16 vezes no livro
It’s delightful when your imaginations come true, isn’t it?
sensible/ˈsɛnsəbəɫ/sensato16 vezes no livro
I’d ruther Jane or Mary or some sensible name like that.
Traduções: WikDict, English to Portuguese (Wiktionary, CC-BY-SA) Pronúncia: ipa-dict (MIT), a partir do Wikcionário.
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