Carmen: 40 palavras para aprender antes de ler
As 40 palavras que Prosper Mérimée repete muitas vezes em «Carmen» 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.
gipsycigana75 vezes no livro
You must see I’m a gipsy!
cigar/sɪˈɡɑɹ/charuto14 vezes no livro
At the same time I pulled out my cigar-case.
blunderbussbacamarte13 vezes no livro
In the other he held a brass blunderbuss.
mantilla/mænˈtɪɫə/mantilha11 vezes no livro
When she drew near me, the woman let the mantilla which had covered her head drop on her shoulders, and “by the dim light falling from the stars” I perceived her to be young …
recognise/ˈɹɛkəɡˌnaɪz/reconhecer9 vezes no livro
I sat upright, and then I thought I recognised Antonio.
bull/ˈbʊɫ/touro, toiro9 vezes no livro
“While I was hiding at Granada there were bull-fights there, to which Carmen went.
brigandbandido8 vezes no livro
I had no doubt at all I was in the company of a smuggler, and possibly of a brigand.
morrow/ˈmɑɹoʊ/amanhã, manhã8 vezes no livro
So he’s to be garrotted the day after to-morrow, without fail.* So you see one theft more or less won’t affect his position.
dialect/ˈdaɪəˌɫɛkt/dialeto, dialecto8 vezes no livro
In every Romany dialect a number of Greek words appear.
smuggler/ˈsməɡəɫɝ/contrabandista8 vezes no livro
The masons were working at it in the daytime, and at night a sentinel was posted on it, to prevent smugglers from getting in.
comrade/ˈkɑmˌɹæd/camarada, companheiro8 vezes no livro
Like him, perchance, my comrade was musing over the home he had forfeited, the exile he had earned, by some misdeed.
inquire/ˌɪnˈkwaɪɹ/inquirir8 vezes no livro
So I bestowed a friendly nod on the man with the blunderbuss, and inquired, with a smile, whether I had disturbed his nap.
fancy/ˈfænsi/a imaginação8 vezes no livro
In the stable, I fancy.
devil/ˈdɛvəɫ/diabo8 vezes no livro
To-day I’ll go and eat ices with a servant of the devil.
gitana/dʒiˈtænə/cigana7 vezes no livro
I then had time to take a leisurely view of my gitana, while several worthy individuals, who were eating their ices, stared open-mouthed at beholding me in such gay company.
till/ˈtɪɫ/até7 vezes no livro
His complexion, which may once have been fine, had been tanned by the sun till it was darker than his hair.
coin/ˈkɔɪn/moeda7 vezes no livro
Then she bade me cross my left hand with a silver coin, and the magic ceremonies duly began.
traveller/ˈtɹævəɫɝ/viajante6 vezes no livro
It was impossible to imagine any more delightful halting place for a traveller.
castanetscastanholas6 vezes no livro
“The whole party was assembled in the patio, and in spite of the crowd I could see nearly everything that went on through the lattice.* I could hear the castanets and the tambourine, the laughter and applause.
delightful/dɪˈɫaɪtfəɫ/delicioso6 vezes no livro
He did not know the name of the delightful valley in which we were sitting, he could not tell me the names of any of the neighbouring villages …
cloak/ˈkɫoʊk/capa, manto6 vezes no livro
Meanwhile I had stretched myself out on the mule rugs, having carefully wrapped myself up in my own cloak, so as to avoid touching them.
sergeant/ˈsɑɹdʒənt/sargento6 vezes no livro
The old woman, when she was questioned by the sergeant, admitted that she knew Navarro …
acquaintance/əˈkweɪntəns/familiaridade6 vezes no livro
I had yet another motive for prosecuting her acquaintance.
frighten/ˈfɹaɪtən/amedrontar, ameaçar, intimidar6 vezes no livro
… because I told them that not all their Seville jacques,** and all their knives, would frighten an honest lad from our country, with his blue cap and his maquila!
seller/ˈsɛɫɝ/vendedor, vendedora6 vezes no livro
I have been insulted here, because I don’t belong to this land of rogues and sellers of rotten oranges; and those hussies are all banded together against me …
depart/dɪˈpɑɹt/partir, sair6 vezes no livro
That instant he turned his back on me and departed at a great pace.
spite/ˈspaɪt/desprezo, rancor6 vezes no livro
I was hoping the stranger might gradually fall into a confidential mood, and in spite of my guide’s winks, I turned the conversation to the subject of highwaymen.
fool/ˈfuɫ/idiota, tolo, bobo6 vezes no livro
How can you be such a fool as that?
whence/ˈhwɛns/de onde, donde5 vezes no livro
… and I noticed that he did not pronounce the letter s* in the Andalusian fashion, whence I concluded he was a traveller, like myself …
quay/ˈkeɪ/cais, ancoradouro, embarcadouro5 vezes no livro
At Cordova a great many idlers collect, toward sunset, in the quay that runs along the right bank of the Guadalquivir.
acacia/əˈkeɪʃə/acácia5 vezes no livro
She had thrown her mantilla back, to show her shoulders, and a great bunch of acacia that was thrust into her chemise.
piastrepiastra5 vezes no livro
Then the Englishman stood up, gave me a piastre, and offered his arm to Carmen, as if she couldn’t have walked alone.
lighted/ˈɫaɪtəd/pousou5 vezes no livro
… most heartily, my eye lighted, at some distance from the path I was following …
astonished/əˈstɑnɪʃt/estupefato, atónito, atônito5 vezes no livro
Her face astonished you, at first sight, but nobody could forget it.
robber/ˈɹɑbɝ/ladrão, ladra5 vezes no livro
But I had heard so much about robbers, that, never seeing any, I had ceased to believe in their existence.
mistress/ˈmɪstɹəs/amante5 vezes no livro
“I had often heard talk of certain smugglers who travelled about Andalusia, each riding a good horse, with his mistress behind him and his blunderbuss in his fist.
temper/ˈtɛmpɝ/temperamento5 vezes no livro
What he said I could not catch, but the tone of his voice revealed the fact that he was in a very evil temper.
fond/ˈfɑnd/afeiçoado, carinhoso, meigo5 vezes no livro
“Do me the kindness to sing me something,” I said to him, “I’m passionately fond of your national music.”
scarf/ˈskɑɹf/cachecol, echarpe5 vezes no livro
“Do you happen to have a handkerchief, a scarf, or a mantilla, that he gave you?”
lieutenant/ɫuˈtɛnənt/tenente5 vezes no livro
… followed by a young man, a lieutenant in our regiment.
Traduções: WikDict, English to Portuguese (Wiktionary, CC-BY-SA) Pronúncia: ipa-dict (MIT), a partir do Wikcionário.
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