O Livro da Selva: 40 palavras para aprender antes de ler
The Jungle Book
As 40 palavras que Rudyard Kipling repete muitas vezes em «O Livro da Selva» 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.
elephant/ˈɛɫəfənt/elefante, elefanta, elefoa131 vezes no livro
The real reason for this is that man-killing means, sooner or later, the arrival of white men on elephants, with guns, and hundreds of brown men with gongs and rockets and torches.
jungle/ˈdʒəŋɡəɫ/selva, jângal, floresta101 vezes no livro
… because Tabaqui, more than anyone else in the jungle, is apt to go mad …
seal/ˈsiɫ/foca94 vezes no livro
Nobody comes to Novastoshnah except on business, and the only people who have regular business there are the seals.
thou/ˈðaʊ/tu, vós89 vezes no livro
… or by the Sambhur that I killed (I eat no starved cattle), back thou goest to thy mother, burned beast of the jungle …
thee/ˈði/ti, tu76 vezes no livro
He shall live to run with the Pack and to hunt with the Pack; and in the end, look you, hunter of little naked cubs—frog-eater—fish-killer—he shall hunt thee!
till/ˈtɪɫ/até71 vezes no livro
For loosed till dawn are we.
monkey/ˈməŋki/macaco, mono, símio46 vezes no livro
We do not drink where the monkeys drink; we do not go where the monkeys go; we do not hunt where they hunt; we do not die where they die.
wolves/ˈwʊɫvz/lobos39 vezes no livro
“Good luck go with you, O chief of the wolves.”
herd/ˈhɝd/manada38 vezes no livro
The herds are shut in byre and hut
wolf/ˈwʊɫf/lobo, loba38 vezes no livro
“For a wolf, no,” said Tabaqui, “but for so mean a person as myself a dry bone is a good feast.
mule/ˈmjuɫ/mula, mulo37 vezes no livro
Just as I was getting ready to go to sleep I heard a jingle of harness and a grunt, and a mule passed me shaking his wet ears.
tiger/ˈtaɪɡɝ/tigre36 vezes no livro
Even the tiger runs and hides when little Tabaqui goes mad, for madness is the most disgraceful thing that can overtake a wild creature.
camel/ˈkæməɫ/camelo, camela33 vezes no livro
Thorn for the camel, fodder for the kine,
buffalo/ˈbəfəˌɫoʊ/búfalo33 vezes no livro
Everybody knew Bagheera, and nobody cared to cross his path; for he was as cunning as Tabaqui, as bold as the wild buffalo, and as reckless as the wounded elephant.
bull/ˈbʊɫ/touro, toiro32 vezes no livro
By the bull that I killed, am I to stand nosing into your dog’s den for my fair dues?
bullock/ˈbʊɫək/um touro jovem novilho31 vezes no livro
Does he think that our buck are like his fat Waingunga bullocks?”
cub/ˈkəb/cachorro, cria, filhote30 vezes no livro
Mother Wolf lay with her big gray nose dropped across her four tumbling, squealing cubs, and the moon shone into the mouth of the cave where they all lived.
beast/ˈbist/besta, fera29 vezes no livro
… which never orders anything without a reason, forbids every beast to eat Man except when he is killing to show his children how to kill, and then he must hunt outside the hunting grounds of his pack or tribe.
mil/ˈmɪɫ/milésimo25 vezes no livro
Shere Khan was the tiger who lived near the Waingunga River, twenty miles away.
ravine/ɹəˈvin/barranco, ravina22 vezes no livro
When he comes back wait for me in the ravine by the dhâk tree in the center of the plain.
roar/ˈɹɔɹ/rugido21 vezes no livro
The tiger’s roar filled the cave with thunder.
cobra/ˈkoʊbɹə/cobra-capelo, naja, cobra20 vezes no livro
said half a dozen low voices (every ruin in India becomes sooner or later a dwelling place of snakes, and the old summerhouse was alive with cobras).
mongoose/ˈmɑŋɡus/manguço20 vezes no livro
He was a mongoose, rather like a little cat in his fur and his tail, but quite like a weasel in his head and his habits.
grunt/ˈɡɹənt/grunido18 vezes no livro
“The fool has had no more sense than to jump at a woodcutter’s campfire, and has burned his feet,” said Father Wolf with a grunt.
flipper/ˈfɫɪpɝ/aleta17 vezes no livro
When he heaved himself up on his front flippers he stood more than four feet clear of the ground, and his weight …
trumpet/ˈtɹəmpət/trombetear16 vezes no livro
And as soon as there was a lull you could hear his high-pitched yells of encouragement to Kala Nag, above the trumpeting and crashing, and snapping of ropes …
foolish/ˈfuɫɪʃ/que não tem bom senso ou julgamento16 vezes no livro
Baloo knows it; I know it; the Pack know it; and even the foolish, foolish deer know.
nursery/ˈnɝsɝi/berçário16 vezes no livro
He only wanted room by the sea for his nursery.
frighten/ˈfɹaɪtən/amedrontar, ameaçar, intimidar16 vezes no livro
He will frighten every head of game within ten miles, and I—I have to kill for two, these days.”
scratch/ˈskɹætʃ/coçar, rascar, raspar16 vezes no livro
It was seven o’clock of a very warm evening in the Seeonee hills when Father Wolf woke up from his day’s rest, scratched himself, yawned …
hind/ˈhaɪnd/posterior, traseiro15 vezes no livro
… old Baloo, who can come and go where he pleases because he eats only nuts and roots and honey—rose upon his hind quarters and grunted.
howl/ˈhaʊɫ/uivo15 vezes no livro
Then there was a howl—an untigerish howl—from Shere Khan.
picket/ˈpɪkɪt/canto do castigo14 vezes no livro
I will forget my ankle-ring and snap my picket stake.
graze/ˈɡɹeɪz/pastar14 vezes no livro
At one end stood a little village, and at the other the thick jungle came down in a sweep to the grazing-grounds, and stopped there as though it had been cut off with a hoe.
frog/ˈfɹɑɡ/rã14 vezes no livro
Are there not enough beetles and frogs in the tanks that he must eat Man, and on our ground too!”
tusk/ˈtəsk/presa13 vezes no livro
… fat-necked, long-tusked walrus of the North Pacific, who has no manners except when he is asleep—as he was then …
snort/ˈsnɔɹt/resfolegar13 vezes no livro
There he checked, for he heard the yell of the Pack hunting, heard the bellow of a hunted Sambhur, and the snort as the buck turned at bay.
obey/oʊˈbeɪ/obedecer13 vezes no livro
Mowgli obeyed faithfully.
mile/ˈmaɪɫ/milha12 vezes no livro
Now to Baloo’s word I will add one bull, and a fat one, newly killed, not half a mile from here, if ye will accept the man’s cub according to the Law.
yoke/ˈjoʊk/jugo12 vezes no livro
I heard a chain dragging along the ground, and a yoke of the great sulky white bullocks that drag the heavy siege guns when the elephants won’t go any nearer to the firing, came shouldering along together.
Traduções: WikDict, English to Portuguese (Wiktionary, CC-BY-SA) Pronúncia: ipa-dict (MIT), a partir do Wikcionário.
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