O Retrato de Dorian Gray: 40 palavras para aprender antes de ler
The Picture of Dorian Gray
As 40 palavras que Oscar Wilde repete muitas vezes em «O Retrato de Dorian Gray» 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.
charm/ˈtʃɑɹm/encanto, charme64 vezes no livro
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/murmúrio44 vezes no livro
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/terrível, horrível, pavoroso43 vezes no livro
… 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 vezes no livro
… 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/horrendo, estridente, hediondo32 vezes no livro
How perfectly hideous they are!
coloured/ˈkəɫɝd/pintado30 vezes no livro
It is not he who is revealed by the painter; it is rather the painter who, on the coloured canvas, reveals himself.
delightful/dɪˈɫaɪtfəɫ/delicioso29 vezes no livro
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/mania29 vezes no livro
… and made a little moue of discontent to Lord Henry, to whom he had rather taken a fancy.
exquisite/ˈɛkskwəzət/primoroso, esmerado, excelente26 vezes no livro
I had a strange feeling that fate had in store for me exquisite joys and exquisite sorrows.
monstrous/ˈmɑnstɹəs/monstruoso25 vezes no livro
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/adorar, venerar, cultuar23 vezes no livro
No wonder Basil Hallward worshipped him.
till/ˈtɪɫ/até23 vezes no livro
I have always been my own master; had at least always been so, till I met Dorian Gray.
romance/ˈɹoʊmæns/romance23 vezes no livro
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/colorar, colorir, corar22 vezes no livro
… thoughts that have filled you with terror, day-dreams and sleeping dreams whose mere memory might stain your cheek with shame—”
exclaim/ɪkˈskɫeɪm/exclamar22 vezes no livro
exclaimed Hallward, frowning.
colour/ˈkəɫɝ/cor21 vezes no livro
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 vezes no livro
“Let us go to the theatre to-night,” said Lord Henry.
scarlet/ˈskɑɹɫət/escarlate18 vezes no livro
Yes, he was certainly wonderfully handsome, with his finely curved scarlet lips, his frank blue eyes, his crisp gold hair.
shudder/ˈʃədɝ/tremer, tiritar18 vezes no livro
It makes me shudder when I hear it.
sorrow/ˈsɑɹoʊ/tristeza, pesar, mágoa18 vezes no livro
… 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/franzimento18 vezes no livro
asked Hallward, with a slight frown.
marvellous/ˈmɑɹvəɫəs/maravilhoso17 vezes no livro
It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvellous to us.
pity/ˈpɪti/pena, lástima17 vezes no livro
It will be a great pity, for it will alter you.
mutter/ˈmətɝ/murmurar17 vezes no livro
“You should have gone away when I asked you,” he muttered.
horrid/ˈhɔɹəd/horrendo, horrível16 vezes no livro
The moment one sits down to think, one becomes all nose, or all forehead, or something horrid.
horribly/ˈhɔɹəbɫi/horrivelmente16 vezes no livro
“How horribly unjust of you!”
poison/ˈpɔɪzən/envenenar, empeçonhar, intoxicar16 vezes no livro
Every impulse that we strive to strangle broods in the mind and poisons us.
tremble/ˈtɹɛmbəɫ/tremer, agitar vigorosamente16 vezes no livro
His finely chiselled nostrils quivered, and some hidden nerve shook the scarlet of his lips and left them trembling.
fantastic/fænˈtæstɪk/fantástico16 vezes no livro
He was brilliant, fantastic, irresponsible.
silly/ˈsɪɫi/bobo, tolo, ingénuo16 vezes no livro
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, comum, popular15 vezes no livro
The Academy is too large and too vulgar.
spoil/ˈspɔɪɫ/mimar15 vezes no livro
Don’t spoil him.
jewel/ˈdʒuəɫ/joia15 vezes no livro
The waving of crooked, false-jewelled fingers gave grotesqueness to the words.
absurd/əbˈsɝd/absurdo15 vezes no livro
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/enfadonho, entediante, chato15 vezes no livro
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/terrivelmente15 vezes no livro
… Dorian Gray’s good looks—we shall all suffer for what the gods have given us, suffer terribly.”
upstairs/əpˈstɛɹz/escada acima15 vezes no livro
One could hear her singing as she ran upstairs.
shallow/ˈʃæɫoʊ/raso, superficial, desinteressante15 vezes no livro
But the world might guess it, and I will not bare my soul to their shallow prying eyes.
gilt/ˈɡɪɫt/dourado14 vezes no livro
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 tem qualidades interessantes14 vezes no livro
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 …
Traduções: WikDict, English to Portuguese (Wiktionary, CC-BY-SA) Pronúncia: ipa-dict (MIT), a partir do Wikcionário.
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