A História do Doutor Dolittle: 40 palavras para aprender antes de ler
The Story of Doctor Dolittle
As 40 palavras que Hugh Lofting repete muitas vezes em «A História do Doutor Dolittle» 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.
monkey/ˈməŋki/mexer com58 vezes no livro
And when that red-faced booby started to monkey with me, I just couldn’t bear it any more.”
parrot/ˈpɛɹət/papagaio, louro35 vezes no livro
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/velejar27 vezes no livro
And I sail the ocean Blue.
till/ˈtɪɫ/até20 vezes no livro
… 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/marinheiro, marujo17 vezes no livro
The parrot, Polynesia, was sitting in the window looking out at the rain and singing a sailor-song to herself.
jungle/ˈdʒəŋɡəɫ/selva, jângal, floresta17 vezes no livro
I hear footsteps in the jungle!”
snuff/ˈsnəf/rapé16 vezes no livro
“Snuff, by Jingo!—Black Rappee snuff.
downstairs/ˈdaʊnˈstɛɹz/embaixo14 vezes no livro
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/crocodilo13 vezes no livro
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/pirata, corsário, bucaneiro12 vezes no livro
When they reached the shore they saw the pirate-ship, with the three red sails …
anchor/ˈæŋkɝ/âncora12 vezes no livro
And you must have beef in cans—and an anchor.”
shark/ˈʃɑɹk/tubarão, cação, escalho12 vezes no livro
“The sharks!
palace/ˈpæɫəs/palácio11 vezes no livro
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/leão11 vezes no livro
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/milha10 vezes no livro
… but drove every Saturday all the way to Oxenthorpe, another town ten miles off, to see a different doctor.
terribly/ˈtɛɹəbɫi/muito10 vezes no livro
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/esperto, engenhoso, hábil9 vezes no livro
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/afogar-se9 vezes no livro
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/terrivelmente8 vezes no livro
Oh, sometimes people annoy me dreadfully—such airs they put on—talking about ‘the dumb animals.’
presently/ˈpɹɛzəntɫi/logo8 vezes no livro
They all listened; and presently they heard the sound of some one running.
canary/kəˈnɛɹi/canário7 vezes no livro
“Don’t you hear the canaries singing?”
seashore/ˈsiˌʃɔɹ/beira-mar6 vezes no livro
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 vezes no livro
Then the leopards got proud too and said they wouldn’t help.
circus/ˈsɝkəs/circo6 vezes no livro
When the circus-men came to take him back he got so wild and savage that he frightened them away.
prince/ˈpɹɪns/príncipe6 vezes no livro
“If I were only a white prince!”
upstairs/əpˈstɛɹz/escada acima6 vezes no livro
I want to go upstairs again and see them start.”
fisherman/ˈfɪʃɝˌmæn/pescador, pescadora6 vezes no livro
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/calabouço, masmorra, calaboiço5 vezes no livro
So six of the black men led the Doctor and all his pets away and shut them up in a stone dungeon.
din/ˈdɪn/barulho5 vezes no livro
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/assado5 vezes no livro
“I smell roast beef cooking,” he mumbled—“underdone roast beef—with brown gravy over it.”
swift/ˈswɪft/rápido5 vezes no livro
“They are bad sailors,” said Jip; “and their ship is very swift.
sniff/ˈsnɪf/fungar, farejar5 vezes no livro
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/assustado5 vezes no livro
When she flew down to get it, she found one of the white mice, very frightened, sitting inside it.
unhappy/ənˈhæpi/que não está feliz5 vezes no livro
The Doctor saw at once that the monkey’s collar was too tight and that he was dirty and unhappy.
cliff/ˈkɫɪf/vertical falésia, penhasco5 vezes no livro
Then they all took shelter in a nice dry cave they found, high up in the cliffs, till the storm was over.
drawer/ˈdɹɔɹ/gaveta5 vezes no livro
Then he sold his piano, and let the mice live in a bureau-drawer.
morrow/ˈmɑɹoʊ/amanhã, manhã4 vezes no livro
Just think—it’ll be a hundred and sixty-nine years to-morrow since I was here!
conceited/kənˈsitəd/convencido4 vezes no livro
“They’re just conceited.
stairs/ˈstɛɹz/escada4 vezes no livro
And she went back up the stairs of the ship, humming this song to herself,
grinder/ˈɡɹaɪndɝ/moedor, moinho4 vezes no livro
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.
Traduções: WikDict, English to Portuguese (Wiktionary, CC-BY-SA) Pronúncia: ipa-dict (MIT), a partir do Wikcionário.
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