Crime and Punishment — Page 1
On an exceptionally hot evening early in July a young man came out of the garret in which he lodged in S. Place and walked slowly, as though in hesitation, towards K. bridge.
Numa tarde excepcionalmente quente no início de julho, um jovem saiu do sótão em que se hospedava na Rua S. e caminhou lentamente, como que hesitante, em direção à ponte K.
He had successfully avoided meeting his landlady on the staircase.
Ele havia conseguido evitar encontrar sua senhoria na escada.
His garret was under the roof of a high, five-storied house and was more like a cupboard than a room.
Seu sótão ficava sob o telhado de uma casa alta de cinco andares e se parecia mais com um armário do que com um quarto.
The landlady who provided him with garret, dinners, and attendance, lived on the floor below, and every time he went out he was obliged to pass her kitchen, the door of which invariably stood open.
A senhoria que lhe fornecia o sótão, as refeições e os serviços morava no andar de baixo, e toda vez que ele saía era obrigado a passar pela cozinha dela, cuja porta estava invariavelmente aberta.
And each time he passed, the young man had a sick, frightened feeling, which made him scowl and feel ashamed.
E cada vez que passava, o jovem sentia um enjoo angustiado, que o fazia franzir o cenho e sentir vergonha.
He was hopelessly in debt to his landlady, and was afraid of meeting her.
Ele estava irremediavelmente endividado com sua senhoria e tinha medo de encontrá-la.
This was not because he was cowardly and abject, quite the contrary; but for some time past he had been in an overstrained irritable condition, verging on hypochondria.
Não era porque fosse covarde e abjeto, muito pelo contrário; mas havia algum tempo ele se encontrava num estado de irritabilidade excessiva, beirando a hipocondria.
He had become so completely absorbed in himself, and isolated from his fellows that he dreaded meeting, not only his landlady, but anyone at all.
Ele havia se tornado tão completamente absorto em si mesmo e isolado de seus semelhantes que temia encontrar não apenas sua senhoria, mas qualquer pessoa.
He was crushed by poverty, but the anxieties of his position had of late ceased to weigh upon him.
Ele era esmagado pela pobreza, mas as angústias de sua situação haviam recentemente deixado de pesar sobre ele.
He had given up attending to matters of practical importance; he had lost all desire to do so.
Ele havia deixado de se ocupar de assuntos de importância prática; havia perdido todo o desejo de fazê-lo.
Nothing that any landlady could do had a real terror for him.
Nada que qualquer senhoria pudesse fazer representava um terror real para ele.
Vocabulary
- Numa
- NOO-mah — Contraction of 'em uma,' meaning 'in a'
- tarde
- TAR-deh — Afternoon; also means 'late'
- excepcionalmente
- eh-seh-syoh-NAL-men-teh — Exceptionally; in an unusual or extreme manner
- quente
- KEN-teh — Hot; having a high temperature
- início
- ee-NEE-syoo — Beginning; the start of something
- julho
- ZHOO-lyoo — July; the seventh month of the year
- jovem
- ZHOH-veng — Young person; youth; adjective meaning young
- saiu
- sah-EE-oo — Left; went out; past tense of 'sair'
- sótão
- SOH-tow — Attic; a room just below a roof
- hospedava
- os-peh-DAH-vah — Was staying; was lodging in a place
- Rua
- HOO-ah — Street; a public road in a town
- caminhou
- kah-mee-NYOH — Walked; moved on foot at a normal pace
- lentamente
- len-tah-MEN-teh — Slowly; in a slow manner
- hesitante
- eh-zee-TAN-teh — Hesitant; showing uncertainty or reluctance
- direção
- dee-reh-SOW — Direction; the path or course toward a place
- ponte
- PON-teh — Bridge; a structure spanning a river or gap
- havia
- ah-VEE-ah — Had; past auxiliary verb indicating prior action
- conseguido
- kon-seh-GEE-doo — Managed; succeeded in doing something
- evitar
- eh-vee-TAR — To avoid; to keep away from something
- encontrar
- en-kon-TRAR — To meet; to encounter someone or something
- senhoria
- seh-nyoh-REE-ah — Landlady; female owner who rents property
- escada
- es-KAH-dah — Staircase; stairs used to go between floors
- ficava
- fee-KAH-vah — Was located; used to be situated somewhere
- sob
- sohb — Under; beneath; below something
- telhado
- teh-LYAH-doo — Roof; the covering on top of a building
- casa
- KAH-zah — House; a building where people live
- alta
- AL-tah — Tall; high; having great vertical extent
- cinco
- SEEN-koo — Five; the number 5
- andares
- an-DAH-res — Floors; stories of a building
- parecia
- pah-reh-SEE-ah — Seemed; appeared to be; resembled something
- armário
- ar-MAH-ryoo — Wardrobe; a large cupboard for storing clothes
- quarto
- KWAR-too — Room; bedroom; a space within a building
- lhe
- lyeh — To him; to her; indirect object pronoun
- fornecia
- for-neh-SEE-ah — Provided; supplied something to someone regularly
- refeições
- heh-feh-ee-SOYNS — Meals; occasions when food is eaten
- serviços
- ser-VEE-sohs — Services; work or duties provided to someone
- morava
- moh-RAH-vah — Lived; used to reside in a place
- andar
- an-DAR — Floor; a level of a building; also to walk
- baixo
- BYE-shoo — Low; short; below in position or level
- vez
- vehz — Time; occasion; instance of something happening
- saía
- sah-EE-ah — Left; used to go out; imperfect of 'sair'
- obrigado
- oh-bree-GAH-doo — Forced; obliged; also thank you in Portuguese
- passar
- pah-SAR — To pass; to go through or by a place
- cozinha
- koh-ZEE-nyah — Kitchen; the room used for cooking food
- cuja
- KOO-zhah — Whose; relative possessive pronoun, feminine form
- porta
- POR-tah — Door; an entrance or exit to a room
- invariavelmente
- een-vah-ryah-vel-MEN-teh — Invariably; always; without exception or change
- aberta
- ah-BER-tah — Open; not closed; accessible for entry
- cada
- KAH-dah — Each; every; used before singular nouns
- passava
- pah-SAH-vah — Passed; used to go past something regularly
- sentia
- sen-CHEE-ah — Felt; experienced a physical or emotional sensation
- enjoo
- en-ZHOH-oo — Nausea; feeling of sickness or disgust
- angustiado
- an-goos-CHYAH-doo — Anguished; feeling intense anxiety or distress
- fazia
- fah-ZEE-ah — Made; caused; used to do something regularly
- franzir
- fran-ZEER — To furrow; to wrinkle, as in frowning
- cenho
- SEH-nyoo — Brow; forehead; used in 'franzir o cenho' (frown)
- sentir
- sen-CHEER — To feel; to experience an emotion or sensation
- vergonha
- ver-GOH-nyah — Shame; embarrassment; a feeling of humiliation
- irremediavelmente
- ee-heh-meh-dyah-vel-MEN-teh — Irremediably; in a way that cannot be fixed
- endividado
- en-dee-vee-DAH-doo — Indebted; owing money to someone
- medo
- MEH-doo — Fear; a feeling of anxiety about danger
- encontrá-la
- en-kon-TRAH-lah — To meet her; to run into her somewhere
- fosse
- FOH-seh — Were; subjunctive past tense of verb 'ser'
- covarde
- koh-VAR-deh — Coward; a person who lacks courage
- abjeto
- ab-ZHEH-too — Abject; utterly hopeless, miserable, or degraded
- contrário
- kon-TRAH-ryoo — Contrary; opposite; the reverse of something stated
- algum
- al-GOONG — Some; any; an unspecified amount or number
- tempo
- TEM-poo — Time; weather; a period or duration
- encontrava
- en-kon-TRAH-vah — Found himself; was in a particular state
- estado
- es-TAH-doo — State; condition; the way something currently is
- irritabilidade
- ee-hee-tah-bee-lee-DAH-deh — Irritability; tendency to become easily annoyed
- excessiva
- eh-seh-SEE-vah — Excessive; more than what is normal or necessary
- beirando
- beh-ee-RAN-doo — Bordering on; approaching; nearly reaching a state
- hipocondria
- ee-poh-kon-DREE-ah — Hypochondria; excessive worry about having illness
- tornado
- tor-NAH-doo — Become; having turned into a different state
- tão
- tow — So; such; used to indicate a high degree
- completamente
- kom-pleh-tah-MEN-teh — Completely; entirely; in a total manner
- absorto
- ab-SOR-too — Absorbed; deeply engrossed or preoccupied in something
- si
- see — Himself; herself; reflexive pronoun after prepositions
- mesmo
- MEZ-moo — Himself; same; even; used for emphasis
- isolado
- ee-zoh-LAH-doo — Isolated; cut off from contact with others
- semelhantes
- seh-meh-LYAN-tes — Fellows; peers; people similar to oneself
- temia
- teh-MEE-ah — Feared; was afraid of something or someone
- apenas
- ah-PEH-nahs — Only; just; no more than a certain amount
- qualquer
- kwal-KER — Any; whatever; whichever; used before nouns
- pessoa
- peh-SOH-ah — Person; an individual human being
- esmagado
- ez-mah-GAH-doo — Crushed; overwhelmed by a heavy burden
- pobreza
- poh-BREH-zah — Poverty; the state of being extremely poor
- angústias
- an-GOOS-chyahs — Anguishes; intense feelings of anxiety or distress
- situação
- see-too-ah-SOW — Situation; the set of circumstances someone faces
- haviam
- ah-VEE-ang — Had; third-person plural of 'haver' in past
- recentemente
- heh-sen-teh-MEN-teh — Recently; not long ago; in the near past
- deixado
- deh-ee-SHAH-doo — Left; allowed; caused to remain in a state
- pesar
- peh-ZAR — To weigh; to press down; grief or regret
- sobre
- SOH-breh — On; over; about; regarding a subject
- ocupar
- oh-koo-PAR — To occupy; to take up space or time
- assuntos
- ah-SOON-tos — Matters; affairs; subjects that require attention
- importância
- eem-por-TAN-syah — Importance; the quality of being significant
- prática
- PRAH-chee-kah — Practical; related to real-world application
- perdido
- per-DEE-doo — Lost; no longer having or possessing something
- desejo
- deh-ZEH-zhoo — Desire; a strong wish to have or do something
- fazê-lo
- fah-ZEH-loo — To do it; infinitive with attached object pronoun
- Nada
- NAH-dah — Nothing; not anything; no thing at all
- pudesse
- poo-DEH-seh — Could; subjunctive imperfect of 'poder'
- fazer
- fah-ZER — To do; to make; a common action verb
- representava
- heh-preh-zen-TAH-vah — Represented; stood for; meant something to someone
- terror
- teh-HOR — Terror; extreme fear or dread
- real
- heh-AL — Real; actual; existing in fact or reality
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