Peter Pan — Page 7
You would see her on her knees, I expect, lingering humorously over some of your contents, wondering where on earth you had picked this thing up, making discoveries sweet and not so sweet, pressing this to her cheek as if it were as nice as a kitten, and hurriedly stowing that out of sight.
Você a veria de joelhos, eu suponho, demorando-se com humor sobre alguns dos seus conteúdos, perguntando-se onde diabos você havia apanhado aquela coisa, fazendo descobertas agradáveis e nem tão agradáveis, pressionando isto contra sua bochecha como se fosse tão gentil quanto um gatinho, e apressadamente escondendo aquilo de vista.
When you wake in the morning, the naughtiness and evil passions with which you went to bed have been folded up small and placed at the bottom of your mind and on the top, beautifully aired, are spread out your prettier thoughts, ready for you to put on.
Quando você acorda de manhã, a travessura e as paixões malignas com as quais você foi para a cama foram dobradas em pequeno e colocadas no fundo da sua mente e no topo, lindamente arejados, estão espalhados os seus pensamentos mais bonitos, prontos para você vestir.
I don't know whether you have ever seen a map of a person's mind.
Não sei se você já viu alguma vez um mapa da mente de uma pessoa.
Doctors sometimes draw maps of other parts of you, and your own map can become intensely interesting, but catch them trying to draw a map of a child's mind, which is not only confused, but keeps going round all the time.
Os médicos às vezes desenham mapas de outras partes de você, e o seu próprio mapa pode tornar-se intensamente interessante, mas tente vê-los tentando desenhar um mapa da mente de uma criança, que não é apenas confusa, mas continua girando o tempo todo.
There are zigzag lines on it, just like your temperature on a card, and these are probably roads in the island, for the Neverland is always more or less an island, with astonishing splashes of colour here and there, and coral reefs and rakish-looking craft in the offing, and savages and lonely lairs, and gnomes who are mostly tailors, and caves through which a river runs, and princes with six elder brothers, and a hut fast going to decay, and one very small old lady with a hooked nose.
Há linhas em ziguezague nele, assim como a sua temperatura num cartão, e estas são provavelmente estradas na ilha, pois a Terra do Nunca é sempre mais ou menos uma ilha, com manchas de cor surpreendentes aqui e ali, e recifes de coral e embarcações de aspeto arrojado ao largo, e selvagens e covis solitários, e gnomos que são na sua maioria alfaiates, e cavernas por onde corre um rio, e príncipes com seis irmãos mais velhos, e uma cabana em rápida decadência, e uma senhora muito pequenina e idosa com um nariz adunco.
Vocabulary
- Você
- You (formal or informal second person singular pronoun)
- veria
- Would see (conditional past tense of ver)
- de
- Of, from (preposition indicating possession or origin)
- joelhos
- Knees (plural noun for the joint in the leg)
- eu
- I (first person singular pronoun)
- suponho
- I suppose (first person singular present of supor)
- demorando-se
- Delaying oneself, lingering (reflexive gerund of demorar)
- com
- With (preposition indicating accompaniment or manner)
- humor
- Mood, humor (noun referring to emotional state or comedy)
- sobre
- About, on, over (preposition indicating position or topic)
- alguns
- Some, a few (indefinite plural adjective or pronoun)
- dos
- Of the (contraction of de + os)
- seus
- His, her, your, their (possessive adjective or pronoun)
- conteúdos
- Contents (plural noun referring to what is contained)
- perguntando-se
- Wondering, asking oneself (reflexive gerund of perguntar)
- onde
- Where (interrogative or relative adverb of location)
- havia
- Had, there was (imperfect tense of haver)
- apanhado
- Caught, seized (past participle of apanhar)
- aquela
- That (feminine demonstrative adjective or pronoun)
- coisa
- Thing (noun referring to any object or matter)
- fazendo
- Making, doing (gerund of fazer)
- descobertas
- Discoveries (plural feminine noun or past participle)
- agradáveis
- Pleasant, agreeable (plural adjective describing something nice)
- nem
- Neither, nor (conjunction used for negation)
- tão
- So, as (adverb of degree for comparison)
- pressionando
- Pressing (gerund of pressionar)
- isto
- This (demonstrative pronoun referring to something near)
- contra
- Against (preposition indicating opposition or position)
- sua
- Your, his, her (possessive adjective feminine singular)
- bochecha
- Cheek (noun referring to side of the face)
- como
- Like, as, how (preposition, conjunction, or interrogative)
- se
- If, oneself (conjunction or reflexive pronoun)
- fosse
- Were, would be (imperfect subjunctive of ser)
- gentil
- Kind, gentle (adjective describing pleasant behavior)
- quanto
- As much as, how much (conjunction or interrogative)
- um
- A, one (indefinite article or number)
- gatinho
- Kitten (diminutive noun referring to small cat)
- apressadamente
- Hurriedly, hastily (adverb describing quick action)
- escondendo
- Hiding (gerund of esconder)
- aquilo
- That (neuter demonstrative pronoun)
- vista
- Sight, view (noun referring to vision or appearance)
- Quando
- When (interrogative or relative adverb of time)
- acorda
- Wakes up (third person singular present of acordar)
- manhã
- Morning (noun referring to early part of day)
- travessura
- Mischief, prank (noun referring to playful wrongdoing)
- as
- The (feminine plural definite article)
- paixões
- Passions (plural noun referring to intense emotions)
- malignas
- Malign, evil (feminine plural adjective describing harm)
- quais
- Which, what (plural relative or interrogative pronoun)
- foi
- Was, went (preterite of ser or ir)
- para
- To, for (preposition indicating direction or purpose)
- cama
- Bed (noun referring to furniture for sleeping)
- foram
- Were, went (preterite plural of ser or ir)
- dobradas
- Folded (feminine plural past participle of dobrar)
- pequeno
- Small (adjective describing something of little size)
- colocadas
- Placed (feminine plural past participle of colocar)
- no
- In the (contraction of em + o)
- fundo
- Bottom, depth (noun or adjective referring to lowest part)
- mente
- Mind (noun referring to consciousness or intellect)
- topo
- Top (noun referring to highest point or summit)
- lindamente
- Beautifully (adverb describing something done in beautiful way)
- estão
- Are (third person plural present of estar)
- espalhados
- Scattered, spread out (plural adjective or past participle)
- os
- The (masculine plural definite article)
- pensamentos
- Thoughts (plural noun referring to ideas or thinking)
- mais
- More (adverb or adjective of quantity or degree)
- bonitos
- Beautiful, pretty (plural adjective describing attractiveness)
- prontos
- Ready, prepared (plural adjective or adverb of readiness)
- vestir
- To dress, wear (infinitive verb for clothing)
- Não
- No, not (negation adverb or interjection)
- sei
- I know (first person singular present of saber)
- já
- Already, yet (adverb of time indicating prior occurrence)
- viu
- Saw, saw you (preterite of ver)
- alguma
- Some, any (feminine singular indefinite adjective or pronoun)
- vez
- Time, occasion (noun referring to an instance)
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