The Great Gatsby — Page 15
"What'll we plan?" She turned to me helplessly: "What do people plan?"
"O que vamos planejar?" Ela se virou para mim sem saber o que fazer: "O que as pessoas planejam?"
Before I could answer her eyes fastened with an awed expression on her little finger.
Antes que eu pudesse responder, seus olhos se fixaram com uma expressão de espanto em seu dedo mínimo.
"Look!" she complained; "I hurt it."
"Olhe!" ela reclamou; "Eu me machuquei."
We all looked—the knuckle was black and blue.
Todos nós olhamos — o nó do dedo estava roxo.
"You did it, Tom," she said accusingly. "I know you didn't mean to, but you did do it. That's what I get for marrying a brute of a man, a great, big, hulking physical specimen of a—"
"Foi você, Tom," ela disse em tom de acusação. "Eu sei que não foi de propósito, mas você fez isso. É o que eu ganho por me casar com um bruto de homem, um grande e corpulento espécime físico de um—"
"I hate that word 'hulking,' " objected Tom crossly, "even in kidding."
"Odeio essa palavra 'corpulento,'" objetou Tom irritado, "mesmo de bromadeira."
"Hulking," insisted Daisy.
"Corpulento," insistiu Daisy.
Sometimes she and Miss Baker talked at once, unobtrusively and with a bantering inconsequence that was never quite chatter, that was as cool as their white dresses and their impersonal eyes in the absence of all desire.
Às vezes ela e a Srta. Baker falavam ao mesmo tempo, discretamente e com uma inconsequência zombeteira que nunca chegava a ser tagarelice, tão fria quanto seus vestidos brancos e seus olhos impessoais na ausência de qualquer desejo.
They were here, and they accepted Tom and me, making only a polite pleasant effort to entertain or to be entertained.
Elas estavam ali, e aceitavam Tom e a mim, fazendo apenas um educado e agradável esforço para entreter ou serem entretidas.
They knew that presently dinner would be over and a little later the evening too would be over and casually put away.
Elas sabiam que em breve o jantar terminaria e um pouco depois a noite também teria acabado e seria descartada com indiferença.
It was sharply different from the West, where an evening was hurried from phase to phase towards its close, in a continually disappointed anticipation or else in sheer nervous dread of the moment itself.
Era marcadamente diferente do Oeste, onde uma noite era apressada de fase em fase em direção ao seu fim, em uma antecipação continuamente frustrada ou então em puro pavor nervoso do momento em si.
"You make me feel uncivilized, Daisy," I confessed on my second glass of corky but rather impressive claret. "Can't you talk about crops or something?
"Você me faz sentir incivilizado, Daisy," confessei em meu segundo copo de um clarete cortiçado mas bastante impressionante. "Não pode falar sobre colheitas ou qualquer outra coisa?
Vocabulary
- que
- Relative pronoun; what, that, which
- vamos
- We go; let us go (first person plural present)
- planejar
- To plan or organize something for future
- Ela
- She; female third person singular pronoun
- se
- Reflexive pronoun; oneself, herself, himself
- virou
- Turned; past tense of virar (to turn)
- para
- For; to; preposition indicating direction or purpose
- mim
- Me; prepositional form of first person pronoun
- sem
- Without; preposition indicating absence or lack
- saber
- To know; to find out or understand something
- fazer
- To do; to make or perform an action
- as
- The; feminine plural definite article
- pessoas
- People; plural of pessoa (person)
- planejam
- They plan; third person plural present tense
- Antes
- Before; previously or earlier in time
- eu
- I; first person singular pronoun
- responder
- To answer or reply to a question
- seus
- His, her, its, your; possessive adjective plural
- olhos
- Eyes; plural of olho (eye)
- fixaram
- Fixed; past tense of fixar (to fix, stare)
- com
- With; preposition indicating accompaniment or association
- uma
- A, an; feminine singular indefinite article
- expressão
- Expression; look or appearance on face
- de
- Of; preposition indicating possession or origin
- espanto
- Astonishment; surprise or amazement at something
- em
- In, on, at; preposition indicating location
- seu
- His, her, its, your; singular possessive adjective
- dedo
- Finger; digit of hand or foot
- mínimo
- Minimal, smallest; least in size or degree
- Olhe
- Look; imperative form of olhar (to look)
- ela
- She; female third person singular pronoun
- reclamou
- Complained; past tense of reclamar (complain)
- Eu
- I; first person singular pronoun
- me
- Me; reflexive pronoun (accusative form)
- machuquei
- Hurt myself; past tense of machucar (injure)
- Todos
- All; everyone or every one of group
- nós
- We; first person plural pronoun
- olhamos
- We looked; past tense of olhar (look)
- nó
- Knot; twisted intertwining of rope or cord
- do
- Of the; contraction of de and o
- estava
- Was; past imperfect of estar (to be)
- roxo
- Purple, bruised; color or discolored from injury
- Foi
- Was; past tense of ser (to be)
- você
- You; second person singular formal pronoun
- disse
- Said; past tense of dizer (to say)
- tom
- Tone; quality or manner of speaking
- acusação
- Accusation; claim that someone did wrong
- sei
- Know; first person singular of saber
- não
- No, not; negation or denial of statement
- foi
- Was; past tense of ser (to be)
- propósito
- Purpose; intention or deliberate plan or design
- mas
- But; conjunction indicating contrast or exception
- fez
- Made, did; past tense of fazer (do, make)
- isso
- That; demonstrative pronoun referring to thing
- ganho
- Earned, gained; past participle of ganhar
- por
- By, for, through; preposition of various uses
- casar
- To marry; to join in matrimony or wed
- um
- A, an; masculine singular indefinite article
- bruto
- Brute, rough; crude, unrefined, or savage man
- homem
- Man; adult male human being
- grande
- Big, large; of considerable size or extent
- corpulento
- Corpulent; fat, obese, or very overweight person
- espécime
- Specimen; example or sample of something
- físico
- Physical; relating to body or material things
- Odeio
- I hate; first person singular of odiar
- essa
- That; feminine singular demonstrative adjective
- palavra
- Word; single unit of spoken or written language
- irritado
- Irritated; annoyed or made angry or impatient
- mesmo
- Same, even; identical or in fact nonetheless
- brincadeira
- Joke, jest; something said or done for amusement
- Corpulento
- Corpulent; fat, obese, or very overweight person
- insistiu
- Insisted; past tense of insistir (insist)
- Às
- At the; contraction of a and as
- vezes
- Times; occasions or instances of something
- Srta
- Miss; abbreviation of Senhorita (Miss, title)
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