The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People — Page 4
The Divorce Court was specially invented for people whose memories are so curiously constituted.
O Tribunal de Divórcio foi especialmente inventado para pessoas cujas memórias são tão curiosamente constituídas.
ALGERNON.
ALGERNON.
Oh! there is no use speculating on that subject.
Oh! não adianta especular sobre esse assunto.
Divorces are made in Heaven—[Jack puts out his hand to take a sandwich.
Os divórcios são feitos no Céu— [Jack estende a mão para pegar um sanduíche.
Algernon at once interferes.]
Algernon imediatamente o interrompe.]
Please don't touch the cucumber sandwiches.
Por favor, não toque nos sanduíches de pepino.
They are ordered specially for Aunt Augusta.
Eles foram encomendados especialmente para a Tia Augusta.
[Takes one and eats it.]
[Pega um e come.]
JACK.
JACK.
Well, you have been eating them all the time.
Mas você ficou comendo-os o tempo todo.
ALGERNON.
ALGERNON.
That is quite a different matter.
Isso é uma questão bem diferente.
She is my aunt.
Ela é minha tia.
[Takes plate from below.]
[Pega o prato de baixo.]
Have some bread and butter.
Sirva-se de pão com manteiga.
The bread and butter is for Gwendolen.
O pão com manteiga é para Gwendolen.
Gwendolen is devoted to bread and butter.
Gwendolen é apaixonada por pão com manteiga.
JACK.
JACK.
[Advancing to table and helping himself.] And very good bread and butter it is too.
[Aproximando-se da mesa e se servindo.] E um pão com manteiga muito bom, aliás.
ALGERNON.
ALGERNON.
Well, my dear fellow, you need not eat as if you were going to eat it all.
Bem, meu caro, você não precisa comer como se fosse devorar tudo.
You behave as if you were married to her already.
Você se comporta como se já fosse casado com ela.
You are not married to her already, and I don't think you ever will be.
Você não é casado com ela ainda, e não acho que jamais será.
JACK.
JACK.
Why on earth do you say that?
Por que diabos você diz isso?
ALGERNON.
ALGERNON.
Well, in the first place girls never marry the men they flirt with.
Bem, em primeiro lugar, as moças nunca se casam com os homens com quem flertam.
Girls don't think it right.
As moças não acham isso certo.
JACK.
JACK.
Oh, that is nonsense!
Oh, isso é um absurdo!
ALGERNON.
ALGERNON.
It isn't.
Não é não.
It is a great truth.
É uma grande verdade.
It accounts for the extraordinary number of bachelors that one sees all over the place.
Isso explica o extraordinário número de solteirões que se vê por todo o lugar.
In the second place, I don't give my consent.
Em segundo lugar, eu não dou meu consentimento.
JACK.
JACK.
Your consent!
Seu consentimento!
ALGERNON.
ALGERNON.
My dear fellow, Gwendolen is my first cousin.
Meu caro, Gwendolen é minha prima em primeiro grau.
Vocabulary
- Tribunal
- Court or tribunal, a legal judging body.
- Divórcio
- Legal dissolution of a marriage; divorce.
- foi
- Past tense of 'ser/ir'; was or went.
- especialmente
- Especially; particularly above others.
- inventado
- Invented or created for a purpose.
- pessoas
- People; human individuals in general.
- cujas
- Whose; relative pronoun indicating possession (feminine plural).
- memórias
- Memories; recollections stored in one's mind.
- tão
- So or as; used in comparisons of degree.
- curiosamente
- Curiously; in a strange or odd manner.
- constituídas
- Constituted or formed in a particular way.
- adianta
- It helps or advances; it is of use.
- especular
- To speculate; to theorize without firm evidence.
- assunto
- Subject or topic under discussion.
- divórcios
- Divorces; plural of legal marriage dissolutions.
- feitos
- Made or done; past participle of 'fazer'.
- Céu
- Heaven or sky; the divine realm above.
- estende
- Extends or reaches out (a hand or object).
- mão
- Hand; the body part at arm's end.
- pegar
- To grab or take hold of something.
- sanduíche
- Sandwich; food between two slices of bread.
- imediatamente
- Immediately; without any delay at all.
- interrompe
- Interrupts; stops someone mid-action or speech.
- favor
- Favor; used in 'por favor' meaning please.
- toque
- Touch; subjunctive/imperative form of 'tocar'.
- sanduíches
- Sandwiches; plural of food between bread slices.
- pepino
- Cucumber; a green salad vegetable.
- foram
- Were or went; past tense of 'ser/ir' (plural).
- encomendados
- Ordered or requested in advance for someone.
- Tia
- Aunt; a parent's sister or female relative.
- Pega
- Takes or grabs; imperative/present of 'pegar'.
- come
- Eats; third-person singular of 'comer'.
- ficou
- Stayed or became; past tense of 'ficar'.
- comendo-os
- Eating them; gerund with object pronoun attached.
- tempo
- Time or weather; a fundamental measure of duration.
- todo
- All or entire; indicating the whole of something.
- questão
- Question or matter; an issue under consideration.
- diferente
- Different; not the same as something else.
- tia
- Aunt; female relative from parent's side.
- prato
- Plate or dish used for serving food.
- baixo
- Low or short; describing position or height.
- Sirva-se
- Help yourself; reflexive imperative of 'servir'.
- pão
- Bread; a staple baked food item.
- manteiga
- Butter; a dairy spread for bread.
- apaixonada
- In love or passionate; deeply fond of someone.
- Aproximando-se
- Approaching; reflexive gerund of 'aproximar'.
- mesa
- Table; a piece of furniture for placing items.
- servindo
- Serving; gerund form of 'servir'.
- aliás
- By the way; incidentally; used to add remarks.
- caro
- Dear or expensive; term of address or cost.
- precisa
- Needs to; third-person singular of 'precisar'.
- comer
- To eat; basic verb for consuming food.
- fosse
- Were; imperfect subjunctive of 'ser/ir'.
- devorar
- To devour; to eat something greedily and rapidly.
- tudo
- Everything; all things without exception.
- comporta
- Behaves; third-person singular of 'comportar-se'.
- já
- Already or now; indicating completed or immediate action.
- casado
- Married; adjective describing a wedded person.
- ainda
- Still or yet; indicating continuation of a state.
- acho
- I think or find; first-person of 'achar'.
- jamais
- Never; emphatic negation referring to any time.
- será
- Will be; future tense of 'ser'.
- diabos
- Devils; used in exclamations expressing annoyance or surprise.
- diz
- Says; third-person singular present of 'dizer'.
- primeiro
- First; ordinal number indicating initial position.
- lugar
- Place or position; also used in 'em primeiro lugar'.
- moças
- Young women or girls; females in youth.
- nunca
- Never; adverb of absolute negation in time.
- casam
- Marry; third-person plural present of 'casar'.
- homens
- Men; plural of male adult human beings.
- flertam
- Flirt with; third-person plural of 'flertar'.
- acham
- Find or think; third-person plural of 'achar'.
- certo
- Right or correct; adjective meaning appropriate or true.
- absurdo
- Absurd; completely unreasonable or ridiculous.
- grande
- Great or big; adjective for size or importance.
- verdade
- Truth; a fact or reality that is accurate.
- explica
- Explains; third-person singular of 'explicar'.
- extraordinário
- Extraordinary; remarkably unusual or exceptional.
- número
- Number; a count or quantity of things.
- solteirões
- Confirmed bachelors; older unmarried men.
- vê
- Sees; third-person singular present of 'ver'.
- segundo
- Second; ordinal number or verb 'according to'.
- dou
- I give; first-person singular present of 'dar'.
- consentimento
- Consent or permission; formal agreement to something.
- prima
- Female cousin; a relative from parent's sibling.
- grau
- Degree; level of relationship or measurement.
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