Portuguese–English parallel text
É uma Brincadeira
It Is a Joke
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São sete horas da manhã. A Sra. Berg fica na escada.
It is seven o’clock in the morning. Mrs Berg stands at the stairs.
“Este é o seu trabalho,” ela diz. “Todos eles. Use água quente.”
“This is your job,” she says. “All of them. Use hot water.”
“Quantos degraus tem?”
“How many stairs are there?”
“Hoje à noite as suas mãos podem dizer.”
“Tonight your hands can say.”
São oito horas. Nina está limpando o degrau vinte.
It is eight o’clock. Nina is cleaning stair twenty.
São dez horas. Nina está limpando o degrau cinquenta.
It is ten o’clock. Nina is cleaning stair fifty.
Este hotel é pequeno, mas tem muitos degraus.
This hotel is small, but it has very many stairs.
Max entra. Tem neve no pelo dele.
Max comes in. There is snow in his hair.
Ele sobe a escada limpa. Agora ela não está limpa.
He walks up the clean stairs. Now they are not clean.
Ele senta no degrau dez.
He sits on stair ten.
A Sra. Berg sai de trás do balcão dela.
Mrs Berg comes out from behind her desk.
Ela olha para o Max. Max olha para a Sra. Berg.
She looks at Max. Max looks at Mrs Berg.
Nina para de trabalhar. Ela conhece isso. Sara e Max fazem isso todo dia.
Nina stops working. She knows this. Sara and Max do this every day.
Sara sempre para primeiro.
Sara always stops first.
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