Portuguese–English parallel text
Como a Baleia Ficou com a Garganta Apertada
How the Whale Got His Throat
Rudyard Kipling
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No mar, era uma vez, ó meu Mais Querido, uma Baleia, e ela comia peixes.
In the sea, once upon a time, O my Best Beloved, there was a Whale, and he ate fishes.
Ela comia a estrela-do-mar e o peixe-agulha, e o caranguejo e o linguado, e a solha e o dace, e a raia e a sua parceira, e a cavala e o lúcio pequeno, e a enguia mesmo de verdade cheia de voltas.
He ate the starfish and the garfish, and the crab and the dab, and the plaice and the dace, and the skate and his mate, and the mackereel and the pickereel, and the really truly twirly-whirly eel.
Todos os peixes que conseguia encontrar em todo o mar ela comia com a boca — assim! Até que, no fim, só sobrou um peixinho em todo o mar, e ele era um Peixe Astuto, e nadava um pouco atrás do ouvido direito da Baleia, para ficar fora de perigo.
All the fishes he could find in all the sea he ate with his mouth—so! Till at last there was only one small fish left in all the sea, and he was a small ‘Stute Fish, and he swam a little behind the Whale’s right ear, so as to be out of harm’s way.
Então a Baleia ficou de pé sobre a cauda e disse: “Estou com fome.” E o pequeno Peixe Astuto disse com uma vozinha astuta: “Nobre e generoso Cetáceo, você já provou Homem?”
Then the Whale stood up on his tail and said, ‘I’m hungry.’ And the small ‘Stute Fish said in a small ‘stute voice, ‘Noble and generous Cetacean, have you ever tasted Man?’
“Não”, disse a Baleia. “Qual é o gosto?”
‘No,’ said the Whale. ‘What is it like?’
“Gostoso”, disse o pequeno Peixe Astuto. “Gostoso, mas cheio de nós.”
‘Nice,’ said the small ‘Stute Fish. ‘Nice but nubbly.’
“Então me traga um pouco”, disse a Baleia, e fez o mar espumar com a cauda.
‘Then fetch me some,’ said the Whale, and he made the sea froth up with his tail.
“Um de cada vez é suficiente”, disse o Peixe Astuto.
‘One at a time is enough,’ said the ‘Stute Fish.
“Se você nadar até a latitude Cinquenta Norte, longitude Quarenta Oeste (isso é mágica), você vai encontrar, sentado numa jangada, no meio do mar, sem nada no corpo além de calças curtas de lona azul, um par de suspensórios (você não deve esquecer os suspensórios, Mais Querido) e um canivete, um Marinheiro náufrago, que, é justo avisar você, é um homem de recursos-e-sagacidade-infinitos.”
‘If you swim to latitude Fifty North, longitude Forty West (that is magic), you will find, sitting on a raft, in the middle of the sea, with nothing on but a pair of blue canvas breeches, a pair of suspenders (you must not forget the suspenders, Best Beloved), and a jack-knife, one ship-wrecked Mariner, who, it is only fair to tell you, is a man of infinite-resource-and-sagacity.’
Então a Baleia nadou e nadou até a latitude Cinquenta Norte, longitude Quarenta Oeste, o mais rápido que pôde nadar, e numa jangada, no meio do mar, sem nada para vestir além de calças curtas de lona azul, um par de suspensórios (você deve se lembrar especialmente dos suspensórios, Mais Querido) e um canivete, ela encontrou um Marinheiro náufrago, sozinho e solitário, balançando os dedos dos pés na água.
So the Whale swam and swam to latitude Fifty North, longitude Forty West, as fast as he could swim, and on a raft, in the middle of the sea, with nothing to wear except a pair of blue canvas breeches, a pair of suspenders (you must particularly remember the suspenders, Best Beloved), and a jack-knife, he found one single, solitary shipwrecked Mariner, trailing his toes in the water.
(Ele tinha a permissão da mamãe para brincar na água, ou então nunca teria feito isso, porque era um homem de recursos-e-sagacidade-infinitos.)
(He had his mummy’s leave to paddle, or else he would never have done it, because he was a man of infinite-resource-and-sagacity.)
Então a Baleia abriu a boca para trás e para trás e para trás, até que quase tocou a cauda, e engoliu o Marinheiro náufrago, e a jangada onde ele estava sentado, e as calças curtas de lona azul dele, e os suspensórios (que você não deve esquecer), e o canivete — ela engoliu tudo para dentro dos seus armários quentes, escuros e interiores, e depois lambeu os lábios — assim, e deu três voltas sobre a cauda.
Then the Whale opened his mouth back and back and back till it nearly touched his tail, and he swallowed the shipwrecked Mariner, and the raft he was sitting on, and his blue canvas breeches, and the suspenders (which you must not forget), and the jack-knife—He swallowed them all down into his warm, dark, inside cup-boards, and then he smacked his lips—so, and turned round three times on his tail.
Mas assim que o Marinheiro, que era um homem de recursos-e-sagacidade-infinitos, se viu de verdade dentro dos armários quentes, escuros e interiores da Baleia, ele bateu o pé e pulou e deu pancadas e trombou, e saltitou e dançou, e bateu forte e fez barulho de metal, e bateu e mordeu, e saltou e rastejou, e rondou e uivou, e deu pulinhos e se jogou no chão, e chorou e suspirou, e se arrastou e berrou, e deu passos e deu saltos, e dançou danças de marinheiro onde não devia, e a Baleia se sentiu muito infeliz de verdade.
But as soon as the Mariner, who was a man of infinite-resource-and-sagacity, found himself truly inside the Whale’s warm, dark, inside cup-boards, he stumped and he jumped and he thumped and he bumped, and he pranced and he danced, and he banged and he clanged, and he hit and he bit, and he leaped and he creeped, and he prowled and he howled, and he hopped and he dropped, and he cried and he sighed, and he crawled and he bawled, and he stepped and he lepped, and he danced hornpipes where he shouldn’t, and the Whale felt most unhappy indeed.
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