Portuguese–English parallel text
Pitágoras de Samos
Pythagoras of Samos
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A oficina do ferreiro
The Blacksmith’s Yard
Pitágoras nasceu na ilha de Samos, no azul do Mar Egeu. Seu pai gravava sinetes em pedras preciosas, e a família não era pobre. Quando jovem, Pitágoras queria uma coisa: saber de que o mundo era feito e como ele funcionava.
Pythagoras was born on the island of Samos, in the blue Aegean Sea. His father cut seals in precious stone, and the family was not poor. As a young man, Pythagoras wanted one thing: to know what the world was made of, and how it worked.
Samos, naqueles dias, era rica e movimentada, com seu próprio porto, seu próprio templo e suas próprias brigas sobre quem devia governar. Era um bom lugar para um garoto esperto olhar ao redor e fazer perguntas.
Samos in those days was rich and busy, with its own harbour, its own temple and its own quarrels about who should rule. It was a good place for a clever boy to look around him and ask questions.
Certa manhã, ele passava pela oficina de um ferreiro. Lá dentro, quatro homens batiam martelos no ferro quente. E algo estranho aconteceu. Os sons não eram barulho. Eram música.
One morning he was walking past a blacksmith’s yard. Inside, four men were hammering hot iron. And something strange happened. The sounds were not noise. They were music.
O martelo mais pesado fazia uma nota grave. O mais leve fazia uma aguda. Os outros dois ficavam no meio, e juntos os quatro sons pareciam harmoniosos, como um acorde. Pitágoras parou e escutou.
The heaviest hammer made a deep note. The lightest made a high one. The other two fell between them, and together the four notes sounded friendly, like a chord. Pythagoras stopped and listened.
Ele entrou correndo e pediu para usar os martelos. Ele os pesou. E então viu: os martelos que soavam bem juntos tinham pesos simples. Um era duas vezes mais pesado que o outro. Outro era uma vez e meia mais pesado. Os sons agradáveis não eram questão de gosto. Eles tinham uma regra.
He ran in and asked to use the hammers. He weighed them. And then he saw it: the hammers that sounded good together had simple weights. One was twice as heavy as another. One was half again as heavy. The pleasant sounds were not a matter of taste. They had a rule.
Os ferreiros, com calor e cansados, acharam que ele era um homem estranho. Ele não se importou. Tinha encontrado algo melhor do que ouro: uma regra escondida por trás de algo bonito.
The smiths, hot and tired, thought he was a strange man. He did not care. He had found something better than gold: a hidden rule behind something beautiful.
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