Portuguese–English parallel text
Dez Quilômetros
Ten Kilometres
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A bilingual Portuguese–English edition: the Portuguese text with the English beside it, paragraph by paragraph.
Opening the reader…
Uma brincadeira na lista
A joke on the list
Funmi morava em Lagos. Ela tinha quarenta e um anos e era contadora. Ela trabalhava para uma grande empresa no centro da cidade.
Funmi lived in Lagos. She was forty-one, and she was an accountant. She worked for a big company in the city centre.
Ela ficava sentada na sua mesa das oito da manhã até as seis da tarde. Ela gostava de números. Os números eram calmos.
She sat at her desk from eight in the morning until six in the evening. She liked numbers. Numbers were quiet.
Na segunda-feira de manhã, chegou um e-mail do chefe. Funmi leu o e-mail com o seu primeiro café.
On Monday morning, an email came from the boss. Funmi read it with her first coffee.
“Querida equipe”, dizia a mensagem. “A nossa empresa vai correr na corrida de Lagos. São dez quilômetros e vai ser daqui a seis semanas. Aqui estão os nossos dez corredores.”
“Dear team,” it said. “Our company is going to run in the Lagos race. It’s ten kilometres, and it’s in six weeks. Here are our ten runners.”
Funmi olhou para a lista de nomes. O último nome na lista era o nome dela.
Funmi looked at the list of names. The last name on the list was her name.
Ela leu de novo. Depois, ela se levantou e foi até a mesa ao lado.
She read it again. Then she stood up and walked to the next desk.
Tunde tinha vinte e seis anos. Ele era mais jovem do que todo mundo no escritório. Ele corria toda manhã e falava sobre isso todo dia.
Tunde was twenty-six. He was younger than everybody in the office. He ran every morning, and he talked about it every day.
“Tunde. Você escreveu o meu nome nesta lista?”
“Tunde. Did you write my name on this list?”
Tunde riu. “Foi uma brincadeira! Desculpe. Depois o chefe mandou a lista para todo mundo.”
Tunde laughed. “It was a joke! I’m sorry. Then the boss sent the list to everyone.”
“Uma brincadeira”, disse Funmi.
“A joke,” said Funmi.
“Ora, Funmi. Você nunca correu na sua vida. Correu?”
“Come on, Funmi. You’ve never run in your life. Have you?”
“Não”, disse Funmi. “Eu nunca corri. Nem para pegar um ônibus.”
“No,” said Funmi. “I have never run. Not even for a bus.”
Outras pessoas no escritório olharam das suas mesas. Algumas delas sorriram.
Other people in the office looked up from their desks. Some of them smiled.
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