English–Portuguese parallel text
The House on Lygon Street
A casa na Lygon Street
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An original English story from Real Life · Vida real, with the Portuguese beside it, paragraph by paragraph.
Opening the reader…
Sunday lunch
Almoço de domingo
Nick was thirty-four. He made apps for phones. He worked in an office in the centre of Melbourne. He looked at a screen all day.
Nick tinha trinta e quatro anos. Ele fazia aplicativos para celular. Ele trabalhava em um escritório no centro de Melbourne. Ele olhava para uma tela o dia todo.
Every Sunday, he had lunch with his grandfather, Stavros. Nick called him Pappou. It was the Greek word for grandfather.
Todo domingo, ele almoçava com o avô dele, Stavros. Nick chamava ele de Pappou. Era a palavra grega para avô.
Pappou was eighty-six. He lived alone in a small house in Brunswick. He cooked chicken with potatoes every Sunday. It was always the same lunch, and it was always good.
Pappou tinha oitenta e seis anos. Ele morava sozinho em uma casa pequena em Brunswick. Ele cozinhava frango com batatas todo domingo. Era sempre o mesmo almoço, e era sempre bom.
This Sunday, Pappou didn’t eat much. He had an old photo in his hand.
Neste domingo, Pappou não comeu muito. Ele estava com uma foto antiga na mão.
“Look,” he said. “This is me in 1965.”
“Olhe”, ele disse. “Este sou eu em 1965.”
In the photo, a young man stood in front of a house. It had a green door. There was a small lemon tree next to the door. The young man had black hair and a big smile.
Na foto, um jovem estava na frente de uma casa. Ela tinha uma porta verde. Tinha um limoeiro pequeno perto da porta. O jovem tinha cabelo preto e um sorriso grande.
“Where is this?” asked Nick.
“Onde é isso?”, perguntou Nick.
“Lygon Street. It’s the house where I lived in my first year in Australia.”
“Na Lygon Street. É a casa onde eu morei no meu primeiro ano na Austrália.”
“You’ve never told me about that house.”
“Você nunca me falou dessa casa.”
“You’ve never asked.” Pappou smiled.
“Você nunca perguntou.” Pappou sorriu.
Nick put his phone on the table. “OK. I’m asking now.”
Nick colocou o celular na mesa. “Tudo bem. Eu estou perguntando agora.”
“I came from Greece on a ship,” said Pappou. “Thirty-one days on the sea. I was twenty-five, and I didn’t speak a word of English. I had one bag and the address of a cousin.”
“Eu vim da Grécia em um navio”, disse Pappou. “Trinta e um dias no mar. Eu tinha vinte e cinco anos e não falava uma palavra de inglês. Eu tinha uma mala e o endereço de um primo.”
“And your cousin lived on Lygon Street?”
“E o seu primo morava na Lygon Street?”
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