Portuguese–English parallel text
A Princesa e a Ervilha
The Princess and the Pea
Hans Christian Andersen
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Era uma vez um príncipe que queria se casar com uma princesa; mas ela teria que ser uma princesa de verdade. Ele viajou pelo mundo inteiro para encontrar uma, mas em lugar nenhum conseguiu o que queria.
Once upon a time there was a prince who wanted to marry a princess; but she would have to be a real princess. He travelled all over the world to find one, but nowhere could he get what he wanted.
Havia princesas suficientes, mas era difícil descobrir se elas eram de verdade. Havia sempre algo nelas que não era como deveria ser.
There were princesses enough, but it was difficult to find out whether they were real ones. There was always something about them that was not as it should be.
Então ele voltou para casa e ficou triste, porque queria muito ter uma princesa de verdade.
So he came home again and was sad, for he would have liked very much to have a real princess.
Uma noite, começou uma tempestade terrível; havia trovões e relâmpagos, e a chuva caía aos baldes. De repente, ouviu-se alguém bater no portão da cidade, e o velho rei foi abrir.
One evening a terrible storm came on; there was thunder and lightning, and the rain poured down in torrents. Suddenly a knocking was heard at the city gate, and the old king went to open it.
Era uma princesa que estava ali parada na frente do portão. Mas, meu Deus! que estado a chuva e o vento tinham deixado ela. A água escorria pelo cabelo e pelas roupas; entrava pelas pontas dos sapatos e saía de novo pelos calcanhares.
It was a princess standing out there in front of the gate. But, good gracious! what a sight the rain and the wind had made her look. The water ran down from her hair and clothes; it ran down into the toes of her shoes and out again at the heels.
E, mesmo assim, ela dizia que era uma princesa de verdade.
And yet she said that she was a real princess.
“Bem, logo vamos descobrir isso”, pensou a velha rainha.
“Well, we’ll soon find that out,” thought the old queen.
Mas ela não disse nada, foi até o quarto, tirou toda a roupa de cama do estrado e colocou uma ervilha no fundo; depois pegou vinte colchões e os colocou sobre a ervilha, e então vinte acolchoados de penas de ganso por cima dos colchões.
But she said nothing, went into the bed-room, took all the bedding off the bedstead, and laid a pea on the bottom; then she took twenty mattresses and laid them on the pea, and then twenty eider-down beds on top of the mattresses.
Sobre isso a princesa teve que se deitar a noite toda. De manhã, perguntaram a ela como tinha dormido.
On this the princess had to lie all night. In the morning she was asked how she had slept.
“Ah, muito mal!”, disse ela. “Quase não fechei os olhos a noite inteira. Só Deus sabe o que havia na cama, mas eu estava deitada sobre algo duro, de modo que fiquei cheia de manchas roxas pelo corpo todo. É horrível!”
“Oh, very badly!” said she. “I have scarcely closed my eyes all night. Heaven only knows what was in the bed, but I was lying on something hard, so that I am black and blue all over my body. It’s horrible!”
Agora eles sabiam que ela era uma princesa de verdade, porque tinha sentido a ervilha através dos vinte colchões e dos vinte acolchoados de penas de ganso.
Now they knew that she was a real princess because she had felt the pea right through the twenty mattresses and the twenty eider-down beds.
Ninguém além de uma princesa de verdade poderia ser tão sensível assim.
Nobody but a real princess could be as sensitive as that.
Então o príncipe a tomou por esposa, pois agora sabia que tinha uma princesa de verdade; e a ervilha foi colocada no museu, onde ainda pode ser vista, se ninguém a roubou.
So the prince took her for his wife, for now he knew that he had a real princess; and the pea was put in the museum, where it may still be seen, if no one has stolen it.
Vejam só, essa é uma história verdadeira.
There, that is a true story.
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