Portuguese–English parallel text
O Prisioneiro de Zenda
The Prisoner of Zenda
Anthony Hope · retold
A bilingual Portuguese–English edition: the Portuguese text with the English beside it, paragraph by paragraph.
Opening the reader…
Cabelo ruivo e nariz comprido
Red Hair and a Long Nose
“Rudolf, quando você vai fazer alguma coisa na vida?”, disse a mulher do meu irmão.
“Rudolf, when are you ever going to do anything?” said my brother’s wife.
“Minha querida Rose”, respondi, e pus de lado minha colher de ovo. “Por que eu devo fazer alguma coisa? Tenho uma vida confortável e quase dinheiro suficiente, e ninguém nunca tem o bastante. Sou irmão de Lord Burlesdon. Isso basta!”
“My dear Rose,” I answered, and I put down my egg spoon. “Why should I do anything? I have a comfortable life and nearly enough money, and nobody ever has quite enough. I’m the brother of Lord Burlesdon. It’s enough!”
“Você tem vinte e nove anos”, ela disse, “e não fez nada além de…”
“You are twenty-nine,” she said, “and you’ve done nothing but…”
“Viajar e me divertir? É verdade. Nossa família não precisa fazer coisas.”
“Travel around and enjoy myself? That’s true. Our family doesn’t need to do things.”
Isso deixou Rose um pouco zangada, porque a família dela era menos importante que os Rassendylls. Mas ela era bonita e muito rica, então meu irmão Robert não se importava.
This made Rose a little angry, because her family was less grand than the Rassendylls. But she was pretty and very rich, so my brother Robert did not mind.
“As boas famílias geralmente são piores que as outras famílias”, ela disse.
“Good families are usually worse than other families,” she said.
Toquei no meu cabelo, porque sabia exatamente o que ela queria dizer.
I touched my hair, because I knew exactly what she meant.
“Que bom que o cabelo de Robert é preto!”, ela exclamou.
“I’m so glad Robert’s hair is black!” she cried.
Nesse momento Robert entrou. Ele acorda às sete e trabalha antes do café da manhã. Viu o rosto vermelho da esposa e tocou nele com carinho.
At that moment Robert came in. He gets up at seven and works before breakfast. He saw his wife’s red face and touched it kindly.
“O que foi, querida?”, ele perguntou.
“What’s the matter, my dear?” he asked.
“Ela está zangada porque eu não faço nada e tenho cabelo ruivo”, falei com tristeza.
“She’s angry because I do nothing and I have red hair,” I said sadly.
“Ah, claro, o cabelo não é culpa dele”, disse Rose.
“Oh, of course his hair isn’t his fault,” said Rose.
“Alguém da família tem esse cabelo mais ou menos a cada trinta anos”, disse meu irmão. “O nariz também. Rudolf tem os dois.”
“One of the family gets that hair every thirty years or so,” said my brother. “The nose too. Rudolf has both.”
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