Portuguese–English parallel text
O Mesmo Sábado
The Same Saturday
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A bilingual Portuguese–English edition: the Portuguese text with the English beside it, paragraph by paragraph.
Opening the reader…
Segunda-feira
Monday
Yasmin tinha vinte e sete anos. Ela era engenheira na companhia de água no Cairo.
Yasmin was twenty-seven. She was an engineer at the water company in Cairo.
O escritório dela ficava no quinto andar de um prédio grande e cinza perto do Nilo.
Her office was on the fifth floor of a big grey building near the Nile.
Na segunda-feira, ela chegou às sete e meia, antes de todo mundo. Ela fez um café e ligou o computador.
On Monday, she arrived at half past seven, before everyone. She made a coffee and turned on her computer.
Tinha uma mensagem da irmã dela. “Bom dia! Cinco dias para a festa! Você está pronta?”
There was a message from her sister. “Good morning! Five days to the party! Are you ready?”
Yasmin sorriu. A irmã dela, Nour, tinha vinte e quatro anos. No sábado, ia ter uma festa grande no apartamento dos pais delas. Era a festa de noivado de Nour. A família do namorado dela planejava vir e conhecer a família dela.
Yasmin smiled. Her sister Nour was twenty-four. On Saturday, there was a big party at their parents’ flat. It was Nour’s engagement party. Her boyfriend’s family planned to come and meet her family.
Dois meses atrás, Yasmin fez uma promessa. “Vou planejar tudo”, ela disse. “A comida, as flores, as cadeiras, o bolo. Você não precisa fazer nada.”
Two months ago, Yasmin made a promise. “I’ll plan everything,” she said. “The food, the flowers, the chairs, the cake. You don’t have to do anything.”
Agora ela tinha uma lista com trinta coisas.
Now she had a list with thirty things on it.
Ela respondeu: “Claro que estou pronta. Não se preocupe. Vai ser um dia perfeito.”
She wrote back. “Of course I’m ready. Don’t worry. It’s going to be a perfect day.”
Depois, ela olhou para a programação na parede. Era uma semana cheia para a equipe dela.
Then she looked at the schedule on the wall. It was a busy week for her team.
Segunda-feira, nove horas: reunião da equipe. Terça-feira: uma visita à estação de água em Gizé. Quarta-feira: o turno da noite, das oito da noite às oito da manhã. Quinta-feira, dez horas: a grande apresentação para o ministério.
Monday, nine o’clock: team meeting. Tuesday: a visit to the water station in Giza. Wednesday: the night shift, from eight in the evening to eight in the morning. Thursday, ten o’clock: the big presentation for the ministry.
A apresentação era a coisa mais importante. Yasmin trabalhou nela por um ano. Era um plano para novos canos de água na cidade velha.
The presentation was the most important thing. Yasmin worked on it for a year. It was a plan for new water pipes in the old city.
“Algumas ruas lá só recebem água por duas horas por dia”, ela dizia sempre. “Nós podemos mudar isso.”
“Some streets there only get water for two hours a day,” she often said. “We can change that.”
Às nove, a equipe se reuniu na sala de reunião. O chefe dela sentou na ponta da mesa. Ele era um homem alto com uma voz alta.
At nine, the team met in the meeting room. Her boss sat at the end of the table. He was a tall man with a loud voice.
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