Portuguese–English parallel text
O Sinaleiro
The Signal-Man
Charles Dickens
A bilingual Portuguese–English edition: the Portuguese text with the English beside it, paragraph by paragraph.
Opening the reader…
I
I
“Ei! Aí embaixo!”
“HALLOA! Below there!”
Quando ouviu uma voz chamá-lo assim, ele estava de pé à porta da sua cabine, com uma bandeira na mão, enrolada em torno do pequeno mastro. Dada a natureza do terreno, qualquer um pensaria que ele não poderia ter dúvida sobre de onde vinha a voz; mas, em vez de olhar para cima, para onde eu estava, no alto do íngreme corte, quase sobre a sua cabeça, ele se virou e olhou ao longo da Linha. Havia algo de notável na maneira como o fez, embora eu não saiba dizer o quê, nem que me custasse a vida. Mas sei que era notável o bastante para atrair a minha atenção, ainda que a figura dele estivesse encurtada e sombreada lá no fundo da trincheira, e a minha, bem acima, tão mergulhada no brilho de um furioso pôr do sol, que eu havia protegido os olhos com a mão antes mesmo de avistá-lo.
When he heard a voice thus calling to him, he was standing at the door of his box, with a flag in his hand, furled round its short pole. One would have thought, considering the nature of the ground, that he could not have doubted from what quarter the voice came; but instead of looking up to where I stood on the top of the steep cutting nearly over his head, he turned himself about, and looked down the Line. There was something remarkable in his manner of doing so, though I could not have said for my life what. But I know it was remarkable enough to attract my notice, even though his figure was foreshortened and shadowed, down in the deep trench, and mine was high above him, so steeped in the glow of an angry sunset, that I had shaded my eyes with my hand before I saw him at all.
“Ei! Aí embaixo!”
“Halloa! Below!”
Depois de olhar ao longo da Linha, ele se virou de novo e, erguendo os olhos, viu a minha figura no alto, bem acima dele.
From looking down the Line, he turned himself about again, and, raising his eyes, saw my figure high above him.
“Há algum caminho por onde eu possa descer e falar com você?”
“Is there any path by which I can come down and speak to you?”
Ele olhou para mim sem responder, e eu olhei para ele sem apressá-lo com a repetição da minha pergunta ociosa. Naquele instante, sentiu-se uma vaga vibração na terra e no ar, que logo se transformou numa pulsação violenta e num ímpeto que se aproximava, a ponto de me fazer recuar, como se tivesse força para me puxar para baixo. Quando o vapor que daquele trem veloz subiu até a minha altura passou por mim e foi se dispersando pela paisagem, olhei de novo para baixo e o vi enrolando outra vez a bandeira que havia exibido enquanto o trem passava.
He looked up at me without replying, and I looked down at him without pressing him too soon with a repetition of my idle question. Just then there came a vague vibration in the earth and air, quickly changing into a violent pulsation, and an oncoming rush that caused me to start back, as though it had force to draw me down. When such vapour as rose to my height from this rapid train had passed me, and was skimming away over the landscape, I looked down again, and saw him refurling the flag he had shown while the train went by.
Repeti a pergunta. Depois de uma pausa, durante a qual pareceu me observar com atenção fixa, ele apontou com a bandeira enrolada para um ponto no meu nível, a uns duzentos ou trezentos metros de distância. Gritei para ele: “Certo!” e segui na direção daquele ponto. Ali, à força de olhar com cuidado ao redor, encontrei um rústico caminho descendente em zigue-zague, talhado na rocha, e o segui.
I repeated my inquiry. After a pause, during which he seemed to regard me with fixed attention, he motioned with his rolled-up flag towards a point on my level, some two or three hundred yards distant. I called down to him, “All right!” and made for that point. There, by dint of looking closely about me, I found a rough zigzag descending path notched out, which I followed.
O corte era extremamente fundo e de uma inclinação incomum. Fora aberto numa pedra viscosa, que ficava mais úmida e encharcada à medida que eu descia. Por essas razões, o caminho me pareceu longo o bastante para me dar tempo de recordar um singular ar de relutância ou de constrangimento com que ele havia indicado a trilha.
The cutting was extremely deep, and unusually precipitate. It was made through a clammy stone, that became oozier and wetter as I went down. For these reasons, I found the way long enough to give me time to recall a singular air of reluctance or compulsion with which he had pointed out the path.
Quando desci o suficiente pelo zigue-zague para vê-lo outra vez, notei que ele estava de pé entre os trilhos, na via por onde o trem acabara de passar, numa atitude de quem esperasse que eu aparecesse. Tinha a mão esquerda no queixo, e o cotovelo esquerdo apoiado na mão direita, atravessada sobre o peito. Sua atitude era de tanta expectativa e vigilância que parei por um momento, intrigado.
When I came down low enough upon the zigzag descent to see him again, I saw that he was standing between the rails on the way by which the train had lately passed, in an attitude as if he were waiting for me to appear. He had his left hand at his chin, and that left elbow rested on his right hand, crossed over his breast. His attitude was one of such expectation and watchfulness that I stopped a moment, wondering at it.
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