Portuguese–English parallel text
Polegarzinha
Thumbelina
Hans Christian Andersen
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Era uma vez uma mulher que queria muito ter uma filhinha, mas não conseguia realizar seu desejo. Por fim, ela foi até uma fada e disse: “Eu gostaria tanto de ter uma criancinha; você pode me dizer onde posso encontrar uma?”
There was once a woman who wished very much to have a little child, but she could not obtain her wish. At last she went to a fairy, and said, “I should so very much like to have a little child; can you tell me where I can find one?”
“Ah, isso é fácil de resolver”, disse a fada. “Aqui está um grão de cevada diferente daqueles que crescem nos campos dos fazendeiros e que as galinhas comem; plante em um vaso de flores e veja o que vai acontecer.”
“Oh, that can be easily managed,” said the fairy. “Here is a barleycorn of a different kind to those which grow in the farmer’s fields, and which the chickens eat; put it into a flower-pot, and see what will happen.”
“Obrigada”, disse a mulher, e ela deu doze xelins para a fada, que era o preço do grão de cevada.
“Thank you,” said the woman, and she gave the fairy twelve shillings, which was the price of the barleycorn.
Depois, ela foi para casa e plantou o grão, e imediatamente nasceu uma flor grande e bonita, parecida com uma tulipa, mas com as pétalas bem fechadas, como se ainda fosse um botão.
Then she went home and planted it, and immediately there grew up a large handsome flower, something like a tulip in appearance, but with its leaves tightly closed as if it were still a bud.
“É uma flor linda”, disse a mulher, e ela beijou as pétalas vermelhas e douradas. Enquanto fazia isso, a flor se abriu, e ela pôde ver que era uma tulipa de verdade.
“It is a beautiful flower,” said the woman, and she kissed the red and golden-colored leaves, and while she did so the flower opened, and she could see that it was a real tulip.
Dentro da flor, sobre os estames de veludo verde, estava sentada uma donzela muito delicada e graciosa. Ela mal tinha a metade do comprimento de um polegar, e deram a ela o nome de “Polegarzinha”, ou Tiny, porque ela era muito pequenininha.
Within the flower, upon the green velvet stamens, sat a very delicate and graceful little maiden. She was scarcely half as long as a thumb, and they gave her the name of “Thumbelina,” or Tiny, because she was so small.
Uma casca de noz, elegantemente polida, servia de berço para ela; sua cama era feita de folhas azuis de violeta, com uma pétala de rosa como cobertor.
A walnut-shell, elegantly polished, served her for a cradle; her bed was formed of blue violet-leaves, with a rose-leaf for a counterpane.
Ali ela dormia à noite, mas durante o dia se divertia sobre uma mesa, onde a mulher tinha colocado um prato cheio de água.
Here she slept at night, but during the day she amused herself on a table, where the woman had placed a plateful of water.
Ao redor desse prato havia guirlandas de flores com os caules na água, e sobre ela flutuava uma grande folha de tulipa, que servia de barco para Tiny. Ali a pequena donzela se sentava e remava de um lado para o outro, com dois remos feitos de crina branca de cavalo.
Round this plate were wreaths of flowers with their stems in the water, and upon it floated a large tulip-leaf, which served Tiny for a boat. Here the little maiden sat and rowed herself from side to side, with two oars made of white horse-hair.
Era realmente uma cena muito bonita. Tiny também sabia cantar de forma tão suave e doce que nunca antes se tinha ouvido nada parecido com o canto dela.
It really was a very pretty sight. Tiny could, also, sing so softly and sweetly that nothing like her singing had ever before been heard.
Certa noite, enquanto ela estava deitada em sua linda cama, uma sapa grande, feia e molhada entrou rastejando por uma vidraça quebrada na janela e pulou bem em cima da mesa onde Tiny dormia sob seu cobertor de pétala de rosa.
One night, while she lay in her pretty bed, a large, ugly, wet toad crept through a broken pane of glass in the window, and leaped right upon the table where Tiny lay sleeping under her rose-leaf quilt.
“Que linda esposinha ela daria para o meu filho”, disse a sapa. Então ela pegou a casca de noz em que a pequena Tiny dormia e pulou pela janela com ela para o jardim.
“What a pretty little wife this would make for my son,” said the toad, and she took up the walnut-shell in which little Tiny lay asleep, and jumped through the window with it into the garden.
Na margem pantanosa de um riacho largo no jardim vivia a sapa com o filho. Ele era ainda mais feio que a mãe e, quando viu a linda donzela em sua cama elegante, só conseguiu gritar: “Coax, coax, coax.”
In the swampy margin of a broad stream in the garden lived the toad, with her son. He was uglier even than his mother, and when he saw the pretty little maiden in her elegant bed, he could only cry, “Croak, croak, croak.”
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