Portuguese–English parallel text
Construir uma fogueira
To Build a Fire
Jack London · retold
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A trilha fria
The Cold Trail
O dia começou frio e cinzento, muito frio e cinzento. Naquela manhã o homem saiu da trilha principal do Yukon. O Yukon é um grande rio no extremo norte do Canadá, e a terra ao redor dele. Uma trilha é um caminho estreito por terra selvagem, feito pelos pés de pessoas e cachorros.
The day began cold and grey, very cold and grey. That morning the man left the main Yukon trail. The Yukon is a big river in the far north of Canada, and the land around it. A trail is a narrow way through wild land, made by the feet of people and dogs.
O homem subiu um barranco alto de terra. No topo, uma trilha pequena ia para o leste, para dentro da mata de árvores grandes e escuras. Poucas pessoas usavam essa trilha. O barranco era íngreme, e no topo o homem parou e olhou para o relógio. Eram nove horas.
The man climbed a high bank of earth. At the top, a small trail went east into the woods of big dark trees. Not many people used it. The bank was steep, and at the top the man stopped and looked at his watch. It was nine o’clock.
Não tinha sol no céu, e também não tinha nuvens. Era um dia claro, mas tudo parecia escuro e triste. O homem não se preocupou com isso. Ele sabia que o sol ia ficar longe por mais alguns dias. Depois, um dia, ele ia aparecer no sul por um momento e descer de novo.
There was no sun in the sky, and there were no clouds either. It was a clear day, but everything looked dark and sad. The man did not worry about that. He knew the sun was going to stay away for a few more days. Then, one day, it was going to show itself in the south for a moment and go down again.
Ele olhou para trás, para o caminho atrás dele. O Yukon tinha uma milha de largura, e ficava debaixo de três pés de gelo. Em cima do gelo tinha mais três pés de neve. Tudo era branco, até onde ele conseguia ver. Apenas uma linha escura passava pelo branco.
He looked back at the way behind him. The Yukon was a mile wide, and it lay under three feet of ice. On top of the ice there were three more feet of snow. Everything was white, as far as he could see. Only one dark line went across the white.
Essa linha escura era a trilha, a trilha principal. Para o sul ela ia por quinhentas milhas até o mar. Para o norte ela ia por setenta milhas até a cidade de Dawson, e depois muito mais longe.
This dark line was the trail, the main trail. To the south it went five hundred miles to the sea. To the north it went seventy miles to the town of Dawson, and then much further.
Mas a trilha longa, o sol ausente e o frio terrível não tocaram a mente do homem. Era o primeiro inverno dele nesse lugar. Ele era novo aqui, e não tinha imaginação. Ele era rápido e cuidadoso nas coisas do dia a dia, mas nunca se perguntava o que elas significavam.
But the long trail, the missing sun and the terrible cold did not touch the man’s mind. It was his first winter in this country. He was new here, and he had no imagination. He was quick and careful in the things of everyday life, but he never asked what they meant.
Naquele país, as pessoas mediam o frio em graus antigos. A água congelava a trinta e dois graus, e cinquenta abaixo de zero era terrivelmente frio. Para o homem, cinquenta abaixo de zero era apenas frio e desagradável. Significava luvas de um dedo, gorros quentes sobre as orelhas, meias grossas e mocassins quentes. Uma luva de um dedo é uma luva grossa com um lugar para o polegar e um lugar para os outros dedos. Mocassins são sapatos macios de couro, como os sapatos dos povos nativos.
In that country, people measured the cold in old degrees. Water froze at thirty-two degrees, and fifty below zero was terribly cold. To the man, fifty below zero was only cold and unpleasant. It meant mittens, warm hats over the ears, thick socks and warm moccasins. A mitten is a thick glove with one place for the thumb and one for the other fingers. Moccasins are soft shoes of leather, like the shoes of the native people.
Ele nunca pensou sobre como o homem é fraco no frio. Para ele, cinquenta abaixo de zero era cinquenta abaixo de zero, e nada mais.
He never thought about how weak a man is in the cold. For him, fifty below zero was fifty below zero, and nothing more.
Ele se virou para continuar, e cuspiu. Teve um estalo forte e alto, e ele pulou. Ele cuspiu de novo. De novo o cuspe estalou no ar, antes de cair na neve. Ele sabia que a cinquenta abaixo de zero, o cuspe estalava na neve. Mas esse cuspe estalou no ar.
He turned to go on, and he spat. There was a sharp, loud crack, and he jumped. He spat again. Again the spit cracked in the air, before it fell to the snow. He knew that at fifty below, spit cracked on the snow. But this spit cracked in the air.
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