Portuguese–English parallel text
Vinte Mil Léguas Submarinas
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Jules Verne · retold
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O Monstro
The Monster
O ano de 1866 foi um ano estranho para o mar. Navios em todos os oceanos viram algo muito grande na água. Era comprido, se movia rápido e, de noite, às vezes brilhava com uma luz fraca. Ninguém sabia dizer o que era.
The year 1866 was a strange year for the sea. Ships in every ocean saw something very big in the water. It was long, it moved fast, and at night it sometimes shone with a pale light. Nobody could say what it was.
No dia 20 de julho, o navio a vapor Governor Higginson o encontrou perto da Austrália. O Capitão Baker viu uma forma longa e cinza e pensou: “Isso é um banco de areia.” Ele queria saber o lugar exato. Então, duas altas colunas de água subiram da forma, com um chiado forte. Agora o capitão sabia a verdade. Um banco de areia não faz isso. Era um animal.
On the 20th of July, the steamer Governor Higginson met it near Australia. Captain Baker saw a long grey shape and thought, “That is a sandbank.” He wanted to know its exact place. Then two high columns of water shot up from the shape, with a loud hiss. Now the captain knew the truth. A sandbank does not do that. It was an animal.
Três dias depois, o Columbus viu o mesmo animal no Oceano Pacífico. Isso foi a cerca de duas mil milhas de distância. Ele se movia mais rápido do que qualquer navio.
Three days later, the Columbus saw the same animal in the Pacific Ocean. That was about two thousand miles away. It moved faster than any ship.
Duas semanas depois, dois navios o encontraram no Oceano Atlântico, e os capitães conversaram por sinais. Eles adivinharam o tamanho dele a partir dos seus próprios navios. “Ele tem mais de trezentos e cinquenta pés de comprimento”, disseram eles. Os dois navios tinham trezentos pés de comprimento. A maior baleia que as pessoas conheciam era bem menor.
Two weeks later, two ships met it in the Atlantic Ocean, and the captains talked about it by signal. They guessed its size from their own ships. “It is longer than three hundred and fifty feet,” they said. Both ships were three hundred feet long. The biggest whale that people knew was much smaller.
Mais notícias chegaram, um relato atrás do outro. Um navio de guerra francês o viu. Um oficial inglês escreveu um relatório longo e cuidadoso. Pessoas sérias na Inglaterra, na América e na Alemanha começaram a falar sobre ele.
More news came, one report after another. A French warship saw it. An English officer wrote a long and careful report. Serious people in England, America and Germany began to talk about it.
Nas cidades, todo mundo falava sobre o monstro. As pessoas cantavam sobre ele nos cafés. Os jornais desenhavam figuras engraçadas dele. Em algumas figuras, ele era a baleia branca das histórias antigas de marinheiros. Em outras, era um animal gigante com braços compridos que podia pegar um navio e puxar ele para o fundo do mar. Alguns homens se lembraram de livros antigos de outros tempos. “Monstros assim são reais”, disseram eles.
In the cities, everybody talked about the monster. People sang about it in the cafés. The newspapers drew funny pictures of it. In some pictures it was the white whale of the old sailors’ stories. In others it was a giant animal with long arms that could take a ship and pull it down to the sea floor. Some men remembered old books from ancient times. “Such monsters are real,” they said.
Depois, a briga começou entre as pessoas que acreditavam e as pessoas que não acreditavam. Escritores encheram os jornais por seis meses. Professores escreveram artigos longos. Os dois lados ficaram com raiva. No fim, um escritor inteligente em um jornal engraçado fez todo mundo rir do monstro, e as conversas pararam.
Then the fight began between the people who believed and the people who did not. Writers filled the newspapers for six months. Professors wrote long articles. Both sides were angry. In the end, a clever writer in a funny newspaper made everybody laugh at the monster, and the talk stopped.
No começo de 1867, quase ninguém falava do monstro. Então novos fatos chegaram, e o assunto não tinha mais graça. Agora era um perigo. “É uma rocha”, as pessoas diziam. “É um recife que se move de um dia para o outro.”
At the start of 1867, almost nobody talked about the monster. Then new facts came, and the matter was not funny any more. It was now a danger. “It is a rock,” people said. “It is a reef that moves from one day to the next.”
No dia 5 de março de 1867, o navio a vapor Moravian navegava de noite com duzentos e trinta e sete passageiros. Às cinco da manhã, houve um golpe forte contra o navio. Ninguém viu uma rocha. O mar estava calmo, e só um redemoinho forte de água mostrava o lugar. O Moravian teve sorte. O navio era forte e não afundou. Mais tarde, em um porto, operários acharam uma parte do fundo do navio quebrada.
On the 5th of March, 1867, the steamer Moravian was sailing at night with two hundred and thirty-seven passengers. At five in the morning, there was a hard blow against the ship. Nobody saw a rock. The sea was quiet, and only a strong whirl of water showed the place. The Moravian was lucky. The ship was strong, and it did not sink. Later, in a harbour, workmen found a piece of the ship’s bottom broken.
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