Frequent words in A Christmas Carol
Scrooge’s story starts from the plain fact that Marley was dead.
| Word | Translation | Example |
|---|---|---|
| scrooge | Scrooge | Scrooge signed it: and Scrooge's name was good upon 'Change, for anything he chose to put his hand to. |
| said | dijo | Even the blind men's dogs appeared to know him; and when they saw him coming on, would tug their owners into doorways and up courts; and then would wag their tails as though they said, "No eye at all is better than an… |
| one | uno | He carried his own low temperature always about with him; he iced his office in the dog-days; and didn't thaw it one degree at Christmas. |
| ghost | fantasma | IN PROSE BEING A Ghost Story of Christmas |
| christmas | Navidad | He carried his own low temperature always about with him; he iced his office in the dog-days; and didn't thaw it one degree at Christmas. |
| spirit | espíritu | If the good Saint Dunstan had but nipped the Evil Spirit's nose with a touch of such weather as that, instead of using his familiar weapons, then indeed he would have roared to lusty purpose. |
| old | viejo | Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail. |
| man | hombre | And even Scrooge was not so dreadfully cut up by the sad event, but that he was an excellent man of business on the very day of the funeral, and solemnised it with an undoubted bargain. |
| time | tiempo | Once upon a time--of all the good days in the year, on Christmas Eve--old Scrooge sat busy in his counting-house. |
| good | bueno | Scrooge signed it: and Scrooge's name was good upon 'Change, for anything he chose to put his hand to. |
| little | pequeño | External heat and cold had little influence on Scrooge. |
| like | como, gustar | The city clocks had only just gone three, but it was quite dark already-- it had not been light all day--and candles were flaring in the windows of the neighbouring offices, like ruddy smears upon the palpable brown air. |
| know | saber | I don't mean to say that I know, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a door-nail. |
| now | ahora | Why give it as a reason for not coming now?" |
| cried | gritó | God save you!" cried a cheerful voice. |
| bob | Bob | |
| scrooge's | de Scrooge | Scrooge signed it: and Scrooge's name was good upon 'Change, for anything he chose to put his hand to. |
| came | vino | They often "came down" handsomely, and Scrooge never did. |
| door | puerta | Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail. |
| went | fue | He went the whole length of the expression, and said that he would see him in that extremity first. |
| hand | mano | Scrooge signed it: and Scrooge's name was good upon 'Change, for anything he chose to put his hand to. |
| made | hecho | The cold within him froze his old features, nipped his pointed nose, shrivelled his cheek, stiffened his gait; made his eyes red, his thin lips blue; and spoke out shrewdly in his grating voice. |
| don't | no | I don't mean to say that I know, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a door-nail. |
| every | cada | The fog came pouring in at every chink and keyhole, and was so dense without, that although the court was of the narrowest, the houses opposite were mere phantoms. |
| head | cabeza | A frosty rime was on his head, and on his eyebrows, and his wiry chin. |
| might | podría | I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. |
| day | día | And even Scrooge was not so dreadfully cut up by the sad event, but that he was an excellent man of business on the very day of the funeral, and solemnised it with an undoubted bargain. |
| never | nunca | Scrooge never painted out Old Marley's name. |
| much | mucho | Scrooge had a very small fire, but the clerk's fire was so very much smaller that it looked like one coal. |
| come | venir | This must be distinctly understood, or nothing wonderful can come of the story I am going to relate. |
| great | gran | In the main street, at the corner of the court, some labourers were repairing the gas-pipes, and had lighted a great fire in a brazier, round which a party of ragged men and boys were gathered: warming their hands and… |
| hands | manos | But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or the Country's done for. |
| last | último | Becoming immediately sensible of the impropriety, he poked the fire, and extinguished the last frail spark for ever. |
| night | noche | If we were not perfectly convinced that Hamlet's Father died before the play began, there would be nothing more remarkable in his taking a stroll at night, in an easterly wind, upon his own ramparts, than there would… |
| nothing | nada | This must be distinctly understood, or nothing wonderful can come of the story I am going to relate. |
| two | dos | This lunatic, in letting Scrooge's nephew out, had let two other people in. |
| merry | alegre | "A merry Christmas, uncle! |
| round | alrededor | What's Christmas time to you but a time for paying bills without money; a time for finding yourself a year older, but not an hour richer; a time for balancing your books and having every item in 'em through a round… |
| room | habitación | But he couldn't replenish it, for Scrooge kept the coal-box in his own room; and so surely as the clerk came in with the shovel, the master predicted that it would be necessary for them to part. |
| say | decir | I don't mean to say that I know, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a door-nail. |
| face | cara | He had so heated himself with rapid walking in the fog and frost, this nephew of Scrooge's, that he was all in a glow; his face was ruddy and handsome; his eyes sparkled, and his breath smoked again. |
| fire | fuego | Hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire; secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster. |
| light | luz | The city clocks had only just gone three, but it was quite dark already-- it had not been light all day--and candles were flaring in the windows of the neighbouring offices, like ruddy smears upon the palpable brown air. |
| looked | miró | Scrooge had a very small fire, but the clerk's fire was so very much smaller that it looked like one coal. |
| nephew | sobrino | It was the voice of Scrooge's nephew, who came upon him so quickly that this was the first intimation he had of his approach. |
| though | aunque | Even the blind men's dogs appeared to know him; and when they saw him coming on, would tug their owners into doorways and up courts; and then would wag their tails as though they said, "No eye at all is better than an… |
| cratchit | Cratchit | |
| first | primero | It was the voice of Scrooge's nephew, who came upon him so quickly that this was the first intimation he had of his approach. |
| house | casa | Once upon a time--of all the good days in the year, on Christmas Eve--old Scrooge sat busy in his counting-house. |
| boy | chico | I was a boy here!" |