Top 1000 English words
Page 6 of 10. Frequency across the English books in this collection, with an example sentence.
| Word | Translation | Example |
|---|---|---|
| around | alrededor | It grew colder and colder still, and fine, powdery snow began to fall, so that soon we and all around us were covered with a white blanket. Dracula |
| longer | más largo | I am no longer young; and my heart, through weary years of mourning over the dead, is not attuned to mirth. Dracula |
| making | haciendo | 4 May.--I found that my landlord had got a letter from the Count, directing him to secure the best place on the coach for me; but on making inquiries as to details he seemed somewhat reticent, and pretended that he… Dracula |
| professor | profesor | Dracula |
| sitting | sentado | They were evidently talking of me, for every now and then they looked at me, and some of the people who were sitting on the bench outside the door--which they call by a name meaning “word-bearer”--came and listened,… Dracula |
| subject | tema | Sometimes we saw little towns or castles on the top of steep hills such as we see in old missals; sometimes we ran by rivers and streams which seemed from the wide stony margin on each side of them to be subject to… Dracula |
| town | pueblo | I was not able to light on any map or work giving the exact locality of the Castle Dracula, as there are no maps of this country as yet to compare with our own Ordnance Survey maps; but I found that Bistritz, the post… Dracula |
| glad | contento | “I am glad you found your way in here, for I am sure there is much that will interest you. Dracula |
| itself | sí mismo | Whether it is the old lady’s fear, or the many ghostly traditions of this place, or the crucifix itself, I do not know, but I am not feeling nearly as easy in my mind as usual. Dracula |
| mine | mío | His hand actually seemed like a steel vice that could have crushed mine if he had chosen. Dracula |
| therefore | por lo tanto | I therefore tried to raise her up, and said, as gravely as I could, that I thanked her, but my duty was imperative, and that I must go. Dracula |
| watch | reloj | I was already thinking what I had best do, when the driver, looking at his watch, said to the others something which I could hardly hear, it was spoken so quietly and in so low a tone; I thought it was “An hour less… Dracula |
| happened | ocurrió | This led to much conversation; and as it was evident that he wanted to talk, if only for talking’s sake, I asked him many questions regarding things that had already happened to me or come within my notice. Dracula |
| themselves | ellos mismos | When I asked him if he knew Count Dracula, and could tell me anything of his castle, both he and his wife crossed themselves, and, saying that they knew nothing at all, simply refused to speak further. Dracula |
| art | arte | Dracula |
| front | frente | I was evidently expected, for when I got near the door I faced a cheery-looking elderly woman in the usual peasant dress--white undergarment with long double apron, front, and back, of coloured stuff fitting almost too… Dracula |
| pain | dolor | It is not good to note this down, lest some day it should meet Mina’s eyes and cause her pain; but it is the truth. Dracula |
| sense | sentido | There were dark, rolling clouds overhead, and in the air the heavy, oppressive sense of thunder. Dracula |
| except | excepto | The women looked pretty, except when you got near them, but they were very clumsy about the waist. Dracula |
| husband | marido | Dracula |
| son | hijo | Dracula |
| wanted | quería | Count Dracula had directed me to go to the Golden Krone Hotel, which I found, to my great delight, to be thoroughly old-fashioned, for of course I wanted to see all I could of the ways of the country. Dracula |
| deep | profundo | Right and left of us they towered, with the afternoon sun falling full upon them and bringing out all the glorious colours of this beautiful range, deep blue and purple in the shadows of the peaks, green and brown… Dracula |
| second | segundo | The second and fourth were unsealed. Dracula |
| wind | viento | Sometimes, as the road was cut through the pine woods that seemed in the darkness to be closing down upon us, great masses of greyness, which here and there bestrewed the trees, produced a peculiarly weird and solemn… Dracula |
| wolf | lobo | I must say they were not cheering to me, for amongst them were “Ordog”--Satan, “pokol”--hell, “stregoica”--witch, “vrolok” and “vlkoslak”--both of which mean the same thing, one being Slovak and the other Servian for… Dracula |
| hook | garfio | The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes |
| hours | horas | _7 May._--It is again early morning, but I have rested and enjoyed the last twenty-four hours. Dracula |
| hundred | cien | They were a hundred times more terrible in the grim silence which held them than even when they howled. Dracula |
| island | isla | The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes |
| real | real | I suppose I must have fallen asleep; I hope so, but I fear, for all that followed was startlingly real--so real that now sitting here in the broad, full sunlight of the morning, I cannot in the least believe that it… Dracula |
| save | salvar | Within, stood a tall old man, clean shaven save for a long white moustache, and clad in black from head to foot, without a single speck of colour about him anywhere. Dracula |
| comes | viene | Here comes the coach! Dracula |
| seeing | viendo | Hitherto I had noticed the backs of his hands as they lay on his knees in the firelight, and they had seemed rather white and fine; but seeing them now close to me, I could not but notice that they were rather… Dracula |
| silent | silencioso | He is discreet and silent, and has grown into manhood in my service. Dracula |
| doing | haciendo | He petted and soothed them, and whispered something in their ears, as I have heard of horse-tamers doing, and with extraordinary effect, for under his caresses they became quite manageable again, though they still… Dracula |
| gentleman | caballero | Dracula |
| interest | interés | “I am glad you found your way in here, for I am sure there is much that will interest you. Dracula |
| women | mujeres | The women looked pretty, except when you got near them, but they were very clumsy about the waist. Dracula |
| ago | hace tiempo | Fifty years ago a series of great fires took place, which made terrible havoc on five separate occasions. Dracula |
| arthur | Arthur | Dracula |
| basil | Basil | In the centre of the room, clamped to an upright easel, stood the full-length portrait of a young man of extraordinary personal beauty, and in front of it, some little distance away, was sitting the artist himself,… The Picture of Dorian Gray |
| happiness | felicidad | Go safely; and leave something of the happiness you bring!” The strength of the handshake was so much akin to that which I had noticed in the driver, whose face I had not seen, that for a moment I doubted if it were… Dracula |
| year | año | He then explained to me that it was commonly believed that on a certain night of the year--last night, in fact, when all evil spirits are supposed to have unchecked sway--a blue flame is seen over any place where… Dracula |
| attention | atención | Dracula |
| write | escribir | I am not sleepy, and, as I am not to be called till I awake, naturally I write till sleep comes. Dracula |
| stay | quedarse | I read that every known superstition in the world is gathered into the horseshoe of the Carpathians, as if it were the centre of some sort of imaginative whirlpool; if so my stay may be very interesting. Dracula |
| wonderful | maravilloso | Buda-Pesth seems a wonderful place, from the glimpse which I got of it from the train and the little I could walk through the streets. Dracula |
| become | volverse | I could not pity her, for I knew now what had become of her child, and she was better dead. Dracula |
| broken | roto | Suddenly, I became conscious of the fact that the driver was in the act of pulling up the horses in the courtyard of a vast ruined castle, from whose tall black windows came no ray of light, and whose broken… Dracula |
| chance | oportunidad | I called to the coachman to come, for it seemed to me that our only chance was to try to break out through the ring and to aid his approach. Dracula |
| later | más tarde | All needless matters have been eliminated, so that a history almost at variance with the possibilities of later-day belief may stand forth as simple fact. Dracula |
| person | persona | Go safely; and leave something of the happiness you bring!” The strength of the handshake was so much akin to that which I had noticed in the driver, whose face I had not seen, that for a moment I doubted if it were… Dracula |
| account | relato | Dracula |
| try | intentar | I called to the coachman to come, for it seemed to me that our only chance was to try to break out through the ring and to aid his approach. Dracula |
| bring | traer | At the Borgo Pass my carriage will await you and will bring you to me. Dracula |
| nearly | casi | The strangest figures we saw were the Slovaks, who were more barbarian than the rest, with their big cow-boy hats, great baggy dirty-white trousers, white linen shirts, and enormous heavy leather belts, nearly a foot… Dracula |
| arms | brazos | As he swept his long arms, as though brushing aside some impalpable obstacle, the wolves fell back and back further still. Dracula |
| neck | cuello | She then rose and dried her eyes, and taking a crucifix from her neck offered it to me. Dracula |
| seem | parecer | Sometimes, as the road was cut through the pine woods that seemed in the darkness to be closing down upon us, great masses of greyness, which here and there bestrewed the trees, produced a peculiarly weird and solemn… Dracula |
| six | seis | Some time after I had finished my meal--I do not know whether to call it breakfast or dinner, for it was between five and six o’clock when I had it--I looked about for something to read, for I did not like to go about… Dracula |
| stopped | se detuvo | Here I stopped for the night at the Hotel Royale. Dracula |
| different | diferente | In this respect it is different from the general run of roads in the Carpathians, for it is an old tradition that they are not to be kept in too good order. Dracula |
| beauty | belleza | All day long we seemed to dawdle through a country which was full of beauty of every kind. Dracula |
| laughed | rió | They whispered together, and then they all three laughed--such a silvery, musical laugh, but as hard as though the sound never could have come through the softness of human lips. Dracula |
| master | amo | “The night is chill, mein Herr, and my master the Count bade me take all care of you. Dracula |
| pretty | bonito | We left in pretty good time, and came after nightfall to Klausenburgh. Dracula |
| jungle | jungla | Oh, hear the call!--Good hunting all That keep the Jungle Law! The Jungle Book |
| king | rey | Whenever he spoke of his house he always said “we,” and spoke almost in the plural, like a king speaking. Dracula |
| play | juego | Dracula |
| question | pregunta | _Later._--I endorse the last words written, but this time there is no doubt in question. Dracula |
| quick | rápido | We kept on ascending, with occasional periods of quick descent, but in the main always ascending. Dracula |
| walk | caminar | Buda-Pesth seems a wonderful place, from the glimpse which I got of it from the train and the little I could walk through the streets. Dracula |
| married | casado | Dracula |
| meet | conocer | This was not very pleasant for me, just starting for an unknown place to meet an unknown man; but every one seemed so kind-hearted, and so sorrowful, and so sympathetic that I could not but be touched. Dracula |
| surprise | sorpresa | _31 May._--This morning when I woke I thought I would provide myself with some paper and envelopes from my bag and keep them in my pocket, so that I might write in case I should get an opportunity, but again a… Dracula |
| sweet | dulce | I determined not to return to-night to the gloom-haunted rooms, but to sleep here, where, of old, ladies had sat and sung and lived sweet lives whilst their gentle breasts were sad for their menfolk away in the midst… Dracula |
| trouble | problema | “But how,” said I, “can it have remained so long undiscovered, when there is a sure index to it if men will but take the trouble to look?” The Count smiled, and as his lips ran back over his gums, the long, sharp,… Dracula |
| die | morir | “Denn die Todten reiten schnell”-- (“For the dead travel fast.”) Dracula |
| knowledge | conocimiento | There is throughout no statement of past things wherein memory may err, for all the records chosen are exactly contemporary, given from the standpoints and within the range of knowledge of those who made them. Dracula |
| teeth | dientes | You cannot deceive me, my friend; I know too much, and my horses are swift.” As he spoke he smiled, and the lamplight fell on a hard-looking mouth, with very red lips and sharp-looking teeth, as white as ivory. Dracula |
| waiting | esperando | I am writing up this part of the diary whilst I am waiting for the coach, which is, of course, late; and the crucifix is still round my neck. Dracula |
| won’t | no querrá | Dracula |
| arm | brazo | One of my companions touched my arm as we swept round the base of a hill and opened up the lofty, snow-covered peak of a mountain, which seemed, as we wound on our serpentine way, to be right before us:-- Dracula |
| carried | llevó | Sometimes, as the road was cut through the pine woods that seemed in the darkness to be closing down upon us, great masses of greyness, which here and there bestrewed the trees, produced a peculiarly weird and solemn… Dracula |
| free | libre | Again, when, after the battle of Mohács, we threw off the Hungarian yoke, we of the Dracula blood were amongst their leaders, for our spirit would not brook that we were not free. Dracula |
| taking | tomando | She then rose and dried her eyes, and taking a crucifix from her neck offered it to me. Dracula |
| daughter | hija | Dracula |
| early | temprano | M., on 1st May, arriving at Vienna early next morning; should have arrived at 6:46, but train was an hour late. Dracula |
| threw | lanzó | Sometimes, as the road was cut through the pine woods that seemed in the darkness to be closing down upon us, great masses of greyness, which here and there bestrewed the trees, produced a peculiarly weird and solemn… Dracula |
| catherine | Catherine | Dracula |
| cause | causa | I could not see any cause for it, for the howling of the wolves had ceased altogether; but just then the moon, sailing through the black clouds, appeared behind the jagged crest of a beetling, pine-clad rock, and by… Dracula |
| laid | puesto | I found supper already laid out. Dracula |
| lydia | Lydia | Lizzy is not a bit better than the others: and I am sure she is not half so handsome as Jane, nor half so good-humoured as Lydia. Pride and Prejudice |
| shook | sacudió | She shook her head as she said again: Dracula |
| chair | silla | By this time I had finished my supper, and by my host’s desire had drawn up a chair by the fire and begun to smoke a cigar which he offered me, at the same time excusing himself that he did not smoke. Dracula |
| marriage | matrimonio | Dracula |
| thinking | pensando | I was already thinking what I had best do, when the driver, looking at his watch, said to the others something which I could hardly hear, it was spoken so quietly and in so low a tone; I thought it was “An hour less… Dracula |
| neither | ni | Here and there was a peasant man or woman kneeling before a shrine, who did not even turn round as we approached, but seemed in the self-surrender of devotion to have neither eyes nor ears for the outer world. Dracula |
| party | fiesta | Dracula |