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English to Portuguese: A part of "Hills Like White Elephants" by Ernest Hemingway General field: Art/Literary Detailed field: Poetry & Literature
Source text - English Hills Like White Elephants
By Ernest Hemingway
The hills across the valley of the Ebro were long and white. On this side there was no shade and no trees and the station was between two lines of rails in the sun. Close against the side of the station there was the warm shadow of the building and a curtain, made of strings of bamboo beads, hung across the open door into the bar, to keep out flies. The American and the girl with him sat at a table in the shade, outside the building. It was very hot and the express from Barcelona would come in forty minutes. It stopped at this junction for two minutes and went to Madrid.
‘What should we drink?’ the girl asked. She had taken off her hat and put it on the table.
‘It’s pretty hot,’ the man said.
‘Let’s drink beer.’
‘Dos cervezas,’ the man said into the curtain.
‘Big ones?’ a woman asked from the doorway.
‘Yes. Two big ones.’
The woman brought two glasses of beer and two felt pads. She put the felt pads and the beer
glass on the table and looked at the man and the girl. The girl was looking off at the line of hills.
They were white in the sun and the country was brown and dry.
‘They look like white elephants,’ she said.
‘I’ve never seen one,’ the man drank his beer.
‘No, you wouldn’t have.’
‘I might have,’ the man said. ‘Just because you say I wouldn’t have doesn’t prove anything.’
The girl looked at the bead curtain. ‘They’ve painted something on it,’ she said. ‘What does it
say?’
‘Anis del Toro. It’s a drink.’
‘Could we try it?’
The man called ‘Listen’ through the curtain. The woman came out from the bar.
‘Four reales.’ ‘We want two Anis del Toro.’
‘With water?’
‘Do you want it with water?’
‘I don’t know,’ the girl said. ‘Is it good with water?’
‘It’s all right.’
‘You want them with water?’ asked the woman.
‘Yes, with water.’
‘It tastes like liquorice,’ the girl said and put the glass down.
‘That’s the way with everything.’
‘Yes,’ said the girl. ‘Everything tastes of liquorice. Especially all the things you’ve waited so
long for, like absinthe.’
‘Oh, cut it out.’
‘You started it,’ the girl said. ‘I was being amused. I was having a fine time.’
‘Well, let’s try and have a fine time.’
‘All right. I was trying. I said the mountains looked like white elephants. Wasn’t that bright?’
‘That was bright.’
‘I wanted to try this new drink. That’s all we do, isn’t it – look at things and try new drinks?’
‘I guess so.’
The girl looked across at the hills.
‘They’re lovely hills,’ she said. ‘They don’t really look like white elephants. I just meant the
colouring of their skin through the trees.’
Translation - Portuguese As Colinas são como Elefantes Brancos
de Ernest Hemingway
As colinas que atravessam o vale do Ebro eram longas e brancas. Deste lado não havia sombras e nem árvores e a estação ficava entre duas linhas de trilhos ao sol. Indo de contra ao lado da estação havia uma sombra aquecida de um prédio e uma cortina, feita de cordas de miçangas de bambu, penduradas através da porta aberta entrando no bar, para manter fora as moscas. O Americano e a garota que estava com ele sentaram à mesa na sombra, do lado de fora do prédio. Estava muito quente e o trem de Barcelona viria em quarenta minutos. Ele parou nesta junção por dois minutos e foi para Madrid.
‘O que devemos beber?’ a garota perguntou. Ela tirou o chapéu e o colocou em cima da mesa.
‘Está quente,' disse o homem.
‘Vamos beber cerveja.’
‘Dos cervezas,’ o homem disse pela cortina.
‘Grandes?’ uma mulher perguntou da soleira da porta.
‘Sim. Duas grandes.’
A mulher trouxe dois copos de cerveja e dois porta-copos. Ela colocou os porta-copos e o copo de
cerveja em cima da mesa e olhou para o homem e a garota. A garota estava olhando para a superfície das colinas.
Elas eram brancas ao sol e o país era escuro e seco.
‘Elas parecem elefantes brancos' ela disse.
‘Eu nunca vi um,' o homem bebeu sua cerveja.
‘Não, você não teria visto.’
'Talvez sim’ o homem disse. 'Apenas porque você diz que eu não teria visto, não prova nada.’
A garota olhou para a miçanga da cortina. ‘Eles pintaram algo nisso,’ ela disse. 'O que está
Escrito?’
‘Anis del Toro. É uma bebida.’
‘Podemos experimentar?’
O homem chamou ‘Listen’ pela cortina. A mulher saiu do bar.
‘Quatro reales.’ ‘Nós queremos dois Anis del Toro.’
‘Com água?’
‘Você quer com água?’
‘Eu não sei,’ a garota disse. ‘Fica bom com água?’
‘Sim.’
‘Vocês querem com água?’ perguntou a mulher.
‘Sim, com água.’
‘Tem gosto de alcaçuz,’ a garota disse e colocou o copo na mesa.
‘É tudo desse jeito.’
'Sim,’ disse a garota. ‘Tudo tem gosto de alcaçuz. Especialmente tudo que você tem esperado a
Muito tempo, como absinto.’
‘Ah, corta essa.’
‘Você começou,' a garota disse. ‘Eu estava sendo divertido. Eu estava aproveitando o momento.’
‘Bem, vamos tentar e aproveitar o momento.’
‘Tudo bem. eu estava tentando. Eu disse que as montanhas pareciam elefantes brancos. Não eram brilhosos?'
'Eram brilhosos.’
‘Eu queria provar essa nova bebida. É tudo o que nós fazemos, não ser - olhe as coisas e prove novas bebidas?'
‘Acho que sim.’
A garota olhou as colinas.
‘Elas são lindas colinas,’ ela disse. ‘Elas não parecem com elefantes brancos. Eu quis dizer que
é a cor de sua pele quando atravessa as árvores.'
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