parrot
noun
papagaio
EN He mingled in the crowd, but was astonished to perceive that they were all listening to a parrot, who with his bright green coat, pragmatical eye, and consequential top-knot, had the air of a bird on excellent terms with himself.
GL Mesturouse coa multitude, mais quedou abraiado ó se decatar que estaban todos a escoitar un papagaio, que coa súa plumaxe verde e brillante, ollada impertinente e topete empoleirado, tiña a fasquía dun paxaro en excelentes relacións consigo mesmo.
Fonte: ALH (593)
loro
EN And indeed it was only by waiting patiently, and hearing that there was an old woman in the kitchen with very red cheeks, drinking soup out of a basin, that Mrs Ramsay at last prompted that parrot-like instinct which had picked up Mildred's words quite accurately and could now produce them, if one waited, in a colourless singsong.
GL E, en efecto, só despois dunha espera paciente, e despois de escoitar que na cociña había unha vella coas meixelas encarnadas bebendo unha cunca de caldo, puido ó cabo a señora Ramsay suscitarlle aquel instinto de loro co que recollera as palabras de Mildred con fidelidade abonda e agora era quen de reproducilas, se un sabía agardar, nunha ladaíña esvaída.
Fonte: CAR (709)
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