«The Stick» Dictado Inglés C1

Dictado «The Stick»

Mr. Sherlock Holmes, who was usually very late in the mornings, save upon those not infrequent occasions when he was up all night, was seated at the breakfast table. I stood upon the hearth-rug and picked up the stick which our visitor had left behind him the night before. It was a fine, thick piece of wood, bulbous-headed, of the sort which is known as a ‘Penang lawyer.’

Just under the head was a broad silver band nearly an inch across. ‘To James Mortimer, M.R.C.S., from his friends of the C.C.H.,’ was engraved upon it, with the date ‘1884.’ It was just such a stick as the old-fashioned family practitioner used to carry—dignified, solid, and reassuring. ‘Well, Watson, what do you make of it?’ Holmes was sitting with his back to me, and I had given him no sign of my occupation. ‘How did you know what I was doing? I believe you have eyes in the back of your head.’ ‘I have, at least, a well-polished, silver-plated coffee-pot in front of me,’

The Hound of the Baskervilles.- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Kindle edition.

Vocabulario

A continuación, tenéis las palabras más relevantes del anterior dictado con respecto al nivel correspondiente:

• Infrequent: Not occurring often; rare. https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/infrequent
• Hearth-rug: A rug laid in front of a fireplace to protect the carpet or floor. https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/hearthrug
• Bulbous-headed: Fat, round, or bulging https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/bulbous
• Dignified: Having or showing a composed or serious manner that is worthy of respect https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/dignified
• Reassuring: Say or do something to remove the doubts or fears of (someone) https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/reassure
• Silver-plated: A thin layer of silver electroplated or otherwise applied as a coating to another metal. https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/silver_plate

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