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Portuguese to English Poetry & Literature Translation Glossary

Portuguese term		English translation
companheiro de diligência		colleague
comungante		communicant	Juliano Martins
Entered by: Juliano Martins
conceder aposentadoria com proventos integrais		grant pension (retirement) with full benefits
conquistada a ferros		an instance of hope won by force of arms
Conservatório Brasileiro de Música e pela Academia de Música em harmonia tradici		Brazilian Conservatorium of Music, and the Music Academy in traditional harmony
contracurva		antithesis	Elvira Alves Barry
Entered by: Elvira Alves Barry
contrapondo-se		Contrary to....	Lara Barnett
Entered by: Lara Barnett
conversar sobre pequenos nadas		to make small talk
Corintiano roxo		dyed-in-the-wool Coninthian (supporter)
correntes		currents
Corrigir Logo É Preciso		Make Haste to Make Amends
costas quentes		friends in high places
cota		call number
cravou		engraved
crítica genética		genetic criticism
Criança, era outro... // Dorme comigo e em mim		Child, he was another... // He dwells with me and within me
cucu		peek-a-boo
Dançou		blew it	airmailrpl
Entered by: airmailrpl
dar um piti		throw a fit/have a fit
dá passagem		give way
de record		"Record"
de uma só vez		at once/straight away'
desautomatização		deautomatization
desce os olhos pela estrada		drifts the / his eyes down the road
descrição codicológica		codicological description
desmentir		belie
despaisamento		dépaysement
despertou-o dos seus pensamentos com um sobressalto		woke him from his reverie with a start
Dessa forma, (o autor/ livro) comenta as diversas lógicas que regem cada escala		In this way, (the author, book) comments on the various/different logics that govern each stage of m
difícil convívio		difficult relationship
dirigia a ela para fazer cobranças		who only addressed her to make demands
do Bengo, da sanga		from the Bengo river/province, from a pitcher/town/local girl
do que quero em mim		of what I want in me
E descansar a conhecer		And calm down to understand
E na febre precipitada dos instantes		"and caught up in the moment...."
e tenho dito		I Have Spoken!
ela é muitas		she's got it all
ela não tem moral para pegar no meu pé		she has no moral authority to step on my toes
elaboração		development
Ele me disse, na lata, que eu era uma patricinha...		He told me to my face that I was a spoilt rich girl OR princess

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