This site uses cookies. Some of these cookies are essential to the operation of the site, while others help to improve your experience by providing insights into how the site is being used. For more information, please see the ProZ.com privacy policy.
Cookie settings
  1. KudoZ™ Top
  2. English to Portuguese
  3. Poetry & Literature

private scholar

Portuguese translation: erudito que trabalha por conta própria

23:02 Jun 15, 2008
English to Portuguese translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Poetry & Literature
English term or phrase: private scholar
Thus began a life-long career in the translation of oriental literature to which Waley devoted himself as a private scholar after he resigned from the British Museum in 1929.
Lari_Rumi
Local time: 17:54
Portuguese translation:erudito que trabalha por conta própria
Explanation:
scholar=erudito, douto; private=privado, particular.

--------------------------------------------------
Note added at 16 hrs (2008-06-16 15:27:50 GMT)
--------------------------------------------------

Pode ser tb.:"Um erudito freelance´pra quem gosta de angicanismos...); ou 'um culto independente ou autônomo."
Selected response from:

marco lessa (X)
Brazil
Local time: 17:54
Grading comment
Selected automatically based on peer agreement.
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
5 +5erudito que trabalha por conta própria
marco lessa (X)
3intelectual independente
Claudia Oliveira


  

Answers


9 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +5
erudito que trabalha por conta própria


Explanation:
scholar=erudito, douto; private=privado, particular.

--------------------------------------------------
Note added at 16 hrs (2008-06-16 15:27:50 GMT)
--------------------------------------------------

Pode ser tb.:"Um erudito freelance´pra quem gosta de angicanismos...); ou 'um culto independente ou autônomo."

marco lessa (X)
Brazil
Local time: 17:54
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 40
Grading comment
Selected automatically based on peer agreement.

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Claudio Mazotti: trabalhava, pelo contexto
28 mins
  -> Simp. Pres. Tens. is used for a habit., perman. or repet. action or giving a summary of a story:'...but Shylock OFFERS to lend him.' This could., o. c..,be told in the S.Past. T., but the SP is felt to be rather more dramatic. Poor Shakespeare!
agree  airmailrpl: erudito que trabalhava por conta própria
2 hrs
  -> O Pres. do Ind. empg.p. dar vivacidade a fatos ocorridos no passado (presente hitórico ou narrativo), como mera desc. de carrnav. antigo de MR:"A Avenida É o mar dos foliões.Serpentinas CORTAM o ar carregado de éter (...)"
agree  Elvira Alves Barry: trabalhava
9 hrs
  -> Ao emp. o PRESENTE HISTÒRICO OU NARRATVO, imaginamo-nos no passado, visualizando fatos q. descrevemos/narramos. É processo de dramatização lingüística de alta eficiência.
agree  Isabel Maria Almeida: concordo
9 hrs
  -> Você concordou, também, com o nosso Poeta Maior, Camões:"VI logo por sinais e por acenos./Que com isto se ALEGRA grandemente."
agree  Marcos Antonio
10 hrs
  -> Você viu logo q.o Pret.Imp. ñ. servia porq. desig. um fato pass., mas não concluído (imperfeito= ñ. acabado). Mas, como o Imp. :"É o presente do passado:" (...) A chuva AÇOITAVA sem piedade os homens negros da estiva (...) Mar Morto,JA.
Login to enter a peer comment (or grade)

2 days 7 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
intelectual independente


Explanation:
Assim me parece.

Example sentence(s):
  • "Em 1970, ninguém entendeu quando, depois de minha consagração mundial, eu fechei minha empresa de produção no Brasil e me tornei um intelectual independente." - Glauber Rocha
Claudia Oliveira
Local time: 06:54
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
Login to enter a peer comment (or grade)



Login or register (free and only takes a few minutes) to participate in this question.

You will also have access to many other tools and opportunities designed for those who have language-related jobs (or are passionate about them). Participation is free and the site has a strict confidentiality policy.

Return to KudoZ list

KudoZ™ translation help

The KudoZ network provides a framework for translators and others to assist each other with translations or explanations of terms and short phrases.

See also:
ProZ.com term search
Search millions of term translations
Close search
Term search
  • All of ProZ.com
  • Term search
  • Jobs
  • Forums
  • Multiple search