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Apologize if you were asking for it.

Portuguese translation: Peça perdão se (o agressor) achou que você mereceu (ser agredida)

18:28 Jul 1, 2008
English to Portuguese translations [PRO]
Slang
English term or phrase: Apologize if you were asking for it.
Numa série de dicas de como evitar uma briga, o cara sugere:

Avoid potentially violent encounters. Failing that ... Insults are intended to intimidate and elicit reaction. "You're being interviewed as a potential victim," says Quinn. DON'T IGNORE, insult, or challenge an aggressor.
Simply REMAIN CALM, look the guy in the eye, and respond assertively, giving him an honorable exit. Apologize if you were asking for it.

Não consegui uma saída para o Apologize... asking for what??
RoBelinky
Brazil
Local time: 16:37
Portuguese translation:Peça perdão se (o agressor) achou que você mereceu (ser agredida)
Explanation:
O termo "you are ou were asking for it" significa que "vc mereceu" por que vc me provocou, etc. Lendo o contexto, me parece ter esse sentido.

Selected response from:

Mary Palmer
United States
Local time: 16:37
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4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
4 +2peça desculpa se existir razão para tal
Mariana Moreira
4 +1peça desculpa se lhe pedirem para o fazer
Lúcia Leitão
4 +1Peça perdão se (o agressor) achou que você mereceu (ser agredida)
Mary Palmer
5desculpe-se de verdade, com convicção.
marco lessa (X)
5Como se estivesse REALMENTE SE DESCULPANDO.
marco lessa (X)
4Desculpe-se, caso você tenha feito algo que o tenha insultado
Kadja Bless (X)
4peça desculpas se foi você que agiu mal (provocou/insultou)
reginakersten
4Lamento, ainda que você está procurando barulho.
Marcos Antonio
4peça desculpa se fizer falta para acalmar a situação
Elvira Alves Barry
4 -1sinto muito se você estava perguntando isso
Leniel Maccaferri


  

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4 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
apologize if you were asking for it.
peça desculpa se lhe pedirem para o fazer


Explanation:
Sugestão. Parece-me ser isto

Lúcia Leitão
Portugal
Local time: 20:37
Native speaker of: Portuguese
PRO pts in category: 20

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Maria Meneses
6 hrs
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5 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
apologize if you were asking for it.
peça desculpa se existir razão para tal


Explanation:
uma sugestão:)

Mariana Moreira
Portugal
Local time: 20:37
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 4

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Ligia Dias Costa
14 mins
  -> Ligia, obrigada
agree  Lucio C P Soluchinsky
30 mins
  -> Lucio, obrigada
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5 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
apologize if you were asking for it.
Desculpe-se, caso você tenha feito algo que o tenha insultado


Explanation:
Ao meu entender você deve desculpar-se justamente para evitar a briga. Talvez a pessoa ache que você fez algo ofensivo por isso o pedido de desculpas....
Espero ter ajudado

Kadja Bless (X)
Norway
Local time: 21:37
Native speaker of: Native in NorwegianNorwegian, Native in PortuguesePortuguese

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  sarahjeanne (X): neste contexto está dizendo que se vc é ciente do fato que fez alguma coisa que provocou o outro propositalmente, então deveria se desculpar; não quer dizer necessariamente que vc deveria se desculpar para evitar a briga.
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21 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): -1
apologize if you were asking for it.
sinto muito se você estava perguntando isso


Explanation:
Sinto muito se você estava perguntando isso.

Leniel Maccaferri
Brazil
Local time: 16:37
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 4

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
disagree  sarahjeanne (X): acho que não seria uma coisa tão literal assim...
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21 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
apologize if you were asking for it.
Peça perdão se (o agressor) achou que você mereceu (ser agredida)


Explanation:
O termo "you are ou were asking for it" significa que "vc mereceu" por que vc me provocou, etc. Lendo o contexto, me parece ter esse sentido.



Mary Palmer
United States
Local time: 16:37
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 10

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  JoaoMoreira
11 days
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
apologize if you were asking for it.
peça desculpas se foi você que agiu mal (provocou/insultou)


Explanation:
mais uma sugestão

be asking for sth (always in continuous tenses) Informal
to behave stupidly in a way that is likely to cause problems for you.

reginakersten
Local time: 16:37
Native speaker of: Portuguese
PRO pts in category: 4
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
apologize if you were asking for it.
Lamento, ainda que você está procurando barulho.


Explanation:

Sug.


- apologize; lamentar
- you are asking for it: você está procurando barulho - você está provocando - você está procurando sarna para se coçar. (Dicionário de exp. idiomáticas - Oswaldo Serpa)

Marcos Antonio
Local time: 16:37
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 20
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11 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
apologize if you were asking for it.
peça desculpa se fizer falta para acalmar a situação


Explanation:
My suggestion.

Elvira Alves Barry
Local time: 20:37
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
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1 day 22 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
apologize if you were asking for it.
desculpe-se de verdade, com convicção.


Explanation:
be asking for it = to be behaving as if inviting

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Note added at 1 day28 mins (2008-07-02 18:57:02 GMT) Post-grading
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going out on cold weather without a coat is just asking for trouble=como se v. esrivesse REALMENTE SE DESCULPANDO; ask for it=procurar encrenca=we all know that Jack was rasking for trouble when he asked Sally out.

marco lessa (X)
Brazil
Local time: 16:37
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 16
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1 day 30 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
apologize if you were asking for it.
Como se estivesse REALMENTE SE DESCULPANDO.


Explanation:
ASK FOR IT =to be behaving as if inviting (in this case: apologies)

marco lessa (X)
Brazil
Local time: 16:37
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 16
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