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the kind you're at your best in

Portuguese translation: do tipo onde você se dá melhor/tem melhor desempenho

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English term or phrase:the kind you're at your best in
Portuguese translation:do tipo onde você se dá melhor/tem melhor desempenho
Entered by: Humberto Ribas

10:30 Apr 26, 2009
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English term or phrase: the kind you're at your best in
Contexto: um grupo de heróis foi atacado e seu líder está bolando um plano. Um dos membros fala.

Chuck never would've even come up with this plan.

O líder responde:

I know, but these are desperate times, Logan... the kind you're at your best in.

Qual é a tradução de "the kind you're at your best in" neste contexo? Muito obrigado.
Alexandre Reis
Brazil
Local time: 03:36
do tipo onde você se dá melhor/tem melhor desempenho
Explanation:
se dá melhor
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Humberto Ribas
Brazil
Local time: 03:36
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4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
4 +5do tipo onde você se dá melhor/tem melhor desempenho
Humberto Ribas
4onde você melhor se destaca
Katarina Peters
4daqueles/do tipo onde vocês estão mais à vontade/como peixes na água
Artur Jorge Martins


  

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4 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +5
the kind you\'re at your best in
do tipo onde você se dá melhor/tem melhor desempenho


Explanation:
se dá melhor

Humberto Ribas
Brazil
Local time: 03:36
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 11

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Floriana Leary: Yes that would be my choice, 'do tipo onde tem melhor desempenho'!
23 mins
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agree  Maria José Tavares (X)
52 mins
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agree  Marlene Curtis
1 hr
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agree  airmailrpl: -
8 hrs
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agree  imatahan
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3 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
onde você melhor se destaca


Explanation:
another suggestion

Katarina Peters
Canada
Local time: 02:36
Native speaker of: Native in HungarianHungarian, Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 28
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7 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
daqueles/do tipo onde vocês estão mais à vontade/como peixes na água


Explanation:
Sugestão.

Artur Jorge Martins
Portugal
Local time: 07:36
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 20
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