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Traversty

Portuguese translation: caricatura

14:33 Jul 6, 2009
English to Portuguese translations [Non-PRO]
Law/Patents - Law (general) / Traversty
English term or phrase: Traversty
What does Traversty means?
Antonio Brizzante
Portuguese translation:caricatura
Explanation:
http://www.sacc.org.uk/index.php?option=content&task=view&id...
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Leonor Machado
Local time: 13:43
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Summary of answers provided
4 +3caricatura
Leonor Machado
4 +2paródia/farce
Katarina Peters
4 +1disfarce
Marlene Curtis
5arremedo
imatahan
4paradoxo
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida


Discussion entries: 7





  

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8 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +3
traversty
caricatura


Explanation:
http://www.sacc.org.uk/index.php?option=content&task=view&id...

Leonor Machado
Local time: 13:43
Native speaker of: Portuguese
PRO pts in category: 293
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Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Maria José Tavares (X)
4 mins
  -> obgZ
agree  Humberto Ribas
5 mins
  -> obg
agree  Isabel Maria Almeida
53 mins
  -> obg
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11 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
traversty
disfarce


Explanation:
US$ 1.000.000.000.000 de resgate para os jogadores da Wall Street - [ Translate this page ]14 Abr 2008 ... O economista do Trabalho Tom Palley escreveu em 26 de Março no seu blog: "Estes subsídios são um disfarce (travesty). ...
resistir.info/crise/hudson_14abr08.html

Marlene Curtis
United States
Local time: 08:43
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 810

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Humberto Ribas
3 mins
  -> Grata!
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36 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
traversty
paradoxo


Explanation:
Mais um significado, dependendo do contexto...
Allow me, as a Fleming, to express my surprise and indignation at the level of arrogance with which some spokespeople of the official Europe feel the need to interfere in the freedom of press and domestic politics of other Member States. What a travesty!
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-//EP//...
Permitam-me que, enquanto Flamengo, exprima a minha surpresa e indignação por ver a arrogância com que alguns porta vozes da Europa oficial julgam ter de interferir na liberdade de imprensa e na política interna de outros Estados-Membros. Isso é um paradoxo!
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-//EP//...

Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
Portugal
Local time: 13:43
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Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 934
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12 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
travesty
paródia/farce


Explanation:
A palavra é TRAVESTY, sem o "r" depois do "e"

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Note added at 1 hr (2009-07-06 15:37:32 GMT)
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...e por cima de tudo, também errei, quis dizer "farsa" e nao farce...

Katarina Peters
Canada
Local time: 08:43
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in HungarianHungarian, Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 40

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  aoliveira09 (X): perfeito. Eu is dizer que a palavra estava escrita incorretamente, mas voce corrigiu.
7 mins
  -> Obrigada aoliveira09! :) Mas como mencionei na discussao, eu também errei, em vez de "farce" devia ser "farsa".
agree  Gabriela Oliveira
2 hrs
  -> Obrigada, Gabriela!
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2 days 23 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
traversty
arremedo


Explanation:
travesty of justice
a miscarriage of justice; an act of the legal system that is an insult to the system of justice. The jury's verdict was a travesty of justice. The lawyer complained that the judge's ruling was a travesty of justice.

imatahan
Brazil
Local time: 09:43
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Native speaker of: Portuguese
PRO pts in category: 22
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