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longe vão os dias naturais

English translation: Natural days are long gone

21:40 Jul 22, 2010
Portuguese to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Poetry & Literature / performance/art
Portuguese term or phrase: longe vão os dias naturais
From the following piece of slightly surreal, dramatic dialogue. The speaker has been engaged in dialogue with figures representing various aspects of power. This is the beginning of her final speech.

what is meant here by 'dias naturais'? Does the same term work in English?

X: Longe vão os dias naturais. Estou enclausurada por não mais ser possível estar lá fora. Nem pedra nem árvore. O que começou como um excesso rapidamente se transformou numa necessidade. Para eles, amar significava sermos dependentes e vulneráveis. Por isso não posso mais com o poder, essa personificação máxima de um Estado.
Lucy Phillips
United Kingdom
Local time: 18:48
English translation:Natural days are long gone
Explanation:
A suggestion.

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Note added at 42 mins (2010-07-22 22:22:55 GMT)
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I wouldn't say MY natural days.
Selected response from:

Paula Borges
United Kingdom
Local time: 18:48
Grading comment
thanks Paula, I went for a straight translation as you suggested
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
4 +1My normal (natural) days are long gone ...
Marlene Curtis
4My natural days are far away.
Wilson Schuelter
4Natural days are long gone
Paula Borges
4my days of freedom are long gone
Amy Duncan (X)
3Afar/Far/Distant are my free days/days in freedom
Luciano Eduardo de Oliveira
3my natural days have long since gone . .
David Drysdale (X)
3long gone are my nature friendly days
Verginia Ophof


  

Answers


2 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
Afar/Far/Distant are my free days/days in freedom


Explanation:
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Luciano Eduardo de Oliveira
Brazil
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 80
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28 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
My natural days are far away.


Explanation:
Diria assim.

Example sentence(s):
  • For the rest of my natural days in your arms (Elvis Presley's song).

    Reference: http://www.letras.com.br/elvis-presley/in-your-arms
Wilson Schuelter
Brazil
Local time: 14:48
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42 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
my natural days have long since gone . .


Explanation:
Suggestion:

my natural days have long since gone . . (Maybe it's more dramatic or poetic using "such" . . I suppose you could flip it, "long gone are my natural days? . . . )

David Drysdale (X)
United States
Local time: 11:48
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 8
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41 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
Natural days are long gone


Explanation:
A suggestion.

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Note added at 42 mins (2010-07-22 22:22:55 GMT)
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I wouldn't say MY natural days.

Paula Borges
United Kingdom
Local time: 18:48
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 8
Grading comment
thanks Paula, I went for a straight translation as you suggested
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18 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
My normal (natural) days are long gone ...


Explanation:
Natural day - definition of Natural day by the Free Online ... - 5:50pm
the space of twenty-four hours. - Chaucer. See also: Natural. How to thank TFD for its http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Natural day

Um dia natural é um dia normal, independente da festas ou fins de semana, enquanto em um dia hábil é aquele que não é feriado.
http://pt.wikilingue.com/es/Dia_hábil_e_natural


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Note added at 3 hrs (2010-07-23 01:21:28 GMT)
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The narrator is talking about his or her days, that are long gone and not about any days.

Marlene Curtis
United States
Local time: 13:48
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 195

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Verginia Ophof
20 hrs
  -> Grata!
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20 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
long gone are my nature friendly days


Explanation:
another suggestion

Verginia Ophof
Belize
Local time: 11:48
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 87
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22 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
my days of freedom are long gone


Explanation:
The context seems to suggest this.

Amy Duncan (X)
Brazil
Local time: 14:48
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 36
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