forjaram

English translation: shaped

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Portuguese term or phrase:forjaram
English translation:shaped
Entered by: Luciano Eduardo de Oliveira

18:05 Oct 26, 2012
Portuguese to English translations [PRO]
Marketing - Journalism / matéria de jornal
Portuguese term or phrase: forjaram
A televisão é o melhor veículo para massificar a biografia de grandes personalidades – e fazê-las exemplos para milhões de expectadores – através de um programa que mostre as suas vidas, suas histórias e os fatos que os forjaram suas trajetórias.
Lattuca
Brazil
Local time: 18:57
shaped
Explanation:
Mas esta frase suas histórias e os fatos que os forjaram suas trajetórias é impossível em português. A minha solução baseia-se neste entendimento: suas histórias e os fatos que (lhes) forjaram suas trajetórias.

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Note added at 4 mins (2012-10-26 18:09:18 GMT)
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Que lhes forjaram as trajetórias ou que forjaram suas trajetórias, se é que isso que pretenderam escrever.
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Luciano Eduardo de Oliveira
Brazil
Grading comment
Thank you for the good option and comments
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Summary of answers provided
4 +4shaped
Luciano Eduardo de Oliveira
4 +1have forged
Lindsay Spratt
5molded
airmailrpl


  

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3 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +4
shaped


Explanation:
Mas esta frase suas histórias e os fatos que os forjaram suas trajetórias é impossível em português. A minha solução baseia-se neste entendimento: suas histórias e os fatos que (lhes) forjaram suas trajetórias.

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Note added at 4 mins (2012-10-26 18:09:18 GMT)
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Que lhes forjaram as trajetórias ou que forjaram suas trajetórias, se é que isso que pretenderam escrever.

Luciano Eduardo de Oliveira
Brazil
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 40
Grading comment
Thank you for the good option and comments

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Marlene Curtis
3 mins

agree  Douglas Bissell: shaped, formed, fashioned
23 mins

agree  Claudio Mazotti
47 mins

agree  connie leite
1 hr
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4 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
have forged


Explanation:
I would go with 'have forged', (or forged if the person is dead obviously) but translate 'fatos' to events.

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Note added at 1 hr (2012-10-26 19:59:49 GMT)
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...a program which shows their lives, their stories and the events which have forged their path through life.

Lindsay Spratt
France
Local time: 23:57
Works in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 20

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  Douglas Bissell: It could be mistaken for falsifying, not that journalists would EVER do that
21 mins
  -> You're right, Douglas, hadn't thought of that :)

agree  William Gallagher
1 hr
  -> Thanks!
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16 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
molded


Explanation:
forjaram => molded

airmailrpl
Brazil
Local time: 18:57
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 12
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