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pushing

Portuguese translation: levantando

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English term or phrase:pushing
Portuguese translation:levantando
Entered by: Ulisses Pasmadjian

12:49 Oct 30, 2019
English to Portuguese translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Cinema, Film, TV, Drama
English term or phrase: pushing
"The CIA got you pushing too many pencils?"

É para a tradução desse diálogo:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qIF2cEzoYw

Obrigado!
maucet
Brazil
Local time: 23:06
levantando
Explanation:
É uma expressão idiomática. O personagem de Schwarzenegger ironiza a pouca força do seu colega na queda de braço, fazendo refrerência ao trabalho do colega na CIA como um trabalho burocrático, de "levantar canetas" como se fosse um exercício de alterofilismo.
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Ulisses Pasmadjian
Argentina
Local time: 23:06
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Summary of answers provided
4 +3Trabalho burocrático
Eduan Moraes
4 +3levantando
Ulisses Pasmadjian
4Você não faz nada na CIA e está ficando fraco?
Michael Lourenço Leite
3levantar
Fausto Machado Tiemann
2(pôs você) a trabalhar (muito)(só) nas papeladas
Ana Vozone


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7 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +3
Trabalho burocrático


Explanation:
CIA got you pushing too many pencils?
A CIA dando a você muitos trabalhos burocráticos? (tom de ironia)
é uma forma informal de falar que você fez apenas trabalhos que não exigem esforço físico ou seja no escritório como foi dito no trecho do filme pelo contexto.

Eduan Moraes
Brazil
Local time: 23:06
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Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  marcoskalten
6 mins
agree  Matheus Chaud: https://www.lexico.com/en/definition/pen_pusher ::: pen-pusher = A person with a clerical job involving a lot of tedious and repetitive paperwork
1 hr
agree  Sueli Astrini
9 days
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11 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +3
levantando


Explanation:
É uma expressão idiomática. O personagem de Schwarzenegger ironiza a pouca força do seu colega na queda de braço, fazendo refrerência ao trabalho do colega na CIA como um trabalho burocrático, de "levantar canetas" como se fosse um exercício de alterofilismo.

Ulisses Pasmadjian
Argentina
Local time: 23:06
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agree  Fausto Machado Tiemann: Ah, vc respondeu antes. Exatamente!
3 mins
  -> Obrigado, Fausto!
agree  Cristina Mantovani: Levantamento de lápis:)
17 mins
  -> Yes! Obrigado, Cristina! Pensei em lápis e terminei escrevendo "caneta". Obrigado pela correção.
agree  Clauwolf
1 hr
  -> Obrigado, Clauwolf!
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14 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
levantar


Explanation:
"A CIA tem feito você levantar muito lápis?"

Em vez de levantar peso, fica no escritório. Acho que daria e ficaria compreensível, não?

Fausto Machado Tiemann
Brazil
Local time: 23:06
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27 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
Você não faz nada na CIA e está ficando fraco?


Explanation:
Sugestão tentando resgatar o sentido do original.

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Note added at 35 mins (2019-10-30 13:24:36 GMT)
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É uma expressão idiomática, portanto, o ideal é traduzi-la toda.

https://forum.wordreference.com/threads/push-too-many-pencil...


In America, that same type of person is called a pencil-pusher.

That's someone who has a desk job/bureaucratic job and doesn't do much "real" work, in the eyes of other people.

The phrase in the OP is a reference to that but not a famous phrase in its own right.

Michael Lourenço Leite
Brazil
Local time: 23:06
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(got you) pushing too many pencils
(pôs você) a trabalhar (muito)(só) nas papeladas


Explanation:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pencil pusher

https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/pencil-...

https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/a pencil pusher

Ana Vozone
Local time: 03:06
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