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amor descabelado

English translation: tumultuous, volatile love

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Portuguese term or phrase:amor descabelado
English translation:tumultuous, volatile love
Entered by: Ana Vozone

14:35 Oct 22, 2018
Portuguese to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - General / Conversation / Greetings / Letters / In A Biography
Portuguese term or phrase: amor descabelado
Context (description of Camilo Castelo Branco's romance novels):

As novelas passionais de Camilo contribuem para el Romantismo com algumas tônicas distintas: o amor paixão, violento, acendrado, decabelado, ultra-romântico, onde não há lugar para a reflexão, o dado crítico, a razão.

Obrigada,

Barbara
Barbara Cochran, MFA
United States
Local time: 10:19
tumultuous, volatile love
Explanation:
Suggestion.
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Ana Vozone
Local time: 15:19
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Summary of answers provided
3 +3tumultuous, volatile love
Ana Vozone
4 +1rapturous love
Nick Taylor
4furious love
Gilmar Fernandes
4mind-blowing love
Oliver Simões
3ravishing love
Luciano Eduardo de Oliveira


  

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3 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +3
tumultuous, volatile love


Explanation:
Suggestion.

Ana Vozone
Local time: 15:19
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 74

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
29 mins
  -> Obrigada, Teresa!
agree  Margarida Ataide
43 mins
  -> Obrigada, Margarida!
agree  Sarah Leonard
1 hr
  -> Obrigada, Sarah!
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4 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
ravishing love


Explanation:
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Luciano Eduardo de Oliveira
Brazil
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 56
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23 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
furious love


Explanation:
Furious Love: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, and the Marriage of the Century

From veteran entertainment reporter Sam Kashner and biographer Nancy Schoenberger comes the definitive account of the greatest Hollywood love story ever told—the romance of Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. Kashner has interviewed Elizabeth Taylor numerous times and is the only journalist given access to her extensive collection of personal letters and journals, and he and Schoenberger have also interviewed the Burton family at length, including Burton’s actress daughter Kate. This is truly an authorized and singularly informed biography of these two larger-than-life stars, and of their glamorous, volatile, and audacious relationship.

Gilmar Fernandes
United States
Local time: 10:19
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese, Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 103
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9 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
mind-blowing love


Explanation:
This is how I would translate. There is a connection between the source-text ("descabelado" from "cabelo") and the translation I'm proposing ("mind", which is associated to the head).

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Note added at 14 mins (2018-10-22 14:49:53 GMT)
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Other examples: https://www.google.com/search?q="mind-blowing love"...

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Note added at 25 mins (2018-10-22 15:01:26 GMT)
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Note: Of course, the above example sentence wouldn't translate well as "amor descabelado" back into Portuguese. I would rephrase it to "amor arrebatador"(6 segredos para um amor arrebatador). They are synonymous IMHO.

Example sentence(s):
  • 6 Secrets To Having Mind-Blowing Love

    Reference: http://www.tamaragreen.me/6-secrets-mind-blowing-love/
Oliver Simões
United States
Local time: 07:19
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 56
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5 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
rapturous love


Explanation:
rapturous love

Nick Taylor
Local time: 15:19
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 119

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  T o b i a s
1 hr
  -> Thanks Tobias
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