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Pessoas bonitas só se vestem de si mesmas.

English translation: Beautiful people only wear their true colors.

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Portuguese term or phrase:Pessoas bonitas só se vestem de si mesmas.
English translation:Beautiful people only wear their true colors.
Entered by: Oliver Simões

14:49 Aug 5, 2019
Portuguese to English translations [PRO]
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Portuguese term or phrase: Pessoas bonitas só se vestem de si mesmas.
Vestir-se de si mesmo...
Cybeles Lehner
Brazil
Beautiful people only wear their true colors.
Explanation:
Fica aí mais uma sugestão caso você prefira uma tradução mais idiomática e menos literal.

someone's true colors: the kind of person someone really is rather than what the person seems to be - https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/someo...

A ideia é que pessoas bonitas mostram seu verdadeiro eu em vez de viver de aparências ou fingir algo que não são. O sentido da frase é figurado.



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Example sentences:
"For this, I wore my true colors and I had headed out of the city on my bike, my real bike, with my face covered by one of the bandanas now wrapped around her bleeding hands." - https://books.google.com/books?id=V8GEDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT18&lpg=P...

"if I wore my true colors you wouldn't enjoy the bleeding & mismatching colors of thread patchwork..." - https://lyskoi.bandcamp.com/track/ambient-noise
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Oliver Simões
United States
Local time: 15:57
Grading comment
Excellent ! Thank you !
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
4 +7Beautiful people only wear their true colors.
Oliver Simões
4 +2Really beautiful people wear their inner beauty.
Mark Robertson
4Beautiful people need no costumes.
Laura Hafner
3 +1Beautiful people wear their souls.
Ana Vozone
3Beautiful people put themselves on as clothing
Luciano Eduardo de Oliveira
3True beauty comes from within
Richard Purdom


Discussion entries: 2





  

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3 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
Beautiful people put themselves on as clothing


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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6 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
Beautiful people need no costumes.


Explanation:
Minha sugestão, entendendo que "vestir-se de algo" seria colocar algum tipo de fantasia, passar uma imagem...

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Então, completando, as pessoas bonitas não precisam "se fantasiar" de nada além delas mesmas. Foi essa a ideia que a frase me passou.

Laura Hafner
Canada
Local time: 18:57
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in PortuguesePortuguese
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18 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +1
Beautiful people wear their souls.


Explanation:
... wear their hearts on their sleeves, and their souls in their smiles.

https://www.google.com/search?q="beautiful people wear their...

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Ou melhor: "only wear their souls"

Ana Vozone
Local time: 23:57
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  CRISTIANE PERINI
20 mins
  -> Obrigada, Christiane!
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +7
Beautiful people only wear their true colors.


Explanation:
Fica aí mais uma sugestão caso você prefira uma tradução mais idiomática e menos literal.

someone's true colors: the kind of person someone really is rather than what the person seems to be - https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/someo...

A ideia é que pessoas bonitas mostram seu verdadeiro eu em vez de viver de aparências ou fingir algo que não são. O sentido da frase é figurado.



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Note added at 1 hr (2019-08-05 16:16:18 GMT)
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Example sentences:
"For this, I wore my true colors and I had headed out of the city on my bike, my real bike, with my face covered by one of the bandanas now wrapped around her bleeding hands." - https://books.google.com/books?id=V8GEDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT18&lpg=P...

"if I wore my true colors you wouldn't enjoy the bleeding & mismatching colors of thread patchwork..." - https://lyskoi.bandcamp.com/track/ambient-noise

Oliver Simões
United States
Local time: 15:57
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 56
Grading comment
Excellent ! Thank you !

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Laura Hafner: Loved this! Great solution.
10 mins
  -> Thank you, Laura.

agree  Gilmar Fernandes
6 hrs
  -> Thank you, Gilmar.

agree  Muriel Vasconcellos
19 hrs
  -> Thank you, Muriel.

agree  Mark Robertson: Nice
21 hrs
  -> Thank you, Mark.

agree  Verginia Ophof
1 day 9 hrs
  -> Thank you, Verginia.

agree  Helen Oliveira
1 day 10 hrs
  -> Thank you, Helen.

agree  ulissescarvalho: The best solution so far.
4 days
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48 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
Really beautiful people wear their inner beauty.


Explanation:
One of many options. See discussion entry and the article from which the source text is taken.
http://pioneiro.clicrbs.com.br/rs/geral/cotidiano/noticia/20...

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Or perhaps "Authentically beautiful people wear their inner beauty."

Mark Robertson
Local time: 23:57
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 44

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Luciano Eduardo de Oliveira
10 mins
  -> Obrigado

agree  Verginia Ophof
1 day 9 hrs
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3 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
True beauty comes from within


Explanation:
A less literal alternative

Richard Purdom
Portugal
Local time: 23:57
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 8
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