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de peripécias

English translation: escapades

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Portuguese term or phrase:de peripécias
English translation:escapades
Entered by: Nick Taylor

18:30 Oct 13, 2020
Portuguese to English translations [Non-PRO]
Art/Literary - Poetry & Literature
Portuguese term or phrase: de peripécias
I understand peripécias refers to a specialized literary term - peripateia in English - but is there a more banal and colloquial meaning to it in Portuguese? Especially with the "de" coming before it? The sentence is: "É que chegou àquela cena dramática em que as personagens se despedem, com certeza para sempre, de peripécias nas charnecas escocesas." I'm inclined to translate it as "at the book's climax on the Scottish heaths..." but somehow this felt heavy-handed here. Any other readings I might not be aware of? Thanks!
AJSComm
Local time: 14:27
escapades
Explanation:
escapades
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Nick Taylor
Local time: 19:27
Grading comment
Thanks, Nick! I think this context, together with your discussion entry of "turn of events" works well as it preserves the ambiguity you mentioned.
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Summary of answers provided
4 +1shenanigans
Fernando Barros
4escapades
Nick Taylor
3the adventures
Bruno Dutra
3anecdotal experiences / twists and turns / episodes
Ana Vozone


Discussion entries: 2





  

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10 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
shenanigans


Explanation:
Sugestão


    https://www.thefreedictionary.com/shenanigan#:~:text=%20she%C2%B7nan%C2%B7i%C2%B7gan%20%201%20A%20playful%20or%20mischievous,Financial%20she
Fernando Barros
Brazil
Local time: 15:27
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Egon Lessa: Great answer, kudoz!
2 hrs
  -> Thanks!
neutral  Bruno Dutra: a. mischief; prankishness. b. deceit; trickery. 2. a mischievous or deceitful trick. = This is not the meaning of 'Peripécia' in my op.
3 hrs
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34 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
the adventures


Explanation:
Yes! There is.

That word is often use in north-west region and It is not very common to have ''de'' before the word 'peripécia'.

More correct would be 'as personagens se despedem DA peripécia or even better 'DAS peripéciaS'.

It is very common to use that word Informally in the sense of say something about an 'unexpected, surprising, episodic action. There is, however, a comical component with that word that relates it to the sense of mess and adventure.

It is very common to use it when we the person tries to classify an action from someone who has no experience in doing something and does it anyway AWKWARDLY.

Look, if you check SINONIMOS.COM.BR you can see that it is related to : acontecimento (happening) imprevisto (unforeseen) aventura (adventure) incidente (incident)

I think that a translation using those words would be nice.

I suggest adventures.


    https://www.sinonimos.com.br/peripecia/
    Reference: http://michaelis.uol.com.br/busca?r=0&f=0&t=0&palavra=perip%...
Bruno Dutra
Brazil
Local time: 15:27
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 4
Notes to answerer
Asker: Thanks for the thorough explanation, Bruno. So given the presence of that "de," would you surmise the meaning of peripécias here would be something like "on an adventure on the Scottish highlands?"

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3 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
escapades


Explanation:
escapades

Nick Taylor
Local time: 19:27
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 98
Grading comment
Thanks, Nick! I think this context, together with your discussion entry of "turn of events" works well as it preserves the ambiguity you mentioned.
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13 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
anecdotal experiences / twists and turns / episodes


Explanation:
... when/where characters say goodbye to their

https://www.google.com/search?q="anecdotal experiences"&sxsr...

https://www.google.com/search?biw=1344&bih=699&sxsrf=ALeKk02...

... power of art meandered, taking anecdotal twists and turns, that you'd expect to have on a front porch, not in a conference room.

tory of how I came to be selling off all my belongings full of witty dry humour and anecdotal twists & turns that occassionally put some quirky into the eccentric.



Example sentence(s):
  • Anecdotal experiences are, of course, respective, yet I am a firm believer that a lesson lived is a lesson learned.
  • Built in 1850, it happened to be the scene of one of the anecdotal episodes of Eça de Queiroz while living in Leiria.
Ana Vozone
Local time: 19:27
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 25
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