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Computational Linguistics Group, 2008
University of Vigo

English-Portuguese CLUVI Dictionary

(Based on the CLUVI Corpus of the University of Vigo)



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- chapter, character, characteristic, charming, cheap, cheek, cheerful, chemical, chest, chief, chief, child, chin, chinese, choir, chosen, christian, christmas, chronic


chief


- noun
- chefe

EN "Seems to me we ought to have a chief to decide things."
PT -- Parece-me que precisamos de um chefe que tome decisões.
- Fonte: MOS (457)
- character, characteristic, charming, cheap, cheek, cheerful, chemical, chest, chief, chief, child, chin, chinese, choir, chosen, christian, christmas, chronic, church


chief


- adjective
- principal

EN Boots are among the chief curses of mankind, he said.
PT As botas constituem um dos principais castigos da humanidade, dizia.
- Fonte: RUM (2379)
- maior

EN Company, elsewhere a source of comfort to the afflicted, will be there a continual torment: knowledge, so much longed for as the chief good of the intellect, will there be hated worse than ignorance: light, so much coveted by all creatures from the lord of creation down to the humblest plant in the forest, will be loathed intensely.
PT A companhia de outrem, fonte de reconforto para os aflitos, em toda a parte alhures, será ali um contínuo tormento; o conhecimento, tão ardentemente desejado como o maior tesouro do espírito, será ainda mais odiado do que a ignorância; a luz, objecto de desejo de todas as criaturas, desde o rei da criação até à mais humilde planta das florestas, será violentamente insultada.
- Fonte: JOV (2638)