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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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- mean, meat, mechanical, medical, medieval, meet, memory, mention, mere, merely, message, middle, middle-class, midnight, might, mighty, mild, mile, military


merely


- adverb
- apenas

EN He watched her narrowly, but she displayed neither surprise nor emotion, merely said: 'Nonsense.
PT Olhou-a atentamente, mas ela não mostrou surpresa nem emoção, disse apenas: _ Disparate.
- Fonte: CRI (4434)
- meramente

EN But I do say that educated and scholarly men, if they're brilliant and creative to begin with - which, unfortunately, is rarely the case - tend to leave infinitely more valuable records behind them than men do who are merely brilliant and creative.
PT Mas afianço-te que as pessoas educadas, se forem criadoras e brilhantes - o que, infelizmente, é muito raro -, poderão prestar serviços muito mais estimáveis que as pessoas meramente criadoras e brilhantes.
- Fonte: AGU (6243)
- simplesmente

EN Then they strolled through the courtyards, and admired, summer after summer, the proportions and the flowers, and he would tell her things, about perspective, about architecture, as they walked, and he would stop to look at a tree, or the view over the lake, and admire a child (it was his great grief _ he had no daughter) in the vague aloof way that was natural to a man who spent so much time in laboratories that the world when he came out seemed to dazzle him, so that he walked slowly, lifted his hand to screen his eyes and paused, with his head thrown back, merely to breathe the air.
PT Deambulavam então pelos pátios, Verão após Verão, admirando as proporções e as flores, e eis que ele lhe falava de perspectiva, de arquitectura, enquanto passeavam, e paravam olhando uma árvore ou a vista sobre o lago, observando uma criança (era esse o grande desgosto de William Bankes _ não ter uma filha), com esse modo vago e longínquo, natural num homem que passava tanto tempo em laboratórios que o mundo, quando saía, se afigurava incandeá-lo, de forma que era vagarosamente que passeava, que erguia a mão para proteger os olhos, e se detinha, com a cabeça lançada para trás, simplesmente a aspirar o ar.
- Fonte: RUM (2798)