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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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- mutual, mysterious, naked, name, narrow, nasty, national, natural, near, nearly, neat, necessary, need, neighbouring, nervous, neutral, never, new, nice


nearly


- adverb
- quase

EN The flame, nearly invisible at first in that bright sunlight, enveloped a small twig, grew, was enriched with colour and reached up to a branch which exploded with a sharp crack.
PT A chama, a principio quase invisível no Sol brilhante, envolveu um ramúsculo, cresceu, tingiu-se de cor e alteou-se a uma ramada que explodiu com um estalo rijo.
- Fonte: MOS (1067)
- por pouco

EN You nearly missed me; I was going out."
PT Por pouco não me apanhava: estou de saída.
- Fonte: TRC (2001)
- perto de

EN This doctor was of a race which for nearly four hundred years had beaten and starved and robbed and despised Kino's race, and frightened it too, so that the indigene came humbly to the door.
PT O médico pertencia a uma raça que, durante perto de quatrocentos anos, tinha espancado, morto à fome, roubado e desprezado a raça de Kino, além de a atemorizar, de tal modo que os indígenas batiam humildemente às suas portas.
- Fonte: APE (159)