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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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- stiff, still, still, stomach, stone, stop, storm, story, straight, straightforward, strange, strategic, street, strict, strong, stuck, student, stupid, subsequent


straightforward


- adjective
- directo

EN He sat on the road mending the car, and it was the way she gave him the tools _ business-like, straightforward, friendly _ that proved it was all right now.
PT Ele sentara-se na estrada, a consertar o carro, e fora o modo como ela lhe entregava a ferramenta - quase profissional, directo, amigável - que provara que tudo ia bem, agora.
- Fonte: RUM (2747)
- natural

EN Naturally men are drowned in a storm, but it is a perfectly straightforward affair, and the depths of the sea (he sprinkled the crumbs from his sandwich paper over them) are only water after all.
PT É claro que, quando há uma tempestade, os homens morrem afogados, mas trata-se de um facto perfeitamente natural, e as profundezas do mar (sobre elas espalhava as migalhas, que haviam ficado no papel com que embrulhara a sua sanduíche) são, afinal de contas, água apenas.
- Fonte: RUM (3349)
- óbvio

EN The contents of all three were simple and straightforward, and the examination would not have taken more than a couple of minutes had not Mrs Hubbard delayed matters by insisting on due attention being paid to photographs of 'My daughter' and two rather ugly children -- 'My daughter's children.
PT O conteúdo dos três era simples e óbvio, e o exame não teria levado mais do que uns minutos se Mrs. Hubbard não tivesse atrasado aquilo ao insistir para que dessem a atenção devida a fotografias de "a minha filha" e de duas crianças bastante feias _ "os filhos da minha filha.
- Fonte: CRI (4139)
- sincero

EN He seems honest and straightforward.
PT Parece honesto e sincero.
- Fonte: CRI (1330)