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English: all of a kind

Portuguese translation: parecidos, similares, iguais/farinha do mesmo saco



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English term or phrase:all of a kind
Portuguese translation:parecidos, similares, iguais/farinha do mesmo saco
Entered by:Salvador Scofano and Gry Midttun
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English term or phrase: all of a kind
However, TNCs are highly differentiated, not only in size and geographical extent but also in the ways in which they operate.They are, emphatically, not all of a kind: identical economic monsters stamping an identical footprint on the landscape. Indeed, far from being the ‘placeless’ organizations often claimed, TNCs continue to reflect many of the basic characteristics of the home country environments in which they remain strongly embedded
Teresa Cristina Felix de Sousa
Brazil
parecidos, similares, iguais
Explanation:
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Nevertheless, the work that I did demonstrated that there are, in fact, very large differences in the amount of travel per head generated between these places, even places within the same sub-region, between members of similar socio-economic groups and in types of developments that, frankly, if I took you round you would not know whether you were in Bicester, Didcot or, for that matter, in Towcester or Daventry; it is all very similar, all of a kind. The issue of location was related to very large differences in the amount of car based travel.


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Note added at 8 mins (2008-05-25 21:30:37 GMT)
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farinha do mesmo saco na língua do dia a dia
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Salvador Scofano and Gry Midttun
Norway
Note from asker to answerer
Adorei o farinha do mesmo saco. Na mosca!
Bjs
T.
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Summary of answers provided
4 +3parecidos, similares, iguais
Salvador Scofano and Gry Midttun
4 +1nem todas são do mesmo género
Mariana Moreira
4,"nem" todas são ruins,....Marcos Antonio


  

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6 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
nem todas são do mesmo género

Explanation:
espero que ajude:)

Mariana Moreira
Portugal
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 378

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agree marco lessa: A1.
1 hr
  -> Marco, obrigada
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6 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +3
parecidos, similares, iguais

Explanation:
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Note added at 6 mins (2008-05-25 21:28:48 GMT)
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Nevertheless, the work that I did demonstrated that there are, in fact, very large differences in the amount of travel per head generated between these places, even places within the same sub-region, between members of similar socio-economic groups and in types of developments that, frankly, if I took you round you would not know whether you were in Bicester, Didcot or, for that matter, in Towcester or Daventry; it is all very similar, all of a kind. The issue of location was related to very large differences in the amount of car based travel.


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Note added at 8 mins (2008-05-25 21:30:37 GMT)
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farinha do mesmo saco na língua do dia a dia

Salvador Scofano and Gry Midttun
Norway
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in NorwegianNorwegian, Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 47
Note from asker to answerer
Adorei o farinha do mesmo saco. Na mosca!
Bjs
T.

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree rhandler
3 mins
  -> Obrigado

agree Flavia Martins dos Santos: agree
1 hr
  -> Obrigado

agree Luciana Roppa
3 hrs
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12 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
,"nem" todas são ruins,....

Explanation:
Sug.

..nem todas são ruins

of a kind: de qualidade inferior

Marcos Antonio
Brazil
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 91
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