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Portuguese translation: área rural montanhosa, área montanhosa

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English term or phrase:	hill country
Portuguese translation:	área rural montanhosa, área montanhosa
Entered by:	Salvador Scofano and Gry Midttun

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15:00 Mar 9, 2010

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Geography

English term or phrase: hill country

Meu contexto:

"Titusville, Pennsylvania, is a defunct industrial town of six thousand that's been left for dead in a stretch of hill country between Pittsburgh and Lake Erie"

Obrigada desde já. :)

Cristina Paixão Lopes

área rural montanhosa

Explanation:
hill country

noun
Definition:

U.S. uplands: hilly rural land, especially when used as pasture for sheep or cattle

Encarta

28 Set 2008 ... Os 48 estados contíguos formam uma área territorial ... Azuis (Blue Ridge), a sudoeste, na área montanhosa central. ..... Outras regiões demograficamente relevantes são Detroit, Cleveland e Pittsburgh, todas ao sul do lago Erie, ... Essencialmente rural até a guerra da secessão (1861-1865), ...
www.emdiv.com.br/.../1626-estados-unidos-da-america.html - Em cache - Similares

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Salvador Scofano and Gry Midttun
Norway
Local time: 22:09

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Thank you so much!
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área rural montanhosa

Salvador Scofano and Gry Midttun

região de serras

Danièle Horta

(trecho OU extensão) de campo com colinas

Marlene Curtis

região acidentada

Teresa Borges

num pé de morro

Walter Moura

Summary of reference entries provided

hill country

transl8_2

Answers

8 mins confidence:

região acidentada

Explanation:
Diria assim em PT(pt)

Teresa Borges
Belgium
Local time: 22:09
Works in field
Native speaker of:

Portuguese
PRO pts in category: 16

12 mins confidence:

num pé de morro

Explanation:
parece com isso.

Walter Moura
Brazil
Local time: 17:09
Native speaker of:

Portuguese

39 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +2

área rural montanhosa

Salvador Scofano and Gry Midttun
Norway
Local time: 22:09
Native speaker of:

Norwegian,

Portuguese
PRO pts in category: 27

Grading comment

Thank you so much!

18 mins confidence:

(trecho OU extensão) de campo com colinas

Explanation:

...entre Pittsburgh and Lake Erie

Pittsburgh has a thriving cycling community despite steep hills and variable weather. Efforts have been made to incorporate the bicycle into the transportation system

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transportation_in_Pittsburgh

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Hills = colinas

Marlene Curtis
United States
Local time: 16:09
Native speaker of:

Portuguese
PRO pts in category: 37

2 hrs confidence:

região de serras

Explanation:
PT / BR
diria assim

Example sentence(s):

A Chapada Diamantina é uma região de serras, situada...

Reference: http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chapada_Diamantina

Danièle Horta
Local time: 22:09
Native speaker of: French

Reference comments

1 hr

Reference: hill country

Reference information:
hill country
noun
Definition
U.S. uplands: hilly rural land, especially when used as pasture for sheep or cattle.

Encarta® World English Dictionary [North American Edition] © & (P)2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Developed for Microsoft by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.

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Note added at 1 hr (2010-03-09 16:17:45 GMT)
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Mesma referência usada por Salvador Scofano and Gry Midttun.
...e viva a "Encarta"!

transl8_2
Brazil
Native speaker of:

Portuguese

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Changes made by editors

Mar 11, 2010 - Changes made by Salvador Scofano and Gry Midttun:
Edited KOG entry	Cristina Paixão Lopes's old entry - "hill country" => "área rural montanhosa"

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