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elucubrações

English translation: speculation


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Portuguese term or phrase:elucubrações
English translation:speculation
Entered by: Amy Duncan
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17:47 Jan 31, 2007
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Insurance / DPVAT
Portuguese term or phrase: elucubrações
A vida humana não deve e não pode ser alvo de **elucubrações** por parte de ninguém e muito menos, daqueles que pretendem colocar-se acima de suas próprias limitações como indivíduo, igual aos demais.
Amy Duncan
Brazil
Local time: 03:19
speculation
Explanation:
Amy: um dos sentidos comuns a esta palavra em PT-BR é o de conjectura, especulação acerca de um assunto. Daí minha sugestão:

Do Houaiss:

Derivação: por extensão de sentido. Uso: ironia.
especulação vasta, artificiosa e intricada

Conjecture também poderia ser usada.
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Fernando Domeniconi
Local time: 02:19
Grading comment
Thanks, Fernando! And everyone else for your suggestions, too.
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
4 +3speculationFernando Domeniconi
4lucubration
Heloisa Ferreira
3pedantic/pretentious writing
Paula Vaz-Carreiro


  

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lucubration


Explanation:
elucubração
n. lucubration; learning (done at night); cogitation, contemplation, rumination, reflection, meditation

Heloisa Ferreira
Brazil
Local time: 03:19
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 4
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23 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +3
speculation


Explanation:
Amy: um dos sentidos comuns a esta palavra em PT-BR é o de conjectura, especulação acerca de um assunto. Daí minha sugestão:

Do Houaiss:

Derivação: por extensão de sentido. Uso: ironia.
especulação vasta, artificiosa e intricada

Conjecture também poderia ser usada.

Fernando Domeniconi
Local time: 02:19
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 8
Grading comment
Thanks, Fernando! And everyone else for your suggestions, too.

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agree  Lumen
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37 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
pedantic/pretentious writing


Explanation:
lucubrations can mean writing produced by laborious effort or study, especially pedantic or pretentious writing. Often used in the plural (see link below)

So I suppose that in your text they might mean something like:

Human life should not and cannot be the object/target of anyone's pedantic/pretentious writing [...]

Hope this helps




    Reference: http://www.answers.com/lucubration
Paula Vaz-Carreiro
Local time: 07:19
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese, Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 4
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