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Science - Linguistics / phonology - gloss | | Portuguese term or phrase: ele está afundado, atolado | | no additional context... |
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| | he is mired | Explanation:
If this is a gloss, and if both words are intended to refer to the same concept, then "mired" could work as a translation of both. "Afundado" is more in the sense of sinking into the mud (but "sunk" wouldn't work) and "atolado" is more the idea of being stuck in it.
To make a distinction between the two, you'd have to use the present participle in English for "afundado":
"He's sinking (in the mud), stuck (in the mud)"
Considering the speakers of the language in question, I would understand that this is meant literally rather than metaphorically. |
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 Muriel Vasconcellos
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