Prender la mecha

Portuguese translation: acender o pavio

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Spanish term or phrase:	Prender la mecha
Portuguese translation:	acender o pavio
Entered by:	rhandler

13:00 Nov 10, 2007

Spanish to Portuguese translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Poetry & Literature

Spanish term or phrase: Prender la mecha

A los 212 grados, hierve.
Y el agua hirviendo trae el vapor.
Y el vapor puede mover una locomotora.
Es hora de prender la mecha.

A partir de hoy, os debéis comprometer a funcionar a 212 grados en cada cosa que hacéis. Apuntadlo en vuestra mente. Aplicadlo en vuestras acciones. Si hacéis esto, aumentaréis vuestros resultados positivamente y en muchos casos, aumentaréis vuestros resultados exponenciales.

Eliane Lourinho KudoZ activity Questions: 177 (4 open) (3 without valid answers) (8 closed without grading) Answers: 44
Local time: 13:57

acender o pavio

Explanation:
Veja como o DRAE define "mecha":

mecha.

(Quizá del fr. mèche).

1. f. Cuerda retorcida o cinta tejida hecha de filamentos combustibles, generalmente de algodón, que se pone en las piqueras o mecheros de algunos aparatos del alumbrado y dentro de las velas y bujías.

2. f. Tubo de algodón, trapo o papel, relleno de pólvora, para dar fuego a minas y barrenos.

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Exemplos:

CognoscoCogitar: Dragões e vampiros
Com ele tanto podemos iluminar o caminho que se estende à nossa frente como acender o pavio da nossa destruição. O trágico é que ainda somos demasiado novos ...
http://cognosco.blogs.sapo.pt/comentar?entry_id=1076196

[PPT] Clube de Química
File Format: Microsoft Powerpoint - View as HTML
... Colocar uma rolha revestida com alumínio e que tem incorporado um pavio, no copo cónico; Com cuidado, acender o pavio com a ajuda de um fósforo ...
http://educa.fc.up.pt/ficheiros/trabalhos/81/documentos/89/L...

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rhandler
Local time: 09:57

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acender a torcida

Elvira Alves Barry

4 +1

acender o pavio

rhandler

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acender o pavio

rhandler
Local time: 09:57
Native speaker of: Portuguese
PRO pts in category: 40

Grading comment

Obrigada!

32 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +2

acender a torcida

Explanation:
Another suggestion.

http://motg.blogs.sapo.pt/arquivo/712139.html

Elvira Alves Barry
Local time: 13:57
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Native speaker of:

English

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