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English translation: suggestion
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| na | The village itself is still the spitting image of a Nordeste where folks clutch... |
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see below Explanation: Depending on the sentence before it and the amount of emphasis your context allows : As for the village...(if "lui" used as empahsis to contrast with another place or another entity) OR The village has remained true to the image of Nordeste where (or 'that') you hang on so hard to the arid land that you end up being one and the same. |
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suggestion Explanation: The village itself has remained true to the image of Nordeste (or the North-East), where the arid earth requires such hard work that one becomes one with it. or "where the arid earth demands such hard work that one identifies with it" or "that man and his land become as one" |
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The village itself is still the spitting image of a Nordeste where folks clutch... Explanation: ...the hard scrabble to the point of oneness with the land. N.B. the Nordeste is undoubtedly the northeast region of Brazil, largely agricultural, and proverbially destitute and drought-ridden. Brazilians talk about clinging, crablike, to the land (although the area is also the source of many influxes of the very poor to the favelas--slums--surrounding Brazil's oversized cities). I've tried to give the sentence some *Okie* (dustbowl refugees of the 30s) flavor, a la Steinbeck, as that is what comes closest, in American literature, to the vast Braazilian literature on their Nordeste. |
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