Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Portuguese term or phrase:
pessoa de modos simples
English translation:
unassuming person
Added to glossary by
Norbert Hermann
Jan 28, 2003 18:35
22 yrs ago
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Portuguese term
pessoa de modos simples
Non-PRO
Portuguese to English
Other
descrição de uma pessoa não sofisticada e modesta.
Proposed translations
(English)
4 +1 | unassuming person |
Norbert Hermann
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5 +2 | Down to earth person |
Maria Luisa Duarte
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5 +2 | man of simple means |
Marian Greenfield
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5 +1 | low profile |
Roberto Cavalcanti
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5 +1 | a simple-mided, humble person |
Forna (X)
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5 | a frugal person |
Gino Amaral
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5 | simpleton |
Paul Beppler
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5 | self-effacing person |
Susana Galilea
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5 | unassuming person |
Jane Lamb-Ruiz (X)
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4 +1 | unsophisticated |
Regina Boltz
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Proposed translations
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55 mins
Selected
unassuming person
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modest and not pretentious - just like me :-))!
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Note added at 2003-01-28 19:36:39 (GMT)
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modest and not pretentious - just like me :-))!
4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
+1
4 mins
8 mins
a frugal person
HTH.
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Note added at 2003-01-28 18:50:48 (GMT)
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Eu acho que essa mania de se copiar e colar páginas do Google dentro da resposta deveria ser definitivamente interrompida. Há um campo, na verdade dois, para se apresentar as referências. Além de poluir bastante a página, o que se quer dizer com isso? É óbvio que aquele ou aquela que introduz esse tipo de poluição não visitou cada um dos links ali relacionados, portanto esse é o tipo de informação que não se pode nem se deve confiar. Vamos lá, pessoal, vamos manter limpas não só as prais como nossas páginas aqui no ProZ.
Obrigado!
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Note added at 2003-01-28 18:50:48 (GMT)
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Eu acho que essa mania de se copiar e colar páginas do Google dentro da resposta deveria ser definitivamente interrompida. Há um campo, na verdade dois, para se apresentar as referências. Além de poluir bastante a página, o que se quer dizer com isso? É óbvio que aquele ou aquela que introduz esse tipo de poluição não visitou cada um dos links ali relacionados, portanto esse é o tipo de informação que não se pode nem se deve confiar. Vamos lá, pessoal, vamos manter limpas não só as prais como nossas páginas aqui no ProZ.
Obrigado!
Peer comment(s):
agree |
Daniel Marcus
: Good point about google. It's often a waste of space copying huge chunks of google. If your really sure the ref is RELEVANT, then give the URL. Not sure about 'frugal', though!
49 mins
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Acho que eu vou copiar e colar as 275 ocorrências de "frugal person". Quem sabe assim eu dou peso à minha sugestão. :))
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disagree |
Jane Lamb-Ruiz (X)
: I use google because I know how to use it and it's a way to emphasize my answers as a native speaker :) frugal is not modos simples
53 mins
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Maybe you don't really know what "modos simples" is all about. You should consider giving it a wider connotation, to say the least. Regarding Google, why don't you read all those pages in order to check if the information provided is really relevant?
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+2
8 mins
Down to earth person
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Marge is not stuffy or bookish, she\'s a very real, down-to-earth person,\" said wilderness society member Chris Prison. \"When she\'s around, you feel happy.\"
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The look is what Bonnie likes in real life. She likes to incorporate her real life into the show to a certain degree, and she wants the sets to look real,\" Noyes says.\"She\'s a very down to earth person.
http://www.homestore.com/HomeGarden/Decorate/Features/Hollyw...
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Marge is not stuffy or bookish, she\'s a very real, down-to-earth person,\" said wilderness society member Chris Prison. \"When she\'s around, you feel happy.\"
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Note added at 2003-01-28 18:56:00 (GMT)
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The look is what Bonnie likes in real life. She likes to incorporate her real life into the show to a certain degree, and she wants the sets to look real,\" Noyes says.\"She\'s a very down to earth person.
http://www.homestore.com/HomeGarden/Decorate/Features/Hollyw...
Peer comment(s):
agree |
Daniel Marcus
: you got there first! good one!
3 mins
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thanks!
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agree |
Janis Carter
18 mins
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thanks!
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+2
8 mins
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Peer comment(s):
agree |
Ana Rita Santiago
9 mins
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agree |
Daniel Marcus
: nice, in a more literary way.
50 mins
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neutral |
Jane Lamb-Ruiz (X)
: meios simples?
56 mins
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12 mins
simpleton
simplório
+1
21 mins
a simple-mided, humble person
Forna
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www.teosofia.com/Mumbai/7102life.html
\"We have no secret desire,\" is the first; \"what is there to desire? We must live as our fathers did before us and then die like them.\" This mentality may be compared to the simple villager\'s attitude of life. Humble people, simple folk, give us such an answer. Wordsworth in his \"Ode to Duty\" refers to this simple-minded class of humble people \"who do thy work, and know it not.\" The desire in them has not become active
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Sorry: simple-minded
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\"We have no secret desire,\" is the first; \"what is there to desire? We must live as our fathers did before us and then die like them.\" This mentality may be compared to the simple villager\'s attitude of life. Humble people, simple folk, give us such an answer. Wordsworth in his \"Ode to Duty\" refers to this simple-minded class of humble people \"who do thy work, and know it not.\" The desire in them has not become active
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Sorry: simple-minded
35 mins
self-effacing person
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58 mins
unassuming person
NOT SOMEONE WHO IS POOR
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re the other answers:
\'He was an unassuming man of great wealth who lived frugally, keeping a low profile in business matters. People who met him often assumed he was a simpleton, simple-minded or even feeble physically. In fact, his self-effacing qualities coupled with his humble attitude about the intellectual endeavours of others was a smokescreen. When one got to know him, his most salient characteristic was being down to earth and funny. He liked nothing better than having Saturday night barbecues at his modest lakeside country place surrounded by guests of much simpler means. He usually met them in the course of his secret forays to check on the myriad businesses he owned throughout the four state area. They never discovered who he really was\"
:) :)
see all these examples
A big elevation for an unassuming person. By Our Staff Reporter. ...
www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/2002/11/ 03/stories/2002110301240900.htm - 15k - Cached - Similar pages
News India-Times.com, Online Edition
... More... ‘Pearl was a gentle, unassuming person’ By PAPRI SRI RAMAN.
CHENNAI: I find it difficult to believe that anyone could ...
www.newsindia-times.com/2002/03/01/after6-pearl.html - 33k - Cached - Similar pages
News India-Times.com, Online Edition
... Pearl was a gentle, unassuming person’ CHENNAI: I find it difficult to believe
that anyone could kidnap or kill such a gentle and unassuming journalist as ...
www.newsindia-times.com/2002/03/01/after-index.html - 38k - Cached - Similar pages
Quiet Wyatt - Tombstone History Archives
... more than ordinary attainments and character, but years were to pass and I was to
live many decades in daily contact with this quiet, unassuming person; I was ...
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The Sag Harbor Express
... But how such an unassuming person had managed to hold on to and then disperse such
wealth throughout the community without anyone knowing has left many people ...
www.sagharboronline.com/20030102/personoftheyear.htm - 7k - Cached - Similar pages
iCOMICS | Daily Reviews
... It's the old Doctor Jekyll and Mister Hyde story—a meek, unassuming
person transforms into their alter ego, an extroverted nightmare. ...
www.icomics.com/rev_082800_shadowlady.shtml - 101k - Cached - Similar pages
Untitled Document
... Bernard was an unassuming person. In times of danger, distress or difficulty
he would remain calm and unruffled. His dedication, commitment ...
www.sundaytimes.lk/020407/plus/1.html - 9k - Cached - Similar pages
The Nobel Peace Prize 1965 - Presentation Speech
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Note added at 2003-01-28 19:52:43 (GMT)
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re the other answers:
\'He was an unassuming man of great wealth who lived frugally, keeping a low profile in business matters. People who met him often assumed he was a simpleton, simple-minded or even feeble physically. In fact, his self-effacing qualities coupled with his humble attitude about the intellectual endeavours of others was a smokescreen. When one got to know him, his most salient characteristic was being down to earth and funny. He liked nothing better than having Saturday night barbecues at his modest lakeside country place surrounded by guests of much simpler means. He usually met them in the course of his secret forays to check on the myriad businesses he owned throughout the four state area. They never discovered who he really was\"
:) :)
Peer comment(s):
neutral |
Gino Amaral
: Please, spare us all the examples! BTW, how can you be so sure that Hermann's is the only correct answer? What if others have different point of views about what a "pessoa de modos simples" is?
8 mins
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up to then, it was the only one; another way COULD BE unsophisticated; How do I know? Because it doesn't mean those things--without further context of course.
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+1
1 hr
unsophisticated
nor worldly-wise; lacking sophistication
simple
simple
Reference:
Peer comment(s):
agree |
Jane Lamb-Ruiz (X)
: yes, could be this too;
7 mins
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