Glossary entry

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

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55 mins
Selected

unassuming person

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modest and not pretentious - just like me :-))!
Peer comment(s):

agree Jane Lamb-Ruiz (X) : sorry didn't see this; this is the only correct answer
3 mins
thanks Jane
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
+1
4 mins

low profile

ok
Peer comment(s):

agree Ana Carneiro
7 hrs
Grato
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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!
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
Acho que eu vou copiar e colar as 275 ocorrências de "frugal person". Quem sabe assim eu dou peso à minha sugestão. :))
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
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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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.

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Peer comment(s):

agree Daniel Marcus : you got there first! good one!
3 mins
thanks!
agree Janis Carter
18 mins
thanks!
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+2
8 mins

man of simple means

like the quote from My Fair Lady...

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Peer comment(s):

agree Ana Rita Santiago
9 mins
agree Daniel Marcus : nice, in a more literary way.
50 mins
neutral Jane Lamb-Ruiz (X) : meios simples?
56 mins
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12 mins

simpleton

simplório
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+1
21 mins

a simple-mided, humble person

Forna

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Sorry: simple-minded
Peer comment(s):

agree Clauwolf
10 mins
Obrigado Clauwolf
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35 mins

self-effacing person

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58 mins

unassuming person

NOT SOMEONE WHO IS POOR

see all these examples
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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
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
Reference:

Random House Dic.

Peer comment(s):

agree Jane Lamb-Ruiz (X) : yes, could be this too;
7 mins
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