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A preguiça é mal vista.

English translation: Laziness is frowned upon

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Portuguese term or phrase:A preguiça é mal vista.
English translation:Laziness is frowned upon
Entered by: Lumen (X)

03:51 Jan 19, 2006
Portuguese to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Slang / Language
Portuguese term or phrase: A preguiça é mal vista.
Olá colegas! Alguém saberia me dizer um correspondente de "mal vista"? Está difícil... pensei em "Laziness is not acceptable", mas acho que não tem muito a ver...
Fico grata.
Karyna
Local time: 10:44
Laziness is frowned on
Explanation:
Check this out:

frown on: look disapprovingly upon
wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn

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Note added at 5 mins (2006-01-19 03:56:43 GMT)
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Another possibility:
Laziness is frowned upon


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Note added at 9 hrs 26 mins (2006-01-19 13:17:30 GMT)
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frown on something
to disapprove of something. You can wear jeans, but I think the restaurant frowns on shorts and sneakers.
Cambridge Dictionary of American Idioms © Cambridge University Press 2003


References in classic literature
I presume it is the better part of wisdom that we bow to our fate with as good grace as possible, Dejah Thoris; but I hope, nevertheless, that I may be present the next time that any Martian, green, red, pink, or violet, has the temerity to even so much as frown on you, my princess.
A Princess of Mars by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context
For hours and hours he would pace the room with a frown on his face and a brooding silence on his lips.
Poor Folk by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor View in context
Sophia (who though naturally all winning sweetness could when occasions demanded it call forth the Dignity of her sex) instantly put on a most forbidding look, and darting an angry frown on the undaunted culprit, demanded in a haughty tone of voice "Wherefore her retirement was thus insolently broken in on?
Love and Friendship by Austen, Jane View in context

Selected response from:

Lumen (X)
Brazil
Local time: 10:44
Grading comment
Muitíssimo obrigada pela sua atenção e ótima tradução!
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
5 +5Laziness is frowned on
Lumen (X)
4Laziness is not well accepted
Marco Schaumloeffel
4laziness is not tolerated
Enza Longo
4laziness is not praised
reginalobo


Discussion entries: 1





  

Answers


5 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
A preguiça é mal vista.
Laziness is not well accepted


Explanation:
Eu diria um pouco diferente, como no exemplo:
Laziness is not well accepted within this group, > least not by me, no more than trolls are accepted, > again, least by me. > > I personally have provided ...
perl.plover.com/yak/flags/dollar-pound/articles/1380


Marco Schaumloeffel
Local time: 09:44
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese, Native in EnglishEnglish
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8 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
A preguiça é mal vista.
laziness is not tolerated


Explanation:
meaning it's not acceptable.

Enza Longo
Canada
Local time: 09:44
Native speaker of: English
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4 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +5
A preguiça é mal vista.
Laziness is frowned on


Explanation:
Check this out:

frown on: look disapprovingly upon
wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn

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Note added at 5 mins (2006-01-19 03:56:43 GMT)
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Another possibility:
Laziness is frowned upon


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Note added at 9 hrs 26 mins (2006-01-19 13:17:30 GMT)
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frown on something
to disapprove of something. You can wear jeans, but I think the restaurant frowns on shorts and sneakers.
Cambridge Dictionary of American Idioms © Cambridge University Press 2003


References in classic literature
I presume it is the better part of wisdom that we bow to our fate with as good grace as possible, Dejah Thoris; but I hope, nevertheless, that I may be present the next time that any Martian, green, red, pink, or violet, has the temerity to even so much as frown on you, my princess.
A Princess of Mars by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context
For hours and hours he would pace the room with a frown on his face and a brooding silence on his lips.
Poor Folk by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor View in context
Sophia (who though naturally all winning sweetness could when occasions demanded it call forth the Dignity of her sex) instantly put on a most forbidding look, and darting an angry frown on the undaunted culprit, demanded in a haughty tone of voice "Wherefore her retirement was thus insolently broken in on?
Love and Friendship by Austen, Jane View in context



Lumen (X)
Brazil
Local time: 10:44
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 8
Grading comment
Muitíssimo obrigada pela sua atenção e ótima tradução!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Vidomar (X)
29 mins
  -> Obrigada.
agree  Claudio Mazotti: nice...
4 hrs
  -> Obrigada
agree  Vania Correia
8 hrs
  -> Obrigada
agree  Enza Longo: frowned upon is not another possibility, it is "the only" possibility. Laziness is frowned "on" is not idiomatically correct in English - to further explain, you frown on something or someone but something or someone is frowned upon - do u see the diff?
9 hrs
  -> Thank you so much. Yes... You are absolutely right...... This small but important detail had escaped me.
agree  Paul Dixon: Yes, you've hit the nail right on the head.
11 hrs
  -> Muito obrigada!
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14 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
A preguiça é mal vista.
laziness is not praised


Explanation:


reginalobo
Local time: 14:44
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
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