Equivale à vida também para a homem
English translation: For Mankind, (water is) also the same as life itself.
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| Portuguese to English translations [PRO] Science - Other / The importance of water to us all. | |||||||
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This is also life for mankind Explanation: Make sense? |
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peer agreement (net): +1For Mankind, (water is) also the same as life itself. Explanation: HIH |
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peer agreement (net): +1For Man, Water Means Life Explanation: For Man... Water Means Life |
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That means life to human beings too. Explanation: That equals life also to man/men (in a more literal sense) That is equivalent to life for all human beings as well. In Portuguese man/men is used to refer to human being, mankind, humanity. Example sentence(s):
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Crucial to humanity Explanation: PowerPointese in, PowerPointese out. Individual research projects that contribute to a group project that addresses one of the six scientific "Grand Challenges" crucial to humanity: global cycles (water and biogeochemical); climate variability and change; land use and land cover change; energy and resources; earth hazards; earth-atmosphere observation, monitoring, analysis and prediction. http://www.ess.mcgill.ca/esys500.php Sanitation, often water’s poor cousin, is also crucial to humanity’s use and abuse of water, and it is too easily forgotten http://www.jhubc.it/DOCUMENTS/RivistaWinterSpring09.pdf |
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Water is an essential nutrient to life. Explanation: Another suggestion for the pot :) Some examples of how this sentence this was used (context): http://www.google.com/#sclient=psy-ab&hl=en&source=hp&q="Wat... |
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