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Sample translations submitted: 1
Portuguese to English: Introduction / Introdução
Source text - Portuguese A Certain Senhor Elbling não é somente uma biografia, embora conte a história de uma vida longa e cheia de aventuras.
Também não pode ser considerado meramente um livro de negócios, apesar de expor as entranhas de uma jornada empresarial inacreditavelmente complexa em temas clássicos da biblioteca de empreendedores.
Difícil reduzir A Certain Senhor Elbling a um gênero específico, porque suas páginas estão impregnadas de múltiplas referências – inclusive históricas. Os pogroms na sua Polônia natal. O cerco de Hitler. A fuga para o Canadá. O casamento com a engenharia em Montreal. Um estágio no romântico Brasil dos anos 50, onde bombardeou nuvens para fazer chover. A transferência para a Inglaterra em busca da nova fronteira que surgia com a revolução da eletrônica. A carreira executiva de sucesso na Itália, quando a Olivetti procurava vencer a corrida da informática. A mudança para os Estados Unidos em plena guerra fria, com um providencial atestado de que já não tinha simpatias pelo comunismo.
E, por fim, a decisão de trocar a vida de executivo pela de empreendedor, levando esposa e filhos para fundar um grande grupo empresarial nos trópicos a partir de um... banheiro. Sim, um banheiro no extremo sul do Brasil.
Nesta terra associada a caubóis, desenvolveu patentes internacionais, fabricou mísseis para o exército brasileiro, produziu partes essenciais de satélites de observação e, contrariando a descrença generalizada dos bancos brasileiros, produziu com sucesso automated teller machines.
Joseph Elbling viveu em sete países e, pelas vezes em que escapou da morte, pode-se dizer também que teve sete vidas. Aprendeu bem a lição que a mãe, russa de nascimento e comunista convicta, deu a ele quando o jogou nas águas do rio Bug, da Polônia. Ao vê-lo se debatendo, sentenciou:
- Nada ou afunda, Joe!
Ele nadou e viveu o suficiente para contar esta história que agora chega a esta biblioteca.
Translation - English A Certain Senhor Elbling is not just a biography, though it does tell the story of an adventurous life lived to the full.
Nor is it just a book about business, though it does shed light on a complex entrepreneurial quest that stands out from the great works on other entrepreneurs.
FittingA Certain Senhor Elblinginto a specific category is no easy task as the pages are filled with references from history and elsewhere. The pogroms in his native Poland. Hitler’s encroaching army. The escape to Canada. Falling in love with engineering in Montreal. A short spell in the romantic Brazil of the 1950s where he used bombers to make it rain. The move to England to break the new ground opened up by the electronic revolution. The successful directorial career in Italy when Olivetti was looking to win the race for computer technology. The relocation to the USA and reconsideration of his communist sympathies, renouncing them once and for all in Cold War America.
Finally, the decision to trade in his life as a director for that of an entrepreneur, taking his wife and sons with him to start up a great business group in the tropics out of a…bathroom. Yes, a bathroom in the southern tip of Brazil of all places.
In the place best known for its gaucho cowboys, he developed international patents, manufactured missiles for the Brazilian army, produced the essential parts for satellites and - proving the doubting Brazilian bankers wrong - made Automated Teller Machines with much success.
Joseph Elbling lived in seven countries and, given the number of times he narrowly escaped death, you could say he lived seven lives. He took on board what his Russian-born, ardently communist mother had taught him when she threw him overboard into the water of the Bug River in Poland. Seeing him floundering, she said:
“Sink or swim, Joe!”
He swam and lived to tell the tale which now reaches this library.
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Bachelor's degree - University of Oxford
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Years of experience: 6. Registered at ProZ.com: Jan 2019.
I recently graduated with a First Class Degree in Modern Languages from the University of Oxford, specialising in Spanish and Portuguese.
I am the published literary translator of a biography from Portuguese to English (https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/A_Certain_Senhor_Elbling.html?id=s40vxQEACAAJ&hl=en&output=html_text&redir_esc=y)
I have completed language courses in Spanish at CEPE UNAM University in Mexico City and Coimbra University in Portugal.
I have worked as a translator and proofreader for corporate law firms in Porto Alegre, Brazil and London, UK.
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