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English to Portuguese: Extract from The Scandal Detectives by F. Scott Fitzgerald General field: Art/Literary Detailed field: Poetry & Literature
Source text - English It was a hot afternoon in May and Mrs. Buckner thought that a pitcher of fruit lemonade might prevent the boys from filling up on ice cream at the drug store. She belonged to that generation, since retired, upon whom the great revolution in American family life was to be visited; but at that time she believed that her children's relation to her was as much as hers had been to her parents, for this was more than twenty years ago.
Some generations are close to those that succeed them; between others the gap is infinite and unbridgeable. Mrs. Buckner--a woman of character, a member of Society in a large Middle-Western city--carrying a pitcher of fruit lemonade through her own spacious backyard, was progressing across a hundred years. Her own thoughts would have been comprehensible to her great-grandmother; what was happening in a room above the stable would have been entirely unintelligible to them both. In what had once served as the coachman's sleeping apartment, her son and a friend were not behaving in a normal manner, but were, so to speak, experimenting in a void. They were making the first tentative combinations of the ideas and materials they found ready at their hand--ideas destined to become, in future years, first articulate, then startling and finally commonplace. At the moment when she called up to them they were sitting with disarming quiet upon the still unhatched eggs of the mid-twentieth century. Riply Buckner descended the ladder and took the lemonade. Basil Duke Lee looked abstractedly down at the transaction and said, "Thank you very much, Mrs. Buckner."
"Are you sure it isn't too hot up there?"
"No, Mrs. Buckner. It's fine."
It was stifling; but they were scarcely conscious of the heat, and they drank two tall glasses each of the lemonade without knowing that they were thirsty. Concealed beneath a sawed-out trapdoor from which they presently took it was a composition book bound in imitation red leather which currently absorbed much of their attention. On its first page was inscribed, if you penetrated the secret of the lemon-juice ink: "The Book of Scandal, written by Riply Buckner, Jr., and Basil D. Lee, Scandal Detectives."
Translation - Portuguese Era uma tarde quente de Maio e a Sra. Buckner pensou que um jarro de limonada pudesse evitar que os meninos se empanturrassem de sorvete na farmácia. Ela pertencia àquela geração, já aposentada, cuja a grande revolução na vida da família americana estava para acontecer; mas naquela época ela acreditava que sua relação com seus filhos era tão forte quanto a dela com seus pais, pois isso foi há mais de 20 anos.
Algumas gerações estão mais próximas daquelas que a sucederam; já outras, a distância é infinita e intransponível. A Sra. Buckner - uma mulher de caráter e membro da sociedade em uma cidade grande do Centro-Oeste - levando um jarro de limonada pelo seu espaçoso quintal, estava evoluindo durante 100 anos. Seus pensamentos seriam compreendidos por sua bisavó; o que acontecia em um quarto acima do estábulo teria sido completamente incompreensível para as duas. No que antes servia como dormitório dos cocheiros, seu filho e um amigo não se comportavam de maneira comum, mas ambos estavam, por se dizer, sentindo-se vazios. Eles estavam testando as primeiras combinações de ideias e materiais que encontraram prontas à mão - ideias que, posteriormente, se tornariam articuladas, depois, surpreendentes e finalmente, banais. No momento em que ela os chamou, eles estavam sentados em completo silêncio, pensando na morte da bezerra. Riply Buckner desceu as escadas e pegou a limonada. Basil Duke Lee olhou incrédulo para o que acontecia abaixo e disse, "Muito obrigado, Sra. Buckner."
"Não está muito quente aí em cima?"
"Não, Sra. Buckner. Está ótimo."
Estava sufocante; mas eles mal sabiam do calor, e, ainda assim, cada um bebeu dois copos grandes de limonada, sem saber que estavam com sede. Escondido sob um alçapão serrado por onde eles passaram, estava um livro de composição encapado com uma imitação de couro vermelho, o qual atraiu a atenção deles. Em sua primeira página estava inscrito, se você entendeu o segredo da tinta do suco de limão: "O Livro do Escândalo, escrito por Riply Buckner Jr., e Basil D. Lee, Detetives do Escândalo."
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Born and raised in São Carlos - SP, Brazil. I started to take English classes at the age of 10 and reached a satisfactory level by practicing and watching subtitled movies and series, which is one of my hobbies.
I graduated as an automotive technician and worked as a mechanic for 3 years. I'm really passionate about motorsport. Among other passions, I enjoy a lot to work out, so I'm really into the fitness world, like bodybuilding for an example, and I'm always researching about training methods and nutrition. I'm also a musician. I play the violin and the guitar.
Currently, I'm starting in translation with the purpose to change career. I have already worked in 2 volunteer projects: I subtitled for Amara - Art21 team and TEDx Talks, which both are published. My translations fields of interest are automotive, sports, fitness health and nutrition, science and entertainment (music, cinema, art). I am offering technical translations, editing, MT post-editing and subtitling in any of these areas.
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