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82Translation - Portuguese brazilian-English - O essencial é invisível aos olhos

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O essencial é invisível aos olhos
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Submitted by tiftif
Source language: Portuguese brazilian

O essencial é invisível aos olhos
Remarks about the translation
para uma tatuagem!

Title
What is essential is invisible to the eyes
Translation
English

Translated by Beto Monteiro
Target language: English

What is essential is invisible to the eyes.
Validated by kafetzou - 8 May 2007 06:17





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8 May 2007 00:27

thathavieira
Number of messages: 2247
Acho que seria:
The essential is invisible to the eyes

Pronto, desculpa, estava apressada nesta hora...
Entendido Beto.
Abraços!

Thaís Vieira


7 May 2007 23:07

Beto Monteiro
Number of messages: 55
Oi.

A grafia é 'essential', com 't'. É claro que a sua sugestão foi também a primeira que me ocorreu, por ser literal, mas, por outro lado, tendo em vista que o inglês não substantiva os adjetivos com a mesma freqüência que o português, preferi uma outra construção, não perdendo em nada o sentido original.

Saudações,
Beto.

12 August 2008 16:36

elifyo
Number of messages: 26
Hello,
While I was translating this sentence English to Turkish I realized that the translation of this sentence from Portuguese to English may be wrong. Because the lexical meaning of this sentence in Turkish is "Geçek olan gözlere görünmez" and this is not so meaningful.

In my humle opinion it is a big possibility that by this sentence it is wanted to be said that "what is essential is hidden in the eyes".

Thanks for your concern in advance.

Elif




12 August 2008 18:33

goncin
Number of messages: 3706
elifyo,

I can assure the English translation is correct. The sentence comes from the famous Saint-Exupéry's book "The Little Prince".

Best,

13 August 2008 10:23

elifyo
Number of messages: 26
Hi goncin,
Thank you for this information.

Best,