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168 months ago

Barbara Cochran (a guest user) asked this question:

Language pair:

Portuguese > English

Subject:

Other

Level of diffculty:

Easy / medium

Word or term in question:

não deixou a vida passar em branco

Context:

O livro era mais interessante porque contaa que, em cada una daquelas vidas, havia um...

Keywords:

...momento mágico, que os fizera paerir en busca de sua propria visão do Paraíso....Gente que não deixou a via passar em branco, e que, para conseguir o que queria, tinha pedido esmolas ou cortejado reis...

 

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168 months ago

  See profile wrote:

people who wouldn't let their lives go by for nothing

168 months ago

airmailrpl  See profile wrote:

didn't waste their life

My comment:

não deixou a vida passar em branco => didn't waste their life

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168 months ago

Isabel Ruivo  See profile wrote:

Yes.

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168 months ago

LOGOS TRANSLATIONS  See profile wrote:

to pass over (sth) in silence

My comment:

or: to be spent in vain