English translation of "caminha a passos largos" - "is rushing into madness"

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163 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:	caminha a passos largos
Context:	Acontece que o nosso amigo, segundo o diagnóstico dos médicos que o têm observado,...
Keywords:	...caminha, como aquele pobre Gérard de Nerval, a passos largos para a loucura.

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163 months ago

airmailrpl wrote:

is rushing into madness

My comment:

caminha a passos largos para a loucura => is rushing into madness

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163 months ago

airmailrpl wrote:

taking big steps toward madness or taking great strides toward madness

My comment:

I can't believe you are asking this question frankly

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163 months ago

wrote:

And literal translations like yours are rarely appropriate for high quality literary translations.

163 months ago

wrote:

How can you tell? I think you have zero knowledge of Portuguese because if you did, you wouldn't ask a question like this. You don't know Portuguese or Italian. It takes years to master a language and you are not qualified to do these translations.

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