Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Portuguese term or phrase:
trabalhando de costas um para o outro
English translation:
working back to back
Added to glossary by
Luiza Modesto
May 15, 2008 19:01
16 yrs ago
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Portuguese term
trabalhando de costas um para o outro
Portuguese to English
Other
Sports / Fitness / Recreation
Dance
back-to-back to each other seria incorreto porque back-to-back significa outra coisa... Como descrver esta posição de estar de costas um para o outro?
Proposed translations
(English)
| 4 +8 | working back to back |
Luiza Modesto
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| 5 | working with their backs to each other |
Alyson Steele Weickert, Ph.D.
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| 4 | working with their backs turned to each other |
Fausto Machado Tiemann
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Change log
May 15, 2008 19:04: Roberto Cavalcanti changed "Language pair" from "English to Portuguese" to "Portuguese to English"
May 29, 2008 12:23: Luiza Modesto Created KOG entry
Proposed translations
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5 mins
Luiza Modesto
Brazil
Brazil
Native in Portuguese
&
English
Brazil
specializes in research articles
Native in: English 
, Portuguese
Works in: Portuguese to English, English to Portuguese, English
Related KudoZ points
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8
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working back to back
Não entendi seu comentário. Onde vc viu que back to back não pode ser?
Back to back - This term also can be applied to persons who stand facing in opposite directions and with their backs touching.
http://www.answers.com/topic/back-to-back
Back to back - This term also can be applied to persons who stand facing in opposite directions and with their backs touching.
http://www.answers.com/topic/back-to-back
Note from asker:
| Não achei essa definição, obrigada !!! Então seria melhor somente back to back, back to back to each other seria até pleonasmo, não? |
4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
Comment: "Selected automatically based on peer agreement."
8 hrs
Fausto Machado Tiemann
Brazil
Brazil
Native in Portuguese
Works in field
Brazil
Devoted to language
Native in: Portuguese (Variant: Brazilian)
Works in: English to Portuguese, Portuguese to English
working with their backs turned to each other
Apresento outra sugestão, não porque não se possa dizer "back to back", mas essa expressão, embora com hífens e usada como adjetivo:
1- pode também significar "consecutive/successive", causando ambigüidade;
2- refere-se a pessoas se tocando (ou quase), o que pode não ser o caso.
1- pode também significar "consecutive/successive", causando ambigüidade;
2- refere-se a pessoas se tocando (ou quase), o que pode não ser o caso.
Example sentence:
Alonso and Piquet standing at opposite ends of the garage with their backs turned to each other and arms folded impassively across
The ceremony over, the Indian and Pakistani guards stand with their backs turned to each other and pose for pictures.
Reference:
1 day 6 hrs
Alyson Steele Weickert, Ph.D.
Brazil
Brazil
Native in English
Brazil
Ph.D English
Native in: English
Works in: Portuguese to English, English
working with their backs to each other
common phrase used in England
Peer comment(s):
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Neil Teixeira (X)
: Just to say that you shouldn't only say expression used in England, because the user didn't ask for an English (UK) answer...
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