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19:44 Mar 2, 2021 |
English to Portuguese translations [PRO] Social Sciences - Anthropology / sociologia | |||||||
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as ações/posições não acenam aos democratas (ao partido democrático), estão inseridas em um contexto Explanation: Blue aqui refere-se às cores do partido democrata, creio eu. as ações/posições não acenam aos democratas (ao partido democrático), estão inseridas em um contexto.... -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 25 mins (2021-03-02 20:10:01 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2018/11/th... The Real Metaphor of the ‘Blue Wave’ During the midterms, a small phrase suggested a bigger problem: America still isn’t sure how to talk to itself. One report announced the results of the 2018 midterms like this: “Democratic ‘Blue Wave’ Washes Over House as Republicans Keep Senate.” Another shared the results like this: “Democrats Take Control of House as ‘Blue Wave’ Wipes Out Republicans.” But then there was this: “Democrats Seize U.S. House But Trump Averts ‘Blue Wave.’” And also this: “The Blue Wave Ran Into Trump’s Red Wall.” And also this: “Blue wave? What blue wave?” The mixed messaging, and the mixed metaphors, were appropriate: “Blue wave” began, in this election cycle, as a faith-based idea—Democratic activists’ hope that voters’ resentment of Trumpism would ripple and grow into a crashing, crushing eventuality—and that is in some ways what it remained, in the long year leading up to the 2018 U.S. midterms. It became a shorthand for the notion that a surge of blue would wash over the national political landscape: a widespread repudiation of the current political regime that would be, depending on your point of view, either made inevitable or made to collide vainly against the stubborn solidity of a Republican “red wall.” Prior to the election itself, the blue wave was a metaphor that, even in its semantic |
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não acontecem por acaso Explanation: não acontecem por acaso -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 28 mins (2021-03-02 20:13:05 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- https://books.google.pt/books?id=UqtQBkJzZZAC&pg=PR17&lpg=PR... |
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