AGAINST ALL ODDS

• - often against all odds - // - muitas vezes contra todas as evidências --
•  members of the squad won their way through to the World Cup against all odds.// os integrantes da equipe conquistaram, de forma improvável/inesperada/inacreditável, a vaga na Copa do Mundo
• Against all odds he has made considerable progress // Contra tudo o que seria de esperar, ele conseguiu progressos consideráveis
• Against all odds, broadband internet continues to grow // Contra todas as expectativas, a Internet de banda larga continua a crescer
• Against all odds, we hit it off instantly // Contra todas as probabilidades, nós nos demos bem instantaneamente
• an attempt against all odds to defend the idea of a more cosmopolitan Europe // uma tentativa desesperada de defender a ideia de uma Europa mais cosmopolita
• Are we not called to be the light of the world when, against all odds, we keep hoping in the midst of difficulties? //
• committed to respecting human and civil rights against all odds // empenhados, apesar de tudo, no respeito dos direitos humanos e cívicos,
• fighting against all odds.//lutando contra todas as adversidades.
• However, and against all odds,  // No entanto, e contra todos os prenúncios/prognósticos  negativos,
• However, if against all odds, the economic situation changes, // Se entretanto, e contra todas as previsões, a conjuntura mudar, e
• I have deep respect for small enterprises which, against all odds, try to survive. //Tenho o maior respeito pelas pequenas empresas que, contra todos os obstáculos, lutam pela sobrevivência.
• Não seremos chamados a ser luz do mundo, quando, contra tudo e contra todos, mantemos uma esperança apesar das dificuldades ?
• only express the hope, should closer cooperation be achieved against all odds, that // apenas manifestar a esperança de que, no caso de, mesmo contra todas as expectativas, se conseguir uma cooperação mais estreita,
• Success against all odds, that's probably the best way to describe what the // Sucesso apesar de tudo, essa é provavelmente a melhor maneira de descrever o que
• They would be amazed that their vision, despite all of the odds against it at the beginning and all of the resistance that has been mounted against it [...] // Ficariam surpreendidos de que sua visão, apesar de todas as dificuldades do início e de toda a resistência contra ela, tenha conseguido tanto.
• Those who had enough courage to attend matches "against all odds" //Aqueles que tinham bastante coragem para assistir a jogos "apesar de tudo"
• to defend against all odds the project that  //defender a todo custo o projeto que

Source: Linguee

PURVIEW

Purview means the range of control, concern or function. (noun). An example of purview is the extent to which a local government has power over the citizens. 
      -  Immigration policy is the purview (seara, competência, esfera, âmbito) of the federal government.
     -  It is not within my purview to answer that question (não cabe a mim responder a essa pergunta).

TEBOWING

Mais uma brincadeira invade locais famosos: Tebowing, que consiste em tirar uma foto com um joelho apoiado no chão, um cotovelo na perna e a mão na cabeça, é inspirada na estrela do time de futebol americano Denver Broncos Tim Tebow. Católico, o jogador se ajoelha em oração a cada início e fim de jogo da NFL.

MEME = REPLICATOR = VIRAL = BORDÃO

Os leitores do blog ("menos a Luisa, que está voltando hoje do Canadá") talvez se lembrem de uma postagem anterior ("go viral = virar febre na Internet") sobre "memes", parcialmente reproduzida abaixo:

Meme = A unit of cultural information, such as a cultural practice or idea, that is transmitted verbally or by repeated action from one mind to another (a replicator).
               A hashtag #LuizaEstaNoCanada ficou em 1º lugar nos trend topics do Twitter no Brasil na tarde desta quinta-feira (12). A hashtag se refere a uma frase dita em um comercial veiculado em algumas TVs da Paraíba, onde o colunista Gerardo Rabello é o garoto propaganda de uma construtora. No comercial ele apresenta a família e em um momento ele diz “fiz questão de reunir toda a minha família, menos Luiza que está no Canadá…”. Luiza é filha do colunista e não participou do comercial. A frase "bombou" na internet, em todas as variações possíveis e imagináveis e rendeu inúmeros artigos na Internet ("Dez passeios para fazer com a Luisa no Canadá”; charges (Obama no Canada: “Vim conhecer a Luisa”); Cantor Lenine para a platéia: ““Que maravilha, está todo mundo aqui, rapaz! Só não está a Luiza, que está no Canadá”) e propaganda (“Que tal visitar a Luisa no Canadá “ - Decolar.com). Dizem que ela volta hoje e já tem várias entrevistas agendadas e muitos jornalistas à sua espera no aeroporto!
             Outra hashtag (#) surgiu esta semana na Itália: "Vada a bordo, cazzo!" e camisetas foram impressas com esse grito e palavrão dirigidos ao capitão do navio acidentado.

OUT-OF-THE-BOX VS. OUTSIDE THE BOX

PENSAR FORA DA CAIXINHA (?? Isso faz sentido no Brasil?)
              Thinking outside the box (sometimes erroneously called "thinking out of the box" or "thinking outside the square") is to think differently, unconventionally, or from a new perspective. This phrase often refers to novel or creative thinking.
              Out of the box is the term used to denote items, functionalities, or features that do not require any additional installation. In addition to being used for tangible products, the phrase is often used in a less literal sense for software, which may not be distributed in an actual box but offer certain functions "out of the box," i.e. without modification. In the case of implementation of products that use other products, out of the box also has the connotation of using a system without customization, such that it is usable with a Vanilla Software installation. When a device fails when brand new, it is known as Out of Box failure.
              Vanilla software is computer software that is not customized from its delivered form - i.e. it is used without any customizations applied to it. Vanilla software can become a widespread de facto industry standard, widely used by businesses and individuals.

GREEN

green area/green belt [cinturão verde] = A green belt or greenbelt is a policy and land use designation used in land use planning to retain areas of largely undeveloped, wild, or agricultural land surrounding or neighbouring urban areas. In essence, a green belt is an invisible line encircling a certain area, preventing development of the area allowing wildlife to return and be established.
green beret – "In addition to the training on Mexican soil, U.S. Army Green Berets have been training in the United States hundreds of Mexican troops who form elite counter-narcotics and counterinsurgency battalions": forças especiais do exército, boinas verdes
green card – "Shusterman says that under the current rules, he advises such people not to apply for citizenship and not to leave the country expecting to re-enter on their permanent citizenship papers, commonly known as a green card": visto permanente
greenfield - área de terra sem infraestrutura construída, mas com projetos de obra no local
green light – "The county gave them a green light to do whatever they wanted": sinal verde, carta branca
green line – "The unprecedented evacuation of settlements in Sinai predicted the same alarming prospect for the settlers of Yesha (Judea, Samaria, and Gaza) on the other side of the Green Line": Linha Verde
green paper – "The EC Commission is presently at the early stages of preparing a Green Paper on liability for environmental damage": Livro Verde, proposta do governo, declaração do governo
green party – "Failure could also have a negative impact on green parties' election polls": partido verde
green plan – "The Green Plan is the federal government's five year environmental plan": plano ambiental
green revolution – "The techniques whose adoption is shown here are the "green revolution" crop varieties developed through international exchange of materials, cross-breeding and local seed multiplication": revolução agrícola
green space – "In sum, the Plan's 30/30/30 strategy (30 acres of green space, 30,000 jobs, $30 million new tax revenues) would bring to the Site the kind of economic and community development and environmental protection never before seen in Somerville": área verde, vegetação
green water – "The green water environment extends from the outer edge of the brown-water layer past any continental shelves, archipelagos and islands; perhaps a thousand miles from shore": águas verdes
green-water navy – "A "green-water navy" is capable of defense of its nation in depth and is a significant offensive force within its territory": marinha de guerra que mantém alguma capacidade de operar nos oceanos, mas que não conta com navios de grande porte nem goza de grande autonomia, marinha de água verde
greenways [pista de bicicleta] or green wedges have a linear character and may run through an urban area instead of around it. They are long, narrow pieces of land, often used for recreation and pedestrian and bicycle user traffic, and sometimes for streetcar, light rail or retail uses.
Source: Migalaw et al
A lista acima não esgota as inúmeras possibilidades com “green”.

EIRELI = SP

Empresa Individual de Responsabilidade Limitada (EIRELI) = Limited-Liability Sole Proprietorship
Eiréli ou Eirelí? Sendo uma palavra proparoxítona, a ênfase é na terceira sílaba. Logo, no ultimo "i". Contudo, muitos profissionais contábeis estão pronunciando "Eiréli". O que vai pegar?

GEEKS / HIPSTERS/ NERDS

GEEK: A person who is single-minded or accomplished in scientific or technical pursuits but is felt to be socially inept. Nowadays, chiefly associated with contemporary student and computer slang, as in computer geek.  Aquele que ganha a vida resolvendo bugs de computador. São experts naquilo que gostam. Geralmente são web designer/desenvolvedor, TI, designer gráfico, designer/desenvolvedor de jogos, marketer, empresário.
HIPSTER: One who is exceptionally aware of or interested in the latest trends and tastes, especially a devotee of modern jazz.
NERD: person who is single-minded or accomplished in scientific or technical pursuits but is felt to be socially inept. Basicamente, um nerd é um personagem cômico, com alguns problemas cognitivos para determinados assuntos. Os traços de um nerd incluem diversas características, entre elas: interesse extremo e obsessivo por livros e estudos, introversão, dificuldade para se relacionar socialmente; e diversas habilidades mais desenvolvidas devido ao gosto por games, filmes, ciência e computadores.

Descobri que já abordei este tópico anteriormente [parece que sempre surge uma palavra nova, ou a anterior assume um novo significado]:

3.21.2009 - KNOW-IT-ALL / WHIZ KID / GEEK / NERD / SMART ALECK –

A know-it-all translator? Nenhum tradutor é um especialista em tudo. É claro que, com os anos de trabalho duro, acumula-se um pouco de conhecimento. (E quanto mais se aprende, mais se descobre o quanto não sabemos ou quanto ainda temos que aprender – "Só sei que nada sei".[frase que Platão atribuía a Sócrates],) Mas, obviamente, ninguém consegue ser um especialista em tudo. E só conseguimos fazer certas traduções após muita pesquisa. Lembro que quando foi aprovado o novo código de trânsito (1997), uma grande montadora pediu que eu traduzisse um resumo de cerca de 30 páginas. Apenas para chegar à definição dos termos adequados para as multas (leve, grave, gravíssima), consultei mais de 400 páginas de códigos de trânsito de vários países.
            Know-it-all or know-all is an epithet applied to any person who exhibits the belief that he or she possesses a superior intellect and wealth of knowledge, and shows a determination to demonstrate his perceived superiority at every opportunity.
            The whiz kid is usually a stock character, with a specific personality type. Traits tend to include; highly intelligent, lacking in physical strength, mentally intimidating, knowledgable and confident.[1] The term "whiz kid" can apply to both males and females.[2] They are usually characterized as wearing glasses, somewhat overdressed or touting an unusual style than the rest of the group (this may include button-up shirts, suspenders, and gelled, parted hair or other, slightly dated, wear). ... The whiz kid character usually takes pride in being smart, and often uses big words (sometimes to show off, or to confuse and manipulate other, less intelligent characters). Derogatory references may include: "geeks" or "nerds".
            A "smart alec" or "smart aleck" is a person regarded as obnoxiously self-assertive and an impudent (=insolent, impertinent) person.
Source: Wikipedia

5.28.2008 - NERD / GEEK / SCENESTER / DUD / SUCKER

            Nerd (noun) = A foolish, inept, or unattractive person. A person who is single-minded or accomplished in scientific or technical pursuits but is felt to be socially inept (nova gíria para "square", dos anos 50-70)
            Geek (noun) = young people who spend their youth studying at the expense of their social life (ou seja, um CDF)
            Scenester (noun) = (Youthspeak) Someone intent on "making the scene," a really cool groupie always at the right band concerts, hanging with the right nest of other cool groupies. Scenesters are identified by their drab clothes, smoking, drug use (or talk of drug use), use of cool words from in(tellectual) magazines, which they don't know the meaning of, and lack of attention to the music at the concerts they attend. An offensive hair-do is a must, if not with spikes and bizarre colors, at least with highlights. The antonym is "geek."
            Usage: This word refers to groupies or "band aids," young people who follow bands from concert to concert and who become disdainful in their knowledge of the lore of contemporary rock bands. Scenesters often end up working for geeks in later life. Ouch!
            Dud = One that is disappointingly ineffective or unsuccessful.
            Sucker (noun) = One who is easily deceived; a dupe. One that is indiscriminately attracted to something specified: “The nation's capital is a sucker for a symbolic gesture”.
            Nerd (noun) = A foolish, inept, or unattractive person. A person who is single-minded or accomplished in scientific or technical pursuits but is felt to be socially inept (nova gíria para "square", dos anos 50-70)
            Geek (noun) = young people who spend their youth studying at the expense of their social life (ou seja, um CDF).
            Scenester (noun) = (Youthspeak) Someone intent on "making the scene," a really cool groupie always at the right band concerts, hanging with the right nest of other cool groupies. Scenesters are identified by their drab clothes, smoking, drug use (or talk of drug use), use of cool words from in(tellectual) magazines, which they don't know the meaning of, and lack of attention to the music at the concerts they attend. An offensive hair-do is a must, if not with spikes and bizarre colors, at least with highlights. The antonym is "geek."
            Usage: This word refers to groupies or "band aids," young people who follow bands from concert to concert and who become disdainful in their knowledge of the lore of contemporary rock bands. Scenesters often end up working for geeks in later life. Ouch!
            Dud = One that is disappointingly ineffective or unsuccessful.
            Sucker (noun) = One who is easily deceived; a dupe. One that is indiscriminately attracted to something specified: “The nation's capital is a sucker for a symbolic gesture”

MOLHO INGLÊS = WORCESTERSHIRE SAUCE

Eu tinha 9 anos quando, ao visitar a Fazenda Santa Lúcia no Paraná, da qual meu tio Olívio era o administrador, entrei na biblioteca da casa da sede e fiquei fascinada por aquelas estantes repletas de livros. Mais ainda quando me disseram que podia escolher os livros que quisesse e levar. Foi aí que escolhi e trouxe para casa livros de Jorge Amado, Plínio Barreto, José Mauro de Vasconcelos, e muitos outros. E danei a ler tudo e fui fisgada pelos livros.
             Lembrei-me disso hoje porque, ao entrar em uma importadora, atraída por uns produtos italianos em promoção, vi um vidro de molho inglês. Lembrei que, entre aqueles livros, havia um grosso volume de culinária - cujo nome já não me lembro -  mas lembro de uma das receitas: “Sinfonia Bananesca em Dó Maior” [se alguém sabe o nome do livro, por favor, envie-me um e-mail). Era uma espécie de merengue com bananas. Mas, outra receita que também me deixava fascinada era a receita do molho inglês. (Não adianta chegar na Inglaterra e perguntar onde encontrar molho inglês – assim como não adianta procurar "pão italiano" na Itália –  pelo menos esse que nós conhecemos aqui não existe lá.)  Mas o molho inglês, na verdade, não existe é no Brasil. Aqui temos um arremedo de molho inglês. O verdadeiro molho inglês se chama “Worcestershire Sauce”. E aquele velho livro de receitas trazia a receita certinha de como fazer. Que é exatamente como é feito na Inglaterra: entra anchova em sua composição.  Na Europa, de modo geral, muitos cozidos de carne tem o seu sabor realçado com anchovas. Aliás, esse negócio de colocar peixe e frutos do mar em receitas de carne é um costume também em Portugal.  Lá se come bacalhau envolto em presunto cru, camarão com frango e carne de porco com marisco (a famosa carne de porco alentejana).
             Mas, voltando ao molho inglês que acabei comprando, sua composição é muito pobre. Aquele antigo livro listava uns 30 ingredientes – de pasta de tamarindo a anchovas e tudo, é claro, apurado um um tacho de cobre (será que faz diferença?).
             Da próxima vez que vier de Londres, certamente vou trazer o verdadeiro "Worcestershire Sauce"!

DULÇOR = DULÇURA = DOÇURA

O dulçor do arroz doce é realçado pela flor de sal, que deixa a sobremesa dulçurosa.

OUTSOURCING >< INSOURCING

Outsourcing (n): The procuring of services or products, such as the parts used in manufacturing a motor vehicle, from an outside supplier or manufacturer in order to cut costs. Terceirização
Insourcing (n): Doing work with inhouse employees. Creating jobs in your country by an organization that is foreign owned. Nacionalização? Produção interna? [em uma lista de discussão foram sugeridos termos como "repatriação de empregos/indústrias",  "reindustrialização", "redirecionamento/realocação para produção interna", "desterceirização"]
          "Following the insourcing forum on Wednesday, Obama recognized Ford for committing to bring back about 2,000 jobs to U.S. factories by 2015 and shifting some of its production from Japan, Mexico and China to states such as Michigan, Ohio and Missouri.
          He also recognized Master Lock, the Milwaukee-based padlock manufacturer and subsidiary of Fortune Brands Home & Security, for bringing 100 jobs back to Wisconsin, after outsourcing them to China."

What comes after once, twice, thrice*?

Nothing! These three are the only words of their type, and no further terms in the series have ever existed.

(*Three times" is better than "thrice")
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaFJcJO3RH4&feature=related

At What Age Do Translators Do Their Best Work?

"There is a theory that most rock musicians write their best music about 5 years after they first put together a band and start performing and writing songs.
...
I think it is safe to say that unlike rock musicians, translators don’t do their best work while they are still quite young, because they don’t really know anything about anything when they are still young, even the talented ones. Translators don’t need as much inspiration as writers or actors, although they do need some. But they definitely do need experience, and the more the better. Ten years of experience in the field of translation is better than nothing, but it is not much. Twenty years is better than ten, and thirty is better still.
...
I also think that because the work of translators is based on what they know about their languages and the world around them, most of them probably do their best work only after about at least two decades of solid experience in their chosen field, whether they translate mostly novels, or mostly patents as I do.
...
It’s quite possible that rock musicians do their best work after about 5 years, and retired patent lawyers and elderly patent translators after about 50 years on the job."
http://patenttranslator.wordpress.com/2012/01/08/at-what-age-do-translators-do-their-best-work/

YELLOW

1.         judicial yellow book – "The JUDICIAL YELLOW BOOK¹": catálogo com os nomes e contatos de magistrados e servidores da justiça

2.         to turn yellow – "Clinton turned yellow": ficar sem graça

3.         yellow alert – "In the case of a yellow alert, municipal-level emergency committees are activated and convene at least once a day to review changes in the situation and their impact on the communities": sinal amarelo, estado de atenção

4.         yellow journalism – "I am sure it was yellow journalism at best": jornalismo de Terceira, jornalismo sensacionalista

5.         yellow legal pad – "Thomas Harris attended the trial taking notes in longhand on yellow legal pads": o clássico bloco de notas amarelo usado por advogados americanos

6.         yellow press – "Don't forget that we're talking about a time in the' 70s and' 80s where the British yellow press was very, very powerful, and Freddie was definitely concerned that if he had come out earlier, it would have harmed Queen": imprensa marrom, imprensa amarela, imprensa sensacionalista, jornal de fofocas.

7.         yellow-dog contract – "A federal law prohibiting the use of yellow-dog-contracts on the railroads (Erdman Actof 1898) was struck down by the Supreme Court as an unconstitutional infringement upon the freedom of contract (Adair v. The United States)²": contrato de trabalho pelo qual o empregado se compromete a não se filiar a sindicato, contrato de trabalho que proíbe filiação sindical

8.         yellow-dog contract – "Dad was in part fascinated, "his daughter says", but he wanted some control over the film, and people kept sending him what he called a yellow dog contract": contrato com cláusula que proíbe a parte a não exercer atividade semelhante ou concorrente a da outra parte, que é normalmente o empregador. A referida cláusula também é conhecida por non-compete clause, NCC, ou covenant not to compete, CNC.

9.         yellow race – "Chinese are said to not only share a common ancestry, but also derive from progenitors who, in cons long before the Yellow Emperor, separated themselves from non-East Asians and spread from present south China to northeast Asia and beyond, thus becoming the core of the yellow race": raça oriental-asiática, raça amarela, raça mongólica

Source: http://www.migalhas.com.br/LawEnglish/74,MI147650,11049-As+cores+no+ingles+juridico+Yellow

10 Translation Industry Predictions for 2012

The following are predictions that GTS blog makes for the translation industry in 2012: 1.           Business will be good. 2012 will be a good year for translation companies, following a less-than-great 2011. The US economy in a Presidential election year is rebounding and that should be good for most of the people in the food chain. More and more online content is being translated too which means more business for everyone.
2.           Demand for website and online translation services will outperform industry growth. The online content explosion, the death of books and printed materials, the increased penetration of smartphones and mobile readers will increase demand for translation of website and other online content.
3.           Customizable MT engines in the cloud. People will be able to create custom machine translation engines with their own training corpus, but without investing in expensive servers and software development. Microsoft already features a Collaborative Translation feature which puts some customization into the cloud. Let’s MT is a European company which already started Beta testing this very system concept (they invited us to start testing the system last November; while it is not ready yet the system shows promise and it should be ready this year). Other MT companies have also considered SaaS models and we may see some in 2012.
4.           Further consolidation. The big companies like Transperfect, WeLocalize and SDL will continue to grow though strategic mergers and acquisitions. The big will get bigger, some of the smaller players will disappear.
5.           Facebook will continue to integrate machine translation into the social network. They started it in 2011 by integrating the Bing Translator. They will continue to add new language features to help break down the language barrier.
6.           Translation prices will continue to drop. People, especially translators who are in denial, have argued this point with me but I expect human translation prices to continue to drop as more use of post-edited MT workflows are adapted by large LSPs and buyers of translation services.
7.           More unemployed translators. Freelance translators who refuse to adapt to the changes in the industry and who rely on outdated models will be scrambling for work in 2012. Some may not find it and may need to consider a career change.
8.           Speech-to-speech translation will not mature into serious commercial products in 2012. I think that people will continue to talk about a Universal Translator but that advances in technology will not be sufficient for a killer speech-to-speech app to be released for commercial use.
9.           European translators and translation companies will become more cost competitive. The Euro has fallen nearly 10% against the US Dollar in the last few weeks. If the economic predictions come true, the Euro should drop further in 2012. That will make it more economically viable for US companies to buy translation services in Europe.
10.        SDL will release new post-editing software. SDL already integrated MT into Trados Studio 2009, making it possible to machine translate a document and post-edit the content. I predict that SDL will release new software in 2012 that automates the MT post-editing process, making translation automation faster and easier.
[http://blog.gts-translation.com/2012/01/04/10-translation-industry-predictions-for-2012/]

RESIDENT COMEDIAN

resident comedian  / the life and soul of the office (palhaço de plantão /  bobo da corte

live wire [coll.] (elétrico, no sentido de pessoa hiperativa)

EXIGENCY

noun (plural exigencies): an urgent need or demand:
Women worked long hours when the exigencies of the family economy demanded it.
He put financial exigency before personal sentiment.

NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTIONS

Ampliar meus conhecimento de TI, CATs, MTs, Pre- and Post-Editing.
Aprofundar os conhecimentos na área de especialização.
Identificar um gargalo e estudar alternativas para simplificação.
Obter melhor equilíbrio entre trabalho e vida pessoal.
Fazer exercícios.
Ler mais.
-  What are yours?

HAPPY NEW 2012

"O presente não existe. A vida é o passado e o futuro ; vivemos de lembranças e de ambições, entre a saudade e a esperança." - Olavo Bilac
“Viva o presente. O passado passou e o amanhã ninguém garante que chegará. ”
“Não deixe para amanhã o que você pode fazer hoje.” Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
“You can't change the past, but you can ruin the present by worrying about the future”
Yesterday's the past, tomorrow's the future, but today is a gift. That's why it's called the present.

UMA OLHADINHA...

O Danilo está impossível com esse retrato fiel de muitas situações que enfrentamos!
http://www.tradutorprofissional.com/