Questão de Inglês — Tradução | Translation — UNIVALI 2025
InglêsTradução | Translation
- Código
- qg626638
- Banca
- UNIVALI
- Órgão
- Prefeitura de Luiz Alves - SC
- Ano
- 2025
- Nível
- Superior
- Cargo
- Professor de Língua Inglesa - Edital nº 15
Read the excerpt below:"Today, waste is whisked away quickly − out of sight, out of mind. But in bronze age Troy (3000−1000BC), trash stayed close, often accumulating in domestic dumping grounds for generations."A professional translator working on a Brazilian Portuguese edition of this archaeological text must address the idiomatic expression "out of sight, out of mind" and decide between maintaining the English idiom with explanatory footnote, creating a culturally equivalent Portuguese idiom, or providing a descriptive translation. When considering translation strategies that balance semantic fidelity, cultural accessibility, and stylistic naturalness for Brazilian readers while preserving the author's rhetorical impact, the appropriate translation approach would be:
- ATranslate using the functionally equivalent Brazilian Portuguese idiom "longe dos olhos, longe do coração" (literally "far from the eyes, far from the heart"), which shares the same conceptual metaphor linking physical distance with mental absence, though the Portuguese version emphasizes emotional/affective dimension while the English emphasizes cognitive/mental dimension, creating nuanced semantic shift.
- BEmploy descriptive translation such as "removido e esquecido" or "eliminado da consciência" that conveys the functional meaning without idiomatic structure, prioritizing clarity and naturalness over stylistic effect, though this sacrifices the rhetorical conciseness and rhythmic parallelism of the original English idiom.
- CProvide literal word-for-word translation "fora da vista, fora da mente" maintaining the source language structure exactly, as this preserves formal equivalence and allows Brazilian readers to experience the foreignness of English idiomatic expression, even though this creates unnatural Portuguese that lacks idiomatic status in the target language.
- DCompletely omit the idiomatic expression and the entire sentence comparing modern and ancient waste management practices, as idioms are inherently untranslatable and their presence creates insurmountable obstacles for cross-cultural communication that professional translators cannot adequately resolve.