Questões de Concurso sobre Tradução

Read the excerpt and choose the CORRECT alternative.

The phrasal verb underlined in the excerpt can be translated into Portuguese as

In the sentence "The colour has since returned but a new wave of unauthorised daytrippers are threatening the pink shores" (§3º), the word "threatening" can be translated as:

The mental canal has a lateral, superior and posterior route, opening into the ______________, and gives passage to mental vessels and nerves."

The alternative that completes the sentence correctly is:

Em relação à teoria de tradução, assinalar a alternativa CORRETA:

Text for the items from 31 to 37.

1 Health technology is defined by the World

Health Organization as the “application of organized

knowledge and skills in the form of devices, medicines,

4 vaccines, procedures, and systems developed to solve

a health problem and improve quality of lives”. This

includes pharmaceuticals, devices, procedures, and

7 organizational systems used in the healthcare industry, as

well as computer‑supported information systems.

Internet: <www.en.wikipedia.org> (with adaptations).

With reference to the sentence “Technological change is the largest cause of long‑term economic growth.”, judge the items 36 and 37.

The period above could be translated into Portuguese as “A mudança tecnológica é a maior causa do crescimento econômico em longo prazo”.

The company Le Hive justifies its decision to give its employees a half-day off to see the film by saying to “avoid sudden sick leaves”. In Portuguese we could use an expression that defines this argumentation. Which one?

No trecho do primeiro parágrafo “a sub-device within the local area network that provides another location for devices to connect from” o termo sublinhado equivale, em português, a

The word “commute” (line 30) means travel some distance between one's home and place of work on a regular basis.

Na frase “it is actually spoken as a native language by the majority of the population…”, a palavra sublinhada significa

Consider the sentence below:

"Meanwhile, fellow footwear retailer Shoezone is pulling down the shutters on another store in its latest round of closures." (7º§)

It can be correctly translated as follows:

Here you have some translations:

I. Run in: Auxiliar na (1º§).

II. Offer it to: Oferecer a (1º§).

III. Feed off: Se alimentam de (2º§).

IV. Slashed the threat by: Reduziu a ameaça em (1º§).

V. Developing at all: Desenvolver de forma alguma (5º§).

We have correct translations in:

Assinalar a alternativa que apresenta a tradução CORRETA para o trecho abaixo:

Would you mind helping me next Saturday?

Consider the excerpt below.

(5º§)"Details on the vulnerabilities are scarce in order to not give too much information away to crooks before users have updated."

The two words in bold can be correctly translated respectively as:

Consider the text and the following assertives:

I.The word "looms" (2º§) could be translated as "teares".

II.The word "also" (3º§) can be a noun.

III.The word "clasps" (6º§) could be replaced by "regards".

Which one(s) is(are) correct?

Consider the sentence below from the text and the following assertives:

"From spraying things into the atmosphere to cool the Earth to blocking out the Sun with space-based shields, various ideas were mocked, knocked and quickly forgotten." (§5º)

I.The word "shields" could be translated as "escudos".

II.The word "from" is a adverb.

III.The word "mocked" could be replaced by "gladden".

Which one(s) is(are) CORRECT?

Utilizando-se das técnicas de leitura instrumental, especificamente da técnica scanning, a qual consiste em uma leitura atenta e precisa. Analise o excerto a seguir: “They may not understand right from wrong”.

Assinale, dentre as alternativas abaixo, a que está mais próxima em significado.

According to the sequence in the text, choose one option that presents the meaning of the false cognates in bold in the first paragraph.

"I apologized to a fellow college student for pretending to be an expert on the subject when, in fact, I am a cheat."

In the context of the text above, the word:

In the text, the adjective old-fashioned means

"[...] 2 tablespoons dried parsley" (2º§) could be translated as: