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This question was closed without grading. Reason: Answer found elsewhere
Jun 18, 2016 08:20
7 yrs ago
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Portuguese term

Como boi para um palácio

Portuguese to English Art/Literary Slang Tools
Olá, pessoal

Este desafio está na minha cabeça há uma semana.

Qual seria a melhor expressão para traduzir "olhar para __________ como boi para um palácio” em inglês?

Significa olhar para alguma coisa sem dar valor ou importância alguma. No ciberdúvidas da língua portuguesa:

«os pobres ignorantes olhavam para os objectos expostos como boi para palácio», isto é, não davam apreço a, não ligavam importância, sem interesse algum.

O contexto em que ela será usada (por uma amiga) é um artigo para uma conferencia sobre "autonomia urbana e a cidade colectiva”, que fala sobre as transformações recentes da cidade do Porto (o turismo, as lojas gourmet, a privatizaçao do espaço público, etc).

A frase completa é: "é como se nós, habitantes, olhássemos agora para a cidade como um boi olha para um palácio, porque já não nos reconhecemos nela". A metáfora ganha força se virmos que o que motivou esta reflexão foi a decisão da câmara municipal vender um palácio histórico em hasta pública.
Change log

Jun 21, 2016 14:26: Mario Freitas changed "Level" from "Non-PRO" to "PRO"

Votes to reclassify question as PRO/non-PRO:

PRO (3): Matheus Chaud, Luciano Eduardo de Oliveira, Mario Freitas

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Discussion

Paula Góes (asker) Jun 25, 2016:
Thanks everyone! Thanks for your suggestions. I however didn’t feel we managed to capture the meaning of the phrase in its entirety and none of them would quite do the job in context. Sorry for closing without grading!
Mario Freitas Jun 21, 2016:
In that case I'll stick with Nick's suggestion.
Paula Góes (asker) Jun 21, 2016:
Thank you both It is more the idea of indifference, because the ox can not understand what is the importance of a palace. It looks, but sees nothing special, no meaning in it.
Maria Rebelo Jun 19, 2016:
Another suggestion: to stare like a stuck pig
Mario Freitas Jun 18, 2016:
?? Does this involve the idea of a platonic feelng, like the ox looking at the palace and dreaming of living in it, or the idea of WTF is that thing, like the ox looking at the palace and having no idea what that monster is?

Proposed translations

2 hrs

like a camel in a desert

courses.washington.edu/globfut/YanCopyedit.doc
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av YAN Hairong - ‎Sitert av 2 - ‎Beslektede artikler
... of “Father” had lived, a film critic again saw the look in peasant eyes, “Their eyes all have a kind, meek, and indifferent look, like that of a camel in a desert.
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2 days 7 hrs

like a duck hit on the head/like a stunned duck/like a stunned mullet (Australia)

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2 days 13 hrs

like pearls before swine

like pearls before swine
Peer comment(s):

agree Mario Freitas :
16 hrs
Cheers Mário
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