Phrases & Particular Words 🇬🇧

Question 1

If you don’t mind my boldness.
Cause I live to shock, I think.
Yet, I can be utterly mysterious.

Answer 1

Boldness;
Utterly;

Question 2

You’re quite beautiful, did you know that?
It’s best you stay like that. It suits you.

Answer 2

It’s best

Question 3

Don’t be coy.
I tried coyness once, couldn’t carry it off.

Answer 3

To carry off - to achieve something , to succeed in something.
(Não conseguir levar ou suceder, sustentar)

Question 4

I do raise quite a few eyebrows when outside and one of the reasons is that I definitely look outlander and the other reason is that I certainly look beautiful; always with my impeccable hair and amazing outfit. I never head outside looking ugly.
I get my fair share of attention.

What?
Should I feign modesty?

Answer 4

Fair share - a reasonable amount.
I’ve choked my fair share = eu sufoquei a minha quantidade razoável. (Eu usei/fiz demais)

Fair share of attention = receber uma parte razoável de atenção.

To raise eyebrows = to draw attention from people/ people stares at you.

To feign - to fake something/ fingir (tenho que fingir modéstia)

Question 5

She’s had her fair share of tragedies in her lugubrious life.

Answer 5

Ela teve sua quantiadade razoável de tragedias em sua vida lúgubre.

Question 6

I trust you shan’t be disappointed with me.
Discretion is the watch-cry of my work.
I do hold my partners in high esteem.

I appreciate being around sophisticated people.

Answer 6

Shan’t = shall not
Watch-cry = slogan, a watchword, a title

Hold someone in high esteem - give them high values, treat them amazingly.

Question 7

You are accustomed to wealth, you enjoy showing off your achievements very much.

Answer 7

Show off - to brag (mostrar que tem) you are showing off yourself now.
Accustomed - used to (acostumado)

Question 8

I can see clearly that you have your unbridled pleasures of youth

We all seek for unbridled pleasures in life. Isn’t that true?

Answer 8

Unbridled - desenfreado.
Prazeres desenfreados.

Question 9

We are all making a concerted effort to appear younger, improve our appearance somehow.

Answer 9

Concerted effort - to really effort to do something

Question 10

T’was a dispiriting endeavor.
I endeavoured to explain how life is in such an extreme part of the world but I guess t’was a feeble attempt.
He took no notice.

Answer 10

Demotivational - dispiriting endeavor
Empenho desanimador, desmotivacional

I endeavoured to explain - eu empenhei em explicar.

Feeble attempt - tentativa fraca, fail

To take no notice - to ignore

Question 11

He endeavoured to explain to me how was life in Finland, specially in the winter times, which is quite challenging. And for me, everything just sounded so extraordinary and fun until when I experienced my third winter. I guess I took no notice on the sordid details.

Answer 11

I took no notice - nao prestei atenção

Question 12

I’m feeling buggered.

You look buggered, I believe you should definitely rest.

Answer 12

SLANG / RUDE
Buggered - meaning to be very tired.

Question 13

I’m all for living life to the full and bugger the consequences later.

Answer 13

Bugger - slang = to deal in a bad way with the consequences

Question 14

You need to appraise my English level, please.

Answer 14

To appraise - to evaluate the worth of something; (AVALIAR)

The service was appraised in a great way.

Question 15

I do not have forbearance for prejudgments, unless if they’re related to clothing at first sight.

Answer 15

Não ter paciência/tolerancia
I simply don’t have forbearance for that - Eu simplesmente nao tenho paciência para aquilo/isso.

Question 16

Her unfailing courtesy and forbearance under great provocation is admirable.

Answer 16

Unfailing - infalível cortesia

A infalível cortesia e tolerância dela quando em grande provocação e admirável.

Question 17

Don’t think for a second that I’m not aware of you sapphic escapades.

I really have no tendency of sapphism.

Answer 17

SAPPHIC = relating to sexual attraction or activity between women.
“the two women share a sapphic kiss in the play”

Question 18

I’m well aware that a discreet man enjoys hard an escapade with a trans woman.

Answer 18

An escapade - an adventure with excitement

Question 19

I’m feeling buggered, the trip was quite tiresome.

Answer 19

Tiresome - cansativo.

Question 20

She was Wailing in grief for her loss.

Answer 20

Chorando de tristeza pela perda.

Question 21

I keened over my beloved’s gravestone for quite a while.
T’was utterly burdensome for me that I simply couldn’t swallow my grief.
As if something physically was blocking my larynx, causing my lungs to burn and I’ve wailed my fair share.
So every morning, before my chores in the church, I headed out to leave a flower, recite a prayer and poem, standing still while observing steadily the headstone photo in an oval frame, so delicate.
My dearest cared very much for poetry and used to love everything art related.
Then the folks that have passed by daily and perceived me through the cemetery’s banisters, hence gave me this sobriquet: the keening nun.

Answer 21

Eu lamentei sobre o túmulo do meu amado por um bom tempo.
Todas as manhãs, antes dos meus afazeres na igreja, eu saia para deixar uma flor, recitar uma oração e um poema.
Ele costumava amar poesia.
E o povo que ali passava diariamente, me notava pelos balaústres do cemitério e logo, me deram esse apodo: a freira chorosa/gemente/angustiada

TRANSLATE: keening
wail in grief for a dead person.

Question 22

I have a predisposition to be blunt.
Don’t blame my tongue for being quite keen and sharp. Sometimes I think my tongue has a soul of its own.

Answer 22

Blunt = franco
Candor = sincere, franqueza

Keen = afiado

Question 23

My mother tried dismally to restrain my transsexual condition in my childhood.
As as kid, I was exceedingly a limp-wristed flamboyant boy.
But I was not that effete, despite my feminine manners, I wouldn’t take shit from no one at school.
I can’t say the same about my cousin, even though we were quite similar, he was more fastidious in manner, like niminy-piminy ladylike vibes. 😆

Answer 23

Queeny - ostentatiously flamboyant, or feminine manner.

Effete - (of a man) behaving in a way traditionally associated with women and regarded as inappropriate for a man.

affectedly delicate or fastidious in manner

refined; mincing; effeminate: A niminy-piminy shyness makes frankness impossible.

Question 24

I can’t no longer stand idly towards racism and transphobia.
I shan’t tolerate it. My posture will be firm in any circumstances.

Answer 24

Stand idly towards … = ficar de braços cruzados, sem fazer nada.
Idly - preguiçosamente

Question 25

She (JKR) has been trying to thwart all attempts from trans citizens in the UK to thrive, by supporting financially organisations with anti-trans agenda.

Answer 25

Ela (JK Rowling) tem tentado FRUSTAR todas as tentativas dos cidadãos transgêneros no Reino Unido de florescer, por apoiar financeiramente organizações com agenda anti-trans.

To Thwart - prevent (someone) from accomplishing something.

Question 26

Your debauched attitude is insupportable.
I can’t really bear the fact that you only seek to sate your vulgar appetites.

Answer 26

Debauched - debochado

characterized by sensual pleasures to a degree perceived to be morally harmful; dissolute

Question 27

I daren’t to affirm that statement.

Answer 27

Eu nao ouso afirmar essa declaração.

Question 28

and thus she remained calm even under all the pressure

Answer 28

And thus - E assim

Question 29

There is dire consequences of not remaining dead.

Answer 29

Dire - terrível
Remain - permanecer

Question 30

The trans community has, unfortunately several dire setbacks.

Answer 30

setback. an unfortunate happening that hinders or impedes; something that is thwarting or frustrating.
SETBACKS - contratempos

Question 31

He said he saw me thrashing around while I was sleeping.
T’was crystal clear, I was having a nightmare.
But he didn’t care waking me up. I was left in my suffer, inside my tricky mind.

Answer 31

Thrashing around - se debatendo

Question 32

I slathered the butter onto all my body parts, I have this problem of dry skin in winter times.

Answer 32

Slathered onto - espalhado em…

Question 33

The fog in the woods was eering and unsettling.

Answer 33

Eering and unsettling - estranho e perturbador