Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Portuguese term or phrase:
pelo raposinho que lhe deixou o ranço de
English translation:
for the 'foxy' / pungent smell left by the mold of
Added to glossary by
Oliver Simões
Nov 11, 2018 00:31
5 yrs ago
Portuguese term
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Works in: Spanish to English, French to English, English to Spanish, and 3 more.
pelo raposinho que lhe deixou o ranço de
Portuguese to English
Art/Literary
General / Conversation / Greetings / Letters
In The Preface To A Novel
Context:
Dizem, porèm, que o Amor de Perdição fez chorar. Mau foi isso. Mas, agora, como indenização, faz rir: tournou-se cómico pela seriedade antiga, pelo raposinho que lhe deixou o ranço das velhas histórias do Trancoso e do padre Teodoro de Almeida.
Muita Obrigada,
Barbara
Dizem, porèm, que o Amor de Perdição fez chorar. Mau foi isso. Mas, agora, como indenização, faz rir: tournou-se cómico pela seriedade antiga, pelo raposinho que lhe deixou o ranço das velhas histórias do Trancoso e do padre Teodoro de Almeida.
Muita Obrigada,
Barbara
Proposed translations
(English)
Change log
Nov 14, 2018 04:12: Oliver Simões Created KOG entry
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Oliver Simões
United States
United States
Native in Portuguese
Specializes in field
United States
BA in Transl., MA in ESL, 15 yrs of exp.
Native in: Portuguese 
Works in: English to Portuguese, Portuguese to English, Spanish to Portuguese, and 2 more.
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56
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for the 'foxy' / pungent smell left by the mold of...
Although not commonly used to qualify smells, there are plenty of examples of "foxy smell" online: https://www.google.com/search?q="foxy smell"
foxy: resembling or suggestive of a fox (Merriam-Webster)
ranço: Cheiro e sabor desagradáveis, resultantes da humidade e da falta de renovação do ar. = BAFIO, MOFO. (Fig.) Coisa antiquada: VELHARIA ( Priberam)
mofo: mold, mildew, mustiness
https://michaelis.uol.com.br/moderno-ingles/busca/portugues-...
"Mold" seems to make perfect sense in this context. "for the 'foxy' smell (which was) left by the mold of the old stories of Trancoso and Father Teodoro de Almeida".
Note: Since the mold left a pungent smell, the passive voice seems more appropriate INHO.
Regarding the use of "foxy smell", I think this description is to the point:
"A 'foxy' smell in the garden
If you’ve ever walked through a flower garden in bloom and thought you smelled something unpleasantly pungent, you may not have been imagining things.
The large, brightly colored blooms of the imperial crown fritillary plant are legendary for their distinctly 'unfloral' smell, which has been described as putrid, sulfuric, sweaty, or fox-like." - https://indianapublicmedia.org/amomentofscience/foxy-smell-i...
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Sorry, the first link is broken. Here it is again:
https://www.google.com/search?ei=6yfoW6KPHquU0gL5u4uoBw&q=&q...
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This is what I understood from the passage:
"They say, however, that Amor de Perdição [Doomed Love in a 2009 film adaptation directed by Mário Barroso] made people cry. Too bad. But now, as a sort of compensation, it makes them laugh; it turned comical for the seriousness of the old days, for the foxy / pungent smell left by the mold of the old stories of Trancoso and Father Teodoro de Almeida."
Note: The preposition "de" is ambigous in PT. The stories could be ** of ** those characters or ** about ** them.
foxy: resembling or suggestive of a fox (Merriam-Webster)
ranço: Cheiro e sabor desagradáveis, resultantes da humidade e da falta de renovação do ar. = BAFIO, MOFO. (Fig.) Coisa antiquada: VELHARIA ( Priberam)
mofo: mold, mildew, mustiness
https://michaelis.uol.com.br/moderno-ingles/busca/portugues-...
"Mold" seems to make perfect sense in this context. "for the 'foxy' smell (which was) left by the mold of the old stories of Trancoso and Father Teodoro de Almeida".
Note: Since the mold left a pungent smell, the passive voice seems more appropriate INHO.
Regarding the use of "foxy smell", I think this description is to the point:
"A 'foxy' smell in the garden
If you’ve ever walked through a flower garden in bloom and thought you smelled something unpleasantly pungent, you may not have been imagining things.
The large, brightly colored blooms of the imperial crown fritillary plant are legendary for their distinctly 'unfloral' smell, which has been described as putrid, sulfuric, sweaty, or fox-like." - https://indianapublicmedia.org/amomentofscience/foxy-smell-i...
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Note added at 12 hrs (2018-11-11 13:01:08 GMT)
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Sorry, the first link is broken. Here it is again:
https://www.google.com/search?ei=6yfoW6KPHquU0gL5u4uoBw&q=&q...
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Note added at 1 day 3 hrs (2018-11-12 04:00:52 GMT)
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This is what I understood from the passage:
"They say, however, that Amor de Perdição [Doomed Love in a 2009 film adaptation directed by Mário Barroso] made people cry. Too bad. But now, as a sort of compensation, it makes them laugh; it turned comical for the seriousness of the old days, for the foxy / pungent smell left by the mold of the old stories of Trancoso and Father Teodoro de Almeida."
Note: The preposition "de" is ambigous in PT. The stories could be ** of ** those characters or ** about ** them.
4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
11 hrs
Gilmar Fernandes
United States
United States
Native in Portuguese
&
English
Works in field
United States
25 + yrs. Business experience PORT- ENG
Native in: Portuguese , English
Works in: Portuguese to English, English to Portuguese
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103
for the noxious exhalation that caused the rank smell of the....
https://michaelis.uol.com.br/moderno-ingles/busca/portugues-...
https://michaelis.uol.com.br/moderno-ingles/busca/portugues-...
https://michaelis.uol.com.br/moderno-ingles/busca/portugues-...
+1
11 hrs
Nick Taylor
Native in English
Portuguese to English, English to Portug
Native in: English
Works in: Portuguese to English, English to Portuguese
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119
for the miasma which leaves its putrid presence
for the miasma which leaves its putrid presence
13 hrs
Verginia Ophof
Belize
Belize
Native in English
Specializes in field
Belize
Near Native Proficiency in Source langua
Native in: English
Works in: Portuguese to English, Dutch to English, French to English
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65
for the little fox/foxy that left it's rank of the old stories
for the little fox that left it's rank of old stories
Shakespeare:
"Sowter will cry upon't for all this, though it be as
rank as a fox."
Maybe turn it around a bit
Shakespeare:
"Sowter will cry upon't for all this, though it be as
rank as a fox."
Maybe turn it around a bit
1 hr
Katarina Peters
Canada
Canada
Native in English
Specializes in field
Canada
Accuracy and A1 presentation
Native in: Hungarian , English (Variant: US)
Works in: English to Portuguese, Portuguese to English, Hungarian to English, and 13 more.
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76
for the little fox that turned him off the...
...old stories of Trancoso and...
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rephrasing my suggestion:
for the repugnant smell that turned him away from the old moldy stories...
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Note added at 15 hrs (2018-11-11 15:32:09 GMT)
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rephrasing my suggestion:
for the repugnant smell that turned him away from the old moldy stories...
Discussion
Apesar do "nosso gambá" também viver nos Estados Unidos, ele não chega nem perto de produzir o odor que o gambá Americano produz. Daí, os EUA tem nomes diferentes para os dois animais. A fama de fedorento ficou mesmo para o gambá tipicamente Americano. E acredite... com toda razão.
Gambá Americano
Gambá Americano
Comparado com o odor do gambá Americano, podemos dizer que o gambá brasileiro é até cheiroso. O odor expelido pelo gambá Americano perdura por dias, e se espalha por uma distância de um quarteirão inteiro. Se nos aproximarmos do exato local onde o gambá expeliu seu odor, podemos "sentir o gosto" na parte de trás de nossa língua, como um gosto amargo.
https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gambá
O gambá, também chamado de sariguê, saruê ou sarigueia na Bahia, mucura na Amazônia, timbu na Paraíba e em Pernambuco, cassaco no Ceará e no ...
Ordem: Didelphimorphia
Classe: Mammalia
Família: Didelphidae
Reino: Animalia
Gambá-comum · Gambá-de-orelha-branca · Didelphidae · Cangambá
Large american opossums
Animal
Didelphis is a genus of New World mammals. The six species in the genus Didelphis, commonly known as large American opossums, are members of the order Didelphimorphia. Wikipedia
Scientific name: Didelphis
Higher classification: Didelphinae
www.webanimal.com.br/cao/index2.asp?menu...gamba.htm
Mucura ou gambá (Amazônia e Brasil Meridional); sarigué, sariguê, saruê ou .... muitas pessoas denominam de forma errônea o gambá, como "raposa" ou ..
Um bom domingo aos colegas!
https://dicionario.priberam.org/raposinho