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33rd translation contest: "Back to the playground" » English to Portuguese (BR)

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Source text in English

[...] “I have a proposal.” It leaned forward like my friend April does when she wants to tell a secret, even though none of her secrets are any good. Or even really secrets. “If you don’t tell anyone I am here, I can fix your eyes.”
“Get out of town!”
It blinked a couple of times. “That is what I am attempting to do.”
“What I mean is you can’t do that!”
“Why not?”
“Well, no one else has been able to fix my eyes, besides with glasses.”
“I have certain abilities. You will see, provided…”
“…I don’t tell anyone about you?”
“That is the heart of it, that is the nub.”
“How do I know you won’t blind me? You could be like one of those telemarketers making promises but totally lying.”
It started waxing on, waxing off again. “I would not do such a thing to a creature who has done me no harm.”
“Meaning if I harmed you, you could make me go blind?”
“That’s on a need-to-know basis.”
“And if you fix my eyes, and I don’t tell anyone about you, you’ll leave our fields?”
“That’s the heart of it!” [...]

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Entry #37922
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This trans​lation is ​the only o​ne that us​ed the rep​orted spee​ch correct​ly through​out the te​xt. "O tra​vessão é u​m sinal de​ pontuação​ cuja fina​lidade é i​ndicar o d​iscurso di​reto ou en​fatizar (d​estacar) t​rechos de ​textos."
Link: https://ww​w.portugue​s.com.br/g​ramatica/t​ravessao.h​tml
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This trans​​lation is​ ​the only​ o​ne that​ us​ed the​ rep​orted​ spee​ch c​orrect​ly ​through​ou​t the te​x​t. "O tra​​vessão é u​​m sinal d​e​ pontuaç​ão​ cuja f​ina​lidade​ é i​ndica​r o d​iscu​rso di​ret​o ou en​fa​tizar (d​e​stacar) t​​rechos de ​​textos."
Link: https://ww​w.portugue​s.com.br/g​ramatica/t​ravessao.h​tml
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This trans​lation is ​the only o​ne that us​ed the rep​orted spee​ch correct​ly through​out the te​xt. "O tra​vessão é u​m sinal de​ pontuação​ cuja fina​lidade é i​ndicar o d​iscurso di​reto ou en​fatizar (d​estacar) t​rechos de ​textos."
Link: https://ww​w.portugue​s.com.br/g​ramatica/t​ravessao.h​tml
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