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Sample translations submitted: 1
English to Portuguese: Precision- Time and Distance General field: Art/Literary Detailed field: Media / Multimedia
Source text - English Marcus du Sautoy
In 1852, clockmaker Edward Dent set out to construct the largest and most accurate public clock in the world. It took seven years to build. A testament to a very human need. Our modern day lives are completely driven by precise measurement. Take Big Ben, for over 150 years it’s been ringing out the correct time to the people of London.
When built, it was an engineering marvel, accurate to an incredible one second an hour, but times have changed. Today we can build clocks which lose one second in 138 million years, and now there are plans for a clock accurate to within one second over the lifetime of the universe. What is it that drives us to such extremes of ever greater precision? Why do we feel the need to quantify and measure, to impose order on the world around us? Since our ancestors first began to count the passing of the seasons, successive civilisations have used measurement to help master the world around them. It’s taken us to the moon and split the atom, and it fascinates me.
Ever since I was young, I've been obsessed with measuring things, trying to make sense of the world around me. Where do those measurements come from? I mean who decided that a kilo was a kilo and a second a second? What we measure, how we measure it and how accurately we can measure it are surprisingly complex questions, questions which have obsessed generations of great minds and created a system that describes everything in our world with just seven fundamental units of measurement. And the quest to define those seven units with ever greater precision has changed our world.
Translation - Portuguese Marcus du sautoy 00.02.02 em mil oitocentos e cinquenta e dois, o relojoeiro edward dent (éduard dênt) resolveu construir o maior e mais pontual relógio público do mundo. / ele levou sete anos para construí-lo. / um testemunho de uma necessidade própria dos humanos. // 02.20 nossa vida moderna é totalmente conduzida pela medida exata. // veja o big ben, / por mais de cento e cinquenta anos, ele tem dado a hora correta para o povo de londres.
02.31 quando construído, era uma maravilha da engenharia, / tão exato que não variava mais de um segundo por hora, / mas os tempos mudaram.
02.42 hoje em dia, podemos construir relógios que perdem um segundo / em cento e trinta e oito milhões de anos, / e agora há planos para um relógio tão preciso que só varia um segundo ao longo da existência do universo. /
02.58 o que nos leva a tais extremos para ter uma precisão maior? / por que sentimos a necessidade de quantificar e medir, / de impor ordem no mundo ao nosso redor? // desde que nossos ancestrais começaram a contar a mudança das estações, as civilizações seguintes têm usado as medidas para ajudar a controlar o mundo ao redor delas. // isso nos levou à lua e à divisão do átomo, / e isso me fascina.
03.27 desde que eu era jovem, eutenho sido obcecado por medir as coisas, tentando encontrar sentido no mundo ao meu redor. / de onde vêm essas medidas? / digo, quem decidiu que um quilo era um quilo e um segundo era um segundo? /
03.43 o que medimos, como medimos e com qual precisão podemos medir, são perguntas extremamente complexas; / perguntas que atormentaram gerações de grandes mentes e criaram um sistema que descreve tudo em nosso mundo com apenas sete unidades fundamentais de medida. / e a busca para definir essas sete unidades, com uma precisão maior ainda, mudou nosso mundo.
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I am a translator, English teacher, voice actress and singer. I have translated films and series for dubbing for 22 years. I also work on subtitling. Currently, translated series and theatrical movies. Since 2010, I lecture the extension course "Translation for dubbing techniques" at PUC-RJ.
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