Portuguese-English translation for "servidão"
"servidão" English translation
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servidão {noun}
Equivale a legalizar nos portos o mesmo tipo de servidão que grassa nos mares.
It comes down to legalising the same kind of serfdom in the ports that is rife on the seas.
Deveríamos levar uma vida de servidão e veneração... vénias e adorações.
Ours was designed to be a life of servitude and worship... and bowing and scraping and adoration.
Eu nasci na servidão...... mas nunca lhes quis mal.
I was born in servitude...... yet I harbored them no ill will.
Paradoxalmente, é no momento em que o povo de Timor acede à independência que o povo de Macau regressa à servidão.
It is ironic that just when the people of Timor are gaining independence, the people of Macao are returning to servitude.
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A servidão feudal já foi abolida no século XIX; calcula se que actualmente a nível mundial são vendidas, todos os anos, cerca de quatro milhões de pessoas, e este número está a aumentar.
Slavery was abolished in the nineteenth century, but now it is estimated that people are being sold from their countries at a rate of four million a year, and the number is growing.
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