Glossary entry (derived from question below)
English term or phrase:
cut corners
Portuguese translation:
dirigir na contramão ao fazer as curvas; cortar as curvas; fazer curvas apertadas
English term
New Zealand
Reliable, fast, accurate
Native in: Portuguese (Variants: Brazilian, European/Portugal) 
, English (Variants: British, New Zealand, UK, US, Australian)
Works in: English to Portuguese, Portuguese to English, English, and 1 more.
cut corners (in this context)
DO NOT CROSS THE CENTRE LINE
Drive in the left lane. DO NOT cut corners.
How could I translate this here?
NÃO CRUZE A LINHA CENTRAL
Dirija na faixa da esquerda. NÃO XXXX as curvas
"Do not cut corners"
Jul 6, 2016 03:45: Matheus Chaud Created KOG entry
Proposed translations
Brazil
IT Specialist • M.A. in Linguistics
Native in: Portuguese (Variant: Brazilian) 
Works in: English to Portuguese, Spanish to Portuguese, Portuguese to English, and 1 more.
não dirija na contramão ao fazer as curvas
Entendo que o problema seja que, ao fazer o que chamam de "cut corners", o motorista está dirigindo na contramão.
Se for para PT-BR, essa seria minha sugestão:
não dirija na contramão ao fazer as curvas
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https://www.google.com.br/search?q="cut corners" driving&num...
| Thank you so much Matheus. |
Brazil
32 years engineering/law/contracts
Native in: English (Variant: US) , Portuguese (Variant: Brazilian)
Works in: English to Portuguese, Portuguese to English
curva muito fechada, invadindo a contramão, fazer a curva contornando um "poste imaginário"
Norway
Salvador Scofano and Gry Midttun
Engineer:Oil&Gas/Electron/Finan/Law/HSEQ
Native in: Norwegian , Portuguese
Works in: English to Portuguese, Norwegian to Portuguese, Portuguese to Norwegian, and 19 more.
não saia da pista ao fazer a curva, mantenha-se na pista ao fazer a curva
https://www.google.no/search?client=tablet-android-samsung&h...
Minhas sugestões referem-se à expressão, completa "don't cut corners"
Will do!
Native in: Portuguese (Variant: European/Portugal)
Works in: English to Portuguese, French to Portuguese, German to Portuguese, and 1 more.
(acompanhe o traçado da estrada sem) cortar as curvas
https://www.google.pt/?gws_rd=ssl#q="cortar a curva"
| Thank you Ana. This answers was also very helpful. Pity I cannot give points for two answers |
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Ana Costa
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Obrigada, Ana!
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Francis Kastalski
: Concordo, podendo ser também "tangenciar"
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Obrigada, Francis!
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Esther Dodo
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Obrigada, Esther!
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Maria Henriques
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Obrigada, Maria!
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Portugal
Translator
Native in: Portuguese (Variant: European/Portugal)
Works in: English to Portuguese, French to Portuguese, Italian to Portuguese
Não faça a curva por dentro
Portugal
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida 
30+ years translating EU documents
Native in: Portuguese (Variant: European/Portugal)
Works in: English to Portuguese, French to Portuguese, Spanish to Portuguese, and 1 more.
(não faça) curvas apertadas
Tenha cuidado quando efetuar uma descarga ou usar
equipamento pesado.
– Utilize apenas pontos de engate aprovados.
– Limite as cargas às que consegue controlar em
segurança.
– Não faça curvas apertadas. Tenha cuidado ao fazer
marcha-atrás.
https://www.toro.com/getpub/94415
Portugal
Translator and Terminologist
Native in: Portuguese
Works in: English to Portuguese, French to Portuguese, Spanish to Portuguese
modere a velocidade nas curvas (não acelere antes das curvas)
to do something in the easiest, cheapest or quickest way, often by ignoring rules or leaving something out especially at the expense of high standards.
"It's a metaphor from driving - not necessarily motor driving, because it also applies to horse-drawn carriages. When you come to a sharp turn in the road, instead of going all the way to the corner and then turning, you can go diagonally across, and "cut the corner off". This saves time, but entails a risk of clipping the kerb and overturning, or being involved in a pile-up with another vehicle. Thus "to cut corners" means to discard normal safe practice in order to get fast results."
http://gurulang.com/index/show/19666
Como devo proceder para descrever a curva em segurança?
Adaptar a velocidade às características da curva.
http://www.bomcondutor.pt/questao/711
Artigo 25 do Código da Estrada:
1- Sem prejuízo dos limites máximos de velocidade fixados, o condutor deve moderar especialmente a velocidade:
f) nas curvas, cruzamentos, entroncamentos, rotundas, lombas e outros locais de visibilidade reduzida;
Australia
Our target is having zero errors in all
Native in: English , Portuguese
Works in: English to Portuguese, Portuguese to English
(nao) faca atalhos
faca atalhos has therefore the same flavor, which is what I keep on defending, something called Cultural Translation
Please read Translation Techniques or the book Translation and Interpretation
| Thank you Marcia for the link for your book. Cultural translation is very important. |
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