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on-the-ground

01:32 Dec 4, 2012
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English to Portuguese translations [PRO]
Cinema, Film, TV, Drama / release de um filme
English term or phrase: on-the-ground
The film encompasses sweeping events spanning nearly a decade, journeying across multiple countries and involving a precisely chosen cast of hundreds along with a devoted crew whose objective was to capture the on-the-ground reality of this mission as truthfully and viscerally as possible.
Elena David
Brazil
Local time: 07:04


Summary of answers provided
4 +1no terreno
Leonor Machado
4 +1(realidade) no local do ocorrido / no local da ação
Marlene Curtis


  

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8 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
no terreno


Explanation:
Bastonário acusa Governo de desconhecer a realidade no terreno ...


rr.sapo.pt/informacao_detalhe.aspx?fid=31&did=69744


11 jul. 2012 – Bastonário acusa Governo de desconhecer a realidade no terreno. José Manuel Silva fala à Renascença durante o protesto. A Ordem dos ...

Leonor Machado
Local time: 11:04
Native speaker of: Portuguese
PRO pts in category: 24

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Ulrica d'Orey
9 hrs
  -> Obr Ulrica
neutral  Nicole L. R.: Desculpe, mas não me parece ser uma tradução fluente.
12 hrs
  -> Em português é muito fluente e frequente; você é chinesa?
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37 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
(realidade) no local do ocorrido / no local da ação


Explanation:
Ver explicação abaixo.


ON THE GROUND
You've pretty much got it: in the real-life location where things are taking place. When the big tornado hit Joplin last week, one of the major US television networks sent its top news team (which usually broadcasts from New York) to the site of the storm. The anchor (the leading reporter) began by saying, "Today, we're on the ground in Joplin

on the ground

in the place or situation where something important is happening, rather than somewhere else - used especially in news reports: http://www.ldoceonline.com/images/66...nsentencea.gifWhile the politicians talk of peace, the situation on the ground remains tense

Yeah, it is. Reporters "on the ground" or "in the field" are the ones who are reporting from the place where the action is taking place.

Edit: And so by extension, "stories on the ground" here means the stories which come from the place where the action is taking place. I'd say it can mean "real stories," in the sense of "first-hand.

Marlene Curtis
United States
Local time: 06:04
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 296

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Nicole L. R.: Isso, isso, isso.
12 hrs
  -> Grata!
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