troughful

19:35 Dec 2, 2010
English to Portuguese translations [Non-PRO]
Art/Literary - Music
English term or phrase: troughful
Amo a música "Lush Life" de Billy Strayhorn, mas há uma palavra que há anos me atrapalha nessa letra, e que procurei em vão em vários dicionários: 'troughful'.
Espero que alguém possa me ajudar.
A letra vem em seguida:
I used to visit all the very gay places
Those come what may places
Where one relaxes on the axis of the wheel of life
To get the feel of life...
From jazz and cocktails.


The girls I knew had sad and sullen gray faces
With distant gay traces
That used to be there you could see where they'd been washed away
By too many through the day...
Twelve o'clock tales.


Then you came along with your siren of song
To tempt me to madness!
I thought for a while that your poignant smile was tinged with the sadness
Of a great love for me.


Ah yes! I was wrong...
Again,
I was wrong.


Life is lonely again,
And only last year everything seemed so sure.
Now life is awful again,
A troughful of hearts could only be a bore.
A week in paris will ease the bite of it,
All I care is to smile in spite of it.


I'll forget you, I will
While yet you are still burning inside my brain.
Romance is mush,
Stifling those who strive.
I'll live a lush life in some small dive...
And there I'll be, while I rot
With the rest of those whose lives are lonely, too..

Obrigada, desde já!
Gisele
gisabreu


Summary of answers provided
5cocho cheio
airmailrpl
4uma vasilha de desperdícios cheia de ...
Leonor Machado


  

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cocho cheio


Explanation:
troughful => cocho cheio

troughful a trough that is full


trough
   /trɔf, trɒf or, sometimes, trɔθ, trɒθ/ Show Spelled[trawf, trof or, sometimes, trawth, troth] Show IPA
–noun
1.
a long, narrow, open receptacle, usually boxlike in shape, used chiefly to hold water or food for animals.
2.
any of several similarly shaped receptacles used for various commercial or household purposes.
3.
a channel or conduit for conveying water, as a gutter under the eaves of a building for carrying away rain water.
4.
any long depression or hollow, as between two ridges or waves.
5.
Oceanography . a long, wide, and deep depression in the ocean floor having gently sloping sides, wider and shallower than a trench. Compare trench ( def. 4 ) .
6.
Meteorology . an elongated area of relatively low pressure.
7.
the lowest point, esp. in an economic cycle.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/trough

Trough
English to Portuguese translation
cocho

1. noun
1. cocho
2. tina
3. gamela
4. cuba
5. vala
6. masseira
7. sarjeta


troughful a trough that is full

airmailrpl
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uma vasilha de desperdícios cheia de ...


Explanation:
Penso que seja esta a intenção do autor


troughful ['tràff§l]

substantivo
conteúdo de uma tina, alguidar, cuba cheia, etc.;

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